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Germany 2023, 16 min
by Natalie Katharina Fischer

Between deep conversations and silly sidewalk fights, between becoming a woman and wanting to stay a child, between sexist Instagram comments and Germany's next Topmodel... In this portrait, we dive into the world of a group of female friends, discover well-known problems and new challenges, and experience first-hand what it's like to be an adolescent and read as a woman in the year 2022.

Germany 2023, 23 min
by Anahita Safarnejad

A poetic exploration of a father-daughter relationship. Anahita grows up in front of her father's camera. A dreamy life fulfilled with love and poetry evolves into a nightmare in which she witnesses her identity get lost as her father dies of cancer. In her quest to understand death, she dives into a rollercoaster ride of unknown emotions and embarks on a voyage of acceptance. From death into an immortal world.

Germany 2022, 86 min
by Laura N. Junghanns, Clara Schmieder

How do you say goodbye to each other after ten years of artistic work together? The documentary shows the last season of an ensemble, gives viewers a unique look behind the scenes of the theater world and takes them on a journey full of magical moments. The worldwide pandemic and the lockdown not only stop the work at the theater in spring of 2020, the documentary work is also significantly influenced by it. The result is a unique portrait of the emotions of artists from this time, who deal with

Germany 2022, 15 min
by Cadenza Zhao

Kassandra Wedel, dancer, actress and all around artist, roams the city picking up sounds and movements from her surroundings to compose her very own music and dance. We explore what sound and music mean to her and witness the process of translating dance into music. She challenges our current perception and understanding of sound and music. Her only advantage? Her deafness.

Germany 2022, 85 min
by Maksym Melnyk

Somewhere in the Carpathians between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland lies the village of Stuzhytsia. In Ukrainian the name of the village means „cold place". The film tells the stories of three women: the farmer Hanna, the post woman Maria and the biologist Nelya. Surrounded by mountains they cope with social reality and loneliness. The colder the Carpathian winter gets, the more human warmth the film team finds. The film portrays an unknown place in the middle of Europe, where people have to decid

2022, 85 min
by Brenda Akele Jorde

THE HOMES WE CARRY portraits a family torn apart by the turmoil of world history between Germany, Mozambique and South Africa. At the center is the Afro-German mother Sarah. She wants her little daughter to have the relationships she lacked as a child. Therefore she travels with her to Africa, where her own father and the child's father are waiting for her. Meanwhile, Sarah's father Eulidio remembers the almost forgotten history of the Mozambican contract workers in East Germany. [Film Five GmH]

Germany 2021, 96 min
by Christoph Eder

Christoph Eder draws a personal portrait of the inhabitants of his home village on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen and describes the conflict between the interests of individuals and the common good in times of modern tourism.

2021, 83 min
by Andreas Boschmann

The filmmaker Andreas and his sister Vanessa find previously unknown letters of their deceased mother Natalia. They never really got to know her mother due to her early death. The words Natalia once wrote to her parents in the Russian industry city of Orsk open a small window in time and space – a second chance to listen to her. In her early 20s, Natalia immigrated to Germany where she was hoping to find a better life. But reality turned out to be different. For Vanessa and Andreas their mother

Germany 2020, 90 min
by Sharon Ryba-Kahn

Sharon's relationship with Germany has always been conflictual to say the least, at the same this was something she had just accepted. This is true although, she was born in Munich and currently lives in Berlin. Sharon is Jewish and a third generation Shoah survivor. When her estranged father Moritz contacts her again after 7 years, it becomes an impetus for her to reconstruct her father's family history.  From here on a journey begins in which Sharon, tries to understand who her father is and w

Germany 2019, 15 min
by Ben Voit

Cold times, people are looking for a place to sleep. A van races through the night, to bring out of the dark, what could get lost in there. The film tries to grasp the perception of people who are constantly on the run, who can't remember the last time they've slept in a real bed. The things we witness are turning into inner landscapes. Fragments of conversations become collective thoughts and somewhere in the distance, Kepler 452b is orbiting a sun that is warmer than ours.

Germany 2019, 90 min
by Hristiana Raykova

The documentary THE PIT revolves around a mineral water pool in director Hristiana Raykova’s hometown of Varna in Bulgaria. Situated right by the sea, this thermal pool is lovingly called 'the pit' by local residents. Sitting in the hot water, they lean back up against the pool’s edge and philosophise about their lives. Here personal and political convictions collide, and tell of both social change and stagnation at the periphery of Europe. (69th Berlinale Perspektive Deutsches Kino)

Germany 2018, 90 min
by Lilian Nix

KINDSEIN - Unadulterated is a visually stunning invitation to enter the lives of KURUMI (8), JORGITO (8), SEAN (6) and REKHA (6). These four kids from different countries around the globe inspire to see life through the eyes of a child again. Despite being confronted with touching personal highs and lows, with their point of view they manage to see magic in everyday life, and let solutions to humankind's big issues seem quite obvious.  This film is a visually stunning invitation to see life thro

Germany 2018, 14 min
by Simon Ostermann

Almost 30 Alaskan Huskies, three humans and icy temperatures in a wild, untouched countryside. Living in a pack (Rudel) doesn’t need many words. The key to success are clearly defined roles and mutual trust… which is sometimes even neccessary for survival.

2018, 90 min
by Antonia Hungerland

On her quest to find out what motherhood means for herself, director Antonia Hungerland encounters all kinds of people, none of whom seem to correspond to our traditional notion of a mother. What is a ‘real mother?Motherhood is the most natural thing in the world. Or so it’s said. Yet the demands on women with children have rarely been as challenging and contradictory as they are in the Western world today. Hopes of happiness are often followed by discrimination, excessive demands and feelings o

Germany 2018, 58 min
by Lars Ostmann

They were born and raised on a small island amidst a vast natural landscape – four sisters who now live in big cities. Their parents have left Germany to raise their children far from consumerism and external control. On their visit back to the island, the sisters bring along some of the pace and concerns of our world today.

2018, 24 min
by Manuel Inacker

To get to the United States, a lot of migrants from Central America jump on a freight train known as La Bestia, or “The Beast.” This well-balanced student film was made entirely at the migrants’ stopover Casa del Migrante, in the Mexican town of Huehuetoca. Casa del Migrante provides a temporary safe haven for the migrants to rest on their journey. A slogan on the wall reads “No wall can hold back dreams,” and there’s also a priest to offer comfort and encouragement. When the time comes for the