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Germany 2024, 90 min
by Jan Hendrick Lübbers

Through the vibrant neighborhoods of Ghana's capital Accra, this coming-of-age film follows the four basketball friends Barnabas, Raphael, Jumaih, and Garvin as they face the challenges of growing up. In the confusion of wavering plans for the future, complicated father-son relationships, conservative gender roles and the fear of the end of innocent childhood, the basketball court proves to be a place where the four can forget the problems of their everyday lives for a moment and open up, but above all to be allowed to be children again.

Germany 2014, 24 min
by Levin Hübner

Bosteri is a village in the middle of the Kyrgyz steppe, neighbored by meadows with wild horses, snowy peaks of the Tian Shan and one of the world’s largest mountain lakes. Between the empty huts at the beach a Ferris wheel rises up into the sky, that only runs for two months of the year. An encounter with the people that summer has left behind.

Germany 2021, 27 min
by Till Kleinau

Thomas Meixner tries to reconstruct 75 instruments in only two years to make a concert happen in Taiwan.Thomas has been professional drummer all through his life until he got aksed to revive Harry Partch’s lifework. In his tiny garage in Cologne, he starts reconstructing all of partchs‘ 75 custom-made instruments. He has only two years to get everything ready fort he grand premiere at the national theater in Taiwan. 75/1 observes the abysses of a man, who between insomnia and isolation, has only one determination: to finish the work he had started.