PSSST! Film GmbH

Germany 2012, 80 min
by Anne Bürger

IT’S NOT ABOUT FAME but about finding a place for yourself in life. A mission with which you feel comfortable and right in order to prevail over all difficulties that might come. The film portrays creative freelancers of the generation “30 something“ and witnesses how their private life, (digital) work spaces, and very personal dreams, concerns and visions intertwine and function. It is a current snapshot of the lives of five young professionels in different European capitals experiencing moments between heights of individual fulfillment and the obstacles of everyday reality. With: Rosa Prodromou - Schauspielerin, Athen Magali Attiogbé - Illustratorin, Paris Aydo Abay - Musiker, Berlin Jacob Borges - Konzeptkünstler, Kopenhagen Key Portilla-Kawamura - Architekt & Designer, Madrid

Germany 2009, 84 min
by Lucia-Milena Bonse

A night in Buenos Aires. Young people between sunset and sunrise, in search of trash, love, justice, a future. Four life lines that will cross but won't touch each other.Nico sprays, under the cover of darkness, political graffiti against his anger at the corrupt government. His trademark is the spider, climbing over house walls and thus into Estér's nightlife. Together with her mother and her little son, she uses the hours before garbage removal trying to turn other people's waste into their living. Natalia is coming home from her webcam-stripping-job. She is dreaming of a man who loves her and of finally becoming the woman on the outside that she feels she already is. But right now she wants to go out, dance in a club and forget all about everything. The AMERIKA is also the place Ani, Hilde and Mechi are heading for. Drunk with cocktails, styling and the thought of boys, the three girlfriends take off into the night.Avenida Argentina explores four opposite worlds along the social striplines of today's Argentina, between poor and rich, unschooled and studied, indigenous and European descent. An irritating snapshot of a society in crisis.

Germany 2008, 88 min

In the middle of the German provinces the tireless priest Sri Paskaran built the biggest Tamil Hindu temple in Europe. In 2002, he inaugurated the temple amidst industrial plants in the Westphalian village Hamm-Uentrop. Since then, colourful and sonorous ceremonies honour the goddess in the land of the down-to-earth Westphalians. The film accompanies the priest in his busy daily routine and during his arrangements to the annual temple festival expecting 20.000 believers.In the neighbourhood, the locals cultivate their own traditions during the fair featuring shooting matches. Irene sells fast-food sausages in the local snack-bar and farmer Externbrink meanwhile has got a holy cow in his barn. An encounter and coexistence of two worlds.

Germany, Switzerland 2017, 100 min
by Jan Gassmann

Europe on the verge of social and economic change. A close up into the shaken vision of four couples, daily struggles, fights, kids, sex and passion. A movie about the politics of love.Four couples struggle on the edge of mother Europe. In countries troubled by economic and social crises they stumble through life with charme, sex and plenty of passion. A movie about the politics of love. In Sevilla JUAN, 21, and CARO, 23, experience the wonder of a young love. However, Juan is without a plan for the life that lies ahead of him and she desperately needs one. SIOBHAN, aged 28, and TERRY, 23, live in Dublin. When they first met they have fallen for love and heroin like other young habitants of this cold weathered town. But now sober for some time, on their way to lead a common life, their passion seems to disappear. In Tallinn, close to the northeastern border of Europe, VERONIKA, a 29 year old go-go dancer, and her partner HARRI, 31, find themselves caught up in the toil of a patchwork family. Her oldest son proves to be a challenge for Veronikas confidence in Harri. She wants him to accept Artur as his own. Meanwhile in Thessaloniki, Greece, PENNY, 23, is about to leave her longtime lover NIKO, 33, to go to work in Italy. But how do you leave someone who loves you too much?

2016, 92 min
by Paola Calvo

We live in a society that wants to keep us away from pain. Aspirin, Paracetamol, Ibuprofen and Voltaren. Children´s playgrounds with rubber mats and bikes with cushioned seats. Please, take my body, wrap it up in cotton and don´t touch it! This film is about people who want to be touched and are not afraid of experimenting with pain. And, in doing so, have lots of sex.Felix Ruckert, dancer and choreographer, meets Mara Morgen, urban sustainability worker not to play with rubber mats but with whips, sex toys and sculptures of Buddha.So what does Dance, Yoga and S&M have in common? The Schwelle 7, not a basement but Felix´s sun bathed 500 m2 living room, an experimental place where real people play with real violence. While dancing, meditating, at sex parties and in S&M sessions."For her documentary Violently Happy, Paola Calvo accompanied the former dancer Felix Ruckert, whose choreographies coused irritation in the art business and who founded the Berlin project »Schwelle 7«. For experiments in BDSM, meditation and creative bodywork, this centre is a protected space for the participants and their notions of sexuality and pain. A courageous, insightful film that shows how liberating the testing of power structures and the acting out of sexual fantasies can be in the game of dominance and submission." (IFFF Dortmund|Köln)