Martin Wallner, Stefan Leuchtenberg // Germany // 2010 // 14:14 min
Animation // Drama
After the unexpected death of his father, a young man hopes to learn how to cope with his loss by venturing out on a powerful emotional journey through time and space.
Laura Lehmus // Germany // 2014 // 06:13 min
Animation, Documentary // Coming of Age, Drama
An animation-short about puberty, based on real life interviews with teenagers.
Cengiz Akayguen // Germany // 2021 // 12:53 min
Live Action // Drama
10-year-old Aysha a rebellious girl wearing a full-body veil and her sister are put to a religious test by their mother in a backyard in Afrin, Syria. However, the strongheaded Aysha is [...]
Ismet Ergün // Germany, Turkey // 2007 // 10:05 min
Children Film, Live Action
A group of boys have invented a game. After reciting a rhyme, it is decided who gets to go to the cinema today, because the collected money isn't enough for everyone...
Kevin Meul // Belgium // 2013 // 13:58 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama, Tragedy
If it were easy, everyone would do it - is the mantra Steve's father uses to maximise his performance on the running track. But his extreme motivation attempts go way too far...
Jorge Yúdice // Spain // 2018 // 04:48 min
Live Action // Drama
After her husband leaves, Alicia settles into watch a live stream on her favourite youtube channel: VictorGaming. A role-playing video games channel. Victor, is answering questions from his [...]
Uli Seis, Daniella Koffler // Germany, Israel // 2017 // 15:00 min
Animation // Drama
Netta is a young Israeli woman who wishes to move to Berlin, out of all places. Netta's father, the son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision.
Henriette Rietz // Germany // 2023 // 04:39 min
Documentary, Experimental Film, Live Action // satire
Loving, happy, easygoing. Care work, mental load, exhaustion. How are mothers portrayed in the media? Everyday scenes from clichéd media representations are juxtaposed with serious personal [...]
Manuel Kinzer, Jorge A. Trujillo Gil // Germany, Colombia // 2018 // 15:00 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
Darío, a 17-year-old boy from Barranquilla, Colombia has a passion for dance. He loves his Carnival has to keep it a secret from his mother, who is afraid that he won´t grow up to be a „real [...]
Ottó Bánovits // Sweden, Hungary // 2017 // 05:40 min
Experimental Film, Live Action // Installation, Political Film, Tragedy
The Camera Obscura (latin for Dark Chamber) is an optical device that led to the photographic camera. It consists of a box or a room with a hole on one side. This film is a reconstruction of [...]
Alvaro Schoeck, Charlotte Waltert // Switzerland // 2023 // 11:52 min
Animation // Drama
An autumn day and the first winter night in the high mountains: it is hunting season.The paths of animals and humans cross and fade away. Swathes of mist blur the boundaries between dream, [...]
Alice Seabright // United Kingdom // 2019 // 15:00 min
Live Action // Comedy
Jaq is angry. But she also wants to have sex. This should be relatively straightforward - angry sex is one of the pre-approved genres for copulation. But her body is out to sabotage her. Jaq [...]
Kyoko Miyake // Germany // 2011 // 10:50 min
Documentary
Every night under Hackney skies, mothers from faraway lands create a familiar space for their children by singing them lullabies, the same ones they heard as children. The film enters the [...]
Betina Kuntzsch // Germany // 2018 // 14:33 min
Animation, Documentary // Portrait
“My mother was always a great Halma player.” It’s a 20th century biography: growing up in the Nazi era, teenage years in post-war Germany, the the building of the Wall, and life in the GDR as [...]
Noa Berman-Herzberg, Osi Wald // Israel // 2021 // 17:40 min
Animation, Documentary // Drama
A dark family secret from the past is revealed unexpectedly and opens an abyss between two close friends: Jennifer, a German, discovers that she is the black granddaughter of a Notorious Nazi [...]
Nicolas Fattouh // Libanon, Qatar, Germany // 2020 // 09:55 min
Animation // Drama, Tragedy
Grandmother loses her five senses one after the other until she transforms into a wooden chair. Throughout her transformation, she realizes that her housekeeper is not the wild animal she [...]
Alexander Gratzer // Austria, Hungary // 2022 // 08:09 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Drama, Comedy
A little mole regularly visits his blind grandpa. The seasons change, both grow older and important questions arise
Benjamin Pfohl // Germany // 2019 // 13:58 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Science Fiction, Thriller
Travelling to a remote cabin in the alps, a shy teenage girl has to decide if to pursue her own path on earth or to follow her parents - members of a cosmic cult - through a fatal procedure [...]
Louis Delva // France // 2019 // 10:08 min
Live Action // Comedy
Tina and Fred, a middle-aged couple seem desperate in their search for a boy's name. For who? Why? A humorous and thoughtful look on a social issue.
Malin Ingrid Johansson // Sweden // 2023 // 12:50 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
Yearning for a teenage life away from the farm, the cows, broken fences and babysitting her little sister, Madden makes her way to the next town in a bright Swedish summer night.
Dina Velikovskaya // Russian Federation // 2011 // 08:40 min
Animation // Drama
An old man who collects rubbish and builds things may seem very strange; but he might also invent the most wonderful creations.
Gleb Osatinski // Lithuania, Ukraine, USA // 2024 // 30:00 min
Live Action // Drama
Ukraine, the Soviet Union, 1990. Like many teenagers, 17-year-old Yasha is rebelling against authority. But in his homeland, some opposing forces are more dangerous than others. Yasha gets [...]
Sophie Linnenbaum // Germany // 2017 // 08:24 min
Live Action // Drama, Comedy
Baby pictures, Christmas snapshots, holiday pictures, wedding photographs - our life is an endless sequence of photogenic memories.
Max Zähle // Germany // 2010 // 23:41 min
Live Action // Drama
A German couple adopts an Indian orphan in Kolkata. When the child suddenly disappears they realize that they are part of the problem.
Daphne Lucker // Netherlands // 2018 // 15:08 min
Coming of Age, Drama, Dance Film
SISTERS tells the tale of three sisters growing up in a dysfunctional family. A family without a mother. Sarah, Vera and Julia are at each others mercy and survive as long as they are [...]
Leon Schwitter // Switzerland // 2021 // 13:29 min
Live Action // satire
The air-conditioning breaks down in the carriage, Bluetooth speakers compete by the river and a demonstration in the city centre paralyses the trams. As the ice melts and tempers flare, no one [...]
Victor Velasco // USA // 2020 // 04:34 min
Live Action // Drama
A grumpy businessman walks to work on a Monday morning when he's stopped by a junkie-like kid who asks him: "Do you want some soup?".
Can Merdan Dogan // Germany, Turkey // 2021 // 17:49 min
Live Action // Drama, Comedy
Hasan is a taxi driver working the night shift. On the early-morning drive home, he sees a woman passing in high heels. Fascinated by her appearance, he does something that leads to disaster [...]
Johannes Bachmann // Switzerland // 2018 // 25:00 min
Drama
Sybille, a headmistress and politician, is in the middle of an election campaign for municipal council president in her Swiss village when her son is accused by a classmate of mistreating her. [...]
Kirsikka Saari // Finland // 2018 // 14:40 min
Live Action // Drama, Comedy
Taina is overjoyed preparing the weekend visit of her son Eetu and his girlfriend. But the more Taina tries to entertain everyone, the less comfortable they feel. A tragicomic take on how [...]
Renaldho Pelle // England // 2020 // 07:43 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Drama
Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in. [...]
Rebecca Figenschau // Norway // 2019 // 16:50 min
Drama, Comedy
A dysfunctional family of four are going camping and their poor communications skills makes it a struggle to cooperate when trying to put up a complicated tent. The kids are reacting badly to [...]
André Øvredal // Norway // 2016 // 14:22 min
Live Action // Drama, Science Fiction
?The Tunnel? is a science-fiction film taking place in an overpopulated future where we follow a small family in heavy traffic on their way back home from the beach. Between them and their [...]
Dina Velikovskaya // Germany, Russian Federation // 2019 // 07:36 min
Animation // Coming of Age, Drama
There is a strong connection between parents and their child. A young woman leaves the parental home to see the world. But the world of her parents is so tightly connected with her that by [...]
Can Tanyol // Germany // 2023 // 18:35 min
Live Action // Coming of Age, Drama
Berlin-Kreuzberg. Kenan's big day has arrived. The nine-year-old half-orphan is to be circumcised, following the millennia-old Muslim tradition. But before that, there is a party! During the [...]
Kerli Kirch Schneider // Estonia // 2019 // 15:00 min
Live Action // Comedy, Tragedy
A man falls off a roof. Another one drowns. Another catches fire. Wherever you look, men are dropping like flies. “May God rest their souls,” sigh the widows as they cross themselves somberly. [...]
Benjamin Hujawa // Germany // 2019 // 02:58 min
Drama, Comedy
A family discussion on Christmas can only be brought to an end by extreme measures.
Henriette Rietz // Germany // 2020 // 04:36 min
Animation // Comedy
»POSTPARTUM« is about the chaotic phase in life of a new mother. Pumped up with hormones and lacking sleep, this intense time has burned deep into the protagonist’s heart. This film is an [...]
Adrian Silisteanu // Romania // 2016 // 19:36 min
Live Action // Drama
Outside a maternity ward, a Roma family is announced their underage daughter has just had a baby girl. Her father Pardica doesn?t seem to celebrate the moment; he is very displeased with this [...]