Zane Whittingham // United Kingdom // 2014 // 06:16 min
Animation // Drama
An eight year old boy is expelled from Germany to Poland in the middle of the night in the so-called ?Polkenation?. He escapes to England on the Kindertransport, only to experience the worst [...]
Zane Whittingham // United Kingdom // 2014 // 06:23 min
Animation // Drama
A five year old girl?s escape over the mountains from East Germany into Czechoslovakia, and her mother?s determined efforts to keep the family together. They escape from Prague across Europe, [...]
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 [...]
Jonas Riemer // Germany // 2020 // 10:57 min
Animation, Documentary // Portrait
Where does the fear of foreign cultures and the desire for isolation really come from? The animated documentary THE ONE WHO CROSSED THE SEA tells the story of a GDR refugee who joins the new [...]
Paul Philipp // Germany // 2017 // 28:55 min
Live Action // Drama
East Germany, 1987: The special investigator Mahler is said to have paranormal abilities. The police assigns him to solve the case of the 6-year-old Henry Kiefer, who is missing for weeks now, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]