Short film programs
Borderlines and relations - 30 years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Walls everywhere: In Mexico, Israel and the fortress of Europe the building of such walls is a strategy to prevent communication and intercultural understanding. On the anniversary of the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, we will explore the bastions, test the impenetrability of concrete and barbed wire, and revisit Stasi thrillers
Contrast
Ali Soozandeh // Germany // 2002 // 03:49 min
Animation // Fantasy, Political Film
Two little men, one black in a white world and the other white in a black world, fight each other. Why?
Borderline
Dmitry Konoplov // Israel // 2015 // 15:13 min
Live Action // Drama
During a routine drug exchange across the Isreali border, a worn-out drug dealer meets a frustrated Palestinian soccer player.
Biotop
Biotope
Paul Scholten // Germany // 2018 // 11:31 min
Documentary // Grotesqueness
Life in Neuperlach, a Munich suburb, is quaint. It is an safe neighborhood, where people know and greet each other. Everybody has their own backyard; single car garages are lining the narrow [...]
Halmaspiel
Chinese Checkers
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 [...]
Die besonderen Fähigkeiten des Herrn Mahler
The peculiar abilities of Mr Mahler
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, [...]
