Democracy first!
Long live democracy! In view of numerous upcoming elections near and far, the program reflects social structures in diversity, with pleasure and passionate power. Let´s live together!
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Ausstieg Rechts
Exit Right
Bernhard Wenger, Rupert Höller // Austria // 2015 // 03:00 min
Live Action // Drama
Look away or intervene? When a Black man is victim of racial abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who won’t ignore the situation like everyone else.
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Ich will
I want
Anne Isensee // Germany // 2019 // 02:00 min
Animation // Comedy, Musical, Poetry
„I Want“ wants loud colours, rainbow music and a cheeky poem. You can't always get what you want, but this film can.
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Finow
Susanne Quester // Germany // 2002 // 07:05 min
Live Action // Comedy
"Finow" is an independent woodland state whose inhabitants mainly feed on bananas. A two-fisted social reportage about child labour.
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So weit so gut
So far so good
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 [...]
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The Fire Next Time
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. [...]
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KIDS
Michael Frei // Switzerland // 2019 // 09:00 min
Animation // satire
How do we define ourselves when we are all equal? Who is steering the crowd? What if it is heading in the wrong direction? Where does the individual end and the group begin? What is done by [...]
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Real News
Luka Popadić // Switzerland, Serbia and Montenegro // 2021 // 17:00 min
Live Action // Drama
Nato bombing of Serbia in 1999. James, a young journalist on his first deployment abroad, is faced with the absurd reality of news production and is forced to choose between his career and his [...]
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Obervogelgesang
Elias Weinberger, Ferdinand Ehrhardt // Germany // 2020 // 06:22 min
A teenager is confronted with a fresh right-wing extremist graffiti in the S-Bahn and a grimace of her homeland and a grimace of her homeland that she had previously repressed.
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Yellow
Rang-e-zard
Elham Ehsas // Afghanistan, United Kingdom // 2023 // 12:49 min
Live Action // Drama
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future
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Der übers Meer kam
The One Who Crossed the Sea
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 [...]
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