Filme

Lisa Blädtke // Deutschland // 2021 // 04:15 min

Human Rights, Music video, Politics

The taboo regarding menstruation is examined in an ironic, sarcastic manner, as the female filmmaker plays with cartoonish props, while questioning established advertising aesthetics.

Patrick Gauthier // Kanada // 2019 // 06:00 min

Horror

Ginette stands behind the tasting counter of a small grocery store. Woe unto anyone who refuses her delicious little samples.

Ákos K. Kovács // Ungarn // 2021 // 20:00 min

Yugoslavia, 1991. Far away from the war zones, Branka gets a job in the maternity ward of a state-run hospital. She notices that something is not right: the new-borns are disappearing from the clinic.

// Myanmar // 2021 // 05:00 min

Collective work by 11 filmmakers and 49 illustrators from Myanmar and 3 further filmmakers from Finland and Germany. The film took shape during the mass demonstrations in Myanmar in the first month following the military coup.

Thu Kyaw Kaung Myat // Myanmar // 2020 // 11:00 min

Drama

Two sons of a Karen woman who was raped reunite with their father, a former Air Force officer.

Elena Felici // Dänemark // 2021 // 05:50 min

During a bus ride, a man harasses a young woman in the back row of seats. Although this is plain for all to see, none of the other passengers intervenes.

Jamille van Wijngaarden // Niederlande // 2017 // 02:15 min

When a little bird suddenly drops dead in it’s cage, all eyes are on the cat.

Lars Damoiseaux, Frederik Palmaers // Niederlande // 2012 // 02:11 min

A praying mantis is eaten by a frog. The frog is eaten by a stork that is in turn eaten by a crocodile. The crocodile ends as a pair of boots and the wearer of the boots is killed in an accident when he takes a motor ride and a praying mantis flies in his face. A small story with a lot of fatal endings.

Gabrielle Stemmer // Frankreich // 2019 // 21:23 min

Human Rights

On YouTube, one can find hundreds of videos in which women clean and tidy their homes. What initially appears amusing and satirical, gradually reveals itself to be a deep hole of loneliness, compensation and the attempt to create stability, at least on film, for one's self and other like minds.

Hugo Arcier // Frankreich // 2020 // 09:04 min

Using motion-capture technology, Hugo Arcier sheds the solid bodies of three dancers performing on stage at Palais Garnier, in order to make only the intertwined movements of the atoms visible. The result is a hypnotising dance in the futuristic backstage space of the Paris Opera.

Crocodile

Jorge Yudice // Spanien // 2018 // 04:48 min

A mother follows her son's livestream on YouTube. He answers personal questions from his followers.

Xiaowen Wang // China, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika // 2021 // 14:43 min

Xiaozao was supposed to move in with her grandparents to get some peace and quiet. But old wounds resurface and her new acquaintance with a classmate adds to the emotional turmoil.

Julien Goudichaux // Frankreich // 2020 // 24:00 min

March 2020, a global pandemic hits humanity. In an empty and silent Paris, there remain urban ghosts, Sarah, Nelson and Katia, who have no other choice but to be locked out. These people forgotten by the health crisis ask: how to continue to survive in a world at a standstill?

Nick Simpson // Australien // 2021 // 02:56 min

If clubbers are a congregation, this is their anthem. An ode to the communal act of letting-go.

the tale of the green cheese

Noah Erni // Schweiz // 2020 // 04:48 min

Animals, insects, Comedy, Environmental, Horror

A farmer leads an idyllic life in the Swiss Alps, until one of his goats gives birth to a goatling that doesn't look like it is supposed to. But it is ideal for creating a new product.

Stagnant Water

Coraline Zorea // Israel // 2020 // 16:30 min

Dvora is a 17-year-old girl who refuses to step back from her job raising fish in a kibbutz, although she promised that she would return to school. Her last day at work intensifies her fear of life beyond the water.

Hessam Hamidi // Iran // 2020 // 15:00 min

A day in Teheran. In the bustle of the market, a boy stays afloat by making money with chickens in a creative way.

Lucía Forner Segarra // Spanien // 2020 // 18:44 min

After Diana is attacked one night, she believes that something has to change and resolves to fight for her rights. From now on she calls herself Dana, which means something like "she that administers justice". Her trauma enables her to defend herself against her rapists.

In Nature

Marcel Barelli // Schweiz // 2021 // 05:00 min

Animals, insects, Comedy, Gay / Lesbians / Trans

A colourful and amusing report on how common same-sex relationships are in the animal world. Some animals can even change their gender at will and as often as they like - how cool is that?!

Otto Banovits // Schweden, Ungarn // 2018 // 06:00 min

This film shows a dramatic incident on the Austrian-Hungarian border using the camera obscura principle.

Leia Peron, Antoine Perrier-Cornet, Romain Euvrard, Maxime Recuyer, David Bruyere, Robin Andre-Bourguignon // Frankreich // 2020 // 05:41 min

Esis finds a lifeless robot in an alley one day. She repairs it and tests its abilities, but will her experiment turn out well?

Zhong Yuanxin // China // 2021 // 02:00 min

Useless things aren't useless because they are really useless. Seen from another angle, we can rediscover their value. SCAU University Guangzhou - Guangzhou

Speaker

Henrik Johansson // Schweden // 2021 // 06:55 min

Human Rights, Politics

Police officer Mikaela and her colleague Robert are giving a presentation about their profession in front of a school class. Robert demonstrates his authority by illustrating an assault. Alas, he takes things too far.

The One who Crossed the Sea

Jonas Riemer // Österreich, Deutschland // 2020 // 09:31 min

Identity, Migration, Politics

A man escapes East Germany for the West in a folding boat via the Baltic. However, his newly gained freedom quickly turns into a lack of orientation, until he finds support and a new home in a nascent nationalist movement.

Due to legal Reasons this Film is called Breaking Bert

Anne Isensee // Deutschland // 2020 // 04:37 min

Comedy, Politics

While tidying up, a character finds a poem by Bertolt Brecht and now has to act in accordance with the text. But how, when the mechanisms of repression are so powerful?