The Ordinaries

The Ordinaries 2023

6.10

Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.

2023

Bright Night

Bright Night 2015

4.80

A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface and it seems unlikely the couples will return intact. Faced with an outcome that will upset their delicate balance of happiness, the world offers them a bizarre opportunity to correct it.

2015

Exit Pangea

Exit Pangea 2023

6.00

The ingenious and uncompromising scientist Pouya and her friend Joro are trying to create the perfect simulation - a new world. In the process, they enter into a battle with the mega-corporation, RenJi. It is a battle Pouya can only win if she merges with the machine, the AI EXIT, and becomes the impulse for the emergence of the new world herself.

2023

Another German Tank Story

Another German Tank Story 2024

1

A crew from the U.S. intends to film a war drama at an abandoned sugar factory on the remote outskirts of a German city, making the nearby town, which had been a pool of stagnant water, seem to come to life. The residents are excited, each making their own little plans, until a tank pulls up in front of the mayor's house and a sudden power outage disrupts all plans.

2024

Paths

Paths 2017

6.40

Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but all of their shared experiences: all the years between the first kiss and today.

2017

Tamara

Tamara 2023

5.00

Mother and daughter, both from the GDR: one experienced it, the other did not. Tamara was born in 1990. Like many of the post-reunification generation, she left her homeland and only comes to visit for her milestone birthday. But everything that seemed secure crumbles within a few days: Tamara (Linda Pöppel) and her mother Barbara (Lina Wendel) are left. The two struggle to maintain their relationship, which cannot be detached from the social developments in which the family was born, grew and disintegrated. Now Tamara must face what she has been running away from: her own history.

2023

Ferien

Ferien 2016

5.80

Vivi is exhausted. Actually, she is about to become an attorney and to move in together with her boyfriend Adam, but somehow, she is stuck. She tries to flee back to her Moms couch, only to find that there is no more space for her. Vivi's father assumes that she needs some rest and sends her to an island...

2016

The Kidnapping of the Bride

The Kidnapping of the Bride 2023

5.00

Luisa from Argentina and Fred from Germany are confronted with their social roles at their wedding. The German tradition of kidnapping the bride shakes the couple’s equality. There is no room for love in this role-play of marriage.

2023

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday 2023

1

In a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Demétria waits for her daughter on the last day of Carnival. But a brutal police raid seals the fate of the two women. Set to Brazilian rhythms, this short musical addresses racism and other social conflicts.

2023

Carrotica

Carrotica 2024

1

16-year-old Nadav is writing an explicit gay erotica and his mother Shari, a Fertility Botanist, is busy working and falling in love with a sexy carrot.

2024

We Might As Well Be Dead

We Might As Well Be Dead 2022

5.10

The high-rise building block near the forest is famous for its carefully curated community. As a dog disappears and her daughter refuses to leave the bathroom, security officer Anna faces an absurd battle against the fear, that slowly spreads among the residents and shakes the utopia with a view.

2022

Schmitke

Schmitke 2014

6.10

Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.

2014

Penthesilea

Penthesilea 2018

1

A transsexual nurse from Puerto Rico and a french Baggage handler cross paths in a foreign city. As their lifes collide and influence each other, they both encounter hidden desires, hope and love.

2018

Four Corners of a Circle

Four Corners of a Circle 2015

1

A young man is roaming through the city of Guanajuato accompanied by his friend. He is happy to be away from the hospital, which is a sad and cold place. The city is his home and brings back lost memories and emotions. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in Belgrade, four women weave their own threads into the story. As one of them dressed as Frida Kahlo disappears into the spotlight of the theatre stage, she's accompanied by the Serbian version of "Paloma Negra", reminding us that only love is eternal in this fleeting world.

2015

Sick Girls

Sick Girls 2023

1

In recent years, the number of diagnoses of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has skyrocketed. What are the reasons? Does a society geared towards efficiency use the label ADHS to weed out anyone who does not fit its frames? What are the consequences of the fact that medication treatment has become almost ubiquitous? Could Ritalin and the like have become the doping of the performance society?

2023

Bitte.Danke.Genau

Bitte.Danke.Genau 2024

1

Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion, 4 Ukrainian girls were forced to leave home and proceed their paths abroad, now living two lives at a time. The attempts to settle down in a foreign country are constantly interrupted by internal doubts, fear for the family back home, chats with friends who joined the army, and feelings of constant uncertainty about the future.

2024

Spaltung

Spaltung 1970

1

SPALTUNG examines the controversial nuclear power discourse in two communities at the crossroads of their energetic futures: Gundremmingen in Germany and Choczewo in Poland.

1970

Tracing Addai

Tracing Addai 2018

6.80

In 2013 Addai joins a salafistic group in Syria. The encounter of Addai's mother with Ilias, a homecomer from Syria, gives rise to invidual fragments, by means of which the story of the son and comrade can be traced.

2018