People who were born in the 1950s in the GDR: the childhood memories of a generation. Six miniatures, rich in wit, nostalgia, and poetry. The echo of a utopia.
Life on an exacting conveyor belt. This detailed puppet animation that sparkles with ideas is a scathing satire on our brave new working world that thinks the term “human resources” through to the end and invents a new running technique in the process.
A short film for all those who have always been interested in the secret of cultivated conversation. And if you’re not interested: come anyway! Maybe you’ll learn something about your karma.
A howl in the wilderness. A shape moves back and forth in the bloody red flickering light of a double fight – against the wolf, but even more against the fear of the wolf. No escape, the razor’s edge – powerfully eloquent.
This state of general irritation, however, suits Till Nowak brilliantly as he portrays the confusion of his protagonist, a homeless piano player, his psychoses and the fears of everyone involved.
Painted everyday life, rationally observed, a calm voice with a laconic undertone – over the past decades Jochen Kuhn has developed this form of representation into a filmic language of his own and created a number of small masterpieces.
A father who killed his little daughter because he believed she was possessed by a demon. The reconstruction of a Jordanian criminal case and the exploration of a spiritual parallel world.
Rita Bakacs had to rise early to film her protagonists (all of them male): the vacancies hatch at the Neukölln Job Centre opens at four in the morning. Latecomers could come away empty-handed.
She came from Kosovo at the age of four and has finally arrived after years of “temporary admission”. An example of successful integration, but mainly the fun portrait of a wild chick.
The psychograph of a species, that of the collectors and archivists. What makes them conserve, organise, categorise? Taking care of memories with passion and meticulousness.
