Genesis as a pantheistic orgy in gorgeous colours and audacious words, which helps get over the fact that all this bubbling and melting ultimately results only in artificial paradises.
Printed-out succulents, the horizon against a white wall: here, landscapes are re-created, preserved, re-constructed – a Syrian cactus field that has ceased to exist.
How does a girl escape the restrictions inscribed in the role of females in a traditional society? By becoming a “Boy”. In Afghanistan, “bachaposh” are girls who are raised as boys.
What a fantastic bundle of coincidences this thing called life is! It can only be lived forward. It will only form a consistent narrative in hindsight.
The filmmaker’s father dies. Based on photos and home movies, Michaela Taschek imagines a doppelganger story that provides a plot for her long-term feelings of alienation.
Portraits of asylum seekers from all over the world are set among impressions of a dreary life in a strictly composed sequence of images. They tell of hopes for a better life: here, in Germany.
“Something happened to me,” Vera writes to her friend, the filmmaker Annelie. What happened is F32.2, the professional shorthand for depressive episodes without psychotic symptoms.
“You shouldn’t go outside, now,” the mother tells her son. Sometimes he resists, which leads to tears. So many that the outside is already flooded.
Our real home is language: it connects us to our childhood; it’s how we show our character, express our feelings, where we are at home. In a foreign country language is the first loss.
The normal small guy and the elsewhere perhaps equally normal big guy are inseparable. Together they tramp through the world, brimming with happiness. Their friendship defies gravity.
The young art investor is ecstatic about the meeting. There he hangs, Martin, beautiful, alluring, exciting. It’s almost like love. But can the relationship last?
Shot with extraordinary precision and a fine sense of tiny interstices and nuances, “Fünfzehn Zimmer” portrays life in a Berlin hospice.
A court sketch artist draws up his visual minutes with practiced distance until a mysterious shower of prayers makes the world of the courtroom fall apart.
God is coming, but everyone else is gone. The work of the parish priest is trying when his flock has decamped.
