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- This film documents Nirmala's riveting search for a method to catalyze the ancient experience of self-realization for today's generation. Against all expectations, she succeeded, opening the way for thousands of modern people to gain the benefits of mental silence. Her method, known as Sahaja Yoga, is not well known but is slowly and surely rising in popularity. The unprecedented nature of Sahaja Yoga means that all bets are off. Nobody knows what to expect, but the world might be in for a change for the better, better than you can possibly imagine.
- Brigitte lives alone, but she isn't alone after all. However one door in her flat remains closed at all times. Behind that door lives her 21 years old son, Timo. Three years ago he decided to separate himself from the outside world. The only thing left for Brigitte is to wait. To wait for the next Whatsapp message. To wait for a court order that could be an inducement for change. She is waiting for the day the door will finally be opened. Whether that would be for better or for worse. "Comfort Zone" is a portrait of two people in a codependent relationship. One of them living invisibly behind a closed door, the other left restlessly waiting in front of it.
- An attractive model, a petty criminal, an oddball and a photographer are heading for a fatal catastrophe in the neon jungle. Four young people who are unable to express true emotions.
- A book, that attacks the reader's sanity - Severin's long-forgotten childhood angst. One night, all his fears resurface when he gets his hands on the dreaded pages, and every line seems to confirm his most powerful fears. Accompanied by the antiquarian Palatinus, Severin dares to read the book and delves into the alchemist's spell.
- A documentary about three people with an extraordinary hobby: live Game (LARP). A weekend to be someone else, experience adventure, fight battles, be a child again; recovery from reality and yourself.
- I`m going on a trip. By means of an old children`s game the film is searching for the value of memories: Five completely different personalities disclose splinters of thought, report on crucial moments of their lives. But where is their connection? The own memory is replaced by evidence of previous generations, whereas the life behind the pictures remains concealed. We all carry our lives in a widely traveled suitcase: a suitcase full of memories, which are passed on to us but are never really our own.
- Inquires about the disappearance of the student Juan Herman in the city of Bariloche, Argentina during the last military dictatorship.
- The return to Argentina of the historian, journalist and writer Osvaldo Bayer after his years of exile in Germany.
- A Watchman goes about his daily duty in a Gallery of Art. The paintings around him don't attract his attention any more, but a red balloon and with it, a little girl does. And so she takes him for a trip through the World of Paintings, seen with the eyes of a child.
- Native Americans fight for the survival of their salmon and their culture - against an energy corporation. Their struggle may trigger the largest dam removal project in history.
- To be desired once more. To put trust in the future again. To feel like being thirty. It all seems to be possible when Rosemarie becomes acquainted with her cousin at the age of seventy. Till then Rosemarie's life is filled with her husband's illness who's been lying in his bed soundless since a stroke six years ago. Rosemarie embraces the stranger outright including his pipe dreams and bold plans for the future. Soon she is unable to elude from his obsession with youth. When the cousin tells her that a miracle happened she decides to believe in the impossible.
- Hamburg in the 1920s. From the grave, 12-year-old Oscar tells the story of his death. Just days ago, his sarcastic grandpa caught him masturbating and revealed to him, that he must die, if he masturbates one more time. And grandpa is always right. Push comes to shove when grandpa proves his dark prophecy - by dying himself. Inspired by anecdotes of Billy Wilder.
- For years and years it's been the same performance of the same ritual in the small council flat in Bensheim. An old woman carries her chair closer to the window and stares out on to the empty crossroads in front of the house. A documentary about a life between times and countries.
- Three people, belonging to three different generations and coming from three different continents meet by chance in a small place in the Mekong delta in southern Vietnam. Each one of them is in search of something precious that got lost here in the past. At the end of their journey they do not find what they had set out to find. Nevertheless, after getting to know each other, their lives will change forever.
- Documentary shows the Catalan tradition of castells. The towers, up to 10 meters high, made up of people, compete with other giants in marketplaces.
- Lucky and Bongani pretend to be cool and in the know. To survive in a Cape Town township, they learned their lessons early: where to get drugs, where to get money, how to pick up girls and how to get rid of them. Their mother does not pay much attention to her sons, but at least their grandmother is on their side. The two brothers share everything: the bed, the food and now even an accusation of murder. The first thing they get in prison is an unmistakable lesson about the rules there. No question, newcomers are always at the bottom of the hierarchy. They must learn quickly who may be attacked and who must be served. A matter of survival in jail. Out on bail, something special awaits them - an initiation of a different kind. The brothers move through three cultures, each of which calls for its own gestures and rituals. The deep rift between the generations becomes painfully obvious. The old people still have the sense of honor of African tradition; their successors have only a tiny chance of escaping the squalid suburbs. What will be their package in life? Through a clever dramatic narrative structure, the film rises above a social environment study to become a far-ranging discourse about the future of an Africa ground to pieces between tradition and modernity.
- The journal of a trip from Germany to Buenos Aires, where Kral explores the reasons for his parents' separation to understand why his father was away for so long.
- "Familienzuwachs" tells the story of Manni and Renate, a middle aged german couple, living in the Hessian countryside. Their life ist turned upside down, when a family of refugees from Syria is moving in with them.
- A house falling apart, a lone wolf stuck in his paper jungle, far from normal but right in the middle of it - in posh St. Moritz.
- Life on the land is undergoing a fundamental change: the villages are dying out, people go away, the houses remain empty. Frank is facing a major change: the decision to move to the city for his family the only future promising solution. A tragicomic film about a family between techno and brass bands and a place between nature reserve and piglets factory.
- Lola will celebrate her 15 years, an event she has been waiting for so long and her family has invested a lot of money, specially her uncle.
- We were never here docu.
- A family who emigrated to Germany, escaping from Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania, recalls a world without opportunities or hope for the future, of ever-present fear and a constant struggle for survival. They look back on what made them exchange their home for the promise of freedom in an uncertain future.
- Set in the sombre industrial studio of an aging sculptor, the silent film "Paphos & Galatea" tries to approach the ecstatic truth in the mystery of the ancient Greek myth of Pygmalion - the famous sculptor who fell in love with his own creation...
- 1974: When young academic Walter moves into a new apartment to clear up the mysterious disappearance of the previous tenant, he realizes that the old man is haunting him - from the future.
- Sedanur spends the night in Ingolstadt sorting car parts and headhunter Eva is looking for specialists in logistics automation. Two very different representatives of a generation in which, sooner or later, everyone will be replaceable.
- Hoffi and Lemmi, long time buddies and dedicated beer devotees, set out for another night on the town. But the slackers they are their ticket for the wild night out turns out a dud. They finally wind up in the hospital where they once sweat away to find out what is even better than beer: stout women and beer.
- This documentary movie is a portrait of a Roma family in a small village in Romania. The parents of the family asked us (the co-directors) to become the godparents of the youngest daughter 10 years ago. This portrait was made during the four seasons- during the daily struggle of carrying for the existential needs. It is the final student project of Christiane Schmidt at university of television and film, munich.
- At 18 years of age, Peter finally leaves the orphanage. The search for his mother leads him to a whorehouse where his mother mistakes him for a client and takes him to her room. There, they both have to face up to an unsurmountable situation.
- In 1989 a youth radio station, B-92, started up in Belgrade. It almost immediately became a symbol of the resistance to Serbian nationalism and all that Slobodan Milosevic decreed. Here, the young radio workers give a candid account of life in Belgrade throughout the years of war. They also describe their own contribution, despite all the authorities' efforts to suppress them, to the liberation of their city and their country.
- Michael Gewa is a devoted German high school teacher, ready to go the extra mile for his pupils, even understanding for troublesome louts. He sees no reason to react when a novel Internet company offers him a 'premium subscription' to clean up his rating on their website. But school colleagues, pupils and their parents soon get wind of his bad rating and various posts leading to it. He plans to fight back, focusing more on the 'fake news', considering his job less crucial. But the next strike compromises his relationship with his steady girl friend.
- Find Fix Finish delves into the stories of three US-Drone pilots revealing the clandestine operational strategies practiced by the US Government.
- The people in Izbuc, a village in the Romanian Carpathian mountains (Transylvania), think that their fellow villager Gratian Florea is a werewolf.
- In the vast terrain of the English garden - a city-park in Munich as huge as central park - young Jule (21)has lost something very important and is searching literally for the needle in the haystack. When her boyfriend David joins her, whose future life in New York is lying ahead of him, the idyllic park slowly turns into the battle ground of an endangered relationship...
- In the midst of the world's biggest fruit and vegetable garden, the so called 'Mar del plástico', lies the Andalusian village of San Agustín. There a mysterious virus threatens the harvest, bacteria attacks the plants and the authorities are after the illegal workforce in the greenhouses. Two families, a village tavern and a lot of vegetables. One extraordinary harvest season in nine chapters.
- Gwen meets Ben. Gwen is done with the questions of relationship and love for the moment. Ben agrees with that opinion and so the two strike a bargain.
- For decades the Legionaries of Christ appeared mainly as a globally acting and rapidly growing community that is very loyal to the Pope. Especially due to their success among the young, many conservative Catholic circles considered the movement a convincing answer to the crisis of faith in the West.