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- A haunted Ida travels to the liminal site of her partner's disappearance in an attempt to feel his presence one last time and to say goodbye.
- Two sixteen year old boys, Marcos and Johannes, spend their days racing, wrestling, hanging out, watching videos and playing hide-and-seek at nights. A closeness develops between the two of them, which soon starts to become a calamity to their friendship.
- Sebastian, a young male prostitute, is one of Georgs few remaining chances to break through his hermit-like everyday life in exchange for a few fleeting moments of being together with someone at least for a few hours.
- Four friends are sitting at a square in Cologne Finkenberg, looking for the right words and punctuation marks for a text message to a girl that will never be sent.
- Kamilla lives with her mother Gudrun in a remote winery. In addition to the agricultural work of the vineyard, Kamilla takes care of her mother, who is dependent on her help with every movement. When the mysterious Rocco appears, Kamilla hides him from the police and they begin a passionate affair.
- During a scorching hot summer's day in Amman, a man prepares for a special meeting.
- The tower block area "Am Kölnberg" has a bad reputation. People who - for any number of reasons - ended up on the edge of society, live here alongside refugee families and immigrants from all over the world. Unemployment, drug abuse and prostitution are part of everyday life for many of them. The film accompanies 4 people over a period of two years and portrays their life at "Kölnberg" with ups and downs. One thing they all have in common: The dream of leading a fulfilled life, far away from "Kölnberg".
- Thomas, a young adult, lives an isolated life with his mother in a sports camp. His only encounter with the outside world is through sports. His life is characterized by emotionless discipline and skewed social rules established by his mother. The ambition to make her son an athlete leads her to the narcissist trainer Frank. His alternative training methods, which include psychological power games shake up the importance of routines and the authority of mothers control regiment starts to fade.
- When all is long forgotten, how do we forgive ourselves?
- A documentary about the aspirations and hopes of three young women living in different world capitals.
- Thomas is a smuggler, shipping European refugees who hope to find a better life in Africa. One day his boat sinks and he is washed up on the African coast as the only survivor. He then makes his way to the nearest city - Drexciya.
- Pain from the heart, never-drying tears and turned-around heads are difficult to treat, but fortunately not incurable.
- A family pays a last visit to the father. The son, drawn in his loyalty between his mother and his father, realizes that this might be his last chance to speak to his father - and he misses it. A journey through the past that puts the me in me.
- Chrissimo and Luisa are driving to his parents. During a break in a wonderful flower field, Luisa doubts the young relationship and the journey becomes a disaster. Who is overly sensitive? Is someone overreacting? And why the hell Baudelaire?
- A young man cruises through the nightly city. He meets people, silhouettes, strange and scary. They all end up in a dim night club.
- Lima 1993: Rebeca died in a tragic car accident. The film tries to anex this story to the search of self identity.
- The Pacific coast of Colombia: wild, isolated from big cities, affected by years of armed conflict. In Bahia Cupica, between a river and the Pacific ocean, surrounded by mighty nature, children live between past and future. Through their personal gaze, they show us their magical universe, full of play and exploration and their ability to see beauty in everyday life. While we become part of their adventures, a haunting feeling seems to follow us around.
- For many years, Olaf, Mona and Maria have been suffering from severe depressions. The illness has left them without any interest in life. Suffering from suicidal thoughts they seek help and admit themselves to the psychiatric clinic of the Charité; Berlin. They do not shy away from trying controversial treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy (ect). Their struggle has been followed for over two years. Incomparably empathetic, the movie allows the viewer to comprehend the true emotions involved in this illness. A film about hope, the abysses of life, and the brutal cruelty of an illness.
- A miniature-documentary about a bus station, and their bizarre events, which happens when the bus driver's called Godot.
- This contemplative small town in the US-State of Washington suffered tremendously from the great depression, and disaffection almost turned it into a ghost town. Relief came in form of an aspiring idea. Not only did this new concept save the town from dying, but it currently brings more than 2 million visitors a year. "Herzlich Willkommen in Leavenworth!" Enjoy it, and escape for a little while.
- What does the long contemplation of the horizon mean? Where is this music coming from? How does each individual deal with Cuba's special situation? Questions with no answers. A tentative attempt to capture Cuba in a personal way.
- Charlotte is a presenter at a local radio station. She lives with her husband, an artist, and their three-year-old child in a bourgeois terraced house in Luxembourg City. Charlotte seems to be a successful middle-class woman. Her career is on track, at home she manages the family - everything goes according to plan. But she starts to feel increasingly restless and unhappy, and secretly blames her husband for it. She seems to be more than able to meet society's requirements, but she has lost track of her emotional needs. Suddenly, she loses her voice.
- An unusual documentation of the narration «Conversation in the mountains» by Paul Celan from 1959 - at the same time an intelligent controversy on the problematic relation between film and literature.
- A documentary collage about the artist Al Hansen, who was an axis for all post war movements, and still an outcast.
- A woman tells a story of her childhood. Her mother doesn't live with them anymore and her father repressed the painful memory. Though the child doesn't want to forget and uses its imagination to seek the truth about the past.
- It is a dialogue between yellow and blue. The story is told through music and dance and is about silence and movement.
- "The dream ist he best proof oft he fact that we are not enclosed so firmly in our skins as it seems." Christian Friedrich Hebbel
- After a night of boozing, Ceren told her husband, Ali, that she stopped taking the pill and wants a child but Ali has a hidden secret from his past. After learning about that Ceren has to face everything and a potentially illegal situation.
- The power of nostalgia awakens between reality and dream. It takes the viewer on a mystical journey into the past.
- Every morning an antelope awakes in Africa and knows in order to survive it must run faster than every lion. Every morning a lion awakes in Africa and knows he must run faster than the slowest antelope. Do you know what this means? Martin works hard for his success - 14 up to 16 hours every day. The job claims absolute flexibility, change of places and projects several times a week, as well as a permanent availability for the costumers. Martin pushes the limits of his physical and mental ability. By and by the boarders between countries and time zones as well as work and private life begin to dissolve.
- WHAT NO ONE KNOWS is a film about faces, traces and empty places. Starting as an experiment, Jana Papenbroock drove in a circle along the borders of Germany, got lost on purpose, stopped in random places and waited for the first stranger to walk by, whose story she recorded, no matter what the person wanted to talk about. Out of the various collected stories she assembled a videographic collage consisting of the personal myths and memories of strangers, and moments of endearing bewilderment.