Featured Movies - Page 268
Troubling Times at Plenitude High
2025
When the most popular girl in school is transfered to his class, the dreamy nerd Rafael puts himself to the task of conquering her heart.Saltar
2025
Saltar
2025
Saltar is a documentary essay that breaks the silence surrounding suicide to explore the reality of a region with the highest suicide rate in the country. Through different characters, places, and situations, we learn how suicide is experienced when it has become relatively commonplace.Luxembourgers in Argentina
2025
Shrouded in mystery, our documentary dives into the seldom-told tale of Luxembourg’s emigration to Argentina.This Unremarkable Life
2025
A satirical dive into the mind-melting media simulacra of the internet and reality TV, Jake Brush’s exercise in brain rot uses a real episode of Hoarders as a jumping off point into a frazzled cacophony of neon techno-noise and bizarre caricatures. Through absurdist monologue, whirlwind editing, and crackling animation, this short blends Marshal McLuhan and Jake Paul to take down our pervasive era of smoothbrain infoglut.Das Finale
2025
Das Finale
2025
Manu and her grandfather are passionate soccer fans. When the TV breaks down shortly before the final, she hatches a plan. An exciting chase begins. Will she be back in time for her grandfather to witness the big event?Displaced in Time
2025
Displaced in Time
2025
The story of an Iranian family scattered across years and borders, where home becomes a fragmented memory. The essay film shows how displacement also shapes time and encounters remain possible only in images.You do not leave traces of your presence, just of your acts
2025
The traces of three characters, Maria, Daniel, and Jackpot, can be read like an experimental coming-of-age film. What effects do intergenerational traumas have on the psyche, on desire, on the formation of our identity?Hedgehog Windows
2025
Hedgehog Windows
2025
An animated documentary that bridges the gap between research and neurodiverse everyday life. A curious, gentle hedgehog interviewer accompanies Gaura, an artist with ADHD traits. His voice opens a window to honest reflections on identity, creativity, and self-understanding. Warm and grounded, the film invites recognition beyond medical labels and diagnoses.The Burrow
2025
The Burrow
2025
When his brother disappears in the night, the young child follows him into a dark forest—and embarks on a journey through pain and hope to find his way back into the light.Der Präsident
2025
Der Präsident
2025
At the age of 23, Stepan Timoshin is already at the top of his game. The tabloids have dubbed the influencer and TikToker the "sneaker millionaire." In early 2024, he announces that he wants to become president of Hertha BSC. The film follows the young entrepreneur on his mission to become the youngest president of a professional soccer club in Europe. But two days before the presidential election, an article appears in Der Spiegel, whose research suggests that Timoshin's financial background is different from what he claims.At Night
2025
At Night
2025
It is almost nighttime on the mountain. A lone car drives down the road. At the wheel, someone begins to sing a strange lullaby...Revision
2025
Revision
2025
How do historical revisionism and negationism work today? The film examines this question using the example of the peace statues for the "comfort women" of World War II—victims of human trafficking—which are to be removed from public spaces. It is a rarely told story of decades of revisionism and worldwide resistance. The victims were mostly poor women and girls whose stories were long ignored. Can denial and erasure completely wipe out the past? Will the truth remain hidden forever, or will it be replaced by an idealized past?How Blue the Sky Is
2025
How Blue the Sky Is
2025
The War in Kassel and Chongqing - Explorations from the protagonist's perspective. She travels through the last words and remnants of the war to Chongqing and Kassel, two cities 7,900 kilometers apart. Although she lived there for a long time, she never experienced the war herself. As someone who grew up in a world heavily influenced by electronic media, images nevertheless give her an idea of the pain and depth. Images make the extent of the war visible and allow the horrors to be felt even beyond actual experience.Hunger Is Lonely
2025
Hunger Is Lonely
2025
The boundaries between individual human freedom and the necessity of others, as illustrated by the case of a cannibal in Kassel. All elements appear arbitrary, as if they could be rearranged at any time to create a new film, but the question would remain: What is the significance of others for the individual?Proxys
2025
Proxys
2025
In her essayistic documentary film, Katrin Esser stages the story of her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. The course of the illness is told from two perspectives: that of the Polish caregiver Violetta and that of the daughter. They take turns recounting their experiences, the limits of care, excessive demands, working conditions, exploitation within the system, and death. The only filming location is the apartment, which alternates between living space, museum, and crime scene. Esser's staging reveals layers of memory and shows that remembering and forgetting are very individual processes.1g Quetiapine
2025
1g Quetiapine
2025
In a mosaic of games, films, and media, the protagonist's perspective, a fragmented state of mind, merges, and the boundaries between reality and dreams dissolve. 1g of quetiapine, both a remedy and a means of forgetting, dampens the heart and shatters identity. The film collage reflects on the medicalization of mental suffering and the loneliness that lies in synthetic calm. Through chaotic layers of media, it shows how the self is not healed, but rather rendered illegible and suspended in a borderline state between sedation and despair.Digital Artifacts
2025
Digital Artifacts
2025
Between memory and the digital realm, we create ghosts: of people around us and of ourselves, in long-forgotten game worlds that now lie dormant on hard drives. These ghosts haunt worlds that are slowly decaying and fading away. Human connections crumble if they are not nurtured—just like our memories and our data. The internet has claimed that it never forgets, but that's not true: it forgets very quickly. Our digital world is transient, even if we hardly want to admit it.Another Day
2025
Another Day
2025
One day, a child sits quietly and attentively in a dilapidated apartment building. A fan gently stirs the air as the child plays with a Rubik's cube, its colorful faces sparkling in the fading light. With delicate movements, the child crosses streets and alleys, discovering hidden possibilities. Despite the threat of decay, small moments full of play, wonder, and hope arise, nourishing creativity. A delicate contrast to the faceless world of adults and the impending collapse that threatens to engulf everything.movements to resist
2025
movements to resist
2025
Dance connects! Several generations dance for themselves and yet together. Each movement reveals its own attitude toward space, time, and internal and external barriers. The bodies and their gestures resonate with the sound and open up new approaches to silent acts of resistance, vitality, and becoming. A loving film miniature on 16mm, hand-developed, marked by traces and scratches from the analog process, revealing the fragility of the moment.Igitte Sisters
2025
Igitte Sisters
2025
Since the 1980s, twin sisters Yvonne and Susy Klos have been enriching the Munich punk scene with their electro-Dadaist performances. Their work is directed against right-wing ideologies, social brutalization, and the normalization of authoritarian thinking, and is satirical, radical, and anarchic. The film accompanies the twins for three days around the federal elections in February 2025—a moment when political alliances between the CDU and AfD provoke public outrage and protests across the country. A portrait of two artists whose view of the world is rebellious yet permeable to contradictions.
