Featured Movies - Page 285
When the Herons Return
2025
The lamentations of a missing person’s mother lead a murderer suffering from amnesia to question his actions. He travels to the spot in the jungle where he murdered and buried his most recent victim.A Spot in the Sun
2025
A Spot in the Sun
2025
An artist’s attempt to recreate experimental filmmaker Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil from memory. Working from fragments, the film weaves together into an engrossing narrative. It follows patterns of thought through material such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, WG Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, and combines it with personal, intimate footage, images of the Welsh landscape, San Francisco, and of course, Chris Marker’s favourite animal.rare earths
2025
rare earths
2025
An island in the middle of nowhere, horizon, sea, trees, earth—and screens. What to refer to, what to orient oneself by? A stream of consciousness between superficial observation and introspection in search of orientation.At the End of the World
2025
A surreal journey into the complex relationship between indigenous peoples and the unstoppable force of technological progress. The film shows various stages of technological development and its effects on indigenous populations.Gender Ideology
2025
Gender Ideology
2025
A short film that explores the concept of “gender ideology” as invoked by global political and cultural leaders. It opens with provocative quotes from figures such as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán, and others — e.g., “They are planting a time bomb in our national structure.”An Extraterrestrial Exchange
2025
An alien student enrolled in an exchange program comes to Earth to experience a real life human school. However, upon arrival they are quick to be othered by the terrible, horrifying beasts known as middle schoolers. An unsuccessful attempt at fitting in later, they are approached by a lone boy that knows exactly how it feels to fall outside of the norm.BACKLINK
2025
BACKLINK
2025
Frau Pupak
2025
Frau Pupak
2025
The 80-year-old Ms. Pupak lives in a retirement home in Dieburg, Hesse. The film shows her everyday life in slow motion and gives her space for honest and self-reflective words about her past, the present, and the last stage of her life.Bakobi
2025
Bakobi
2025
Bakobi just wanted to sleep, but she is awakened by a loud noise. A vacuum cleaner monster appears and she tries to escape. After an exciting chase, she is lured back into the house by the smell of her favorite food. Her meal makes her forget all about the scary vacuum cleaner, so she can finally fall asleep and dream again.all the animals I have trapped, have all become my pets
2025
Within the cinematic work, animals appear as traces—frozen in stillness, revived in film. Both memory and projection: 24 ghosts per second.Wolf
2025
Wolf
2025
A mixed-media animation in which artist Julie grapples with her imposter syndrome by coming into conflict with her newly developed werewolf personality, who would rather spend time with her band than focus on work. Now the two sides are at odds, as Julie's work deadline falls on the same day as her band's gig! Will she manage to be there for her friends by accepting her wilder side?HeadBanger
2025
HeadBanger
2025
Ren wakes up from a hysterical fit, holding a prescription for something that is supposed to alleviate PMS. She sets off to pick up her medication. When she takes it, she realizes that she may have been prescribed something ineffective. Angry and disappointed, she loses her temper and collapses, whereupon the pill machine spits out another random prescription.Subjekt
2025
Subjekt
2025
Maryam, an Iranian woman, is accompanied by a film crew for a documentary about her everyday life. However, during filming, it becomes increasingly clear that the biased image the director wants to portray of Maryam in his documentary may not correspond at all to how Maryam sees herself and her situation, or how she wants to be seen.Regale voller Geschichten – ein Porträt über Nazim Alemdar
2025
Frankfurt's railway station district is a place full of contrasts: visible, raw, loud. Right in the middle of it all is "YokYok," a late-night shop that is more than just a retail space. Here, Nazim and his boys have been selling drinks, cigarettes, and all kinds of small items for years. But if you stay a little longer, you quickly realize that it's not just goods stacked between the shelves, but also stories.often manchmal
2025
often manchmal
2025
The film reflects things that go through our minds. Sometimes they are visible on the surface, often they are hidden beneath it. The rhythm of everyday life and fragmented perception. The action in the film floats through urban spaces and finds no destination.Where Is the Centre?
2025
Where Is the Centre?
2025
The "center" is a metaphor for urban dehumanization. All movements of people and objects, all developments revolve around an empty illusion. Robots drift through the ruins in the deep sea, representing the collapse of the center and psychological alienation in a performance-oriented society. The film is the filmmaker's abstract response to the urban reality of her ever-growing hometown of Beijing.Data Center by Night
2025
Data Center by Night
2025
In a space between reality and simulation, a cinematic dream log unfolds, created by a machine formed from algorithms, pixels, and speculative intuition.Blickduell mit Pferd während die Welt vor die Hunde geht
2025
Someone lies in bed staring at the ceiling—at a framed picture of a horse that proclaims with stoic confidence: "You can do anything." Becoming an adult for the first time. Is this what it feels like? The room remains motionless, the voice-over unfolds a stream of thoughts. Fragmented observations and reflections on life, dreams, and resistance. The daily struggle for survival in a fragile world between longing and powerlessness, stagnation and movement.Subscribe to Remove the Watermark: What Makes Us Alike or Different?
2025
Commercially operated AI image generators reveal their hidden logic in the shimmering choreography of loading bars, confirmation windows, and beauty filters. Between gamification and advertising banners, the camera switches between the feverishly typed prompts of an invisible user and the AI-generated portraits. Algorithmic promise and lived uncertainty of the digital black box. A field of tension between the visible and the hidden, between conformity and difference, in which creativity must be renegotiated.Real-KI
2025
Real-KI
2025
No technology has caused as much of a stir in recent years as artificial intelligence. However, understanding what AI is depends on the perspective of the observer. A short film attempts to describe a realistic perspective on this phenomenon. Therefore, the film's presentation refers to the actual form of AI: individual lines of code.
