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german films
German Films Service + Marketing GmbH

is the national information and advisory center for the promotion of German films
worldwide. In association and cooperation with its shareholders, German Films
works to promote feature, documentary, television and short films. The work of
German Films concentrates on information services, as well as PR and marketing
measures to increase the awareness and visibility of German films abroad.

Shareholders are the German Producers Guild, the German Producers Alliance,
the Association of German Film Exporters, the German Federal Film Board (FFA),
the Deutsche Kinemathek, the German Documentary Association (AG DOK),
the German Short Film Association (AG Kurzfilm), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern,
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

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and buyers from the fields of cinema, television and VoD
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national festivals, conditions of participation, and German films being shown
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which presents a selection of shorts and is premiered at Cannes every year
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Quarterly), a film archive, information and links to German and international
film festivals and institutions, international market analyses, available through
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for Best International Feature Film
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German Documentaries 2023 Preface

In a time when reality is so dire and difficult to grasp, documentaries are needed more than
ever. They open up worlds inaccessible to most people, provide context for overwhelming
contemporary phenomena, and sensitise the public for strange and unfamiliar values.

Therfore, in light of the many pressing issues around the world, it is hardly surprising that the
2023 edition of the German Documentaries catalogue is overflowing with a record number of
German productions and co-productions – 249 titles in all.

Many of these documentaries thematicize the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For instance,
WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA, which is currently touring European film festivals, where
the filmmakers accompany people in Bucha as they return to their homes and grapple with
the aftermath of the Russian massacre while struggling to move on with their lives. Or
BACK IN THE WAR – THE HOMECOMING OF PHOTOGRAPHER YURI KOSIN, which was also
filmed in Bucha. And the German-Polish co-production IN UKRAINE, which opens the door on
the everyday lives of teenagers in the war. The multi-award-winning THE HAMLET SYNDROME
was made before the Russian invasion in February 2022, and illustrates how years of war have
transformed Ukraine into a society sharing a common fate.

2023 is also a special year for films about great female personalities: such as the portrait
of the Austrian Nobel Prize winning writer ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED, or
ALICE SCHWARZER, about one of the best-known and most controversial pioneers of feminism
in Germany. MERKEL is the first film to take stock of the political legacy of former German
chancellor Angela Merkel, while HELKE SANDER: CLEANING HOUSE portrays one of
Germany’s most influential female filmmakers.

Many of the films in this year’s catalogue were shot outside Europe, such as the long-term
documentary SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN, which shows us a woman’s struggle for survival
in the entanglements of the Iranian judicial system. The film will screen in the 73 BERLINALE
section Perspektive Deutsches Kino. Or the documentary ONE OF US, which explores religious
orthodoxy in Israel.

Once again, our collection of new documentaries offers a wide spectrum of subjects and
narrative and visual forms. Please use the keyword index at the end of this catalogue to
explore the diversity of programs on offer. If you would like to know more about the German
documentary film scene, visit us at www.german-documentaries.de or contact us directly.

The German Documentaries Catalogue is curated by the AG DOK, the association of German
documentary filmmakers. With some 1000 members, we represent a large and highly effective
network of documentary professionals in Germany.

We wish you an enlightening journey through our latest productions.

Yours truly,

Susanne Binninger and David Bernet

Co-chairs and CEO’s

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new releases
>70 min

5 Dreamers and a Horse 8 FCK 2020 – two and a half years with Scooter 34
5 Seasons of Revolution 8 The Forest Maker 36
27 Storeys 9 F@ck this Job 36
44 Hours 9 Goldhammer 38
300 Trillion – The Debt Trap 10 The Hamlet Syndrome 39
1001 Nights Apart 10 HAO ARE YOU 40
After Happy End 11 Helke Sander: Cleaning House 40
Al Djanat – The Original Paradise 12 HERBARIA 40
Alice Schwarzer 12 Holy Shit – Can Poop Save the World? 41
All That Shines 12 The Homes We Carry 41
ANHELL69 13 How I Survived the Pyongyang Film Festival 3D 41
ANIMA – My Father‘s Dresses 14 How to protest in the land of plenty 42
Aurora’s Sunrise 16 How to Save a Dead Friend 42
Backstage ‘Pastorelle en musique‘ – Dorothee Oberlinger… 16 Hunter From Elsewhere – A Journey with Helen Britton 43
Balance of the Five Elements 17 I’m People, I Am Nobody 43
BERLIN BYTCH LOVE 17 Igor Levit – No Fear 44
Beyond Revolution – Fighting for Democracy 19 INDEPENDENCE 44
Blue Sky White Clouds 19 Injustice and Resistance 44
Breakthrough Stage 20 In Search of Monsters 45
A Breath of Live 20 In Ukraine 45
BRINGS – All or Nothing 20 Iron Butterflies 46
Butterflies in Mind 21 It’s Raining Women 46
Code of Fear 23 Jew Suess 2.0 47
The Conference of the Birds 23 Jonas Deichmann – …Forrest Gump Aleman 47
Conflicting Image 24 The Journalist and Her Jailers 47
The Corner 24 Just Move! 48
Crossing Voices – Xarassi Xanne 24 Kash Kash 48
The Dam – Le Barrage 25 LA EMPRESA 49
Dancing Pina 25 Lars Eidinger – To be or not to be 50
Daniel Richter 25 Last Round 51
The Dark Side of Algorithms 26 Leaving and Staying 51
Dead Birds Flying High 27 Le Mali 70 51
The Deal 27 Letters from Orsk 52
Dear Memories 27 Light Falls Vertical 52
De Facto 28 Lights Out, Berlin! 52
DIE AUTOBAHN 28 Lonely Oaks – Only your life between 53
Don’t Worry about India 29 Long Distance Swimmer – Sara Mardini 54
DORA – Escape into Music 30 The Lost Souls of Syria 54
DORPIE 30 Loving Highsmith 54
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair 30 Make Up the World 55
The Echo 31 Mamani in El Alto 55
Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed 32 MAMiTA 55
ELLIS 32 Mañana Sol 56
EREN 33 The Map of Beauty 56
EUROPE 33 MARIUPOLIS 2 57
Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth. 33 Meeting with a Poet – Michael Krüger 57
Everything Will Change 34 MERKEL 58

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new releases
>70 min

Mid Season 58 WAS TUN – Taking a stand against injustice 85

The Mission 58 Welcome to Urlau 85
moscow 1941. voices 59 Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer 85
MOTHER 59 Werner We Love You 86
Murky Skies 60 What Keeps Us Alive 86
NACH DER ARBEIT 60 When the Jaguar came to Herford 87
Nakskov 1:50 60 WILDE ZEITEN – No mask no party 87
NARCISSISM – The Auto-Erotic Images 61 WIN WIN 87
The Natural History of Destruction 61 YES WE CAN... Agricultural Change NOW! 90
NO FAGS 62
Notes on Displacement 62
Nuclear Nomads 63
Once we were pitmen 63
One in a Million 64
An Open Mind – Artists of the Sinti and Roma 64
#OurStories 65
Pastor Lothar Stops 66
The Promise – Architect BV Doshi 67
A Provincial Hospital 67
Queen Elizabeth II – The Headline Years 68
RED CUNT, reconsidering periods 68
The Red Mountain 68
Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 69
The Return Of Inflation – The Gravy Days Are Gone 70
The River Between Us 70
The River is not a Border 70
Rukla – Currently no Enemy in Sight 71
Searching for Fritz Kann 71
Seeking the Lost Ones 72
Seven Winters in Tehran
Shadow Child – Andreas Reiner – Images of the Other Life
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SERIES | SEQUELS
She Chef 73
Sharing the Harvest 73 Art is a State of Mind 15
Silent Love 74 Backstage ‘Pastorelle en musique‘ – Dorothee Oberlinger… 16
Silent Summers 74 Colours as Bright as Nature 23
Silver Hair Still Rocks 74 Delicious Italy 28
Slaughterhouses of Modernity 75 Injustice and Resistance [*1/2] 44
Solastalgia 75 Mamani in El Alto [Architecture as Autobiography] 55
The Strait Guys 76 An Open Mind – Artists of the Sinti and Roma [*2/2] 64
TARA 78 Murky Skies 60
TEOTWAWKI – The End Of The World As We Know It 79 Queen Elizabeth II – The Headline Years 68
Three Women 80 Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 69
Togoland Projections 81 Salamone, Pampa [Architecture as Autobiography] 71
Total Trust 81 Slaughterhouses of Modernity [ad Architecture as Autobiography] 75
Trained to See – Three Women and the War 82 Thirst – What Happens When All Our Water Is Gone 80
The Unknown Land 83 UNESCO World Heritage – Treasures for Eternity 83
Verified Couple – Pornfluencer 84 World‘s Most Dangerous Railway Lines 89

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new releases
40-70 min

300 Trillion – The Debt Trap 10 Long Distance Swimmer – Sara Mardini 54
1001 Nights Apart 10 Loving Highsmith 54
ABSCONDED – Young Russians on the run 10 The Mission 58
The Afterthought of Life 11 mRNA – Hype or Hope 59
All That Shines 12 Murky Skies 60
Asta Nielsen – Europe‘s first film icon 15 Night like Day 62
Art is a State of Mind 15 Nefertiti – To whom belongs beauty? 61
Belarus – The Short Dream of Freedom 17 Night like Day 62
Berlin‘s Quadriga – A Franco-German Affair 18 Notes on Displacement 62
The Best Looking Blacknose Sheep 18 OVERSEAS 65
Between Heaven and Earth 18 Petro-Melancholy – The Oil Age in the Mirror of Art 66
Calls From Moscow 21 Pollen and Insects – Forensic Science and its new Techniques 66
Carl Nielsen – Between Heaven and Earth 21 The Prison Station 67
Child Trafficking – The Human Trafficker‘s Mafia 22 Queen Elizabeth II – The Headline Years 68
The City as a Stage – The Painter Bellotto called Canaletto 22 Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 69
Code of Fear 23 Refugee Conversations – Bert Brecht 69
Colours as Bright as Nature 23 The Return Of Inflation – The Gravy Days Are Gone 70
The Dark Side of Algorithms 26 The River Between Us 70
The Dark Side of the Bright Nights 26 Rukla – Currently no Enemy in Sight 71
Das Retirée or the last house of my father 26 Salamone, Pampa 71
The Deal 27 Silent Love 74
The DNA of Soil 29 Silver Hair Still Rocks 74
DORPIE 30 Sleepless Birds 75
Dyslexia 31 The Subharchord – A Future that Never Happened 76
Electra 21 32 Swinging Bach – Jacques Loussier 78
The Exile 34 Tamara de Lempicka – The Queen of Modernism Herself 78
The Forest Maker 35 Teatro Amazonas – The Art of Sound and Nature 79
F@ck this Job 36 Thirst – What Happens When All Our Water Is Gone 80
The Future of the Cruise Industry 36 Tippi Hedren and the wild animals 81
Generation K-Pop 37 Trained to See – Three Women and the War 82
GERMANY REPRESENT – Young, Female, Political 37 UNCANNY ME 82
Goodbye, USSR! Memories of Big Brother 38 UNESCO World Heritage – Treasures for Eternity 83
The Gorals of Poland’s Tatra Mountains 38 Verified Couple – Pornfluencer 84
The Haida in Canada 39 WAS TUN – Taking a stand against injustice 85
HERBARIA 40 Werner We Love You 86
The Hungarian Playbook 42 What Keeps Us Alive 86
In Your Hands 45 When Spring Came to Bucha 86
Jew Suess 2.0 47 WOODLAND 88
The Journalist and Her Jailers 47 Words of Women in Mathematics in the Time of Corona 88
Just Move! 47 Working Women 89
Kash Kash 47 World‘s Most Dangerous Railway Lines 89
Kyrgyzstan – The Nomad Yurt School 49 Zelensky – A President at War 90
Landen 49
The Land of a Thousand Lakes 50
The Last Artisan of Venice 50
Locked Up and Forgotten – Psychiatric Care in East Germany 53
The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri 53

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imprint
<40 min

1 Kilo – 3 Euros 8
27 STEPS 9
Afraid Doesn’t Exist 11
Alone Together 13
And Me, I‘m Dancing Too 13
ANNA14
Aralkum14
Ashes by Name Is Man 15
Back in the War … photographer Yuri Kosin 16
Border Conversations 19
CHEMKIDS 22
Colours as Bright as Nature 23
Delicious Italy 28
Donbas Days 29
Fearkingdom 34
Flying Sheep 35
Following Valeria 35
German Traces – Lithuanian Encounters 37
Hack Me Baby 39
IN-BETWEEN WORLDS 44
Published by the
I will take your shadow 46
German Documentary Association AG DOK
Kayu Besi 48 in cooperation with German Films.
Mangrove School 56
Marine Target 57 IMPRINT © 2023
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm e. V.
No time today 63
AG DOK
One of Us Now 64 Mainzer Landstr. 105 / HH
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 65 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Queen Elizabeth II – The Headline Years 68 t. +49 69 623700
office@agdok.de
Reports from the Void 69
https://www.agdok.de
Sigurimi 73 Co-chairs and CEO’s: Susanne Binninger and David Bernet
Still Waters 76 Editor: Ingrid Molnár, Hamburg
SUBTOTALS 77 Composition: FloatingProductions, Hamburg
Summer Fling 77 Design: Christine Traiser, Darmstadt
Cover Photo: Frank Amann
Survivor Manifesto – The Art of Making Kin 77
Printing Office: n. a.
They Wanted to Be Loved 79 Press Date: n. a.
The things you don‘t know about me, mum 80 PDF published online: February 11, 2023
Tracing Tango Echo Tango 82 https://german-documentaries.de/en_EN/catalogue-main
UpDate: April 7, 2023.
The Waiting 84
Waking Up in Silence 84
With a Clean Conscience 88
Yonii 89
Yugotransport – We are all on the same bus 90

Acknowledgment to Frank Amann for disposal of

the film still of Yuri Kosin of the documentary
BACK IN THE WAR | ZURÜCK IN DIE UKRAINE
by Andrzej Klamt, Halbtotal Filmproduktion

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< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p85ha46

16min | DCP | OV Georgian | English ST 1 Kilo – 3 Euros

festivals: Shortfilm Festival Hamburg, 29 by Ani Mrelashvili
Sheffield DocFest, Astra FF Sibiu Romania, HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | MIGRATION | SOCIAL
Provinziale FF Eberswalde, 15 CinEast -
Central and Eastern European FF,
Luxembourg A tiny parcel shop in Berlin, which sends packages to faraway loved ones, offers the city’s
University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF Georgian community a slice of home.
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF Maka runs a small Georgian parcel shop in Berlin. It‘s a place that doesn‘t exist on Google Maps
cristina.marx@filmuniversitaet.de and can only be found if you know where to look for it. The store is an anchor point for
https://www.filmuniversitaet.de/
Georgians who send parcels to their loved ones in their faraway homeland. The customers
always bring new stories to the store with their packages. What emerges is a small Georgia to
soothe their nostalgia.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2z843jmj

80min | DCP 5 Dreamers and a Horse

OV Armenian | English, French ST
by Aren Malakyan, Vahagn Khachatryan
festivals: Visions du Réel, 29 Hot Docs, 65 HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | DAILY LIFE
DOK Leipzig, 26 Ji.hlava IDFF, Duisburger
Filmwoche
Three Armenias are sketched out here, brilliantly and with delicacy, through four protagonists
COLOR OF MAY
blondiau@colorofmay.com aspiring to fulfil their dream. There is the lift operator in a hospital who wants to travel into
http://www.colorofmay.com/ space, the farmer in search of a perfect wife, and the young queer couple who simply want to
live out their love story… while awaiting the demonstrations and hopes of the revolution.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfwjy8t

95min | 2K | HD | DCP | 5.1 5 Seasons of Revolution

Deckert Distribution GmbH Lina’s plan was simple. She wanted to become a camerawoman. She liked filming details of life
info@deckert-distribution.com
https://deckert-distribution.com and people around her, mainly during a bright sunny day in Damascus. But with the uprising in
No Nation Films Syria, Lina was slowly absorbed into documenting the impact on people’s lives. It didn’t take
info@no-nation.de long before events escalated, and arrests, torture, and potentially life-threatening situations
http://www.no-nation.de became a reality for Lina to negotiate on a daily basis. She had to adapt. She invented personas
Docmakers and aliases. They each helped her navigate life under a new norm. What was a simple plan,
https://www.docmakers.nl
turned into a complex web of identities, which seemed then a small price in exchange for her
Piraya Films Norway
https://www.piraya.no liberty to continue to hold the camera.

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< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/33jhruj9

27 SCHRITTE 27 STEPS
21min | HD | DCP | b/w by Andrea Schramm
OV German | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | FAMILY | POV | SOCIETY | HEALTH
awards: Best Documentary – Close:Up San
Francisco, Best Documentary Short – On the first day of the Corona lockdown, the director‘s father is picked up by an ambulance.
Reykjavik FF, Best International Short
Documentary – Budapest IFF, Best Covid19
He dies shortly thereafter. Mother and daughter mourn in the parental apartment, isolated
Short Film – Hollywood Golden Age FF on 49 square meters – and connected to the outside world only by telephone.
festivals: VdR Nyon, ISFF Oberhausen, With painful intimacy, these phone calls exemplify the loneliness of the mourners in pandemic
SCHRAMM MATTHES FILM
times. 27 STEPS thus leaves room for interpretation and deals with a universal question: How
andrea@schramm-matthes-film.de does isolation affect us when we are dependent on solace and help?
https://www.schramm-matthes-film.de
https://vimeo.com/537184624

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4rwxj8pm

90min | DCP | OV German | others on 27 Storeys

request
by Bianca Gleissinger
festival: 44 FF Max Ophüls Preis HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | SOCIAL BIOTOPE | CITIES
Mischief Film
office@mischief-films.com “So schön, schön war die Zeit.” – Bianca Gleissinger‘s humorous debut documentary
https://www.mischief-films.com/ 27 STOREYS is about Austria‘s largest social housing estate, Wohnpark Alterlaa, and its former
Egoli Tossell Pictures promise of happiness to its residents. The director returns to the place of her childhood
info@egolitossell.net and encounters its quirky as well as endearing residents – in the shooting club, at the pool
https://egolitossell.net
https://www.instagram.com/27storeys on the roof or on the balcony – and thus provides deep insight into a social biotope.
“Living like the rich for everyone“ was the utopian premise of the architect with the sonorous
name Harry Glück in 1970. But what remains of that pioneering spirit? This film is a witty, very
personal approach to an obscure place and an examination of its own roots.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yv87wbp9

Gefangen im eigenen Körper 44 Hours

festivals: 39 Haifa IFF

Neue Celluloid Fabrik | Jürgen Kleinig

A man lies unconscious in the intensive care unit. The doctors give him 4 hours to live, his wife
jk@neue-celluloid-fabrik.de kisses him goodbye, his father-in-law goes over his insurance policy and plans to get rid of the
https://www.neue-celluloid-fabrik.de family dog. 44 hours later, Gil Avni (33) astonishingly wakes up recounting every single minute
Emma Production | Einat Hana Shamir of it all. A story of a man fighting for his life against those who love him, yet think of him as dead.
shamir.einat@gmail.com

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> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yc6u56yw

Die Welt in der Schuldenfalle 300 Trillion – The Debt Trap

83 or 52min | HD | DVD | VoD by Rudolph Herzog
German or English version CURRENT AFFAIRS | POLITICS | ECONOMY | SOCIETY
First Hand Films
The world is addicted to debt. On the one hand you have states, companies and private
stories@firsthandfilms.com
https://www.firsthandfilms.com individuals who can’t get enough of the sweet drug of money, using it to finance generous tax
Neue Celluloid Fabrik giveaways, loss-making business operations and overpriced real estate. On the other side are the
https://www.neue-celluloid-fabrik.de/ creditors, who are no less hungry for interest-bearing securities.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/9925vwn3

80 or 52 min | Full HD 1001 Nights Apart

Filmpunkt GmbH
After the revolution of 1979, the gap widened between Iranians in Iran and Iranians abroad.
info@filmpunkt.com Many people left the country. The next generations born after the revolution in Iran knew
http://www.filmpunkt.com nothing about their past or they were completely apathetic about it. A large part of Iranian
Louise Rosen Ltd. | lrosenltd@gmail.com history was destroyed or burnt in chaos and revolution and what was left for the new generations
https://www.louiserosenltd.com
was an invented history. It is still difficult to discern the lies from the truth. Many Iranians hid
https://www.realfictionfilme.de
http://1001nightsapart.com
their true identities out of fear. Ballet dancers were among these. Stories and histories were left
https://youtu.be/zQfNbRSJ13Q untold, and the old and new generations remained total strangers. This gap grew over the past
40 years… As the film progresses, both groups become Scheherazade the story-teller and tell
their own stories for the first time.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/33rbjvx8

ABGETAUCHT ABSCONDED – Young Russians on the Run

award: Best Visual Design - DOCUMENTARIA The film documents the first two weeks after the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine from
festivals: 2023 Barcelona Human Rights FF,
One World – International Human Rights DFF
the perspective of the Siberian dissident Egor Lesnoy and his family.
They stand pars pro toto for millions of mostly young Russians who turn their backs on their
Telepool GmbH | telepool@telepool.de country out of deep despair over this policy and the ignorance of many compatriots. A story that
https://www.telepool.de
has hardly ever been told so intimately and so closely to the protagonists...
Arcadia Filmproduktion | Dr. Thorolf Lipp
lipp@arcadia-film.de | http://arcadia-film.de
https://vimeo.com/744955115

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< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/59cxswwd

Es gibt keine Angst Afraid Doesn‘t Exist

post@annazett.net In AFRAID DOESN‘T EXIST Anna Zett collages mostly unreleased footage from the Berlin Archive
https://annazett.net
of the GDR-Opposition into a pulsating short film thriller. Images which show the still existing
police state as the cause of a nebulous horror on the one hand and function as the site of
poetical and political self-empowerment on the other, open up an associative realm, which
allows for the re-evaluation of experiences of violence hard to access today. [73 BERLINALE]

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yhj32f33

Nach dem Happy End After Happy End

90min | DCP | OV German by Katharina Köster
HUMAN INTEREST | COMING OF AGE | YOUTH | SOCIETY | MEDICINE | HEALTH | LONGTERM
festivals: DOK.fest Munich, FILMZ Mainz,
Filmfest Osnabrück, Filmtage Oberschwaben,
Biberacher Filmfestspiele When it‘s easier to fight than just to live. Tobi has a heart transplant. On the journey to the
Tellux Film GmbH
clinic, thoughts come to him: “What will I do if I survive this? What comes next?”
info@tellux.tv At that moment he is afraid of all the future possibilities. The heart transplant is a success.
http://www.tellux.tv Tobias is saved.
https://www.katharinakoester.com Katharina Köster accompanies Tobias over a period of 10 years, during which he faces difficult
https://vimeo.com/703323512
battles with himself and the world around him. [37 DOK.fest Munich, Ina Borrmann]

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2k5dnnhm

53min 52sec | DCP | OV English

The Afterthought of Life
awards: Honorable Mention – New Jersey IFF
by Svenja Wichmann
Academy of Media Arts Cologne EXPERIMENTAL | HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | SOCIAL | CULTURE | ESSAY
dilger@khm.de
https://www.khm.de
SvenjaWichmann@posteo.de The experimental documentary shows calm shots of Sunset Boulevard while various voices of
https://vimeo.com/749337841 people living in Los Angeles can be heard talking about aspects and experiences of their lives.
Their narratives are interrupted by poetic reflections on absence and presence, accompanied
by linear slow-motion shots along Sunset Boulevard. Other times they are contrasted by music
and subjective close-ups of the sidewalk. The film explores the contrast between glamorous
expectations, everyday experiences, and the various conditions and images that shape our reality.
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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/56evmdbw

83min | HD | OV Bambanan | AL DJANAT – The Original Paradise

Les Films de l’œil sauvage After the death of her uncle, an influential dignitary of Mandingo Islam, the director films her
films@oeilsauvage.com
family court. An inheritance trial breaks out between the supporters of customary law and the
Bärbel Mauch Film
bamauch@yahoo.de defenders of official law, inherited from Western colonization. The court becomes the theater
https://youtu.be/yLErwN40YYg where the future of an emblematic family is played out.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8evtk7
© Christina Perincioli © privat © Derflinger Film

136min | OV German, French, English | Alice Schwarzer

filmdelights | Christa Auderlitzky Alice Schwarzer, journalist, author and publisher, has been a media star since the 1970s through
office@filmdelights.com
https://www.filmdelights.com her many television appearances and as a leader of discussion panels. The focus of her work is
Mizzi Stock Entertainment | Weerts Müller women’s self-determination. With Emma and her media presence, Alice Schwarzer has managed
https://www.mizzistock.de/ to bring feminist issues to the center of society. She is loved and hated for this. There is hardly
https://www.derflinger.org anyone she leaves cold. Alice Schwarzer, the cinema documentary is the biography of a feisty
https://aliceschwarzerfilm.de journalist who never lets up, and a journey through the history of feminism from the second
https://vimeo.com/688780062 women’s movement to today.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2w9kkrez

Unterm Glanz All That Shines

70min | HD | DCP by Gregor Eppinger
OV German, Polish | English, German ST PORTRAIT | SOCIAL | SOCIETY | SOCIETY | HUMAN INTEREST | MIGRATION | WOMEN | WORK
festivals: 37 DOK.fest Munich, Duisburger
Filmwoche All her life, Lydia has been working as a domestic helper in Berlin. Back at home in Poland she
sehstern Filmprod. Spiess & Krausz GbR
takes care of her elderly mother and sick brother. A lonely, deprived life lies behind her.
kontakt@sehstern-filmproduktion.de The time of retirement is approaching, but all hopes of having a contemplative retired life in
https://www.sehstern-filmproduktion.de Poland will probably come to nothing. Ken Loach in documentary form.
[37 DOK.fest Munich, Ysabel Fantou]

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https://tinyurl.com/2p8zpbt8

Zweisamkeit Alone Together

44min | HD | DCP | stereo 2.0 by Lilian Sassanelli
OV German | English, Italian ST HUMAN INTEREST | AGING | SOCIETY | SOCIAL
awards: Carte Blanche Award – Duisburger
Filmwoche By observing the daily life of an elderly couple, we realize love has different stages and that it’s
ZeLIG – School for documentary
often hidden in simple everyday gestures.
festival@zeligfilm.it
https://www.zeligfilm.it

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/mwwp8un7

Man khod, man ham miraghsam And Me, I’m Dancing Too
21min | DCP | OV Farsi | English ST by Mohammad Valizadegan
HYBRID | HUMAN RIGHTS | COMING OF AGE | DANCE | CONFLICTS | GENDER | WOMEN
awards: Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film
of the Youth Jury Generation 14plus –
73 BERLINALE With rhythmic fluidity, Saba’s body moves to the music. Dancing is what she lives for, how she
PakFilm GmbH
expresses herself – yet she is not free to do so in her own country. In a film dancing the line
info@pakfilm.de between documentary and fiction, a moving portrait emerges of a generation of young Iranians
https://pakfilm.de hemmed in by the Islamic republic’s rigid rules. When Saba rebels in a poetic act of defiance, the
https://www.medianest.de boundaries between fiction and reality finally dissolve. [73 BERLINALE – Generation 14plus]
https://filminiran.com

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4knyj4mh

72min | DCP | OV Spanish | English, French ST ANHELL69

awards/festivals: Verona Film Club Award, by Theo Montoya
Special Mention – SIC Venice, Golden Dove –
HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | LGBTQIA+ | CONFLICTS | HEALTH | SOCIAL
DOK. Leipzig, 35 IDFA – Best of Fests, inebi,
Bilbao, Gijón IFF, Festival Internacional de
Cine de Mar del Plata, RIDM, Montréal …
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in
Square Eyes | https://squareeyesfilm.com this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a B-movie
Amerikafilm | info@amerikafilm.de with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín is casted for the film, but the main protagonist
https://www.amerikafilm.de dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, just like many friends of the director. ANHELL69
https://www.desviovisual.com explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on
https://www.monogramfilm.com making cinema.
https://dublinfilms.fr
“This blast of queer punk melancholy is of the best discoveries from the sidebars in Venice.”
https://salzgeber.de

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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yenkk48u

ANIMA – die Kleider meines Vaters ANIMA – My Father’s Dresses

94min | DCP | OV German | English,
Spanish, Portuguese ST by Uli Decker
awards: Audience Award & Best HUMAN INTEREST | FAMILY | POV | SOCIETY | LGBTQ+ | HYBRID
Documentary – 43 FF Max Ophüls Preis,
WIFT Award – 24 IDFF Thessaloniki, Best Int.
Documentary – 10 FIDBA, Argentina Little Uli wants to become a pirate or the pope, but in no case does she want to fit into the role
Flare Film GmbH | info@flare-film.com stereotypes of her Bavarian hometown. After her father’s death, her mother hands over his
https://www.flare-film.com ‘secret’ box to her as an interheritance. The content suddenly changes her view of the father,
ULISES FILMS | Uli Decker herself, her family, and the society in which she grew up. A true story about family secrets, gen-
info@ulises-films.de
http://www.farbfilm-verleih.de
der issues and the turmoil of love – told as a roller coaster ride through animated and documen-
https://www.FB.com/ANIMAderfilm tary imagery.
https://www.instagram.com/anima_derfilm
https://youtu.be/5wui14W2rvg

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4vcf48u4

18min | HD | DCP | OV German | English, ANNA

French, Portuguese, Spanish ST
by Julia Roesler
awards: Seal of Approval ‘highly recommen- HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | HYBRID | GENDER | YOUTH | COMING OF AGE
ded’, A38Production Grant Kassel-Halle – 39
Kassel Dokfest, Selected for Short Export –
Made in Germany Anna is recalling stories from her childhood that were told so often that they became a
festivals: Kraków FF, FIDBA Buenos Aires,
Sinédoque Festival Rio de Janeiro self-description. Anna as a fat child in ballet class, Anna with a family friend in Venice, Anna as a
teenager in the disco. These memories are part of an identity that is defined by the fat body, by
werkgruppe2 the implanted thought of being wrong. How do you get rid of such images?
info@werkgruppe2.de
http://www.werkgruppe2.de ANNA is the third hybrid short film by werkgruppe2, which is developed and realized together
https://vimeo.com/753356378 with performer Katharina Bill. The texts were taken verbatim from interviews with fat women.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5psp5zee

13min 40sec | DCP | OV Karakalpak | Aralkum

English, German, French, Spanish ST
by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
awards: Best Shortfilm – 53 VdR Nyon; NATURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECONOMY | ECOLOGY | RURAL AREAS
nominated for DocAlliance Award; qualified
for Academy Awards Best Documentary
Short; Jury Special Mention – 15 BELDOCS, A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks. Low desert scrub
Belgrade Documentary Festival, Serbia a.o.
grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms. Aralkum, the Aral
Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi Desert, is the bare seabed, the last thing left of the Aral Sea.
contact@asadifaezi.com By weaving together different cinematic textures, the short film Aralkum re-imagines the dried-
http://asadifaezi.com
https://vimeo.com/685951895 up Aral Sea, allowing an old fisherman to set sail one last time.

14
40 -70 min. | SERIES

https://tinyurl.com/2p93a277

6x52min | OV English, German o.a. | Art is a State of Mind

English, German ST
• Awakening • On The Road • Time Out / Berlin – L.A.
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz • Havana • The Collective
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
by Aljoscha Pause
Pausefilm | Aljoscha Pause
info@pausefilm.de ARTS | CULTURE | ECONOMY | SERIES
https://pausefilm.de
https://vimeo.com/768902481/2a2174f089
Art is a State of Mind is an inspiring road trip with the conceptual artist and jack-of-all-trades
Bernhard Zünkeler in search of his very subjective definition of success; an encounter with
extraordinary international artists and art projects in Germany, Cuba and the United States;
and a consistent discourse on what art can and must be today.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2btvns

20min | 16mm onto DCP | 4:3 Ashes By Name Is Man

no dialogue
by Ewelina Rosinska
festivals: 52 IFFR Rotterdam EXPERIMENTAL | RELIGION | RURAL AREAS | SOCIETY | ESSAY
DFFB
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie GmbH
Polish filmmaker Ewelina Rosinksa explores the textures and landscapes of her homeland,
info@dffb.de a place of contrasts and parallels, where Catholicism and the natural world swirl in a baroque
https://www.dffb.de gesture. A delicate, melancholy history weaves through the details of this poetic and poignant
impression. [IFFR, Fiona Armour]

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdz9756s

Asta Nielsen – Europas erste Filmikone Asta Nielsen – Europe’s first film icon
52min | HD | OV German, English, Danish, by Sabine Jainski
French | German, French VO PORTRAIT | ARTS | CULTURE | MOVIE | LGBTQ+ | GENDER | WOMEN
factory@medeafilm.de Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) was the pioneer and the first star of cinema in Europe. It shaped
https://medeafilm.com
the the feature film as we know it today. As a working-class child and a single mother, she
works herself from the bottom up. Asta Nielsen deliberately stages herself as the first role
model for modern, independent women – and plays queer characters like HAMLET, who
alternate between the sexes.
The documentary tells the story of this singular phenomenon in her own words, the new
biography of Barbara Beuys, a production and numerous film excerpts.

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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5ezd5736

96min | DCP | OV with English ST Aurora’s Sunrise

awards: Silver Apricot – Yerevan IFF, by Inna Sahakyan
Armenia‘s submission OSCARS 95th CONFLICTS | HISTORY | HUMAN INTEREST | MIGRATION | POLITICS | GENDER | WOMEN
Academy Awards
At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian Genocide. But
CAT&Docs with luck and extraordinary courage she escaped to New York, where her story became a media
info@catndocs.com
https://www.catndocs.com sensation. Starring in one of the first Hollywood blockbusters as herself in 1919, Auction of
http://www.gebrueder-beetz.de Souls, Aurora would become the face of the largest charity campaign in American history. With
https://www.artbox.lt a blend of vivid animation, aged Aurora’s video testimony, and 18-minute rediscovered footage
https://youtu.be/VimnG7k7cuM from her original lost silent epic, Aurora’s Sunrise revives Aurora her inspiring forgotten story.
The film blends animation with archive footage to tell a tragic story from contemporary history.

> 70 min. | SERIES

https://tinyurl.com/yzcxxdn6

Backstage ‘Pastorelle en musique‘ Backstage ‘Pastorelle en musique’

Dorothee Oberlinger dirigiert Telemann Dorothee Oberlinger conducts Telemann
115min and 96min | DCP | DVD by Fosco Dubini, Barbara Marx
OV German | English ST
PORTRAIT | ARTS | MUSIC | CULTURE | GENDER | WOMEN
Dubini Filmprod. Cologne Dorothee Oberlinger, flute virtuoso, conducts a baroque musical rarity in the Potsdam Palace
dubinifilm@t-online.de
Theater: Georg Philipp Telemann’s ‘Pastorelle en musique’. This performance was recorded from
https://player.vimeo.com/video/783777050
a double perspective: in an opera film ‘Pastorelle en musique’, 115mins and in a documentary
film ‘Backstage’, 96 mins, which sheds light on the musical and scenic rehearsals and the
creation of the production.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/mk364waj

Zurück in die Ukraine Back in the War – The Homecoming of Photographer Yuri Kosin
Die Heimkehr des Fotografen Juri Kosin
by Andrzej Klamt
39min | HD | OV Ukrainian, Russian | PORTRAIT | ARTS | PHOTOGRAPHY | WAR&PEACE
German, English ST
Ukrainian photographer Yuri Kosin experienced the outbreak of war in his town of Irpin near Kiev.
Halbtotal Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG He documented the events as well as his escape a few weeks later. Now he is returning to his
Andrzej Klamt
info@halbtotalfilm.de
homeland. The area around Kiev is considered safe again. Russian troops have withdrawn from
https://halbtotalfilm.de western Ukraine. What they have left behind are places of horror like Butscha located near Irpin.
What images of destruction will Yuri Kosin encounter when he returns home, what will friends and
neighbors, other artists tell him? The war in Ukraine has also become a war for the interpretative
sovereignty of images. Images of war, and especially of war crimes, have a direct impact on
posibilities, but also the danger of the power of images. Director Andrzej Klamt and cameraman
Frank Amann accompany the difficult return home of photographer Yuri Kosin, back to Ukraine.
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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3dx4hsu6

5 Elemente der Unendlichkeit Balance of the Five Elements

100min | 4K +HD | DCP | 5.1 by Jan Hinrik Drevs
OV Mandarin, English | German, English ST HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | LIFESTYLE | PHILOSOPHY | ETHNOLOGY
festivals: docedge, 39 FFMUC – FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN A powerful cinematic journey that explores the traditional Chinese worldview. The ancient theory
Gebrueder Beetz Filmprod.
of the five elements enjoys worldwide popularity as it influences the daily lives of people in China
info@gebrueder-beetz.de even today. Wood, fire, earth, metal, and water are considered the basic building blocks of the
http://gebrueder-beetz.de universe. They are interdependent and interconnected. Life and the natural environment are in a
Making Movies Ltd constant state of flux. This documentary explores a system of thought thousands of years old
info@makingmovies.co.nz
https://www.makingmovies.co.nz
and shows how fashion design, medicine, agriculture, and tai chi remain deeply connected to
https://youtu.be/xdgqf0Sefjw
this ancient philosophy. Two hundred days of shooting on the ground and in the air have made
this documentary a journey through all seasons and all of China’s climatic zones. [FFMUC]

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/46u5nv9b

Belarus – Der kurze Traum von Freiheit Belarus – The Short Dream of Freedom
45min | OV Belarusian, German | English, by Irene Langemann
German VO+ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | CONFLICTS | WAR&PEACE | SOCIETY
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de In 2020, hundreds of thousands of people in Belarus protested against the rigged elections.
Lichtfilm | Wolfgang Bergmann State authorities reacted with brutal violence and many protesters, including leading opposition
wolf.berg@lichtfilm.de
https://lichtfilm.de
figures, were forced to flee. We meet them in exile, where they relentlessly fight for the ones
they have left behind and for a better future for their country.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfj4wmx

86min | DCP | OV German | English ST BERLIN BYTCH LOVE

festivals: 37 DOK.fest Munich, DOC.Berlin, by Heiko Aufdermauer, Johannes Girke
44 FF Max Ophüls Preis HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIAL | PORTRAIT | HOMELESS | CITIES | COMING OF AGE | POVERTY | FAMILY
SILENTFILM
info@silentfilm.de Sophie and Dominik’s love story takes place on the streets. The two young people sleep in
https://silentfilm.de
doorways, roam around Berlin and hang out with friends. But a shadow looms over them:
https://berlinbytchlove.de/trailer
Dominik faces a prison sentence. When Sophie falls pregnant, the couple long for their own
https://www.FB.com/berlinbytchlovefilm
place to live. Epic and incredibly intimate without passing judgement.

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https://tinyurl.com/37wpwp8r

Die Berliner Quadriga Berlin’s Quadriga – A Franco-German Affair

Medea Film Factory GmbH For eight years Berlin’s Quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate was stored as Napoleon’s war trophy
factory@medeafilm.de
https://medeafilm.com
in Paris. She almost stayed there forever. When the work of sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow
finally returned to Berlin in 1814, the work of art became a symbol of victory over France. The
Brandenburg Gate turned into a hotspot of German history.
In 1945, the original Quadriga was destroyed. There is a replica on the gate today. A plaster
copy was recently rediscovered and restored in the rooms of the German Bundestag.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5bcncu69

Das schönste Schaf im Wallis The Best Looking Blacknose Sheep

NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz Fabienne and Kilian Schnydrig and their three children live 1400 metres high up in the village
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
of Mund, in the Swiss canton of Valais. We spend a year filming them and their 50 Blacknose
Christ Media
https://www.christmedia.de
sheep. From the birth of the lambs and their migration to alpine pastures to the annual
highlight: the Blacknose Beauty Contest.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yc6v3fhh
© Yves Itzek © Brendan Uffelmann © Brendan Uffelmann

Zwischen Himmel und Erde Between Heaven and Earth

47min | 2K | DCP | 5.1 by Stephanie Englert
OV German | English ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | WORK | SOCIAL | SOCIETY | RURAL AREAS | CLIMATE CHANGE
Stephanie Englert
mail@stephanie-englert.de The film tells the story of a region and its people in upheaval. With the imminent dismantling
https://www.stephanieenglert.de
of the local lignite industry and the public protest against climate change, the region near
https://vimeo.com/766067607/a01060b051
Cologne is directly confronted. Willy, Sina and Thomas live in Bedburg, a town close to an
active open-cast lignite mine and in the middle of several coal-fired power plants.
The 3 residents from three generations are faced with the challenge to remain in structures
or to break them up.

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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/vucep54e

Generation Euromaidan Beyond Revolution – Fighting for Democracy

Sehnsucht nach Demokratie
by Kristof Gerega
92min | DCP | OV German, English, CURRENT AFFAIRS | CONFLICTS | WAR&PEACE | PORTRAIT | POLITCS
Ukrainian, Russian | English, German ST
Serhiy Leshchenko, Svitlana Zalishchuk and Mustafa Nayyem have been working for years to
festival: Filmfestival Cottbus; Human Rights
FF Berlin; Filmfest München strengthen Ukrainian democracy. Before the Maidan revolution, the three friends were active in
journalism and civil society. In 2014, they made the decision to enter politics. The documentary
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
BEYOND REVOLUTION by Kristof Gerega follows the struggle of three politicians inside and
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
outside the Ukrainian Parliament ‘Verkhovna Rada’. How can corruption be overcome? How can
ThurnFilm GmbH
produktion@thurnfilm.de the new generation change the old system from within? Will they found their own party or join
https://www.thurnfilm.de an existing one? Close to the protagonists, this film tells of a path full of obstacles – from
Schuldenberg Films disagreements within the clique to Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine.
https://schuldenbergfilms.com

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/59tnfdwm

Blauer Himmel Weiße Wolken Blue Sky White Clouds

91min | HD | DCP | OV German | English ST by Astrid Menzel
HUMAN INTEREST | FAMILY | POV | AGING | INCLUSION | HEALTH
festival: 65 DOK Leipzig, 44 FF Max Ophüls
Preis
“Take care of grandma when I’m gone,” says the grandfather to his granddaughter Astrid.
Freischwimmer Film GmbH When he dies, grandmother Carmen, who suffers from dementia, is sent to a retirement home
kontakt@freischwimmerfilm.de where she feels abandoned. Astrid realizes that she has not fulfilled grandpa’s last wish. Together
https://www.freischwimmerfilm.de/
with her brother, she takes Carmen on a canoe trip. The old woman enjoys their time together.
https://astridmenzel.com/
But the daily changes of location get to her – and one night she decides to walk home.
https://www.instagram.com/menzelastrid/

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/mr4ah4wp

30min | OV Polish, English | English ST Border Conversations

awards: Silver Dove – 65 DOK.Leipzig by Jonathan Brunner
festivals: 26 Ji.hlava IDFF, Filmschau BaWü, CURRENT AFFAIRS | MIGRATION | CONFLICTS | SOCIAL | WOMEN | REFUGEE
2023: MiradasDocs IDFF, Millenium Docs
Against Gravity
In November 2021, people tried to enter the EU via Belarus and Poland, but the route turned
Jonathan Brunner out to be a death trap. All access points to the border region were blocked in order not to
info@jonathanbrunner.com create an escape corridor. Men, women and children were stuck in no man’s land – in the
http://jonathanbrunner.com
www.instagram.com/_jonathanbrunner
middle of winter, in the middle of the forest, for weeks. The film follows Polish activists on their
https://www.filmakademie.de
mission. They learn that humanitarian aid, just like the refugees themselves, comes up against
borders. [65 DOK Leipzig, Luc-Carolin Ziemann]
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https://tinyurl.com/mrx3h574

Spielen oder nicht spielen Breakthrough Stage

80min | HD | OV German | English ST by Kim Münster, Sebastian Bergfeld
HUMAN INTEREST | ARTS | CULTURE | PORTAIT | INCLUSION | THEATRE
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
Lucy and Yulia want to become professional theatre actors. Because of their physical disabilities,
Treibsand Film
they face special challenges. Until recently, no training was available for them. The film takes a
wir@treibsand-film.de
https://treibsand-film.de/ sensitive look at their path to professional theatre. They stand up not only for their own rights
but also for the fundamental acceptance of difference in theatre and in society.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/mr3uxbvn

Ein Hauch Leben A Breath of Live

95min | DCP | 2K | OV Italian | English ST by Daniele Coluccini, Matteo Botrugno
HUMAN INTEREST | AGING | NS-POLITICS | WWII | PORTRAIT | LGBTQ+
festivals: Queer Lisboa – Queer Porto, FFMUC
– Filmfest München,
Lucy is a ninety-five years old lady. In her apartment, photos turned yellow by the passing time
Tama Film Produktion tell the adolescence of a boy who at the time was called Luciano and who was going to live
flaviaoertwig@gmail.com the most terrible period of his life. Lucy is the oldest transsexual woman in Italy. She is among
https://tamafilm.de/ein-hauch-leben
the few survivors of Dachau’s concentration camp.
https://www.FB.com/tamafilmproduktion
https://youtu.be/iGDd1p3fKK4 Lucy’s story tells us the story of the 1900s. The events of his turbulent life become a metaphor
for a humanity that does not give up and that treasures the most important gift in history, mem-
ory, as a unique and irreplaceable starting point.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/mrppyryf
© 1996Jim Rakete Martin Sundara Martin Sundara

BRINGS – Nix för lau BRINGS – All or Nothing

86min | DCP | English, German by Andreas Fröhlich, Wilm Huygen
MUSIC | ARTS | CULTURE | HISTORY | PORTRAIT
mindjazz pictures international
Alessandro Lombardo
30 years of BRINGS – one of Germany’s most famous Rock’n’Roll-Bands! 30 years of triumphs,
alessandro@mindjazz-international.com
www.mindjazz-pictures.de/world-sales crashs and resurrections. Rock’n’Roll and carnival, leftwing political attitude and hit machine.
Act HeadQuarter Media GmbH BRINGS – All or nothing is an intensive journey along the band‘s biography. We are following
https://www.acthq.de the group through dirty cloakrooms and studios, the boiling venues of the Cologne carnival
Fruitmarket Arts & Media and the bright spotlights of large stadium gigs in front of 50.000 fans. A Rock’n‘Roll road
https://www.fruitmarket.de
movie about the power of music and the strength of living your dream against all odds.
With: Peter Brings, Stephan Brings, Kai Engel, Harry Alfter, Christian Blüm, Klaus Heuser, Uli
Kurtinak, Carolin Kebekus, Eko Fresh, Stefan Stoppok, Jürgen Zeltinger
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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/46w2hnpv

Schmetterlinge im Kopf Butterflies in Mind

88min | HD | DCP | Blu-ray | b/w | 5.1. by Sobo Swobodnik
OV German | English ST PORTRAIT | CULTURE | SCIENCE | GENDER | WOMEN
Guerilla Film Koop.
Lotte Ingrisch, born in 1930 in Austria, was the first hippie, the first Green, a prophet of the
Sobo.Swobodnik@gmx.net
https://www.partisan-filmverleih.de/ Age of Aquarius, of cyberspace culture and – without being a feminist herself – a champion of
the total change of roles for women. The film tries to get closer to this idiosyncratic and unique
personality, both cinematically and aurally.
With: Lotte Ingrisch, Johanna Klug, Kathrin Angerer, Lars Rudolph, Ingrid Altermann, Christine
Weber, Magdaléna Jánosová, Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmid and Unit

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p94eab8

Llamadas desde Moscú CALLS FROM MOSCOW – Llamadas desde Moscú

65min | DCP by Luís Alejandro Yero
OV Spanish, Russian, English | English ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | HUMAN INTEREST | WAR&PEACE
festival: 73 BERLINALE – Forum, 30 Hot Docs
A prefabricated estate in Moscow is meant as a transit stop for four young people from Cuba –
COSMIC PRODUCTIONS until Russia’s attack on Ukraine radically shifts their outlook. Moving telephone calls back home
info@thecosmicproductions.com provide the structure of Luís Alejandro Yero’s debut work. [73 BERLINALE]
https://www.thecosmicproductions.com
https://www.FB.com/thecosmicproductions

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/26ph2p8c

53min | HD | OV Danish, English Carl Nielsen – Between heaven and earth

English ST
by Magdalena Zieba–Schwind
EuroArts Music International GmbH PORTRAIT | ARTS | CULTURE | MUSIC | HYBRID | DOCU-DRAMA
musicdistribution@euroarts.com
http://www.euroarts.com
The film CARL NIELSEN – BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH is intended to draw a psychological
portrait of Nielsen’s life; a portrait of the composer in the turbulent times at the turn of the
20th century and the First World War. Who was this son of a provincial house painter whose
workers’ and children’s songs are still commonplace today? The film is shot in original locations
in Fyn and Copenhagen. Carl Nielsen played by an actor and his voice from off-screen is used as
a leitmotif of the film.
With the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi, Danish String Quartet, Herbert
Blomstedt, Tue Hoé
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https://tinyurl.com/yzv2pc4c
© PhilippSchaeffer © PhilippSchaeffer © PhilippSchaeffer

27min 18sec | 2K | DCP | Proress | H264 CHEMKIDS

OV German | English ST
by Julius Gintaras Blum
festivals: CAMERIMAGE, Poland, 44 FF Max HUMAN INTEREST | COMING OF AGE | GERMAN REUNIFICATION | ECONOMY | GDR | SOCIETY
Ophüls Preis, Germany, ISFF Clermont-
Ferrand, France
Chemnitz used to be an East German industrial metropolis and for the young people the path
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Sigrid.Gairing@filmakademie.de to adulthood was usually well defined - they obtained their training and sometimes remained in
https://www.filmakademie.de the same company for decades. Nowadays, the young generation has big dreams and all the
https://www.julim.de possibilities, at least in theory – but they also have parents who experienced the exact opposite
juliusgintaras.blum@filmakademie.de back in their youth. So it’s very easy for both generations to feel misunderstood. Chemnitz is no
https://www.instagram.com/julius.blum/
longer what it once was, but that is also nothing new – and if it realized this fact, the young
youtu.be/frZkuq8tiMY
generation could be its future.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdeczahc

Handelsware Kind Child Trafficking – The Human Trafficker’s Mafia

NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz Lured by promises of a better life, children and young adults are smuggled out of Vietnam into
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
Europe, where they are exploited, and some even disappear. The film follows the trail of the
Vietnamese mafia across several European countries to Great Britain. High-ranking investigators,
witnesses, victims and perpetrators tell their tale.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/nhhf7k4

Medea Film Factory GmbH The Venetian painter Canaletto is the undisputed master of veduta painting. His views of
factory@medeafilm.de
https://medeafilm.com
European cities became famous as early as the 18th century.
On the occasion of his 300th birthday, the film embarks on a journey in the footsteps of the
artist. It leads to Venice, Dresden and Warsaw as well as to the artist’s illusionist trick box.

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Code der Angst Code of Fear

82 or 52min | HD by Appolain Siewe
OV English | German, English ST HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | LGBTQ+ | CONFLICTS
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
In 2013, the young journalist Eric Lembembe was tortured and beaten to death in Cameroon.
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
He fought for the recognition of the rights of homosexuals. Shocked by the brutal murder, the
Appolain Siewe
info@einheitfilm.de film-maker returns to his home country. While he examines his own homophobic upbringing,
the film reveals that Lembembe’s murder as no isolated case.

40 -70 min. | < 40 min. | SERIES

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Farben so bunt wie die Natur Colours as Bright as Nature

2x20min or 49min | HD | DCP | Blu-ray | DVD by Barbara Trottnow
OV German, Turkish | German English ST SUSTAINABILITY | HANDCRAFT | ECONOMY | ECOLOGY | HISTORY
bt-medienproduktion | Barbara Trottnow
Natural dyeing with plants or sometimes with lice, being thousands of years old, is a very
info@bt-medienproduktion.de
https://bt-medienproduktion.de sustainable form of making our world a little more beautiful and colourful. A desire that has
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/naturfarben always existed! In two short films, we introduce people who successfully strive to apply and
develop the old techniques, so they do not get forgotten. We present the DOBAG project in
Turkey, where carpet wool is dyed with plants, and we follow Dieter Kaiser in Germany,
experimenting with natural dyes for 40 years and now producing a colour palette that is
unmatched. It is recommended to watch the films one after the other, as they complement
each other well. But each film also works independently.

> 70 min.

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Die Konferenz der Vögel The Conference of the Birds

86min | HD | OV English, Arabic, German, by Schahab Kermani
French, Italian, Kurdish RELIGION | POLITICS | SOCIETY | ETHNOLOGY | CONFLICTS | WAR&PEACE
festivals/awards: Best director – San Gio di
The Syrian-catholic community of Al-Khalil is renowned for its work of dialogue and close
Verona, RTFF - Religion Today, Italy, Stranger
Than Fiction, Germany, Torino FF, FICKIN relationship to Islam. During the Syrian civil war, several members of the community were
Kinshasa, kidnapped by the terrorist group ISIS. Fleeing the persecution, some of the monks and nuns
found a new home in the city of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. With the expanding conflict they took in
Academy of Media Arts Cologne -– KHM
Ute Dilger ute.dilger@khm.de many displaced families in the monastery. As one of the different programs hosted by the
https://www.khm.de community, a theatre workshop took place. The participants built a play based on the book
Conference of the Birds by the islamic mystic Fariduddin Attar, intertwining the Sufi allegories
with their own personal experiences.
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70min | HD | DCP | OV English, Russian, Conflicting Image

Ukrainian, Arabic, Azerbaijanian, Norwegian,
Pashto, Hebrew, Polish | English ST by Max Viktor Herbert
CURRENT AFFAIRS | SOCIETY | MEDIA | WAR&PEACE | PHOTOGRAPHY | VIDEO
festivals: Festival Audiovisual Comunicurtas
Brazil; Near Nazareth FF Israel; Visioni dal
Mondo, Milano; Terraviva FF, Bologna; How does the depiction of war change in times of Smartphones and the internet?
HotDocs Recommended – Doc Shop;
2023: SpinOff Student Doc Festival, Rome This documentary uses only YouTube material filmed by soldiers, journalists, civilians or war zone
tourists to portray the absurd global theater of war and its depiction through GoPro cameras,
Filmwerk Kalliope e.V. | Sophia Schiller TV and VLOGs. A study of modern war aesthetics, the promotion of romanticizing and
mail@filmwerk-kalliope.com
https://filmwerk-kalliope.com glorification of war.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/36frp2wv

Die Ecke The Corner

Sinn Filmproduktion GbR World history meets local history on the street corner of Sperlingsberg in Oberdorla, Thuringia.
info@sinn-filmproduktion.de
http://sinn-filmproduktion.de
In 1945, an American soldier was shot here. A photo of him became famous and, decades later,
https://www.FB.com/dieeckefilm
is circulating on the internet. Director Christa Pfafferott places this picture at the beginning of
http://www.christa-pfafferott.de her research. [65 DOK Leipzig]

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/544z2tdb

122min | DCP | OV French, Soninké | Crossing Voices – Xarassi Xanne

English, French ST
by by Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré
awards: Institut Français – Louis Marcorelles HUMAN RIGHTS | CONFLICTS | MIGRATION | WORK | POLITICS | AGRICULTURE | HISTORY
Award & Ciné + Young Jury Award – 44
Cinéma du Réel, Paris
festivals: HotDocs, FIDADOC Morocco, French-Malian worker Bouba Touré turned to photography in the 1960s and 70s. Using several
Stlouis‘dDocs Sénégal, FCAT Tarifa Tanger,
Open City DFF London, Doclisboa, RIDM formats, he documented various fights to improve conditions for migrant workers in France,
Canada... counter discrimination and racism, and resist colonialism. In 1977, with his fellow activists, he
travelled to the banks of the Senegal River in Mali to develop a pioneering agricultural
Spectre Productions
production@spectre-productions.com cooperative called Somankidi Coura while the Sahel region was in drought.
https://www.spectre-productions.com Mainly drawing on Touré’s archives, this political feature plunges us into the intersecting story
weltfilm | office@weltfilm.com of a movement of resistance and decolonization and exposes a migration driven by the desire
https://youtu.be/usK900plIlU for emancipation and food independence. [25 RIDM, Montréal, Canada]
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Le Barrage The Dam

80min | DCP | OV Arabic | English ST by Ali Cherri
PORTRAIT | CONFLICTS | ARTS | CULTURE | WORK | AFRICA | ENVIRONMENT
festivals: Cannes FF – Directors’ Fortnight,
NYFF60, Maher (Maher El Kahir) works as a bricklayer in northern Sudan, not far from the massive hydro-
electric Merowe Dam located on the Nile. He spends his off hours laboring over another, more
INDIE | SALES | sales@indiesales.eu
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mysterious building project: a towering creature he’s making out of mud. In his debut feature,
Twenty Twenty Vision Filmprod.
Lebanese visual artist Ali Cherri has constructed his own indefinable work, a riveting film that
office@twentytwentyvision.eu straddles the line between nonfiction naturalism and supernatural mysticism.
http://www.twentytwentyvision.eu Co-written with Bertrand Bonello and Geoffroy Grison, THE DAM metaphorically evokes the
KinoElektron | info@kinoelektron.com destruction caused by the dam’s creation, while also situating the lives of Maher and his fellow
https://www.kinoelektron.com
workers against the political backdrop of former Sudan leader Omar al-Bashir’s 2019 military
https://youtu.be/jNEZLOq0sw4
deposition. Cherri merges ancient and contemporary worlds in this meditative film about
displacement, illusion, and mythmaking. [NYFF60]
> 70 min.

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111min | HD | DCP | Dancing Pina

OV German, English, French, Portuguese |
German, English, French, Portuguese ST by Florian Heinzen-Ziob
ARTS | DANCE | CULTURE
festival: DOK.fest Munich, Sheffield DocFest,
Espoo Ciné Finland, Doclisboa, Portugal, Pina Bausch revolutionised modern dance with her choreography. But what remains of her
Vancouver IFF, Canada, 20 CPH:DOX... legacy? Two spectacular dance projects show how a young generation of dancers from all over
Audience Award – Free Zone Belgrade
Human Rights Film Festival, Serbia the world is rediscovering Pina‘s choreography – a visually intense and emotional journey into
the world of modern dance and beyond.
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz With: Malou Airaudo, Clémentine Deluy, Josephine Ann Endicott, Jorge Puerta Armenta,
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
Sangeun Lee, Courtney Richardson, Julian Amir Lacey, Francesco Pio Ricci, Gloria Ugwarelojo
http://www.fontaenefilm.de
https://vimeo.com/713713682/234ff1b65a Biachi, Luciene Cabral, Franne Christie Dossou, Tom Jules Samie

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdevvfac

117min | HD | DCP | OV German | English ST Daniel Richter

MAGNETFILM by Pepe Danquart
georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de PORTRAIT | ARTS | PAINTING | CULTURE | LONGTERM
https://www.magnetfilm.de
Weltkino | Dietmar Güntsche Daniel Richter’s paintings are bought, collected and traded all over the world. But at heart he is
https://www.weltkino.de a rebel, a deeply political man. Oscar®-winning director Pepe Danquart followed Richter over a
B | 14 FILM GmbH | hello@b14film.com period of three years, recording his artistic development, celebrating his major exhibitions in
https://www.b14film.com New York and Paris with him, and observing him in his studio: painting, listening to music,
https://www.FB.com/b14film
https://www.danquart.de reflecting. The result is a film about art that wants to be political and yet, in the best sense,
remains what it is: painting!
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Algorithmen – die unberechenbare The Dark Side of Algorithms

Gefahr
Algorithmes, un pouvoir sans morale? by Dorothe Dörholt
HUMAN INTEREST | SCIENCE | SOCIETY | MEDIA | CULTURE | HUMAN RIGHTS
90 or 52min | HD | OV German, English,
French, Spanish | German, English ST
Who is responsible if AI turns out to be a curse rather than a blessing? Algorithms decide
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz whether we are creditworthy, whether we are entitled to social welfare or even which partner is
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de the right one for us. We expose the devastating consequences of algorithms taking control of
Bildersturm Filmproduktion GmbH our lives. From the young girl driven to anorexia by YouTube’s recommendation algorithm to the
info@bildersturm-film.de
mother forced into hiding by a faulty safety assessment, the human cost of AI’s mistakes is dev-
https://www.bildersturm-film.de
astating. It’s not just the technology that’s at fault – the real culprits are the developers and
Les Films Figures Libres, France
http://www.lesfilmsfigureslibres.com companies behind the algorithms.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/22ehckem

Licht aus The Dark Side of the Bright Nights

Wie Kunstlicht die Natur verändert
by Tim Visser, Sander van Iersel
50min | HD | OV German, Dutch | English VO ECOLOGY | ENVIRONMENT | NATURE | BIODIVERSITY | CLIMATE CHANGE | AGRICULTURE
Albatross World Sales GmbH
When light pollution causes the night to disappear, a fundamental clock for life on earth is
info@albatrossworldsales.com
https://albatrossworldsales.com thrown out of balance. Animals and plants are threatened by artificial light. Many organisms
MARCO POLO FILM AG have found their evolutionary niche in the dark of night and must now adapt to bright nights.
office@marco-polo-film.de Some succeed, but for many the brightness becomes a death trap – and causes species to die.
https://www.marco-polo-film.de
Dedicated researchers now shed a new light on the effects of this nocturnal light on nature.
Will science find solutions to the problem?

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfbbzr5

Das Retirée Das Retirée or the last house of my father

43min | HD | DCP | OV German | Dutch, by Julie Pfleiderer
French, German ST ARTS | CULTURE | ARCHITECTURE | FAMILY | POV | AGING
festival: 2023 Festival en Ville, Brussels,
If you were to design your dream house now that you’re at the end of your life, what would it
Visualantics look? This question from the filmmaker to her father, retired architect Karlhans Pfleiderer, is the
stephen@visualantics.net starting point of Das Retirée or the last house of my father. Slowly but surely, the house takes
https://www.visualantics.net
form, first drawn on shifting layers of transparent paper, then glued into a scale model. Between
info@julie-pfleiderer.de the words and the gestures, the film of the daughter becomes the father’s last house, a space in
http://julie-pfleiderer.de which unspoken words, unfulfilled desires can appear, disclosing coping-mechanisms that have
https://vimeo.com/706052743 survived several generations.
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Die toten Vögel sind oben Dead Birds Flying High

83min | DCP | b/w & color by Sönje Storm
OV German | English ST HISTORY | NATURE | SUSTAINABILITY | FAMILY | RURAL AREAS | POV | CULTURE | BIODIVERSITY
award: Golden Dove – 65 DOK Leipzig,
festival: 64 Nordic Film Days Luebeck Birds, bugs and butterflies: The collection of northern German farmer and photographer Jürgen
Sönje Storm / stormfilm
Friedrich Mahrt (1882 -1940) is odd and a little bit uncanny. The documentary Dead Birds Flying
stormfilmberlin@gmail.com High explores the quiet eccentric’s life and work. In 1919 he began to photograph the local flora
https://vimeo.com/761044386 and fauna and started to observe the extinction of species.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3r99w887

The Deal – Verhängnisvolle Versprechen The Deal

Das nigerianische Netzwerk
by Chiara Sambuchi
90 or 52min | HD | DCP | English ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | HUMAN RIGHTS | GENDER | WOMAN | CRIME | MIGRATION | AFRICA
festivals: CPH:DOX Denmark, DokuFest
Kosovo, FF Frauenwelten, Warsaw IFF This film follows the machinations of the ‘Nigerian brotherhoods’.The film exposes the global
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
network that specialises in drug smuggling, human trafficking and forced prostitution. It focuses
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de on four main protagonists. Dedicated public prosecutor Lina has made it her life mission to
DOCDAYS Productions GmbH campaign on behalf of the victims. Police officer Nils tells us about his toughest case. Victory is a
berlin@docdaysproductions.com former victim who is fighting hard to lead a normal life. Princess is a social worker who rescued
https://www.docdaysproductions.com
Victory − and many other women − from the streets. In her home country, we learn about her
http://www.chiarasambuchi.com
https://vimeo.com/683659648
own story, how she was forced into prostitution and how she managed to escape.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yrtf7xpk

98min | DCP | OV English, German | Dear Memories

English, German ST
by Nahuel Lopez
festivals: 37 DOK.fest Munich HUMAN INTEREST | PORTRAIT | AGING | ARTS | PHOTOGRAPHY
Salaud Morisset
paul@salaudmorisset.com Thomas Hoepker is one of the most important living photographers worldwide. His pictures
https://www.salaudmorisset.com
became icons of photojournalism. In 2017, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
Granvista Media GmbH | Nahuel Lopez
info@granvista.de | https://granvista.media The man whose art has become part of the collective memory is now slowly losing his own
tellfilm Zürich | info@tellfilm.ch memories. His last one big dream: A road trip through the USA with his wife.
https://www.tellfilm.ch
DCM | hallo@dcmteam.com
https://dcmstories.com

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Cornelius Obonya Christoph Bach

130min | OV German | Englsh ST De Facto

awards: Caligari Film Award – 73 BERLINALE by Selma Doborac
ARTS | CINEMA | THEATRE | MOVIES | CRIME | CULTURE | SOCIETY | MEDIA
sixpackfilm
office@sixpackfilm.com For her second feature-length film, director Selma Doborac turns her attention to a difficult
https://sixpackfilm.com question: How can cinema grapple with perpetrators, extreme violence and state terror without
conniving with them?
DE FACTO rejects direct representation to this end, nor is it remotely interested in re-enactment,
whereby real perpetrators reproduce their crimes in front of the camera. Instead, the director
engages two actors, Christoph Bach and Cornelius Obonya, places them in a pavilion in a Viennese
park at a table designed by artist Heimo Zobernig and has them deliver texts in long, precisely
composed shots and in isolation from one another, the out-of-frame addressees of which can be
inferred. Passages from verdict statements, perpetrator statements, witness testimonies, confes-
sions by whistleblowers and the occasional philosophical text are woven together. At times, it is
almost unbearable to listen to. DE FACTO is undoubtedly challenging for viewers, but not as an
end in itself; by pursuing an analytical interest, it creates possibilities for insight. (Cristina Nord)

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Köstliches Italien Delicious Italy

16x26min | HD | OV Italian, German | by Lorenza Castella, André Schäfer, Francesca D’Amicis, Katja Duregger
German, French VO | English ST LIFESTYLE | FOOD | CULTURE | SOCIETY | AGRICULTURE | TRAVEL | RURAL AREAS
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
This journey takes us from Piedmont via Tuscany to Sicily and the southernmost tip of mainland
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
Italy, to Apulia. Far from bustling tourist hotspots, we look at the soul of Italy: each episode is a
Florianfilm GmbH | post@florianfilm.de
http://florianfilm.de culinary voyage of discovery that takes us to our protagonists’ most sacred place: their kitchens.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/ye25s64m

DIE AUTOBAHN – Kampf um die A 49 DIE AUTOBAHN

86min | HD | DCP by Frank Marten Pfeiffer, Klaus Stern
OV English, German | German, English ST HUMAN INTEREST | CONFLICTS | ENVIRONMENT | CLIMATE CHANGE | HUMAN RIGHTS | ECOLOGY
Rushlake Media GmbH
The A 49 through the Dannenrod Forest has divided the local population for over 40 years.
info@rushlake-media.com
https://www.rushlake-media.com Through their protests, three generations have been able to delay its extension until now. But for
https://www.FB.com/rushlakemedia how much longer? The verdict has been passed, the forest is now occupied by activists and the
https://www.die-autobahn-derfilm.de
police are already preparing for their eviction, to make way for the machines.
[DOK.fest Munich, Ludwig Sporrer]
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Die DNA des Bodens The DNA of Soil

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/zete3yds

16min | DCP | OV Czech, English, Russian, Donbas Days

Ukrainian | English ST
by Philipp Schaeffer
festivals: 37 DOK.fest Munich CURRENT AFFAIRS | YOUTH | WAR&PEACE | MIGRATION | HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY
streetsfilm GmbH
kontakt@streetsfilm.de A short portrait of a young man, who choses Ukraine as the destination for his year abroad so
https://www.streetsfilm.de/film/donbas-days
he can teach juggling to children who have been affected by war. Surrounded by trenches, he
https://youtu.be/e-MUIepg29c
confesses that he feels more comfortable here than in Czech Republic because the people are so
kind-hearted. With great sensitivity the film shows a search for meaning surrounded by gunfire.
[37 DOK.fest Munich, Andrea Erja]

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/ycyj3u93

98min | OV English, Hindi, Tamil | Don’t Worry about India

English, French ST
by Nama Filmcollective
festivals: VdR Nyon, 58 Solothurn HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | MIGRATION | FAMILY | POV
Sarah Born | Catpics
sarah.born@catpics.ch An Indian filmmaker returns to his homeland during the national elections. With voting spread
https://www.catpics.ch
over a period of six long weeks, he starts travelling the country, turning the camera towards his
Tamtam Film
mail@tamtamfilm.com family. Their privileged life contrasts starkly with the lives of the ordinary Indian citizens working
https://www.tamtamfilm.com for them. With a dry sense of humour and eye for the absurd, the director tries to comprehend
https://vimeo.com/696170599 the India of today, connecting collective and family history, and confronting the recent rise of
right-wing populism. A bittersweet and often hilarious tale about the biggest and most chaotic
democracy in the world.

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https://tinyurl.com/3em5vvc2

DORA – Flucht in die Musik DORA – Escape into Music

117min | proRes 422 | HD | 5.1. | color & by Kyra Steckeweh, Tim van Beveren
b/w | OV German | Croatian, English, ARTS | MUSIC | GENDER | PORTRAIT | WOMEN | HISTORY
French, Spanish ST | Croatian, English VO
The film dives into a time that has more in common with today’s than one might think.
Seal of Approval ‘highly recommended’,
Best Documentary – Florence Film Awards
“It was the golden age of security,” writes Stefan Zweig in his book ‘The World of Yesterday.’
Siver Medal – New York Movie Awards It was in this world that composer Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923) created her works, which are not
Best Documentary – Filmtage Oberschwaben inferior to those of her famous male colleagues. She was born a countess and able to develop
NNF Near Nazareth Festival Winner
her talent at an early age. But after WW I and the collapse of the K.u.K-monarchy, she had to
tvbmedia | Tim van Beveren adapt her life to the new times in order to continue composing. After her tragic death she fell into
tvb@tvbmedia.de
https://www.kyrasteckeweh.de oblivion, but her music comes alive again when the filmmakers with the Gewandhausorchester
https://dora-pejacevic.com succeeded in realizing a plan that the composer was unable to complete 100 years ago.
https://vimeo.com/773798757

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yn65fyub
© Eaton de Jongh © Eaton de Jongh © Eaton de Jongh

77or 52min | DCP DORPIE

OV Africaans, English | English ST
by Julia Jaki
festivals: 35 IDFA PORTRAIT | HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | SOCIAL | GENDER | SOCIETY | WOMEN | CRIME
Film Five | Florian Schewe Koekie, Fluksie, Zana and Jo-Marie live together in a safehouse in Bredasdorp, South Africa. The
info@filmfive.net
https://www.filmfive.net small community has been shaken by a series of rapes and murders of women. Social worker
https://julia-jaki.squarespace.com/dorpie Lana O’Neill felt compelled to create a safe place for the most vulnerable women in town.
https://www.instagram.com/_jakirama Her activities range widely, from picking up addicts under a bridge to negotiating funding with
the deputy mayor. Following Lana, we see how poverty, addiction and sexual violence wreak
havoc on the lives of the women in Bredasdorp. The government, meanwhile, is doing nearly
nothing to help Lana, and the pressure on her inevitably increases.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/d3v6wysr

76min | DCP Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

OV English, German, French | English ST
by Roman Hüben
festivals: 75 Locarno FF, FFHH Hamburg
PORTRAIT | ARTS | CULTURE | CINEMA | MOVIES | HISTORY
Picfilm | info@picfilm.ch
https://www.picfilm.ch An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk.
Berlin Producers Media His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspired. Through the
https://www.berlin-producers.de
testimonies of those closest to him and the unpublished accounts in his wife’s diary, we get
Acqua Alta | https://www.acquaalta.fr
closer to this man surrounded by mystery. We discover his world and his story, marked by hope
La Bête | https://labete.fr
and disillusionment, by death and, of course, by love.
https://vimeo.com/737836855
With: Todd Haynes, Jon Halliday, Bernard Eisenschitz, Denis Rossano, Hanna Schygulla
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https://tinyurl.com/2p98wpk4

LEGASTHENIE DYSLEXIA
Wir dachten immer, Du bist dumm
by Daniela Schmidt-Langels
52min | HD | OV German, English, French | HUMANT INTEREST | CHILDHOOD | SCIENCE | YOUTH | COMING OF AGE | HEALTH | INCLUSION
German, English, French ST+VO
Many famous people, from Albert Einstein and Picasso to Steven Spielberg are known to be
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz dyslexic. Hardly any aspect of school-based learning has been researched as extensively as
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
dyslexia over the last 130 years. But researchers still have no clear idea of what causes the
Bildersturm Filmproduktion GmbH
info@bildersturm-film.de
condition and how it can be treated. The film shines a spotlight on the difficult and
https://www.bildersturm-film.de/home psychologically challenging situation faced by people with dyslexia in everyday life in Germany,
Great Britain and France. It looks at success stories and highlights researchers’ tireless efforts to
identify causes and find suitable therapies.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/v96x77nw

Der frühe Regen wäscht die Spreu weg The early rain which washes away the chaff before spring rains
vor dem Frühlingsregen
by Heiko-Thandeka Ncube
12min | DCP | OV Ndebele ESSAY | EXPERIMENTAL | CONFLICTS | HISTORY | POLITICS | ARFICA
festivals: 73 BERLINALE – Forum Expanded The title of this film translates to the Shona word Gukurahundi, a cynical euphemism which
heikoncube@gmail.com refers to a series of massacres, executed in wake of Zimbabwe’s liberation. The work unfolds as
www.heikothandekancube.com
a mosaic, evoking ghosts in the shape of nationhood and ancestry.
www.FB.com/heiko.t.ncube

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4zxvztns

El Eco | Das Echo The Echo

102min | DCP | OV Spanish | English ST by Tatiana Huezo
HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIAL | COMING OF AGE | YOUTH | RURAL AREAS | POVERTY
awards: Berlinale Documentary Award &
Best Director Encounter – 73 BERLINALE A young mother runs across a mountain meadow with her children and they save a sheep from
festivals: 54 Visions du Réel, Nyon, HKIFF47 drowning. A girl cares for her elderly grandmother so tenderly that you want to cry while another
– Hong Kong IFF, 30 Hot Docs, Toronto
practices being a teacher with just the right tone of voice, her dolls lined up before her as willing
The Match Factory GmbH pupils. The fathers are mostly absent: as construction workers or tradesmen, they rarely share
info@matchfactory.de their daily lives with their families. In El Eco, a remote village in northern Mexico, life consists of
https://www.the-match-factory.com
the most elementary things. Being a child here is an intense experience from day one, involving
Radiolafilms@gmail.com
http://www.radiolafilms.org
nature, animals and people. But also love, intimacy, illness and death. And education – at least
for the younger generation… Accompanying three families, the notion of meandering becomes
an informing principle as she brilliantly weaves a host of faces and gestures into a kaleidoscope
of unpretentiousness. Almost incidentally, she portrays the care-working matriarchy in a country
notorious for its innumerable kidnappings of women and girls. A tender film that celebrates the
grace of animals and the children of this earth alike. [73 BERLINALE]
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https://tinyurl.com/fhvctnnr

62 or 48min | color & b/w | hard disc + Electra 21

Asti Music
The Liquid Staging project, ELECTRA 21, consists of four films, played simultaneously on four
info@asti-music.de different screens that are placed around the audience area, showing different dance scenes,
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/690412951 rehearsals, and fictional fantasies based on the Electra ballet performance by choreographer
Renato Zanella. The four films are played synchronously to the same recording of the Electra
opera music by Mikis Theodorakis. Electra – a timeless thriller. The father sacrifices the eldest
daughter for power and fame. His wife slays him for it years later. Their children Electra and
Orest kill her to avenge the father. A circle of hatred and destruction. No happy ending.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2t8sks8p

Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed

Die Sprache von der Leine lassen
by Claudia Müller
96min | DCP | OV German | English ST PORTRAIT | ARTS | CULTURE | LITERATURE | GENDER | WOMEN
awards: FIPRESCI Prize – 39 FFMUC Munich
A complex, associative work that embraces contradictions and offers a visual take on the Nobel
nominated German Film Award lola23,
nominated Roman Brodmann Prize laureate’s technique of linguistic montage. Wunderkind, scandalous author, traitor to the father-
festivals: 20 Doclisboa, V‘22 – 60 Viennale, land, fury of the theater, feminist, fashion-lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel,
26 Jihlava IDFF, 39 Kassel DFF, 20 CPH:DOX...
enfant terrible, nest fouler, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel laureate. This film about Elfriede
CALA Filmproduktion | info@calafilm.de Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first Austrian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature,
http://calafilm.de focuses on her artistic approach to language. The montage of archive material with voiceovers
Plan C Filmproduktion and interviews, some of them recently recorded, is told from Jelinek’s point of view.
https://www.plancfilm.com
With voices of Ilse Ritter, Sandra Hüller, Stefanie Reinsperger, Sophie Rois, Maren Kroymann, a.o.
http://www.farbfilm-verleih.de

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/36sreuz5

96min | DCP | OV English ELLIS

festivals: DOCNYC, 2023 American by Sascha Just
Documentary and Animation FF MUSIC | ARTS | PORTRAIT | CULTURE | FAMILY | JAZZ
Sascha Just
Freytag Productions
Told in his own words and music, ELLIS is an intimate film about the life and complicated times
http://saschajust.com of New Orleans jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr., patriarch of the First Family of Jazz, who turned
https://vimeo.com/753142139 teaching music into a Civil Rights Act, mentored a generation of top musicians and, drawing
from his hometown of New Orleans, changed modern jazz.
With: Ellis Marsalis Jr., Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Jason Marsalis, Ellis III. Marsalis

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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3ps4xh68

95min | DCP | OV Turkish, Kurdish | English ST EREN

festivals: 25 TiDF Thessaloniki, Greece, by Maria Binder
38 DOK.fest Munich, Germany PORTRAIT | HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | LGBTIQ+ | GENDER | CONFLICTS
Film Five GmbH
Info@filmfive.net
EREN portrays a woman who has been fighting for fundamental rights and peace in Turkey for more
https://www.filmfive.net than 30 years. As a lawyer and human rights defender, Eren Keskin is one of the main actors and
https://youtu.be/2L8Ay5IzmHo plaintiffs for women’s, LGBTIQ and minority rights, opposing torture and sexualized violence.
Her strong sense of justice knows no taboos, shaking even the foundations of the Turkish state. Now
she has been designated an enemy of the state and has to defend herself. She faces a life sentence
in more than a hundred criminal cases and could could disappear behind bars at any moment.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/fdue7669

105min | 2K | DCP | EUROPE

OV Arabic, French | French, English ST
by Philip Scheffner
festivals: Special Mention Friedensfilmpreis – CURRENT AFFAIRS | MIGRATION | HYBRID | DOCU-DRAMA | PORTRAIT | SOCIAL | HUMAN INTEREST
72 Berlinale, 53 VdR Nyon, Crossing Europe
FF Austria, Play-Doc IFF, Spain, doclisboa, 35
IDFA, 39 Kassel Dokfest
In a small town, a documentary shoot takes a turn at the same time as the life of its
protagonist, whose residency permit is revoked by the French State. Zohra Hamadi must
Wouter Jansen | Square Eyes consequently disappear, become invisible and inaudible. Choosing to use fiction to convey
wouter@squareeyesfilm.com
https://squareeyesfilm.com
violence and absurdity, Philip Scheffner delivers a powerful political film. [53 VdR]
https://pong-berlin.de “What happens if those who join and contribute to our society suddenly vanish? Scheffner tries
https://vimeo.com/686255919 to express this notion by applying negative space.“ [Susanne Gottlieb, Cineuropa]

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/y3km5hr9

Alles über Martin Suter. Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth.
Ausser die Wahrheit.
by André Schäfer
90min | DCP | OV German | English ST PORTRAIT | ARTS | CULTURE | LITERATURE | DOCU-DRAMA | HYBRID
festivals: 75 Locarno FF, Solothurner Filmtage
This film is no classic author’s portrait, but rather a documentary that through fiction brings
DCM Film Distribution Martin Suter’s novels to life and also brings us another step closer to the creator behind them
gruezi@dcmteam.com too. “Most often, imagination says more than reality.”
https://dcmstories.com
Suter weaves from story to story – stories that have been beautifully, cinematographically and
Florianfilm | post@florianfilm.de
http://florianfilm.de impactfully captured, illuminating both his characters and their secrets, and above all his unique
Filmgerberei | https://filmgerberei.ch cosmos (so near and yet so far) – a world of opposites shaped by the search for stories.
https://vimeo.com/727331483 This film reveals everything – except the truth. [DCM]
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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yck2kkcc

93min | HD | 2K | DCP | OV English Everything Will Change

awards/festivals: Seal of Approval ‘highly by Marten Persiel
recommended’, Audience Award – 43 FF CLIMATE CHANGE | ENVIRONMENT | HYBRID | DOCU-DRAMA
Max Ophüls Preis, Zurich FF,

TF1 Studio In a dystopian 2054, three young mavericks go on a journey to find traces of the long lost
https://www.tf1international.com
beauty of nature, hoping to discover what happened to their planet. The answer lies in the past
Flare Film GmbH | info@flare-film.com
http://www.flare-film.com and when they find the key to a decade – the 2020s – when a colourful future was still possible,
https://www.windmillfilm.com/ everything changes. In this unusual road movie, fiction meets scientific fact to explore the most
http://www.farbfilm-verleih.de/ urgent issue of our time: the extinction of wildlife. The future is ours to choose.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2aen6z7a

67min | DCP | OV Chinese, Russian | The Exile

German, English ST
by Nan Li
Academy of Media Arts Cologne -– KHM CURRENT AFFAIRS | POV | MIGRATION | WAR&PEACE
Ute Dilger ute.dilger@khm.de
https://www.khm.de/
Nan Li | nanli@web.de My cousin, 12 years older than me, suddenly announced to us in 2017 that he wanted to go
https://youtu.be/f-PivkZ3pyw to Ukraine to be with his girlfriend, whom he met online. After that, he rarely contacted us.
In 2021, four years later, I visited him in Odessa.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/nhjese5v

festivals: FFHH Hamburg, Doc@PÖFF, Estonia The music documentary FCK 2020 – TWO AND A HALF YEARS WITH SCOOTER by director
MAGNETFILM
Cordula Kablitz-Post follows Germany’s undisputed techno superstars SCOOTER, with over 30
georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de millions records sold, throughout Europe over the last two and a half years – during private
https://www.magnetfilm.de moments, in the studio, on the road, and at concerts. The title is programmatic: FCK 2020,
avanti media fiction GmbH which is also the title of a Scooter hit from 2020, responds to the pandemicrelated imposition of
https://avantimedia-fiction.de
a complete halt to all activities with surreal humour, an anarchic spirit of resistance, and gripping
WILD BUNCH
https://www.wildbunch-germany.de
live and private archival footage.
With: H.P. Baxxter, Jens Thele, Sebastian Schilde, Michael Simon, Rick J. Jordan, Ferris Buehler,
Ellen Geerdes, Britt Geerdes, Lysann Geller
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< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3jjuyd64

23min 45sec | DCP Fearkingdom

Dr. Globus About 30 years ago, it was Hungary that tore down the Iron Curtain by opening its borders for
drglobus@posteo.de
https://vimeo.com/703643664 East German refugees. But in 2015, the Hungarian government had a new border fence made
of barbed wire rebuilt along the Serbian-Croatian border.
How do the inhabitants of the border zone feel about it? The power of spaces and symbols with
a fence as the main protagonist is negotiate in FEARKINGDOM.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhfc59t

NEALE AZBUIRATOARE Flying Sheep

24min | HD | DCP | color & b/w | by Alexandra Gulea
OV Romanian, Aroumunian HUMAN INTEREST | CULTURE | ETHNOLOGY | POV | RURAL AREAS
English, German ST

awards: Best Film of German Competition – The author’s grandparents were Aromanians, a Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, without
ISFF Oberhausen
territory and written language, wandering between mountains and seas.
weltfilm GmbH | konrad@weltfilm.com Their story is told from the subjective point of view of the artist, who passionately reproduces in
https://www.weltfilm.com
https://vimeo.com/711685401
staged scenes this perpetual tragic wandering, also full of hope and courage to live.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4574h94m

33min | DCP | OV Russian, Ukrainian, Following Valeria

Chromosom Film GmbH During the war in Ukraine, a young woman becomes an accidental ambassador of war with her
info@chromosom-film.de
https://chromosom-film.de humorous TikTok channel. We follow her as she escapes her hometown and heads to Europe,
struggling between the image of a refugee and social media celebrity.

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> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3zt82p22

Der Waldmacher The Forest Maker

87 or 52min | DCP | HD | DVD by Volker Schlöndorff
OV English, Hausa | German, English, French PORTRAIT | NATURE | ECONOMY | ECOLOGY | AFRICA | AGRICULTURE | RURAL AREAS | FOOD
narration | German, English, French, Italian ST
THE FOREST MAKER is the portrait of a remarkable man whose life’s work was honored with the
awards: Victor Rabinowitz & Joanne Grant socalled alternative Nobel, the Right Livelihood Award in 2018. Tony Rinaudo has found a way
Award for Social Justice – Hamptons IFF
festivals: Bergamo IFF, Evia Film Project, La
to grow trees in the most barren areas by activating the tree stumps and roots still alive as an
Rochelle FF, Jerusalem IFF, Tropentag FF, ‘underground forest’ for decades and thereby secures the livelihood of thousands of farmers in
Cinefest, Adana Golden Boll FF, Atmospheres Africa. His method ‘Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration’ (FMNR) restores not only soil but
FF, Bifed – International Festival of Ecological
Documentary, Warsaw IFF a.o.
dignity and hope. The Chief of all Farmers, as he is affectionately known today in many villages,
has had to fight an uphill battle to gain acceptance for his ideas. Having worked in the Sahel
Patra Spanou Film | film@patraspanou.biz region for 30 years he witnessed despair and famine but also resilience, determination and
https://www.patraspanou.com
change. Volker Schlöndorff follows Tony Rinaudo to different African countries to witness the
zero one film GmbH | office@zeroone.de
https://www.zeroone.de
effect FMNR has had on fighting desertification and repeatedly encounters – migration, climate
Weltkino Filmverleih | info@weltkino.de
change, gender justice. To complement his view, he invited the African filmmakers Idriss Diabaté,
https://www.weltkino.de Alassane Diago, Nadia Beddiaf Tamisier and Laurene Manja Abdallah to collaborate with him
https://youtu.be/hQH_4sUD2f8 and share their experience of rural life and local challenges, by integrating excerpts of their films.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3kapmskd

104 or 60min | OV Russian | English ST F@ck This Job

festivals: 37 Warsaw FF, DOC NYC, by Vera Krichevskaya
ArtDocFest, IDFA, DocPoint Helsinki CURRENT AFFAIRS | PORTRAIT | MEDIA | CONFLICTS | FREE SPEECH
JOURNEYMAN TV The rise and fall of Russia’s most rebellious TV channel. Moscow, 2008. Meet Natasha Sindeyeva,
+44 2087866059
sales@journeyman.tv
35: a confident woman originally from Michurinsk and now the brand new wife of a successful
https://www.journeyman.tv banker. One day, she decides to launch an independent news TV station. F@ck This Job follows
Natasha and Dozhd from its birth to the days that perhaps foreshadowed its death.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/44wc7ufe

Achtung Traumschiffe? The Future of the Cruise Industry

Kreuzfahrt-Branche auf neuem Kurs
La Croisière ne s‘amuse plus by Andreas Orth
SUSTAINABILITY | ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT | SCIENCE | TRAVEL
52 or 45min | HD | OV German, French |
German, French, English VO+ST Cruises are enjoying huge popularity once again. More ocean-liners are docked in European
ports than before the pandemic. But insiders warn of pollution and lesser-known safety risks
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de on board the ships. Can the cruise industry satisfy continued demand but also protect the
environment and guarantee passenger safety?
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40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2epa7j87

52min | 4K, 2K | HD | DVD | Blu-ray Generation K-Pop

OV Korean, English, German |
English, French ST+VO by Mahyar Goudarzi
ARTS | MUSIC | CULTURE | COMING OF AGE | LIFESTYLE
Naxos Music Group
info@naxos.de
erwin.stuerzer@naxos.com
A look behind the scenes of one of the biggest revolutions in Pop Culture in the last 20 years.
https://www.naxos.de Korean Pop music, or K-Pop for short, is captivating an entire generation worldwide. At the
latest after BTS became the first group since The Beatles to get 3 number one hits in the US
Kick Film GmbH
kickfilm@kickfilm.de
within one year, K-Culture is known everywhere also in the USA and Europe. We explore this
https://www.kickfilm.de/ phenomenon and take a look behind the scenes of a perfectly orchestrated machinery. In the
https://vimeo.com/768895871 process, young talents let us share their dreams and fears, their successes and failures – without
knowing where this journey will lead.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4skca6bv

GERMANY REPRESENT GERMANY REPRESENT – Young, Female, Political

jung, weilblich, politisch
by Jannika Quaas
59min | DCP | OV German | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | GENDER | POLITICS | COMING OF AGE | CURRENT AFFAIRS | LGBTQ+
festivals: DOK.fest Munich, Filmschau BaWü
Who actually represents us in the Bundestag? Nyke, Audrey and Lilli stand for election to make
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg sure that it isn’t just men in suits. They are committed and polemical, get involved in debates
sigrid.gairing@filmakademie.de and laboriously work their way through the system despite hate messages, sexism and racism in
http://www.filmakademie.de
a political sphere that is still invariably dominated by men. Diversity is possible.
https://vimeo.com/772461829
[37 DOK.fest Munich, Jan Sebening]

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfcj8cx

Die Stadtschreiberin German Traces – Lithuanian Encounters

Spurensuche im Memelland
by Sonya Winterberg, Susanne Dzeik
29min | HD | OV German, English, CURRENT AFFAIRS | HISTORY | SOCIETY | CULTURE | WAR&PEACE
Lithuanian, Russian | English, Lithuanian ST
Sonya Winterberg, an award-winning author from Germany, is the writer-inresidence in the
Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa
Dr. Vera Schneider Lithuanian port city of Klaipeda during the summer of 2022.
schneider@kulturforum.info Her temporary home: the district library in a place rich with German heritage and even a German
https://www.kulturforum.info
name: Memel. Together with documentary filmmaker Susanne Dzeik, she sets out on a tour of
the region, discovering traces of the past in the most unlikely places. Here, bordering Russia’s
Kaliningrad region, contemporary politics play into the exploration of history: the threat of
Putin’s war of aggression is palpable in every encounter.
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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/vjhw4rc5

93min | HD | DCP | OV German, English, Goldhammer

Hebrew | English ST | German ST+VO
by André Krummel, Pablo Ben Yakov
festival: 44 FF Max Ophuels Preis PORTRAIT | POLITICS | SOCIETY | HUMAN INTEREST | LGBTQ+
GLOTZENOFF
Benjamin Leers | Pablo Ben Yakov
A retired gay sex worker wants to get into politics. Leading a cosmopolitan and queer life, he is
info@glotzenoff.de not the typical ‘little man’, but an intellectual without a university degree and bon vivant with
https://glotzenoff.de addiction problems. Born a German Christian, he now lives as a Jewish Israeli in Tel Aviv and
Berlin, in a relationship with a young Shanghainese man whose seemingly endless wealth
provides for his dissolute lifestyle. GOLDHAMMER looks behind the facade of a millennial on his
way to becoming a populist and traces a turbulent biography that could hardly be any more
contradictory, but for that very reason seems to suit our times perfectly.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bexzvyff

Goodbye Sowjetunion! Goodbye, USSR! Memories of Big Brother

52min | HD | color & b/w | OV Russian, by Henrike Sandner
German | German, English, French VO+ST POV | POLITICS | GDR | GERMAN REUNIFICATION | HISTORY
LOOKS International GmbH
For more than 30 years now, the Soviet Union has been consigned to the history books.
distribution@looks.film
https://looks.film/en Yet, many Russians long for the ‘good old days’. Soviet nostalgia is very real. But how can we
approach the complex history of this once mighty empire?
Along her own family’s story, filmmaker Henrike Sandner – born in 1971 in Dresden in socialist
East Germany - episodically traces the journey of the USSR, from 1917 to 1991, and compares
different perspectives and realities. Personal memories contrast with ‘official’ news reports and
archive footage from both sides of the Iron Curtain.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3tn34mba

Die Goralen der polnischen Tatra The Gorals of Poland’s Tatra Mountains
45min | HD | OV Polish, German | by Sibylle Smolka
English ST | French German VO HUMAN INTEREST | CULTURE | ETHNOLOGY | RURAL AREA | ECOLOGY | ECONOMY
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
The Tatra Mountains in southern Poland are home to the Gorals. A herdsman takes us to his
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
mountain pastures, a folk costume maker offers us an insight into his artistic craft, raftsmen
telekult Film- und Medienproduktion show us an old transport route and Goral women share with us some of their culinary traditions.
info@telekult.de
Will they be the last generation to preserve typical Goral traditions?
https://telekult.de

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https://tinyurl.com/2z6x36tm

30min Filmloop | German, Farsi, Cantonese, Hack Me Baby

Twi, Vietnamese, Netherlands, Spanish,
English by Martin Prinoth, Martina Mahlknecht
SOCIETY | COMING OF AGE | EDUCATION | YOUTH | THEATRE | HYBRID
TÒ SU Film OHG
contact@tosufilm.com
https://tosufilm.com
HACK ME BABY is a large formate film installation created by the german-italian artistic duo
TÒ SU together with young experts from Hamburg. For a year now school classrooms have
been a risk zone and for just as long students have been performing invisibility as a real life
test. How do they experience the ambivalence of isolation in digital spaces in pandemic times?
The team playfully explore how to undermine attention economy of social networks, what
solidarity can look like beyond hashtags, retweets and excessive self-representation and why
these technologies are so captivating. Based on interviews and documenting research a
cinematic and theatrical translation emerges in between documentary approach and performed
aggravation together with the young people. Let the hacking begin!

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/y3h8zp3e

Die Haida in Kanada The Haida in Canada

43min | OV English | German, English, by Anna Pflüger
French version HUMAN INTEREST | ETHNOLOGY | CULTURE | SUSTAINABILITY | ENVIRONMENT
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
Everything is connected to everything – one of four basic beliefs held by the Haida, an
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
indigenous group of people native to the west coast of Canada. This is how they live in harmony
k22film | info@k22film.de
https://k22film.de with their environment. Skil Jaadee and her family struggle to keep up their traditions and bring
https://www.FB.com/k22film back their language. This film tells their story.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2ezjahdk

Das Hamlet-Syndrom The Hamlet Syndrome

85min | DCP | OV Ukrainian by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski
German, English, Polish ST+VO ARTS | CULTURE | THEATRE | POLITICS | SOCIETY | CURRENT AFFAIRS
awards: Roman Brodmann Preis, Grand Prix
The Hamlet Syndrome depicts the young Ukrainian generation scarred by war and political
Semaine de la critique – 75 Locarno FF
festivals: 35 IDFA, Docudays UA, DOC NYC, breakthroughs. The film’s starting point is the preparation for a play based on the motifs of
HRFF Zurich, 20 CPH:DOX... Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which, combined with an intense glimpse into the lives of the characters,
creates a powerful portrait of a generation having to confront their war trauma and tackle the
Kundschafter Filmproduktion
https://kundschafterfilm.de painful past, which now after the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine becomes their present and future
https://www.neue-celluloid-fabrik.de alike.
https://www.realfictionfilme.de
https://vimeo.com/703671155

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https://tinyurl.com/2364m6kj
© Florian Mag © Florian Mag © Florian Mag

90min | UHD | 2K | DCP | OV German, HAO ARE YOU

Vietnamese, Cantonese | German, English ST
by Dieu Hao Do
festival: 44 FF Max Ophüls Preis WAR&PEACE | EXILE | MIGRATION | FAMILY | POV
HANFGARN & UFER Filmproduktion
ufer@hu-film.de
Director Dieu Hao Do examines the fragmentation of his family. The American War in Vietnam
https://hu-film.de scattered them across three continents. Almost 50 years after their escape, contact between the
seven siblings has all but broken off. How did trauma from persecution and violence inscribe itself
in the bodies and souls of the survivors and their children? What has life in exile done to them
over the years? Is communism to blame for the fact that they no longer speak to each other?
After the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, more than 1.5 million people fled the communist
regime, many of whom – including the director’s family – belonged to the Chinese minority there.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yvt6hmaz

Helke Sander: Aufräumen Helke Sander: Cleaning House

82min | HD | DCP | OV German | English ST by Claudia Richarz
PORTRAIT | HUMAN RIGHTS | ARTS | CULTURE | MOVIE | GENDER | WOMEN | SOCIETY
festivals: Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln
Filmmaker Helke Sander chose 1977 for her radically personal movie ‘Die allseitig reduzierte
Claudia Richarz Film
c.richarz@t-online.de Persönlichkeit – REDUPERS’ (The Allround Reduced Personality – REDUPERS) a single mom as
https://claudiaricharz.de main character. She violates the taboo around discussing post-World War II rapes in her 1991
documentary ‘BeFreier und Befreite’ (Liberator and Liberties). In 1968, she initiated, via her
now-legendary ‘tomato speech,’ the New German Women’s Movement. In her feature films,
she often plays the main role. How fortuitous for a documentary.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/444ckkv9

73 or 60min | DCP | OV Bengali, German, HERBARIA

Kino Rebelde | distribution@kinorebelde.com

In a journey into botanical and film preservation, HERBARIA explores, in its almost invisible
http://www.kinorebelde.com processes, the artistic and political derivations that connect the two worlds. Based on a
weltfilm | office@weltfilm.com narrative where time and space seem to merge, the images invite us to the fascinating universe
https://www.weltfilm.com of preserving the beauty and memory of a world that insists on disappearing.
https://maravillacine.com.ar
https://youtu.be/9SH-VZCyl8U

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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2e4za4pa

Holy Shit – Entscheidend ist, was hinten Holy Shit – Can Poop Save the World?
rauskommt
by Rubén Abruña
86min 52sec | DCP | 5.1 | OV German, CURRENT AFFAIRS | ECONOMY | ECOLOGY | AGRICULTURE | ENVIRONMENT | SUSTAINABILITY
English, French, Korean | German, English ST
When sewers were built in the 19th century, they were regarded as a blessing. Deadly epidemics
AUTLOOK
welcome@autlookfilms.com that wiped out millions of people became a thing of the past in the Western world. However,
https://www.autlookfilms.com sewers also abolished the millennia-old tradition of using our excrement as fertilizer, and broke
the nutrient cycle of grow-eat-excrete-compost-to grow food again. The modern flush and for-
THURNFILM
produktion@thurnfilm.de get toilet discards our excrement as waste, while agriculture uses more mineral fertilizers to pro-
https://www.thurnfilm.de duce food. Mineral fertilizers which require large amounts of fossil fuels to be extracted or are
non-renewable and whose global reserves are uncertain and difficult to predict.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3hwb4ue2

85min | DCP | OV Portuguese, German, The Homes We Carry

English, Zulu | English, German ST
by Brenda Akele Jorde
festivals: 65 DOK Leipzig, 30 Hot Docs HUMAN INTEREST | MIGRATION | SOCIAL | FAMILY | SOCIETY | GERMAN REUNIFICATION | AFRICA
Film Five GmbH | Florian Schewe
info@filmfive.net
THE HOMES WE CARRY portraits a family torn apart by the turmoil of world history between
https://www.filmfive.net Germany, Mozambique and South Africa. At the center is Sarah, an Afro-German mother, who
https://youtu.be/sreCZMvmcYw wants her little daughter to have the relationships she lacked as a child. Therefore she travels
with her to Africa, where her own father and the child’s father are waiting for her. Meanwhile,
Sarah’s father Eulidio remembers the almost forgotten history of the Mozambican contract
workers in East Germany.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bd6dme4z

75mn | 3D | 4K | DCP | 5.1 How I Survived the Pyongyang Film Festival 3D

OV German | German, English VO+ST
by Martin Hans Schmitt
Martin Hans Schmitt CURRENT AFFAIRS| POV | ANIMATION | CULTURE | MOVIE | CONFLICTS | FREE SPEECH
mail@martinhansschmitt.com
http://www.martinhansschmitt.com
The animated stereoscopic documentary ‘How I Survived the Pyongyang Film Festival 3D’
https://youtu.be/WvVlKVSN6lY
describes the personal experiences of the documentary filmmaker Martin Hans Schmitt, who
took part in the Pyongyang International Film Festival in 2018. It is a travel film, during the
course of which it gradually reveals how the dictatorship of Kim Jong-Un shapes the lives and
thoughts of North Koreans right down to the smallest private niche, and also gradually influenc-
es the filmmaker too, increasingly creating the impression that we are observing a real-life satire.
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https://tinyurl.com/2p8j75w7

Von Menschen, die auf Bäume steigen How to protest in the land of plenty
75min | HD | DCP | OV German | English ST by Christian Fussenegger, Bernadette Hauke
CURRENT AFFAIRS | CONFLICTS | CLIMATE CHANGE | ENVIRONMENT | COMING OF AGE
Pangolin Doxx Film
bernadette@pangolin-doxx.com ‘Courage means being able to ignore inner conflicts, maybe not being so cerebral all the time’
https://www.pangolin-doxx.com/
In February 2021, a group of young people occupied a piece of forest in Southern Germany,
https://vimeo.com/783295655
to prevent it from being cleared for a gravel pit. They received great support from the local
community. Samuel and Charlie have been living permanently in the Altdorf Forest, and have
since dropped out of school. The young activists organize new forms of climate protest
campaigns, in a a region that has never seen protests. For them, there is no turning back,
no stopping now – even in the face of severe legal consequences. “A country that already has
everything, resembles a land of milk and honey, needs a special way of protesting.”

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/mpwxu9t4

103min | DCP | OV Russian | English ST How to Save a Dead Friend

festivals: DOK.fest Munich, Visions du Reel, by Marusya Syroechkovskaya
DOCAVIV, 35 IDFA, 39 Kassel Dokfest HUMAN INTEREST | COMING OF AGE | CONFLICTS | LONGTERM
awards: shortlisted European Film Award –
European Documentary Muzzled by the increasingly autocratic regime of the ‘depression Federation’, 16-yearold
LightDox
Marusya decides to join her generations’ suicide statistics by year’s end. Then she meets Kimi
hello@lightdox.com and an unexpected love story begins between the two millennials caught in the undertow of
https://lightdox.com their oppressive government. Together, Marusya and Kimi film the euphoria, anxiety and despair
https://sisyfosfilm.com of their youth, burning the candle at both ends fuelled by drugs and music. When Kimi’s addic-
https://vimeo.com/687947104 tion threatens to make him fade away forever, Marusya’s camera becomes her last chance to
save some part of his fragile soul.
Filmed over the course of 12 years, HOW TO SAVE A FRIEND is a personal cry from the heart, and
a message from a silenced generation. It is an unbreakable love story existing in a destructible world.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4yjyh2e4

Ungarn – Propaganda gegen The Hungarian Playbook

Pressefreiheit [45min version]
by Bence Máté, Aron Szentpeteri
45 or 52 or 60min | OV Hungarian | CURRENT AFFAIRS | POLITICS | HUMAN RIGHTS | MEDIA | FREE SPEECH
English ST | German VO
Hungary during the 2022 election campaign: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán relies on a level of
festivals: ALB DOCWatch Docs Warsaw
media control unprecedented in the EU. A group of young journalists takes on the state
CAT&Docs | info@catndocs.com propaganda. The documentary by Bence Máté and Áron Szentpéteri shows exclusive footage
https://www.catndocs.com and documents taken directly from the state media headquarters. They reveal how the Prime
Film Five GmbH | https://www.filmfive.net Minister’s Cabinet Office controls the media and rules over 80% of the media market.
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https://tinyurl.com/t5paycpz

ochobarcos / eightboats filmproduction

A poetic exploration of an excitingly unknown and highly inspiring universe. As we accompany
Elena Alvarez Lutz | info@ochobarcos.de the Australian artist around the globe, Helen Britton’s incredible attention to material and detail
http://www.hunter-from-elsewhere.de teaches us that the closer we look at things, the more they have to tell us.
https://vimeo.com/479593210

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzdjkjd

72min | HD | QT | DCP | color & b/w I’m People, I Am Nobody

OV Serbian, English |
Serbian, English, German, French ST by Svetislav Dragomirovic
HUMAN INTEREST | CRIME | PORTRAIT | SOCIAL
festivals: DOC NYC

filmDOUGH | Lorand Balazs Imre

After living in Malta for four years, facing loneliness and inability to connect with a foreign land
noknead@filmdough.berlin and culture, Stevan (60) falls into depression. At a critical moment, he exposes his genitals in
https://filmdough.berlin front of a group of teenage girls. He claims he went to such extreme because it made him feel
Gray Tree Film | Svetislav Dragomirovic alive and visible. In a series of distorted telephone monologues from a prison, Stevan tells his story.
https://graytreefilm.com

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4fwkxkwu

118min | HD | DCP | DVD | ProRes | 5.1 IGOR LEVIT – NO FEAR

filmdelights | Christa Auderlitzky

At 34, Igor Levit is an exceptional artist in the world of classical music. A young rebel, who – at
office@filmdelights.com the piano – transforms into a mature musician. At age nine he arrived in Germany, a Jewish
https://www.filmdelights.com immigrant of Russian descent. Having an opinion and publicly expressing it, is not a choice, it is
zero one film a survival strategy. The film follows the artist over two years as Levit explores his ‘life after
office@zeroone.de
https://www.zeroone.de/
Beethoven’, as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an artist.
Piffl Medien
We observe him recording new pieces, his intense immersion into the music, his collaborations
info@pifflmedien.de with conductors, orchestras and recording artists, his warm embrace of the audiences. And then
https://igorlevit.piffl-medien.de Covid hits. Having booked 180 concerts all over the world, just to see them being cancelled,
https://youtu.be/6GwjLF5JU9I Levit is among the first to adapt, establishing a musical lifeline between him and his community
on Instagram and twitter. And by doing so he discovers a new freedom, away from the
constraints of touring, publishing and marketing. Over the course of two years the film
accompanies the artist while he navigates between a traditional career in the classics, his need
for activism and an uncertain path as a musician who connects and inspires.
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https://tinyurl.com/nnysxeb8

ZWISCHENWELT IN-BETWEEN WORLDS

18min | DCP | by Cana Bilir-Meier
OV German, Bengli, English | English ST HUMAN RIGHTS | HUMAN INTEREST | MIGRATION | ORAL HISTORY
festivals: 73 BERLINALE – Forum Expanded
Cana Bilir-Meier combines several viewpoints to cast a decolonial gaze on German history.
Cana Bilir-Meier Stories of migrants and their descendants in Germany: a monument for a Pakistani poet in
contact@canabilirmeier.com Munich, the payslips of a Turkish Gastarbeiter in Kiel and, three sisters turning a decolonial
http://www.canabilirmeier.com
gaze on Bavarian history. [73 BERLINALE]
With Aulic Anamika, Saboura Naqshband, Basira Beutel-Biyik, Kirat Sarkaria

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/vy56jbvh

90min | DCP | German or English version INDEPENDENCE

COSTA COMPAGNIE Berlin / Hamburg

The Afro-German actor Helen Wendt takes the audience on a journey along her family history
Felix Meyer-Christian between the GDR, Mozambique and West Berlin, while exploring how her identity and personal
kontakt@costacompagnie.org independence is embedded in the social context of Germany.
https://www.costacompagnie.org
In a hybrid approach, the film simultaneously follows members of independence movements in
Mozambique, South Sudan, Great Britain, Catalonia and Bavaria, asking what it means for
people to fight for their freedom. What does independence truly mean and how do colonialism
and racism, the causes of many independence movements, define the world to this day?

> 70 min. | SERIES

https://tinyurl.com/3kt2pmks

Unrecht und Widerstand – Romani Rose Injustice and Resistance

awards: 3satPrize – Duisburger Filmwoche, The film is about the German Sinti and Roma’s different forms of resistance spanning eight
Grimme-Prize 2023,
decades. It’s about revolt against injustice and about insistence on dignity and justice.
festivals: 20 dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg
A story of courage and resolve of individuals who desperately defended themselves. And the
Strandfilm Produktions GmbH story of suffering of a minority caught between trauma and self-assertion: an ongoing
otterbacher@strandfilm.com
unprecedented injustice throughout all of the post-war years to this very day.
https://www.strandfilm.eu
http://www.navigatorfilm.com It is based around Romani Rose, his family and fellow campaigners.
filmverleih@deutsche-kinemathek.de Thirteen close relatives of the Rose family were murdered in concentration camps.
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de

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https://tinyurl.com/2tv3j2pb

Slahi und seine Folterer In Search of Monsters

86min | DCP | OV English, German | by John Goetz, Ben Hopkins
German VO HUMAN RIGHTS | HUMAN INTEREST | PORTRAIT | WAR&PEACE | SOCIETY | CURRENT AFFAIRS
festivals: Human Rights FF Berlin For many years, Mohamedou Slahi was considered one of the most dangerous terrorists in
awards: EMMY Current Affairs , Stern/ the world. For 14 years, he was incarcerated in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay
Nannen Award Investigation, nominated
German Documentary Award SWR, and was tortured under the brutal ‘special interrogation’ procedure. Today, Slahi is a free man,
exonerated by two U.S. courts. After two years of intensive research, the filmmakers have been
Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH able to identify his tormentors. Some members of the torture team still believe he is guilty.
info@hoferichterjacobs.de
https://www.hoferichterjacobs.de Others see their former victim in a different way.…

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/y58ddbmk

W Ukrainie In Ukraine
83min | DCP by Piotr Pawlus, Tomasz Wolski
OV Ukrainian, Russian | English ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | WAR&PEACE | HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY
festival: 73 BERLIN – Forum; 54 Visions du Bombed out streets, plywood boards instead of windows, destroyed Russian tanks. These are
Réel, Nyon the recognisable signs of the Russian war on Ukraine, outward traces that are reproduced in the
mass media. With these images as their starting point, Tomasz Wolski and Piotr Pawlus set out
Kijora Film | kijora@gmail.com
http://kijorafilm.com on a journey through Ukraine, from the cities in the west via Kyiv to Kharkiv. This route leads
INDI FILM GmbH them deep into the experience of the war, from observing its consequences on the street to living
http://indifilm.de it alongside Ukrainians. Sudden explosions near a bus stop, dinner in the bomb shelter in the
https://vimeo.com/798406838 repurposed Underground, hiding out with Ukrainian soldiers, cemeteries over which Ukrainian
flags flutter like a thick grove of trees over fresh graves. Shot by shot, the directors substitute
easy reproducible images that merely skim the surface of the war with a deep dive into the
reality in which the country has been living since February 24, 2022. Ukraine’s sovereignty is even
underscored in the film’s title, the proposition na (on), which has traditionally been used to refer
to parts of former empires, being replaced with v (in) to underscore its independence as a state.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8n6xrc

In deinen Händen In Your Hands

66min | HD | DCP | DVD | OV German, by Sophie Dettmar
Swiss German | German, English ST PORTRAIT | HUMAN INTEREST | GENDER | WOMEN | FEMINISM | HEALTH
festivals: 44 FF Max Ophüls Preis Anka and Lauryn, 2 aspiring midwives, deal with the difficulties and obstacles of the ‘birth’
system in their final year of training. The film accompanies them in their everyday life as
sophiedettmar@gmail.com
https://sophiedettmar.de
midwives and follows their thoughts. Why is there violence during births? What is the task of
Academy of Media Arts Cologne -– KHM
midwives? And what does a feminist attitude look like in the profession? The film shows with
Ute Dilger ute.dilger@khm.de how much courage, caution and empathy the two deal with the topic.
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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/msb5c34t

84min | DCP | OV Ukrainian, Russian, Iron Butterflies

English, Dutch | English ST
by Roman Liubyi
festivals: Sundance FF, 73 BERLINALE, movies CURRENT AFFAIRS | WAR&PEACE | CONFLICTS | HYBRID | POLITICS | HUMAN RIGHTS
that matter festival, 25 TiDF, 30 Hot Docs,
38 DOK.fest Munich On 17 July 2014, a passenger jet en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed over
Eastern Ukraine. All 298 people on board this Malaysian Boeing flight MH17 were killed. As the
RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G.
info@riseandshine-berlin.de search for the causes begins, the world is still largely in the dark regarding the background. Was
http://www.riseandshine-berlin.com it a military operation? If so, whose? And anyway, which sides were fighting in the self-pro-
Trimafilm GmbH claimed ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ and what did the Dutch and Malaysian victims have to do
info@trimafilm.de with it? As we now know – and as this sober yet poetic essay film impressively documents – the
BABYLON‘13 Civil Society Cinema long uncertainty about the fact that the plane was shot down by a Russian BUK missile was the
https://babylon13.org.ua
result of a calculated and far-reaching Russian disinformation campaign… [73 Berlinale]

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4xmbcnbu

LASIKATTO [The Glass Ceiling WT] It’s Raining Women

85min | DCP | OV Finnish, English, German, by Mari Sopella
Polish, France, Japanese, Dutch, Icelandic | HUMAN RIGHTS | SOCIETY | WOMEN | MIGRATION | ECONOMY | WORK | GENDER | LONGTERM
English, German ST
Finnish migrant filmmaker Mari Soppela travels the world as she takes us on a five year
awards/festivals: Best Finish Documentary –
DocPoint Yle Award; 56 Hof IFF investigation into the complex realities of the glass ceiling. Scrutinizing the statistics and delving
into the lived experiences of women battling discrimination throughout the globe she exposes
Cat&Docs | https://www.catndocs.com
the uncomfortable truths and dirty secrets of gender bias in the workplace. Simultaneously
LPMA Productions | https://lpma.nl
light-hearted and deadly serious, this vital, creative and surprising film shines a light on a much
http://www.tondowskifilms.com
misunderstood phenomenon and acts as a rallying cry to women – and men – everywhere to
https://rainingwomenmovie.com
continue the fight for gender equality.
https://vimeo.com/669115237

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8mahhc

18min 56sec | DCP | b/w | OV English | I will take your shadow

English, German, Herbrew ST
by Ayala Shoshana Guy
festival: 65 DOK Leipzig HUMAN INTEREST | FAMILY | POV | ANIMATION | ORAL HISTORY | NS-POLITICS
Ayala Shoshana Guy
ayala.guy@gmail.com
Ayala Shoshana Guy tries to grasp the ephemeral: She interweaves her grandfather Jancsi’s story,
https://ayalashoshanaguy.com remembered only in fragments, who left Vienna with his brother Bandi to escape the Nazi
https://vimeo.com/724143084 regime, with her own inner images, thus questioning them in a way. A ship to Palestine turns
into an all-inclusive cruise liner, the vague becomes concrete only to fade away again. Cautious
and bold in equal measure, the granddaughter enters shadowy terrain.
[65 DOK Leipzig, Carolin Weidner]
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> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yyytahn6

Jud Süß 2.0 Jew Suess 2.0

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/332yreju
© Markus Weinberg © Markus Weinberg

Jonas Deichmann Jonas Deichmann – The Man They Called Forrest Gump Aleman
Das Limit bin nur ich
by Markus Weinberg, Steffi Rostoski
105min | DCP | OV English, German, PORTRAIT | HUMAN INTEREST | TRAVEL | SPORTS | ENVIRONMENT | ECOLOGY | CLIMATE CHANGE
Spanish | English, German ST
The multiple world record holder and extreme athlete Jonas Deichmann plunges into his next
festivals: 37 DOK.fest Munich, 38 Warsaw IFF
adventure – the most spectacular and longest triathlon ever attempted, from Munich to Munich
Rise And Shine World Sales around the world. The journey – a 120 times Ironman distance – will take him to his physical
info@riseandshine-berlin.de
and mental limits. 460km swimming, 21.000km on bike, 5.000KM running. Jonas begins his
http://www.riseandshine-berlin.de
journey in the midst of the pandemic: travel routes are closed overnight; border crossings
ravir film GbR | info@ravir.de
https://www.ravir.de become a feat of strength, presenting him with unforeseen challenges. On top of that, he
https://www.FB.com/ravirfilm grapples with the impact of humanity’s ecological footprint in nature and the way climate
https://www.jonasdeichmann-film.com
change affects our planet earth.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5e8uuawp

83 or 52min | DCP | OV Arabic, German, The Journalist and Her Jailers

English | German VO | English ST
by Adithya Sambamurthy
nominated ROMAN BRODMANN Prize 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS | PORTRAIT | HUMAN RIGHTS | CONFLICTS | SOCIETY | MIGRATION
First Hand Films
stories@firsthandfilms.com
The Journalist and Her Jailers explores what this local court in Germany can really accomplish.
https://www.firsthandfilms.com Can it actually provide some measure of justice for Luna Watfa and the tens of thousands of
Tondowski Films Syrians who have been detained, tortured and disappeared by Bashar al-Assad’s government,
info@tondowskifilms.de and thereby perhaps even provide a blueprint for future war crimes prosecutions worldwide?
http://www.tondowskifilms.de
To engage with this question, Luna must first seek to understand what justice even means in
this context, for the plaintiffs, witnesses, the defendants- and for herself.
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https://tinyurl.com/4ysajrkh

Die Bewegungskrise Just Move!

90 or 52min | HD | DCP | OV German, by Kirsten Esch
English | English, German ST HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | HEALTH | SPORTS
MAGNETFILM | Georg Gruber
In 2016, 4 million people worldwide died as a result of lack of ‘motion’: We are becoming
info@magnetfilm.de
https://www.magnetfilm.de ‘couch potatoes’ and Corona has dramatically amplified this effect. The health of the
Südkino Filmproduktion poorest is particularly affected. What needs to change in the health care system and in
mail@suedkino.de politics in order to counteract the lack of exercise globally? Because we prove in our film
https://www.suedkino.de
that ‘movement’ can even heal.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/a7ufjaf8

90 or 60min | HD | DCP | OV Arabic | KASH KASH – Without Feathers We Can’t Live

English, German, French ST
by Lea Najjar
awards: NEXT:WAVE Award – CPH:DOX, HUMAN INTEREST | POLITICS | CITIES | SOCIETY | CULTURE | ANIMALS
Most Original Documentary – Millennium
Festival Brussels, Winner First Steps Award -
Documentary, Germany; Best Documentary –
Above Beirut flies an unexpected bearer of hope: the pigeon game ‘Kash Hamam’.
EnergaCAMERIMAGE, Poland During the recent dystopian political collapse, we embark on a journey from roof to roof
and observes a city in turmoil from the perspective of three pigeon players and a young girl
MAGNETFILM
georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de
fighting to release her own birds.
http://www.magnetfilm.de ‘From a tiny anecdote this film expands its cinematic universe and unveils the disillusionment of
FFL Film- und Fernseh-Labor an entire city – an entire country. From the opening scene’s claustrophobic setting, to the final
info@ffl.de | http://www.ffl.de
wide eye of an artificial pigeon, witnessing the place it took flight from…’ [NEXT:WAVE Award]

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/y7xk6j6v

28min | 2K | DCP | Kayu Besi

Max Sänger
In the deep rainforests of the remote island of West Papua, men seek their fortune in ancient
max@gorgofilm.de trees whose valuable wood they procure for the international market. Caught between the
natural wealth of their native land and the inexhaustible demand of capitalist commodity
production, the loggers face an impossible choice: either remain destitute and preserve the
forest or destroy it for some loose cash and their children’s education. KAYU BESI (translated as
Ironwood) offers a tentative glimpse into their precarious work, following the men into a
peripheral and unstable territory where the magic of the old is still at play, while the power of
the new is already cutting its swathes.
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40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p92sw56

Kirgistan – Die Jurtenschule der Kyrgyzstan – The Nomad Yurt School

Nomaden
by Sibylle Smolka
45min | HD | OV Kyrgyz | German, French HUMAN INTEREST | YOUTH | SOCIETY | EDUCATION | RURAL AREAS
VO | English ST
In northern Kyrgyzstan, many families are reviving ancestral traditions and bringing herds to
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de graze on mountain pastures during the summer. We find out about the traditional family life of
telekult Film- und Medienproduktion the nomad children and we accompany them to the yurt school, where teacher Jenya introduces
info@telekult.de | https://telekult.de them to the modern world and Kyrgyz traditions.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/y52etv5t

94min | DCP | color & b/w | OV Spanish, LA EMPRESA

Fünferfilm UG
In search of a story, a German film team finds itself in the Mexican village of El Alberto. The
mail@fuenferfilm.de so-called Caminata Nocturna has made the small community famous. A tourist attraction based
https://www.fuenferfilm.de on the experiences of the villagers that re-enacts the illegal border crossing into the United States.
https://www.instagram.com/funferfilm
What once started as a performance to make the local youth aware of the dangers of illegal
migration has now become one of the village’s main sources of income. Netflix visited. Italian,
Japanese, Austrian and other productions, too. And now the Germans. While around them the
village unflinchingly goes about its business, claims rights to its own image and subject, supplying
border patrols, dangers and reenactments in a lucrative capital barter, their stay develops into an
unintended exploration of the possibilities and limitations of cinematic representation.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3z6uryed

64min | DCP | OV German Landen

festivals: 52 IFFR Rotterdam by Vanessa Nica Mueller
ESSAY | EXPERIMENTAL | NATURE | ENVIRONMENT | CLIMATE CHANGE
office@vanessanicamueller.de
https://www.vanessanicamueller.de
An essay about Lebanon (mainly) and Germany (also), about coastlines and plants like the marsh
samphire, the milk thistle, the angel trumpet or the crimson bottlebrush. About adaptation and
transformation as well as resistance, about changes desired and dreaded, the city of Beirut and
its unexpected revelations, modernism and time passing by, and, of course, the hopes and fears
of its inhabitants, many of whom sense that their future might wait for them across the sea,
even if they don’t want to leave. All of this is presented in a wonderful collage-like narrative style
that mixes and integrates different materials and techniques,... [52 IFFR, Olaf Möller]
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40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yt7jbpru

Das Land der tausend Seen The Land of a Thousand Lakes – The Mecklenburg Lake Plateau
Die mecklenburgische Seenplatte
by André Hörmann
52min | HD | NATURE | ENVIRONMENT | RURAL AREAS | TRAVEL
OV German | French, English VO
The Mecklenburg Lake Plateau, north of Berlin, is Europe’s largest area of interconnected lakes.
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
Müritz is Germany’s biggest lake located entirely within Germany, the Feldberg lakes are famous
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
for their crystal-clear water, and Tollensesee is considered the region’s most stunning lake.
telekult Film- und Medienproduktion
info@telekult.de | https://telekult.de A journey of discovery along Germany’s most beautiful waterways.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3uxuvjw9
© Filmwelt Verleihagentur © Arno Declair © Klara Leschanz

Lars Eidinger – Sein oder nicht sein Lars Eidinger – To be or not to be

93min | DCP | OV German, English | by Reiner Holzemer
English, German ST PORTRAIT | ARTS | THEATRE | MOVIES | CULTURE
festivals: FFHH – Filmfest Hamburg, Viennale,
Lars Eidinger is one of Germany’s most dazzling actors and has an international aura like almost
Filmkunstmesse,
no other. For the first time, the artist shares insights into the way he works. With his film debut
Reiner Holzemer Film in Maren Ade’s Everyone Else (2009) Lars Eidinger came to the attention of a wider public – a
info@reinerholzemer.de
unique actor, full of intensity and a desire to improvise. He has been at home on the best-known
https://www.reinerholzemer.com
theatre stages for years and regularly appears alongside international stars like Juliette Binoche,
Filmwelt Verleihagentur GmbH
https://www.filmweltverleih.de Isabelle Huppert und Adam Driver. Director Reiner Holzemer accompanies the 46-year old as he
https://youtu.be/o2ycSxt6jGU works on the role of JEDERMANN for the Salzburg Festival in 2021, in rehearsal at the Berliner
Schaubühne or while shooting the series Irma Vep for Olivier Assayas in Paris.
An impressive portrait of an exceptional artist. [FFHH22]

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6a2a76

Die letzten Venezianer The Last Artisan of Venice

43 or 52min | HD | DCP | OV Italian | by Simona Risi
English ST | German VO HUMAN INTEREST | HISTORY | SOCIETY | CITIES | HANDCRAFT | ARTS
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz Venice embodies the original and ideal idea of a city: a place of meeting, social life and
sales@newdocs.de
exchange. The city has remained a village, with its small stores, narrow streets and hidden
https://www.newdocs.de
courtyards, places where it is still possible to meet the few remaining inhabitants. A village that
Alpenway Media GmbH
info@alpenway.com is now ruled by the tourism industry, which doesn’t seem to have eyes for the city’s hidden
https://alpenway.com treasures. The documentary tells of Venice beyond tourism and clichés, seen through the eyes of
those who have been called ‘the last Venetians’, artisans and historical inhabitants of the lagoon
who live the city with passion, culture and memory.
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https://tinyurl.com/yc29y2nx

Letzte Runde Last Round

78min 24sec | mov | DCP | DVD | 5.1 by Elizaveta Snagovskaia
OV Russian, German | German, English ST HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIAL | SOCIETY | HEALTH | COMING OF AGE
festivals: 56 Hof IFF
In Germany and Russia people drink the same amount: more than 10 liters of pure alcohol per
Leykauf Film
nl@leykauf-film.de
capita and year. Two Germans and two Russians are ‘functioning’ young alcoholics.
https://leykauf-film.de All four are trying to quit drinking. Drinking has become so fused with our everyday life that we
lizasnag@gmail.com have become blind to it: As long as we function, we drink. As long as we drink, we function.
https://vimeo.com/762207652
How can we break this mechanism?

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p854jsp

Gehen und Bleiben Leaving and Staying

Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH Meetings with readers, acquaintances and contemporaries of writer Uwe Johnson at the places
info@salzgeber.de
www.salzgeber.de
where he lived. Volker Koepp, who is also from Pomerania, looks for Johnson’s sophisticated
literary voice in the landscapes of the region they both stem from.
With Judith Zander, Peter Kurth, Heinz Lehmbäcker, Hanna Lehmbäcker, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdedb4pk

92min | DCP | OV German, French, English, Le Mali 70

Bambara | German, English, French ST
by Markus CM Schmidt
festivals: DOK.fest Munich, Filmfest MUSIC | ARTS | CULTURE | HISTORY | AFRICA
Braunschweig, Biberacher Filmfestspiele, On
Art -Dance & Music, Festival Cinéma
d‘Afrique, TAKT Film Festival, Afrikamera Popular music has its roots in West Africa, and especially in Mali. In Berlin, a bigband discovers
Film Five GmbH old vinyls from the Malian Bigband era, music which embodied the hope for Malian indepen-
info@filmfive.net dence before a coup brought an end to the legendary brass sections. Inspired by these songs,
https://www.filmfive.net the Berliners travel to Mali to find the heroes of their vinyl-collection. There they research the
https://youtu.be/MX48MQ5rqEs origins of the songs, marvel at old archive footage and bring back the lost brass sections to play
with forgotten Malian stars, leading often to heated arguments over the correct beats, and
record an album in Salif Keita’s studio in Bamako.

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83min | DCP | OV German, Russian | Letters from Orsk

English, German ST
by Andreas Boschmann
mail@andreasboschmann.de HUMAN INTEREST | FAMILY | MIGRATION | POV
https://cargocollective.com/boschmann
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
cristina.marx@filmuniversitaet.de The filmmaker Andreas and his sister Vanessa find previously unknown letters of their deceased
https://www.filmuniversitaet.de mother Natalia. They never really got to know her mother due to her early death. The words
Natalia once wrote to her parents in the Russian industry city of Orsk open a small window in
time and space – a second chance to listen to her. In her early 20s, Natalia immigrated to
Germany where she was hoping to find a better life. But reality turned out to be different. For
Vanessa and Andreas their mother becomes real again – somewhere between her letters, the
empty steppe of Orsk, and the grandparents they grew up with.

> 70 min.

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Ara la llum cau vertical Light Falls Vertical

83min | 4K | DCP | OV Spanish, English, by Efthymia Zymvragaki
Greek, Catalan | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | GENDER | VIOLENCE | SOCIETY | SOCIAL | POV
festivals: 35 IDFA
Ernesto wants to talk about the violence he carries within. I accept the challenge to get closer
Gris Medio
info@grismedioproductions.es
to a harmful, desperate man. And I realize that he is the one holding the key to my deepest
https://grismedioproductions.com fears echoing in the violence of my own past.
ThurnFilm | produktion@thurnfilm.de But Ernesto will also be gone soon. I’m left with words, words that form another vortex. Like a
https://www.thurnfilm.de
https://www.kaboga.eu/en
spell poem that carries me out, to a new place where his story will never separate from mine.
[35 IDFA]

> 70 min.

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Heute leider nicht Lights Out, Berlin!

83min | HD | DCP | OV German, English | by Dimitris Argyriou
English, German, Greek ST MUSIC | CITIES | SOCIETY | SOCIAL | HUMAN INTEREST | LIFESTYLE | CULTURE | BERLIN
NewBorn (Short) Film Agency
info@newbornshortfilmagency.com Lights Out, Berlin! is a music documentary about the effects of the covid-19 pandemic in
https://newbornshortfilmagency.com/
Berlin’s music & club scene. Berlin has always been a vivid and colourful city. A city that was full
https://vimeo.com/newbornshortfilmagency
of inspiring spots, artistic opportunities, and loud nightlife. A city with a huge cultural
https://www.FB.com/LightsOutBerlin
background that was for two years on hold.
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Verwahrt und vergessen? Locked Up and Forgotten – Psychiatric Care in East Germany
Psychiatrie in der DDR
by Ulli Wendelmann, Claudia Grüner
52 or 45min | HD | OV German | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | ORAL HISTORY | GDR | GERMAN REUNIFICATION | HEALTH
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de The film looks at the traumatic experiences of patients in East German psychiatric care. It sheds
Schulz / Wendelmann Film GbR light on often inhumane conditions in psychiatric institutions and on dubious forms of therapy.
post@schulz-wendelmann.de
www.schulz-wendelmann.de
The documentary is a powerful portrayal of the struggle to reform ‘soul work under socialism’.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yvhuvkz5

Die Flößer vom Ägerisee The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri

NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz In the Swiss canton of Zug, a centuries-old craft is cultivated: log rafting. In the mountain forest
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
on the shores of Lake Aegeri, trees are felled every four to five years and then transported across
doc.station
info@docstation.de
the water. To do this, the massive trunks are tied together and pushed across the lake with the
https://www.docstation.de/ help of motor boats.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/nh5k5vde

Vergiss Meyn Nicht Lonely Oaks – Only your life between

Nur dein Leben steht dagegen
by Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff
100min | DCP | OV German | English ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | CONFLICTS | ENVIROMENT | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGY | ECONOMY | PROTEST
festival/awards: 73 Berlinale – Perspective
German Cinema, nominated ROMAN Fall 2018: The Hambach Forest becomes a chaotic scene of the climate conflict. In the midst of
BRODMANN Prize 2023
this chaos, film student Steffen Meyn has a fatal accident. Based on footage he collected over
two years, we follow Steffen’s path up the trees and into an activism full of contradictions.
MADE IN GERMANY Filmproduktion GmbH
info@madeingermany-film.de
https://madeingermany-film.de

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https://tinyurl.com/ydrd6e3j

Gegen den Strom – Sara Mardinis Long Distance Swimmer – Sara Mardini
Einsatz für die Menschlichkeit
by Charly W. Feldman
88 or 52min | OV German, English | HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | MIGRATION | GENDER | WOMEN
German, English, French versions
Sara Mardini, once a competitive swimmer in Syria, became Europe’s most celebrated refugee
festivals: 30 Hot Docs Toronto
after saving 18 people’s lives. After working as a rescue volunteer in the Mediterranean, she is
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz accused of people smuggling and faces a 25-year prison sentence. We follow her fight for justice
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de and journey of self-discovery against the backdrop of Europe’s refugee ‘crisis’.
DOCDAYS Productions GmbH
https://www.docdaysproductions.com

> 70 min.

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Les suppliciés The Lost Souls of Syria

99min | DCP | English ST by Stéphane Malterre
CURRENT AFFAIRS | CONFLICTS | WAR&PEACE | HUMAN RIGHTS
festivals: 35 IDFA Frontlight
27,000 photos of civilian detainees tortured to death were stolen from the Syrian regime’s
The Party Film Sales
sales@thepartysales.com secret archives by a military defector codenamed CAESAR, and made public in 2014.
https://www.thepartysales.com
Director Stéphane Malterre and his co-author and historical advisor Garance Le Caisne
https://www.FB.com/thepartyfilmsales
investigated to what extent international justice proves impotent in prosecuting the criminal
Katuh Studio
info@katuhstudio.net Syrian state. As the case seems doomed to oblivion, victims’ families, along with activists and
https://katuhstudio.net Caesar himself, seek truth and justice through state courts across Europe instead. More than
https://www.FB.com/KatuhStudio
five years of investigations and fighting will lead to the first trial against high officials of the
https://vimeo.com/770770946
Syrian death machine.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

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83 or 52min | 2K | DCP | OV English, Loving Highsmith

French, German | English, German ST&VO
by Eva Vitija
festivals: Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland, PORTRAIT | ARTS | CULTURE | LITERATURE | MOVIES | GENDER | WOMEN | LGBTQ+
75 Locarno Film Fest, Doc Aviv, Sydney FF,
Galway Film Fleadh, Athens IFF, Festival do
Rio, FF Gent... LOVING HIGHSMITH sheds new light on her writing. Family, friends, her own voice and
Autlook Film Sales beautifully interweaved archive material draw a vivid portrait of one of the most prolific female
welcome@autlookfilms.com authors to date. Highsmith wrote over 22 novels, many were adapted to the big screen, best
https://www.autlookfilms.com/ known are Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Carol.
https://www.ensemblefilm.ch Carol, a partly autobiographic novel, was the first lesbian story with a happy end in 1950s
http://www.lichtblick-film.de
https://salzgeber.de America.
https://www.lovinghighsmith.ch

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Die Ausstattung der Welt Make Up the World

99min | DCP | OV German | English ST by Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp
HISTORY | HYBRID | AFRICA | CULTURE | MOVIE | CINEMA | THEATRE
BramkampWeirichGbR
robert@bramkamp.info An array of social and professional milieus have grown up at three German prop houses. Each
https://bramkamp.info depot has a different logic and its own particular community of experts in moving, processing,
info@susanneweirich.com sorting and presenting up to 100,000 migrating things – from an old-world analogue order to
https://susanneweirich.com
diverse new ones. Lamps, cups, sofas, collection tins, flags, toy fish, plastic flowers, clocks, fake
oil paintings and other film props blossom in unimaginable variety. All this stuff changes hands
countless times as it migrates from an old-world analogue order to diverse new ones. On the
internet film props mutate into descriptions, photos and search terms. In the outside world of
‘made-up reality’ they emerge as quotes from film and TV productions. BiPOC actress Thelma
Buabeng introduces provenance research to props house and everyday life of African objects.

> 70 min. | SERIES

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out of the series Photography and beyond – Mamani in El Alto

Part 35.
by Heinz Emigholz
95min | DCP | without dialogue ARTS | CULTURE | ARCHITECTURE | PORTRAIT | CITIES
festivals: 65 DOK Leipzig, Viennale, IFF Mar The civil engineer and architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre (*1971), has designed more than
del Plata, 60 building projects in the Bolivian city of El Alto since 2008, which mock the norms of a
Filmgalerie 451 formulaic modern architecture shaped and enforced with global aspirations by the BAUHAUS.
kino@filmgalerie451.de Mamani comes from a humble background and belongs to the Aymara people. His self-taught
https://www.filmgalerie451.de architecture is a counter-utopia that grew out of local usages and opens up a view of preferences
other than sparseness and global stylistic adherence. The film shows many of the ‘cholets’
he built with their magnificent ballrooms in their urban setting. Mamani became the
founder of neo-Andean architecture.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/y2pmeycf

102min | DCP | OV Spanish, English, MAMiTA

German | Spanish, English, German ST
by Luisa Bäde
Academy of Media Arts Cologne -– KHM HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | FAMILY | GENDER | COMING OF AGE
Ute Dilger ute.dilger@khm.de
https://www.khm.de As we immerse ourselves in the web of five Colombian mother-son relationships, we experience
Luisa Bäde the phenomenon of the long-lasting emotional and physical closeness of adolescent males between
mail@luisabaede.de the ages of 20 and 30 to their own mothers. We discover the ambivalence between traditional
http://www.luisabaede.de
gender roles in the machismo culture and new masculinities in a country shaped by decades of
armed conflict. The filmmaker’s observational view is expanded by exercises that the protagonists
complete with their own cameras to have access to the power of images by themselves.
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87min | HD | DCP Mañana Sol

OV German, Spanish | English ST
by Denis Pavlovic
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg HUMAN INTEREST | AGING | SOCIETY | PORTRAIT
https://www.filmakademie.de
Glass Frog Films A film about the difficult endurance of the bittersweet retirement years, in the so-called
info@glassfrogfilms.de
http://www.glassfrogfilms.de
paradise. The pension is ungrateful, insidious and yet so tempting. The couple Jadranka and
Aleksandar Pavlovic met and fell in love almost 35 years ago in the Canary Islands. Shift work
and self-employment has now ended and their lives have washed them back to the Spanish
cliffs. Eventually they separated and now live as ‘friends’ alone on the two islands, five and a
half hours apart. Now they find themselves searching for friendship, love, and fun. Yet very often
they end up in hard work, sickness or in the feeling that they are no longer needed.

< 40 min.

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SKOLA DI TARAFE Mangrove School

34min | DCP | OV Guinean Creole | English, by Filipa César, Sónia Vaz Borges
French ST HUMAN RIGHTS | YOUTH | EDUCATION | COLONIALISM | CONFLICTS | POLITICS
festivals: Cinéma du Réel, Paris, CPH:DOX,
This work by Filipa César and Sónia Vaz Borges looks at an anticolonial project set up by Amílcar
Frames of Representation, 20 doclisboa, 25
RIDM, Montréal, Canada Cabral, a leader in the struggle for the liberation of Guinea-Bissau from Portuguese rule in the
1960s and 70s. This film, rich in its historical research and metaphorical visual exploration, takes
anze@stenarprojects.com
viewers deep into the jungle, into the murky waters where the mangrove trees grow. Here, the
https://www.soniavazborges.com
https://www.FB.com/stenarprojects past is re-staged and comes to life as we see classrooms constructed along the knotted roots of
https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org the trees; branches become school benches where children are educated. Mangrove School is a
https://youtu.be/vDJEtTpWcPQ powerful political poem about anti-colonial struggle, resistance and ultimately liberation. [25 RIDM]

> 70 min.

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Die Karte der Schönheit The Map of Beauty

85min | HD | DCP | 25fps | 1:1,78 | 5.1 | by Marco Kugel
OV German | English ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | CLIMATE CHANGE | ENVIRONMENT | ECOLOGY | RURAL AREAS | SOCIETY
festivals: 19 Dokumentarfilmwoche
Hamburg, dokKa 9 DFF Karlsruhe This is the challenge for scientist Michael Roth, who has to find out where Germany’s most
Sein+Hain Film | mail@seinundhain.de
beautiful areas and where its ugliest are to find. THE MAP OF BEAUTY depicts landscape in a
http://seinundhain.de/ new way – as a place of ongoing battles.
Marcelo Busse Filmproduktion
https://www.busse-film.de

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10min | 2K flat | DCP | 5.1 | OV English Marine Target

festivals: 65 DOK Leipzig, Viennale, 52 IFFR by Lukas Marxt
Rotterdam WAR&PEACE | ENVIRONMENT | EXPERIMENTAL
sixpackfilm
office@sixpackfilm.com
Lukas Marxt, Viennale regular who created RALF’S COLOURS, continues the disquieting
http://www.sixpackfilm.com exploration of the Salton Sea begun in IMPERIAL IRRIGATION: a site haunted by traces of
catastrophic US nuclear testing. The images and sounds, at first, feign impersonality: as a drone
lukasmarxt@gmail.com
http://lukasmarxt.com
camera slowly descends to a small, long abandoned ‘marine target’ in the water, a mechanically
produced voice rattles off the dry, ‘official’, military facts and figures. The sights of dead birds,
wire fences that point to a void, and ominously broken pipelines narrate the hints of a darker
backstory. (Viennale, Adrian Martin)

> 70 min.

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112min | 2K | 5.1 | OV Russian MARIUPOLIS 2

The Match Factory | info@matchfactory.de

In 2022, Mantas Kvedaravicius went back to Ukraine, Mariupol, at the heart of the war, to be
https://www.the-match-factory.com with the people he had met and filmed in 2015. Following his death, his producers and
TwentyTwenty Vision Filmprod. collaborators have put all their strength into continuing transmitting his work, his vision and his
office@twentytwentyvision.eu films. Also a PhD in anthropology, Mantas Kvedaravicius wished to testify as a filmmaker as far
http://www.twentytwentyvision.eu
as possible from the agitation of the media and the politicians. With huge force and sensitivity,
Studio Uljana Kim | kim@lfc.lt
https://www.extimacyfilms.com
Mariupolis 2 depicts life as it continues amidst the bombing and reveals images that convey
http://easyridersfilms.com both tragedy and hope.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3zarbezj

Verabredung mit einem Dichter Meeting with a Poet – Michael Krüger

Michael Krüger
by Frank Wierke
91min | DCP | OV German | English ST PORTRAIT | CULTURE | LITERATURE | ARTS | HISTORY
festivals: 37 DOK.fest Munich
A gentle stroll through the life and thoughts of a great intellectual of our time.
if... Productions Michael Krüger has not only shaped the landscape of publishing in Germany over the past 50
info@ifproductions.de years, he has also created a diverse and inspiring body of work as a writer. In the film we follow
http://www.ifproductions.de
him from his final year at Hanser Verlag to him stepping down from his role as President of the
RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih e.K.
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In the process, Michael Krüger appears astute and full of life
https://www.realfictionfilme.de
even at the age of 75. [37 DOK.fest Munich, Anne Thomé]
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© 2008 Jock Fistick

97min | DCP | color & b/w MERKEL

Cinetic
A pastor’s daughter who grew up behind the iron curtain in the former DDR (East Germany),
https://cineticmedia.com/content-sales Merkel re-invented herself after the fall of the Berlin Wall to become TIME Person of the Year in
Passion Pictures | info@passion-pictures.com 2015, often outsmarting and outstaying her male opponents. But despite her historic 16-year
https://www.passion-pictures.com Chancellorship of Germany, very little is known about her. Using vast archive materials and
https://looks.film
https://sonjahenrici.com
interviews with those who know her – friends, journalists, political allies, and critics – the film
http://www.oddgirlout.co.uk offers a thoughtful re-examination of her life and career from both a domestic and international
https://reallava.com perspective, told with humor, subtlety, and poignancy befitting of its subject.
https://www.progress.film

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p95vv6s

Zwischensaison Mid Season

105min | DCP | OV German | English ST by Tina Tripp
HUMAN INTEREST | COMING OF AGE | RURAL AREAS | SOCIAL | SOCIETY | WORK
awards: Best Picture – Filmkunstfest MV
festivals: Achtung Berlin FF, Nordische
“Shall I stay or shall I go?” This question makes young people in East Pomerania sway between
Filmtage Lübeck, Exground Filmfest
departure and attachment to their homeland, pragmatism and diffuse longings. MID SEASON
inselfilm produktion GmbH follows 4 trainees in the hotel business on an island that is disintegrating into a booming,
info@inselfilm.de
touristy coastal strip with shiny facades and a desolate hinterland. Just as their place of work,
https://www.inselfilm.de
the hotel, is a transitory place, so the young people are in a transitory phase of life.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2vf97szzt

95 or 52min | OV English, Finnish The Mission

festivals: Sundance, Göteborg FF, Lux by Tania Anderson
FilmFest, Thessaloniki DFF, Cleveland IFF, HUMAN INTEREST | COMING OF AGE | RELGION | SOCIETY
Beldocs, Docville

welcome@autlookfilms.com
Every year, over 60,000 young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
https://www.autlookfilms.com (most commonly referred to as Mormons) are sent across the world to preach their gospel.
https://www.dirkmantheyfilm.de THE MISSION follows four American LDS teenagers who leave the comfort of their families and
https://www.danishbear.com their remote, religion-filled bubbles to travel to the frozen, forested lands of Finland, home of
https://vimeo.com/703816272 Europe’s most non-religious, private and skeptical people. As these wide-eyed, impassioned
teens struggle with missing their families, language hurdles, aching feet, and daily rejection,
they are pushed beyond their limits, falling deeper into their faith.
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moskau 1941. stimmen am abgrund moscow 1941. voices

88min 44sec | HD | color & b/w by Artem Demenok
OV Russian, German HISTORY | WAR&PEACE | SOCIAL
Schmidt & Paetzel Fernsehfilme GmbH
post@schmidt-paetzel.de The struggle for survival of a city – not Kiev 2022 but Moscow 1941, when the Wehrmacht was
http://www.schmidt-paetzel.de
closing to within a few miles, and countless volunteers threw themselves against it.
From the perspective of this film, the epochal drama has never been seen before: a chorus of
voices, recorded in letters, announcements, but above all secret diary entries. They reflect life in
Moscow in the last months of peace and the first months of war - the whole year 1941.
Breathtaking historical and psychological testimonies, often of high narrative quality and
astonishing foresight.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/28sym3rs

MUTTER MOTHER
88min | HD | DCP | 5.1 by Carolin Schmitz
OV German | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | GENDER | DOCU-DRAMA | HYBRID | WOMEN
festivals: Filmfest München, Viennale
awards: shortlisted #lola23 German The basis for the project is documentary in nature. Eight women between 30 and 75 talk about
Filmaward Fiction
their lives and motherhood. What all the women have in common is the realization that mother-
Sutor Kolonko | Ingmar Trost hood is a highly ambivalent experience. In the film, their documentary statements are visually
info@sutorkolonko.de brought together in a fictional character - portrayed by Anke Engelke. The actress integrates the
https://sutorkolonko.de
women’s reports into the laconic narrative about the everyday life of a woman and mother.
Mindjazz Pictures
dispo@mindjazz-pictures.de With Anke Engelke
https://mindjazz-pictures.de

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6uakap

mRNA – Hype oder Hoffnung? mRNA – Hype or Hope

49min | OV German. English by Larissa Klinker
English, German ST&VO HUMAN INTEREST | SCIENCE | HEALTH | MEDICINE
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de mRNA vaccines are the beacon of hope in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. But their
doc.station GmbH potential goes far beyond this. Over 150 different mRNA-based therapies and vaccines are cur-
info@docstation.de
https://www.docstation.de
rently being developed around the world. But what is the true potential of mRNA technology?
Where are the risks? Is mRNA technology the new game-changer in medicine – or is it just hype?
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Tödliche Fracht Murky Skies

Das Geheimnis des Fluges EL AL 1862
by Noam Pinchas
88min 30sec | 3x48min | 2x52min | HD | CURRENT AFFAIRS | POLITICS | ECONOMY | CONFLICTS | NEWS
OV Englisch, Dutch, Hebrew | English ST |
German VO
The 1992 crash of an Israeli cargo plane in Amsterdam becomes a drama spanning three
nominated ROMAN BRODMANN Prize 2023
decades. Fueled by unexplained illnesses, strange men in white suits, unlisted cargo with
Dogwoof Sales disastrous consequences, covert political struggles and a missing black box. This international
sales@dogwoof.com political thriller explores freedom of information and exposes how narratives are constructed –
https://www.dogwoof.com
revealing the hidden threads between business, politics, and us: the people.
https://www.saxonia-entertainment.de
https://www.noam-pinchas.com

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/dsx8m9vj

120min | DCP | OV German | English ST NACH DER ARBEIT

festivals: DOK.fest Munich, IFF HOF by Alexander Riedel
HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | SOCIAL | AGING
PELLE FILM Riedel und Timm GbR
info@pellefilm.de
http://www.pellefilm.de This film is about the period of transition between work and retirement. It consists of partly
W-film | mail@wfilm.com funny, partly sad, also bizarre, but definitely life-affirming stories about farewells and new
https://www.wfilm.de
beginnings. The resulting round dance takes a humorous look at our lives and the world of
work.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/t8y8eutb

90min | DCP | Nakskov 1:50

OV Danish | English, German ST
by Matilda Mester
festivals: CPH:DOX, Duisburger Filmwoche HISTORY | SOCIETY | WORK | SOCIAL | CITIES
DFFB Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie
info@dffb.de | https://www.dffb.de In post-industrial Nakskov, for years known as Denmark’s ‘reddest’ town, retired workers still
Maximilian Haslberger have strong (all male) networks. They meet at the bookshop to tell tales of the glory days of the
info@amerikafilm.de
https://amerikafilm.de shipyard, in the rowing club, at the men’s choir and through them we get a sense of the society
https://vimeo.com/715260603 they were shaped by. Some spend their spare time building a model in 1:50 of the sugar factory
https://youtu.be/uKnY68c8MIg they worked in most of their lives. This model becomes a central motif for the film, which
suggests looking at Nakskov as a model for understanding what the Danish welfare state was
and where it came from.
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https://tinyurl.com/yzaajcr8

90min 08sec| H.264 | DCP | OV German, NARCISSISM – The Auto-Erotic Images

English | German, English, Italian, Spanish ST
by Toni Karat
award: Best Documentary – Porn RR Berlin HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | PHOTOGRAPHY | LIFESTYLE | LGBTQ+
festivals: 8 LGBT FF, Ljubljana, Excentrico
Fest, Santiago, Secs FF Seattle, Queer FF
Weimar, Queere Filmwoche Leipzig, Porn FF
How do we look into the mirror? Do we allow ourselves a narcissistic or even covetous view?
Vienna, POST PxRN FF, Warszaw And how is it influenced by our gender and socialisation: Are we able to love ourselves and our
reflection? And why do lesbians often have an especially difficult relationship with narcissism?
melting point images | Toni Karat
melting-point-images@freenet.de
In this award winning debut feature documentary Toni Karat invited over 30 border crossers of
https://www.FB.com/Toni.Karat.Film all kinds to this beautiful untouched attic of 1929 – in order to explore the intimate view in the
https://www.instagram.com/toni_karat mirror, accompanied by photo shoots and interviews about gender, narcissism and self-love.
https://twitter.com/KaratToni
It turned out that everyone has their own very individual understanding of narcissism – and
https://vimeo.com/385820395
also the filmmaker had to question some basic assumptions!

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/p3f9efu5

109min | DCP | OV German | English ST The Natural History of Destruction

festivals: 75 Cannes, Ji.hlava, Chicago IFF, by Sergei Loznitsa
Port/Post/Doc, Filmmaker Festival Milan, HISTORY | ARCHIVE | WAR&PEACE | SOCIETY
Viennale, CPH:DOX..

LOOKSfilm | info@looks.film
Inspired by W.G. Sebald’s book and based on WWII archive footage, the film puts forward the
https://looks.film question: is it morally acceptable to use civilian population as a means of war? Is it possible to
https://loznitsa.com justify mass destruction for the sake of higher ‘moral’ ideals? The question remains as relevant
ATOMS & VOID | contact@atomsvoid.com today, as it was 80 years ago, and its urgency is tragically manifested in the current events.
https://www.progress.film

40 -70 min.

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Die Nofretete Nefertiti – To whom belongs beauty?

Wem gehört die Schönheit?
by Grit Lederer
52min | HD | OV German, English, Arabic | ARTS | CULTURE | HISTORY | ARCHEOLOGY | POLITICS
German, French VO+ST
The bust of Queen Nefertiti is a magnet for every visitor to Berlin. On the Nile, however, the
Medea Film Factory GmbH
factory@medeafilm.de icon of Egyptian culture is sorely missed. Formally, the ownership structure seems to be clear.
https://medeafilm.com The distribution of the finds was carried out strictly according to the law. But there are doubts
about that. As early as 1924, the effigy of the Queen was reclaimed.
The bust of Nefertiti exemplifies the question of where the future of such icons of world culture
lies, in the field of tension between national property and truly shared heritage.
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Wie Tag die Nacht Night like Day

67min | DCP | OV Polish, German by Jelena Ilic
English, German ST
HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | RURAL AREAS | SOCIAL | AGRICULTURE
awards: Cinegate Award – IFFC Cologne
Two filmmakers travel to a rural region in Poland to make a film about dreams. Instead they
jelena.ilic@aol.com
learn something about reality: What starts with a question about dreams leads to an exchange
Academy of Media Arts Cologne -– KHM
Ute Dilger ute.dilger@khm.de
about social conditions, fears, relationships and wishes. NIGHT LIKE DAY does not only portray
https://www.khm.de/ eleven people, but also draws a socio-political picture of a landscape and its dreamers.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yzxcr74w

Tunten zwecklos – Das geheimnisvolle NO FAGS

Leben der Hamburger Bollenmädels
by Mirek Balonis, Jutta Riedel
83min | HD | OV German | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | HUMAN RIGHTS | HISTORY | LGBTQ+ | COMING OF AGE | EDUCATION
festivals: 38 Schwule Filmwoche Freiburg The Hamburg Bollenmädels stand for many homosexuals who suffered their coming out in the
German province in the early 80s. Nine very different men met in Hamburg at the end of the
TRAWA FILM
Jutta Riedel, Mirek Balonis, Filip Jacobson
80s, became friends and have since been dressing up as Black Forest girls at CSDs and other
kontakt@trawa.de events. They act anarchically and with a lot of fun. Their commitment to diversity and equality is
https://www.trawa.de/ still as strong as ever. In 2018, at an official invitation, they give the Manneken Pis a self-made
https://www.FB.com/Trawafilm/
dirndl – the first female costume of the Brussels landmark in 400 years. The on-site dressing-up
spontaneously turns into a multicultural street party. Interview topics range from childhood,
coming out, sexuality and AIDS crisis to the care and death of parents and preliminary résumés
of individual life stories. Through the different archive media and animation parts, the film also
becomes a portrait of the generations and depicts a section of the gay movement in Germany.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

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74 or 52 min | DCP | English ST Notes on Displacement

festival: 35 IDFA – Envision Competition by Khaled Jarrar
HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | MIGRATION | REFUGEE
Kaske Film | Thomas Kaske
info@kaskefilm.de The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and tent camps. But how much do we know
https://www.kaskefilm.de about what refugees are going through? This film follows a Syrian family on a journey to
https://www.FB.com/Odehfilms/
Germany. Nadira, an elderly Palestinian, has been a refugee since she was 12. She has to leave
Damascus with her daughter Mona and her son Mohie. Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar receives
unsettling messages as they cross to Lesbos. He joins them there on the long road to a better
life. Jarrar worms his way through the crowds. He gets lost in the night with his group and
wanders around in the dehumanizing camps. And in a sense, he – along with the viewer –
becomes a true member of this family. [35 IDFA]
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Heute hab ich keine Zeit No time today

6min 9sec | DCP | OV German | English ST by Dagmar Scheibert
PORTRAIT | ORAL HISTORY | WAR&PEACE | GENDER | WOMEN
award:
Seal of Approval ‘highly recommended’
An agile lady and grandmother is desperately trying to sort out her life memories, all of which
Dagmar Scheibert are kept in the massive chest next to her. Fragmentary memories of nights of bombing, marriage
https://www.3-30film.de proposals, and her job at the Foreign Office as well her journeys abroad come to light.
Short film (6 min.) about the mess of memories and time to achieve an arrangement. Highly
recommended by the film assessment board for films in Germany.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3y5amhf5
© Jacob Kohl © Jacob Kohl © Jacob Kohl

Atomnomaden Nuclear Nomads

Nomades du nucléaire
by Kilian Armando Friedrich, Tizian Stromp Zargari
73min | OV French | German, English ST HUMAN INTEREST | ECONOMY | ECOLOGY | SOCIAL | WORK | ENVIRONMENT
festivals: 73 BERLINALE – Perspective German
In France, thousands of people work for subcontractors in the nuclear industry. Many of them
Cinema
travel from nuclear power plant to nuclear power plant to carry out renovation work wherever it
RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G. is needed. To do this, they live in caravans, scattered around the power plants. Always ready to
info@riseandshine-berlin.de
move on. The pay is good and attracts many young people. They want to earn a lot of money in
http://www.riseandshine-berlin.com
as few years as possible.
HFF Munich | Tina Janker
t.janker@hff-muc.de Marie-Lou, Florian, Jérôme and Vincent also try to do this. At different parking lots in front of
FestivalTeam@hff-muc.de
nuclear power plants, they share the same lonely and harsh reality of life to which this job inevitably
https://www.hff-muenchen.de
leads them. And dream of life afterwards. Of their own property. Of the future of their own
children. To achieve this, they save every penny and drive on and on. From nuclear power plant
to nuclear power plant. From premium wage to premium wage. From millisievert to millisievert.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhkycfy

Wir waren Kumpel Once we were pitmen

105min | DCP | ProRes by Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek
OV German, Tamil | English ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | SOCIAL | WORK
Elemag Pictures, Gera
In times of society conflicts around clima change and gender identities, several men and one
info@elemagpictures.com
https://elemagpictures.com woman embark on a tragic and humorous journey to begin a new chapter in their lives,
Catpics, Zürich | https://www.catpics.ch triggered by the closure of of their gloomy workplace: the last German underground coal mine.

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84min | DCP | OV German, English, | One in a Million

English, German ST | German VO
by Joya Thome
awards/festivals: Honorable Mention HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | GENDER | COMING OF AGE | SPORTS | LGBTQ+
CineKindl Award – Filmfest München, ECFA
Award - Best European film for children –
LUCAS Festival, Frankfurt; Sheffield DocFest,
ONE IN A MILLION tells the story of two girls coming of age. As gymnast and YouTuber Whitney
Filmfest München, Der Neue Heimatfilm from the US struggles with setbacks, she turns to music to express her feelings. Yara from
Freistadt, Austria, Filmfest Hamburg Germany is one of her biggest fans and part of an acrobatics team. When she falls in love with
SYNDICADO | Aleksandar Govedarica
a girl, she barely finds time for her fan-account anymore. While navigating the exciting world of
aleksandar@syndicado.com social media, Yara and Whitney begin to find out who they are and what they want in life.
https://syndicado.com
A documentary film about success and loneliness, friendship and first love, coming out as queer
Flare Film GmbH | info@flare-film.com
and having the courage to find your voice.
https://www.flare-film.com

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p98r429

Achshav at ahat mishelanu One of Us Now

30min | DCP by Maya Steinberg
OV Hebrew, English | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | SOCIETY | RELIGION | GENDER | LGBTQ+
festival: 65 DOK Leipzig
Maya Steinberg is a secular Israeli. Her father, however, had a late religious awakening.
Maya Steinberg He will not appear in her film. Instead, the young director approaches his faith and her lack of
steinberg.maya1@gmail.com understanding for it through a visit to the gravesite of rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Galilee,
https://www.steinschnitt.com
where she spends a few weeks, observing believers, Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox, and
wondering: Is there a place here for women? And can there be a place for queer women?
[65 DOK Leipzig, Marie Kloos]

> 70 min.

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Iva Bittová © Rainer Komers | strandfilm Ceija Stoika © Jerzy Palacz | Navigator Film Moritz Pankok © Rainer Komers | strandfilm

Der offene Blick – Künstlerinnen und An Open Mind – Artists of the Sinti and Roma
Künstler der Sinti und Roma
by Peter Nestler
101min | HD | DCP | OV German, Catalan, ARTS | CULTURE | MUSIC | HUMAN RIGHTS | ORAL HISTORY | ETHNOLOGY | NS-POLITICS
Spanish, Hungarian, Romanes | German,
English ST
The Film presents artists of the Sinti and Roma who shape the trauma of persecution and very
Strandfilm Produktions GmbH personal experiences in their works. They use a wide variety of forms of expression and means,
otterbacher@strandfilm.com but what they all have in common is an open view. Peter Nestler succeeds in making this
https://www.strandfilm.eu
tangible by meeting them without cultural fixations and at eye level.
NAVIGATOR FILM
http://www.navigatorfilm.com/ With: Gitta Martl and her daughter Nicole Sevik, Ceija Stojka, Karin Berger, Samuel Mágó,
filmverleih@deutsche-kinemathek.de Radmila Mladenova, Lita Cabellut, Jovan Nicolic, Roma and Sinti Philharmonic, Riccardo M Sahiti,
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de Iva Bittová, László Rácz, Roby Lakatos, Moritz Pankok – Kai Dikhas Foundation & Gallery…
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#UnsereGeschichten #OurStories
106min | HD | DCP | Blu-ray | DVD by Stefan Weinert
OV German | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | COMING OF AGE | HISTORY | GDR | GERMAN REUNIFICATION
The Core Films | Stefan Weinert
Young people from the border region of Lower Saxony and Thuringia use their own
info@stefanweinert.de
http://www.thecorefilms.com smartphones to film stories from their personal environment about the topic of German division.
As part of the smartphone video project #unseregeschichten (our stories), the young people
were encouraged, under the professional guidance of Stefan Weinert, to develop their own
position on the story being told.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/fe8nx8sz

60min | HD | OVERSEAS
OV Kiribati | German, Italian, English ST
immersive film installation, about 60 minutes by Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth
SOCIAL | ECONOMY | WORK | CLIMATE CHANGE | ENVIRONMENT | HYBRID
TÒ SU Film OHG
Martina Mahlknecht & Martin Prinoth
contact@tosufilm.com
During the Covid 19 pandemic, numerous sailors from the Pacific island state of Kiribati were
https://tosufilm.com stranded in the port of Hamburg. In an unlikely collaboration, the German-Italian artist duo
TÒ SU worked with them to develop the immersive film installation OVERSEAS.
In a flooded stage space the audience is immersed in the seafarers’ stories of longing and
separation, money and recognition, pride and community, environmental and climate risks.
Using documentary-performative means, the artists make inside views of the global movement
of goods and its vulnerability visible and tangible. OVERSEAS is the first part of a trilogy about
the realities of life and working conditions on the high seas.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2tkhex3h

18min 40sec | DCP | 4:3 | Dolby SR Paradiso, XXXI, 108

OV Hebrew | English ST
by Kamal Aljafari
award: Best Experimental Film – German Film CURRENT AFFAIRS | WAR&PEACE | CONFLICTS | EXPERIMENTAL
Critic Award
festivals: a.o. Locarno IFF, Bucharest IEFF,
Viennale, 52 IFFR Rotterdam
Aljafari’s new film takes its title from a brief story by Borges, one that considers our collective
inability to know God by sight. To play against this concept, Aljafari presents footage of the Israeli
kamalaljafari.productions@gmail.com military conducting maneuvers in the desert. The material itself is uncanny, since it is never entirely
https://kamalaljafari.art
apparent whether we are watching documentary scenes, a staged training film, or decontextual-
https://vimeo.com/723328865
ized excerpts from a fictional feature. This aspect, heightened by Aljafari’s precise editing
rhythms, suggests that violence is always doubled, a representation of itself. Aljafari peers into
the collective unconscious of ‘the most moral army in the world.’ (Viennale, Michael Sicinski)
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König hört auf Pastor Lothar Stops

82min | DCP | OV German | English ST by Tilman König
HUMAN INTEREST | PORTRAIT | AGING | GDR | POV | RELIGION | GERMAN REUINIFICATION
festivals: 65 DOK Leipzig
Lothar König is an original. The long-term youth pastor from Jena doesn’t fit into any system.
Neue Bioskop Film GmbH | Martin Rohé In the GDR he was under state surveillance, after reunification he was one of the most tireless
rohe@bioskop.de
https://www.bioskop.de
warning voices against the growing right-wing radicalism. To this day, he takes to the barricades
https://www.weltkino.de against the extreme right, often on the frontline. Nevertheless, this film portrait by his son
Tilman is not an homage but a critical tribute to an outspoken character forced by retirement to
re-invent himself.
Pastor König is not only regarded as one of the figureheads of the left-wing scene that organises
punk concerts, rallies and football tournaments with young refugees. He also has a reputation as
a fairly challenging personality. Tilman König shows his father only marginally in his role as a church
official. Most of all, he introduces a man who can be courageous and determined, but also
stubborn and unfair. His film is enjoyably interested above all in the here and now of this man,
the things that Lothar still has to come to terms with… (65 DOK Leipzig, Luc-Carolin Ziemann)

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/wmx4kvk2
William Eggleston

Petro-Melancholie Petro-Melancholy – The Oil Age in the Mirror of Art

Das Erdölzeitalter im Spiegel der Kunst
by Matthias Frick
52min | HD | OV German, English | ARTS | CULTURE | SUSTAINABILITY | SOCIETY
German, French, English ST+VO
In the past 150 years, oil has not only fuelled our machines, it has also fuelled our fantasies,
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de desires and dreams, and inspired artists around the world to create spectacular and controversial
VIVE LA DOK | https://viveladok.de works of art. On a journey through cultural and contemporary history, the documentary looks at
Navigator Film | www.navigatorfilm.com the petroleum age as reflected in art.
https://vimeo.com/668221581

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2cvkd58r

Spurensuche Pollen and Insects – Forensic Science and its new Techniques
neue Methoden der Forensik
by Anna Pflüger
52 or 45min | HD | SCIENCE | CRIME
OV German, English | German, English ST
They are the unsung heroes of crime investigation – forensic scientists. We meet Europe’s
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
leading experts in forensics. We learn about the newest methods in their profession, what made
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
them choose their path, how they became involved with law enforcement, and we take a closer
k22film | info@k22film.de
https://k22film.de look at their most exciting cases.
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Zellenflimmern The Prison Station

Mister Wombat Televisions and radios have a special place in prison cells – from the broadcasting center of
Becht & Gerginov GbR
max@misterwombat.de
Germany’s only prison TV channel, the film tells stories of inmates who live between
https://www.misterwombat.de rehabilitation, longing for freedom and entertainment.
https://youtu.be/hQVVeGtzwuM

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/54n92ayf

Das Versprechen – Architekt BV Doshi The Promise – Architect BV Doshi

90min | HD | DCP | OV English, Gujarati, by Jan Schmidt-Garre
Hindi | English, German ST PORTRAIT | CULTURE | ARTS | ARCHITECTURE | SOCIETY
MAGNETFILM | Georg Gruber
info@magnetfilm.de Balkrishna Doshi is one of India’s most influential 20th century architects and recipient of the
https://www.magnetfilm.de
https://vimeo.com/755000478
Pritzker Architecture Prize. Doshi and his practice Vastu-Shilpa has a portfolio spanning over 70
pars media | Jan Schmidt-Garre
years, including collaborations with both Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn.
contact@parsmedia.com The film introduces viewers to his famous buildings and offers an exclusive look into his work
https://www.parsmedia.com
process. Doshi shares his sources of inspiration and motivation and is also a brilliant storyteller.
His presence of mind, his humor and his wisdom create the image of a man from whom we
can not only learn to build humanly, but from whom we can learn – to be human.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2asbvr78

110min | DCP | OV Bulgarian | English ST A Provincial Hospital

award: The Ecumenical Jury Award Winner – by Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva
56 Karlovy Vary IFF #KVIFF22 HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | SOCIAL | RURAL AREAS | HEALTH
festivals: 19 Zurich FF, 65 DOK Leipzig,
35 IDFA
Dr. Popov and his team are pushed to their limits as their sleepy Bulgarian provincial town of
Sutor Kolonko | info@sutorkolonko.de
https://sutorkolonko.de Kyustendil is hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. In an endless stream, family members, neighbors
AGITPROP | agitprop@agitprop.bg and classmates find themselves side by side in respiratory unit beds or standing at the bedsides.
http://agitprop.bg When patients are discharged, transferred to intensive care, or die, a new patient immediately
Chaconna Films | www.ili.metev.com takes their place. As they fight for each patient’s survival, in the most unexpected of moments,
https://youtu.be/VgpXr6IdNCs light and humor shine through. [35 IDFA]
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Die Queen Queen Elizabeth II – The Headline Years

Schicksalsjahre einer Königin
by Claire Walding
120min | 2x60 | 6x20min | HD | PORTRAIT | POLITICS | SOCIETY | CURRENT AFFAIRS
color & b/w | OV English, German |
German, English, French VO+ST
She is a legend. No king, no queen has ruled over Great Britain for longer. But what did and
LOOKS International GmbH do the people see in her and in what she represents? In conversations with witnesses who
distribution@looks.film experienced the Queen’s most significant moments at close quarters, royal experts who have
https://looks.film
dedicated their lives to the court, critics who, with the greatest of respect, believe that the end
of the monarchy or at the very least a radical change is long overdue, British author and director
Claire Walding casts an insightful eye over the most significant events in the life of Elizabeth II.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/22k5m6sk

86min | .MOV | DCP | OV German, Catalan RED CUNT, reconsidering periods

German, English, Catalan, Spanish ST
by Toti Baches
Toti Baches HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | GENDER | WOMEN | ANIMATION |
toti@naechster-halt.de
https://www.redcunt-film.com
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/redcunt
Red Cunt is a documentary about the taboos surrounding menstruation
The reconciliation with your period!
We pull back the courtains to reveal periods and place them where they deserve: in the middle
of society. Not discriminated against or hidden in a corner. Why does this discrimination exist?
Who benefits from it? What status would periods enjoy, if men were the ones who had them?
These questions and many more are delved into in the movie with the help of Mensi, a very
special blood being that accompanies Isabel for a couple of days a month for many years ...
Do you want to meet her?

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/545d7v89

Der rote Berg The Red Mountain

110min | DCP | 1:1,85 | 5.1 by Timo Müller
OV German | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | RURAL AREAS | EXPERIMENTAL | LONGTERM
festivals: Filmfest München , Filmfest
An impossible movie. The attempt to reveal the secrets of the RED MOUNTAIN.
Oldenburg
A man who digs up a 4000 year old city, philosophers who live in huts, children who find out
kLAPPbOXfILME something terrible and a young woman who disappeared. Something intangible between facts
Krummacher & Müller GbR, Bochum
and fiction. At the end fire and maybe truth. The mountain has its effect on everybody.
https://www.klappboxfilme.de
https://vimeo.com/709052340

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Reeperbahn Spezialeinheit FD65 Reeperbahn Special Unit 65

90min | 5x45min | ProRes422HQ | DCP | by Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Carsten Gutschmidt, Ina Kessebohm
OV German, English | English, German ST HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | CITIES | HISTORY | CRIME
awards: Best Docu Series – Berlin TV Series Embedded into the turbulent history of the 1980s with HIV epidemic, cocaine wave and Ronald
Festival, Hamburg Producer Award Best
Reagan’s fight against organized crime, REEPERBAHN SPECIAL UNIT 65 tells the story of
Series - Filmfest Hamburg
Germany’s famous red-light district and the cat-and-mouse game between Special Unit 65
Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion and its illustrious adversaries: the ‘Godfather of Reeperbahn’ Wilfrid Schulz, the US Mafia and
berlin@gebrueder-beetz.de
corrupt police officers, rivaling pimp gangs, Hells Angels and youth gangs as well as serial killer
OneGate Media
Werner Pinzner, whose murderous spree is mind-blowing to this very day and who shoots
https://www.onegate.de
directly into the heart of Special Unit 65.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p94824c

Flüchtlingsgespräche – Bert Brecht Refugee Conversations – Bert Brecht

55min | DVD | OV German, English, French, by Hedwig Schmutte
Swedish | German, English, French ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | LITERATURE | MIGRATION | CULTURE | ARTS | REFUGEE | EXILE
TAG/TRAUM Filmprod. GmbH What do flight and displacement mean in their personal impact on the person affected?
info@tagtraum.de
When all parameters of the accustomed existence suddenly collapse? When survival depends on
the possession of a valid passport? This is what the German poet and theater-maker Bertolt
Brecht described in his for him so characteristically humorous way in the Refugee Talks.
The film follows the genesis of this autobiographical key text along the exile stations of the
world-famous playwright. A moving journey through time, halfway around the globe, which
leads directly to our own present.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3ctpe3h9

19min 20sec | color & b/w Reports from the Void

DCP | ProRes 4444
OV Italian | German, English ST by Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth
HUMAN INTEREST | PHOTOGRAPHY | WAR&PEACE | EXPERIMENTAL
TÒ SU Film
contact@tosufilm.com
https://tosufilm.com
In an experimental arrangement, the photo film accompanies two young Italian war
photographers on an inner journey through their archives of wars and catastrophes.
While shooting themselves they go in search of images that bear witness and ask for the human
impulse of making and absorbing pictures of dead and disaster. The film – photographed during
the Italian Corona lockdown – circles around what the philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls the
‘void’ that every testimony contains at its core.
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https://tinyurl.com/yz2364ba

Die Rückkehr der Inflation The Return Of Inflation – The Gravy Days Are Gone
Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
by Matthias Heeder
90 or 52min | OV English, Turkish, German, CURRENT AFFAIRS | ECONOMY | SOCIAL
French
Inflation is hitting with full force: Even in rich industrialized countries, many people suddenly
RISE AND SHINE don’t even have enough money to feed themselves properly or pay their bills. “Inflation is a kind
info@riseandshine-berlin.de
http://www.riseandshine-berlin.com
of power struggle,” says economic historian Adam Tooze. “Who’s going to be able to pay the
Kick Film GmbH
rising prices, and who’s going to be the loser?” Why is inflation now suddenly an issue again in
kickfilm@kickfilm.de Europe or the United States? What are central banks doing about it? Our film shows which
http://www.kickfilm.de mechanisms have contributed to the return of inflation and how people from different social
milieus react to it – in Germany, France, Turkey and the US.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2vyum76b

Der Fluss, der uns trennt The River Between Us

90 or 52min | DCP | OV Spanish, English | by Carl Gierstorfer
English ST SOCIETY | HISTORY | ETHNOLOGY | LONGTERM | ENVIRONMENT | HUMAN INTEREST
festivals: DocMX Mexico, Natur Vision
Germany The people of the Mashco Piro fled deep into the Peruvian Amazon to escape the cruelty of
First Hand Films
colonialist rubber companies. They cut all contact with the outside world and entered an
stories@firsthandfilms.com isolation they haven’t abandoned to this day. Carl Gierstorfer, the award-wininng German
https://www.firsthandfilms.com filmmaker and biologist, turns around in front of the river and looks back at those who want
https://main.docdaysproductions.com to break the contact with the isolated people.
https://youtu.be/Eho8rhQJoyY

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/mpxsm8un

Maayo Wonaa Keerol The River is not a Border

Le fleuve n‘est pas une frontière
by Alassane Diago
105min | 2K | DCP | OV French, Peul, CURRENT AFFAIRS | CONFLICTS | AFRICA | HUMAN RIGHTS
Wolof, Arabic | English ST
Forty protagonists, witnesses and victims, look back at the 1989 massacres on both sides of the
festivals: Locarno FF, 35 IDFA Senegal River, the border between Mauritania and Senegal, in order to understand what really
MA.JA.DE. | Heino Deckert
happened, and try to take a step towards reconciliation together. [ma.ja.de.]
https://www.majade.de “In 1989, after a clash near the border between Mauritanian shepherds and Senegalese peasants,
L‘Atelier Documentaire an incredible escalation of racist violence took place in the two countries. These events caused
contact@atelier-documentaire.fr
https://www.atelier-documentaire.fr
thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of refugees. Today, despite appearances, the wounds
https://www.FB.com/latelier.documentaire have not healed. With this film, I want to try to understand what really happened, I want to pay
Les films Hatari | info@lesfilmshatari.com tribute to the dead, and above all, I want to take a step towards reconciliation.” Alassane Diago
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Rukla – Momentan keine Feindsicht Rukla – Currently no Enemy in Sight

87 or 52min | OV German, Lithuanian, by Steffi Wurster
Russian, English | English, German ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | SOCIETY | WAR&PEACE | COMING OF AGE | LONGTERM
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
In the small Lithuanian town of Rukla, NATO combat troops are training for an emergency.
elina.kewitz@newdocs.de
https://www.newdocs.de The east-west conflict is real here. While the threat still seems very abstract to some people in
Büchner Filmproduktion GbR the town, others intensively prepare for military conflict. But then the war in Ukraine escalates
info@buechnerfilm.de and a new era begins for everyone.
http://www.buechnerfilm.de
https://vimeo.com/782597816

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Architecture as Autobiography. Salamone, Pampa

Photography and beyond – Part 34.
by Heinz Emigholz
62min | DCP | without dialogue ARTS | CULTURE | ARCHITECTURE | PORTRAIT
festivals: 65 DOK Leipzig, Viennale, IFF Mar
Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-1959)
del Plata,
The film shows eleven slaughterhouses, nine town halls and squares, a school and four monu-
Filmgalerie 451 GmbH & Co. KG
mental cemetery portals which Francisco Salamone and his team built between 1936 and 1939
kino@filmgalerie451.de
https://www.filmgalerie451.de in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires in the cities of Alem, Azul, Balcarce, Carhue, Colonel
Pringles, Epecuén, Guamini, Laprida, Pellegrini, Saldungaray, Salliquelo, Tres Lomas and Vedia.
Filming took place in November 2021 in Argentina.

> 70 min.

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Auf der Suche nach Fritz Kann Searching for Fritz Kann
90min | DCP | OV German | English ST by Marcel Kolvenbach
HUMAN INTEREST | FAMILY | POV | NS-POLITICS | ORAL HISTORY | HYBRID | THEATRE
awards: LÜDIA – Kinofest Lünen, nominated
German Documentary Music Award
A film about 3 generations of silence and remembering today. In his film, Marcel Kolvenbach
festivals: DOK.fest Munich, Buenos Aires FF,
Near Nazareth FF, Polish IFF, follows the footsteps of his grandmother’s first husband: the Jew Fritz Kann. He was deported in
1942 – exactly 9 months before the birth of the filmmaker’s father – and murdered by the Nazis
publicnomad productions
in Izbica. Is Marcel Kolvenbach Fritz Kann’s grandson or does he owe his existence to the fact
Prof. Marcel Kolvenbach
marcel@publicnomad.com that Fritz Kann was deported and murdered? The search for the deportees leads from a former
http://publicnomad.net/ slaughterhouse in Düsseldorf to a journey via Poland to Argentina and back to East Berlin. The
https://vimeo.com/777625247 choreography by Israeli dancer Reuth Shemesh creates an imaginary space that reinterprets the
gaps in family history, captured by visual artist Katja-Rivas Pinzón.
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Suche nach den Verlorenen Seeking the Lost Ones

90min | DCP | Blu-ray | DVD | color & b/w by Michael Teutsch
| OV German, English | German English ST HUMAN INTEREST | FAMILY | HUMAN RIGHTS | POV | ORAL HISTORY | NS-POLITICS | HYBRID
award: Winner Critics‘ Choice Film Awards
festivals: Berlin-Lift-Off FF, Bright IFF,
Cinematic European FF, Indiefare IFF My father Rudolf Teutsch was an early member of the NSDAP, later a soldier and in the Waffen SS.
filmglas münchen | Michael Teutsch
After he never wanted to talk to me about this past, 40 years ago his second wife gave me
m.teutsch@gmx.de information about his life.
www.vimeo.com/manage/videos/670314508 In 2021, I re-enacted this conversation with an actress in a reading and confronted it with
the statements of six Jews from France, Germany and Israel about their life stories, which they
confided in me.

> 70 min.

Sieben Winter in Teheran Seven Winters in Tehran

97min or 89min | DCP | OV Farsi | by Steffi Niederzoll
German, English, French ST | German VO HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | GENDER | WOMEN | CRIME
festivals/awards: Compass-Perspektive-Award
– 73 BERLINALE, FACT:AWARD – 20 Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. When he
CPH:DOX; nominated ROMAN BRODMANN
Prize, Special Mention – 21 FIFDH GENEVA,
tries to rape her, she stabs him in self-defense. Later that day, she is arrested for murder. Her
30 Hot Docs Toronto, movies that matter trial results in a death penalty sentence. Thanks to personal and secretly recorded videos
provided by Reyhaneh’s family, their testimonies and the letters written by Reyhaneh in prison,
Cercamon | Suzanne Nodale
suzanne@cercamon.biz
the film retraces the fate of a woman who becomes a symbol of resistance and women’s rights
https://www.cercamon.biz even beyond the borders of Iran.
MADE IN GERMANY Filmprod. GmbH
info@madeingermany-film.de

> 70 min.

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awards: GRANIT – 56 Hof IFF Andreas Reiner looks where others look away, photographs the faces of the bereaved, people
teamWERK. Die Filmproduktion GmbH
with disabilities or women who have given birth to star children. Reiner has a sense for outsiders
info@team-werk.de and outcasts because he feels himself to be one. The film follows the exceptional photographer
https://www.team-werk.de/ in his work and shows his frugal life. A journey into the heart of the darkness of his past, but at
https://www.schattenkind-derfilm.de/
https://youtu.be/MpBr4HMM5eM
the same time a hymn to human existence. Reiner’s photographic borderline experiences are
https://fb.watch/hhn-6JRtUH/ often provocative, generate fertile anger, but testify just as much to a fierce lust for life.
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Wanderjahre She Chef

105min | HD | DCP | OV German, English, by Melanie Liebheit, Gereon Wetzel
Danish, Spanish | English, German ST PORTRAIT | CULTURE | CULINARY | LONGTERM | GENDER | FOOD | WOMEN
festivals: 65 DOK Leipzig, 54 Visions du Réel
SHE CHEF portrays the young chef and recent culinary world cup winner Agnes (25) on her
MAGNETFILM | Georg Gruber journey to mastery through some of the most outstanding restaurants in the world.
info@magnetfilm.de The film follows Agnes’ ambitious journey and tracks her way to become a top-chef from the
https://www.magnetfilm.de
very beginning. The film poses the question of the future of the world of work, the compatibility
HORSE&FRUITS | office@horseandfruits.com
of family and career, the dreams of the next generation and also introduces the sensual beauty
https://www.horseandfruits.com
of this craft.
http://www.gereonwetzel.de
https://vimeo.com/765639800

> 70 min.

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Ernte Teilen Sharing the Harvest

86min | HD | DCP by Philipp Petruch
OV German | English ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | ECOLOGY | ECONOMY | FOOD | GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT | SOCIAL | SOCIETY
Philipp Petruch
The climate crisis shows that our economic system has led us to a dead-end. The farmers that
ernteteilen@gmail.com
http://www.ernteteilen-der-film.de ensure our subsistence are especially impacted by this. In the search for alternatives, I encounter
https://vimeo.com/733395222 people who have decided to make a change. Together with consumers, they build communities
of mutual support that are dedicated to the values of ecology and common good. A veritable
movement has formed on this basis, and its magnitude is growing with each passing day.

< 40 min.

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29min | DCP | English ST Sigurimi

festivals: Hot Docs, 20 dokufest Kosova, by Luigjina Shkupa
dokART, LANDSCAPE | ARCHITECTURE | CULTURE | HUMAN INTEREST
HFF Munich | Tina Janker
t.janker@hff-muc.de
From 1944 to 1990 Albania suffered from the dictatorship of Hoxha, which turned Albania
https://www.hff-muc.de into an extremely isolationist, Stalinist, anti-revisionist and communist state. At that time, the
https://vimeo.com/564618374 communists, currently three million people, built 750,000 bunkers.
The bunkers are everywhere: in cities, yards, cemeteries and playgrounds across the country.
After communism, the bunkers were used in different ways by the albanian citizens: they
became pizzerias, bars, museums and hostels. The bunkers are used symbolically in the film, to
report what is left of the communist dictatorship. [dokufest, Kosova]
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72 or 52min | DCP | OV Polish | German, Silent Love

English ST | German VO
by Marek Kozakiewicz
awards: Winner of MDR Film Prize – DOK HUMAN INTEREST | FAMILY | YOUTH | LGBTQ+ | RURAL AREAS
Leipzig, Best Film Polish Competition + Best
Debut Award – Docs Against Gravity
festivals: VdR Nyon, Hot Docs, Slamdance FF,
SILENT LOVE is a coming of age and a coming-out story about taking on new roles, and
35 IDFA... redefining the old ones. It’s a tender story about the courage to love despite all the fears.
After their mother’s death, 35-year-old Aga starts to look after her teenage brother, Milosz. She
Tondowski Films
http://www.tondowskifilms.de/ starts playing the role of both mother and father to him, but there is one thing she isn’t telling
http://www.bartoszbludau.de/ him about. It’s her long-term relationship with Maja. Will the three of them manage to build a
info@koi-studio.pl new model of a family in the midst of a conservative and closed community? How will the
https://www.koi-studio.pl/ludzie/
xenophobic mindset that Milosz is surrounded by, affect the relationships within his home?

> 70 min.

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Stille Sommer Silent Summers

82min | HD | DCP | OV German, English | by Jean-Pierre Meyer-Gehrke
German, English, Spanish ST MUSIC | CULTURE | ART | SOCIETY | SOCIAL | RURAL AREAS | LIFESTYLE
festivals: Filmkunstfest Schwerin, Pandémica
Escaping everyday life and creating utopias in collective freedom – many organizers’ and artists’
Semana de Cine Mexico
reason to realise the music festivals that make the culturally weak German region of
Von Anfang Anders Filmproduktion Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a place of pilgrimage for tens of thousands of people
info@vonanfanganders.de
every summer. But instead of freedom, community and utopia, there was one thing above
https://vonanfanganders.de/
everything else during the past two festival summers: silence.
https://vimeo.com/706075265

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/en2vm8f3

95 or 50min | ProRes 422 HD | DCP | 5.1. Silver Hair Still Rocks

OV English, German | English, Spanish ST |
German VO by Andrea Rüthlein, Matthias Lukoschek
HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | AGING | TRAVEL | LIFESTYLE
awards/festivals: Best Director Documentary
– Cinemaking IFF Dhaka, Best Director –
Rajasthan IFF, Best Documentary – Global Taj
In the 70s, freethinkers, artists and dropouts from the commercialized world discovered the
IFF, Agra, Indien, idyllic beaches of Goa. These ‘hippie freaks’ spent every winter there, like-minded in the love of
56 IFF Hof Goa. In ‘Silver Hair Still Rocks’, shot on original locations in India, long-time friends and
Andrea Rüthlein & Matthias Lukoschek
contemporary witnesses including Goan locals trace a world of awakening, a world full of
lukoschek & ruethlein film & tv produktion freedom, lust and spirituality. Especially by the pandemic now Goa has fundamentally changed.
andrearuethlein@aol.com But the remaining ‘hippie freaks’ still party and dance. Embedded in atmospheric pictures their
https://vimeo.com/671686808/c9004c025c memories revive the magic of Goa.
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Schlachthäuser der Moderne Slaughterhouses of Modernity

80min | DCP | OV German | English ST by Heinz Emigholz
ARTS | CULTURE | ARCHITECTURE | PORTRAIT | POLITICS | HISTORY
festivals: NYFF60, 65 DOK Leipzig, Viennale,
IFF Mar del Plata The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone’s slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas,
the utopian buildings by Freddy Mamani Sylvestre in El Alto, Bolivia, and the restorative
Filmgalerie 451
info@filmgalerie451.de ‘City Palace’ in Berlin are the cornerstones of an analytical documentary film that explores
https://www.filmgalerie451.de the dual character of architectural modernism in the field of tension between avant-garde and
political propaganda.
The actor Stefan Kolosko acts as a diver in the sunken city of Epecuén, where he paraphrases a
text by Jorge Luis Borges, and as a curator in Berlin’s ‘Humboldt Forum’, where he enumerates
the crimes of Wilhelm II. The architect Arno Brandlhuber comments on the reconstruction of the
‘Berlin City Palace’.
Filmed in Berlin, Bolivia and Argentina in 2021.

40 -70 min.

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Nachtvögel Sleepless Birds

Les Oiseaux de nuit
by Tom Claudon, Dana Melaver
45min | HD | DCP | OV French | English ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | NATURE | ECOLOGY | ECONOMY | BIODIVERSITY | ENVIRONMENT | AGRICULTURE
festivals: 30 Hot Docs Toronto
How does a tomato change our sense of time?
Pangolin Doxx Films At the border between science-fiction and documentary, SLEEPLESS BIRDS tracks the rise of
info@pangolin-doxx.com artificially-lit, industrial greenhouses in the French region of Bretagne. The film presents the
https://www.pangolin-doxx.com
environmental impact of grow lights on biodiversity, as well as on our rhythm and perception of
http://www.danamelaver.com
time. In examining the case of agricultural light pollution, the film also raises questions about the
https://vimeo.com/749698867
unintended consequences of human attempts to overpower nature and control the elements.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/34cfp9f5

71min | DCP Solastalgia

OV German | English, German ST
by Marina Hufnagel
Michael Kalb Filmproduktion HYBRID | NATURE | ECOLOGIE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ENVIRONMENT | RURAL AREAS | AGRICULTURE
info@michael-kalb.de
https://michael-kalb.de
Edda is overcome with solastalgia, the pain of the destruction of our planet. In her refuge on
https://youtu.be/8GMx4Bfn96U
the North Frisian island of Pellworm, she meets Sophie, a young farmer who is suing the federal
government for her right to the future.

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Stille Wasser Still Waters

29min | 2K | DCP | 5.1 by Kevin Koch
OV German | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | CLIMATE CHANGE | ENVIRONMENT | SOCIAL | CATHASTROPHE
festivals: 56 IFF Hof, Flickers Rhode Island IFF,
FILMZ Mainz, 20 BSDFF Missoula USA. While car fans are driving laps at the Nürburgring, people not far away in the Ahr Valley are
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
hovering between confidence and hopelessness half a year after the flood disaster.
Sigrid.Gairing@filmakademie.de
kevin.koch@filmakademie.de
https://kochkevin.com/stillewasser
https://www.instagram.com/kevin_kk
https://player.vimeo.com/video/689631094

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/37vxyz7p

The Strait Guys – Der Traum vom Tunnel The Strait Guys
99min | 4K | Stereo by Rick Minnich
OV English, Russian | English, German ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | POLITICS | RURAL AREAS | TRANSPORT | TRAVEL
festivals: É Tudo Verdade I‘ts All True, Brazil,
A 76-year old engineer is on a mission: to connect the United States and Russia with a
NorthxNorth Summit & Festival, USA,
DocEdge, New Zealand, Green Film Festival 100-kilometer long train tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. The InterContinental Railway
of San Francisco, would be the ‘Panama Canal of the 21st Century’ and would revolutionize global trade.
But can Russia and the United States overcome their mutual distrust and join forces with China
HANFGARN & UFER | info@hu-film.de
info@rickfilms.de | http://thestraitguys.com/ and Canada to peacefully and sustainably develop the Arctic? Or will the race to secure the
https://www.FB.com/thestraitguys planet’s last untapped resources plunge us into an ‘Ice War’?
https://www.arsenalfilm.de
https://vimeo.com/181050918

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/4wb6x2nu

Subharchorden The Subharchord – A Future that Never Happened

En Fremtid Som Aldri Kom
by Ina Pillat
60min | DCP | OV German, English | ARTS | HISTORY | MUSIC | GDR | GERMAN REUNIFICATION | CRAFTMANSHIP
English ST
In the early 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock visited the composer Oskar Sala in West Berlin, the only
festivals: BIFF Bergen, CPH:DOX, Unerhört
Hamburg, Sheffield Sensoria / Synthfest UK, specialist in the world for the ‘Trautonium’ – a sound generator developed by Friedrich Trautwein
Berlin Soundwatch in 1930. He wants Sala to make the soundtrack for THE BIRDS (1963).
Just a few kilometers away, in the Laboratory for Acoustic and Musical Border Problems,
True Fiction | Cecilie Bjørnaraa
mail@truefiction.no | www.truefiction.no composers are already playing on a newer and much more advanced instrument. This is the
https://thesubharchord.com unjustly forgotten story of a unique invention from East Berlin – the Subharchord.
https://youtu.be/AJ5yELmUk3Y
The film follows his birth, life, death and resurrection.
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MAJMOUAN SUBTOTALS
16min | color & b/w | OV Farsi | English ST by Mohammadreza Farzad
HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | HUMAN RIGHTS | CONFLICTS | WOMEN | RELIGION | LIFESTYLE
awards: Golden Apricot Award – IFF Yerevan,
Jean-Loup Passek Award – MDOC Portugal
Do you keep an account of your gray hairs? Of the number of houses you have owned or
festivals: 72 Berlinale, Melbourne IFF, Uppsala
SFF, 20 dokufest Kosova, IDFA rented? Of the number of kisses you have exchanged? Of the number of times you’ve flown in
dreams? You may not have. It makes no real difference in a life lived beyond numbers.
Kino Rebelde, Lisbon, Portugal
MAJMOUAN is an essay film about an accounting never being applied to one’s life’s products.
distribution@kinorebelde.com
http://www.kinorebelde.com Inspired by a short story of the same title by Gregory Burnham and the novel ‘Autoportrait’ by
Road River Films | info@roadriverfilms.com Édouard Levé, and wholly composed of 8mm home movies of Iranian people, Majmouan is
http://www.roadriverfilms.com a meditation on the uncertainties of a life that doesn’t hand you any bills.
https://www.filmschool.lodz.pl

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24min 51sec | HD | DCP Summer Fling

OV German, Arabic | English ST
by Jasmin Preiß
festivals: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival HUMAN INTEREST | YOUTH | CHILDHOOD
Hamburg, MakeDox,

award: Fundstücke Prize – blicke FF

It’s summer somewhere in Germany and the brothers Abudi (5) and Adam (7) spent their time
Ruhrgebiets outside playing with fire. Other kids join them and together they discover fire, water, air and
earth. A dreamlike balancing act between escape routes and dwelling places, offense, defense
jasminpreiss1@gmail.com
and reconciliation.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/52evpyvj

Überlebenden-Manifest Survivor Manifesto – The Art of Making Kin

Die Kunst der Wahlfamilie
by Dan Dansen
11min 14sec | HD | DCP HUMAN INTEREST | MENTAL HEALTH | SOCIAL | SOCIETY | LGBTQ+ | ESSAY | EXPERIMENTAL
OV English | German ST
What if we lived in a society in which people who harmed and people who were harmed could
festivals: 26 Ji.hlava IDFFc
heal simultaneously?
Bikepunk Productions Survivor Manifesto – The Art of Making Kin is a video essay on survivorhood: A multitude of
info@bikepunkproductions.de
trauma survivor voices casts a wild vision of a utopian society. The experimental film pulls the
http://www.bikepunkproductions.de
spectator into a journey of self-love and dealing with trauma as a sophisticated skill. A polyphonic
chorus of survivors depicts their ideas on dealing with violence, the art of making kin and queer
love. Survivor Manifesto is a political essay that will change your perspective on trauma.
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Swinging Bach Swinging Bach – Jacques Loussier

Wenn Klassik auf Jazz trifft
by Carsten Günther
53min | 4K | HD | OV French, German, PORTRAIT | ARTS | MUSIC
English | German, English ST
The film shows Jacques Loussier’s significance to the Jazz scene of the 20th century music.
EuroArts Music International GmbH
musicdistribution@euroarts.com It includes recently filmed interviews with young pianists like Olivia Trummer, Frank Dupree,
https://www.euroarts.com/ Edouard Ferlet and Jean-François Zygel, each demonstrating their personal approach
combining classical music and jazz but also archival footage with Jacques Loussier and
interviews with Loussier’s friends and colleagues in their private environment, such as his
widow Elizabeth Loussier, bassist Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac, bassist Vincent Charbonnier,
drummer André Arpino a.o.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6kdzck

Tamara de Lempicka Tamara de Lempicka – The Queen of Modernism Herself

Die Königin des Art Déco
by Sylvie Kürsten
52min 40sec | HD | OV German, English, ARTS | PAINTING | HISTORY | PORTRAIT | GENDER | WOMEN | HYBRID
Italian, French | French VO | English ST
Hardly anyone knows the artist, but almost everyone knows her paintings: Tamara de Lempicka,
festival: Beirut Art Film Festival
icon of the 20s. Her Art Déco paintings of women in cars or in evening dress adorn book covers,
Nordend Film GmbH break auction records. But who has she been? The arte documentary by Grimme Prize-winning
info@nordend-film.de
author Sylvie Kürsten ventures a self-portrait of Lempicka, narrated and played by German
https://www.nordend-film.de
https://www.FB.com/nordendfilmgmbh theater grande dame Nicole Heesters. She is commented anecdotally and knowledgeably by
https://youtu.be/gdXropAnNxQ a documentary cast, e.g. great-granddaughter Marisa de Lempicka, German collector and
designer Wolfgang Joop or musical composer Matt Gould.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bdar59yy

86min | DCP |OV Italian | English, French ST TARA

festivals: Visions du Réel, Filmkunstfest by Volker Sattel, Francesca Bertin
Schwerin, Underdox FF München, Festival HYBRID | SOCIETY | HUMAN INTEREST | ENVIRONMENT | SOCIAL | RURAL AREAS
Close up – Ville, Architecture et Paysage au
Cinéma, Paris, 64 Nordische Filmtage,
Duisburger Filmwoche, 39 Kassel Dokfest,
The Tara is a river on the outskirts of Taranto whose waters are believed to have healing
Filmmaker Festival Milan properties; bathing there is a tradition for the inhabitants of the city. Starting from this bucolic
place, Volker Sattel and Francesca Bertin take us on a journey through a territory where myths
FuFi Film | Volker Sattel | info@tara-film.com
https://tarafilm.cargo.site
clash with reality and where so-called progress has taken a heavy toll on nature and society.
www.arsenal-berlin.de
https://youtu.be/osRc0ThGrZM

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Teatro Amazonas – Musik im Regenwald Teatro Amazonas – The Art of Sound and Nature
53min | 4K | UHD | Dolby Atmos by Friedemann Hottenbacher
OV English, Portuguese | German, English ST ARTS | CULTURE | MUSIC | ARCHITECTURE | OPERA | THEATRE
awards: Shortlist Rose d‘Or 2022
It probably took a visionary obsession similar to that of Fitzcarraldo, the eccentric entrepreneur
EuroArts Music International GmbH and opera lover in Werner Herzog’s film of the same name to build an opera house in the mid-
musicdistribution@euroarts.com dle of the largest contiguous rainforest area in the world.
http://www.euroarts.com
After the decline of the rubber industry, the music in the house also falls silent. The memory
https://youtu.be/DJd9IFNfmIA
fades, the house sinks into a thorny sleep. But the myth of the Amazon lives on...
TEATRO AMAZONAS is a portrait of an opera house that reflects the cultural human spaces of
European modernity and is also a cinematic reflection.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/24ruan57

Das Ende der Welt wie wir sie kennen TEOTWAWKI – The End Of The World As We Know It
90min | HD | DCP | Blu-ray | DVD by Julia Neuhaus
OV English, Russian, French | German, HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | WAR&PEACE | PORTRAIT | RURAL AREAS | LIFESTYLE
English, Ukrainian ST | German VO
Milton is a traumatized veteran who has lost trust in society and moves to a bunker in South
awards: Winner ARD Documentary
Competition Dakota. Julia is a professor in Switzerland who works on a safety exit to satisfy humanity’s needs
without destroying the planet. John spends every free minute illegally roaming the post
Das Kind mit der Goldenen Jacke
apocalyptic world of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Filmproduktion GmbH
mathieu@daskindmitdergoldenenjacke.de TEOTWAWKI – The End Of The World As We Know It follows these three people who confront
https://www.daskindmitdergoldenenjacke.de
big fears and try to find their place as human beings in a world in turmoil.
https://www.julianeuhaus.com/teotwawki

< 40 min.

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Querian ser amados They Wanted to Be Loved

festivals: FICM Mexico, LIFFY USA by Bernhard Hetzenauer
HUMAN INTEREST | EXPERIMENTAL
14min | 16mm onto DCP | ProRes | H264
OV English, Spanish | English, German ST
THEY WANTED TO BE LOVE is an oniric exploration of memory. Images of silent, deserted places
Bernhard Hetzenauer are linked with texts that convey the narrative of a vague love story. A couple visits places in
bernhard.hetzenauer@gmail.com and around an unknown city. While they slowly get to know each other, the places they visit
guard a memory of their encounter. The film’s audiovisual form invites the spectator to enter a
dream-like state of trance. Oscillating between presence, past and imagination, love is a
dimension hard to grasp.
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Die Dinge, die du nicht über mich The things you don’t know about me, mum
weißt, Mama
Le cose che non sai di me, mamma by Daniela Lucato
HUMAN INTEREST | FAMILY | AGING | POV | HISTORY | CONFLICTS | POLITICS
15min | HD | DCP | color & s/w
OV Italian | English, Spanish, French ST
The real story of Luz: the conflictual relationship of a mother and her daughter with the chilean
awards/festivals: Honourable Mention – dictatorship as background. Luz is from the side of Allende, she believes in freedom, in
Festival international de Cine de America, democracy and in a respectful world where everyone has the same value. Her mother is catholic,
Mexico, Special Award –11 Tuzla FF;
supports Pinochet and the coup d’etat. Forty years later Luz’s mother is affected from dementia.
Return IFAF Weimar, Miami New Media FF,
accordi @ DISACCORDI Neapel, 13 Nevertheless Luz wants to break the painful silence between her and her mother and she
EDUKINO Warsaw... imagines to tell her the truth about her in Santiago, the facts where she was tragically involved
that were consciously ignored by her mother.
Daniela Lucato | danielalucato.f@gmail.com
https://tinyurl.com/tmw2494m A monologue in the form of a diary, a sort of written page that allows the protagonist to
https://vimeo.com/676622081 redeem herself from the pain of silence and to reconcile her (virtually) with her mother.

40 -70 min. | SERIES

https://tinyurl.com/3f4x6t74

Durst – wenn unser Wasser verschwindet Thirst – What Happens When All Our Water Is Gone
3x45min | OV German, English and others | by Daniel Harrich
German, English VO CURRENT AFFAIRS | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECONOMY | ECOLOGY | FOOD
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
Water as a resource is become ever scarcer. We show how people are battling with dry
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
conditions and drought, for example in the US, Afghanistan, India or Germany. You can see
diwafilm | produktion@diwafilm.de
https://www.diwafilm.de the effect water scarcity has on plants and animals and how conflicts over water are escalating.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7muknf

Drei Frauen Three Women

85min | DCP | OV Ukrainian | English ST by Maksym Melnyk
PORTRAIT | SOCIETY | SOCIAL | RURAL AREAS | WOMEN
festival: 65 DOK Leipzig, 54 Visions du Réel
Somewhere in the Carpathians between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland lies the village of
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Cristina Marx Stuzhytsia. In Ukrainian the name of the village means ‘cold place’. The film tells the stories of
cristina.marx@filmuniversitaet.de three women: the farmer Hanna, the post woman Maria and the biologist Nelya. Surrounded by
www.filmuniversitaet.de
mountains they cope with social reality and loneliness. The colder the Carpathian winter gets,
https://www.filmuniversitaet.de
the more human warmth the film team finds. The film portrays an unknown place in the middle
of Europe, where people have to decide daily between leaving and staying.
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40 -70 min.

TIPPI HEDREN und die wilden Tiere TIPPI HEDREN and the wild animals
52min | HD | OV English, German | by Marita Neher
German, French ST PORTRAIT | ARTS | CULTURE | MOVIE | WOMEN | GENDER
MEDEA FILM FACTORY
In the 1960s Tippi Hedren suddenly became famous with Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS and
factory@medeafilm.de
https://medeafilm.com/ MARNIE. The actress bears the brutal attacks of the living seagulls and crows, but she fights
https://maritaneher.de back at the director’s sexual assaults. In ‘TIPPI HEDREN and the wild animals’ she looks back
with gratitude and disgust on her time with Alfred Hitchcock.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p87s59p

Togoland Projektionen Togoland Projections

96min | HD | DCP | Blu-ray | DVD | color & by Jürgen Ellinghaus
b/w | OV French, Togolese | English, French, HISTORY | SOCIETY | COLONIALISM | ECONOMY | MEDIA | AFRICA
German VO+ST
Shortly before the First World War, the ‘African explorer’ and film director Hans Schomburgk
AndanaFilms
www.andanafilms.com went on an unprecedented film expedition to West Africa to shoot adventure and documentary
http://www.andanafilms.com films in the exotic setting in the north of the then German colony of Togo. In Togo, his films
Maxim Film | Peter Roloff remain virtually unknown to this day. We travel more than a century later with a mobile cinema
berlin@maxim-film.de
to the original film locations to question the film images together with Togolese viewers about
www.maxim-film.de
https://www.FB.com/maximfilm their historical background and the effects of colonialism.
What do they show, what do they conceal about the German Empire’s ‘model colony’?

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2p997nw7

92min | DCP Total Trust

Cinephil
China is in the process of establishing a dictatorship based on Big Data.
info@cinephil.com | https://cinephil.com The film accompanies people who are fighting against an all-controlling surveillance system
https://www.FB.com/CinephilDoc and in danger of being crushed by it. Thanks to exclusive and intimate access, this long-term
https://www.instagram.com/cinephildocs
observation shows the lives of several activists fighting for human rights, who live under extreme
FILMTANK GmbH
https://www.filmtank.de
surveillance and traumatisation. At the same time, the film’s scope broadens to include ordinary
citizens whose daily behaviour is registered and evaluated by an experimental scoring system.

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30min | HD | OV Russian | English ST Tracing Tango Echo Tango

festivals: 37 DOK.fest Munich by Ksenia Ciuvaseva
DOKU-FIKTION | HYBRID | POV | FAMILY | MIGRATION | ESSAY | AFRICA
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
cristina.marx@filmuniversitaet.de
https://www.filmuniversitaet.de/ The semi-autobiographical film essay of a daughter following the trail of her father, an ex-Soviet
pilot, in Sudan. The possibility of doing his old job once again takes him far from home, since
‘work is work’ even when it means being a long distance away from everything you have been
familiar with up to that point. A film about flights of fancy and a long fall.
[37 DOK.fest Munich, Andrea Erja]

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/553bu6e8

Drei Frauen – Ein Krieg Trained to See – Three Women and the War
106 or 52min | HD | OV English by Luzia Schmid
HISTORY | GENDER | ARTS | CULTURE | WAR&PEACE | MEDIA | WOMEN | PHOTOGRAPHY
festivals: IFFC Cologne, 17 Rome FF, 35 IDFA
30 Hot Docs Toronto
In 1944, for the first time in history, the Americans give female journalists press credentials
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
to cover the Normandy invasion. On their way along the frontlines of WWII, Martha Gellhorn,
EIKON MEDIA GmbH
Margret Bourke-White and Lee Miller add a female subtext to war reporting which forever
info@eikon-film.de changes our perception of war as the ‘father of all things’.
http://www.eikon-film.de
https://vimeo.com/467305729/a6f121e8bf

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/9z3uv38x

45min | 2K | DCP | 5.1 UNCANNY ME

OV German, English | English, German ST
by Katharina Pethke
festival: 20 CPH:DOX HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | LIFESTYLE | MEDIA | PORTRAIT
filmdelights | Christa Auderlitzky
office@filmdelights.com Lale is 26 and has been working as a model for years.
https://www.filmdelights.com
But working on the superficiality is increasingly exhausting her. She finally wants to turn her
FILMGARNITUR | info@filmgarnitur.de
https://filmgarnitur.de attention to the important things in life – by having her physical body scanned and transformed
mail@katharinapethke.com into a virtual avatar. In the course of this moral and legal precedent, and facing her very real
https://www.katharinapethke.com SELF, Lale has concerns. The film poses the question of identity in the age of self-dramatization
and certificates of authenticity.

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88min | DCP | OV Arabic | English ST Under the Sky of Damascus

festivals: 73 BERLINALE – Panorama by Heba Khaled, Talal Derki, Ali Wajeeh
Dokumente HUMAN RIGHTS | GENDER | ARTS | THEATRE | CONFLICTS | RELIGION
Submarine Entertainment Everyday life in Syria is not only marked by years of war but also by internalised misogyny and
info@submarine.com violence against women both within the family and in the workplace. It is not discussed, and
https://www.submarine.com
harassment seems to be a commonplace expression of authority. Many women are pathologised
Real Lava
https://reallava.com and admitted to psychiatric wards, and even extreme abuse is rarely reported. In Damascus, a
collective of young female actors comes together to research the topic. They plan to use the
moving anonymous statements of countless women to create a stage play that will break
taboos. But Eliana, Inana, Farah, Grace and Souhir face resistance – from their families and even
during discussions within the group itself. When their feminist project suddenly encounters
unexpected hurdles, their enthusiasm is put to its toughest test yet...

40 -70 min. | SERIES

https://tinyurl.com/5zjvzp45

UNESCO Weltkulturerbe – UNESCO World Heritage – Treasures for Eternity

Schätze für die Ewigkeit
Patrimoine Mondial de l’UNESCO – • Arles • Tallinn • Amalfi Coast • Aachen Cathedral
Trésors culturels by Marion Schmidt, Sven Rech, Grit Leder, Inga Wolfram
4x52min or 4x45min | HD ARTS | CULTURE | HISTORY | ARCHITECTURE | CITIES
OV German, French, Italian, Estonian |
German, English, French ST+VO
UNESCO is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its World Heritage Convention.
The Convention’s mission is to preserve the world’s most beautiful and valuable buildings,
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz cultural landscapes, monuments and areas of natural beauty for future generations. We
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de
introduce four World Heritage Sites in Europe: Arles, Aachen Cathedral, Tallinn and the
telekult Film- und Medienproduktion
info@telekult.de | https://telekult.de
Amalfi Coast.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/26pumke3

Das andere Land The Unknown Land

90min | DCP | OV Ukrainian, Russian | by Nina Irina Roerig
English, German ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | WAR&PEACE | SOCIETY
DER BLAUE VOGEL BERLIN FILM A wounded civilization. People who suddenly became displaced. Despair, resistance and courage.
https://derblauevogel.berlin A friendship with Russian friends that breaks. Where war is not visible, it is raging in the heads.
ninairina.roerig@derblauevogel.berlin
woloschina.t@gmail.com
Only silently, to be heard from afar: A chorus of Russians trapped with their thoughts, who dare
https://www.instagram.com/p/CiZz7RFJOIs to raise their voices against the war. The film THE UNKNOWN LAND – DAS ANDERE LAND is a
requiem for the dead of Ukraine, who died because of Russia’s attack since 24.2.2022. And a
bow to those people on the rift line between East and West. A film tries to keep the memory of
what happened to all of us in 2022.
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> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/5cwyy7u4

Pornfluencer Verified Couple

74 or 52min | OV German, English | by Joscha Bongard
English, German ST HUMAN INTEREST | PORTRAIT | SOCIETY | LIFESTYLE | SEX | GENDER
festivals: DOK.fest Munich, Filmschau Baden-
Jamie Young and Nico Nice aka ‘Youngcouple9598’ aka Andreea and Nico made a fortune as
Württemberg, FILMZ – Festival of German
Cinema, wholesome Verified Couple on porn websites. Now they live their dream under palm trees at
the tax haven state Cyprus. But how does it look off the stage?
First Hand Films | Esther van Messel
Joscha Bongards documentary starts off as a sex-positive portrait and turns into a multilayered
stories@firsthandfilms.com
https://www.firsthandfilms.com exploration of love, shame, influence and success...
SALZGEBER | info@salzgeber.de The lucrative business demands personal sacrifices, especially from Andreea, for example in
https://www.salzgeber.de
the form of terminated friendships and the long distance to her family. Porn is still socially
https://www.filmakademie.de
stigmatized. Nico, is much more confident in his role as a pornstar and seems to be living his
big dream

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/mr3t2mp6

15min 35sec | DCP | color & b/w | The Waiting

OV English
by Volker Schlecht
festival: 73 BERLINALE – Short SCIENCE | ANIMATION | BIODIVERSITY | ENVIRONMENT | ECOLOGY
mobyDOK GmbH, Berlin
info@mobydok.de | http://mobydok.de
Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe
Volker Schlecht
frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of
drushba@drushbapankow.de them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth. Mysterious deaths occur all
https://drushbapankow.de over the planet and have a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does
https://vimeo.com/781825877 it all have to do with us?

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/bde8zft3

17min 40sec | DCP | OV Ukrainian, Russian, Waking Up in Silence

German | English, German ST
by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
awards: Special Prize of the Generation Kplus HUMAN INTEREST | YOUTH | MIGRATION | WAR&PEACE | CURRENT AFFAIRS
by Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk for Best Short
Film – 73 BERLINALE
festivals: 54 Visions du Réel, Nyon
A former military barracks of the Wehrmacht now serves as a refugee camp for people from
Ukraine. WAKING UP IN SILENCE accompanies the children on their journey, where their own
Square Eyes| Wouter Jansen history meets that of the barracks. A moment between past and future, war and silence,
info@squareeyesfilm.com
departure and arrival, which depicts a portrait of German history and its present through the
http://asadifaezi.com
eyes of its young protagonists.
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https://tinyurl.com/yxsn6cdp

88min German version WAS TUN – Taking a stand against injustice

73 or 60min | HD | OV German, Bengali,
English | English VO+ST by Michael Kranz
CURRENT AFFAIRS | HUMAN RIGHTS | COMING OF AGE | YOUTH | GENDER | WOMEN
awards/festivals: Bavarian Film Award; Best
Documentary Biberacher FF; Best Upcoming Faced with a documentary film that included an interview with a young girl forced into
Director & Audience Award – German prostitution, Michael Kranz asked himself the apparently banal question of ‘what can be done?’
Documentary Awards; Human Rights FF, a.o.
He travelled to Bangladesh and began to search for the girl. A film that is both self-critical and
Journeyman Pictures Ltd. critical of society about the desire to at least do something and not to simply and passively give
sales@journeyman.tv in to the injustices in this world.
FILMPERLEN | info@filmperlen.com

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/y3dx3ee8

Urlau(b) Welcome to Urlau

by Eva Hartmann
90min | DCP | ProRes | OV German |
German, English ST ECONOMY | ECOLOGY | ENVIRONMENT | SOCIETY | RURAL AREAS
For a long time, the village of Urlau at the foot of the Allgäu Alps was only known for its
festivals: 44 FF Max Ophüls Preis
ammunition arsenal. Cäcilia Angerer still remembers the looming catastrophe during World War
Luzid Film GmbH | Barbara Groben II. But lately Urlau has been sprucing itself up because a huge resort is about to be built where
kontakt@luzidfilm.de
toxic warfare ammunition was once stored. Christian Skrodzki has been planning a community
https://vimeo.com/781135730
project to give an old factory building in the village a new purpose. The Wehr family has been
preparing their vacation apartment for rent. Things are going well for the region, but suddenly
it is proclaimed: “Stay home!”

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2xw3tmyk

103min | DCP | Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer

OV German, English | English ST
by Thomas von Steinaecker
festivals: FFCGN Cologne, 67 Cork IFF, PORTRAIT | CULTURE | ARTS | MOVIE
35 IDFA, 20 CPH:DOX
The man who had a 320-ton steamboat hauled over a steep hill in Peru, who hypnotizes his
3B–PRODUKTION | info@3b-produktion.de actors, climbs down into volcanoes, talks to murderers on death row, cooks and eats his own
https://3b-produktion.de
shoe and was shot at. He’s the man who lends his voice to The Simpsons, stars in blockbusters
Spring Films | info@springfilms.tv
https://www.springfilms.tv such as the Mandalorian and the man – who in a sort of magical act – walked from Munich to
Wavelength Productions Paris to prevent the death of a woman ﬁlm critic he greatly admired. It is stories such as these
https://www.wavelengthproductions.com that have made this remarkable director a cult ﬁgure the world over. With exclusive behind-the-
https://www.realfictionfilme.de scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with the
www.FB.com/wernerherzogradicaldreamer man himself and celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and his wife
Lena Herzog – we are given an exciting glimpse into his work process and personal life.
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> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yckhewhw

90 or 45min | 4K | mp4 | DCP | color & Werner We Love You

RB Filmwerk GbR | Robin Epkenhans

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes.
epkenhans@rbfilmwerk.de His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of
https://www.rbfilmwerk.de the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a career as a bouncer
in the city’s most notorious music club and an attempt to start a family. Today, the 77-year-old
from Bielefeld lives with his dog Lucky in a lonely house in the country. Despite adverse
living conditions, he has survived in his own unique and inimitable way.

> 70 min. | 40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/37f5h2u3

Was uns am Leben hält What Keeps Us Alive

70min | DCP | OV German | English ST by David Sieveking
HUMAN INTEREST | PORTRAIT | HEALTH | AGING | INCLUSION | FAMILY
Flare Film GmbH
info@flare-film.com
Gerald Uhlig, a unique Berlin creative and founder of the Einstein coffee house, suffers from the
bergfeld@flare-film.com
https://www.flare-film.com rare disease Morbus Fabry. The only thing that keeps him alive is the promise he made to his wife
Mara on her deathbed – to survive until their daughter Geraldina is able to stand on her own two
feet. But Gerald’s vital energies are dwindling. After his death, it becomes clear that Geraldina
has not only inherited his illness but also his irrepressible will to live. She is bent on fighting her
inherited condition and fulfilling her greatest desire: Becoming a mother to healthy children.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yc34z9jt

Leben nach Butscha – Trauma und When Spring Came to Bucha

Hoffnung [45min version]
by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz
66 or 45min | DCP | OV Ukranian, Russian, CURRENT AFFAIRS | WAR&PEACE | SOCIETY | SOCIAL
English | English, German ST
By the time Russian army retreated from Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin, houses were destroyed,
festivals: 35 IDFA, FIPADOC Biarritz, DocPoint,
Göteborg IFF, ArtDocFest, Riga, 20 CPH:DOX civilians executed, and lives ruined. From the moment when they emerge from their shelters
awards: Grimme Prize, nominated Roman over the course of many weeks, the films follows various residents as they pick themselves up
Brodmann Prize 2023,
from the smoldering ruins. The dead are identified, debris is cleared, and prosecutors start
NEW DOCS | Elina Kewitz talking about a war tribunal. But as the first blossoms of spring start appearing, these
sales@newdocs.de | www.newdocs.de Ukrainians also reveal their resilience. Human spirit overcomes war and death.
wildfilm | Lenz & Waldmann GbR
http://www.wildfilms.de
https://vimeo.com/769791858

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https://tinyurl.com/4jbdn9tm

Als der Jaguar nach Herford kam When the Jaguar came to Herford
133min | DCP | color & b/w by Rainer Bärensprung, Robin Epkenhans
OV German, English HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | MUSIC | CULTURE | AGING
RB Filmwerk The documentary provides an insight into the history of the Jaguar Club, which was founded by
epkenhans@rbfilmwerk.de Carola Frauli in 1966 in the disused Scala cinema in Herford. Furthermore, nine men and women
https://www.rbfilmwerk.de
https://youtu.be/AvBnHY72RQM
from the Herford district who are now over 65 years old and who were guests at the Jaguar
Club at that time are portrayed. Accompanied by a lot of beat and rock music from the 1960s,
the film follows its protagonists with documentary recordings into the past and accompanies
them with the camera in the present.
> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3n32fpr9

WILDE ZEITEN WILDE ZEITEN – No mask no party

Das Festival und die Pandemie
by Patrick Protz, Dennis Gross
81min | 4K | 2,39:1 | DCP | ProRes HUMAN INTEREST | CULTURE | ARTS | MUSIC | SOCIETY
OV German | English ST
“Party? Do we have to do that now?” “Yes!” says Alexander Dettke.In 2013, he and his team
festivals: Snowdance Independent FF 2023 founded the music and culture festival ‘Wilde Möhre’ in Lusatia. A space that makes encounters
awards: Best Feature Documentary - Silk
Road Film Awards Cannes, Best Covid-19
possible without the conventions of everyday life. It’s not just about dancing and partying. It’s
Film - Fox International FF Rome, Honorable about a place that inspires change. Due the pandemic, this cultural experiment is about to come
Mention – Better World FF to an end. But Alex Dettke doesn’t think so... Patrick Protz and Dennis Gross accompanied
Patrick Protz, Dennis Gross
Alexander Dettke and his team from the first lockdown in spring 2020 until summer 2021. A
vertrieb@wilde-zeiten-film.de time full of uncertainties, extraordinary encounters and many thoughts about the value that
https://vimeo.com/714421076 music, dance and culture has for all of us – on carefree but even more on gloomy days.

> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/54pe9e55

84min | 4K | 1:2,35 WIN WIN

OV German, English | English ST
by Friedrich Rackwitz
festivals: 56 IFF Hof, 39 Kassel Dokfest HUMAN INTEREST | SPORTS | SCIENCE | SOCIETY
NEOS Film How do leisure and labour change when we experience them as games? Director Friedrich
post@neosfilm.de Rackwitz completes a fitness workout with the support of an app that pushes him to his limits
http://neosfilm.de
with points, levels and ‘godly’ workouts. Similarly, service technicians from Bosch are to be
Fortis Green Film+Medien
Friedrich Rackwitz & Stephan Vorbrugg motivated for better performance with daily goals set in a new gamification app. They should
office@fortisgreen.de complete diverse challenges like getting points for smiling. Gamification has become our reality:
https://www.fortisgreen.de We can experience playful motivation in all areas of life. In WIN-WIN, sociologists, psychologists,
https://win-win-derfilm.de/
and gamification pioneers weigh the pros and cons for a society that declares freedom of action
a high good. Do we prefer to be good people or good gamers? And is the new ‘normal’ of
motivational enhancement a win-win situation?
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https://tinyurl.com/ykh84vcz

Mit reinem Gewissen With a Clean Conscience

21min 26sec | HD | DCP | OV German by Jan Wilde
DOCU-DRAMA | MIGRATION | SOCIETY | HUMAN RIGHTS | EXPERIMENTAL
festivals: Achtung Berlin!, Biberacher
Filmfestspiele, Bamberger Kurzfilmetage
A self-appointed vigilante group forcibly removes a Tunesian refugee from a supermarket after
zeitgebilde Filmprod. he is accused of theft by an employee. In the parking lot in front of the store, they tie him to a
info@zeitgebilde.de tree and stop at nothing until they find the evidence. Little by little they become more relentless
https://zeitgebilde.de/
in order to achieve their goal. When the police arrive everyone tells a different version of what
http://mitreinemgewissen.de
had happened. The film is set in an artificial theatrical environment which aims to render racism
as a universal phenomenon and is inspired by real events.

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yj88w8p9

WOID WOODLAND
41min | DCP by Verena Wagner
CLIMATE CHANGE | NATURE | ENVIRONMENT | EXPERIMENTAL
festivals: 37 DOK.fest Munich
Imagine the feeling of being deep in the forest – its vastness, the silence, the damp shade and
Verena Wagner
verena1990wagner@web.de the dangers that exist purely in the imagination. Can this inimitable feeling be recreated on the
HFF Munich | Tina Janker big screen? Come and be amazed; take the time to experience something that is as intangible
t.janker@hff-muc.de as it is recognisable. A cinematographic mediation on the leitmotif: what is the forest?
[DOK.fest Munich, Jan Sebening]

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/yj88w8p9

43min | full HD | OV English Words of Women in Mathematics in the Time of Corona

festivals: UNESCO exhibition: Creative by Irina Linke
Resilience – Art by Women in Science HUMAN INTEREST | SOCIETY | GENDER | SCIENCE
Irina Linke
info@womeninmaths.com
This film originated from a group of mathematicians, following informal conversations about
https://www.womeninmaths.com/ their experiences during the Covid pandemic. We listen to the 87 women mathematicians from
www.FB.com/facesofwomeninmathematics 36 countries speaking 25 languages as we travel around the globe by degrees longitude. The
film gives an account of how the pandemic transformed their lives on a personal and profession-
al level at the time of school closures during the pandemic. As the pandemic has a dispropor-
tionate impact on women, this film is a testament to their struggles and resilience, trying to be
present for their families and ‘online-present’ for their students.
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40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3cv85enh

Arbeiterinnen Working Women

73min | HD | OV German, Polish | German, by Julia Roesler
Polish, English ST HUMAN INTEREST | HUMAN RIGHTS | ECONOMY | GENDER | SOCIAL | WORK | WOMEN |
awards/festivals: nominee German Social decline looks very differently throughout Europe: in its existential threat, in the personal
Documentary Music Award, sentiment or the socio-political suspension. The documentary first-theatre-now-film-production
Theaterfilmfestival Ballhaus Ost Berlin
examines how the relation between identity and work has been developing throughout three
werkgruppe2 Filmproduktion women generations in working-class families in Germany and Poland: Which correlation is there
info@werkgruppe2.de between the experience of social decline and political bearings, expectations as well as wishes?
https://www.werkgruppe2.de/
Over the course of a year werkgruppe2 has interviewed women who live in two structurally
https://vimeo.com/565258898
weak industrial regions (Ruhr area and Lower Silesia) which are characterized by a high rate of
unemployment and poverty.

40 -70 min. | SERIES

https://tinyurl.com/bdff8spf

Die gefährlichsten Bahnstrecken der Welt World’s Most Dangerous Railway Lines
5x52min | HD | OV Quechua, Spanisch, • Bernina Express • Tazara • Pamban Railway
Deutsch, Tamil, Hindi, Englisch, Kisuaheli | • Southern Railway • Train to the Clouds
German, French, English VO
4x43min German VO
by Marita Neher
HUMAN INTEREST | TRAVEL | TRANSPORT | SUSTAINABILITY
Autentic GmbH
sales@autentic.com
The most dangerous railway lines in the world are breathtakingly beautiful, fascinating and lead
https://www.autentic-distribution.com
through extreme landscapes.
Medea Film Factory GmbH
factory@medeafilm.de … They are also the proof of high engineering skills and witnesses to the indomitable will of
https://medeafilm.com humankind to open up new routes into the unknown in order to conquer nature and its treasures.
Railway lines on all continents tell the story of industrial culture, of progress and the art of travel.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/y9m5cj6t

23min | DCP | OV German | English ST Yonii

awards: Gedanken Aufschluß Award – 65 by Julius Gintaras Blum
DOK Leipzig PORTRAIT | MUSIC | CULTURE | RELIGION | MIGRATION
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Sigrid.Gairing@filmakademie.de
Yasin El Harrouk is Yonii is actor, rapper, singer, Swabian, Moroccan. This portrait presents him as
Julius Gintaras Blum
a lively shifter between life and creative cultures, between the roles he plays in the studio and in
https://www.julim.de front of the camera, and the expectations that family and community have of him. Yonii has two
languages and even more worlds – and enjoys this wealth. But on the sofa in his mother’s
Stuttgart living room, it becomes clear that this range of different worlds also means a constant
balancing act. [65 DOK Leipzig]
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> 70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/2tvsk8xu

Und es geht doch ... Agrarwende JETZT! YES WE CAN... Agricultural Change NOW!
101min | DCP | DVD by Bertram Verhaag
OV German | English ST HUMAN INTEREST | ECOLOGY | ECONOMY | AGRICULTURE | FOOD | ENVIRONMENT | LONGTERM
festivals: Naturvision An ecological lighthouse project in Hohenlohe has been showing for 35 years how things can be
DENKmal-Film Verhaag GmbH
done differently. Founder of BESH is Rudolf Bühler, a Hohenlohe farmer rebel in the 14th generation.
office@denkmal.film He succeeded in inspiring nearly 1.600 families of farmers in the region to follow
https://www.denkmal.film his unique vision.Direct marketing now benefits butchers, bakers, cheesemakers, artisans and, of
https://vimeo.com/722232697 course, the species-appropriate farm animals plus the environment. They all bring prosperity and
security to the region. Small farmers threatened with abandonment now have their source of
livelihood and income here. Consumers have direct access to high quality, organic food that
tastes wonderful with a clear conscience towards the environment.
Director and film maker Bertram Verhaag’s special cinematic and empathetic eye is not only on
the landscape, the animals and the farming families. With uniquely touching images, he also
brings us unusually close to the human being Rudolf Bühler.

< 40 min.

https://tinyurl.com/3vtpfe47

DFFB – Deutsche Film- und

Thirty years after the Yugoslavian war and fall of communism, men from ex-YU countries find
Fernsehakademie Berlin themselves again in the same ‘bus’. They are all seasonal workers on a road towards a better
info@dffb.de future and prosperity, their new Promised Land – Germany. And just when it seems that on this
https://www.dffb.de
https://youtu.be/IeIQj8fnr6A
journey all the hope is gone, the Savior appears to help them all. [DFFB]

40 -70 min.

https://tinyurl.com/msk83d9d

Selensky – Ein Präsident im Krieg Zelensky – A President at War

45min | HD | OV English, French, German, by Dirk Schneider, Claudia Nagel
Russian, Ukrainian | German, English VO+ST CURRENT AFFAIRS | PORTRAIT | WAR&PEACE | POLITICS | CONFLICTS
LOOKS International GmbH Since Russia invaded his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become a global
distribution@looks.film
https://looks.film/en
hero. Who is this man – and what does he stand for? Within the space of a week, with his
videos and public appearances, he had won the hearts and minds of people around the world.
The film reviews Zelensky’s life story asks what is driving him and his comrades-in-arms. It has
extensive archive material available to it, including an in-depth interview with the Ukrainian
President dating from May 2021.
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topics
POV — PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW FEMALE POWER

27 STEPS 9 5 Seasons of Revolution LINA 8

27 Storeys 9 1001 Nights Apart 10
ANIMA – My Father‘s Dresses 14 ALICE SCHWARZER 12
Blue Sky White Clouds 19 All that Shines 12
Das Retirée or the last house of my father 26 And Me, I‘m Dancing Too 13
Dead Birds Flying High 27 ANNA14
Don‘t Worry about India 29 ANIMA – My Father‘s Dresses 14
The Exile 34 ASTA NIELSEN Europe’s first film icon 15
Flying Sheep 35 Aurora’s Sunrise 16
Goodbye, USSR! Memories of Big Brother 38 Backstage ...– Dorothee Oberlinger conducts Telemann 16
HAO ARE YOU 40 Border Conversations 19
How I Survived the Pyongyang Film Festival 3D 41 Butterflies in Mind LOTTE INGRISCH 21
INDEPENDENCE 44 Dancing Pina 25
I will take your shadow 46 The Deal 27
Letters from Orsk 52 DORA – Escape into Music 30
Pastor Lothar Stops 66 DORPIE 30
Searching for Fritz Kann 71 ELFRIEDE JELINEK – Language Unleashed 32
Seeking the Lost Ones 72 EREN 33
The things you don‘t know about me, mum 80 EUROPA 33
Tracing Tango Echo Tango 82 F@ck this Job NATASHA SINDEYEVA 36
Following Valeria 35
GERMAN REUNIFICATION | GDR GERMANY REPRESENT – Young, Female, Political 37
HELKE SANDER: Cleaning House 40
Afraid Doesn’t Exist 11 Hunter From Elsewhere – A Journey with HELEN BRITTON 43
CHEMKIDS 22 In Your Hands 45
Goodbye, USSR! Memories of Big Brother 38 It’s Raining Women 46
The Homes We Carry 41 The Journalist and Her Jailers LUNA WATFA 47
INDEPENDENCE 44 Light Falls Vertical 52
Locked Up and Forgotten – Psychiatric Care in East Germany 53 Long Distance Swimmer – SARA MARDINI 54
#OurStories 65 Loving Highsmith PATRICIA HIGHSMITH 54
Pastor Lothar Stops 66 MERKEL 58
The Subharchord – A Future that Never Happened 76 MOTHER 59
No time today 63
AGRICULTURE Queen Elizabeth II – The Headline Years 68
RED CUNT, reconsidering periods 68
The Best Looking Blacknose Sheep 18 Seven Winters in Tehran REYHANEH JABBARI 72
Crossing Voices – Xarassi Xanne 24 She Chef 73
The Dark Side of the Bright Nights 26 Silent Love 74
Delicious Italy 28 Solastalgia 75
The DNA of Soil 29 Tamara de Lempicka – The Queen of Modernism Herself 77
The Forest Maker 35 The things you don’t know about me, mum 80
Holy Shit – Can Poop Save the World? 41 Three Women 80
Kayu Besi 48 TIPPI HEDREN and the wild animals 81
Night Like Day 62 Under the Sky of Damascus 83
Sharing the Harvest 94 The Waiting KAREN LIPS 84
Sleepless Birds 75 Words of Women in Mathematics in the Time of Corona 88
YES WE CAN... Agricultural Change NOW! 90 Working Women 89

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topics
HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS

5 Seasons of Revolution 8 The Natural History of Destruction 61

ABSCONDED – Young Russians on the run 10 NO FAGS 62
Afraid Doesn’t Exist 11 Notes on Displacement 62
Alice Schwarzer 12 One of Us Now 64
ANHELL6913 An Open Mind – Artists of the Sinti and Roma 64
And Me, I‘m Dancing Too 13 The Prison Station 67
Back in the War 16 Refugee Conversations – Bert Brecht 69
Belarus – The Short Dream of Freedom 17 The River Between Us 70
A Breath of Live 20 The River is not a Border 70
Calls From Moscow 21 Seven Winters in Tehran 72
Child Trafficking – The Human Trafficker‘s Mafia 22 Silent Love 74
Code of Fear 23 Still Waters 76
The Conference of the Birds 23 SUBTOTALS77
Crossing Voices – Xarassi Xanne 24 The things you don‘t know about me, mum 80
The Dam – Le Barrage 25 Thirst – What Happens When All Our Water Is Gone 80
The Dark Side of Algorithms 26 Togoland Projections 81
The Deal 27 Total Trust 81
DIE AUTOBAHN 28 Under the Sky of Damascus 83
DORPIE30 The Unknown Land 83
The early rain which washes away the chaff before spring rains31 Waking Up in Silence 84
The Echo 31 WAS TUN – Taking a stand against injustice 85
EREN33 When Spring Came to Bucha 86
EUROPE33 With a Clean Conscience 88
Fearkingdom35 Working Women 89
F@ck this Job 36 Yugotransport – We are all on the same bus 90
GERMANY REPRESENT – Young, Female, Political 37
The Hamlet Syndrome 39 RUSSIA | BELARUS | UKRAINE
HAO ARE YOU 40
How I Survived the Pyongyang Film Festival 3D 41 ABSCONDED – Young Russians on the run 10
How to protest in the land of plenty 42 Back in the War ... photographer Yuri Kosin 16
The Hungarian Playbook 42 Belarus – The Short Dream of Freedom 17
INDEPENDENCE44 Beyond Revolution – Fighting for Democracy 19
Injustice and Resistance 44 Border Conversations 19
In Search of Monsters 45 Donbas Days 29
Iron Butterflies 46 The Exile 34
It’s Raining Women 46 F@ck this Job 36
I will take your shadow 46 The Hamlet Syndrome 39
Jew Suess 2.0 47 How to Save a Dead Friend 42
The Journalist and Her Jailers 47 In Ukraine 45
LA EMPRESA 49 Iron Butterflies 46
Light Falls Vertical 52 Letters from Orsk 52
Locked Up and Forgotten – Psychiatric Care in East Germany 53 MARIUPOLIS 2 57
Lonely Oaks – Only your life between 53 Rukla – Currently no Enemy in Sight 71
Long Distance Swimmer – Sara Mardini 54 Three Women 80
The Lost Souls of Syria 54 The Unknown Land 83
Mangrove School 56 Waking Up in Silence 84
MARIUPOLIS 2 57 When Spring Came to Bucha 86
moscow 1941. voices 59 Zelensky – A President at War 90
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topics
ENVIRONMENT CLIMATE CHANGE

Balance of the Five Elements 17 ARALKUM 14

The Best Looking Blacknose Sheep 18 Between Heaven and Earth 18
The Dark Side of the Bright Nights 26 DIE AUTOBAHN 28
Dead Birds Flying High 27 Everything will change 34
DIE AUTOBAHN 28 The Forest Maker 36
The DNA of Soil 29 How to protest in the land of plenty 42
Everything Will Change 34 Jonas Deichmann – …Forrest Gump Aleman 47
Flying Sheep 35 LANDEN 49
The Forest Maker 36 Lonely Oaks – Only your life between 53
The Future of the Cruise Industry 36 The Map of Beauty 56
The Haida in Canada 39 OVERSEAS 65
HERBARIA 40 Solastalgia 75
Holy Shit – Can Poop Save the World? 41 Still Waters 76
How to protest in the land of plenty 42 TEOTWAWKI – The End Of The World As We Know It 79
Kayu Besi 48 Thirst – What Happens When All Our Water Is Gone 80
Landen 49 WOODLAND 88
The Land of a Thousand Lakes 50
Leaving and Staying 51
The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri 53 MIGRATION
Lonely Oaks – Only your life between 53
Mangrove School 56 1 Kilo – 3 Euros 8
The Map of Beauty 56 All that Shines 12
Marine Target 57 Aurora’s Sunrise 16
Nuclear Nomads 63 Border Conversations 19
OVERSEAS 65 Crossing Voices – Xarassi Xanne 24
The River Between Us 70 The Deal 27
Sleepless Birds 75 Don’t Worry about India 29
Solastalgia 75 EUROPE 33
Still Waters 76 The Exile 34
The Strait Guys 76 Fearkingdom 35
TARA 78 Following Valeria 35
TEOTWAWKI – The End Of The World As We Know It 79 HAO ARE YOU 40
Thirst – What Happens When All Our Water Is Gone 80 The Homes We Carry 41
Three Women 80 IN-BETWEEN WORLDS 44
Togoland Projections 81 INDEPENDENCE 44
UNESCO World Heritage – Treasures for Eternity 83 It’s Raining Women 46
The Waiting 84 LA EMPRESA 49
Welcome to Urlau 85 Letters from Orsk 52
WOODLAND 88 Long Distance Swimmer – Sara Mardini 54
World‘s Most Dangerous Railway Lines 89 Notes on Displacement 62
YES WE CAN... Agricultural Change NOW! 90 Refugee Conversations – Bert Brecht 69
Searching for Fritz Kann 71
Tracing Tango Echo Tango 82
Waking Up in Silence 84
With a Clean Conscience 88
Yonii 89
Yugotransport – We are all on the same bus 90

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topics
CURRENT AFFAIRS CURRENT AFFAIRS

5 Seasons of Revolution 8 Once we were pitman 63

300 Trillion – The Debt Trap 10 Paradiso, XXXI, 108 65
ABSCONDED – Young Russians on the run 10 A Provincial Hospital 67
Back in the War 16 Queen Elizabeth II – The Headline Years 68
Belarus – The Short Dream of Freedom 17 Refugee Conversations – Bert Brecht 69
Beyond Revolution – Fighting for Democracy 19 The Return Of Inflation – The Gravy Days Are Gone 70
Between Heaven and Earth 18 The River is not a Border 70
Border Conversations 19 Rukla – Currently no Enemy in Sight 71
Calls from Moscow 21 Seven Winters in Tehran 72
Child Trafficking – The Human Trafficker‘s Mafia 22 Sharing the Harvest 73
Code of Fear 23 Sleepless Birds 75
The Conference of the Birds 23 The Strait Guys 76
Conflicting Image 24 TEOTWAWKI – The End Of The World As We Know It 79
The Dark Side of Algorithms 26 Thirst – What Happens When All Our Water Is Gone 80
The Deal 27 Total Trust 81
DIE AUTOBAHN 28 The Unknown Land 83
Donbas Days 29 Waking uo in Silence 84
Don’t Worry about India 29 WAS TUN – Taking a stand against injustice 85
DORPIE 30 When Spring Came to Bucha 86
EREN 33 Zelensky – A President at War 90
EUROPE 33
The Exile 34
Fearkingdom 35 MEDIA
The Forest Maker 36
Following Valeria 35 Alice Schwarzer 12
F@ck This Job 36 The City as a Stage – The Painter Bellotto called Canaletto 22
GERMANY REPRESENT – Young, Female, Political 37 The Corner 24
German Traces – Lithuanian Encounters 37 The Dark Side of Algorithms 26
The Hamlet Syndrome 39 Following Valeria 35
Holy Shit – Can Poop Save the World? 41 F@ck this Job 36
How I Survived the Pyongyang Film Festival 3D 41 German Traces – Lithuanian Encounters 37
The Hungarian Playbook 42 Hack Me Baby 39
How to protest in the land of plenty 42 HERBARIA 40
In Search of Monsters 45 The Hungarian Playbook 42
In Ukraine 45 In Search of Monsters 45
Iron Butterflies 46 The Journalist and Her Jailers 47
It‘s Raining Women 46 LA EMPRESA 49
Jew Suess 2.0 47 Lonely Oaks – Only your life between 53
The Journalist and Her Jailers 47 moscow 1941. voices 59
Kayu Besi 48 #OurStories 65
Lonely Oaks – Only your life between 53 The Prison Station 67
The Lost Souls of Syria 54 Reports from the Void 69
The Map of Beauty 56 Shadow Child – Andreas Reiner – Images of the Other Life 72
MARIUPOLIS 2 57 Togoland Projections 81
MERKEL 58 Total Trust 81
Murky Skies 60 Trained to See – Three Women and the War 82
Nuclear Nomads 63 Verified Couple – Pornfluencer 84

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topics
COMING OF AGE | YOUTH DANCE

5 Seasons of Revolution 8 1001 Nights Apart 10

27 Storeys 9 All That Shines 12
1001 Nights Apart 10 And Me, I’m Dancing Too 13
ABSCONDED – Young Russians on the Run 10 ANNA 14
After Happy End 11 Asta Nielsen – Europe’s first film icon 15
And Me, I’m Dancing Too 13 Breakthrough Stage 20
ANIMA – My Father’s Dresses 14 Dancing Pina 25
ANNA 14 Electra 21 32
Aurora’s Sunrise 16 Generation K-Pop 37
BERLIN BYTCH LOVE 17 Lights Out, Berlin! 52
CHEMKIDS 22 One in a Million 64
Child Trafficking – The Human Trafficker’s Mafia 22 OVERSEAS 65
Donbas Days 29 Searching for Fritz Kann 71
DYSLEXIA 31 WILDE ZEITEN – No mask no party 87
The Echo 31
The Exile 34 AGING
Following Valeria 35
Generation K-Pop 37 27 STEPS 9
Hack Me Baby 39 1001 Nights Apart 10
The Haida in Canada 39 All That Shines 12
How to protest in the land of plenty 42 Alone Together 13
How to Save a Dead Friend 42 Aralkum14
Kyrgyzstan – The Nomad Yurt School 49 Blue Sky White Clouds 19
Lonely Oaks – Only your life between 53 A Breath of Live 20
Long Distance Swimmer – Sara Mardini 54 Butterflies in Mind 21
MAMiTA 55 Das Retirée or the last house of my father 26
Mangrove School 56 Dear Memories 27
Mid Season 58 Mañana Sol 56
The Mission 58 Meeting with a Poet – Michael Krüger 57
Notes on Displacement 62 NACH DER ARBEIT 60
Nuclear Nomads 63 No time today 63
One in a Million 64 Pastor Lothar Stops 66
#OurStories 65 Silver Hair Still Rocks 74
Rukla – Currently no Enemy in Sight 71 The Strait Guys 76
She Chef 73 The things you don‘t know about me, mum 80
Silent Love 74 Three Women 80
Solastalgia 75 What keeps us alive 86
Summer Fling 77 When the Jaguar came to Herford 87
The things you don’t know about me, mum 80
Under the Sky of Damascus 83
Verified Couple 84
Waking Up in Silence 84
WAS TUN – Taking a stand against injustice 85
Yonii 89

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topics
CULTURE CULTURE

1001 Nights Apart 10 The Last Artisan of Venice 50

Afraid Doesn’t Exist 11 Leaving and Staying 51
Alice Schwarzer 12 Le Mali 70 51
ANHELL69 13 Lights Out, Berlin! 52
And Me, I‘m Dancing Too 13 Loving Highsmith 54
Asta Nielsen – Europe‘s first film icon 15 Make Up the World 55
Art is a State of Mind 15 Mamani in El Alto 55
Aurora’s Sunrise 16 Mangrove School 56
Backstage ‘Pastorelle en musique‘ – Dorothee Oberlinger… 16 Meeting with a Poet – Michael Krüger 57
Berlin‘s Quadriga – A Franco-German Affair 18 NARCISSISM – The Auto-Erotic Images 61
Breakthrough Stage 20 Nefertiti – To whom belongs beauty? 61
BRINGS – All or Nothing 20 NO FAGS 62
Butterflies in Mind 21 Once we were pitmen 63
Carl Nielsen – Between Heaven and Earth 21 An Open Mind – Artists of the Sinti and Roma 64
Code of Fear 23 #OurStories 65
The Dam – Le Barrage 25 OVERSEAS 65
Dancing Pina 25 Petro-Melancholy – The Oil Age in the Mirror of Art 66
Daniel Richter 25 The Promise – Architect BV Doshi 67
Das Retirée or the last house of my father 26 Refugee Conversations – Bert Brecht 69
Dear Memories 27 Reports from the Void 69
De Facto 28 Salamone, Pampa 71
Delicious Italy 28 Searching for Fritz Kann 71
DORA – Escape into Music 30 Shadow Child – Andreas Reiner – Images of the Other Life 72
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair 30 She Chef 73
Electra 21 32 The Subharchord – A Future that Never Happened 76
Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed 32 Swinging Bach – Jacques Loussier 78
ELLIS 32 Tamara de Lempicka – The Queen of Modernism Herself 78
Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth. 33 Teatro Amazonas – The Art of Sound and Nature 79
FCK 2020 – two and a half years with Scooter 34 Slaughterhouses of Modernity 75
Flying Sheep 35 SUBTOTALS 77
Following Valeria 35 Togoland Projections 81
Generation K-Pop 37 Tippi Hedren and the wild animals 81
German Traces – Lithuanian Encounters 37 Trained to See – Three Women and the War 82
Goodbye, USSR! Memories of Big Brother 38 UNCANNY ME 82
The Gorals of Poland’s Tatra Mountains 38 Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer 85
Hack Me Baby 39 Werner We Love You 86
The Haida in Canada 39 When the Jaguar came to Herford 87
The Hamlet Syndrome 39 WILDE ZEITEN – No mask no party 87
Helke Sander: Cleaning House 40 Yonii 89
HERBARIA 40
Hunter From Elsewhere – A Journey with Helen Britton 43
IN-BETWEEN WORLDS 44
Igor Levit – No Fear 44
INDEPENDENCE 44
Jew Suess 2.0 47
Kash Kash 47
Lars Eidinger – To be or not to be 50

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PHOTOGRAPHY LGBTQ+

Conflicting Image 24 Alice Schwarzer 12

The Corner 24 ANHELL69 13
Dead Birds Flying High 27 ANIMA – My Father’s Dresses 14
Dear Memories 27 Asta Nielsen – Europe’s first film icon 15
Following Valeria 35 A Breath of Live 20
Lonely Oaks – Only your life between 53 Code of Fear 23
The Map of Beauty 56 Eren 33
NARCISSISM – The Auto-Erotic Images 61 GERMANY REPRESENT – Young, Female, Political 37
Reports from the Void 69 Goldhammer 38
Shadow Child – Andreas Reiner – Images of the Other Life 72 Loving Highsmith 54
Trained to See – Three Women and the War 82 NARCISSISM – The Auto-Erotic Images 61
UNCANNY ME 82 NO FAGS 62
One of Ua Now 64
Silent Love 74
SCIENCE
Tamara de Lempicka – The Queen of Modernism Herself 78

Butterflies in Mind 21
The Dark Side of Algorithmus 26
The Dark Side of the Bright Nights 26
The DNA of Soil 29 HYBRID | DOCU-DRAMA
DYSLEXIA 31
The Forest Maker 36 Al Djanat – The Original Paradise 12
The Future of the Cruise Industry 36 And Me, I’m Dancing Too 13
mRNA – Hype or Hope 59 ANNA 14
Pollen and Insects – Forensic Science and its new Techniques 66 Carl Nielsen – Between heaven and earth 21
Sleepless Birds 75 EUROPE 33
UNCANNY ME 82 Everything About Martin Suter. Everything but the Truth. 33
The Waiting 84 Everything Will Change 34
WIN WIN 87 Hack Me Baby 39
Words of Women in Mathematics in the Time of Corona 88 INDEPENDENCE 44
Iron Butterflies 46

NS-POLITICS Make Up the World 55

MOTHER 59

A Breath of Live 20 OVERSEAS 65

The Corner 24 Seeking the Lost Ones 72

Injustice and Resistance 45 Solastalgia 75

I will take your shadow 46 Tamara de Lempicka – The Queen of Modernism Herself 78

Jew Suess 2.0 47 TARA 78

moscow 1941. voices 59 Tracing Tango Echo Tango 82

The Natural History of Destruction 61 With a Clean Conscience 88

An Open Mind – Artists of the Sinti and Roma 64

Refugee Conversations – Bert Brecht 69
Salamone, Pampa 71
Searching for Fritz Kann 71
Seeking the Lost Ones 72 RAILWAY
Sigurimi 73
Slaughterhouses of Modernity 75 The Strait Guys 76
Trained to See – Three Women and the War 82 World‘s Most Dangerous Railway Lines 89
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PORTRAIT PORTRAIT

44 Hours 9 The Mission 58

Alice Schwarzer 12 No time today 63
All That Shines 12 One in a Million 64
ANNA14 One of Us Now 64
Asta Nielsen – Europes‘s first film icon 15 Pastor Lothar Stops 66
Aurora‘s Sunrise 16 The Promise – Architect BV Doshi 67
Backstage – Dorothee Oberlinger 16 Queen Elizabeth II – The Headline Years 68
Back in the War … photographer Yuri Kosin 16 Salamone, Pampa 71
BERLIN BYTCH LOVE 17 Searching for Fritz Kann 71
Beyond Revolution – Fighting for Democracy 19 Seven Winters in Tehran 72
A Breath of Live 20 Shadow Child – Andreas Reiner – Images of the Other Life 72
BRINGS – All or Nothing 20 She Chef 73
Butterflies in Mind 21 The Strait Guys 76
Carl Nielsen – Between Heaven and Earth 21 Swinging Bach – Jacques Loussier 78
The Citiy as a Stage – The Painter Beletto called Canaletto 22 Tamara de Lempicka – The Queen of Modernism Herself 78
The Dam Maher 25 TEOTWAWKI – The End Of The World As We Know It 79
Daniel Richter 25 Three Women 80
Dear Memories Thomas Hoepker 27 Tippi Hedren and the wild animals 81
Donbas Days 29 Tracing Tango Echo Tango 82
DORA – Escape into Music 30 Trained to See – Three Women and the War 82
DORPIE 30 UNCANNY ME 82
Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair 30 Verified Couple – Pornfluencer 84
Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed 32 Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer 85
ELLIS 32 Werner We Love You 86
EREN 33 What Keeps Us Alive 86
EUROPE 33 Yonii 89
Everything About Martin Suter 33 YES WE CAN... Agricultural Change NOW! 90
FCK 2020 – two and a half years with Scooter 34 Zelensky – A President at War 90
Following Valeria 35
F@ck This Job 36
The Forest Maker 36
Goldhammer 38
Helke Sander: Cleaning House 40
Hunter From Elsewhere – A Journey with Helen Britton 43
I‘m People, IAm Nobody 43
IGOR LEVIT – NO FEAR 43
Injustice and Resistance Romani Rose 44
In Search of Monsters 45
Jonas Deichmann – …Forrest Gump Aleman 47
The Journalist and Her Jailers 47
The Last Artisan of Venice 50
Lars Eidinger – To be or not to be 50
Long Distance Swimmer – Sara Mardini 54
Loving Highsmith 54
Mamani in El Alto 55
Meeting with a Poet – Michael Krüger 57
MERKEL 58

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The German Documentary Association / AG DOK …

… is the largest professional association of independent producers in

Germany, numbering more than 900 members. It is first and foremost
a film and media lobbyist for the documentary genre, but is open to
representatives from all film genres.

a… fights to prevent documentaries from vanishing from television screens and

movie theatres.

b… is developing new strategies to counter broadcasters’ demands for more

rights from independent producers for dwindling licensing fees.

c… becomes involved wherever and whenever film politics are debated

in Germany.

d… commissions studies and legal reports relating to independent film

production in order to provide solid arguments in film political debates.

e… provides its members with legal consultation and, in some cases,

assistance in lawsuits.

f… provides free legal consultation with established media lawyers for

every contract.

g… is constructing a platform for efficient foreign sales of German

documentaries through the initiative ‘german documentaries’ in
cooperation with ‘german films.’

h… organizes presentations of German documentaries at foreign festivals,

and meetings with colleagues from other countries in cooperation with
‘german films.’

i… furthers discussions about the documentary genre at meetings and

conferences.

j… offers filmmakers and producers opportunities to exchange views and

information on a local level.

k… offers its members copies of the film newsletter ‘black box,’ the association’s
own newsletter, and other relevant information from the film industry.

l… represents the interests of documentary filmmakers in the governing boards

of the Copyright Association of German Artists, Photographers and
Filmmakers (VG Bild-Kunst) and the German Federal Film Board (FFA).

m… commissions studies of broadcast slots and license fees.

AG DOK
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm e. V.
Mainzer Landstr. 105 / HH
60329 Frankfurt am Main • Germany
t. +49 69 623700
office@agdok.de • www.agdok.de

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