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Films

Children Below Deck

Children Below Deck

2018 | 94 min | Documentary

This film is the personal story of three generations of a family: grandmother, father and daughter - doctor, psychoanalyst and filmmaker.

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The Ground Beneath Their Feet

The Ground Beneath Their Feet

2007 | 20 min | Drama

Just like Lützerath, Erkelenz and Hambach, the village in this film has to make way for open-cast mining. But one man refuses to leave.

Undersea

Undersea

2022 | 52 min | Documentary

To deal with the trauma she endured during her work as photojournalist, Nanna Kreutzmann turns to underwater photography.

Postcard To Daddy

Postcard To Daddy

2010 | 86 min | Documentary

While growing up, filmmaker Michael Stock was sexually abused by his own father. Two decades later he confronts his family.

Borders

Borders

2008 | 20 min | Shorts

20 years after her family fled the GDR, a young woman returns to her homeland and is overcome by dark visions.

The Paper Bridge

The Paper Bridge

1987 | 92 min | Documentary

A journey through Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time, the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region.

Family Life

Family Life

2017 | 82 min | Documentary

A home in the German countryside, clean and proper. Against this bucolic setting a grandmother talks about the Siberian labor camps and starts to cry.

The Family

The Family

2014 | 92 min | Documentary

Survivors can also be victims in countries where injustice was the norm. Their compelling testimonies are featured in this insightful documentary.

Under the Underground

Under the Underground

2019 | 54 min | Documentary

A guided tour through the improvised spaces of Janka Industries, an underground cellar vault and creative microcosm of Vienna’s subculture.

Europa Passage

Europa Passage

2022 | 89 min | Documentary

A movie about people who have no chance but still try to make the best of it. And about the price they have to pay for it.

You will never understand

You will never understand

2003 | 52 min | Documentary

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

Dancing Alone

Dancing Alone

2012 | 98 min | Documentary

In this autobiographical doc, Biene Pilavci portrays her family life, which during childhood was often marked by violence at the hands of her parents.

Der lange Weg ans Licht

Der lange Weg ans Licht

2008 | 100 min | Documentary

This documentary highlights issues of outmigration and declining birth rates through the lens of a pediatric ward.