
Unplugged Leben: Guaia Guaia
2013 | 92 min | Documentary
Two street musicians tour through Germany for a year going from gig to gig and looking for somewhere to live.


2013 | 92 min | Documentary
Two street musicians tour through Germany for a year going from gig to gig and looking for somewhere to live.

2015 | 84 min | Documentary
Four Benedictine nuns, a priest, and thirty sheep live in the Habsthal convent in southern Germany. Director Sobo Swobodnik delves into the devout daily lives of the convent sisters. The daily spiritual life consists of choir prayers, meditations, Eucharist celebrations, mesmerism and the night prayer, in addition to the care of house and garden. But it hasn't been quiet for a long time, because the Habsthal convent, which looks back on a history of more than 700 years, is visited by more and more ...

2022 | 86 min | Documentary
In the summer of 2014, a life-threatening aneurysm (an arterial outpouching) in the brain of the director of this film was discovered during a random examination and had to be treated surgically as soon as possible. Due to the size, shape and location of the aneurysm, it was initially unclear whether and by what method surgery could be performed at all. The frightening diagnosis, this twist of fate and the two long traumatic months until the operation, during which the aneurysm could have burst ...

2012 | 97 min | Documentary
Excitement back-stage, adrenalin rush on-stage, band’s daily routine off-stage. Four young women connected in one vision: to compose and produce music, and to be able to live on it without compromise. Gustav, Clara Luzia, Teresa Rotschopf and Luise Pop on their way through the ups and downs of a self-chosen dream. A film about female musicians. The film was nominated for an Austrian Film Award.

2017 | 76 min | Documentary
For 6 Years, 7 Months And 16 Days, the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU) murdered and terrorized migrants - completely unchecked by the State or any related institutions. Director Sobo Swobodnik examines this unprecedented series of murders and tries to approach the perspective of the victim's relatives. This film was awarded the Documentary Film Music Prize at the DOK.fest Munich.

2013 | 100 min | Documentary
The secret of success, the purpose of music awards, the whole truth about recording contracts and nine other monstrosities. Not always dead serious, but most definitely pitiless - after all it’s just about this one big question: is there one right way to fame? WELCOME TO THE MACHINE interviews musicians and artists spanning generations and genres: Die Goldenen Zitronen, Adam Green, Ray Cokes, Anton Corbijn, Peaches, Kim Wilde, Die Sterne, Oomph!, Alec Empire, Lydia Lunch, Thomas Anders and many, ...

2011 | 120 min | Documentary
A disillusioned Iraq veteran, gay adoptive fathers, white party animals and a pimp in Las Vegas. Ruth Beckermann starts her quest in New York and goes all the way across the continent, through a total of eleven states - to apartment blocks where people have a lot of children and little money, to parties, prisons and memorials, to private houses threatened by repossession, to courtrooms, universities, and a casino. And to the many ""non-places"" in between: Highways restaurants, gas stations, and ...

2018 | 77 min | Drama
Buzzing with lust for adventure, a musician from Dublin and his band move to Berlin. Oisín leaves behind the weight of losing his mother, and anger towards his absent father. Oisín meets Sabine, a pretty Berliner who shows him the city's secret places: cool parks, deserted subway stations, skinny dipping lakes in the countryside. The fun ends in chaos when Sabine reveals that she has a boyfriend. Oisín slowly realizes the futility of his situation - his band is gone, he's lonely and homesick for ...

2015 | 51 min | Drama
Silent movie meets musical in this intense and colourful version of the classic piece by Goethe, FAUST. The devil wagers with God that he can lead Berlin-Kreuzberg musician Faust astray. Faust composes a sure-fire hit and falls for the virtuous Gretchen. Fate is set to take its course. Director Mingus Ballhaus is a graduate of the DFFB - German Film and Television Academy Berlin, who lives and works in Berlin as a filmmaker and drummer. Here Ballhaus is supported by cinematographer Jide Tom Akinleminu ...

2017 | 69 min | Documentary
In a state of limbo between Europe - the promised land for homosexuals, which nevertheless remains unattainable - and Arab reality, where his very being is rejected, the filmmaker seeks solace in the companionship of the couple. Back in his homeland, the director grapples with his difficult relationship with his father as well as a society that views homosexuality as an anomaly. Raed's film is an attempt to create a hypothetical everyday life from the moments they experience together. He questions ...

2015 | 23 min | Documentary
Alex und Daniel Buess, Bourbonese Qualk, Darkam, Pure are thebreakcore artists published by this label. Founded in 1994 in London by Christoph Fringeli, Praxis has been active for more than 20 years mixing political engagement with breakcore music and rave parties. Shot mainly in VHS and mixed with animations and degraded film materials, the film is a essay on the origins of breakcore and on the developments of the illegal party scene of the last years. A trip into noise, break-core and bits of ...