
Guillo
2016 | 40 min | Documentary
Guillo left his comfortable city life and went to live in the jungle, near the border to Panama. Lonely, without electricity and far from society.


2016 | 40 min | Documentary
Guillo left his comfortable city life and went to live in the jungle, near the border to Panama. Lonely, without electricity and far from society.

2019 | 72 min | Documentary
Alex lives as a hermit on the imposing cliffs of Ireland's Atlantic coast and shares his home with injured animals. After he nurses them to health, he releases them into the wild. Geese, donkeys and especially wild birds find refuge with him until they are strong enough for the harsh outdoors again. But smaller creatures also receive his protection. With a diamond magnifying glass, he observes flies and spiders, and he makes sure that the law of eat or be eaten isn't applicable in his kingdom - ...

2009 | 27 min | Documentary
A house of uninhabited rooms, somewhere in West Germany – filled with objects from decades past: family photographs on colorful wallpaper, dusty books, postcards, countless clocks. An older woman still lives there, but she does not see these rooms anymore. Her eyesight is fading, and she can no longer go upstairs unaided. But in her daily routines, everything focuses on the here and now: “Where are we gonna go for dinner?” “What’s the weather going to be like?” And, most important of all, “What time ...

2014 | 29 min | Documentary
Landscapes change and people change with them. This happens over centuries and decades, but sometimes also in the fleeting moment of transition from night to day. Then everything changes and nothing remains as it was. "The snow hid everything beneath itself, until people finally forgot." Director Martin Prinoth (DIE GESCHÖPFE DES VESUV), born in Bolzano, is a graduate of the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. He is a member of the German-Italian artist collective YOVO! YOVO! and co-founder ...

2011 | 73 min | Documentary
Hermes Phettberg used to be a mountain of a man, but now, due to illness, he has dangerously slimmed down. Despite his physical deterioration, this self-proclaimed “failure of a man” is still a charismatic commentator on Austrian society. As Austria's most famous welfare recipient fights for daily survival, he spends his days on the internet and writes a weekly column in the famous Vienna city magazine “Der Falter”.

2009 | 87 min | Documentary
In all its intensity and diversity, the everyday miracle of birth is shown with the means of direct cinema, without commentary, interviews or explanation, and connected to the cycle of standardized processes in the Viennese hospital. A chronicle of the beginning of life and its organization. "Sober and at the same time of physical force, intimate, yet not voyeuristic, distanced, but never apathetic." (Jury statement Duisburger Filmwoche) "The balance of the design draws us into the spell of the ...

2019 | 91 min | Documentary
They draw from this unique environment a preserved and singular spirituality. For the first time a director was invited to visit the heartland of the sacred mountain. Hick tells the story of resistance which is a voyage through space and time: from the shores of the Caribbean to the stars that light up the night on the glacier and from the encounter with the first colonizing whites to the return of the warriors following FARC's laying-down of arms.

2015 | 30 min | Documentary
He doesn’t feel comfortable at home and that is why he often escapes to visit a friend, Amelia, an old woman who wears a cap and lives in a small house on the hillside. There she talks about her life, her family and her dreams. He reads her her letters. But life is not always so simple: Amelia has money troubles. Youdid Kahveci's short film POEM OF THE DAY debuted at Achtung Berlin. Growing up in East Berlin in the 1980s, Kahveci found her way to film after detours doing gardening and diving and ...

2019 | 14 min | Documentary
As night advances and the darkness overtakes the light, tranquility reigns. But when most peolpe are drifting off to sleep, others are awaken by the ringing of their alarm clocks. Night workers are on the job from sunset to sunrise. SO BRIGHT THE NIGHT is both a short documentary and a 5-minute piano piece. "A beautiful and lovingly crafted documentary that focuses on various professional groups who work night shifts. The film provides an insight into a strange world in the dark that silently masters ...

2001 | 94 min | Documentary
Here, old time movies are on the bill, not blockbusters. The audience are old timers too and the meet here every afternoon at four in the afternoon. BELLARIA – AS LONG AS WE LIVE! won numerous awards and played at festivals around the world. There's the lady who is actually quite happy to be a widow and who saves from her food budget to buy her movie ticket. There's the gentleman who, alongside his mother, worships Zarah Leander above all others. And then there's the cinema projectionist who sits ...

2022 | 105 min | Drama
13-year-old Mora lives in the Patagonian steppe with her Swiss Italian ecologist parents. Disenchanted with the conventional life and schooling imposed on her, Mora yearns for the freedom and rugged individuality of a gaucho's existence. Her life takes a pivotal turn when she decides to aid Nazareno, an old Mapuche gaucho, in finding his lost horse, ZAHORÍ. This journey of solidarity with Nazareno becomes a profound voyage of self-discovery, challenging Mora to confront societal norms and her own ...