
Mountain Ride
2024 | 97 min | Documentary
MOUNTAIN RIDE is a documentary on the Alps, blending art and science to question how humans value and protect nature today.


2024 | 97 min | Documentary
MOUNTAIN RIDE is a documentary on the Alps, blending art and science to question how humans value and protect nature today.

2025 | 80 min | Independent
The earth lies fallow in the future, forests have turned to ash, and oxygen is in short supply. In this ecological dystopia, a 78-year-old botanist looks back on the last days of the Caldén Forest in La Pampa. Her memories intertwine with the story of a farmer who once tried to protect the last remnants of untamed nature. Between scientific melancholy and existential threat, a panorama of loss unfolds – personal, ecological, and cultural. In quiet, contemplative images, the film observes how humans ...

2010 | 83 min | Documentary
Are we living in a kind of cultural schizophrenia, where people publicly profess the theory of evolution but privately prefer to believe in angels, shamans, gods and spirits? Can the images and values of spiritual traditions be communicated with the astonishing results of modern research or do they remain pure matters of faith? Scientific research continues to yield new insights into our environment, such as the detection of Higgs bosons or gravitational waves. At the same time, interest in esotericism, ...

2011 | 69 min | Biography
In many myths, the hero must undergo a sea voyage at night in which he encounters mysterious beings and dangerous situations. The psychologist Carl Gustav Jung went on such a voyage of discovery himself, questioning the world of symbols and archetypes for their meaning for our lives. Above all, he discovered the creative richness of our unconscious, the healing potential of archetypes and symbols, which - if handled correctly - can lead us to a more complete life. Sünner's film is a cinematic journey ...

2017 | 82 min | Independent
At the threshold of human extinction, a small group of disoriented people spend their time in absurd activities inside a house battered by planetary climate change. A debut feature directed by Frauke Havemann, co-directed by Eric Schefter and written by Mark Johnson. "Mysterious and mesmerizing, WEATHER HOUSE turns the end of the world into fine art. An odd, yet highly engaging, meditation on the end of humanity. It’s a slow burn of an apocalypse" (hammertonail.com) The title WEATHER HOUSE is borrowed ...

2015 | 82 min | Documentary
This environmental documentary by young, Berlin based filmmaker Philipp von Becker looks at the various issues surrounding the so-called 'energy shift' to green power in Germany. Wind power is a preferred energy source. As a result, ever-increasing numbers of wind turbines are built across the country, casting an expanding mark on previously unspoilt landscapes. In the countryside, the construction of wind parks faces huge opposition - especially if the plants are built in forests. By examining ...

2019 | 86 min | Documentary
Meet eight courageous people who renounce agricultural conventions and farm without poisons and without destroying the environment. Listen to their stories of having to wear protective suits in the fields, of the importance of earthworms and cow horns, of silence, of wallowing pigs and of reverence for life... Experience the outstanding courage of these farmers to trust their own instincts and create a new form of agricultural. The resistance they bump up against just makes them stronger.

2023 | 30 min | Documentary
HOME GAME tells the story of the game an energy company in Germany plays with three villages. For lignite mining, villages are getting demolished, replacement villages are built from the scratch and the villagers are getting resettled. For some the demolition of their homes means great pain. Others are happy about the generous financial compensation. But all of a sudden one of the villages will be preserved. Everyone in the village becomes an ally or an enemy. It‘s a film about the „home sweet ...

2019 | 19 min | Documentary
In December 2018, the last German coal mine in Bottrop closed it shafts. At the Prosper-Haniel II mine site, the miners are clearing out the last production facilities. Meanwhile, undead miners haunt the old cleaning trac as part of a newly opened horror theme park. The advertised "goosebumps guarantee" of the "NRW creepy maze" is bringing jobs back. The miners children are earning a living now not as coal miners, but as miner zombies in "Shaft 13". ZWISCHENTAGE observes structural change using ...

2018 | 89 min | Drama
He would like to undo everything, but what would that mean? Who would he never have met? What conversations would he never have had? He looks back and realizes that life always means pain. But also joy... Against the dramaturgical grain, Chris Brügge tells the story of a young man and his encounters with important people in his life. Embedded in the context of climate change, 37 becomes a sensual journey from loss to love of life. "This very personal narrative form fascinates, seems perfect and ...

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 - ...