
Noise and Resistance
By Julia Ostertag, Francesca Araiza Andrade
2011 | 90 min | Music, Dance, Theater
Documentary about the punk culture of Europe, where community emerges from protesting independence - with the best punk sound in a long time.


By Julia Ostertag, Francesca Araiza Andrade
2011 | 90 min | Music, Dance, Theater
Documentary about the punk culture of Europe, where community emerges from protesting independence - with the best punk sound in a long time.

2019 | 54 min | Documentary
Voodoo Jürgens and Bands such as Petra und der Wolf and Tankris practice and perform in the underground cellar vault Janka Industries in Vienna, in the midst of a bizarre hodge-podge of electronic scrap. A music film and an ultimate underground homage that cinematically captures the magic of the site.

2024 | 92 min | Documentary
A “wave of evictions” is sweeping Berlin. The last left-wing autonomous housing projects are to be dissolved and their residents forced to leave the city. The film shows different generations of a subculture talking about themselves, fighting for their existence, but also dancing and crying together. A taxi driver drives through the city of Berlin and talks about the changes and the boom in the real estate market. He himself is a punk, left-wing, and a well-known figure in the autonomous scene. ...

2024 | 82 min | Biography
A black boy growing up in the conservative suburbs of Simi Valley discovers early on that he is different. In search of freedom and identity, he flees to Los Angeles, where he immerses himself in the vibrant underground culture of the 1980s. The nights are wild, the art scene is revolutionary, and the dream of a career as an artist propels him forward. Friendships with scene greats such as John Sex, Ann Magnuson and Keith Haring shape him just as much as the music that eventually leads him to the ...

2018 | 30 min | Drama
Maya awakes suddenly in Heaven Meadow. She is not dead, she is in Vienna. It is night. She checks out her body. What is she missing? Her shoes, that's for sure. The culprits are gone. Injured and without shoes, Maya runs back to the city - home. Without further ado she goes to Italy, to Daniel, her boyfriend. Daniel does not know what happened to her in Vienna, but he senses something is different. Maya wants to regain control over her life, not be a victim. And yet she's just drifting through ...

2009 | 87 min | Comedy
Theater director Gesine Danckwart's feature debut LIFETIMESHORT is an ironic comedy about Berlin big city girls and how they cope with life and love in a late capitalist urban setting. ACHTUNG BERLIN 2009 Danckwart contrasts the women's tumultuous lives against a backdrop of cool, almost clinical-looking Berlin architecture. The city becomes another character in the story. Danckwart collaborated with her six actresses over the course of a year to develop the film's situations and dialogue. The result ...

2013 | 75 min | Music, Dance, Theater
While the classical play MEDEA by Euripides is performed on stage, young people on the streets of Athens fight against a state that steals all their opportunities. In associative form, the film interweaves the ancient myth of a mother who kills her children with images of violent street protests and lines from Anne Frank's diary. Six solo dancers - including an extraordinary Maria Kousouni as Medea - in expressive close-ups, in a mixture of classical ballet and modern expressive dance, interwoven ...

2006 | 5 min | Queer
Award-winning director Jochen Hick humorous doc HALLELUJAH! follows the Pope's visit to Cologne 2005 and juxtaposes two camps of demonstrators. Award-winning director Jochen Hick follows humorous doc HALLELUJAH! follows the Pope's visit to Cologne 2005 and juxtapostions two camps of demonstrators: Christians on the one hand, and gays and lesbians on the other. Direct Cinema in short form.

2020 | 83 min | Sci-Fi & Fantaisie
In the near future: public gatherings are forbidden due to a high risk of terrorist attacks. Driven by a desire to be in contact with others, two siblings plan an illegal live concert. But public gatherings of any kind are forbidden. Meetings with other people may only take place virtually. In a world where concerts, schools, supermarkets, theaters and pubs no longer exist, Claire (Karoline Marie Reinke) works as a psychologist caring for survivors of terrorist attacks. One day, upon finding an ...

2022 | 102 min | Drama
Embarking on an evocative journey of self-discovery, a young man is haunted by the shadows of a childhood trauma he's strived to bury. This pursuit propels him far beyond the familiarity of home, directed by the visionary Aki T. Weisshaus, whose narrative genius captures a soul's desperate flight from becoming the mirror image of a father he scarcely remembers. As his path unwinds across the vast, uncharted landscapes of Europe, an unexpected encounter at a gas station alters the course of his voyage. ...

2003 | 82 min | Drama
2004, Kreuzberg at a time before hipsters, beer bikes and pub crawls: Neco Celik the "German Spike Lee" drew an authentic portrayal of inner-city youth culture. "Neco Çelik's URBAN GUERILLAS stages the Berlin sprayer and graffiti scene like an MTV clip from the Bronx … URBAN GUERILLAS... has what most German films are missing and for which there are no German terms: "attitude" and “street credibility”. (Die Welt) "Neco Celik's URBAN GUERILLAS is like a message in a bottle from a parallel universe... ...