
Kiss My Wounds
By Hanna Doose
2022 | 107 min | Drama
On a lonely Black Forest farm, the shattered dreams of life, painful love and hidden longings of a Berlin clique collide.


By Hanna Doose
2022 | 107 min | Drama
On a lonely Black Forest farm, the shattered dreams of life, painful love and hidden longings of a Berlin clique collide.

2022 | 76 min | Drama
In this captivating Austrian drama, the serene life of a lesbian couple living on the outskirts of Salzburg is intricately portrayed through the eyes of a documentary filmmaker named Amira. As she delves deeper into their relationship, the film, directed by the talented Elena Wolff in her debut, unfolds a complex narrative of love, identity, and the subtle dynamics of power and vulnerability. The authenticity and innovative storytelling shine a light on queer relationships with unprecedented honesty, ...

2024 | 80 min | Independent
László Kovács, auteur filmmaker, is denied funding for his film project: too old, white and heart problems to boot! Conclusion: no longer employable. Didn't the Hungarian from Lake Balaton once want to aim high? What now? Continue to be on his successful wife's back? László slips into a real life crisis and initially finds solace in the fascinating attraction of a “great woman” from the neighboring village. But when a right-wing populist stands as the only candidate for mayor in the village of ...

2020 | 40 min | Documentary
Alimamy and his family have lived for generations in a small village with about 150 inhabitants that has also had its own school for a few years. Like most people in Sierra Leone, he lives from agriculture. He grows cassava which he processes and sells as so-called Garie flour. He is very proud of his "Kasseh Garie." "With this film, we have tried to break with the usual images of Africa and offer personal insights into the lives of the generation doing the hard work of social and political change ...

2015 | 87 min | Drama
The mild-mannered Elza, played by fashion model Evgeniya Mandzhieva in her debut role, lives a modest life as a housewife and part-time piano teacher. Her husband is a boorish and uncommunicative man who is involved in some shady business deals. THE GULLS is a rarity in itself, being the first film in 25 years to have been shot in the remote Russian republic of Kalmykia - a region where smartphones and SUVs exist alongside fortune tellers and magical superstitions. "THE GULLS is a film that is ...

2007 | 20 min | Drama
Frido and his daughter Lisa live in one of the West German villages affected by the relocation efforts due to coal mining expansion in the region. The last family living in the deserted village, they will have to move soon. However, Frido is living in complete denial, clinging on to his home and the way life used to be for him there. Instead of planning the inevitable move, he redoes his front yard and puts a fresh coat of paint on his house that is inevitably to fall victim to the huge excavators ...

2012 | 39 min | Documentary
In calm and exploring images between the poles of documentary and fiction, Henrike Meyer is reaching out, looking for some kind of reconciliation. The filmmaker accompanies her father during the harvest, an exhausting time that leaves little or no room for any form of familiar daily routine. This makes FELDARBEIT an actual portrait of fieldwork. Henrike Meyer’s intimate perspective of an outsider gives an insight into the workings of a large agricultural firm that employs seasonal workers. The German ...

2017 | 103 min | Drama
Karabas is always on the run from the people he has scammed. When his older wife Zhipara finds their long-lost son Uluk in an orphanage, she hopes to become Karabas' favorite wife again, especially because his second wife Turganbyubyu is now pregnant. While Karabas is glad to have his son back, his wives compete vehemently for Karabas' attention. “An intelligent and skillful portrayal of Kyrgyz traditions, shamanic rituals and folklore themes in a road trip movie with a sufficient pinch of family ...

2016 | 98 min | Music, Dance, Theater
Journalist Georg and his girlfriend Vera meet DJ and bon vivant Dave and join his festival tour across Europe. At some point, Vera has to choose one of the two. At an electronic music festival, Berlin-based journalist Georg and his girlfriend Vera meet Dave Zuma, a DJ who loves to enjoy life to the fullest. As soon as the unusual trio enters Dave's old hippie campervan the journey of their lifetime begins. Their bumpy ride takes them from one festival to the next, across the Balkan states heading ...

1975 | 109 min | Timeless
The photographer Servais (Fabio Testi) falls in love with the unsuccessful but married actress Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider). Her mentally unstable husband Jacques (Jacques Dutronc) initially pretends to like the young and attractive photographer himself and to want to be friends with him. In order to be able to see Nadine more often, Servais secretly finances a play by the eccentric director Messala. In return, he demands that Nadine gets the leading role in the play. But the premiere is a ...

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 ...