
Carnal Sins
2024 | 96 min | Queer
To protect their gay son, a family moves to the countryside, but there they are confronted with conservatism, religion and folkloric superstition.


2024 | 96 min | Queer
To protect their gay son, a family moves to the countryside, but there they are confronted with conservatism, religion and folkloric superstition.

2022 | 53 min | Documentary
The British Isles hold an almost inexhaustible wealth of "sacred places of worship." Dolmens, stone circles, sacred springs, hermitages, caves, ancient cemeteries and church ruins bear witness to thousands of years of European spirituality, ranging from the Megalithic period and the Celts to the legends of King Arthur and the "Holy Grail" as well as evidence of early medieval Celtic Christianity. In a personal journey, filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner goes to selected locations in Cornwall, Wales and England ...

2025 | 111 min | Documentary
Places with a deep spiritual past can be found all over Germany – from Neolithic cult sites to Celtic and Germanic shrines to the sources of inspiration for great thinkers and artists. These landscapes tell stories of mystics, romantics and wisdom teachers who have left their mark here. Whether in the Harz Mountains, in the Odenwald, on the banks of the Rhine or on the island of Rügen – these places invite you to connect with the spiritual history of the country. Director Rüdiger Sünner explores ...

2018 | 24 min | Documentary
Ireland is one of the few countries in which Christianization has not caused the complete disappearance of the old pagan religions, but has transformed them into new forms of cult sanctuaries. This film about the Emerald Isle journeys across worlds and eras, offering moving encounters with nature, and spiritual adventures beyond the tourist crowds. In quiet, meditative shots of Glendalough, Monasterboice, Newgrange, Malin Head and other mythical places, Rüdiger Sünner explains - for example with ...

2021 | 24 min | Drama
Uwe has been rehearsing intensively with his amateur theater group for the play “Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf.” But their PR stunt in the forest backfires and the newspaper reports on the return of the wolf; the citizens are on high alert. A campaign team is determined to seize the moment and use the issue of “security” to restore the weakened politician Friedman to her former glory. And Uwe? He sticks to his premiere, after all, it promises to be a full house. On the evening of the ...

2019 | 83 min | Horror
A phone call in the middle of the night is enough to throw Becca off balance. Her older brother Richie has a long history of mental instability, and this time his voice sounds more urgent than ever. When she arrives at his apartment, she finds his lifeless body - but at that very moment, he suddenly stands before her, stark naked and very much alive. Richie is convinced: he can no longer die. After every suicide attempt, he is thrown back into life through a mysterious hole in the wall of his bedroom. What ...

2023 | 56 min | Documentary
Scotland is a region full of secrets and beguiling beauty. Since filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner first traveled to Scotland in 1987, this country has cast a deep spell over him. Here he also encountered millennia-old traces of European spirituality that he had not known before: the sun temples of the megalithic period, "holy places" of a pagan nature religion, the belief in fairies, a nature-loving Celtic Christianity and landscapes in which one could experience "fulfilled solitude". Scotland became a kind ...

2021 | 80 min | Comedy
Samson is blessed with magical hair that gives him inhuman strength and hypnotically attracts women and men. The cunning femme fatale De seizes his mane and thereby acquires seductive powers herself. However, De's happiness is also short-lived and her new powers arouse desire. Lilah, too, has her sights set on the magical mane. "Malte Wirtz gives the Old Testament fairy tale about faith, masculinity and mother complexes a new twist in his variant." (kino-zeit) "A successful film experiment that ...

2014 | 83 min | Horror
Anthropology student Markus is studying folk superstitions and the poltergeist phenomenon. Markus, Lukas and Rebecca will spend a week in remote castle and film everything. The students gain unauthorized access to the gloomy castle and settle in for the night. What seems to be fun at first soon turns bloody serious. "To draw comparisons to the well-known genre representatives would be inappropriate and unnecessary. THE PRESENCE is not a German "Blair Witch" knockoff. No, this film stands on its ...

2006 | 61 min | Documentary
German early Romanticism was not only an era of great poetry, but also developed a spiritual worldview that anticipated much of what today's people seek in esotericism, shamanism, Far Eastern religion: the connection of thinking and intuition, understanding and feeling, science and religion, as well as a view of nature as a living organism that cannot be understood only through rational dissection. In artistic independence, the early Romantics developed highly individual forms of spirituality that ...

2022 | 72 min | Documentary
Johann Sebastian Bach is not only one of the greatest composers of all time, but perhaps also the most mysterious. Who was this inconspicuous man from Thuringia, whose music still deeply touches people from all over the world? The film follows the traces of this exceptional artist at original locations and tries to describe a life that succeeded in an admirable way to transform crises and painful losses into beauty and new creativity again and again: Music as the Art of Transformation and Healing. "Overall, ...