
Masel Tov Cocktail
By Mickey Paatzsch, Arkadij Khaet
2020 | 31 min | Drama
A wild journey through German sensitivities and Jewish self-assertion – winner of the Grimme Prize.


By Mickey Paatzsch, Arkadij Khaet
2020 | 31 min | Drama
A wild journey through German sensitivities and Jewish self-assertion – winner of the Grimme Prize.

By Gina Wenzel
2018 | 18 min | Drama
In her harsh milieu study, Gina Wenzel tells the story of youth violence from the perpetrator's perspective.

2008 | 21 min | Shorts
This dark drama is told from the point of view of 8-year-old Robin, who returns to his family after a stay at home.

1992 | 83 min | Timeless
Can love be sin? The young priest Strobel (Axel Milberg) takes part in a bus trip to Lourdes. On board: the strict nun (Christiane Hörbiger), a renitent bus driver (Mathias Gnädinger), a mysterious older lady (Inge von Ambesser) and a lot of pious foot soldiers. When the pregnant woman, (Barbara Auer) who smuggles herself into the bus Maria fanatics, turns out to be the lover of the priest, an unmasking hide-and-seek game of lustful lies and asceticism begins. "Fast paced with bold dialogue, beautiful ...

1985 | 80 min | Comedy
HITHER AND THITHER was filmed in Wolfsperger's hometown of Constance with the participation of many local amateur actors. Frieder Witz was embodied by the town's true master baker, Richard Gandor. Chubby baker Frieder Witz is having a bad day. Supermarket bakeries are taking away his customers, he hasn't yet paid off the loan for his bread mixer, he has no money for his upcoming vacation and working all the time is no longer fun. So doughboy fakes a fall down the stairs and plays dead. Before his ...

2017 | 84 min | Biography
In the 1960's church communities expected a pastor's daughter to be less outgoing than other girls her age, less bubbly, and less selfish. Filmmaker Angela Zumpe, Professor for Audiovisual Media at the Anhalt University in Dessau, starts with the perspective of the pubescent 16-year-old and old Super 8 films from that time. In interviews she compares her own experiences with those of other pastors' children. Some of them have brought their choice of profession back to the parsonage, others have ...

2023 | 97 min | Drama
42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to her advancing age and gender, is reaching the limits of patriarchal society. A radical, humorous critique of the circumstances and how to transcend them. Marga, played by Margarita Breitkreiz, is a 42-year-old actress who seems to have already passed the zenith of her career. After initially pursuing a career in theater at the country's major stages (Volksbühne Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Maxim Gorki Theater), it is becoming ...

2019 | 30 min | Independent
A young, frustrated couple are on their way home from a night out. Three friends are in the middle of birthday celebrations at a nightclub. A drunk young man crawls into bed with his girlfriend. A young woman decided to stay home, chatting with a guy on Facebook. Two parents put their children to bed. All of them hear sirens and loud noises in the background. In the end, a policeman walks into the nightclub; however, nothing could prepare him for the scene that greets him inside.

2025 | 79 min | Comedy
Vienna, 1996: two MiniDV tapes resurface, containing footage from a student film project. The students Alina and Flora investigate paranormal phenomena, interviewing people who claim to have witnessed unusual encounters. What begins as a playful inquiry gradually develops a momentum of its own. Through encounters with conspiracy believers, self-proclaimed experts and unreliable witnesses, a theory takes shape: reptilian extraterrestrials live among humans and are secretly advancing their hybridization. As ...

2017 | 15 min | Shorts
Bosnia and Herzegowina 20 years after the war: Priest Mihailo and Imam Hamdia see each other during a bus trip through their home region. Neither wants to be the first to speak. Finally, when a young woman gets harassed by one of her relatives, both speak up in unison. The short BON VOYAGE won the jury award at the European Shortfilm Festival Brest.

2024 | 19 min | Shorts
The sun is already high in the sky when Yarê's mother wakes her up. Her stomach ache has gone, but the cause remains. The water she drank was stale, a consequence of the ubiquitous scarcity in her homeland. In the barren landscape between northern Syria and Turkey, water is a luxury item. The main water pipe has been broken for months, but no one repairs it. While others resign themselves to their fate, Yarê makes a decision: she sets out to get fresh water. YARÊ by Sallar Othman tells the story ...

2013 | 21 min | Shorts
Fifteen year old Tomáš finds himself in the hospital after a house party.

2022 | 98 min | Documentary
In the heart of Southern Carinthia, a story unfolds that is deeply rooted in a century-old decision. In 1920, like many in the Slovenian community of Carinthia, filmmaker Andrina Mracnikar's grandfather voted for Carinthia to remain within the Republic of Austria, an act of self-determination expected to herald a new era of coexistence for the Slovenian minority. However, the reality that unfolded was starkly different, marking the beginning of a century-long struggle against discrimination. Andrina ...