
Pariah Dog
By Jesse Alk
2019 | 77 min | Documentary
Calcutta, India, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is home not only to 14 million people, but also to countless stray dogs.


By Jesse Alk
2019 | 77 min | Documentary
Calcutta, India, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is home not only to 14 million people, but also to countless stray dogs.

2024 | 27 min | Documentary
Not long ago, countless fireflies swarmed through fields and backyards on summer nights. Today in Iowa, a place known for its uniform landscape and monocultures of corn, fireflies are increasingly rare to find: points of light that blink off just as quickly as they light up in the dark. In POINTS OF LIGHT, filmmaker Annika Juliane Schilling sets out to search for these magical-seeming insects and the reasons for their disappearance. She takes a look at farm work and front lawns, as patterns of ...

2017 | 70 min | Drama
A sales rep find himself stranded in an abstract space and time loop, trapped in a mysterious suburb and subject to the constraints of a globalized, digitized and overly-organized world. In her debut film, filmmaker Laura Nasmyth, together with her co-director and Farocki student Philip Leitner, blurs the boundaries between the digital and the real. Nasmyth and Leitner move the protagonist and at the same time the audience to a transcendental non-place caught between urban aberrations and Google ...

2002 | 91 min | Drama
"In ALLTAG things are on the brink of exploding and the stakes are truly high (with none of bad movies pretenences). There's palpable risk in the air, just as in in Scorsese's Bronx." (WELT) 'You don't get something for nothing' and 'Those who take risks, fall the furthers or rise the highest' are 2 of Veit's favorite mottos. And he decides that today will be unlike every other. Determined to go and never return, Veit has the girl of his dreams, a brother full of good intentions and a friend with ...

2021 | 53 min | Documentary
Urbanization, concrete, stone, disappearing green. Next to the most central point of Berlin - Alexanderplatz - we find the building complex Haus der Statistik, which slowly withered into ruin over the past 12 years. But now the building with the red lettering STOP WARS, in which the official statistics were made in the GDR, is slowly awakening from its slumber. City administration, urban planners, artists and civil society come together to create space for art, culture and social affairs. Can this ...

2024 | 95 min | Documentary
DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED looks at wartime Ukraine through the people left with the hardest tasks: the weak who cannot flee, the volunteers who move the dead, and the families waiting for news. Juri Rechinsky follows ordinary journeys made extraordinary by fear, distance and loss, keeping the film close to daily survival. A driver and a student carry fallen soldiers back to their families, while a young mother tries to reach Budapest with her two children and elderly women take shelter for a few days ...

2022 | 83 min | Documentary
SOULS OF A RIVER follows a traveller back through the landscape of memory along the Evros River, where water, reeds and empty roads become a terrain of return. Moving as a stranger in his own country, he searches for the self that once left this border region behind. The search brings him to a forensic doctor who works in the river itself, recovering the traces of people who died while trying to cross. From a brown envelope come a cross, a ring and a wristwatch; elsewhere, unidentified bodies remain ...

2024 | 74 min | Documentary
FIGHT follows 16-year-old Karine in rural Armenia, where she cares for her father’s dogs who were injured in brutal dogfights. Her dream is to become a veterinarian. This dream clashes with her family’s traditional expectations. Her father expects a different, more “feminine” future for his daughter, yet he was the one who introduced her to this trade, and is glad that she oversees the care and medical treatment of the animals; this creates a quiet but palpable tension. The film juxtaposes everyday ...

2009 | 29 min | Icons & Media Art
While doing research for his film THE NET, Lutz Dammbeck came across the groundbreaking exhibition “Software – Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art”, which took place at the Jewish Museum in New York in 1970. Curated by Jack Burnham, this exhibition presented the symbiosis of conceptual and media art with what were then new technologies developed for the American military. One of the central exhibits was the installation Seek by the Architecture Machine Group of the Massachusetts Institute ...

2025 | 80 min | Documentary
BERLIN RHAPSODY looks at Berlin as a city of constant motion, where tradition and innovation, history and the present, noise and calm coexist in uneasy balance. Inspired by Walter Ruttmann's 1927 silent classic, the film observes the modern metropolis through images rather than dialogue, turning streets, parks and transit lines into a living portrait. The camera moves through rush-hour subway carriages, follows bicycle couriers through dense traffic and lingers in parks where people step away from ...

2012 | 83 min | Documentary
Why do people from around the world gravitate to the German capital? BERLINIZED by Lucian Busse is a tour of 1990s’ Berlin-Mitte, capturing the unique vibe of the club culture and art scene at a very special time in history. After the Berlin Wall fell, a lively and motley scene of young people used the vacant buildings and apartments in Berlin-Mitte as a stage for parties, music performances and art happenings. Long-term success was not an important goal – people lived their lives from one event ...