
Five to Six
By Pola Beck
2004 | 6 min | Shorts
Erotic fairy tale about sexual fantasies in the hectic atmosphere of a large kitchen.


By Pola Beck
2004 | 6 min | Shorts
Erotic fairy tale about sexual fantasies in the hectic atmosphere of a large kitchen.

2009 | 17 min | Documentary
In the beating heart of Tehran, embedded in the lively atmosphere of a university cafeteria, a fascinating story unfolds from the everyday life of three chefs and a kitchen hand. They face the daily challenges of serving 600 kebabs, soups gone awry, and the critical remarks of students. But between the hustle and bustle of the market and the seething chaos of the kitchen, they find time to philosophize about the essence of cooking and the bigger questions in life. The cafeteria becomes a place of ...

2007 | 14 min | Documentary
In the silence of the night, a world unfolds that remains hidden from most of us. The documentary takes a poetic look at the lives of three Berlin night workers who play their own melody of life in the darkness. While the city sleeps, their working day begins, far removed from the usual hustle and bustle of daylight. The camera accompanies the protagonists through the empty streets of Berlin, capturing the lonely lights and the silence, interrupted only by the occasional sounds of work. Each of ...

2018 | 62 min | Documentary
Although they make their living in the same way, their daily lives are very different. The documentary gives a deep insight into the lives of five tea cooks and at the same time takes a look at the social circumstances, contrasts and traditions of India. For all of them have a story to tell, and as they tell their stories, we learn about India's multifaceted, nuanced and multilayered society. "Hülser is able to not only show these petty self-employed folks in the midst of their poverty and squalor ...

2021 | 28 min | Drama
A young Romanian woman visits her uncle, who emigrated to the United States many years ago to build a new life as a baker. What begins as a happy reunion soon turns into a trial of strength, when a broken tooth that the uncle refuses to have treated raises questions about identity, origins and life choices. Editor Note Anna-Lena Engelhardt: THE SMOOTHNESS OF OUR TEETH is my Master of Arts graduation film at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Poetry, subtlety and a kind of softness mixed ...

2008 | 22 min | Drama
A shimmering summer story in a holiday home on the Baltic Sea. Sixteen-year-old Suse feels like a fifth wheel alongside her young mother and her new boyfriend and withdraws into herself. But then she discovers how she can change things in her favor. She just has to use the right means... Using a mixture of youthful naivety and growing cunning, Suse tries out various strategies to win back her mother's attention and undermine the unwanted presence of her new boyfriend. Each day brings new insights ...

2018 | 90 min | Documentary
This film looks at the careers of successful entrepreneurs at various stages, who operate locally, nationally and internationally and reconcile business and ethics. FAIR TRADERS explores the question of how a post-neoliberal economic model might look and shows the mindset of three pioneers who, day in and day out, balance fair payment throughout the supply chain, organic production and the cost pressures of the free market economy. The film inspires solutions to a global situation that often seems ...

2018 | 25 min | Drama
Emma is addicted to chewing gum and in the middle of puberty, but she doesn't really want to admit it. She wants to do nothing else with her childhood friend Lasse than swing on the swing, play with her father's model railway and chew gum – she doesn't want anything to change. But Lasse suddenly has a girlfriend and, even worse, he's interested in sex. But it's not just Lasse who's acting weird; Emma's parents want to take down his train set because she's too old for it now. But does that really ...

2022 | 83 min | Documentary
Two women from completely different walks of life meet. A filmmaker and a sex worker begin a creative process together in which they exchange experiences and renegotiate boundaries. As they introduce each other to their techniques, the roles between documentation and staging, between director and protagonist, become blurred. What does it mean to show oneself? And how does the narrative change when you stop just observing and start actively shaping it? RISING SUN BLUES by Renata Ferraz and Maria ...

2010 | 52 min | Documentary
"This doc is an important contribution in a time when many people think of meat only as an industrial, supermarket product wrapped in plastic." (Sarah Wiener) On a winter morning, a group of old men gather in a little village to slaughter a pig the traditional way and process some sausages. The film shows the itinerary from the living animal to the edible product in the course of a single day. Director Nikias Chryssos went to a southern German rural area to document an original artisanal procedure, ...

2009 | 87 min | Documentary
"A moving and critical, yet balanced, multi-layered political essay that unpeels the untold story of the world´s most famous fruit that originated in Palestine." (Aviva-Berlin.de) In his documentary, Eyal Sivan traces the orange-brand JAFFA using a unique composition of archival material. He shows old photos, early film-footage, commercials, political posters, and paintings of the Jaffa orange to Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals and to workers from the citrus industry. They remember, reflect ...