Lord of the Toys
2018 | 96 min | Documentary
Max "Adlersson" Herzberg from Dresden, 20 years old, has over 300,000 subscriptions on YouTube and reviews knives and gangsta rap fan boxes.
Pablo Ben-Yakov
ActorDirectorPablo Ben-Yakov is a German director who attracted attention with his documentary LORD OF THE TOYS (2018). The film follows the controversial YouTuber Adlersson (Max Herzberg) and his circle of friends in Dresden, providing a brutal insight into the world of young social media personalities. Ben-Yakov's work is characterized by his precise powers of observation and critical examination of digital youth culture. LORD OF THE TOYS polarizes with its unembellished portrayal and raises questions about responsibility, influence and the modern media landscape. The film has made Pablo Ben-Yakov an important chronicler of today's generation and their digital reality.
Films
The Jackpot
By Malte Wirtz
2015 | 13 min | Shorts
THE JACKPOT: 4.12 Billion Euro. Five hungry mouths. Nobody wants to share. A short film by Malte Wirtz (5 Stories in 4 Days).
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MansFeld
2013 | 98 min | Documentary
Tom, Sebastian and Paul are children from very different families. They live in a small village in Mansfelder Land, an area marked by the decline of mining. However, an archaic custom has remained over the centuries and the three boys play a crucial role in it. For director Mario Schneider, MANSFELD, after HELBRA, and HEINZ UND FRED, represents the conclusion of his documentary trilogy about life in Mansfelder Land on the eastern edge of the Harz Mountains. "What distinguishes the film is the closeness ...
The Jackpot
2015 | 13 min | Shorts
Hansi picked six numbers right and wins the lottery. His friend Frankie is excited and wants half of the winnings. But, where's the darn lottery ticket? Together Hansi and Frankie set out to find the lost ticket, but everyone they ask about it know shockingly little, until the truth comes out. Apparently more than one person had their eyes on claiming the jackpot. And what exactly does Sabine have to do with all of it? (Generale Festival)
Becoming Outline
2024 | 70 min | Documentary
Without allowing the most personal aspects to devolve into narcissistic introspection, Becoming Outline develops a cinematic form that reflects on class, nation and gender as fundamental dimensions of lived experience, socialization and self-constitution. Starting from an autobiographical art project, Miriam Bajtala reconstructs her life through the floor plans of the eighteen apartments she has lived in. These spaces become a kind of spatial biography — a “curriculum vitae” shaped by migration, ...
The Net
2003 | 121 min | Documentary
Between 1978 and 1995, a series of bombings convulse the United States. The targets of the letter and pipe bombs are managers of major airlines, scientists from various elite universities and technology companies. The trail of attacks finally leads to Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but reclusive former math professor who, under the pseudonym Unabomber, formulates a radical critique of technological development. Why does a scientist become a terrorist? The search for an answer leads into the past: from ...
By My Side
2024 | 24 min | Drama
In the streets of Paris, we accompany two people who actually wanted to say goodbye long ago. Exhale, inhale, exhale. “Is it starting?” – this is how a journey through a day begins that is both farewell and realization. Jana has just undergone a medically induced termination, Aaron is withdrawing. His exchange year is ending, he is leaving. A lost wallet becomes the last excuse to avoid a meeting – but Jana is not willing to be driven away. She insists on accompanying him on a search through the ...
Bürglkopf
2025 | 78 min | Documentary
Auf dem Bürglkopf in Tirol, 1.300 Meter über dem Meeresspiegel, befindet sich ein Rückkehrzentrum für Menschen im Asylverfahren. Abgeschieden in den Alpen sollen sie hier dazu bewegt werden, Österreich zu verlassen. Die Isolation des Ortes und die Konfrontation mit Rückkehrberatung prägen ihren Alltag. In dieser besonderen Umgebung entsteht ein Spannungsfeld zwischen den Bewohnerinnen des Zentrums, den Menschen aus der umliegenden Region und den Touristinnen, die die Alpenlandschaft als Erholungsraum ...
Black Sun - Mythological Background of National Socialism
1998 | 95 min | Documentary
As early as the 1900s, numerous occult and neo-Germanic groups emerged in Germany and Austria, claiming the dominance of the "Aryan race" on the basis of misunderstood legends and symbols. Several Nazi celebrities found additional confirmation for their world view in this. By means of rhetoric, sacral architecture and spectacular mass stagings, such as torchlight marches and solstice bonfires, such pseudo-religious content was also sunk into the subconscious of the masses. The film's central anchor ...
A Loving Act
2023 | 78 min | Documentary
Budapest, spring 2020: Two people are confined to an apartment as the outside world comes to a standstill. Riccardo, a reporter, and Kata, a porn actress, spend the days of quarantine caught between uncertainty, closeness, and the question of how intimacy can survive under exceptional circumstances. What begins almost like a game soon turns into a shared project: they start filming their relationship – their conversations, their bodies, their routines. The camera becomes a constant presence, witnessing ...
Bostik, La Bodega de D10S
2025 | 83 min | Documentary
In a modest shop in Naples, football becomes religion. “Bostik” is more than a simple tobacco and newsstand store – it has turned into a pilgrimage site for devotees of Diego Armando Maradona. Surrounded by faded newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and countless images of the legendary “D10S,” a private archive has taken shape, keeping the myth alive decades after his glory days. The shop owner has transformed his business into an unofficial shrine, built on passion and memory. For regulars and fans ...
Berlin Rhapsody
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 ...