Cinematography: Jenny Lou Ziegel

Direction Ted Fendt

Cast Daniela Zahlner · Mia Sellmann · Natascha Manthe · Hani Alaraj

Plot Daniela is unsure about what to do next and where to live. Mia is finishing a master's degree that she spontaneously started. Along with Natascha, another friend thinking of moving...

Direction Anna Sofie Hartmann

Cast Lisa Loven · Jakub Gierszal · Maren Eggert

Plot As a tunnel begins being built to connect Denmark and Germany, the present is set in motion toward the future.

Direction Jan Krüger

Cast Vladimir Burlakov · Julius Nitschkoff · Irina Potapenko · Hilmi Sözer

Plot Neukölln, a trendy district in Berlin. Living space is scarce here. Without surety, proof of credit worthiness and salary there is no chance at all now. Thies knows this game;...

Direction Jan Speckenbach

Cast Andre Hennicke · Luzie Ahrens · Sandra Borgmann · Sylvana Krappatsch

Plot All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon...

Direction Matthew Porterfield

Cast Hannah Gross · Jean-Christophe Folly · Angela Schanelec · Bastian Trost

Plot A character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space, TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY is a picture of a young woman seen through the interiors...

Direction Alex Gerbaulet · Mareike Bernien

Cast Aline Benecke · Mareike Bernien · Alex Gerbaulet · Ayla Güney

Plot A the village edge runs a gravel path, through fields and up to the fence, charted on the map of former uranium mining sites in Saxony and Thuringia. From 1946...

Direction Dane Komljen

Plot Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and it was not clear if the transformation was a symptom of the...

Direction Dane Komljen

Cast Jonasz Hapka · Signe Westberg · Ton Gras · Boban Kaludjer

Plot Afterwater is a three-part film spanning fiction, documentary and experimental film aiming to study and compare lakes across the world and their hidden treasures: submerged settlements, failed utopias and collective...

Direction Lisa Bierwirth

Cast Hanns Zischler · Àlex Brendemühl · Ursula Strauss · Victoria Trauttmansdorff

Plot Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with an unclear past and...

Direction Alexandra Gerbaulet · Mirko Winkel · Tim Schramm

Plot Sometimes, the home is a place of silent violence. Several empty rooms put images to the life story of two women without their own room that ended up turning their...

Direction Sonia Borges · Filipa César

Plot A ghostly hand emerges from the water to clutch a branch. A friendly branch that can offer refuge in the lowlands. During the anticolonial struggle against Portuguese occupation, the free...

Direction Irene von Alberti

Cast Julia Zange · Katja Weilandt · Martina Schöne-Radunski

Plot Berlin, summer 2016. In the last house in the no-man's-land behind the new main station, Nola, Katja and Martina live in an artist-shared flat. Their time is numbered, because soon...

Direction Ann-Kristin Reyels

Cast Finn-Henry Reyels · Roman Bakhavani · Silke Bodenbender · Godehard Giese

Plot Two boys, different worlds. Just at the beginning of the summer vacation, 10-year-old Jona has to move from Berlin to the German-Czech border with his mother and new stepfather. Lonely...

Direction Filipa César

Plot In 2011, an archive of film and audio material re-emerged in Bissau. On the verge of complete ruination, the footage testifies to the birth of Guinean cinema as part of...