Germany

THE BROTHER

Mike is autistic. He and his younger sister Suse are hiding in abandoned barracks. He wants to go back home, but she intends to stay.

Total votes: 537
OCCASUS

Isaac, an African refugee, becomes stranded on an island in the West. But the supposed paradise turns out to be his private hell.

Total votes: 387
CABUWAZI BEYOND BORDERS

Circus with children and young people from refugee families

Total votes: 346
DJIBRIL

Accomodating a refugee in your own apartment? Maxim is against the idea from the outset.

Total votes: 433
DAS HAUS NEBEN DEN GLEISEN

The women's shelter in Stuttgart: 50 rooms, 50 residents, 50 destinies - and in the background the rattle of the trains.

Total votes: 355
FRUIT

Rise into being, mature, perish – Fruit tells a creation story.

Total votes: 426
MOSTLY WAITING

Cape Town.

Total votes: 430
PAWO (Litwak)

After the death of his father, young Dorjee realizes what it means to be Tibetan in his own country, which is now called China.

Total votes: 848
HENRY

Henry, a talented but socially inept student, arrives at a boarding school dedicated to teaching music.

Total votes: 525
MY LIFE FOR IRELAND

Easter, 1916. In Dublin Patrick Pearse leads an armed rebellion against British rule,inspiring patriots throughout Ireland to join the fight for freedom.

Total votes: 500
CRISIS WHAT CRISIS

Two German filmmakers travel to Greece. They want to shoot a film about what is left from the crisis in the country.

Total votes: 737
EVERYMAN

The actor Philipp Hochmair is working on becoming the EVERYMAN. The filmic narration revolves around the mime's quest for identity of his diverse persona.

Total votes: 411
AUF SPARFLAMME

A grotesque clash of unemployment, bureaucracy and private dramas.

Total votes: 440
OVER PRESSURE

Everyone knows it, everyone has it. No pressure in the kettle means deadlock. Nevertheless it always seems to strong.

Total votes: 715
WHERE THE GRASS GROWS HIGHEST

Begzuren lives in the ger district of Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Due to a lack of space, survival is very difficult.

Total votes: 441
SOMETHING ABOUT SILENCE

'My wife doesn't like my movies. She says they are a waste of time. But she is an ignorant and hateful person. Don't be like my wife.'

Total votes: 444
WHY IS LIFE SO COMPLICATED

A woman (a wife?), a man (a husband?), an apartment (a home?), an office (a job?) and life. It starts, it ends, and mostly something happens. Or not.

Total votes: 309
CHIKA, THE DOG IN THE GHETTO

Chika the dog and the five-year old Mikasch are the heroes of this story which is set in a Jewish ghetto in an unnamed Polish city.

Total votes: 563
STRAIGHT OUTTA NORDSTADT

Melli (19) is getting out of juvenile hall after a good 5 months. She promised herself:no more trouble.

Total votes: 340
AGNOSIS

On January 7th 2012, the orthodoxe Christmas holiday, an Odessian student in order to quietly meditate headed to a wide-strechted maze of former mining tunne

Total votes: 394
CHRIST/EL

A family portrait told through Super8 footage and old tapes from 1975-77. In it’s essence the question about belief.

Total votes: 506
THE ORTOLAN CHAMBER

La Chambre d'Ortolan' is a film about the ceremonies and customs that constitute the mechanisms of representation and distinction of the elite

Total votes: 378
VIVE LA MORT

1945. After an anonymous tip, Wehrmacht deserter Paul Gmeiner is questioned by theFrench occupation and accused of the murder of a resistance fighter.

Total votes: 502
TILDA

Tilda is shy and lives surrounded by her dolls. The only contact to the outside World isPastor Krause.

Total votes: 408
REMEMBER

'Leaving home, 'I' got a phone call. As 'I' answered it, the house exploded. 'I' went to work and continued as normal'...

Total votes: 402
THE MANLIEST MAN

When the village potter fails to produce a son, the community Chief calls for a “manlier” man to help the family bear a male offspring.

Total votes: 419
The 2 of Us

'More than just a performance piece, this work has been an intense process of self-discovery'.The film follows the development of the live performances of Th

Total votes: 461
Gods behind mountains

Documentary about West Papua.

Total votes: 704
The White Elephant

The White Elephant is a experimental essay on the value of political pictures in Rio de Janeiro during the times of worldcup and olympic games.

Total votes: 533
Famulus

A promise once made and a vision of a community once upheld have become obsolete. A construct of a family is dissolving.

Total votes: 594
EL SEPTIMO SENTIDO. I am a dancer. Von der Kunst zu leben

'Being ignored is worse than somebody hating you'Dance documentary that accompanies 3 passionate female Spanish dance-artists across Europe:What is the value

Total votes: 443
Bon Voyage

During a cruise on the mediterranean sea, Swiss holiday sailors encounter a sinking refugee boat.

Total votes: 460
Balancing Act

Walk at the beyond.

Total votes: 636
Why Siegfried Teitelbaum had to die

Betrayal, Deception and Masquerade

Total votes: 659
The Bomb

Jim, a handsome young student, finds himself trapped on the university rooftop by his girlfriend and a group of her friends.

Total votes: 563
SHELL

For the past two years my dad has been suffering from a rare kind of blood cancer.

Total votes: 632
Losing Touch

A German actor and filmmaker travels to Nepal, trying to understand what it means to have leprosy and how an easily curable disease can still be a factor in

Total votes: 464
FAA IHEIHE

Marla just wants to be Japanese.

Total votes: 644
The last Picture

“Imagine going over the same routine again and again on every day of the full moon. Doing this for more than 30 years that routine becomes all you live for.

Total votes: 507
Hybris

What if it was possible to create a world in which to get a chance to rehabilitate themselves, criminals had to pass a test without even knowing it?

Total votes: 772
Ernest

Ernest is a mockumentary short film about a guy whose inability to say no inadvertently causes him to have the wildest night of his life.

Total votes: 677

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