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TANGO ON THE BALCONY

TANGO ON THE BALCONY is a narrative short film about Johnny, an Iraq war veteran who wrestles with post traumatic stress and the transition to civilian life.

Total votes: 584
SUBSTITUTE CANVAS

Flamboyant, young Konstantin pulls every trick of the book to jolly along his married and significantly older mistress Isabelle, while at the same time dodgi

Total votes: 384
ALL THE WORLDS A STAGE

An animated adaptation of the famous Shakespeare poem 'All The World's A Stage' narrated by the renowned Shakespeare actor and director Samuel West (Royal Sh

Total votes: 333
FLORIAN

A musician, a clown and a performer share the same dream – to escape the conformistic lifestyle by following their vision of life.

Total votes: 545
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: 476
TIME TO DIE, MOTHERFUCKERS

You should be strong, you must be hard, cause hard it is, and that's the only way to rise above, above! A consideration of modern recreational sports.

Total votes: 296
THE CHILDREN SEND THEIR REGARDS

Their names are George, Inge, Jo, Sepp, Paula, Walo, Anita, Klaus and Klaus.

Total votes: 375
MEETING BETWEEN TWO PARKED CARS

Controversal short about a young woman being raped on her way home.

Total votes: 464
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: 457
REAL SOLDIERS

Ambitious journalist Leo is working for Russian state TV, covering the war in Ukraine.

Total votes: 404
INSEL

'Insel' is told through fragments of the life of a frustrated single-woman, in her early thirties. Eva is looking for Mr. Right.

Total votes: 601
STREAM OF DOUBTS

A young woman needs your help to find her life purpose. STREAM OF DOUBTS is a drama short-movie about your place in the cosmos. Sort of.

Total votes: 593
ETHIOPIAN RUN

A group of young Ethiopians is gathering in a hall. Some of them instruct the others what to do by calling them by their names.

Total votes: 331
I WANT TO FLY

Kamal has a dream: he wants to fly, but many say paragliding is an impossible dream for a man in a wheelchair.

Total votes: 362
UNCLE VASSYA

Leaving behind Saint Petersburg Wasilij drives to the north of Russia to see his grandma’s house where he spent his childhood days.

Total votes: 525
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: 411
STRAIGHT OUTTA NORDSTADT

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

Total votes: 318
AMI

Little Ami finds out her mother must leave on a business trip. Mom tells her a white lie toappease her mind while she is away.

Total votes: 300
THE OBJECTS STATEMENT

“The Objects’ Statement” is a homosexual drama narratedthrough the objects’ point of view that posesquestions about modernity, tolerance anddual discourse.

Total votes: 522
HOW I WANTED TO BECOME FAMOUS

Andreas has a problem.He wants to be a stuntman. Most of all as his idol ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

Total votes: 415
NAKED ON WATER

Lucy, a young woman flees the quarantine station of a hospital in order to find a space to write down her story in form of a novel.

Total votes: 537
DJIBRIL

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

Total votes: 396
ABOUT ART, MY FAMILY AND ME

Using only home videos from my family, adding my improvised comment to it, a light essayistic film was born.

Total votes: 408
LONGING FOR A KISS

Four women, three generations, two pregnancies, one family. In love united, as they search for love.

Total votes: 510
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: 806
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: 371
MOBY

Loneliness can be unbearable. What do you do when your only friend has gone? The hole he left behind must be filled.

Total votes: 488
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: 348
ScHoolBoy Q 'JoHn Muir'

Schoolboy Q's 'John Muir' follows the lives of two reckless youths for 24 hours in the streets of Los Angeles, all from the eyes of stolen 83' El Camino.

Total votes: 544
DIE BADEWANNE- THE BATHTUB (DIR. T. ELLRICH)

One Bathtub - Three Brothers - Many Splashes! Three brothers try to diveback into their childhood through an old family picture in the bathtub.

Total votes: 411
FREEZE

When her husband cannot give her the love she desires, the lonely and insecure Hui will do anything to feel loved.

Total votes: 563
AUF SPARFLAMME

A grotesque clash of unemployment, bureaucracy and private dramas.

Total votes: 412
THE LONG DISTANCE

A farmer woman from Kenya and a shepherd boy want to run their way out of poverty.

Total votes: 286
VOW

Tamar is a lonely, overweight eleven-year-old girl. Going through puberty and taking insults for her looks is her daily burden.

Total votes: 502
CHANGE IN THE WEATHER

Michael, a young man living in rural Ireland, struggles to adjust to a sudden change in his furtive lifestyle.

Total votes: 439
E IS FOR EVOLUTION

E is for Evolution is an animated short. It consists out of 26 short episodes about evolution.

Total votes: 358
HILDE

After an accident at the lake, 11 year old MELLY experiences a strange metamorphosis. Her Mother HILDE desperately tries to keep up normality.

Total votes: 620
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: 709
TILDA

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

Total votes: 368
ZWEI SOLDATEN - TWO SOLDIERS (dir. P. Hoffmann)

Two soldiers are lost in a desert and do not know that the war is over...

Total votes: 470
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: 352
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: 317
FOREST OF ECHOES

A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids on the shore of a lagoon.

Total votes: 615
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: 280
ABOVE THE SALT

A complacent guest carries a restaurant´s maxim 'the customer is king' to the extreme with his brazen demands until cook, chef and waiter lose their heads...

Total votes: 291
LOTTE

Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man and flat to flat.

Total votes: 614
CALL OF BEAUTY

Two young women making videos for their Youtube channel, stuck in beauty‐industry and product placement.

Total votes: 492
MOONLIGHTER

A young girl’s extraordinary sideline to escort rich, unknown men forces her to lead a double life which eventually becomes her undoing.

Total votes: 547

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