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Ich hab dich tanzen sehn 2024
14-year-old Margarita is walking through the streets of a small village in Tyrol. A thunderstorm passes by at dusk and no one is on the streets. She lets herself drift, and through the brightly lit windows she observes the lives of others.

Mut Me Lule 2023
Two villages in two nations are contrasted with each other. Two people live here: the maternal grandmother and the paternal grandfather talk a lot, but not with each other.

When He Leaves 2023
A single mother experiences an intricate interplay between loneliness, deisre, anxiety, boredom, and dream-like states as she waits for her child to return home from a visit with their father. As the days pass, the mother becomes increasingly restless. She tries to distract herself by engaging in mundane domestic task and indulging in fantasies of romantic connection.

The Story of Yannis 2019
The life journey of a Pontic refugee from Crimea, as seen through the eyes of his great-granddaughter, two decades after his death.

Transit Circle 2019
Hanqi and her friends drift through the suburban area of Hangzhou. Strolling through the concrete and neon-lit landscape of the city, they experience the transformations it undergoes daily. As they drift night after night, they become the living interface of a metamorphosis that cannot be perceived or understood if not by becoming part of it. Thus, Hanqi and her friends catch fleeting glimpses of beauty in an environment that most people would only perceive as alienating, hostile or cold. Like an ambient composition by Brian Eno or Philip Glass, the film moves through minimal variations, completely immersed in its nocturnal beat. Space becomes time.

Landscapes of War, Landscapes of Peace 2017
A journey through the chronology, aftermath and a potential conclusion of a military conflict, as reflected in the topographies that the war, either physically or contextually, shaped and altered.

Meanwhile 2017
It’s summer and the streets are almost empty in a small town, once the centre of the metalworking industry in former Yugoslavia. People gather at the public swimming pool. Two friends are saying goodbye.

A Nice Place to Leave 2016

Sag mir Mnemosyne 2015

A Girl Named Yssabeau 2012
Set in a distant and unknown land, the film follows the journey of a young woman named Yssabeau and ventures deep into a culture full of unknown rules and rituals. What kind of creatures are these that Yssabeau encounters? Driven on by her curiosity, she tries to adapt and follow the movements of these strange ‘others’. Her deepest impulses, values and beliefs are all thrown into question. How much of herself can be removed from her before she can no longer call herself "myself"?

Hotel Kalifornien 2006
A property shark wakes up in an empty hotel on the Baltic coast. He knows this place. He had wanted to buy it. But how did he end up in the attic? And who is the dancing girl in the hotel disco?

Exploding Buds 2005 star_border 8
The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious challenge.

Imaginary Geography 2005 star_border 5
Géographie imaginaire is a subjective report on a deliberatly non-documentary, i.e. imaginary journey. Pauline M’Barek’s video is based on intimate observations that she made during the preparations and traditional rites for her female cousin’s wedding in Tunisia.

Idyllic 1999
A Berlinale award nominated short animation.

Die Hafentreppe 1991
The film portrays life on the Balduintreppe in Hamburg during the 1980s and early 1990s and thus takes us right into the heart of the time of the Hafenstrasse squat, which in many respects was a turning point. It circles the harbor steps, relives the squatters' battles with the police and visits the residents between utopia and the housing struggle.

Durchschuss 1990
Short film directed by Eckhard Blach

Es ist aus, Marie 1990
A man breaks up with his girlfriend.

Arte-Artemisia 1990
Experimental short directed by Dorothea Grießbach

Balance 1989 star_border 7.6
The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.

Ella Bergmann-Michel, Filme 1929-33 1977
This video portrait by Prof. Gerd Roscher and Sünke Michel, Bergmann-Michel's daughter-in-law and photographer, explores the making of Ella Bergmann-Michel's experimental documentary films. It features still photographs from her films, which had not yet been recovered at the time, and handwritten intertitles are commented on by her son Hans Michel.

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