When Santa Fell to Earth

Christmas is just two weeks away, it is pouring with rain, and Ben is struggling to get into the Christmas spirit. Suddenly, Bens life takes a turn for the better when Santa Niklas Goodfellow and his Christmas caravan co

Dansa als esperits

A Woman Like Monique

An elderly actress arrives at her holiday home in Bretagne to prepare for a new film. She brings with her numerous scrapbooks and countless film memorabilia. With a personal oeuvre of more than fifty films, the past and

Omnivore Democracy

In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that democracy has its roots in the tragedy of the Atreidae.

Purzel als Tennisspieler

Purzel wants to be a tennis pro and practises at home. But everything starts rotating, and Purzel spins until he is completely dizzy.

The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with this Brechtian sentence: "Oil resists the five acts." He describes how diff

The World as a Collection

An obsessive collector (Erik Fens) creates his own scrapbook world. The film presents analyses of the collecting impulse based on Freudian theorie and Buddhism.

Als Je Verliefd Wordt

Landscape as Landscape 12

An ongoing series of found landscapes, filmed on a single 8mm roll.

Better Late Than Never

Catrin wants to know it again: With over 40 she dared to jump back to the University of Marburg. The married mother wants to finish her medical studies, which she stopped many years ago because of her pregnancy. The clas

Claudia de Breij: Wat als

With music and stories, Claudia de Breij paints a portrait that blends domestic details with global news: being kind, wanting to be seen, overstimulation, abstinence, dictators, and restaurant tunes.

Der Apfel als solcher

Around 1 billion apples are harvested every year in Havelland, one of the largest fruit-growing regions in the GDR. In order to obtain this quantity in good quality, a large number of preparatory and maintenance operatio

Swifter than Death

Landscape as Landscape 13

An ongoing series of found landscapes, filmed on a single 8mm roll.

Al's Lads

Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.

Run Free

Escaping his execution at the hands of Nazi Soldiers, a rebellious Dutch teenager writes a brutally honest love letter to the girl who changed his life.

Größer als im Fernsehen

From a new beginning! Only after she has inherited the inheritance does Lisa realize that her deceased father's inn is heavily in debt. Her only way out: a holiday park, at whose investor she could sell the inn. But to b

Landscape as Landscape 11

An ongoing series of found landscapes, filmed on a single 8mm roll.

Women as Warriors

The British college tutor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly discusses the wartime deeds of fearless women. She also characterizes the male fantasies of sexuality, fear, desire and violence in relation to female warriors. From Joan

When the Beat Drops

Maya and Sem’s lives are intertwined. The two 17-year-old girls are like yin and yang: Sem lives for the future, Maya conversely lives in the here and now. One breezy summer’s evening, the two companions gaze up at the s