International Feature Film Competition
Rebels without a cause in a globalized world. Kevin, David and Dominik, three troubled teenagers who were deemed too difficult to be “re-educated” at home, are shipped off to Romania by the German...
Burning Lights International
Forget everything you think you know about storytelling! And get ready for a very surreal trip. Narges Kalhor plunges us in a funny and deconstructed joyful apocalypse of a web of stories while...
Grand Angle
German Films
In the United States, Chuck just met Harmony, his future companion, in a robotic factory. On the other side of the world, in Tokyo, the android Pepper takes care of grandmother Sakurai, on the...
Burning Lights International
What is our relationship to our pets and why do people try to get as close as emotionally possible to them? Jonas Spriestersbach creates a series of unsettling vignettes that highlight some deeply...
International Feature Film Competition
Almost 50 years ago, women and men all over the word dreamed of changing the world. What is left today of the expectations and the hopes of the people that flooded the streets? Not much,...
Special Screenings
“In Flanders fields the poppies grow between the crosses...” This poem by Canadian Lieutenant- Colonel John Mc Rae evokes one of the worst carnages of the Great War, which took place around Ypres....
Special Screenings
Barbara Miller's feature documentary #FEMALE PLEASURE portrays five courageous, smart and self-determined women, breaking the silence imposed by their archaic-patriarchal societies and religious...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
In 1976, the announcement that Guadeloupe's main volcano, La Grande Soufrière, was about to erupt emptied Basse-Terre of its inhabitants. Werner Herzog heads there with his team, his two operators,...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
Back in the heyday of European exploitation cinema, when Italians made Westerns in Almería, when blind zombies rode out of tombs and black-gloved killers stalked beautiful women in their shower, Klaus...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
29 years after a plane crash in the Peruvian jungle, Werner Herzog returns to the site of the accident accompanied by the sole survivor, Juliane Koepke, who was 17 at the time. Determined to have her...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
“Talking about oil: corpse juice” (René Barjavel). Herzog could have made this sentence his own, in the way his “lessons of darkness” evoking the ravages of the first Gulf war constitute a cinematic...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
In his quest to understand what motivates humans to surpass themselves, Werner Herzog accompanies two legendary climbers for a dual ascent in the Himalayas. The aim of Reinhold Messner and Hans...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
In his quest for ecstasy, Werner Herzog finds a perfect alter ego in Walter Steiner, a famous ski-jumper from the 1970s. With their shared vision of the sport and the idea of exploits, they both...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
The result of long wanderings of more than three years on the African continent, Fata Morgana accounts for the complex relationship that Werner Herzog maintains with the world and more precisely...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
Over a six-month period, Werner Herzog meets several times with 87-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev, the former President of the Soviet Union. They talk about politics, inevitably, about the six...
International Feature Film Competition
Thomas Heise has been working on this film for a very long time. He retraces the story of his famil y through the upheavals of 20th century German history. The film explores the German landscape,...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Renata presents herself to the camera like one of these fascinating film noir heroines: a beautiful woman with a nondescript accent, with assured gestures, who looks people right in the eyes....
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
His name was Schabas Saleh Al-Aziz. He came from Iraq where his family had remained. He was 21 years old. He suffered from epilepsy and mental disorders and he was found frozen to death in a forest in...
National Competition
A minuscule islet on the Baltic Sea, a handful of sailors and a dream: to live free, away from society. On the island, there was a bar, music, and a donkey called Geronimo—but the story to be told...
German Films