Catalogue 2019

Out of Place

International Feature Film Competition

Friederike Güssefeld 86ʹ 2019 Germany

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...

In the Name of Scheherazade or the First Beergarden in Tehran

Burning Lights International

Narges Kalhor 75ʹ 2019 Iran, Germany

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...

Transit Circle

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Stephan Knauss 40ʹ 2019 China, Germany

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...

Animals

Burning Lights International

Jonas Spriestersbach 73ʹ 2019 Germany

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...

Taste of Hope

National Competition

Laura Coppens 70ʹ 2019 Switzerland, Germany

The workers of a self-managed tea factory decide to go against the grain and play by their own rules. The problem is, how can you plan, work and survive in a world driven by ruthless competition? One...

Dead Sea Dying

Opening Scenes

Katharina Rabl, Rebecca Zehr 29ʹ 2019 Germany

A kaleidoscopic vision of a mythical and contested place where tourists, mystics, pilgrims in search of Salvation or even entrepreneurs busy building luxury hotels rub shoulders. While the Dead Sea...

Again

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Mario Pfeifer 38ʹ 2019 Germany

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...