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...

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

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...

Grand Angle

Aatos is a six-year-old boy. His mother is Finnish, his father is Chilean, and they live in Brussels in the district of Molenbeek. At this age full of questions and whys, Aatos observes the world that...

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...

National Competition

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...

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

Werner Herzog reunites with volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer — met on the shooting of   Encounters at the End of the World — for a scientific and metaphysical quest as close as...

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

German-American pilot Dieter Dengler—a Vietnam war veteran—lives with a constant desire to fly. Today retired, secluded in his house, facing the camera, he evokes the memories of a life: his...

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

If “every film is a documentary about its own shooting” as per the axiom decreed by the critic and filmmaker Jacques Rivette, then  Fitzcarraldo  could definitely serve be an exception. Fiction,...

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...

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,...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

A group of astronauts orbits around the Earth without the possibility of getting home because the planet has become inhabitable. What happened while they were away? The causes of this catastrophe have...