2001-2010

A small town hospital worker who witnessed a brutal rape becomes obsessed with the victim after she lands a job as a nurse at the same hospital where he works, but how far will he go before he finally loses control? Leon Okrasa was there when a young woman named Anna was viciously violated. He works at a hospital in Poland, and when Anna is hired in as a nurse Leon soon finds his fixation taking over every aspect of his life. One night, after climbing into Anna’s apartment though an open window, Leon sits on the edge of her bed, watching silently as she sleeps. What happens next only Leon can say.Read More »

Plot: Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and…Read More »

Lost and Found is a film project for which six young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have each developed a short film on the theme of generation. Together, these six short films make a whole cinema evening. Unique thereby is the selection of young directors, who are currently among the most talented in the Central and Eastern European region. Also special is that five of the short films (four short narrative films and one short documentary) are visually framed by an independent animation story. The filmmakers made their films with local producers in their home countries; postproduction was carried out in Germany. The theme generation is the thread running through the whole film. It mirrors a new selfunderstanding of young filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe. Read More »

This film deals with polyandry in a small society called Brokpas, a society of “Yak Shephards” who live in the mountain slopes of the Himalayan range. It is a custom in the region where a wife can have more than one husband. The director deals directly with the unique labyrinthine situation when the husband offers to accept the lover of his wife as a co-husband. The presence of the new husband catapulted the first husband out and he becomes very lonely. And the film slowly reveals the firm bonding of the natural pair-bond that exist between the men and women. Sonam, the wife of the duo slowly and silently starts suffering due to the body and mind complex. Being a believer of Buddhism she indulges herself a total and ultimate atonement in her own death.Read More »

Synopsis:
A lonely Man in his 40’s wanders with a canary named Belafonte, cigarettes, beers and pills to keep him company… He has no future and no present, only a past, a cloudy mind, poor health and a face that cops love to hate. Not to mention his obsession with “the Apocalypse of John”…
The Man roams the city’s streets, amongst the “women of his life”. Tough chicks, casual flings, dark nights, filthy bars and strip joints, shady activities, and small hopes…
He works, when he wants or needs to, for “Fatty” a corrupted detective.
He steals, when he wants or needs to, from the usual known-unknown people that cross his path. Then, he meets the 19 year-old Kid…
The Man finds a companion in the face of the Kid, who is willing to follow his escapades without asking too much…Read More »

A loser for whom everything always goes wrong finds purpose in life when an entity claiming to be an angel begins ordering him to smite sinners.Read More »

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he’s a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.Read More »

Summary
Joachim “Blacky” Fuchsberger provided the starting point for “Overgames”: In 2005, he stated in a talk show that the content of his TV game show “Nur nicht nervös werden”, which first aired in 1960, was originally developed in US-American psychiatric institutions with the aim to re-educate the Germans, a “psychologically disturbed nation”. Director Lutz Dammbeck sets out on a global research that leads to important questions: In which regard may games change the world? Can a person be re-educated? And what is the idea of a permanent revolution?Read More »

For nearly 20 years a civil war raged in northern Uganda – The rebels of the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) were waging a bloody guerilla campaign. They abducted children and conscripted them as soldiers, forcing them to kill their own people. The film Lost Children documents the lives of four children, from 8 to 14 years old, who successfully escaped the LRA.Read More »