Eli - A Portrait

7 mins | My short documentary-portrait is a thought-provoking impulse. Known TV documentaries dealing with the topic transgender, always have this voyeuristic character, though they actually try to be illuminating in a way. ELI shows you an intimate and honest look in the intellectual world of a trans* person.

Neko No Hi - Cat Days

12 mins | Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to see the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless case of cat flu. However, according to the doctor, this means that Jiro must be a cat.

Fynn

11 mins | The young rapper Dissy meets the beat producing shadow figure Fynn. 

The Last Party

18 mins | The Last Party holds the desires and fears of a young man that has to face his own nature in the last chance he has to come clear with himself and the people he loves.

The Divine Way

15 mins | Loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Divine Way takes viewers along on the protagonist’s epic descent through an endless labyrinth of staircases. 

Regarde - Look

25 mins | While Emma finds the sight by the creation of a new scientific invention, her confrontation with the world of the clairvoyants does not take place as seen meadow.

Phantom Lover

8 mins | Animated short music video of an original song, based on Jersey folklore, presented as a noir mystery with a touch of camp.

Circulo

9 mins | Short film then music video, serves as a prequel to the award winning feature comedy, “Damn you, Roland’s Ruby!”

Muddelkuddel

14 mins | The past, the present and the future have our fates in their hands.

Reise Nach Jerusalem - The Chairs Game

120 mins | *“Reise nach Jerusalem” (the Chairs Game) is a children game in which you need luck: you need to be in the right place at the right time – otherwise you won’t get a chair.

Make Aliens Dance

24 mins | Gillingham, UK, 2018. Mike, a music producer in free fall, Dan, a sound engineer who is tired of his job, Murphy, the autistic brother with his headphones fixed to his ears, and, Lilli, the mother, are going through a rough time in their lives. Mazzy, the youngest sibling, a singer with a superb voice, has disappeared.

Bardo Blues

85 mins | Story of a mentally ill young man attempting to come to grips with his haunting past by seeking solace and understanding in the unfamiliar Eastern culture of Thailand.

An Open Door - Holocaust Haven In The Philippines

78 mins | An Open Door is the uplifting story of how a small Asian nation was able to save more Jews than Oskar Schindler during World War II.

Choc'late Soldiers

61 mins | Chocolate Soldiers from the USA tells the story of 140,000 Black American soldiers and thousands of British civilians who crossed a racial divide to forge an unexpected bond.

Behind The Mask

53 mins | Once a year, a whole small town in Southern Germany is losing its mind. Strange sounds like bear roar are heard from behind the corners. Figures in disguise dance around a large fire and punch others with pig’s bladder. 

11:10 | The Hacked Mind

8 mins | This experimental film is pointing out inevitable challenges we will face on our life’s journey. It is a journey into inner space.

11:20 | The Emissary

23 mins | Liv Laika embarks on a solitary mission to a distant planet in search of her ancestors who fled the earth nearly a century prior. After days of radio silence, Liv begins to question whether or not they even want to be found.

11:05 | Moris

81 mins | Based on The Absurd philosophy of Albert Camus. The characters in the movie speak poetry.

13:30 | Locks

27 mins | ‘Locks’ is a short documentary about three children whose separate lives are intertwined by the effects of cancer and its treatment.

13:00 | Gelato - Seven Summers Of Ice Cream Love

13 mins | The 20th Century was still young when Italian mountaineers conquered Germany with a sensation: Gelato! Tiny stalls developed into beautiful ice cream shops. But suddenly sunny days of childhood turned into dark years of war.

13:15 | Return Of The Thumb

111 mins | The movie tells the story of Coach Steve, a worn-down thumb wrestling coach, who wants to take his last chance to win the Austrian thumb wrestling championship with the help of his new fighter. Unfortunately, the competition seems overwhelming…

15:10 | The New Children Of Golzow

88 mins | Golzow is an eastern German village, running out of inhabitants. The mayor has an idea: Refugee families should bring new people to Golzow. 

16:40 | MMF

10 mins | A pair of thirtysomethings picks up a young, attractive black man for a threesome. As they review the experience, they probe each other, masking their own insecurities with hipster irony and provocation, including homophobic and racist jokes. Soon the situation turns very embarrassing for them.

16:50 | Girl Fact - A Teenage Guide To Survive Sex Slavery

17 mins | In the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, rape is used as a “weapon of war” for more than 15 years. Martha writes a teenage girl’s guide to surviving sex.

17:10 | Ebenda

26 mins | Love, friendship, philosophy, self-destruction and the urge for knowledge.

17:40 | Test Of Courage

20 mins | During WWII, a bunch of children, with 11-year old Anton and his younger brother Rudi in the middle, meet up at a wall at the cemetery. 

18:00 | Das Leben In Mir - The Life Inside

20 mins | Nature is truly beautiful. It gifts us with life. It lets us breathe, love and laugh. And yet it can also be cruel. It takes our lives and tears to pieces. What remains is darkness, pain and death. 

18:20 | Black Mountains

30 mins | In the hope of escaping the ghost of his broken relationship and the dark sides in him that are responsible for it, Isaac travels through the Welsh countryside.

18:50 | Ahoi

19 mins | The film is based on a true story and is about ‘taking leave’ and ‘letting go’. In a destroyed and bombed-out Landscape, a painter is searching for his old love. 

19:55 | Solo

15 mins

Henian

23 mins | He Nian, a top student who has lived under the control of her mother as a child, decided to rush out of the pressure of going to school, family pressure and adolescent blackness in the sensitive spring of the third grade of high school, and finally found herself.

Dragons Dream

9 mins | Dragon’s Dream presents dreamlike battle through three-dimensional animation.

The Soul Of The Qin Opera

12 mins | The Qin dynasty has a reputation as the “original ancestor” and one of the oldest dramas in northwestern China started in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Like other opera arts, the Qin dynasty has been subjected to various trials brought about by changes in the times.

Sgt Stubby - An Unlikely Hero

84 mins | With World War I looming, a young Army Pvt. Robert Conroy is adopted by a stray, stump-tailed terrier. Conroy names his new friend Stubby and gives him a home, a family, and a chance to embark on the adventure that would define a century.

Whack

127 mins | Hong bing’ is a 39 year old ‘lower profile’ kick boxing fighter. He hasn’t won a lot and was defeated in many fights. He is well known in his community because other agents always chose him in the fight as a ‘sparing partner’ to score other fighter’s results.

The Seed Of Virtue

17 mins | Two gunmen are found by a policewoman, Yingying Kong, whilst she was on duty, when they were trying to escape by train at a small railway station.

Over The Sea

36 mins | After 1949, due to the victory of Nationalist Party at Kuningtou, they lacked focused about the battle along the coast, and were finally defeated by Communism.

We’re Not Shooting A Film

88 mins | Kurt (35) is a stage actor in Munich theatres. He has a critical view at our society. Relationships become too close very fast. Often his attitude is upsetting his fellow men

Not Funny!

1 mins | Homophobia is not funny, everything else is! 

Hotel Auschwitz

75 mins | Theatre director Martin wants to put “The Investigation” by Peter Weiss on stage, a piece about the Holocaust. In order to live up to the big topic he goes on a trip to Auschwitz with some members of the ensemble. Besides he wants to take the opportunity to get closer to his favourite actress. 

Beautiful, Diverse, Fun!

10 mins | Short documentary film about Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Cupid Is Not A Terrorist

6 mins | Love is a random thing. Finding true love is a thrilling adventure, especially if personally involved as target

Nevermind - Es Ist Egal, Aber

30 mins | Charlie is a 35 year-old small-time crook . His adult life has been a failure. He returns to the Ex-Capital, to Bonn.

Silent Winter

94 mins | Standing in front of the dilapidated old house, past memories started crossing Meiling’s mind. She was sold to marry a stranger in a place far away from home, just to pool money for her brother’s betrothal giftings.

Outsourced Worker

37 mins | OUT SOURCED WORKERS records the workers, after the mutation and destruction of their way of life, devoted to the struggle to live under huge living pressures .

Save My Dogs

90 mins

Acrobats

48 mins | This documentary adopts a parallel model, which documents children’s hard practice in a county acrobatics school as well as two brothers’ preparation and performances for weddings and funerals.

Unexpected Confrontation

80 mins | When a police detective drives her way to a typical day at work, she soon finds out reality can be way stranger than the Twilight Zone. 

Flagon

20 mins | A tramp happens to get a flagon, of which the age is unknown and which is immediately robbed of by Mo Qiang, a forklift driver.