What is it like to be invisible?

What is it like to be invisible? This is what the movie “The Other One” shows us, which deals with a problem that is almost as invisible as the protagonist Johanna. She is eighteen years old, has just finished school and dreams of studying psychology – and she has an autistic little sister. So she […]

Orange Freedom

The short film “Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen” takes us on a special journey through time in ten intense minutes: the story of the first GDR travel group that was headed for the coveted destination ‘West-West’, namely Mallorca, after reunification. We are immersed in the personal memories of an East German who takes us on […]

A garden as a classroom

The film “An Octopus Destroyed the Moon” begins with the image of an idyllic garden in the heart of Berlin. As the film progresses, we get to know some of the pupils at the August Sander School, an integrative pre-vocational school, who work in this very garden, an outdoor area of the school in Berlin-Friedrichshain. […]

“I had to stay.”

In her video diary the Ukrainian director Hanna Trofimova takes us into her life, in the midst of war. She shows images of fear and tells about the guilt she feels, leaving her homeland behind. We met her for an interview about her film “When will the Winter of 2022 end ?“

“There are also Arab Jews”

In her feature film debut “May God Be With You”, Cléo Cohen embarks on a personal search for traces of her own identity and roots. The young Frenchwoman has an identity crisis: Is she Jewish? Arab? Even her grandparents seem unclear about this. Cléo struggles for clarity: intensely, playfully.