Perturbation

Due to the measures taken by the government, students have fewer and fewer prospects for a meaningful future. Life is on pause and society is kept in fear. The confidence in a bright future is gone. Even after 18 months, there is still no light at the end of the tunnel. The many promises have not yet changed this situation. In this moving documentary, young people give an idea of the impact of the measures on their lives. Is there still hope or has the damage already been done?

Two instants separated by 99 days conflict with each other.

DesConectados

Director Martin Scorsese talks about life in isolation.

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

Vosička Aphelinus Mali

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

A story about survival, belief in the physical memory of things, as if still-life was always part of the scientific possibility or of the nightmare of extinction.

This is a film about the strangely idyllic time we had during the first UK lockdown, and the media we consumed.

A group of live webcams spread out around the world makes a documentary diptych about the months of the lockdown.

Insekten, Superhelden auf sechs Beinen

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.

Fuori era primavera: Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown

This documentary focuses specifically on insects. Giving you an unbelieveably up close and intimate view of the many unique secrets of the bug world. Answering scientific questions on how and why they have evolved certain bizarre adaptations, whilst using stunning imagery never seen before.

UNIVERSUM cameraman Wolfgang Thaler and Bert Hoelldobler, a leading authority on ants, bring us face-to-face with the mysterious world of these social insects.

Das große Insektensterben

This documentary shows how one of the biggest youth theatres in Europe dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oh how nice is Panama. However, it may be even nicer in Sweden. At least in winter 2020/21, when a small virus called SARS-CoV2 paralyzed the continent of Europe in particular. While in most countries the fight against the virus was announced with a wide variety of measures such as lockdown, compulsory masks and contact restrictions, which were also punishable by law, Sweden went a different way.

In this playful essay film, the filmmaker investigates our culture's discomfort with all things many-legged.

Struggling with a mid-life crisis, Robert Oelman leaves his psychology career in the early 1990s to photograph rare and exotic insects. After moving from the United States to Colombia, he forms a special bond with his subjects in the Amazon rainforest. This connection enables him to make striking photographic images of new and undocumented species. After more than 20 years of traveling, searching, and photographing, his quest culminates with a New York City gallery show where he finally shares his images with the public.