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Boundless Life
Breath - with each breath you take you choose life
DER INNERE RUF
Three families struggle to find their true selves and their soulmates in a world full of expectations, pressure and obstacles. Inspired by real events, this film shows how they pursue their dreams and potential without losing themselves.
When Kyle, a curmudgeonly writer, finally gets the good news that his debut memoir is getting published, he goes to his favorite bar to complain about it. Once there, however, he must face more stiff drinks - and problems - than he bargained for.
Poolgeschichten - Der Traum vom kühlen Nass
Love and money, money, money make the world go round, but there’s more of the former on display in this winning exercise in DIY filmmaking from writer-director David Ray (Grand Unified Theory) and his puckish band of merry pranksters. This is a totally improvised jape, made in Vancouver “for less than the cost of a used Honda.” Andrew McNee plays Andrew, a musician whose lost his way — not to mention his friend Scott, who’s missing. Seeking him out involves strange encounters with friends and strangers, none of whom seems to know what’s going on (probably because there wasn’t a script). But go with it! There’s gold in them thar hills, and despite or because of its eccentric genesis, this completely unexpected movie actually goes somewhere…
A Counter Fire
A short documentary that brings light to the experiences of those who live with hidden disabilities. Through eight heartfelt interviews, participants share their struggles, strengths, and realities of their everyday lives.
Famous drag queen Holly and her scheming sister Beryl (both played by Doug Lucas) battle over the wishes of their recently deceased grandmother, who wants to be buried with her canine companion, Dingo. Defying all health codes and decorum, Holly and her long-suffering manservant hatch a plan to fulfil her grandmother's wishes, while Beryl plots a much darker fate for her deluded sister.
A 26-year-old taxi driver drives towards the Hjälstaviken nature reserve and never comes home. A week later, the police make a macabre discovery: he is found dead, hanging from a tree. Suspicions are directed at five young people who were in the area. A 15-year-old girl had previously reported him for rape. Leif GW Persson examines the case and the legal proceedings.
The morning calm is broken in Skultuna and Rönnby in Västerås when a VMA is sent out and residents are asked to stay indoors. The police are hunting a 38-year-old suspect after two brutal violent crimes. A child calls 112 and says that his mother is being attacked. Shortly afterwards, a woman is found dead in her home. Leif GW Persson examines the case and the legal process.
“In a single day, how many really nonsignifying fields do we cross? Very few, sometimes none. Here I am, before the sea; it is true that it bears no message."–Roland Barthes, Mythologies. Here you are before the trees traverses Indigenous presence in the Hudson River Valley, Wisconsin, and the areas in-between. Presented in three channels, each screen focuses on different homelands and their complex relationships with history, landscape, power and institutional means of oppression.
What's the correct amount of pubic hair? Can feminists enjoy twerking? Why is fruit suddenly bad for you? Let Danielle guide you through this difficult time as well her 90s upbringing with stand-up, songs and one explicit mime.
Versailles, construction d'un rêve impossible
A young man with dreams of making it big in the USA falls in love with an NRI woman residing there. She breaks up with him for reasons unknown to him but serendipity plays cupid.
In the vast fields of Altai, a territory at the other end of the world, some isolated teenagers search for meaning in their life. The possible answers seem doomed from the outset by a time without utopias. Though there is still poetry; that of words and that of images.
Bismarck - Härte und Empfindsamkeit
Whether it's the appalling conditions in turkey fattening, the massive use of antibiotics in poultry farming or the improper killing of cattle - meat producers are under fire. In addition, feed exports from third world countries lead to hunger and misery there and meat exports to Africa destroy local markets. Filmmaker Jutta Pinzler spent over a year researching around the world. Her footage shows the devastating consequences of mass meat production.