When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
One day a garage owner finds an atomic bomb that has been lost by an airplane. He hides the bomb and shakes the country when he announces that he will not return the bomb until the production of such weapons of destruction is stopped.
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Short combining fiction and documentary.
The Boy with a Camera for a Face is satirical fairy tale about a boy born with a camera instead of a head, whose every moment is transformed by the fact he is recording it. Accompanied by a voice over narration read by Steven Berkoff, the film tells an epic story in fifteen minutes about the way we live today.
Experimental short film based on M.C. Escher's paintings.
Remi throws himself on the ground, listens to birds and falls asleep in hedges. Gabriel opens his stomach to the tip of a knife. They meet.
After a flood, some fish got stuck in old trees. In danger of drying-out, they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don't feel happy about the unintended gathering.
An ordinary woman's day is becoming more and more stressful: neither on the street, nor in the office, nor in the bar, she can feel at peace and safe until she reaches the point of no return.
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.
In the seaside town of Canvey Island, we meet Charlie, an 8-year-old boy with a great imagination. He spends his school summer holidays in isolation, playing with his toys and too afraid to leave his room. One fateful day he becomes so hungry he must venture downstairs and into certain danger to retrieve food. It is on this mission where he comes face to face with his greatest fear; his Zombie Parents! And his true adventure begins!
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
A foreign girl arrives to her new apartment. Her three roommates welcome her rather distantly, for no reason at all, and she can smell that there is something going on...Literally. Everyday when she walks out of her room, she notices a strong smell of insecticide that nobody is willing to explain.
Daniel meets with friends on the weekends to play Warhammer 40k in the back of a game shop. Måns, one of his buddies, makes him feel different though. Despite the lack of confidence, Daniel tries to figure it out what to do about it.
In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager's computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behavior (and romance) in the digital age.
Lou and Chantal are gonna blow up. One day. Somehow. But girls don't get out of Coberge, Ontario by playing nice. All they've ever wanted, was to feel what it's like to be free.