Voice of the Nightingale

Two men sit on an island watching the sunset. When a storm gathers, they decide to build a boat. While one man is mindful of the coming danger and urges speed, the other wastes his time on decorative details. Dammbeck’s last film made in the GDR before he left for West Germany is based on a Chinese fable, with music by internationally known jazz musician Günter “Baby” Sommer.

For the multimedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When the exhibition was banned in 1978, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. Metamorphoses I—the first experimental film ever to be shown publicly in East Germany—marks the filmic beginning of Dammbeck’s long-term art project the Herakles-Konzept (Hercules Concept).

For years, Alba, Maydis and Judae have served a terrible Beast without ever thinking of opposing him, until now... Will Amanita give them back their hope for freedom?

A monk carves one thousand Buddha statues throughout the year to enter nirvana.

Waiting to board the train, an old lady just wants to eat her cookies in peace, but hijinks ensue when a teenager on the platform next to her seems intent on sharing them, too.

Anatomy of a moth

A woman is dealing with trauma, but tonight she might be going over the edge.

Agent 327 is investigating a clue that leads him to a shady barbershop in Amsterdam. Little does he know that he is being tailed by mercenary Boris Kloris.

Krisha is the daughter of the Yates who are the nomad tribe of the tundra. To save her sick mother, she follows the words of Shaman and takes off on her adventure to the end of Northern land to find the red bear she saw in her dreams. In the meanwhile, Captain Vladimir of the federal army and Bazak, the hunter, invades the forest to hunt the red bear. Krisha arrives at the forest where she hears the voice of the red bear.

Soviet film following Nasreddin

A magical girl, who exists outside of space and time, inhabits an odd, timeless landscape that is both old and modern, and spends her days playing and collecting objects from history, things that she loves.

Niť života

A cable car ride through the San Francisco of the early 20th century marks the background that bids farewell to the alleged blessings of capitalism.

A small creature, awakened by a white crow, tries to reach the sun and freedom. But using this freedom is by no means easy.

Baleiax Existem

A stop-motion animation that dissolves a conversation on friendship, longing and loss into a seamless loop that follows a furry creature paddling through a swampy river scene. The subtitles are neither clearly attributed to the scenery, nor to the characters in it.

In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands. Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands. The filmic wandering becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity, and the roles we assume in the places we came from.

Ginger imagines a future for her family that is much nicer than the dark and smelly intensive Pig Farm where they all live.

Kto odhodil

One day, a mysterious servant named Dorian appears in the hut of the magician Boniface as an inheritance from Boniface's uncle. Dorian, punished for his pride, is a man by day and a cat by night. Part of his uncle's legacy is also a magic book, with the help of which Boniface begins to prosper. Dorian secretly discovers how to break his spell: he must find a girl with a heart of gold. Princess Ludmila from a nearby kingdom has such a heart, which she wears as a pendant. Dorian persuades the magician Boniface to use his magical powers to kidnap Princess Ludmila and make her his housekeeper. But the princess's bold and fearless maid, Anděla, easily deals with Boniface. And, of course, Dorian soon falls in love with the princess...