A Counter Fire

Fun-loving Miri is a genius with numbers. She puts this talent to good use in her job at the town bank in the small village of Hattenstein, where she actively helps her often overburdened boss. When a local winegrower is found dead in a wooded area, she also develops a penchant for detective work. The policeman Nils, one of her old schoolmates, believes it was a sudden heart attack. But Miri's extraordinary powers of deduction tell her that there is something fishy about the case. With the moral support of her ownerless dachshund, Frauchen, she uncovers a large-scale crime in which even the mayor of the town seems to be involved.

The Turkish army considers homosexuality a mental disorder which exonerates young men from military service, but also requires a medical diagnosis to be reached through both psychological and more invasive (and humiliating) diagnostic procedures.’Çürük’ is an intense, entirely anonymous recording of the mortifying procedure used by the Turkish military to make it possible for gay men to exempt themselves from military service. The humiliation includes psychological tests, anal examinations and the photographical proof of gay sex. The impact on gay men‘s self-esteem becomes more than obvious, when one of the protagonists doubtfully asks: “Do you think I'm a real man?”

A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.

21 years after the collapse of the Communist regime, Albania experiences democracy with it's many contradictions. An exclusive insider perspective given by three young protagonists.

Marina Abramovic collaborated with videomaker Charles Atlas on this striking work of autobiographical performance. Abramovic delivers a monologue that traces a concise personal chronology. This brief narrative history, which references her past in the former Yugoslavia, her performance work, and her collaboration with and separation from Ulay, is intercut with images of Abramovic engaged in symbolic gestures and ritual acts—scrubbing her feet, staring like Medusa as snakes writhe on her head. Closing her litany with the phrase "time past, time present," Abramovic invokes the personal and the mythological in a poignant affirmation of self.

2015, 25:24 min, color, sound, Two Channels

2015, 2:41 min, color, sound, HD video

2014, 1:04, color, sound, Two Channels

2010, 24:39 min, color, silent, HD video

2009, 3:27 min, color, sound, three-channel installation

1999, 4:43 min, color, sound

Travelling the French Alps at 17 while coming to terms with losing my dad. Exploring ideas of faith through difficult situations, and how bad times can bring out the good in our lives, documenting the journey after losing a parent to cancer and the importance of art and creativity in our lives. Using "The New Life" as a new way of defining grief, serving as the name given to the life we are forced to live after losing a loved one, and a christian name given to Heaven. It’s the similarity in all of our lives and the life that we go out of our way to live, in search of experiences, after it feels like all hope is lost. Why do we fall? It does, in fact, get better.

A man recalls his initiation into the mafia. Memories guided by the capo who took him in after an attack and who would guide him until his last breath.

Rainbow Trance is an ethnographic documentary that explores the Gnawa ritual ceremony called the Lila a multi-layered musical and healing trance ritual deeply rooted in Moroccan spiritual culture.

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Short animation by Nicolas Brault

A projector from 1938 - on the road for 60 years. Helmut Göldner travels from village square to village square to entertain the residents with his mobile cinema. And he has been doing this with unbroken energy for 60 years. In KINOMANN, director Matthias Ditscherlein shows an almost forgotten time - and cinema as it really is.

The mountain running documentary 10.000 Meters Up (La Cota 10.000) brings together two of the most beautiful things that we know: Romania and the mountains. Even though in real life the 10.000 meters mountain altitude mark is a utopia, the documentary follows an expedition among the Carpathians, running through Retezat, Fagaras, Bucegi, Ciucas and Ceahlau mountains, summing up 10.000 altitude gain in less than one week. This adventure became a story of trail running and carries the audience in fairy tales landscapes, revealing how high can we reach if we dare to dream.

In this documentary, Thomas Betzler, born in Darmstadt in 1954, tells the story of his amazing career in the music industry. It all began with his training as a drummer and the founding of his band Peacock. As the world's first tour caterer, he accompanied international stars of the 80s on their tours through Europe in the years that followed, only to find himself back on stage again today. With many anecdotes and a sense of humor, Tommy B. shares his wealth of experience with the audience and provides insights into his own life story and the music industry of the past 50 years.