Nina Schiena
Germany
2015 | 0:13:15

Do you fear death? Don´t be frightened...´ A boy spends hours on a busy holiday-beach. His impressions and thoughts intertwine to a current perception, that is concerned with transience. The cinematic essay `Memento Mori´ aims to understand life and death as a unit and questions the fear of death

Ewa Wikiel
Germany
2015 | 0:13:00

A night in a small polish village. Eight year old Kornel can't fall asleep. For the first time in his life he's confronted with a death in his family. At dawn he leaves the house to see if the world outside still exists and where the line between life and death is.

Rosa Hannah Ziegler
Germany
2014 | 0:15:45

An emotional and strongly subjective movie about the question of what “happiness” is. At 19, Yasmin is in search of her own happiness and trying to understand her life, as well as the difficult relationship with her mother, a former heroin addict.

Mona Kakanj
Germany
2014 | 0:04:30

Elephant is an experimental short film, focuses on perception. A young woman is swinging between two walls in an open space. Next she fights with herself in a box ring. The sceneries all happen in a dim light atmosphere. After a while, flashes of light, reveal the plot and actions are being unveiled.

Julia Finkernagel
Germany
2015 | 0:15:15

Strong-willed development aid worker Karla comes to Afghanistan in order to build a well. The villagers only treat her with reserve and the well is sabotaged by strangers repeatedly. The only person who could have the key to the causer is the Afghan girl Rona, but she remains silent. Her hard-bitten boss Reinhardt is no help either and when she learns that the Minister is coming to inaugurate the well the pressure rises. Next, red water trickles from the well. When Karla finally finds out who really is in charge of the attacks she realizes that her western notion of what is good for people is evaluated totally different in another culture. A story about willing yet failing to help.

Werner Biedermann
Germany
2016 | 0:04:00

The found-footage film „Jamais-vu“ shows archetypical situations which, in this new montage, are perceived as different and strange. This panorama presents a gamut of emotional sensory impressions focussing on cinema as the means of expressing the condition of a culture. All about heart, skin and brains, eyes and genitalia, consciousness and sub-consciousness, in short, all about cinemastory – cinema stories: or, all about life, from birth to death

Paul Meschùh
Germany
2014 / 0:22:00

The young afghan woman „Nabilah“ is injured in an accident. While her brother is trying to get help, German soldiers take her to a military base. Since the residents of nabilahs home town must not find out about her physical contact with forgein men, her life is in risc. Based on a true story,