Students Filme

“Am I pretty?” When asked online, this banal question opens up a loop of found- footage videos uploaded by teenagers all over the world on the internet. Though the identical … mehr

In the Israeli city of Bat-Yam, at a small square opposite the concert hall, there is a deteriorating public-housing building. Most of the time the square is deserted, only a … mehr

The film takes us into a heady world of insurgent sleepers’ communities as well as the infamous ‘sleep mafia’ in Delhi where just securing a safe sleeping spot often becomes … mehr

“Self-portrait. In 1998 our family came under armed attack. We were able to escape and we fled Grozny. We have been silent about it since”. Vladlena Sandu tells an incisive … mehr

“But there was a choice: my parents or my children.” Through personal film recordings and narrated pieces of memory, the film tells the story of a forced migratory voyage of … mehr

The people in Eldon, Iowa, carry many names, none of them too flattering: Rednecks, Hillbillies, White Trash. Still, the struggle they share with vanishing jobs in agriculture and rising social … mehr

KALTES TAL experiments with different spaces and the transitions in between them. Aesthetic and documentary forms are merged to take the viewer into a real but mythic world of a … mehr

In Letter from Korlai, grainy 16mm images and a voice reading a fictional letter unfold a phantasmagoric, indeterminate space. The images of the village of Korlai on India’s Konkan coast … mehr

At five in the morning, before any professor or student enters the building of the well-established SAOS University in London, a lot of work needs to be done: Cleaning toilets, … mehr

“My birthday is the brightest day of my life. My birthday always starts at the cemetery”. This is the autobiographical film about the perceiving intertwining meanings of life and death … mehr

Centered on a year of the production of a revolutionary East Texas prison radio show run by ex-convicts, Rattle Them Bars is an experimental documentary film creating a multi-vocal counter-conversation about the prison system and the prison experience. For over 40 years, the radio show has connected prisoners to people on the outside through voices, providing bits of lives, stories, connections and relationships. The film is an audiovisual montage of field footage, voices of families speaking to prisoners, and letters from prisoners in solitary confinement.

The Axolotl is a fascinating creature for a number of reasons, including its grotesque appearance, its ability to regenerate and primarily the fact that it exhibits the phenomenon known as … mehr

Machines move slowly across the landscape, smoke stacks gradually change their shape, trains roll smoothly through the image. Not much is happening in SERIOUS APPARITIONS and still something is taking … mehr

There are many reasons to visit the village of Bama in Guangxi, a region in south-eastern China. The magnetic fields might take the poison out of your body, the air … mehr

Red or blue? Esteghlal and Perspolis are rivaling football clubs in Iran. Millions of fans come to Tehran to support their team at the derby. Both sides have their lead … mehr

“This is therapy. This is the Mecca.” On Coney Island there is a court where a group of men comes together every single day: American Handball is their sport and … mehr

How can you keep your most precious memories, when everything is left behind? Working in Cape Town, South Africa, three migrant women from Zimbabwe found a keeper of their past … mehr

During an annual Mossi people ritual, which takes place in Oueguedo in Burkina Faso, stories of the ancestors are told in drum language. “Who is your grandfather?” cries the master … mehr