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- Nine young actors leave behind their daily lives in Berlin and travel to country to audition for a summer theatre production to be performed in ruins of an old church.
- 24 hours of life in Berlin. Nine young people at major turning points of their lives.
- One moment in time is the observation of a high dive in montage parallel with the same procedures of children at the age of six to ten years, who are about to learn high-diving. Soundwise a former high-diver remembers his feeling, thoughts and fears.
- In 1980, 11-year-old Mike is the only survivor when his family attempts an escape from East Berlin over the Death Strip. 10 years later, he reluctantly returns to the united Germany to confront his past and the truth behind his mother's disappearance in the STASI machinery (former Ministry for State Security).
- Siar, Alican and the boys from Osdorfer Born tell their story. Being a member of the ghetto provides them with a sense of identity and creates a common bond between them. But the boys also have doubts. In truth, most of them know that it is a strange world they live in, where a criminal counts more than someone who goes to school.
- Flat float.
- This film is part of the long-term documentary Children of Golzow, which was started in 1961 by director Winfried Junge and only ended in 2007. He accompanied several children from a primary school class from the GDR over this period.
- In this short film Quio is put to a test: A day like everyday. But suddenly something happens - the reflection of quio herself appears on the TV-screen, the water doesn't fall downwards anymore, the cutlery falls to the ceiling... gravitation is suspended. Quio has to orientate herself in a new way and then she discovers the advantages of the new room structure.- This almost 'gondryesk' video cites a kind of futuristic fifties aesthetics and is a play with space, camera and film technologies.
- A documentary about life on the Jamuna River.
- Business Process Outsourcing' (BPO) is the fastest-growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain contact between western companies and their customers. Vikhee Uppal is just one of them. From a busy office in Calcutta, he pretends to be a guy named Ethan Reed and calls Americans, Brits and Australians to try and sell them cell phones and subscriptions. Vikhee hopes to make it in this sector. On the bulletin board, we see him and his colleagues keep track of who sells the most. The Americans are the most impolite: they yell at the salespeople and hang up on them. The English, on the contrary, are the most willing to listen to the sales pitch. Even though Vikhee at work pretends to be a Westerner, Indian traditions remain very important for him. He wants to get married to a girl from Punjab, and if he doesn't find one himself, his family will find a bride for him. At work, Vikhee gets tutored in English. Each night, he watches English soccer matches to get an idea of what the people on the other end of the line actually look like.
- BANDITS (2003) retraces the roots of the escapade of a group of Georgians in their twenties who hijacked an Aeroflot passenger plane on November 18, 1983 from Tbilisi.
- Anjo and his family live on a chicken farm in the post apocalyptic desert. To be able to follow his dream of finding the last remains of civilization he has to overcome his father's iron rules and the endless wasteland that surrounds them.
- They say that love is blind and there must be some truth in it, because in this comic tale, a good-looking frog falls for the velvety skin of an imitation lady-frog that graces a pair of slippers belonging to the farmer's wife. But their happiness is short-lived, because real frogs can't really fall in love with imitation frogs... can they?
- One afternoon Dan is brutally jumped and accosted by a Gang in his neighborhood. Angel, the leader of Dans crew demands that he murder his punisher and thus earn his official "membership" into the crew: a teardrop tattoo under his eye. Dan stands at the most important crossroads in his life. Will he go through with the killing to become a member, or back out and risk standing alone? We see the film through Dans eyes and know what he experiences, but do we know who Dan is?
- Chump & Clump meet at a bus station. While waiting for the bus, which drives only once a week, a bizarre and wonderful friendship develops, that still prevails when all odds turn against our heroes.
- 10 Episodes, 10 actors, 10 fleeting sexual interludes snatched in modern-day Berlin in an bitter merry-go-round based on Schnitzler's theater-play Der Reigen.
- Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car - no one else's in the lot, just Hoffmann's. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again. On the third morning, Hoffman drives his car back and forth in a mud puddle; the beggar washes it carefully. That evening, Hoffman has no change and no small bills, only 100 DM. He tries to evade the beggar, who gives chase, cane and all. More than wills collide.
- "Prussian Gangstar" is a slice of life view of three youths in small-town Brandenburg. The idyllic setting and the modest prosperity of the community mask the problems with which the young people have to contend. Nico is a school drop-out, dreaming of a hip-hop career. Tino, in an effort to satisfy the expectations of his mother, struggles to gain his lower school certificate. Oli wants to open a club, but his girlfriend dreams of their leaving their hum-drum provincial life behind them. The difficulties seem routine enough. Nonetheless, an unfathomable void develops between their youthful values and those of their parents. Only their friendship gives them a degree of security. Together they are the "Prussian Gangstars".
- A birthday party in the Normandy.
- All know the Way, but few actually walk it - Rising Hope, once the fastest horse in the world, dares to be one of the few.
- Jakob has been unemployed for two years. He has no one, so he goes to do the laundry and walks aimlessly around town. Undine is 19 and has to work. Dr. Scheer hired her as a babysitter for her son Philipp.
- Rick Hardin, a mid-30s author of pulp novels, just wants to pick up his girl Sonja at a lonely gas station. But it seems that the cab has already picked her up. At the rest rooms, he witnesses a man battering a woman. Is it Sonja? Rick decides to help, but has to realize, that the victim is not Sonja at all, but a weird woman, who does not want to be helped. And he has to admit, that life sometimes holds strange twists. Unfortunately, this realization seems to come too late.
- In a time in which all borders of ethnic, religious and cultural differences are being questioned, RAIN IS FALLING makes a connection, takes a look into a foreign world and encourages a dialogue between the worlds of strangers. RAIN IS FALLING tells the story of a solution, that comparatively abstracts the big in the small. One thing becomes clear: The devotedness and elementary relationship of love and humanity lifts up the most simple action to redemption. Intuitive images weave themselves into a poetic narrative structure. Slowness and atmosphere build up to a cinematic climax, that uncovers the small, the beauty of the simple and natural, that may bridge human as well as cultural gaps.
- An old man finishes the last wheel for the great escape.
- John is a famous rockstar. During a concert with his band he dies accidently and gets to nirvana. There he has to face strange things.