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Fisher of Men
Human Capital
Disgustingly Healthy
Merry Christmas!
Half a Chance
I love me, I love me not
Temps forts
Cora
Grandma Maertens
Supermerle
Omen-15 Hours of Tekkno
Fedra
Time is racing by
Letter of march 10th
Clemi escapes
Smaller Talk
Which Film?
Meeting
Who is Lili?
The German Lunchtable
Fisher of Men
„I don't know why we didn't see it before, but New York City is the perfect place to become the Jesus center of the world” says Scott Rourk, a pastor of the Southern Baptist faith.
Will New York City, also home to Hinduism, Islam, Catholicism, and Judaism, readily give up its melting- pot identity to follow a unifying Evangelical religious call?
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Human Capital -
The Employment Trade

Chamila Alvis from Sri Lanka, Volker Nebelung and Dirk Wagner from Germany and Paul Lockmiller from the USA are going through similar phases in the global employment placement process: No matter which side they are on, where they come from, or how much money they have, they are but stocks in the employment stockmarket. And they are discovering something particularly threatening as they speculate or as they are speculated upon: their feelings.

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Disgustingly Healthy - Leeches and Maggots


Our two-part series “Disgustingly Healthy” tells the story of the riveting rise, the dramatic fall, and the surprising renaissance of the leech and the maggot in western medicine. It also tells of the centuries old
love-hate relationship between man and these little monsters – a liaison alternating between attraction and disgust.

 

 
Merry Christmas!

“Documentary making doesn’t necessarily mean going to far away, to foreign places. We dared to film our own families as one person teams. We chose the only fixed family date: Christmas eve. To document the family and to be oneself part of this family– we considered this dual role to be a particular challenge”.
A family documentary from R. Cibis, P. Hadwiger, S. Ko and S. Senn.

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Half a Chance?

 

After the big failure of German films in France “Halbe Treppe” tries to have a small success…A short documentary about the situation of the German Cinema in France.

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I love me,
I love me not


Self-love and self-hatred among artists. Every artistic pursuit is one of self discovery; this expression is never neutral but full of emotion.
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Temps forts


Stars and starlets in Cannes. These films show the stars' hells and heavens but also wander behind the scenes so that we see the sets being put up and taken down.

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Cora


Bodily remembrances. Is Cora the same lonely maiden from the past? Do earlier experiences exert an influence upon her body, her sexuality?
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Grandma Maertens


From Brazil to Mecklenburg. An 81 year old woman returns home.
„How often and radical can a life from one day to another change”.

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Supermerle


Supermerle is DJane, a Techno-DJ in Berlin. She plays music at events of the independent scene in the dilapidated houses of East Berlin.

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Omen- 15 Stunden Tekkno


Friday evening, Frankfurt, Discotheque Omen, Sven Värth, Frank Lorber and thousand of Dancers. Lust for Life! The Film explains nothing, describes nothing- it’s Tekkno.

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Fedra


Passion, crime, incestuous desires- the end of a world.

 

 

 

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Time is racing by


Three friends are talking about sex and love. The conversation starts on fears associated with sexuality, then deals with shame and violence and concludes by sketching a sort of utopia.

 

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Letter of March 10th


With this project we tried to mix the common and the personal between us…To correspond seemed to be a good means to get to know each other better.

 

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Clemi escapes


Clemi travels to Italy in one more attempt at evading her dull everyday life. There she meets Fabio…

 

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Smaller Talk

Anel falls in love with his old gay friend Tommi but is afraid of physical and intellectual contact with him. He is struggling to surmount it.
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Which Film


After all-night-partying the last silhouettes are on the dance floor of a night club. Alena rings on the door: she was taking some fresh air as she was suffering from the effects of alcohol. At the entrance, she has a break-down…

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Meeting


Shaking hands is a ritual. What happens when we run across ourselves?

 

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Who is Lili?


Portraying oneself through other people's eyes.

 

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The German Lunchtable


Post- war time. A family is arguing.

 

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