Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt e.V.

We are freeing us from gravity and fleeing from reality. We are weightless, free. Everything becomes VACUUM.

East Germany after the fall of the Wall. Beate opens up a store, which hardly anyone notices. Steffen travels the country with new products and Jan struggles with his job creation program. A memory log with gaps from the year 1992.

On July 21, 1969 some strange phenomena occurred in parts of the USA and made many Americans go crazy. This documentary tries to find what really happened.

Commissioner Kresch of the Chemnitzer Kriminalpolizei was called to catch the fox from the post office. The fox sold drugs to the children. A woman even wanted to kill herself. But Commissioner Kresch has a plan! Is the fox more crafty?

A filmmaker gets a suitcase full of memories from her grandmothers life partner.

David joins a new friendgroup. Despite his panic attacks, he takes part in difficult undertakings. His strange behaviour is met with incomprehension in the group.

In a society where freedom is considered the highest good, the question arises as to how the deprivation of liberty is perceived as a punishment. Despite rehabilitative approaches, imprisonment remains the maximum sanction. The principle of liberty becomes significant when the deprivation of freedom is imposed as a penalty—existence remains secured, but any freedom beyond that is taken away. What does the deprivation of liberty feel like? What significance does freedom hold when it is withdrawn? How does the public perceive the deprivation of liberty as a punishment, and what does the need for retribution look like? Is there an understanding of why freedom is being taken? What does freedom mean when one is deprived of it?