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Browse 484 movies from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Jul 2009
The unexpected difficulty of becoming mothers through the means of artificial insemination slowly erodes the relationship between Katja and Isabella.
Feb 2013
May 2026
After finishing school, a group of three guys and three girls set off to spend their last holidays together in a remote cottage. What started as a great adventure soon turns into a nightmare of explosive violence. Once you start taking the game seriously, it is not a game anymore...
Jan 2008
The 20 year old El embarks on a search for his understanding of masculinity, for which he deals with his relationship with his father and struggles to find his new manhood.
May 2023
Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city's sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway.
Aug 2018
On a seemingly endless day of summer, Noa is playing in the garden with friends in swim shorts. The play comes to an abrupt end as Noa gets a swimsuit.
May 2025
Germany, 1946. Hunger, rubble, returning soldiers. Charlotte is pregnant, but her beloved returnee does not want her or his child. In order to win him over and escape the impending shame, she enrolls in the "missing course" of actress Gloria Deven, who was an up-and-coming film star under Fascism and is now banned from working. But Gloria, with her merciless lessons, is not interested in reviving the coquetry of girls that became superfluous in the war. Instead, she awakens in Lotte a longing for something too long denied her: Freedom.
Oct 2021
Yasmin works as a paramedic while caring for her sick mother and nine-year-old sister Ayla. Financial pressure pushes her into an extra shift. During a 24-hour duty, mistakes pile up. When she takes Ayla along in the ambulance, the next call is a resuscitation - and Yasmin loses control. Suddenly, she is her own emergency.
Mar 2026
A boys first weekend with the father after the divorce of his parents. Together with his friends, he makes a plan to turn that weekend into a horror trip, to punish his father. But then everything changes
Oct 2008
Marco lives in a world of his own. He wants to spend the event of the total eclipse concentrated and by himself at a junkyard. Lena crosses his path and stays by his side because she likes him and tries desperately to get closer during this special moment.
Nov 2014
Eight year-old Adam confronts a mutated world, when he breaks out of the designated quarantine area for refugees.
Apr 2021
A young female founder is doggedly trying to assert herself in the crypto market. When she meets a strange colleague at a pitch, she enters into an ominous deal.
Jan 2024
Mar 2023
“Those freaking 33 percent, where were they?” Lovis asks herself as she discovers a clearly right radical slogan on the regional train. She starts counting: “One, two, Nazi. One, two, Nazi.” In anger, she exits the train at the next stop. Stranded on the platform, she is confronted with the question: What now?
Sep 2024
Mara is a law student incapable of feeling emotions. How will she react, then, when she discovers that her rapist is a redeemed and happy man? How will she compare the law with her idea of justice?
Nov 2024
When the first snow falls, the fifth season begins in the village surrounded by mountains. Once a year, the ‘untamed and wild’ is allowed to burst out of the men under the protection of the masks. Somewhere between fairy tale and reality, this documentary paints a picture of a controversial tradition.
Marta manages her daily life on her own, but sometimes she misses her father.
Apr 2025
It is the middle of the night when a mother notices her son missing from their mountainhut. She takes action and ventures into the forest to find him - well aware that skinwalkers are haunting these lands...
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The very last hotel before the Talking Hole - A man has been living here for a while. The heavily guarded hole, which tells the secret of eternal happiness, can only be accessed by couples. But he is alone. With great perseverance he tries to reach the hole to finally feel happiness.
Nov 2018