Summer 1995 in East Germany. Artists in the country, working, living, loving. A video treasure trove enables a portrait of painter Käthe Ebner to emerge from their midst.
A cocky teenage table tennis player dreams of becoming a champion, but when a bitter rival threatens his future, an unlikely martial arts master takes him under his wing. As tragedy strikes, he must confront the true cost of his ambition and discover what it really means to win.
A coming-of-age story of a highly sensitive hyperactive city dweller Nadja (24) living on the edge of social exclusion, deepest fears, the world of self-help and the encounter of a strange intergenerational burden. The observational documentary was filmed during a period of six years.
Medical imagery, retrieved from the filmmaker’s body when he had a bone marrow transplant in 2021, becomes the foundation for disembodied questions of selfhood. In this experimental documentary, 2D and 3D animations create an abstract series of landscapes out of scans originally taken for medical treatment.
A young man, considered perfect, always loved by his family, extremely dedicated to his grades, his studies, and his life in general, decides that when his parents go away on a trip, he will throw a party at his house. There, the protagonist ends up taking a hallucinogenic drug called Banana Monkey. The narrative follows an uncomfortable and despairing psychedelia (filled with monkeys!), where he questions his morals and his identity. Is it worth peeling back one’s own reality in order to be seen?
A young telemarketer is introduced to a new Co-worker. He begins to watch him as he settles in, and what he finds will tear everyone in the office far far apart...
At the 2024 National Blind Football Championship, China’s youngest team of all time stepped onto the field — the Xinjiang Blind Football Team, with an average age of 15.
Tomás is ready to leave his village behind. But when he reunites with Carmen, the love he once left behind, he begins to question whether walking away means letting the place he calls home die with him.
An unsuspecting man chooses not to intervene when he witnesses an act of harassment, believing that it is the victim's problem alone. He soon begins to struggle with his coscience.
Diana retreats into drawing and music to escape the chaos of her home. Each page of her notebook becomes an extension of the emotions she cannot bring herself to say out loud. But when even the smallest moments of peace are interrupted, Diana realizes that mentally escaping may no longer be enough to cope with the reality she lives in.
A renowned former actor returns to the stage alongside a young, inexperienced actress. But the lines they have to rehearse in the play have a strange connection to the man's tragic past.
A minor mistake made during a small-scale robbery attempted by three friends causes the entire night to spiral into a complicated and inescapable mess.
When a young man accidentally destroys a monument of someone’s dead son, a bloodthirsty father killer wants to get his revenge.
A mother tells her unborn child her version of the vietnamese creation myth.
A caring wife will do anything to save her infected husband.
On a dark, rainy summer night, the power goes out for a young couple. While looking for a way to light up the room, they discover something strange about their microwave: it is glowing, and its lights reveal the future—but... Is this the future they desire so much?
Hoʻolono, meaning “to listen deeply,” is a cinematic act of listening and an exploration of return, responsibility, and our evolving relationship to land and self. Hoʻolono is an invitation to listen deeply, to remember that the path through ecological crisis may also be a path back to ourselves.
