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Eine Komödie, die eine Gruppe von Menschen begleitet, die in die Feierlichkeiten zur Sommersonnenwende in Lettland, der kürzesten Nacht des Jahres, eintauchen.

Zombie-Horror in den Alpen: Eine Gruppe junger Snowboarder steckt in einem abgelegenen Ski-Ressort in den Bergen fest, als eine nächtliche Après-Ski-Party sich in einen höllischen Albtraum voller Zombie-Chaos verwandelt.

The educated Fariba Tabrizi flies from Teheran to Germany expecting to have asylum, since she is persecuted in Iran due to her lesbian relationship with her beloved Shirin. However, her application is denied by the authorities and Fariba has to return to her home country. When her recent acquaintance Siamak, who is grieving the death of his brother, commits suicide, Fariba assumes his identity and status of political refugee and is sent to a refugee camp in a German village. Fariba finds an illegal work in a cabbage factory and she has many difficulties for not having bath with the other male workers. She becomes close to her colleague Anne and they fall in love for each other. However, prejudice and her illegal condition jeopardize her exile in Germany.

In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?

Filmmaker Reinhard Jud profiles crime novelist James Elroy as he tours the seedy side of Los Angeles.

With freedom of expression once again under fire, Who´s Afraid of Kathy Acker? explores the unbelievably extreme life of punk icon Kathy Acker, whose sexually explicit writing expanded the limits of female self-expression but was also banned in many countries. Kathy Acker, the outrageous punk icon banned in Germany but named in 2005 one of Americas original outlaw writers by the New York Times, lived life her life without boundaries. A friend of William Burroughs and Patti Smith, Acker was fascinatingly complex: A tattooed, foul-mouthed, Harley Davidson Rider who took opium & enjoyed sex with both men & women, she was also an intellectual who studied Classics at one of Americas top universities. Her celebrated novel, Blood & Guts in High School, which pioneered innovative sampling techniques, sold out within a week of its release. Proclaiming that There was no female language given me, Acker rejected her wealthy New York background to champion voices from the edge of society: the Bowery bums, crack whores, & blacks left behind by greed is good Reaganomics. Acker, the Mother of the Riot Grrls, became a myth through living life like one of her characters; inspired by the French libertine writers de Sade & Genet, she worked in sex shows on Times Square, dabbled in sadomasochistic sex & had her labia pierced high on coke. The heir to Burroughs, Acker rewrote the world in her own image, blending fact & fiction, biography & dream imagery, hardcore sex & incisive political satire in a non-narrative cyber-punk style. She stole heavily from classic fiction to rewrite the heroes as female, a transgender, appropriative method that drew both praise and criticism. Acker challenged societys ideal of femininity, daring to be tough & vulnerable at the same time. But she paid a high price for her nonconformity, suffering a double mastectomy in 1997 that she saw as a manifestation of her lifes struggle to be allowed to be who she was. Acker left behind a legacy of sixteen novels that cannot be ignored, but she learned the hard way that breaking the rules never comes cheap. (A. Standen-Raz) Director´s Statement: Over the three years I spent researching the life of the American post-punk cult author Kathy Acker, I became surprised that no film had yet been made on this uncompromising writer whose life & fiction became so blurred eventually the two were inseparable. From many interviews, the portrait of Kathy that emergedtattoos, piercings, Harley Davidson, bad languagewas of a rare individual unafraid to live like one of her characters, in a world where pulp fiction & the Classics, biography & pornography coexist. I wanted Who´s Afraid of Kathy Acker? to be more than a simple portrait of a star, to go deep into the issues which Kathy Acker raised in her work: the freedom to write about female desire, violence and explicit sex, & the underlying politics of subordination that affect us all. Kathy didnt play a clichéd female role, nor care much for social niceties. But she was brutally honest, her most endearing traither incisively witty female heroines showed women with all their joyful power, vulnerabilities & wounds, which is basically our condition. (Barbara Caspar, Director) Additional Informations: The film uses several layers to explore all sides of the contradictions of Acker as a woman, and of her work: Found footage covering Ackers entire life, from family pictures to BBC interviews; readings & performances of Kathy Acker spanning three decades; reenactments to bring characters of the books alive; interviews with young New York readers and the people who knew her best; and, last but not least, period documentary footage covering the Punk Scene, New York in the 70s and 80s, and other places of relevance to Ackers life.

KAFKA, GANJA, MANIACS parodies bizarre artists in a crazy road movie with some animation, video clips, and musical interludes mixed in.

This documentary explores the many facets of Mozart outside of his music

Five highly original musicians from different countries form the Accordion Tribe. Together they aim to reinforce the original power of the long disdained instrument.Stefan Schwietert's film follows the energetic soundscapes and their performers on a journey through Europe. An extraordinarily intensive documentary on the communicative, connecting power of music.

How Rudolf Slatin, the son of a Viennese silk dyer, became a Muslim in chains, a hero of Victorian England, and a Sudanese statesman while serving the British. And how his grandson George is following an ancient invitation and meet the heirs of the Mahdi and Kahlifa. Slatin Pasha or the unbelievable story of an Austrian hero, set in Vienna of the Habsburgs, the palaces of Victorian London, and among the warring tribes of the Sudanese Sahara.

Romaho no have eat and clothes

Austrian avant-garde theatre director Kurt Palm adaption of Flann O'Brien's beer-soaked, brilliantly funny, modernist masterpiece for the screen.

His grandfather, Bernhard Mandelbaum, still forged medals for Emperor Franz Joseph in Vienna's Thelemangasse. When the Nazis invaded Austria, the Mandelbaum family had to flee and in the USA changed the family name to Morton.

'Clemence M. Schönborn''s first feature film is a typical Austrian black comedy, dealing with an easy-going forty-something, who likes playing games with others, which has serious consequences... Phyllis, in her early 40s, still lives together with her mother, whom she loves and hates at the same time. When she gets to know Henry, supporting actor of a soap opera, she pretends to love him, but sleeps with the show's lead actor Walter, whom she finally runs over with her car, which makes Henry the show's new star - and the new lover of the lead actress Doris. However, Phyllis isn't done with him...

We are dependent on gas. Gas heats our homes. Gas powers our heavy industry. In the near future, we won't have any alternatives to this limited resource. In Europe, the demand for natural gas will increase significantly until 2030 yet and at the same time its domestic production will decrease.

Too Soon for Sorry explores the cultural and economic conditions behind the prison industrial complex through a look at four US Prisons. Desire and fear, adventure and greed, control and revenge have created not only a highly sophisticated form of oppression with 2 million people behind bars but a deadly mix for a whole generation of African Americans and Latinos.

The story of 11-year-old Wastl, who only regained zest for life after the death of his mother when he met the cheeky 17-year-old Franziska.

A documentary following the life of Lucia Westerguard, Austrian circus performer, in the early 1900s, WW2 and her senior years.