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The little Nansal finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend against all rejections of her parents.

Die 13-jährige Sinikka verschwindet in einer heißen Sommernacht. Ihr Fahrrad wird genau dort gefunden, wo vor 23 Jahren ein Mädchen getötet wurde. Die dramatische Gegenwart zwingt die Beteiligten des ursprünglichen Falles, sich ihrer Vergangenheit zu stellen.

Ein sinnlicher und intimer Film über eine Gruppe Berliner, die nach neuen Lebenswegen suchen, während sie in einem sonnigen und sehr experimentellen Wohnzimmer mit infamen Fantasien, Schmerz und Sexualität spielen.

Europa am Rande des sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Wandels. Eine eindrucksvolle Nahaufnahme von vier Paaren und ihren Überlebenskampf im Alltag, von Streitigkeiten, Kindern, Sex und Leidenschaft. Ein Film über die Politik der Liebe. Le cinéma politique fait l'amour.

In den Sommerferien wohnt Victor bei seiner Tante und seiner Cousine. Der Vorfall auf der Brücke wäre vielleicht nicht passiert, wenn er nicht in seine Cousine Denise verknallt wäre oder Angst vor dem Hund der Nachbarn hätte.

Matei, a young boy on the verge of adolescence is fascinated by the past of the Transylvanian mining region he lives in. Upon his return from an initiation journey filled with rich discoveries through the big city, he faces the loss of innocence when confronted with the death of his grandfather.

Frida sehnt sich danach, Mutter zu werden, aber ihr brennender Wunsch bleibt unbefriedigt. Und doch verlässt ihr Freund sie.

A lot can happen on the long way to the market in the Ethiopian countryside. A father and his son follow all the people's good advice... and come back to their senses.

Michelle Spark develops a new technology: data glasses. The device can recognize faces and connect them with online information. The impact of this invention becomes evident when a private secret of one citizen is broadcast to the public.

It's a Friday night out and teenage girl Zoe decides to drive her dad's car - only she doesn't have her licence yet. She invites a group of friends and before long crashes the beautiful old timer into a deer in the middle of a dark forrest. What are they gonna do now?

Good advertisement has to move your deepest emotions and touch your heart. But who needs good advertisement, when you can have plush fruit-costumes and cute kid-rappers? Twinfruit lets us peek behind the scenes of an insane industry.

Fashion designer Miguel Adrover - eccentric, visionary and freethinker. This is the story of a Majorcan farmer's son, who left his homeland to conquer the Big Apple's fashion scene. All at once, Adrover was the dreamlike embodiment of the American success story. The decline that followed was just as rapid. In a trice the highly respected fashion designer found himself again with nothing. This documentary follows Miguel Adrover, former enfant terrible of New York's fashion scene, somewhere between yesterday and today, recognition and trauma.

Hans retires from managing a grocery store. Just one day into his retirement, he realizes that this transition is a lot harder than anticipated. He has to find a way to deal with his new found freedom.

Warmzeit (in engl. warm period) connects people in different places of this world whose every-day lives are affected by global-warming. From Greenland to Namibia it portrays individuals experiencing the impact of climatic change, as well as scientists and engineers of alternative energy technologies. In Africa, mere two degrees of warming are going to destroy the foundation of people's lives. In Greenland today, farmers can grow vegetables in areas where the ground was permanently frozen just decades ago. Major contributors to global climate warming are the industrialized, Western countries and the Co2 emissions they produce. Human actions have become a decisive global parameter and are going to change the face of the world, if we don't reconsider our choices.

A night in Buenos Aires. Young people between sunset and sunrise, in search of trash, love, justice, a future. Four life lines cross but never touch each other. A portrait of a society in crisis.

Was wird bleiben... (What will remain...) when mankind has disappeared? What can be found? What will it tell about us? What will remain from modern technology, art, social order, and humanity? What will remain... is an essay about the fragility of our life, our civilization and the short period of time we've walked on this planet.

****Melancholy but never mushy, wry but never cute, refreshingly adult, exploring the human experience with extraordinary clarity. -Film Threat. In the tradition of Swingers, and a winner of multiple festival awards, and written/directed by veteran film and TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz (NY Press, The Star-Ledger), HOME is a sexy comic drama set at a Brooklyn house party on a hot sumemr night. It starts when a sarcastic loner named Bobby shows up uninvited at a party thrown by roommates Susan and Rose. Bobby came to the party to reconnect with another guest, his free-spirited ex-girlfriend Haper, who he hasn't seen in years. But Harper is more interested in stealing away the object of Rose's affections, a motor mouthed salesman named Tommy. Stranded among strangers Bobby latches on to Susan. But the plot keeps thickening as Susan's ex-boyfriend shows up and a tense ensues in this laid-back comedy drama about sex, love and relationships paced into a two-story brownstone one summer night.

Lili, Pascal, Fabian, Amina and Sultan. Five teenagers from Munich, Germany. Between still being a kid and coming of age they struggle for their place in society. At IMAL, the International Munich Art Lab, which offers professional qualification to young adults from different social and cultural background through artistic projects, the five teens have the opportunity to develop and stage their own musical together with 20 like-minded people. All of them dream of a life on stage. Will their dream come true? Or will every-day life get in the way?

The cold war ended 1989. The threat of a nuclear conflict disappeared. Or did it? Today the once new bomb-shelters are dusty, but kept operational. The German government still stores food and gasoline, diesel and crude oil. Infrastructural points of strategic interest could be detonated and stop the advance of the 'enemy'. With the fall of the iron curtain the secret files of war were opened. Fuer den Ernstfall (In case of emergency) tries to understand this madness. How prepared is the Bundesrepublik for the event of disaster?

In the middle of German back province the Hindu priest Sri Paskaran has built the biggest Tamil Hindu temple in Europe. It was founded in 2002, amidst industrial plants in the Westphalian village Hamm-Uentrop. The film accompanies the priests busy life during the preparations for the annual temple festival, with 20.000 believers expected. In the neighborhood the German locals cultivate their own traditions but also support the Hindus in their own way. Irene sells Bratwurst in the local snack-bar, while farmer Exsternbrink tends to a holy cow in his barn. An encounter of two opposite but peacefully coexisting worlds.

Stadlfreunde (Friends of Volksmusik) accompanies five avid Volksmusik fans: Friedrich, Gusti and Helmut, Lydia and Harald. They belong to different generations and have different lifestyles but they share the passion for the "Musikantenstadl", one of the most successful Volksmusik TV shows in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. At the live broadcasts they forget their daily struggles and join the party. Each year's highlight is the "Silvesterstadl" on New Year's Eve. Stadlfreunde (Friends of Volksmusik) deals with the motives of dedicated fans and how this specific fandom influences their approach to life.