Future of Work

Lale creates a digital clone to escape the stressful world of fashion. UNCANNY ME explores identity, technology and the nature of reality.

Helen no longer wants to be a modern Sisyphus and is breaking the chains of the capitalist grillwalker corset.

Despite the adverse working conditions, two friends persevere with the power of their imagination and their will.

In a world driven by algorithms, a group of "forever teenagers" rebel against the dictates of self-optimization.

In a former German coal region, a mine gives way to a ghost train, including undead miners.

A new start to a better life? Forty Germans on welfare fly to Mallorca to do internships.

This thought-provoking documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by worker-owned factories in a capitalist, post-socialist, economy.

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

A funeral director who aspired to be an entertainer is now the last escort of people in Berlin who have died in solitude.

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

Whether in Delhi, Pune, Mumbai or Kolkata, street vendors from very different backgrounds sell the country's most popular drink, masala chai.

The Aït Seghrouchen, a nomadic people from the windswept Moroccan desert, brave sandstorms, watch livestock and the cell phone towers.

Unemployment... Helmut and Sieglinde are over fifty and already considered unemployable. What about young people trying to find work?

The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a computer heart heart deep inside.

Three players in the free market economy accept responsibility for society and future generations: They do business sustainably.

Many people want to break out of the hamster wheel of capitalism. This documentary visits three people who have taken the plunge.

Settle into the tranquility of a Benedictine monastery.

An unusual portrait film about ex-punk Scumeck Sabottka, who has been a trailblazing tour and concert promoter for 30 years.

Involuntary stops, personal rituals between communal showers and plastic-wrapped sandwiches.

Lena Morgenroth, sex worker and computer scientist, is the opposite of the miserable cliché of prostitutes and offers an insight into her live.

This film accompanies the last days of the traditional Hotel Maritim in Halle before it becomes a refugee accommodation.

A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.

By chance, Kai is thrown into an agency for creatives and a love story that is treading water somewhere between art, capital and marketing.

In elegant CinemaScope images, this film tells the story of the housekeeper Nadja in times of economic crisis as a tender melodrama.

This documentary is a down to earth look into the everyday life of a female-run brothel.

This sharply observed psychodrama follows an accountant plagued by panic attacks and self-pity who maneuvers himself into an existential impasse.

Wilfried has sold umbrellas all his life but he can no longer keep up with the technological requirements of the modern day.

Documentary about the first and second generation of Chinese migrants, stranded mainly in the country's Asian restaurants.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.