This documentary draws viewers' attention to an equally neglected and essential process in the cultural economy: the ticket.
Breakthrough Stage
Documentary, Independent
2023
1h.20min
16+
An inspiring film about courage, talent and the vision of a theater world that recognizes and promotes all talents equally.
Teheran Kitchen
Documentary, Shorts
2009
17min
16+
Between oversalted soup and grumbling students, three chefs and a kitchen hand toil in the small university cafeteria in Tehran.
Star Chasers
Documentary, Shorts
2007
14min
16+
What does the night do to people? A documentary with a poetic look at three Berlin night workers and their very own rhythm.
Five to Six
Shorts, Love & Sex
2004
6min
16+
Erotic fairy tale about sexual fantasies in the hectic atmosphere of a large kitchen.
Atlas
Crime, Drama
2018
1h.39min
16+
A simple worker gets caught up in the maelstrom of real estate sharks, evictions and clan crime, where humanity often gives way to greed.
Europa Passage
Documentary, Independent
2022
1h.29min
16+
A movie about people who have no chance but still try to make the best of it. And about the price they have to pay for it.
Uncanny Me
Documentary, Independent
2022
44min
16+
Lale creates a digital clone to escape the stressful world of fashion. UNCANNY ME explores identity, technology and the nature of reality.
Everything Has an End
Comedy, Shorts
2022
15min
16+
Helen no longer wants to be a modern Sisyphus and is breaking the chains of the capitalist grillwalker corset.
The Smoothness of Our Teeth
Drama, Shorts
2021
28min
16+
A family visit and a broken tooth raises universal questions about identity, origins and life choices.
Stained Skin
Shorts
2021
9min
16+
Despite the adverse working conditions, two friends persevere with the power of their imagination and their will.
Make Up the World
Documentary, Independent
2024
1h.39min
16+
Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.
Joker
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.30min
16+
Three solo entertainers share a passion for entertaining. For them, it is not just a profession, but a vocation to which they subordinate everything.
Youth Topia
Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
2023
1h.25min
16+
In a world driven by algorithms, a group of "forever teenagers" rebel against the dictates of self-optimization.
Monday – A German Love Story
Shorts
2017
5min
16+
Klaus has a new job. And it's brilliant. The best job in the world. There is just one small snag: after work.
From the Ashes
Documentary, Independent
2019
19min
16+
In a former German coal region, a mine gives way to a ghost train, including undead miners.
Candidates - Training in Stammheim
Documentary
2020
58min
16+
In Stammheim, right next to the old RAF prison, an educational center for future correctional officers is located next to the prison wall.
Prima Mallorca
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.30min
16+
A new start to a better life? Forty Germans on welfare fly to Mallorca to do internships.
Factory to the Workers
Documentary
2022
1h.46min
16+
This thought-provoking documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by worker-owned factories in a capitalist, post-socialist, economy.
Zwischennutzung
Documentary, Independent
2022
1h.35min
16+
Discover the hidden world of the former meat factory in Vienna's Sonnwendviertel through the lens of filmmaker Dariusz Kowalski.
Room Without a View
Documentary, Independent
2021
1h.13min
16+
Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.
Stories from the Sea
Documentary
2021
1h.26min
16+
This documentary portrays women who embark on a sea voyage thus challenging traditional gender roles just by being there.
The Postman's White Nights
Drama
2014
1h.37min
16+
Quiet drama about the Russian soul, corruption and the postman from Lake Kenozero in northern Russia.
Another Way to Make a Living
Crime, Independent
2022
1h.4min
16+
In a small German town, local journalist Eric investigates the drug scene on his own initiative and at great personal risk.
Parov Stelar - Backstage 2022
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
58min
16+
Parov Stelar, is regarded as the founder of electro swing. His unique sound has been conquering concert halls around the world for more than 15 years.
Going Alone
Documentary, Independent
2022
28min
16+
A funeral director who aspired to be an entertainer is now the last escort of people in Berlin who have died in solitude.
My Vietnam
Documentary
2021
1h.10min
16+
Through Skype and online chat rooms, a Vietnamese couple, Bay and Tam, create their own virtual version of Vietnam in their Munich apartment.
Where to, Miss?
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.23min
16+
A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.
Mary Bauermeister - One and One is Three
Biography, Documentary
2021
1h.42min
16+
As a pioneer of the Fluxus movement she revolutionized the concept of art and made history with contemporaries Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.
Flood
Drama
2019
1h.40min
16+
When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina.
Masala Chai
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.2min
16+
Whether in Delhi, Pune, Mumbai or Kolkata, street vendors from very different backgrounds sell the country's most popular drink, masala chai.
Elfie Semotan, Photographer
Documentary
2019
1h.16min
16+
Elfie Semotan, known for her sophisticated visual arrangements, is considered the "grande dame" of Austrian photography.
In die Welt - Into the World
Documentary
2009
1h.27min
16+
This moving portrait of a maternity hospital in Vienna provides a fascinating insight into the drama, pain, and beauty of being born into this world.
So bright the night
Documentary, Shorts
2019
14min
16+
When night falls and the last rays of sunlight fade, the people in this film start their workday.
Le Ciel, la Terre et L'Homme
Documentary
2018
1h.10min
16+
The Aït Seghrouchen, a nomadic people from the windswept Moroccan desert, brave sandstorms, watch livestock and the cell phone towers.
Jobcenter
Documentary, Independent
2009
1h.19min
16+
Unemployment... Helmut and Sieglinde are over fifty and already considered unemployable. What about young people trying to find work?
Skywriters
Documentary
2016
27min
16+
The sky is their canvas, the airplane their brush. The Stinis family has been making history in skywriting and painting messages on the sky.
On the margins
Documentary, Independent
2015
1h.22min
16+
We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.
I Was a Swiss Banker
Romance
2007
1h.15min
16+
A banker smuggling black money catapults himself out of his old life with a dip in the cold lake water.
Age of the Gods
Documentary, Independent
1992
1h.32min
16+
At the beginning of the last century, Arno Breker was one of the great hopes of young German sculpture, esteemed by the painter Max Liebermann.
Happy Too
Documentary
2002
1h.1min
16+
A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.
Backstage Vienna State Opera
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.36min
16+
A look behind the scenes at the wonderful energy and daily routine of the people who bring us the world renowned Vienna State Opera.
Eisenberger – Art Must be Beautiful, as the Frog Says to the Fly
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.34min
16+
Where does artistic freedom begin and where does it end? And, does art actually still need artists?
Ink of Yam
Documentary, Independent
2017
1h.15min
16+
In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.
Well Done
Classics
1994
1h.13min
16+
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.
Fair Traders
Documentary
2018
1h.30min
16+
Three players in the free market economy accept responsibility for society and future generations: They do business sustainably.
Offshore - Elmer and the Swiss Bank Secrecy
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.42min
16+
Rudolf Elmer has had a remarkable career at a Swiss private bank until he became a whistleblower of the offshore banking business.
Kick Out Your Boss
Documentary, Independent
2014
1h.29min
16+
Many people want to break out of the hamster wheel of capitalism. This documentary visits three people who have taken the plunge.
The unman documentary
Documentary
2018
1h.5min
16+
The life story of a charismatic but questionable figure from Vienna's red light milieu, Heinz Sobota.
Silentium - From life in the monastery
Documentary, Independent
2015
1h.24min
16+
Settle into the tranquility of a Benedictine monastery.
Lockbuster
Shorts
2015
9min
16+
When all his colleagues leave the office for exciting holidays, office clerk Joost locks himself in the storage room. The only way to escape is to unleash ...
Calabria
Documentary
2016
1h.57min
16+
A road movie in a hearse. After the death of an Italian man, two undertakers, Jovan and José - themselves emigrants - drive the body to Italy.
Tuvalu
Drama, Romance
1999
1h.31min
16+
In Veit Helm's fairy-tale feature debut, shy Anton struggles to prevent the closure of his family's dilapidated indoor swimming pool.
Der Konzertdealer
Documentary, Independent
2017
1h.26min
16+
An unusual portrait film about ex-punk Scumeck Sabottka, who has been a trailblazing tour and concert promoter for 30 years.
Rest
Documentary
2016
1h.0min
16+
Involuntary stops, personal rituals between communal showers and plastic-wrapped sandwiches.
Sexarbeiterin
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.36min
16+
Lena Morgenroth, sex worker and computer scientist, is the opposite of the miserable cliché of prostitutes and offers an insight into her live.
Kommen und Gehen
Documentary, Independent
2017
57min
16+
This film accompanies the last days of the traditional Hotel Maritim in Halle before it becomes a refugee accommodation.
Mikel
Drama
2017
31min
16+
A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.
Zaha Hadid, An Architect, A Masterpiece
Biography, Independent
2011
52min
16+
Carine Roy's documentary is dedicated to one of the world's most famous architects and the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
After Effect
Independent, Love & Sex
2006
1h.15min
16+
By chance, Kai is thrown into an agency for creatives and a love story that is treading water somewhere between art, capital and marketing.
Coming and Going
Documentary
2015
1h.29min
16+
The story of four Chinese boys and their hopes, dreams and the challenges they face.
Sto Spiti - At Home
Drama, Independent
2014
1h.43min
16+
In elegant CinemaScope images, this film tells the story of the housekeeper Nadja in times of economic crisis as a tender melodrama.
Five Sex Rooms and One Kitchen
Love & Sex, Documentary
2007
1h.19min
16+
This documentary is a down to earth look into the everyday life of a female-run brothel.
So Glad I Did
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2011
1h.6min
16+
This film follows singer Bruno Adams struggle against cancer as he continues to tour and write songs.
Gate to Heaven
Comedy, Romance
2003
1h.28min
16+
German romantic Bollywood comedy: Nisha is a janitor at the Frankfurt Airport but of dreams of becoming a flight attendant.
The Promotion
Drama, Independent
2014
1h.28min
16+
This sharply observed psychodrama follows an accountant plagued by panic attacks and self-pity who maneuvers himself into an existential impasse.
Schurback
Icons & Media Art
2012
29min
16+
Wilfried has sold umbrellas all his life but he can no longer keep up with the technological requirements of the modern day.
Because I Am a Genius! Lorenza Mazzetti
Biography, Documentary
2016
1h.2min
16+
Lorenza Mazzetti's extraordinary life story touches many points in twentieth century history.
Hither And Thither
Comedy, Classics
1985
1h.20min
16+
Douglas Wolfsperger presents the perils of small town life in black and white in his debut feature film HITHER AND THITHER.
Kurt and the Chairlift
Documentary, Independent
2012
20min
16+
Ten years ago, Kurt saved an outdated chairlift from demolition. Since then, he has been operating it himself - stubbornly and in any weather.
China Reverse
Documentary, Independent
2014
1h.31min
16+
Documentary about the first and second generation of Chinese migrants, stranded mainly in the country's Asian restaurants.
The Photographer In Front Of The Camera
Biography, Independent
2014
1h.17min
16+
In THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel accompany the still very active 90-year old photographer Erich Lessing.
Honey and Ashes
Classics
1996
1h.16min
16+
Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.