Film Schools

A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.

In poetic tableaux, filmmaker Zora Rux tells a surrealistic-comic story about the search for the true self.

A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.

Mara jumps from a bridge to her death - and wakes up in the hospital. But something's wrong. No one recognizes her.

What is inclusion and what does it mean for the future? Ana Trkulja documents the Brotfabrik Berlin inclusion project Two Suns.

Essayistic film about the Camorra clan that has been dominating the city of Naples for centuries.

Yagub, a carpenter, earns most of his money from the coffins he makes. He also has to look after his son, who has a disability.

What's reality and what's art? What happens when the tables are turned, and art no longer imitates nature but things go the other way round?

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

Jürgen Blin, who ran away from home at the age of 14 to go to sea, talks openly about his life and his years at a boxing school in Hamburg.

A short biography about analogue vinyl records.

In his short film VUE POINTE, Arne Körner looks at an island - the rushing sea, bays, unusual plants and buildings.

Guillo left his comfortable city life and went to live in the jungle, near the border to Panama. Lonely, without electricity and far from society.

In the short drama STILL LIFE two sisters try to encourage their mother not to give up after the death of their father.

Surprisingly, her Russian relatives arrive on Tatyana's birthday.

This fakedocumentary tells of Jasper's search for truthfulness, which is doomed to failure when he turns from observer to participant.

Simon Dolensky's graduation film from the International Film School Cologne was nominated for the First Steps Award.

When a young man enters the idyllic but secluded life of the mother Lilli and her daughter Ilvy, the bond between mother and child is threatened.

During WWI the war reaches a small village and changes the fate of an older woman and her 12 year old friend.

An indictment against the system of compulsory formatting and lack of imagination of public broadcasting.

When Mika enters 15-year-old Alicia life, she is confused by their appearance.

The docu-fictional companion piece to Robert Bramkamp's feature ART GIRLS.

Sixties legend Lou Castel participates in Rosana Cuellar's German-Mexican short-film fairy tale, about a young woman in a mysterious land.