Work

A simple worker gets caught up in the maelstrom of real estate sharks, evictions and clan crime, where humanity often gives way to greed.

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.

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.

A family visit and a broken tooth raises universal questions about identity, origins and life choices.

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

Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.

Three solo entertainers share a passion for entertaining. For them, it is not just a profession, but a vocation to which they subordinate everything.

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

Klaus has a new job. And it's brilliant. The best job in the world. There is just one small snag: after work.

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

In Stammheim, right next to the old RAF prison, an educational center for future correctional officers is located next to the prison wall.

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.

Discover the hidden world of the former meat factory in Vienna's Sonnwendviertel through the lens of filmmaker Dariusz Kowalski.

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

This documentary portrays women who embark on a sea voyage thus challenging traditional gender roles just by being there.

In a small German town, local journalist Eric investigates the drug scene on his own initiative and at great personal risk.

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.

Through Skype and online chat rooms, a Vietnamese couple, Bay and Tam, create their own virtual version of Vietnam in their Munich apartment.

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

As a pioneer of the Fluxus movement she revolutionized the concept of art and made history with contemporaries Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina.

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

Elfie Semotan, known for her sophisticated visual arrangements, is considered the "grande dame" of Austrian photography.

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.

When night falls and the last rays of sunlight fade, the people in this film start their workday.

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 sky is their canvas, the airplane their brush. The Stinis family has been making history in skywriting and painting messages on the sky.

We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.

A banker smuggling black money catapults himself out of his old life with a dip in the cold lake water.

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.

A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.

A look behind the scenes at the wonderful energy and daily routine of the people who bring us the world renowned Vienna State Opera.

Where does artistic freedom begin and where does it end? And, does art actually still need artists?

In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.

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.

Rudolf Elmer has had a remarkable career at a Swiss private bank until he became a whistleblower of the offshore banking business.

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

The life story of a charismatic but questionable figure from Vienna's red light milieu, Heinz Sobota.

Settle into the tranquility of a Benedictine monastery.

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 ...

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.

In Veit Helm's fairy-tale feature debut, shy Anton struggles to prevent the closure of his family's dilapidated indoor swimming pool.

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.

CHINA BLUE by Micha X. Peled is a prizewinning documentary that documents conditions at a blue-jeans factory in China.

The story of four Chinese boys and their hopes, dreams and the challenges they face.

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

What happened to the men who performed in Jochen Hicks SEX/LIFE IN L.A. in 1998? A long-term observation of actors in gay "Adult Movies".

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

This film follows singer Bruno Adams struggle against cancer as he continues to tour and write songs.

German romantic Bollywood comedy: Nisha is a janitor at the Frankfurt Airport but of dreams of becoming a flight attendant.

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.

Douglas Wolfsperger presents the perils of small town life in black and white in his debut feature film HITHER AND THITHER.

Ten years ago, Kurt saved an outdated chairlift from demolition. Since then, he has been operating it himself - stubbornly and in any weather.

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

In THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel accompany the still very active 90-year old photographer Erich Lessing.

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