What was it like to be a lesbian woman in the GDR?
Uferfrauen follows six protagonists who lived in large and small towns in the north and south of the former socialist republic; they have a lot to tell. The women share with the audience their everyday lives at the time, their struggle for self-determination, their first love, unconventional family planning and conflicts with the SED and the law.
History
Franco on Trial: The Spanish Nuremberg?
It is one of the darkest chapters in recent European history: the genocide in Spain, committed during the coup d’état in 1936, the subsequent almost three-year war (1936-1939) and the following fascist dictatorship of General Franco (1939-1977). After a failed attempt in 2008 to bring these crimes to justice in a Spanish court, the Argentinean judiciary has been attempting since 2010 to try alleged perpetrators of Franco’s dictatorship, who are still alive, for crimes against humanity. Is this the end of decades of impunity?
Bye Bye Berlin
“Between the dismantling of the wheel and the erection of the cross, Berlin died for me”. That’s what Italian filmmaker Antonio Nábolo said. He was referring to the dismantling of the robber wheel in front of the Volksbühne, at the end of Frank Castorf’s directorship, and the erection of the cross on the dome of the Humboldt Forum. It is done: after 1066 days, almost three years, Berlin’s agony has ended. “Bye Bye Berlin” by Antonio Nábolo and Eberhard Spreng documents the dying process, a film-within-a-film adventure, a journey through the labyrinth of Berlin’s present and history.
Berlin Excelsior
A film about life in a reinforced concrete construction, about self-optimisation and the success that will soon – very soon! – come.
Transit Line
A film about what we weren’t told and what happened afterwards: the Balkans 1995 genocide in Europe 25 years ago. The drawn film depicts a journey to spatial and emotional roots and borders. It asks about repetition and change. And it asks about our future.
Women Composers
Women composers – a cinematic and musical search for their roots.
Long Echo
Long Echo tells the story of residents in the coal-mining town of Dobropillja, eastern Ukraine. And a war that at first glance seems only peripheral.
The freedom last but one
The blue sky arching above the young boy in Auschwitz-Birkenau is his refuge. And so it remains. In his diaries, survivor Otto Dov Kulka crafts landscapes. The film mirrors them.
Learning to Milk a Cow
To Bavaria and back in search of heritage lost.
The Bomb Hunters
A bomb victim, a small-town mayor and an intrepid bomb squad race against time to liberate their city from over 300 undetonated World War II bombs before they go off.