Polish animator Anna Błaszczyk’s humorous short—a collage of drawing, cut-out, and computer animation—was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Return from the Stars, a time-paradox tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth after many years away.
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
The path is known to all, but few follow it. Rising Hope – once the fastest horse in the race, tries to be one of the few.
When the hard-working bread-winner Katja and Hendrik the intellectual meet Saida, an illegal immigrant from Algeria, and accept to organize a "passport marriage" between her and Hendrik, they are caught up in a chain of events and feelings over which they have no control.
John, a famous rockstar, dies accidently during a concert and wakes up in nirvana. There he has to face his wishes and deeds...
Nine young actors leave behind their daily lives in Berlin and travel to the country to audition for a summer theatre production to be performed in the ruins of an old church. A once-renowned Swiss director is using this week of rehearsals to find the lead for this production of “Hamlet”. The director is staying privately at the home of an old woman, but the actors are being put up at a run-down hotel with very thin walls.
In order to save her marriage, Ida decides to undergo a personality change. From a restrained and submissive woman she develops into a person who is aware of herself and is able to make her claim. But does the change turn out as something she expected?
Television plays an important role in the life of the people of Havana. Despite there being only one program - the daily broadcast of the Telenovela is a most welcome distraction from the boring everyday life in the capital of Cuba. The movie watches enthusiastic and less enthusiastic viewers, and the almost holy people who are repairing the precious, mostly Russian devices.
In an attempt to save their troubled relationship, Stefan (Wolfgang Menardi) and Claudia (Stephanie Schönfeld) go on a camping trip to the coast. They pick up Uli (Norman Schenk), a professional puppeteer who turns out to be quite entertaining. But when the puppet develops a life of its own, and Stefan seems to remember Uli from the past, they are already caught up in a mysterious and dangerous game.
The power company Vattenfall wants to capture emissions from a coal-fired power station and bury them underground - in order to save the world climate. The opponents of the CCS-technology fear not only the risks of this compression but also that the existing power system would be cemented. A film about the challenges of the energy turnaround.
