Rolf und Susanne gehen ins Hallenbad

Rolf and Susanne visit an indoor swimming pool. They learn how to buy tickets at the ticket office, how to find and use the changing rooms and showers and how to behave correctly in the pools for swimmers and non-swimmers.

Verständigung durch Zeichen

How can children communicate with other road users as pedestrians and cyclists? A pantomime also explains sign language.

Round About Hollywood

This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets. Considerable time is taken showing the kinds of architecture of private homes. There are images of various important buildings, and a depiction of the Hollywood Bowl. Finally, there is a sequence revolving around the premiere of the film “Dirigible” (1931) at the famed Chinese Theatre.

Collar de moscas

El jardín de las delicias

Me and the Wannabe Indians

A documentary about Freia who lives with her mother in a hippie collective. She has thoughts on everything from the things her parents are doing to life in New York and the world.

Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi

The sights and sounds of a kimchi factory in Vietnam.

A.

Having lost her memory, A. could barely recall glimpses of her childhood in Argentina. After her death, her son visits the empty house for the last time. A sensory journey through a house without objects but filled with memory.

Silence

A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.

Gitanos sin romancero

Gente de mesón

The Grass Ceiling

Based on Eimear Ryan’s essay ‘The Fear of Winning’, three successful female athletes explore how being physically courageous, unapologetically competitive and deeply passionate in team sport can unlock a freedom to really occupy your own skin.

Visions of Europe

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Geschichte einer Sandrose

A boy from the desert tries to sell a sand rose in the big city.

Brot der Wüste

Short documentary by Peter Fleischmann

The Man Killers

Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'

Directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog describe and discuss the film The Act of Killing (2012).

Exiles

Poles forcibly displaced from the eastern lands after 1945 tell about their experiences, recall that difficult period when they had to leave their homes, leave all their possessions, neighbors. Paweł łoziński's Film is a story about people who had to start life from scratch in a new place. They can hardly hide their emotion, hold back tears. They're trying to make a whole out of memory chips.

The Overture

Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want to get to, at least theoretically.

Kirk Douglas

The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lódz.