Technology

  • It Works

    It Works

    1998

    21min

    16+

    IT WORKS tells seemingly ordinary stories that are a celebration of the individual achievements of the four protagonists.


  • R U There

    R U There

    2010

    1h.23min

    6

    Pro-gamer Jitze has to take a forced break from a tournament in Taipei and meets a young woman who changes his view of the world.


  • Miisufy

    Miisufy

    2024

    10min

    6

    Digital pet cat Miisu gets tired of her owner and starts to revolt. Inspired by the 90's Tamagotchi mania.


  • Two Girls and a Boat

    Two Girls and a Boat

    2021

    13min

    12

    Twins Jade and Kaisa are going for a rowing trip. But social media influencer Jade actually has something else in mind.


  • Mondo Domino

    Mondo Domino

    2021

    6min

    12

    This burlesque action musical tragicomedy with a minimalist color palette criticizes consumerism to the sound of Ravel's Boléro.


  • Digital Life

    Digital Life

    2023

    1h.31min

    16

    A digital flat share in the middle of the pandemic. Everyone is always reachable. Love and hate are close together. A comic nightmare by Malte Wirtz.


  • Uncanny Me

    Uncanny Me

    2022

    44min

    16+

    Lale creates a digital clone to escape the stressful world of fashion. UNCANNY ME explores identity, technology and the nature of reality.


  • Foreplay

    Foreplay

    2021

    52min

    16+

    In 2000, Julie Talon made the film "Baiser certain", about the first kiss as a rite of passage. What has changed in the last 20 years?


  • Monolith

    Monolith

    2023

    1h.12min

    12 FSK

    A 24-hour odyssey through Berlin, full of subtle tension and existential questions.


  • Youth Topia

    Youth Topia

    2023

    1h.25min

    16 FSK

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


  • Junk Space Berlin

    Junk Space Berlin

    2023

    1h.45min

    16 FSK

    Welcome to the marginal deviation of reality. An inexplicable rift runs through the dystopian Berlin and four outsiders venture to find their friend.


  • One in a Million

    One in a Million

    2022

    1h.24min

    0 FSK

    Two girls, a fan and an idol, struggle to balance their vulnerability and strength, and their outer image with their inner truth


  • The Giant

    The Giant

    1984

    1h.22min

    16+

    An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An “City Symphony” entirelly composed from material generated by CCTV.


  • Compliance

    Compliance

    2012

    1h.30min

    12 FSK

    A riveting psychological horror film that delves into the depths of human obedience and naivety.


  • Motorcity

    Motorcity

    2021

    1h.27min

    16+

    A compelling exploration of the complexities of American life, history, and society through the lens of the unique and fascinating sport drag racing.


  • I.K.U.

    I.K.U.

    2000

    1h.13min

    18 FSK

    „This film is not made for masturbation. It’s made for collective orgasm.“


  • Eye on Juliet

    Eye on Juliet

    2018

    1h.30min

    12 FSK

    A lonely security guard uses military technology to search the other side of the world for his soul mate.


  • Bellflower

    Bellflower

    2010

    1h.46min

    16 FSK

    Best buddies Woodrow and Aiden work on their muscle car and build flamethrowers until one of them falls in love with cricket-eating Milly.


  • Primer

    Primer

    2004

    1h.17min

    16+

    When two small time engineers accidentally create a time machine, their friendship is put to the test.


  • The Bomb

    The Bomb

    2015

    1h.0min

    16+

    This visually stunning monumental work is an emphatic reminder of the enduring threat of total annihilation by nuclear weapons.


  • 10,000 km

    10,000 km

    2013

    1h.39min

    16+

    Photographer Alex is leaving Barcelona to work in Los Angeles for a year. Will her relationship with Sergi survive the 10,000 kilometer distance?


  • Music and Apocalypse

    Music and Apocalypse

    2019

    1h.20min

    0 FSK

    A bitter satire on the university business and its evaluation madness and third-party funding stupidity.


  • MySELFie

    MySELFie

    2019

    50min

    16+

    At the age of 12 Maya starting losing her hair. Within a few weeks she was completely bald. The diagnosis: Alopecia areata.


  • Berlin 4 Lovers

    Berlin 4 Lovers

    2019

    1h.12min

    16+

    Tinder users in Berlin talk openly and honestly and about real-life encounters, both the good and the bad, with dates made using the famous dating app


  • Love and 50 Megatons

    Love and 50 Megatons

    2020

    44min

    16+

    A grotesque, political, and socially satirical film about an unusual love story in the populist age.


  • Falter

    Falter

    2019

    44min

    16+

    To give his monotonous life new meaning beyond work, sports, and sex, Falter resolves to live with an android from now on.


  • Space Cleaners

    Space Cleaners

    2019

    23min

    6

    In the coming decades, orbiting space debris could fundamentally change life on Earth. Scientists are already searching for solutions.


  • the_other_images

    the_other_images

    2018

    17min

    12

    We are accumulating more and more data, images and sound snippets. But how can we remember when digital materials marked by decay fail?


  • Cielo

    Cielo

    2017

    1h.18min

    0

    Be amazed at the crazy beauty of the night sky in the Atacama Desert, Chile, the best place in the world to contemplate the splendor of our planet.


  • The Marvin Case

    The Marvin Case

    2020

    1h.10min

    12

    In this absurd interpretation of reality, the disappearance of a cat triggers a financial crisis.


  • In Vitro

    In Vitro

    2019

    28min

    16+

    After an eco-disaster, the abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical city of Bethlehem was transformed into a huge orchard.


  • The Noah's Ark Principle

    The Noah's Ark Principle

    1984

    1h.39min

    12 FSK

    With a budget of 1.2 million marks, Roland Emmerich's graduation film holds the record for the most expensive German student film of all time.


  • Lord of the Toys

    Lord of the Toys

    2018

    1h.36min

    16 FSK

    Max "Adlersson" Herzberg from Dresden, 20 years old, has over 300,000 subscriptions on YouTube and reviews knives and gangsta rap fan boxes.


  • Eolomea

    Eolomea

    1972

    1h.18min

    6 FSK

    Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days. And the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent.


  • The Farthest

    The Farthest

    2018

    2h.1min

    0 FSK

    The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.


  • Virality

    Virality

    2017

    1h.51min

    12 FSK

    The young policeman Kari gets into a chase when shots are fired. Videos of the circulate on the Internet and the criticism from the public is harsh.


  • The Shock of the Future

    The Shock of the Future

    2019

    1h.18min

    16+

    Paris, 1978. In the male-dominated music industry, Ana uses innovative electronic instruments to create a new sound that will shape the coming decades


  • Bikes vs Cars

    Bikes vs Cars

    2015

    1h.30min

    0 FSK

    Bikes vs Cars highlights a global crisis that we have long been aware of and should be talking about: The climate and mobility crisis....


  • The Netz: SEEK II

    The Netz: SEEK II

    2009

    29min

    12

    While researching for the film Das Netz, Lutz Dammbeck came across the exhibition "Software. Information technology: its new meaning for art".


  • The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    2004

    35min

    12

    Lutz Dammbeck talks with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) about T.A.Z., Ted Kaczynski, Islam, Marvin Minsky, Cusanus and natural philosophy.


  • The Net

    The Net

    2003

    2h.1min

    12 FSK

    What is the connection between computer technology, hippie culture, mathematics, terrorism, the research of consciousness in the 1950s and paranoia?


  • Face_It!

    Face_It!

    2019

    1h.20min

    16+

    An exploration of facial recognition, a modern fingerprint that provides access to a person's personality like a secret code.


  • Double Income, Kids

    Double Income, Kids

    2019

    1h.34min

    16+

    A gay couple from Tel Aviv wants to become parents, ideally twins with an American surrogate mother, one child from each father.


  • Abenteuer mit Blasius

    Abenteuer mit Blasius

    1975

    1h.15min

    0 FSK


  • Well Done

    Well Done

    1994

    1h.13min

    16+

    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.


  • Code of Survival

    Code of Survival

    2017

    1h.35min

    0 FSK

    What kind of agriculture holds the code for survival on our planet?


  • Climate Warriors

    Climate Warriors

    2018

    1h.26min

    6 FSK

    The documentary film by Carl-A. Fechner shows how the switch to green energy can actually succeed - worldwide.


  • The Cleaners

    The Cleaners

    2018

    1h.28min

    16 FSK

    Dive into the hidden industry of digital cleaning, which rids the Internet of unwanted violence, porn and political content. Who is controlling what we ...


  • The Symphony of Uncertainty

    The Symphony of Uncertainty

    2018

    1h.35min

    16+

    This is a far-reaching interrogation of something that’s usually regarded as the undoubted precondition of life and filmmaking: an objective, at best yet ...


  • Ma Folie

    Ma Folie

    2015

    1h.39min

    16 FSK

    HANNA loves YANN and the "lettres filmees" that he sends her, short, poetic films recorded with an iPhone. Yann loves Hanna, but mistrusts her. He leaves ...


  • The Idealist

    The Idealist

    2015

    1h.54min

    12 FSK

    An American B52 bomber with live nuclear warheads crashes in Greenland - years later, a journalist reopens the case.


  • Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals

    Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals

    2017

    1h.17min

    16 FSK

    How is ever-available pornography changing our lives? Ex-porn actress Ovidie explains.


  • Krebs - eine Biographie

    Krebs - eine Biographie

    2017

    1h.44min

    12 FSK

    The history of cancer is marked by human suffering and thirst for knowledge, wrong decisions and ingenuity, setbacks and breakthroughs.


  • The Whispering Star

    The Whispering Star

    2015

    1h.40min

    0 FSK

    In a distant future in which humanity is almost extinct, the android ID 722 Yoko Suzuki works as an interstellar parcel messenger.


  • Atari: Game Over

    Atari: Game Over

    2014

    1h.6min

    0 FSK

    Did the Atari company really dump tons of video tapes in the desert?


  • Furusato

    Furusato

    2016

    1h.34min

    12 FSK

    A small town in Japan's exclusion zone searches for normalcy in the five years following the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.


  • All Creatures Welcome

    All Creatures Welcome

    2018

    1h.27min

    12

    All Creatures Welcome explores the world of hackers and nerds and sketches a utopian image of society in the digital era.


  • Future Works - Ein Film über Arbeit

    Future Works - Ein Film über Arbeit

    2013

    1h.24min

    16+

    Robots, working from home, skills shortages, artificial intelligence and biodynamic agriculture. How we work is constantly changing.


  • Fukushima and the Bats

    Fukushima and the Bats

    2015

    1h.22min

    16+

    After the catastrophic events in Fukushima, the transition to renewable energy was placed firmly on the political agenda in Germany.


  • tagged

    tagged

    2017

    12min

    16+

    This is the story of a 14 year old girl and her mobile phone. The content Elise posts on social media gets out of hand, and out of her control.


  • Campus Galli - Bauen wie im Mittelalter

    Campus Galli - Bauen wie im Mittelalter

    2019

    1h.30min

    0 FSK

    This Documentary follows the ambitious project of building a cloister town with only the tools that where present in the middle ages.


  • Seed: The Untold Story

    Seed: The Untold Story

    2016

    1h.34min

    6 FSK

    Few things on earth are as wondrous and vital as seeds. Revered and valued since the dawn of mankind.


  • Automärchen

    Automärchen

    1983

    1h.33min

    6 FSK

    This quirky episodic comedy weaves together three plotlines centered around the employees of a car garage, with some unexpected fairytale elements to get ...


  • Frozen Flashes

    Frozen Flashes

    1967

    2h.34min

    16 FSK

    In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But ...


  • Surrounded

    Surrounded

    2013

    10min

    16+

    A short biography about analogue vinyl records.


  • Having Krebs

    Having Krebs

    2012

    21min

    12 FSK

    A student loses touch with reality and believes the whole world is sick.


  • Meine Daten und ich

    Meine Daten und ich

    2008

    1h.19min

    6 FSK

    In the mockumentary filmmaker Axel Ranisch asks various politicians: “How far can the state go to combat terrorism?” The insights are humorous and downright ...


  • I Follow You

    I Follow You

    2015

    3min

    12

    Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Anna is a digital-native. I FOLLOW YOU by Jonatan Etzler reveals the pitfalls of the post-modern information society.


  • Teststand 7

    Teststand 7

    2001

    1h.50min

    16+

    At the centre of the experimental film-collage TESTSTAND 7 is the V-2 rocket, the so-called “Wunderwaffe” (wonder weapon) developed by the Nazis.