IT WORKS tells seemingly ordinary stories that are a celebration of the individual achievements of the four protagonists.
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
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
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
2021
6min
12
This burlesque action musical tragicomedy with a minimalist color palette criticizes consumerism to the sound of Ravel's Boléro.
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
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
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
2023
1h.12min
12 FSK
A 24-hour odyssey through Berlin, full of subtle tension and existential questions.
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
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
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
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
2012
1h.30min
12 FSK
A riveting psychological horror film that delves into the depths of human obedience and naivety.
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.
2000
1h.13min
18 FSK
„This film is not made for masturbation. It’s made for collective orgasm.“
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
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
2004
1h.17min
16+
When two small time engineers accidentally create a time machine, their friendship is put to the test.
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
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
2019
1h.20min
0 FSK
A bitter satire on the university business and its evaluation madness and third-party funding stupidity.
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
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
2020
44min
16+
A grotesque, political, and socially satirical film about an unusual love story in the populist age.
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
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
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
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
2020
1h.10min
12
In this absurd interpretation of reality, the disappearance of a cat triggers a financial crisis.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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!
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
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
1975
1h.15min
0 FSK
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
2017
1h.35min
0 FSK
What kind of agriculture holds the code for survival on our planet?
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
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
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
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
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
2017
1h.17min
16 FSK
How is ever-available pornography changing our lives? Ex-porn actress Ovidie explains.
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
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
2014
1h.6min
0 FSK
Did the Atari company really dump tons of video tapes in the desert?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2013
10min
16+
A short biography about analogue vinyl records.
Having Krebs
2012
21min
12 FSK
A student loses touch with reality and believes the whole world is sick.
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
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
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.