Movies: Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

Berlin-Kreuzberg. Kenan's big day has arrived. The nine-year-old half-orphan is to be circumcised, following the millennia-old Muslim tradition. But before that, there is a party! During the party, which Kenan's father Ibrahim organises more for his ...

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A 27-year-old Indonesian, Tim, is having a family vacation with both of his parents on a remote island far from the city, where they learn about the myth of a reincarnated deer that exists somewhere along the beach. Island locals believe that seeing ...

The Vietnamese Nghi has a bad feeling as she sees the foreign Chinese groom for the first time on the day of her daughter’s wedding. Nghi and Phuong decided that the 17 years old should get married to relieve the family of their debts. But then, the ...

An important sensory organ, the eye, is damaged. The exhausting healing process takes us on an inner journey full of pain, fragility and mental unrest, in which even superstition and witchcraft seem to have an influence on recovery....

A group of men share a small space in a prison metal workshop in Botosani, Romania. When they’re not working, they animatedly discuss religion and hypocrisy, lament during tea that they don’t have onions for sausage, or joke and sing....

Deaf dancer Kassandra Wedel flips the switch on expectations of sound and movement as she conducts her own piece, using patterns and rhythms from her urban environment. Closed captions and choreography serve as the source of the music, with her band ...

In the southern United States, two young women meet by chance in the back of a police car and, without saying a word, experience the injustice hovering above them....

15-year-old Nike is torn between her wish of belonging to the cool clique around her friend Jess and individual autonomy, which to her is represented by her new friend Lea. When she takes Lea along to a party she does not know how to react to the com...

In his costal village, Nemo is an outsider. With his diving suit and the huge helmet he looks different than everybody else and won't fit in. But his life is about to change when he meets Laika, an astronaut....

Hammer and compass in Mozambique. We see a GDR flag waved at a rally in Maputo, carried by "Madgermanes", contract workers who once toiled in eastern Germany. Some of them founded families there, like Eulidio. His daughter Sarah grows up with her mot...

A short magical realism dance film explores the quirky personalities and awkward encounters that one only finds in a nail salon....

A tiny parcel shop in Berlin, which sends packages to faraway loved ones, offers the city’s Georgian community a slice of home....

Logan's world turns upside down when he makes a new discovery in the basement....

A woman who came to Tehran for a nose operation loses her wedding ring. While her husband is pursuing his hobbies and the employees search the hotel for the lost item, she finds the peace she was looking for....

In this hand-painted and drawn animation, a lonely old man fishes his dreams from the moon's reflection. Looking inside them, he faces surreal and devastating nightmares until a spiritual discovery frees him from all illusions....

Of my parents exactly one video tape remained. I found it after almost 20 years and I realized: My sister and me never have talked about our loss. We grew up with our grandparents in a Russian-German ghetto somewhere in rural Germany. I want to know ...

They were born and raised on a small island amidst a vast natural landscape - four sisters who now live in cities. Their parents have left Germany to raise their children far from consumerism and external control. On a visit back to the island, the s...

Night after night, an unsuspecting woman is visited in her sleep by a demon....

Twelve-year-old Frida is almost blind; she can only make out contours, shadows and colors. At the same time, she can "see" much more than other people. She believes that with the energy we all have within us, we can achieve things that we thought wer...