Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

by Bea Höller, Bea Hoeller

Klimax explores the topic of female masturbation in order to redefine the already negatively connoted image of the female sex and thus strives to create new aesthetic associations of femininity. Our main protagonist, Barbie, undergoes a process of transformation. Like Alice in Wonderland, she is immersed in a magical world, a place of allure and delight. It is a fantastic place that leads her to change little by little to free herself from her stiffness and oppression. Klimax is meant to show how unique and beautiful every woman’s body is.

• Experimental
• Abstract

by Bianca Scali

Mathieu is weighed down by many questions which put him in a heavy state. But as he gives in to his sadness, the rain becomes tears and his tears become rain. He becomes one with his sadness. It’s his time to dance, and the tears accompany him.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Carol Ratajczak, Tobias Trebeljahr

Visual trip through the distorting perception of the protagonist. Obsessive physicist in a world full of backpackers, observes a distant Nucleus emitting impulses. Rubbed up by the constant noise of the his neighbor’s cat, which keeps him from his work, he glides slowly to madness. In a surreal desert, he is confronted with the connections between his the neighbors, the cat and the nucleus.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Pascal Schelbli

What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Yi Luo

Jolanda and Hendrik are a couple. They have very close relationship. Hendrik is her favorite coat to put on. We see a day in their life.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Alex Berweck

Fussel, the friendly monster, finds the beginning of a red string, and he heads out to find out what’s at its end. On his journey he meets different looking monsters, who have their own theories about the end of the string. Curious, they join Fussel on his journey.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Adventure

by Shadi Adib

How do we best kill the mouse? Graduation film of Shadi Adib based on a novel by Sadeq Chubak with voices from Nick Cave, Andreas Hykade, David Bennett, Shaun Lawton and Jimmy Hibbert.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Yi ‘Yefinity’ Luo, Michael Bohnenstengl, Yi Luo

As Ida refuses her cat a snack, the animal turns into an enraged glowing furball, beaming it’s owner into a galaxy ruled by giant cats. Will Ida find a way to bring order to the Cativerse?

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Sci-Fi

by Kinga Rofall, Kiana Naghshineh

Three perceptions of one truth – hers, his and ours.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Nathalie Lamb

We listen to a phone call between “him” and “her”, who have a long-distance relationship. As he dreams of a shared future, her priorities always concern her career. Their relationship is visualised as a treehouse. It is growing and changing according to their wishes and needs. Suddenly, a hidden conflict arises and nearly destroys anything. What will remain?

by Iring Freytag, Viktor Stickel, Linus Stetter

A child has to leave its cozy hut to collect wood for the fire that went out. Growing into a teenager, he encounters a singular tree that he wants to turn into fire wood.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Kariem Saleh

Song of a Toad is the story about a stressed out human being who is carrying his unloved childhood right on his head – an old choleric toad. As a prisoner of his own grown-up situation, he tries to ignore this grumpy childhood talking from above, but one day he is confronted with something he almost forgot.

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Eddy Hohf, Fynn Grosse-bley, Patrik Knittel

An ambitious owl physicist is determined to follow in the footsteps of his renowned scientific ancestors by solving a tough equation. But the owl’s endeavor gets disrupted when a woodpecker moves into the neighborhood.

• Comedy
• Family

by Anselm Pyta

Far from here lies a giant field of rape.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Shoko Hara

Glad tidings about a device that will turn life around for good – Three treasure hunters follow the cross – A father and a son share the secrets of everlasting joy – On the other hand, a crippled child can only find serenity inside his model railway. A miracle healer shall finally bring him salvation… Little by little, odd human beings and an odd world will manifest.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy
• Non-narrative

by Eliott Deshusses

A child is accidently raised by a TV.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Irina Rubina

Dots, Lines, Planes and Forms set themselves in motion and get drown into their own choreographic world. Within the ecstasy of touch they engage with Jazz Tones into a play of colours and forms which results in a total explosion.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Wolfram Kampffmeyer

Charlotte, a lonely woman, finds in her flat the burglar Kalle who is about to still her valuable diamond. They start to fight about the gem but soon the aggressive fight becomes a passionate tango dance and opponents become lovers. Till the police interrupts this affair…

• Drama
• Comedy
• Romance
• Dance

by Ellen Hoffmann

While playing outside the house little Lisa builds together her own playfellow from various objects. But when her mother asks her to tidy up and come to dinner Lisa has a problem. Her new friend is not willing to be cleaned up.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Derek Roczen

A woman and a bear live peacefully in the woods. But a cub will grow and what was nice and cuddly today might become a menace tomorrow as sure as seasons will change. A film about disproportionate love.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Experimental