Tough and Tender
Life has many facets. Some things are obvious, and some only become clear at second or third glance. The films in this program deal with life in all its aspects - sometimes gentle, sometimes stark, sometimes phunky - but always confusing. TOUGH AND TENDER - very human.
God Comes
A fairytale about a pastor and his congregation. Told in two chapters..
Henker
The son of an executioner believes that his father's ax is a symbol of justice. As an adult he now wishes to enter the same trade and makes an unsettling discovery.
- Deutschland
- 07:25 Min.
- Director: Baoying Bilgeri
- Year: 2011
Anchorless
Anchorless is the story of a youthful violent criminal, but not the action itself, but it ́s reasons and results are central. A mother must get to know by the newspaper from the crude offence of her son and after that tries to move him in her small kitchen to a confession.
- Deutschland
- 12:48 Min.
- Director: Tim Dünschede
- Languages: deutsch
- Year: 2012
From Dad To Son
A prisoner gets the news that his elderly father needs help with his fields. In his hopeless situation the prisoner gets an idea how he can help his father. A film about family, growing old and the inviolable privacy of correspondence.
A Beard's Story
“My father had a beard. When I was a kid, I thought he looked like the strongest man in the world with it. But in reality the beard was the sign of a secret injury...” (Ralf Stadler)
- Deutschland
- 04:20 Min.
- Director: Ralf Stadler
- Languages: deutsch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
You Hear Something
A young woman speaks about dying, about the moments right before death, about death and about the time afterwards. Strictly from a medical perspective. She describes the physical processes. Inside and outside. The film is impressive in its sober approach and in the absence of shame when talking about the body in the context of death.
- Deutschland
- 07:45 Min.
- Director: Julia Charlotte Richter
- Languages: deutsch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2011
Stephan Kubiczek
What's that bearded crank doing in the park at night? Stephan Kubiczek is young, single and spends his free time on sophisticated precautionary measures: he is preparing for an uncertain future, one in which money is going to lose its previous value in society. The film is part of the short film project “La faute a Rousseau,” commemorating the three-hundredth birthday of Jean-Jaques Rousseau.
- Deutschland
- 04:11 Min.
- Director: Lukas Thiele, Albert Warth, Johannes Rieder, Paul Mayer
- Languages: deutsch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
Meatballs
Creative approaches to solving a marital crisis, misleading appearances and the masculine view of things.
- Deutschland
- 03:56 Min.
- Director: Benjamin Jungbluth
- Languages: englisch
- Year: 2011
Tote Fische
A young woman's memories of a chemical accident in Basel, which she witnessed when she was five. All of the fish in the Rhine died. Fragments of the experience of a child that lives in the moment.
- Deutschland
- 03:05 Min.
- Director: Elisabeth Zwimpfer
- Year: 2011
Pari Pari - L'état ce moi
L'ÉTAT CE MOI – A music video. The French punk band Pari Pari on national identity, individuality and the Franco-German friendship. Unusual.
- Deutschland
- 03:17 Min.
- Director: Sebastian Lörsch
- Languages: französisch
- Year: 2012
Animagic Intruder
“ANIMAGIC INTRUDER is the primeval creature that stares through me in to my core and rips up my whole picture of the world, claws away my identity, twirls it around and throws it out in to the night.” (Paula Mierzowsky)
- Deutschland
- 06:12 Min.
- Director: Paula Mierzowsky
- Year: 2012
TV Test Pattern
Colorful fields in motion mutate in to worlds and dance to electronic sounds. Everything is a game, lost in a rapture that lets one see new things, in a break from the norm. A sensual challenge.
- Deutschland
- 07:31 Min.
- Director: Aimo Gräven, Björn Wetzmüller
- Year: 2012