Fachhochschule Dortmund

How is it like to be forced to wait while people are drowning just a few miles away? "No News" gives an insight into the absurdity of European migration policy.

United States-Canadian border 1891: Twenty-three nuns and seven priests are found dead at a burned down monastery. U.S. Marshall William James Richford and Mounted Policeman Richard Custer need to work together to find one of the most ruthless gangs of their time.

One night Laura meets Safi, who has fled her homeland. The encounter gives Laura food for thought.

Through a magical coincidence, the ambitious career woman Rebecca and the lively musical actress Maja switch bodies and have to find their way in each other's lives. What begins as a strange dilemma soon teaches them important life lessons.

Four people talk about aspects of their work. A flight attendant on a 747 shows us some of what's involved in getting the cabin ready for the next flight. A man in a hardhat discusses the capacity of a huge steam shovel shaped like a wheel, as it turns and moves earth in the background. A man who sells room furnishings talks about trying to make advertising fliers. A cemetery manager describes burial options. All are cheerful.

It is often easier to suppress stressful experiences instead of dealing with them. And so Klara stands alone in a clearing looking for her child. The young mother sets off on her search and is drawn into the dark forest more than she would like. Disoriented, she threatens to literally sink into it. Restless and guided by the calls of her child, she penetrates deeper and deeper into nature and thus also into the depths of her own consciousness. Accompanied by the gnawing certainty of a terrible truth, she walks on the threshold between reality and dream.

Things are not going as Michael had imagined. Not only do his friends let him down, but his family also continue to turn against him. They don't want to believe that he is actually gay. When Michael loses his last shred of hope, there is only one drastic way for him to escape this hell.

Her own family history from a female perspective, told as a fragmentary, personal stream of memories. Great-grandma, grandma and mother have to come to terms with the conditions of their time, the difficult prospects for a self-determined life in the working class. Some dreams are shattered, but love for each other catches them all. Collecting shells, summer in the garden, cuddling together. The big is in the small.

A woman is chased by the wind of an arriving train. What follows is a visual ride, the camera becomes a protagonist of the film itself. The levels of inner film reality and the film material itself influence each other more and more to the point of physical destruction.

To protect her daughter from being raped by Russian soldiers, 18-year-old Slava's mother cuts her hair like a boy and takes her to Germany, where Slava tries to start a new life while struggling with the trauma of war and her stolen identity.

1985: The outbreak of nuclear war drives the inhabitants of a small town into a bunker. Among them is a married couple whose son is missing. Their different ways of dealing with loss reveal the apocalypse of a love affair.

Flight attendant Lynn and Damian from the ground crew spend an unusual first date in the unique atmosphere of the Ōsaka Lounge.

Nikki is no professional athlete. Still, she swims the English channel to raise money for a good cause.

Kai, a young man, misses the last train in a subway station at night and shortly afterwards meets his future daughter. She plans to kill him before he can conceive her, because he will meet her mother on the first train the following morning. A fatal realization forces them to spend the time together until the first train arrives: Kai and his possible future. Helen and her past life with her father. And a present that could change everything.

Would you trust a stranger? What can things reveal about a character? Does a private place reveal enough to decide, if you want to go further in a relationship? This movie is turning around these questions and takes the audience on a journey to an unknown territory.

"Sleep Paralysis" dives in to the little-known phenomenon of the same name. Affected people from different cultures tell of their frightening experiences, while scientists try to find explanations.

After a failed life plan in Berlin, Thilo has returned to his hometown. His first day as a delivery driver in his father’s beverage market turns into a road trip through his own past. The trip confronts him with his disorientation and his deep desire for identity and belonging.

Based on a short story by Salman Rushdie.

A road trip after graduating from high school is the setting of this independent feature film, in which four fundamentally different teenagers set off to Portugal together to find themselves, their purpose in life, and great freedom after school.