Fachhochschule Dortmund

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

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.

The reunion of two childhood friends escalates when one of them is confronted with the toxic aspects of their relationship and tries to free herself from old patterns.

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.

Twenty-year-old Dora works as a maid in a hotel and has access to all of the guests' belongings while they are away. This time she is interested in the suitcase of a guest in room 34 ...

Based on a short story by Salman Rushdie.

A village in the "Bergisches Land" in the summer of 1943. Anna is worried about her son who is fighting on the Eastern Front. While her husband Werner wants to believe the propaganda of the Nazis, Anna secretly listened to the radio broadcasts of the Allies to figure out the true circumstances of the war. When Werner finds out, a world seems to collapse for him. But that's not the only secret Anna keeps hidden from Werner.

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.

Sara and Marie are in their mid-twenties and have a band with which they play in small bars and on club stages in the region. For some time now, the two friends' hobby has increasingly become their profession. In spring, they travel together to a remote vacation home to record a demo tape. Once there, they realize that there is no electricity in the house to power the electric guitar and piano. In their enforced free time, it soon becomes clear that their individual ideas about the future of the band have been drifting apart for some time and the former dream of joint success is casting an ever greater shadow over their long-standing friendship.

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.

Theo has long had two small bumps on his forehead, which he hides from the eyes of others. When he meets Silvan, he can't take his eyes off him and the two horns growing out of his forehead for all to see. Theo gets closer to Silvan and, to his horror, small horns now also emerge from his own forehead. To hide his change, he withdraws until he spends the night with Silvan. When Theo also reveals his horns, they disappear and with them his fear.

The story of Generation Z on the threshold of adulthood with the themes of love, sex and relationships.

Night. A Woman. In a stranger's car.

Searching aimlessly, Stine moves through the overstimulated city flowing by. Passing by seemingly everyday, yet strange occurrences, the initially subtle, then proliferating abstract visual language with experimental elements shows a real world in which reality and pain, reality and chaos of thought are mixed, in which it is so difficult to let go.

Teacher Mr. Schubert and student Fred seperately enter the empty school on a Saturday to test out what they cannot be in everyday life. Something special happens as they both wander through school.

Lisa fails to clear up the misunderstanding that she is in a relationship with Jonathan, who suffers from amnesia. She becomes more and more entangled in the lies and puts their friendship at risk.

A smartphone short where 9-year-old Jonas faces a big choice.

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.

Caught Between Outside & Inside