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.

In 2008, through Russian military interventions, South Ossetia was declared an “independent” territory. Robinson and part of his family still live in the Georgian settlement that was built for the refugees. The story of a parallelism: while Robinson gazes into the distance, uprooted, life for his grandchildren begins in the here and now.

Sebastian and his adoptive father Richard set out to meet his biological father. Along the way, they realize that this is about much more than paying him a visit.

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

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.

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.

On their escape from a torrid city, Noah, Motte and Samuel have to find shelter in an abandoned cabin in the forest. They are exhausted from their journey and their water supplies are almost depleted. As the the light of embers threatens to catch up with them, they are overcome with doubt - is it even possible to escape the nearing danger?

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 ...

"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.

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.

Toni, a trans* man, and his girlfriend Mika are attacked in a club in the evening and the situation escalates. When both return to their apartment, exhausted and drained, they both have to relive the experiences of the evening within their own four walls and Toni is forced to stand up to violence and transphobia.

Prisoners in a futuristic prison controlled by ai decide to trick the system and escape. But how can you outsmart a computer that sees and hears everything?

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.

On the way home, young Laura finds an expensive mobile phone in the park. Back at her apartment, her roommate persuades her to contact the owner and arrange a handover with him for a finder's fee. After giving out their pickup address, the two make a terrifying discovery on the device.

The life of young pharmacy student Merle seems to be already planned out, but meeting her parents expectations pushes her to her limits. Setting herself her first own task of learning the art of analogue photography, she dives into a new world, but begins to neglect everything else in her life.

A young man embarks on a journey through iceland, led by the diary of his late grandfather. On their journey, he and his friend follow not only these records, but also fading memories and ancient myths.

A deal gone wrong, old debts and revenge - In fragments, "Brothers of the Night" tells of a maelstrom of violence in which drug lord Vince and the estranged brothers Leo & Mark find themselves.