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Coney Island
Coney Island – New York's once famed seaside resort saw its heyday in the 1920s. Bernd Gaul's documentary takes a look at its roller-coaster existence - the rise to fame, troubled times and the eventual demise of the colorful, amusement paradise.
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Klappe Cowboy!
An indie production from Timo Jacobs. A self-styled filmmaker from Hamburg arrives in Berlin absolutely convinced he'll make his big splash as a film director. Instead the young hopeful ends up shooting an art porn movie and gets in well over his head!
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Our Father - Padre nostro
An Italian documentary set in Sicily about an especially close relationship between a father and son. A story full of love, care and devotion that explores one of the most archetypal and complex human relationships.
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Zero
A short film drama by Fred Neuen in conjunction with Sama Film, Luxembourg. Gabriel wakes up on New Year's Day with a peculiar tattoo on his arm – some sort of countdown. A countdown to what?
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MS and Me (Das Blaue Wunder)
Uschi Bökesch has multiple sclerosis. This autobiographical documentary is her "video book". In spite of serious illness it is possible to carve out a full and creative life. A film about living with MS and disability in Berlin.
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Kids Might Fly
A young, homeless girl is picked up from the street. Alex Taylor's short film takes place in the urban wilds of East London, an unusual and poignant portrait of youth living in the area.
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Luna Park
Hannes K. Stimmann's short film is about a man who unwittingly enters a flickering neon labyrinth in a fairground. A world of pale light, shadows and bare concrete, unused and forgotten, but not empty.
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Delivery
Till Nowak's short film animation is set in a bleak industrial city. Amongst the squalor and misery, lives a hermit, who has a small flower on his balcony.
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Cathouse
Sexual satisfaction and fulfillment is the name of the sex game in Europe's biggest brothel - “Pascha” in Cologne, Germany. Stefanie Gaus explores the intimate workings of the sex machine – the architecture, the rooms and the location.
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The Booth of Fortune
A Polish Short documentary about a world of change. The city has no space for a small lottery kiosk. The demolition means the end of a relationship between the seller his regular customers. Directed by Lesław Dobrucki, produced by Wajda Studio.
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The Domitiana Road
This documentary examines poverty and crime in southern Italy by focusing on an ancient route once built to connect Naples to Rome. Today this once noblest of roads is now a filthy and decrepit concrete ghetto.
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Goodnight Nobody
Lin Yao in China, Mila in America, Fedir in Ukrainia and Jérémie in Burkina Faso share the same handicap: they can't sleep! A documentary about insomnia, killing time and the most beautiful of all film settings: the night.
