Nothing But The Best

Documentary about the detention-disappearance of Juan Marcos Herman in the city of Bariloche during the dictatorship in Argentina.

Lin and her brother Lai stepped into no man's land again - they want to search for their missing father. When heavy sandstorm attacks them, Lai is wounded. He persuaded Lin to walk alone, with limited food and water. Lin needs to find a way to save her brother, and also herself...

Three bank clerks decide to expose the crimes of their boss who not only makes their life's a living hell, but also uses the bank money for personal purposes. After getting inside their bosses country house and finding a huge amount of cash, our guys change their mind about exposing him and start thinking about just keeping the money and living the dream. Our characters, however have no clue that there is more to the story that meets the eye and behind the money lies a much bigger fish then there criminal boss.

A mother of three is afraid of losing her husband if he finds out she's pregnant again, so she tries to conceal it.

Michel lives alone with his daughter Marie. Today, their monotonous life turns to drama.

Unannounced, Aziza is once again standing in her room – internship, Portugal, everything canceled. But her room is occupied. Her mother, Trixi, has rented it out. Zach lives there now, a twenty-something from New Zealand, who came to Germany on a one-way ticket. Starting from this situation, the film develops an almost documentary-style portrait of a Kreuzberg ‘situation’: everything is readily available, time, people, summer, streets. And in the end a crash, the film itself: ‘for nothing’?

"Nothing" is a 2 minute visually inspired cocktail of animation, CG, calligraphy & photography, from an award-winning young creator Yoshitaka Takeuchi (Pridemedex Tokyo 2008, CG Art Contest / Outstanding Performance Award).

Short Animated film by Paul Hartman at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Twenty-something June is anxiously awaiting the outcome of her most recent job interview. One day, when her friend goes on a vacation out of town, she is left all alone in their apartment . This overwhelms her as feelings of loneliness, isolation, and envy begin to creep up on her, putting her in an unhealthy state of mind. "Wala" is a story of growing pains. It's about the moment of uncertainty in everyone's young life. It's about how the wait can sometimes lead you down completely unexpected paths.

Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia’s parents are pressuring her to decide which graduation she will apply for. Bia doesn’t want to do anything.

He's lost his memory, but not his skill: After a fierce battle with a local tong, Hoi is thrown over an embankment and left for dead. He survives the ordeal but has lost all of his memory, but not his kung-fu. His fateful meeting with a beggar leads to their teaming up for cleaning up that tong.

Pushed by her husband to settle in the family castle, Agnès finds her sister-in-law Alix there. Her husband Carlos, often absent, loses interest in his wife and gradually approaches Agnès who will end up giving up this relationship.

Two husbands claim to be Freemasons so they can go out at night. Where do they go, if not to the lodge, the Masonic lodge? In reality, one goes to visit a pretty and particularly welcoming concierge in his dressing room, and the other spends his evenings in the dressing room of a little music-hall actress.

Hi-8 short film by Rei Harakami

An immigrant in Istanbul, the Russian filmmaker finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place: on the one hand, his legal status becomes uncertain amid the turbulence of Turkish presidential elections, on the other hand, the crackdown on dissent in Russia makes his return impossible. In these circumstances he turns to the legacy of Moscow conceptualism, an art movement, which existed under the radar of Soviet authorities, to make a film that would convey his sentiment yet pass through the needle’s eye of censorship.

Two Shots adapts the extra chapter of the same name, while All or Nothing adapts Chapter 174 of the same name and a scene of the final chapter of the manga, which also matches with the conclusion of the final episode of the anime series. Two Shots tells the story of how Kurama and Hiei met, while All or Nothing covers a story of the main characters coming back together to solve a hostage crisis in the spirit world.

With the motivation of exposing what family is for the director, the importance and impact of family in his life is symbolically presented through footage. Wholeness and absence in one place.

3000 tonnes of stones. 30 years of work. One step away from making a great discovery. The story of a man who pursues his goals regardless of the opinion of skeptics or the mockery of disbelievers.

Carlos has been fruitlessly looking for a job for years. One day, he finds a very special company called Nothing Co. The company is offering a job where the worker is paid to do nothing... but that day, his life will turn upside down.

The 17-year-old Tom filled out a questionnaire for the Employment Agency at a vocational guidance office in his school. He falls in love with the trainee, which distributed the questionnaires. In the evaluation he gets out a job as an apprentice at a funeral home as a funeral professional.