By keeping divine statues clean and embellished in and outside the church, Camareros are known for upholding their family traditions through their practice of the Catholic faith.
The film accompanies Jacques Palminger (Studio Braun, Fraktus) and Carsten Meyer (aka Erobique) on their music theater project Songs for Joy, which was created in May 2024 in collaboration with the Deutsches Schauspielhaus on the Veddel and was celebrated in 2 concerts in front of a full house on the big stage.
Documentary glimpses from Alt & Neu (Teuchtler) record store, where love for cinema and music unite vinyl collectors and tourists in the 6th district of Vienna. 30 years after the release of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, the family-owned business remains one of the movie's most visited locations. The Teuchtler family shares how they feel about it — and reflects on the legacy of that one Trilogy scene.
Before traveling to the Moon in 1971, astronauts from the Apollo 14 mission trained in the volcanic craters of the Sonoran Desert, Mexico. Through testimony and historical archives, the events that took place at this site, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of the area, are evoked.
Mina secretly goes to a gynecologist's office with her friend Maedeh, who is about to get married, to help her illegally remove the obstacle to her marriage.
The film is a space for the meeting of two places, between which the director seeks a connection. She attempts to embrace the roots from which she had to distance herself in order to truly breathe. The film explores different worlds and the tension between tradition and the desire for freedom.
Jacinto, a sexually confused young man, falls tragically in love with his closeted friend after a drunken birthday kiss. Meanwhile, a gate crasher breaks into Jacinto’s birthday party, only to unwittingly infiltrate Jacinto’s love life through a series of mistaken identities.
This soviet montage inspired film, is about a group of friends who are meeting up to spend the day together. However, things change when suddenly one of the friends is poisoned. This then results in accusations, truth, lies and a mystery. They have to work out 'whodunnit' to redeem and avenge their friend's death before the killer strikes again...
Juan struggles to finish his film, while his neurotic and disturbed mind plays tricks on him, mentally and even physically. It becomes increasingly difficult for him to distinguish between reality and his ego's imagination.
Grandma Genoveva wants to die. On her birthday, Vasil breaks into her house to rob it. They make a deal – he will kill her, and she will bequeath her house to him. Soon everything goes wrong. This leads to a series of comic situations involving three outsiders – a hockey fan, a puppeteer, and a crazy romantic.
Melvin, a teenager, returns to his past in an attempt to remember who he truly was after feeling he left himself behind. He confronts his teenage and childhood selves to reflect on the pains and changes of growing up, realizing that "growing up means losing and leaving behind versions of ourselves." A nostalgic and reflective journey about time, childhood, and accepting the constantly changing self.
Rhythm, routine, and merging with the water… Swimmer David prepares every day for the upcoming competitions. This reportage immerses itself in his world – a space of focus where breath, touch, and rhythm take precedence, and where sight gives way to other senses.
After centuries of sucking blood and turning into bats, Count Dracula now lives a peaceful lifestyle nearby the local college. But without his famed servant Renfield by his side, Dracula still longs for something more.
The primordial world and its creation manifest in abstract movement and imagery. A being emerges from the darkest depths of the earth. It watches the skies, carves history into stone, cradles seashells and foretells that which we have long known. Who are the strange guests it awaits? Could it be us?