Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.

Valentina’s Little World holds all sorts of things: trophies, hats, spoons... And, of course, Valentina herself. The camera affectionately observes the elderly lady as she goes about her work in the second-hand shop, capturing a type of business rarely found today in cities crowded with chain stores. A  course project by Dominic Thiel, who works as a colorist and cinematographer following his time at the HfG.

Till Gombert’s short film has little to do with mathematics. Through distorted and twisted 16mm images, he follows a couple and various dream figures. One can only speculate as to whose roots or what roots are at stake here. All clues and common threads are lost in the water, and what remains is a slight sense of confusion.

Benjamin Breitkopf’s Schattenseiten treffen sich is a feast for both the ears and the eyes: arthouse meets metal meets classical meets… what, exactly?

Created for Stephan Krass’s poetry film seminar, Schattenseiten treffen sich pays less attention to words and relies entirely on the power of igorrr’s music, as well as a medley of 16mm footage, multiple exposures and colours…

Anyone familiar with the hugely famous "Techno Viking" video (and with 40 million views, the odds are high) will be delighted by another masterpiece from the creator of that YouTube classic, Matthias Fritsch, a former student at the HfG. Things heat up once again here. On Brunnenstraße in an unnamed city, things get colorful, loud, and, of course, wild!

The feeling of being lost is often associated with trying to be someone else. Not being satisfied in yourself and always imitating what others do.

Philip Rosenbeck's So Sein contains close up shots of various people who tell us the people they've always wished to be.  The combination of a sombre background score and the people looking directly at the camera forces you to imagine people that you've always wanted to be.

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.

A poor young Belgian mother wants her petty thief of a boyfriend to be gainfully employed to raise their newborn child, but he has other ideas.

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

The funny clown Bratislav Metulskie is found dead in circus "Apollo". The retired commissioner 00 Schneider is asked to assume control of the case. Schneider and his aged sidekick Körschgen investigate to find the murderer.

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon, new tensions arise both within the group and with Jorgos.

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan's gang.

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.