Sophie Maintigneux

Widerstandsmomente (Moments of Resistance) carries voices, writings, and objects from the anti-Nazi resistance into the present. Politically engaged women of today respond to historical resistance and make links to current events. A line is drawn from what was before and what is today to what might be: a society based on solidarity without discrimination or exclusion.

Two young gay soccer players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.

The film explores the turbulent lives of homeless persons in Cologne, Germany. Through their personal belongings the homeless share with the viewer their memories and emotions, and provide insight into the secrets of survival on the street.

Lynn Zapatek, a chambermaid in a large hotel, has a deathly fear of human interaction yet she craves intimacy. A chance encounter prompts her to emerge from her cocoon.

Lorenz Meran, a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis.

A working day in Austria, 2004. Nine modern working-class heroes are engaged in their daily struggle of survival, accompanied, motivated and influenced by the country’s most popular radio station.

Documentary about turkish expats returning to Turkey.

Documentary about the german police force.

"Looking for men and women aged over 65" was the small ad in a local newspaper in Wuppertal, through which the choreographer Pina Bausch sought senior performers for the remake of her dance spectacle "Kontakthof". 26 amateurs aged from 65 to 72 were selected. They rehearsed for over a year and the premiere took place in the early 2000s in Wuppertal. Lilo Mangelsdorff has accompanied this exceptional project with a camera. The result is a touching film, which focuses on the dancers' stand with their fears and inhibitions, their enthusiasm and passion.

Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened.

David, a recently fired scrapyard worker and Marie, a prostitute, both about 20 years old, meet on New Year's Eve in Berlin and decide to run away together. As David's arm is plastered from an accident Marie continues to prostitute herself to finance their restless journey through the Ruhr area. Their love and their will to survive guide them though all problems.

A 15 year old boy (Beni) falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, he is only willing to follow him where ever Fögi wants to. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into the hell of drug addiction.

Documentary by Aysun Bademsoy.

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Duarte’s factory. At the station he bumps into Mariana who is in love of him. António is not welcome and is violently attacked by a group connected to Duarte ...

A description of a day in the life of the 'Sisters of Bethania'. The only convent of this small, contemplative congregation of Dominicans in Austria is situated in the rural remoteness of the village of Nestelbach, near Graz (Styria). Today there are eleven sisters living in a former country-castle, following the determination of their order in strict cloisterly regularity. Significant for the mystic-contemplative existence of the Bethanians are the vivid, daily mechanics and the ritualized form of their life, the sequence and the systematics of practice, introspection, (keeping) silence, change and return of the hourly prayers, of the times of daily work and chores in the house and garden and the silent presence in the chapel.

Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who’ve locked themselves out of their apartments. This is how Armando meets a pretty young woman with whom he begins a tentative courtship. But soon a rift grows between the siblings and, spurred by Armando’s exaggerated stories about his nascent relationship, Beatriz begins experiencing aural hallucinations that can only be remedied through music and, finally, the love of a stranger. Pinto made this impassioned fairy tale as part of a series of films about the four elements. - FilmLinc

OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

A man migrates from Poland over Germany into the US.

파리 근교 도시를 배경으로 똑똑하고 고상한 공무원 블랑쉬, 예쁘고 발랄한 학생 레아, 다정다감한 레아의 남자 친구 파비앙, 조건 좋은 바람둥이 알렉상드르 등 각기 다른 스타일의 네 남녀가 등장해 사각관계에 빠진다.

체르노빌 사태 이후 모든 예술 작품이 파괴된 상태에서 윌리엄 셰익스피어 주니어 5세가 예술을 복원하기 위해 다양한 사람들을 만나면서 벌어지는 이야기.

파리에 사는 미라벨은 휴가를 보내기 위해 시골에 내려온다. 우연히 레네트가 미라벨의 고장난 자전거를 고쳐주면서 두 소녀는 가까워진다. 그녀들은 마침내 파리에서 대학 생활을 함께 하기로 하지만 너무나 다른 성격을 가진 두 소녀의 파리 생활은 시골에서처럼 즐겁지만은 않다.

청순한 소녀 델핀은 여름 휴가를 맞이하지만 친구들로부터 함께 휴가를 보낼 기회를 거절당한다. 내성적이고 소심한 그녀는 휴가 기간을 혼자 보내야 하는 외로운 처지에 놓이게 된다. 그녀는 남자 친구를 구할 수 있기를 내심 바리지만 뜻대로 되질 않는다. 그러나 델핀은 희망을 잃지 않고 있다. 얼마전 친구로부터 녹색은 그녀에게 행운을 가져다 줄거라는 이야기를 들었기 때문이다. 좋은 일이 생길지 모른다는 친구의 권유에 따라 그녀는 노르망디에 있는 친구집에서 휴가를 보낸다. 하지만 그곳에서 델핀은 남자를 사귀기는 고사하고 사람들과 잘 어울리지 못하고 불편함을 느낀다. 실망 속에서 델핀은 집으로 돌아간다. 그때 우연히 비아리츠역에서 만난 한 남자와 몇마디의 대화로 서로가 쉽게 통할 수가 있게 된 델핀은 그에게 호감을 갖게 되는데.