Director: Ali Soozandeh – Drama/Animation , 96 min, color, Germany/Austria 2017

Tehran is a city full of restrictions and religious laws where any type of crime leads to harsh punishment. Yet, the lust for life in young women and men who seek to live in freedom has made it an everyday sport to avoid these strict prohibitions. The hypocrisy and contradictions of the system are expressed with tenderness, humour and humanism.

Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi – Animation, Family , 82 min, color, Germany 2018

Cat Findus thinks he’s old and big enough to move out of Pettsson’s house. In the future, he wants to live in a converted toilet house in the courtyard – a proposal Pettson didn’t quite intend so seriously. Pettson is anything but delighted about the separation, although the little tomcat annoys him a lot: For Findus is all about pursuing his new favorite hobby at any time – the extensive hopping on mattress springs. Findus enjoys the newly gained freedom – until one night the fox sneaks around the toilet house.

Director: Frank Geiger, Mohammad Farokhmanesh – Live-action film, 3D-Animation, 86 min, color, Germany 2019

LITTLE GERMANS combines animation and documentary to tell the story of children that are born into right-wing families. From a young age on they are conditioned to hate everything that seems foreign. How does it feel to grow up in a world where empathy is subsidiary and „the nation“ stands above everything? And who do those „little Germans“ become once they grow up?

Director: Hossein Pourseifi – Drama, 90 min, color, Germany 2019

1979: The “Islamic Revolution” sweeps across Iran. The East-German chemist Beate (37) follows her husband Omid (44) – an Iranian dissident living in the German Democratic Republic – to his home country, filled with love and hope. However, the initial sense of optimism vanishes, as life for Beate and her daughter Sarah (8) turns into hell. With despotism, violence, and religious doctrines on the rise, Iran steadily becomes a ruthless dictatorship, and Beate und Omid must make a fateful decision. Based on true events.

Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi | Co-Director: Markus Dietrich – Animation, Family, 81 min, color, Germany 2022

Just like a fish needs water, the Mucklas need chaos and disorder.
But since the humans have cultivated their order more and more over the decades, nowadays the Mucklas are completely extinct…
Completely? No, one tribe survived in Mr. Hansen’s tremendously chaotic “Stuff Store”. The world-disorder of the Mucklas is shaken in its very foundations, when Mr. Hansen forgets to breathe and as a result doesn’t linger on this world anymore.
The store’s new tenant is a total order freak and on top of that a vermin exterminator, who is doing everything to fight his small subtenants.