Ron Jäger

László Kovács, auteur filmmaker, is denied funding for his film project: too old, white and heart problems to boot! Conclusion: no longer employable. Wasn’t the Hungarian from Lake Balaton aiming high? What now? Continue to be on his successful wife’s back? László slips into a real life crisis and initially finds solace in the fascinating attraction of a “crazy woman” from the neighbouring village. But when a right-wing populist stands as the only candidate for mayor in the village of 120 souls, László comes to his senses. In order to “prevent the right-wing idiot”, he puts himself forward as a liberal counter-candidate. The only question that remains is whether László’s marriage and he himself will survive the village election campaign?

Work up a sweat from the soccer field to the locker room in these drama-fueled four films from Germany, France and the UK that explore how rivalry between teams can spill over into teacher-pupil relationships, high school crushes and brotherly compassion. The short films are: Islands [Inseln] (2018); Play It Like a Man [Un été viril] (2018); Colours (2015); Through the Fields [Passer les champs] (2015).

A boy arrives at a school for a event. But once in the building everything he expected would happen begins to change.

Tom is a grossly engineered man who is getting a bit old now. Despite his age, he wants to learn to play the piano. However, his music teacher Tina is search desperate for his talent. And so Tom has to find his own language and access to music.

For his application at a renowned film school Sandro asks his school friend Emil to help. After growing apart, Sandro has to overcome his ego to be close to Emil again.

The sexually indecisive school outsider Lucas is always humbled by a small group of classmates. Nevertheless, he secretly admires them and would like to be a part of their group. When they offer Lucas the opportunity to finally integrate into the group, he takes his chance in the believe that this is more for them than just a game...

A lonely forest, a car, a father and a son. Of all the places where they could speak on this special day, this is probably the most desolate - because it is the place that suits them best.

It's the first party that Jonas has ever thrown - and no one shows up. Except for his friends Jacob and Nicholas, but they are quickly trying to leave. Jonas struggles with saving his party while also maintaining their” friendship”.

The early retired Gert spends the last summer in his garden, a place that has become a real home for him. The garden will be demolished to create a shopping center on its grounds. The only thing Gert can do is remember memories of happy times he spent with his family in the garden.

In times of political confusion, a man tries to get through training and incantation to solve the problems of the future with clairvoyance. He is waiting for his Savior, the thin man.

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Very often in life, no words are needed to express human feelings. Many issues appear to stand between the two protagonists in „We Need to Talk“, while still uniting them in the end. Within a few minutes, the short film will create different illusions of what they need to talk about for every spectator.

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Everybody has their own dreams and fears. Are we all connected or are we really all alone in this world?

Two different School boys have detention by a dreaded Teacher, who applies them to write an essay in this time. But they begin to rebel.

After a young musician records a video of her own performance, she subsequently finds a second, living self instead of a video, which is trapped in the frame of this video. She sees this as an opportunity to create the perfect second self and thus the perfect external perception of herself.

Haunted by the ghosts of his past and his angst of his future Roman is determined to prove himself as a boxer. For this dream he is willing to give up on everything: his friends, his health, even his own self.

When children's book illustrator Theodor falls into a creative crisis, a small creature suddenly appears, which from then on serves as inspiration for his drawings. But Theodor soon discovers that the creature's only food is his fingernails. The further Theodor progresses with his drawings, the more the creature demands of him. Finally, when Theodor no longer has any nails to feed the creature, he has no choice but to feed it his entire finger.

The Essayfilm is a portrait of the accurate climate scientist and professor Torsten Sachs. He examines the climate change and the problem of permafrost, which have led him to distant places in the world. Today Torsten Sachs is the head of his own junior research group at the Alfred-Wegener-Institut in Potsdam and mainly to be found in his office. But the fascination for his work is still unbroken. He still dreams of the undiscovered landscapes that he has overflown for his research and hopes as soon as possible to return to this places.

A father is in quarantine and is trying to contact his prodigal son.