Danylo Okulov

When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.

Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion, 4 Ukrainian girls were forced to leave home and proceed their paths abroad, now living two lives at a time. The attempts to settle down in a foreign country are constantly interrupted by internal doubts, fear for the family back home, chats with friends who joined the army, and feelings of constant uncertainty about the future.

Animated techno-punk opera: I rent a very small room in Berlin (which reminds me of a coffin) and have very strange dreams there. People are held in suspense for two years without knowing when will it all be over. The club is closed, the ambulance won't come and everything that's left to do is just walking around the city with your inner monsters.

Batkhorol Sagdkhorol, known as Sabat - film student, diplomat and family friend - disappears from East Berlin without a trace. Decades later, the filmmaker embarks on a search: from the film city of Babelsberg to the remotest corners of Mongolia.

What is it like to grow up in times of war? In a documentary film they developed themselves, nine young Ukrainian women offer a unique insight into their lives—into everyday life in a state of emergency. In the documentary, nine Ukrainian teenagers tell their stories. Some of the young women have fled to other countries, while others remain in Ukraine, but all of them become co-authors of their own lives: How much is left for oneself when fear for family and fellow human beings, when death, separation, and trauma are omnipresent?

Inga has been living in Berlin for 13 years, now her mother is coming to her, fleeing Russia's war in Ukraine. About everyday life in a war that is far and near at the same time, between buying fish, learning German, dreaming of Putin's death and waking up.

An influencer decides to leave Germany for good.

One night a young dreamer goes for a walk through the deserted city, forced by obsessive thoughts. The hero submerges into the bright lights of the streets, meets strangers, listens to pieces of theirs strange conversations. However, the further his walks, the more his surrounding changes: cold buildings of the industrial zone change the streetlights' warmth, a mysterious black car starts to follow him, and the metal cranes turn into weird creatures. The hero falls deeper into his thoughts. He examines his fears and ideals, losing the line between reality and the world in his head. Will he find what made him leave his home, or maybe he will be swallowed by the surrealistic realm he encountered?