Jonas Riedinger

Anyone who sits in a tractor all day has a lot of time to think. Jürgen gave up fattening bulls when he took over the farm and set up a contracting business - where there used to be animals, there are now machines. The single father continues to work day in, day out, weighed down by economic constraints, social expectations and strokes of fate. He says: “Every dad in agriculture wants his son to carry on at some point.” But what if his son is ill?

2014: Amuna (44) and her husband Aziz (48), an ISIS fighter, live as shepherds in the rural Syrian desert. When he takes a very young, European ISIS convert as his second wife, Amuna's everyday life is thrown into turmoil.

Munich in summer. Pensioner Gerd roams the streets collecting empty returnable bottles. He meets the working, partying and bathing city dwellers as an open and friendly man who always has a funny saying at the ready. But not everyone seems to be well-disposed towards Gerd. Bernhard Wohlfahrter's sensitive short fiction film unobtrusively criticizes society and questions privileges.

Truck driver Abu Husain, like many guest workers in Qatar, spends endless hours in a self-contained world of standing, waiting, and tenaciously moving trucks on the fringes of society.

When a homeless and drug-addicted girl realizes she is pregnant, her world falls apart—until she realizes that the situation could open the way back to life.

If you do business with the abyss that opens up in front of you, you do “abyssness”. But how long can this go on and at what price? Like every morning, a farmer enters his farm, but now a black hole opens up in the middle of it. Not only does his pistol shot echo in it, but all his garbage can also be disposed of in this way. He quickly makes money by accepting the garbage from the entire surrounding area.