Making Of Castelo

In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young, experienced filmmakers discuss film, present and past family, heritage and maternity. The personal and profound reflections—which are embodied in the graceful images taken day-to-day—are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.

This documentary offers an honest look at our fraught, complex relationship to video games from the perspectives of gamers and their concerned parents.

In the Juan Fernández Archipelago, 700 kilometers from the central coast of Chile, is Robinson Crusoe Island. There, a group of children who are in their last year of primary school will soon graduate, leaving the island where they learned to live.

A portrait of life in Islamorada, Florida, its unique residents, and the unprecedented changes that have begun taking place.

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Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

The film gives a survey on innate behaviour patterns of the grey-lag goose. The first part shows reproductive behaviour. In the second part some behaviour patterns of gosling being imprinted on their human foster parent are shown: following reaction, separation of two flocks according to their imprinting, response to the alarm call and landing "by order" of the flying young.

Wilhelm Emter demonstrates individual muscles and muscle groups of the shoulder region, chest region, torso and abdominal region and the arm in practice on his extremely trained body.

Cast and crew discuss how a no-budget slasher movie became an international sensation. Produced for the "Friday the 13th" DVD.

Intimate story about the rising career of Gabriela Adam, only with her determination and the support of an institutional educational network, where her family plays a fundamental role.

Swimming movements of a common seal under water, propulsion through hind extremities.

The film shows open air shots of life in the colony of the sea lion. The following behaviours are shown: establishing territories and rivalry fights, courting and mating, feeding the young, play among young animals.

The three-spined stickleback is shown. Nest building, zigzag dance, fanning at the nest, sometimes following a female, also short mouth fights, the female swimming into the nest, spawning, the male poking at the rear end of the partner, inseminating the eggs in the nest after the female swims away.

A portrait of the German city of Ulm and it's social activities, fassades, court building. Also about the role of the district court during National Socialism.

The film shows a single-row beet harvester in action during the sugar beet harvest. The topping of the beets is shown at normal speed. The test conditions used are explained.

Short film on the manufacture of glassware

Infantry bullets smashing a clay wall shot in slow motion at 1500 fps to give a rough demonstation of the dumdum impact. Temporal resolution of the process by means of spark cinematography at 70.000 fps.

The film follows 10-year-old Oleg, whose life has been turned upside down by the ongoing war in East Ukraine. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother Alexandra in a small house in a village on the frontline. Most people have left the village, but Oleg and Alexandra love their life together there and want to stay on and take care of each other. But life is becoming more and more difficult and the war does not seem to end.

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East German short documentary