JUNGER FILM 1

Every film starts with an idea… Or not? In “The Search”, the two protagonists Dennis Lehner and Tobias Mundigl are looking for a suitable idea for their school film project, and immerse themselves in the experience of various film genres.

Love of mud is an animated shortfilm, set to serene piano music by johannes brahms. in bittersweet scenes we see a lovestruck young man thoughtlessly capturing and killing animals in order to impress his lady.

“Marie?” “Yes?” “Am I hiding too often?” A young woman comes home, frustrated that she didn’t speak her mind, again. When she discovers a bolder, more confident version of herself in her closet, the line between what she is and what she desires to be starts blurring.

The interface between opposing realities is torn apart. Passions and fears of unbelievable strength connect and separate siblings. What remains: the search for love — an escape to another reality?

ZMS addresses sexism in the German rap community. While the lyrics consist of YouTube comments discrediting female rap artists, the music video sarcastically reproduces male rap stereotypes.

After a long night of partying, Christoph accompanies his mother on a hunting trip. He is already at the end of his strength upon arrival, and half-drunk, he decides to spontaneously come out of the closet. During the most important sentence, his mother shoots a deer. 

Temperatures constantly rising due to greenhouse gases, and evergrowing plastic islands in the sea. This is the status quo, that is how we live. “Tomorrow Maybe” is a short film questioning our habits and their influence.

One statue, two friends, and a rainy working day. Two teenagers killing time together.

The king of Augsburg is not a social dropout. Because in order to drop out, you have to get in first. He seeks for naturalness, revolutionises time, rearranges letters and crowns himself. A film about a man who doesn’t fit in, who never wanted to fit in.

“We should run. They told me to run and I ran. With the goal constantly in mind.”

“Look Me in the Eyes” is a documentary about the life of a young girl reflecting on her provocative behaviour on one night and the following hangover-induced day. She poses the question of how would it be possible to get out of the vicious circle of choosing the wrong men, and discovers the origin of the problem.

Anorexia. What we see in the media are undernourished and breastless female skeletons who pull out their hair in tufts and suck one slice of cucumber after another. That doesn’t help anyone. Becky has another answer.

Roy and Ali want to make a great Instagram Story. In order to do this, they first have to define their muscles.

What happens to love when the human face is replaced by a screen? Ian experiences the consequences of this social fragmentation first-hand. He is rapidly sliding into alienation. The only ray of hope in his bleak existence is Sofia, a young woman that Ian has never met.

André runs a podcast to help battered souls to find the way to themselves. But this path contains at least as many obstacles as our everyday life. This is not only for the young Nadine to realise…

A group of hobbyists are puzzled by three mysterious stone figures with their vulvae unabashedly exposed. The reflection of a woman breaks free. A deity makes her way through the forest.

The 16-year-old Yara is too German for her father and too foreign for the Nazis in the village. She is caught in the middle and therefore wants to become the superheroine Captain Gaza. In search of heroic deeds and opportunities to prove herself, she only finds bike thieves and knocked-over trash cans. But then her brother gets beaten up.