Programme Alcine53

In a regulated system built of boxes, characters live and work in isolation. They draw, cut, fold and stack paper boxes. As the stacks get too high and finally collapse, the characters find each other and discover life together.

Arthur is 15 when he decides it is time for him to become a man. He joins a boxing class and there he meets Finn, the son of the coach. By a trick of faith and a sprained ankle, the boys are drawn towards each other.

Biel and Sara are ten years old and are enjoying the last few days of summer. However, everything changes when in a game their friendship is put to the test. The world that Biel thought he had under control will break and from this moment on, he will no longer know what to think or feel.

Amanda and Virgi are two inseparable friends, but nothing will ever be the same again, when one afternoon, a man crosses their path.

An animated film about puberty, based on interviews with teenagers.

For a social documentary experiment in an abstract confessional of love, older people meet with young adults to explore and discuss love and sexuality.

On the way to meeting his biological father, Sebastian and his adoptive father Richard begin to reevaluate their own relationship.

After receiving a bike as a birthday present from her older brother, 14-year-old Alicia is accused of theft at school. Confronted with a moral dilemma, she must decide whether to betray her brother, who already has a criminal record or take the blame for a crime she did not commit.

A woman’s voice shouts and whispers her wishes, depending on how she feels and what she wants. Her cartoonishly reduced and exaggerated body dances compromise out of the world. Straight, zig-zag or in sweeping curves, on we go through the hustle and bustle of life. Anne Isensee formulates an enthusiastic wake-up call for self-determination and lust for life.

From the outside, Lea seems to be doing well. She's finished school, sees her friends, goes out to party. No reason for her father to worry.

A woman wakes up from hibernation while her brother is still sleeping. The procedure makes humans look like animals. A science fiction thought experiment portrayed in vivid scenes.

Ingrid is a lonely hitwoman. It never fails. Leaves no trace. Nobody knows its origin.

Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.

In this day and age, Rebeca attempts to create a collection of non-phallic ceramic dildos. During the Inquisition, Josefa finds a dildo that is used in their forbidden love relationship with Maria. Although in different timelines, the paths of Rebeca and Josefa end up crossing each other.

The puncture of a wheel surprises the protagonist traveling as a passenger in a car. Stopped at the edge of the road while watching the driver change the tire, she wonders if that path is heading in the right direction.

Although they barely know each other, Inés and Guille quickly connect, showing an unusual complicity for a first date. It even seems as if the sweltering heat has ceased as they sleep together. Inés wants them to watch the sunrise together before they fall asleep. 

Carmen and Lucía, grandmother and granddaughter, are unable to find their way back home after an episode of disorientation experienced by Carmen.

Can oral history restore a forgotten part of our past? In 1969, seventeen-year-old Mariona was arrested and imprisoned in a reformatory ruled by the Women's Welfare Agency. In 2023, Mariona and her daughter look back to piece together her story.

Marcos and Mateo have been friends since they were children. The two have grown up together until the construction of a highway splits their town in two. Marcos ends up on one side, while Mateo is on the other. And that highway is not the only one that tries to separate them.

A small community enters a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive with no alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?

In the late 1980s, as violence continues in the north of Ireland, broadcasters have entered into a blackout strike and are transmitting a programme bringing censored voices back onto the airwaves.

A woman dreams of the American cryptographer Hal Finney. A major economic crisis affects the cryptocurrency market, tens of thousands of people are cryogenized awaiting better times. Are they suspended or falling into the void? What strange relationship do we have with the future?

On February 2, 2022, I sent the following message: “A Google Street View car just passed in front of me, now I’m going to appear on Google Maps on Granada Street.” And so it was, Google Maps encapsulated a specific moment. It encapsulated a specific Dani.

What do abortions look like? What kind of images shape our view on them? And where do these images come from? The desktop essay “Getty Abortions” examines how German and Austrian media illustrate the topic of abortion, browsing through stock photos, teen magazines and documents of a real abortion experience. It jumps from the early 2000s to the late 19th century, seeks out feminist knowledge and chats with fictional characters. But one question remains: Why does no one look into the camera?

From role playing games to animated GIFs, from reenacted performances to poetic writing, this video essay asks: what is an authentic expression of anger?

Martina is a good immigrant. At least she has always done her best to be regarded as such in Germany. But then she meets young Dunja during a short vacation at Lake Starnberg. Dunja is self-confident, non-conformist and, above all, she stands by her Yugoslavian origins - unlike Martina. Suddenly, Martina is forced to confront a part of her identity that she has repressed all her life.

From a fixed point of view, we witness a tense bus ride in Brussels, when Samuel - a Congolese immigrant - gets on to voice his discontent with Europe.

Barbara, 30 years old single female, is the typical exemple of a modern woman, a "working girl", living in a fast lane. Barbara is completly hooked on her smartphone, but her routine is about to change when a mysterious balloon seemingly sent from the sky, floats into her life.

Gala and Viktor search for their Heaven on Earth, even during the war. That’s why they bought an abandoned house in the Carpathian Mountains and started repairing it. It’s a place of peace and calmness where they can grow their food, be silent, be defenseless, and drink coffee overlooking the mountains and a stork’s nest. But winter comes, the apple tree in the yard freezes, and the War reaches Heaven.