Of the stoppage of time. High-rise apartment blocks, red bricks, old pop hits and a dated funfair. That seems to be the extent of what the town of Halberstadt in the former East Germany has to offer. That is if it weren’t for the long drawn-out notes of a pipe organ that sound within the ancient walls of the old town church. This is the result of an extraordinary musical project, which is set to last for no less than 639 years. The avant-garde composer John Cage’s “Organ²/ASLSP” (Organ Squared/As SLow aS Possible) is supposed to be played until the year 2640 and not one note longer - “as slow as possible!” The film is an hilarious contemplation of the transcendence and infiniteness of time, recounted through the long drawn-out breath of an organ.

Two scruffy-looking men sit at a table drinking and chatting about trivial things. They are resigned, uncritical, sometimes angry. They are sitting on a veranda in the Israeli township of Sderot on the edge of the Gaza Strip. Any minute now another Qassam missile could hit their town bringing death and destruction. The bunkers that are meant to provide them security are built by Palestinian workers. This short film presents a completely absurd world and is a parable of the entire Middle East conflict. The people struggle with what is happening but they are not sure how to bring about any fundamental change. Policies are made elsewhere; here the war goes on.

A man alone in the wilderness. After his best friend’s suicide Greg struggles to make sense of things and sees his life through new eyes. Thus he leaves the trouble hotspot of Baltimore, his hitherto hometown, and heads north to the Canadian wilderness. In his attempt to fathom and depict the interior world of Greg Paulson, the director Sebastian Sorg has decided to exploit an extremely sensual characteristic of his protagonist: his voice. In dialogue with the images it gives the flow of associations a rhythm – sometimes with relish, sometimes resignedly or dreamily. That which in reality is beyond his grasp is captured in a filmed moment. A picture of his inner wilderness emerges. THE WILDEST GUY is a snapshot of American society during the financial crisis.