IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling Contact with other players is a key social motive for gaming. True friendships can grow between gamers who regularly play together online—even if they will never see each other’s faces, or know each other’s true location or name. This social experience is very different from our everyday and often rushed exchanges online. Yugo: the non-game is an online production that attempts to replicate that social experience for non-gamers. The gaming element is therefore kept to a minimum: as a player you simply drive a car through a hilly landscape where there is no other traffic. While you’re on the road, someone else may log in from another device, join you in your car and start a voice chat. You can carry on chatting with your invisible co-traveler as you glide through the calming, abstract landscape, listening to the car radio. One potential conversation starter is the radio program, and another is the visual design: the car looks like an old Yugoslavian Yugo, and the landscape is inspired by the region of Kosovo at twilight, when the sky fills with crows and the monoliths on the hills stand out like the utopian socialist monuments of the past. 源自：

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

这是一个薄雾未散的清晨，四周一片寂静。在一片菜地中，某张萝卜叶上，有一枚毫不起眼的虫卵。不久，里面的新生命颇见而出。这是一只心情愉悦的苍蝇，但是它的快乐和 新鲜感并未 持续太久，因为头顶上的计数器分明显示它只有一分钟的生命。一分钟？如此之短，该如何度过？正当它惊慌失措之时， 一张死去前辈曾用过的清单飘到它的手上，上面清楚列出了一分钟之内它应该做到的事情。比如：填饱肚子、唱歌跳舞、挑战极限、躲避天敌追杀、恋爱生子、救死扶伤、结交朋友、乃至成名种种。在接下来的一分钟里，这只苍蝇开始了它短暂而辉煌的一生…… 德国动画导演Michael Reichert以夸张的线条和幽默的笔触，为我们描绘了一只苍蝇在短短的一分钟生命中的各种精彩。或许我们在哀叹人生的平庸，或被生活压迫得气喘吁吁时，可以获得些许感悟和慰藉。 一分钟能干什么？也许不过是电脑的开机时间，也许不过是发一条微博的时间。如果你的人生只有一分钟，你会何去何从？但是对于只有一分钟生命的苍蝇来说，那意味着匆匆的人生。

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Based on his childhood fascination for the strange atmosphere of amusement parks Till Nowak created the fictional documentary 'The Centrifuge Brain Project'. He collected footage and used digital animation to create a series of non-existing thrill rides. Dr. Laslowicz is convinced: Making his machines more powerful brings him comes closer to the solution for all our problems. An obvious mistake or just typical human?

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.

Because of their children's bad grades, some parents want the teacher Mrs. Müller gone. They meet with Mrs. Müller and try to convince her to leave the class.

2015 film directed by David Wnendt

2016 film by Maren Ade

The city today is as rationalised and regulated as a production process. The images which today determine the day of the city are operative images, control images. Representations of traffic regulation, by car, train or metro, representations determining the height at which mobile phone network transmitters are fixed, and where the holes in the networks are. Images from thermo-cameras to discover heat loss from buildings. And digital models of the city, portrayed with fewer shapes of buildings or roofs than were used in the 19th century when planned industrial cities arose, amongst them the Lille agglomeration. Despite their boulevards, promenades, market places, arcades and churches, these cities are already machines for living and working. I too want to "remake" the city films, but with different images. Limited time and means themselves demand concentration on just a few, archetypal chapters. Fragments, or preliminary studies. (Harun Farocki)