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Self-taught artist and independent mother Pia Antonia Klinkhammer engages in a conversation about art making and self expression with students from a German art school, who pay her a visit in her hometown. Sharing with them her life experiences, she sheds light on her unique painting style informed by her rebellion against the philistine upbringing in the suburbs of Cologne. By capturing Pia Antonia Klinkhammer's works on 16mm film, accompanied by her son's music, the students create what eventually becomes her only lifetime solo exhibition.

In this filmic memoir, German director Rosa von Praunheim returns to New York, a city he knew and loved in the woolly 1970s, to see what he might find and also to check in on the colorful protagonists of his 1989 documentary, Überleben in New York. Both a personal journey and a historical survey, New York Memories captures a transformed city by charting the shifting course of gay life, from Warhol Factory figures to the AIDS ravaged, within it.

Germany, September 2014. A Syrian refugee camp has opened on the outskirts of Berlin. Visual artist and filmmaker Ammar al-Beik has a cubicle assigned to him for seven months and, in order to survive here, he has to film, document, and rebel against the conditions of life in exile, and also against the established rules of documentaries and features. His phone camera is always switched on; he transforms his tiny room and the entire dismal compound into a universe with its own laws.

Guatemala and ancient Mayan cultural sites.

Old Super 8 films show domestic happiness, the West German economic miracle, an idyllic home, grandmother Rose as a young woman at the centre. They do not show the violence in Rose’s marriage. Or do they?

1905: Heinrich Vogeler is celebrated as the star of German Jugendstil. But self-doubt increasingly torments him. In search of new inspirations he moves to the First World War and returns as a changed man.

About the researcher Wilhelm Reich, who wanted to prove and compare life-energies in global experiments and searched for basic principles of life. His transformation from the model student Freud to the questionable UFO researcher is also addressed.

Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no. 2 B-Major, D. 125 c) Arnold Schonberg, Kammersinfonie no. 1 E-Major op. 9 (Filmed in Venice, Gran Teatro La Fenice, in February 1995, Chamber Orchestra of Europe). a) Richard Strauss, Elektra (Deborah Polaski, Karita Mattila, Marjana Lipovsek, Ferrucio Furlanetto) b) Beethoven, Symphony no 6 F-Major, op. 68, 'Pastorale' (Filmed in the Festspielhaus Salzburg on the occasion of the Easter Festival, April 1995, Berlin Philharmonic). a) Beethoven, Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 3 C-MINOR, OP. 37 (Maria Joao Pires) b) Bruckner, Symphony no. 9 D-Minor (Filmed in Paris, Cite de la Musique, in August 1995, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra).

One of the greatest mysteries of our century is the occult background of the Third Reich and its secret societies, such as the New Templar Order, the Thule and Vril Society and the “Lords of the Black Sun” (SS). They were the best ancient orientalists of their time - did they know about the existence of extraterrestrial technology in antiquity? The Allies have always denied knowledge of mysterious, antigravity-powered German circular aircraft codenamed “Vril” and “Haunebu” - but they really did exist. Numerous sources unearthed in recent years clearly support their existence as part of the German secret weapons project towards the end of the Second World War. But how far had the plans progressed? Were flying saucers actually used?

The film tells the story of the BMW team facing its big target: winning the 24 Hours on the Nurburgring-Nordschleife, one of the biggest racing events in the world.

Documentary about the life of the indigenous people in the Andes and in the slums of Lima, and of their religiosity.

A severely injured man lies in the snow-capped mountains; the next settlement which could offer warmth and shelter from the wind and snow is too far to reach on foot. In a flashback, the dying man relives the last year of his life - a life full of adventure, danger and his daily struggle to survive in a harsh and frightening world.

The last day in the tanzclub "Dschungel" at Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg. Located at the bar Slumberland, GoltzStraße. 24. It documents with single frame automatic one night from evening to dawn. Sounds from The Doors and Iggy Pop. "Dschungel" moved in 1978 to Nürnberger Straße 35 and became more glamorous and hip.

Fasciae, hidden connective tissues, are largely unstudied parts of our anatomy. What role do they play in the organism? And could a better understanding of them help in finding a cure for back pain?

Devoted to the phenomenon of adult babies, showing adults living out their desires for genuine closeness and sanctuary.

Loitz is one of those former GDR towns that still suffer from the effects of German reunification. For a year "Infinite Place" looks behind the gray facade of the seemingly dying town and questions concepts of home and identity through the perspective of its old and new inhabitants. The town’s vacancy and people’s urge for self-realization create a fruitful look into the future.

On October 9, 1967, the news went around the world: Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara was dead. Shot dead in the forests of Bolivia. Half a century has passed since then, and yet Che Guevara lives on as an idol, loved, hated, glorified and marketed. The documentary approaches the seemingly immortal rebel in a very personal way and shows the brother, father, companion and man Che from an unknown, private side.

As a bird warden, Kilian spends seven months alone on a barrier island in the Heligoland Bight. His tasks are simple: monitoring wildlife and collecting flotsam. The rich birdlife, extreme weather and ever-changing landscape are conveyed both through imagery and a soundtrack of wind, rain and birdsong. Contact with others is rare, but the intrusion of the outside world is all the more striking. The film’s melancholic atmosphere echoes both solitude and a sense that this fragile sanctuary is deeply at risk. Beyond its precise observations, an essay on climate change and militarisation emerges.

There was an eery silence after a fire had destroyed the Moria camp completely in September 2020. Not just locally, but in public discourse. The world did not seem particularly concerned with the inhumane conditions in other camps on Europe’s external borders or the countless pushbacks in the Mediterranean. Nor did the arrest of six adolescents who were accused of arson resonate in any audible way – though even a second glance at the circumstances of the investigation and the criminal proceedings revealed the actions of the Greek judiciary to be questionable. Not to mention the underlying refugee policy of the European Union.

Large uncontrolled fires and flames have severely damaged the Amazon rainforests of Brazil in the summer of 2019 and destroyed countless trees. The main cause of the fires seems to be the man-made slash-and-burn. The drought, which has lasted for months, favors the situation. Likewise, the radical policy of the new Brazilian government under right-wing populist President Jair Bolsonaro contributes to the destruction of the Amazon jungles. When the green lung of the earth burns, not only experts and international politicians are terrified. Protecting the world's unique ecosystem is of vital importance to all people of the world. The film examines the current environmental and humanitarian catastrophe in the Amazon region and gives voice to environmental activists as well as relativizing proponents of the fires.

A Thai conservationist takes on the powerful tourist industry to rescue abused elephants.

A small town in Western Germany is the last stop for 26,000 pigs per day and a brief home for masses of Eastern European temporary workers. The workers of the largest slaughterhouse in the country are fighting for survival, while German activists who stand up for their rights are fighting against the local authorities. At the same time, Munich high school students are working on the play "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" and trying to grasp the old text and German capitalism of our days. Interwoven with the young people's examination of the text in the rehearsals, the film deals in various fragments with conditions and facets of temporary work and labour migration in Germany.

Since 1983, author and director Franz X. Gernstl has been traveling across Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland in a VW bus. Together with his friends, cameraman Hans Peter Fischer and sound engineer Stefan Ravasz, Gernstl is always on the lookout for people who know how to live the right way.

Eva Sandberg was born in Breslau in 1911, the daughter of a Jewish doctor, and grew up in Bad Landeck, a town in Silesia in what is now Poland. As a child, she had a dream: one day, the Emperor of China would ask for her hand in marriage. After studying photography in Munich and spending time in Stockholm, she traveled to the mysterious Soviet Union in 1934, where she met the love of her life, Chinese writer Emi Siao. Eva followed her husband to China, but not without fear.

Salomea Genin was born in Berlin in 1932 to Polish-Russian Jewish parents. In 1939, the family fled and settled in Melbourne, Australia. As a teenager, Salomea found a home in Australia's Communist Youth League and, in 1951, attended the Third World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin as a member of the Australian delegation. She was so enthusiastic about the visit that from then on she wanted to live in the GDR. So Salomea returned to Berlin in 1954 to help build a better, anti-fascist Germany, but the GDR did not want her. The path to living and working in the workers' and farmers' state only became possible in 1963 and remained rocky...

The heroes, heroines and villains of Bollywood cinema act out their parts in the hand-painted, one-of-a-kind movie posters that Sheikh Rehman still makes for an old Hindi movie palace in Mumbai. But modernity is taking over and the audiences that have come in for generations for refuge and entertainment are dwindling. With the theatre facing potential demolition, marketing has turned to more plastic movie posters to lure in more people, replacing the need for Rehman’s original work. But Rehman is still lord and master over his workshop, ignoring the theatre managers’ instructions and bossing around his assistants so that he can paint the perfect movie scene.

In the middle of the 20th century, a small town in Spanish Andalusia on the Costa del Sol becomes an international high society meeting place: Marbella. The nucleus is the “Marbella Club” – opened in 1954 by Prince Alfonso zu Hohenlohe, a descendant of the German nobility. His rich, famous club friends enjoy this picturesque setting on the Mediterranean. The insider tip for the nobility, the super-rich and Hollywood stars quickly becomes one of Europe's tourist hotspots. A rapid rise begins, which seems to know no limits thanks to bubbling petrodollars, but then almost fails due to one of Spain's biggest corruption scandals. The focus of the film is the city itself. How did the once insignificant coastal town become a metropolis of the international jet set? How have glamor and scandals shaped the city? How did she maintain her charm and appeal despite profound periods of decline?

A full-length homage to the early days of German television, its art and courage to leave gaps. Tests of patience in ecstasy... And perhaps also a testimony to how man has always tried to grasp his environment by means of the constant time, even if it first has to stop.

Becoming old - the autumn of man's life is the same the world over, wherever he lives. But the way one spends old age is different everywhere, and distinguishes one society from another. How do senior citizens live in the GDR - what are pensioners lives like? Are they alone, forgotten or do they live with others? What is done in this country for the older generation, the generation which built up the country and which can now sit back?

In the musical road movie, New Zealand musician Hayden Chisholm sets out on a journey of discovery across Germany in search of German folk music. As a stranger with an unbiased view of German culture and an open ear for the lyrics and melodies of modern and traditional musicians, he encounters a lively diversity of regional customs and activities. In Sound of Heimat – Deutschland singt, directors Arne Birkenstock and Jan Tengeler also shed light on the ambivalent attitude toward folk music and the understanding of one's own homeland that is so widespread in Germany. These are topics that have been forgotten in many places due to past ideologization and the "ideal world" of the Musikantenstadl.

When Chuon Sam Vong came to Germany in 1980, he did not yet know how much he would miss his homeland. He flees from what was then South Vietnam from the communists and is rescued by the German rescue ship "Cap Anamur". More than 30 years later, he has built a new life for himself in Germany. A fragment and a short journey into the collective trauma of the “boat people” generation in Germany.

36 year old welder Karin works at an agricultural factory in Mecklenburg, Germany.

Short documentary directed by Ute Hirschberg

On the occasion of Otto Retzer's 75th birthday, Servus TV is showing a personal portrait of his unique success story as a self-made man from dishwasher to the most watched director in Europe.

Documentary about the everyday life of a bicycle courier in Berlin in 1995.

HF808 - Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

The race for supremacy in the age of artificial intelligence is on: between the USA, China and Europe. Between big tech companies and start-ups. Who will win the competition? Will Europe be left behind? And who will determine a technology that will shape the future of humanity?

WHY WE JUGGLE is a portrait of six artists from all over the world and their motivations for juggling. Through juggling, individual worldwide conflicts are being told. For the protagonists, playing with gravity is a counterpart to their harsh realities and a way to escape them for a few moments.

The old world is gone. Our landscape bears scars. Entire cities have been levelled. Is it possible to regenerate the city without covering over the warnings of war’s aggressions? Or can these ruins provide a unique chance to reinvent the city thoroughly? The art historian Heinrich Klotz took precisely these questions, concerning the reconstruction of Germany’s historical districts after World War II, as the departure point of his practice.

The film Bending to Earth is a further investigation into inscriptions and transformations of society manifested in the landscape. Several radioactive fields are circled by a hand camera in a helicopter, while a recorded voice-over which appears through several—often distorted—world radio stations describes the materials of those constructions and opens up a mediation of order systems and landscape archives. The fields represent a sort of alphabet of an image engineered in the earth; the camera is an observer of this document and its relation to reality, not just as a pre-existent form but as a potential or imagined object—the part that remains behind the scene, the break within the narrative.