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The one-hour documentary “ALEMANNIA inTEAM” follows the Alemannia Aachen squad in the 2022/2023 season. The film takes a look behind the scenes, shows the team in preparation and lets employees speak who have faithfully accompanied Alemannia's journey over the years. It's about the love of the fans, the unique atmosphere at Tivoli and the big dream we share - promotion to the 3rd league.
First part of Gisela Tuchtenhagen's Heimkinder film series.
A city always known as a magnet for alternate lifestyles, Berlin has been attracting people of different and interesting 'genders' since the 19th Century. Director Julia Ostertag, camera in hand, takes us through a tour of unusual (and some not) clubs throughout the city during a period of a few months. We encounter known personalities, drag queens and other night creatures, all a tad peculiar. Sexuality without borders, and breaking taboos are the main themes addressed. The documentary, above all, questions the concept of 'normalcy' and the many prejudices established by society as a whole, and the different segments of society shown on film.
Most women in prison are mothers. When a mother is imprisoned, her newborn or her young child can remain with her in prison or they can be separated and taken in by a family member or by the State. These situations aren't without risk for the child. The film takes the child's point of view and its goal is to cast a light on them: too often they are forgotten, invisible and bare scars for their entire life. The filmmaker follows the daily lives of some of these kids in Bolivia, Nepal, New York and Montreal.
Hú Zhǎng Zū writes ancient Chinese poems with water on the ground in Fuxing Park, Shanghai. After a few minutes the characters dry out and disappear. Almost everyday she comes here and practices her handwriting with her friends and colleagues. Together they have lively discussions about the strokes and shapes—amongst each other and with the many spectators. Hú Zhǎng Zū is the only woman within the turmoil of men, and due to her high writing art she is respected and highly admired. I come back to see her often, in order to learn from her and capture these ephemeral moments.
Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl
Herbert von Karajan conducts La Scala Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Luciano Pavarotti, and Nicolai Ghiaurov.
Infidelity is a taboo as old as the hills. This documentary explores its philosophical and psychological aspects by questioning libertines, victims of infidelity, psychologists and couple therapists.
The Internet has changed everything, also for journalism: business models are falling by the wayside, news is available for free, anywhere and at any time.
A look behind the heroic story of a Guatamalan immigrant who became the first US soldier to die in the American-led war in Iraq.
In the 1980s, Sankt Pauli, a district of Hamburg in Germany, was a hotspot for prostitution and drug trafficking. More or less large thugs cross paths or clash there, sometimes fatally. A recently created police unit is working to eradicate organized crime in this city, one of the most densely populated in Germany.
Queer people from all over the world have made Berlin what it is today. Many leave their home because they want to, others because they have to. This film follows a few of them. The queer universe of Berlin mirrors the movements of the world and is constantly evolving. In recent decades, a multitude of identities have made themselves heard. Today, gay and lesbian are only two terms among many.
For the first time, this documentary shows Georg Baselitz at work on paintings and sculptures in his studio, ceaselessly reinventing his methods, offering a closely observant, intimate portrait of this internationally renowned artist.
The life of Dr Han has become a permanent quest for perfection. From the livestreamed operating theatre to art fairs via fashion shows, the famous Chinese plastic surgeon has only one aim: beauty. Through the implacable portrait of this character, the film questions beauty as a simultaneously essential yet vain element of society in the era of selfies.
20 years after the fall of the Wall, the economic crisis prevails. In the ruined peripheral areas of West Germany, resentment towards the new federal states is growing. The consequences of decades of uncontrolled transfers from West to East are now clearly visible: while the zone has the highest density of water parks in Europe and the East German cities are being pimped out with designer street lighting, entire city archives are collapsing in the run-down West and weeds are sprouting up on the pothole-strewn streets. The times when Merkel was still locked away behind the Wall and the Federal Republic was in full bloom are long gone. The former people's parties SPD and CDU are just as incapable of acting as the fun party FDP, only Die PARTEI continues to gain popularity and now has over 8,200 members. Is it Germany's last resort?
In 1937, art and power collide in a rare clash that will change the face of Europe for decades to come. At the beginning of the year, the Spanish town of Guernica was bombed by the German air force. On June 30, Goebbels issued his decree "to segregate German folk art", the campaign against modern art. On July 18, Hitler inaugurated the "House of German Art" in Munich, one day later the exhibition "Degenerate Art" was opened. Erwin Leiser interviews art historians, dealers and contemporary witnesses such as Willy Brandt, tracks down lost paintings and shows the "Degenerate Art" exhibition reconstructed in Los Angeles - without propagandistic slogans.
What happens when an 18-year-old who thought he had nothing more to lose, becomes embroiled in fake news on Facebook?
Using documentary material and the testimony of convicted agents, the film attempts to prove that the West Berlin "Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit" was an espionage and sabotage organization. As a militant and anti-communist organization, the KgU supported the resistance against the SED government in the GDR from its founding in 1948 until its dissolution in 1959 and, among other things, founded a tracing service for Western citizens deported to the Soviet occupation zone.
25 years after Erich Honecker's death, his personal secretary in Chile gives MDR an exclusive insight into the family's private archive. The material provides new background information on the dramatic escape story of the once most powerful man in the GDR, his journey to Chile and the dispute over Honecker's mortal remains.
Chronicles the 2005 tour and production for the Rhapsody of Fire albums "Symphony of Enchanted Lands, II" and "Triumph or Agony". Includes recordings from the band's first tour through US and Canada as well as their performance at the Eartshaker Fest 2005.
Feminist short film set in West Berlin. A militant group of homosexuals who campaign for women's liberation. Dietmar, who reenacts the oppression and helplessness of women, can only express his protest in one sentence: I don't want to be the Easter Bunny, even though I am sensitive and need affection.
Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The characters in this film have a lot to complain about, and they do. They are people whose physical appearance (female) does not match their inner sexual identity (male). The subject is pinpointed in the film independant of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.
A short 1996 documentary about drum & bass featuring Squarepusher, photek & Source Direct.
The last day of work for a 72-year-old fisherwoman and fish seller from Warnemünde. Amid congratulatory gestures and toastes, she tells her life story.
An innovative production from the world-renowned filmmaker and passionate naturalist Heinz Sielmann, Woodpecker (Zimmerleute des Waldes) is an intriguing celebration of these territorial birds known for their distinctive knocking.
Special care has been taken by International Historic Films to assemble this monumental documentary, which tells the story of what is left for a people after its land has been ravaged by war. Situated between the powerful antagonists Germany and the Soviet Union, the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia bore witness to some of the most ferocious land battles of the Second World War.
An intensive German course at the Goethe Institute. Students from all over the world try to retell the story of the hare and the hedgehog. And the moral of the story: "It's better to have a little brains than long legs." In a foreign language, the story sometimes takes surprising turns.
A portrait of Japan's culture and landscape, highlighting the country's contrasts.
Sportswear dominates everyday street wear; but so does haute couture: what began a hundred years ago as functional clothing for playing tennis or golf has revolutionized the way people dress.
The final decades of the Roman Republic: For nearly a hundred years, the rival aristocratic cliques that dominated politics had been fighting each other for power. The newcomer Octavian, underestimated by many, fought ruthlessly and cruelly for sole rule. He was the nephew of Julius Caesar, who allied himself with Mark Antony after his assassination. Soon, these two, too, were fighting each other. Historians have called Octavian a "butcher." Yet, with the honorary name Augustus, "the Exalted," he went down in history as a peacetime emperor.
Pregnant Maria and her husband Josef are a Turkish guest worker couple in West Berlin who offer their labor to the S. company. In Turkey, like many others, they were unable to find work. In Germany, they exchange their slave-like dependence on large landowners for the hustle and bustle of work in a large German company.
Imad, Nourdine, Walid and Hamza are a group of young Moroccan boys living in a cave under the lighthouse in the Spanish exclave Melilla. They wait for their chance to cross the sea, spending their time with drugs, video calls with their mothers, and filming themselves for YouTube while breaking into the harbor.
Every four years, several hundred choirs from all over Europe gather in Germany for a festival that celebrates the joy of singing together. This year, the event was held in Nuremberg, where nearly 400 choirs from Germany, Africa, and Europe sang together under the motto “Voices of Diversity.”
The film offers three excerpts from the life of a working blind person. It shows in particular the extent to which the guide dog can replace the blind person's lack of sight and how this results in a relationship of loyalty between man and animal of rare intimacy.
A poetic and psychedelic journey, tracing flows of waste materials across species boundaries, in and out of hum/animal bodies through sites of scientific control. Oscillating between poetry, documentary, and reenactment, the film slips between the cracks of industrial spaces; below ground, across membranes, factory walls and into orifices and hidden worlds of work. The film is woven together by a series of poems performed by Logan February in which borrowed language accumulates. Sourced from different fields these lyrical experiments refer to fluid dynamics, spirituality, medical history, psychoanalysis and reproductive science.
Thomas Mitscherlich grapples with his father, the psychoanalyst A. Mitscherlich, who died in 1982: "About me, my father Alexander, and a little bit about the Federal Republic of Germany." (Thomas Mitscherlich) Beyond depicting father-son issues, this is an attempt to examine social developments in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Peter Engelhardt - aptly named “PENG” - has dedicated his entire life to good design: as a renowned designer as well as a collector of everything that makes up everyday life in the 50s, 60s and 70s ... The well-known and the nameless, the precious and the superfluous, the special and the everyday. The Engelhardt collection once comprised over 30,000 objects. But the more Peter collected, the more space he needed - and the less money he had. The last stop for the time being: a dilapidated industrial wasteland near Bingen, rainwater and theft the biggest enemies. The preservation of the collection - or rather the fight against its destruction - in the old mine in Waldalgesheim became the 78-year-old's life's work.
After portraying the German writer in "W. G. Sebald. Der Ausgewanderte", Thomas Honickel decides to show places that played a role in Sebald's life, visiting around 50 places described by the writer and accompanied them with quotes from or reflections on his work.
Berlin‘s past and future through the eye of an outsider - nothing but the naked truth by someone being torn apart by life and longing.
Expeditions to the heart of the country with the author Pedro Lenz, who lives above the Flügelrad Restaurant next to the railway station in Olten. An oscillating snapshot of the prevailing mood in Swiss society emerges from the interplay between stories of everyday life and Lenz’s reflective texts in Swiss dialect, replete with laconic poesy and a tinge of yearning.
Two years after the moving documentary "Desert Warriors: Lions of the Namib", we find the five young lions who have grown up well. After leaving the lands of their childhood, they went in search of females with whom they could found new clans.