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Documentary about young bikers hanging out together.

A radical cinematic letter about the hardships facing women in the collapsing Soviet Union. Shot in Belarus, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Siberia, these interviews and observations document the exploitation and repression of an unwavering patriarchal doctrine.

An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mountains.

The film depicts life in Nepal’s leper colonies, where leprosy, now curable, is seen as a divine curse. During the monsoon, when gods leave the Kathmandu Valley, people face afflictions like leprosy. Nepal has 170,000 cases, with many severely disabled and ostracized due to fear and religious beliefs. Lacking support and medical care, they end up as beggars in cities.

A black ethnologist explores aspects of German life in West Germany in the early 1980s with a foreign eye - and meets with rejection because she dares to look at Europeans with the same tools as they have used for centuries in Africa.

Short film about trouts

Documentary about Don Murray.

Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song

There are more than 100 million lakes in the world and their diversity is as large as this number. Lakes provide drinking water for millions of people and are considered a hotspot of life: almost half of all fish species live in fresh water. Some lakes have extreme conditions: they are saltier than the sea, toxic or hot.

Speed has always played a particularly important role in railroads. New, ever better technologies have been developed throughout history. Engineers have come up with many ideas to make trains faster. This short film recalls the most striking record-breaking journeys in Germany and abroad.

In 1980, the American professor Thomas A. Sebeok received a call that took him by surprise. He was to participate in a crisis team of the Bechtel corporation. This assembly of renowned scientists was concerned with the question of what should be done with the now accumulated quantities of radioactive waste from military and civilian use. One task was to develop notification systems that would still be able to warn of the dangers of radioactive substances 10,000 years from now.

Joseph Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI: What led a gendarme's son from Marktl am Inn to the most powerful office in Christianity? What was his charisma, where were his limits? Will the pontificate of Benedict XVI. be remembered, or rather the great Council theologian Joseph Ratzinger? Martin Posselt draws the intellectual portrait of a man who shaped the faith of the Catholic Church on the threshold of the 3rd millennium like no other.

A dream destination for holidaymakers and a magnet for organised crime, is Albania ready to join the European Union? Strategically important in countering Russian and Chinese influence and managing the migration crisis, the EU seems prepared to overlook serious breaches of democratic norms and press freedoms.

A portrait of Turkish artists living and working in Berlin.

Following in the footsteps of the Hamburg film director Hans Schomburgk who travelled through the German colony of Togo from Lomé to the north with his companion and actress Meg Gehrts in 1913, Jürgen Ellinghaus screens the footage shot then at its locations in modern-day Togo. Schomburgk’s affirmative images show slave labour, humiliation and the arrogance of the colonial power. The material is contrasted by Gehrts’ romanticising diary entries and other colonial reports which often testify to a horrifying coldness.

Amedeo Modigliani's portraits of women are among the most printed images of modernism. What is their special magic? British art critic John Berger believes that the nudes in particular are about falling in love. The documentary follows Berger's thoughts and explores the secret of Modigliani's art.

On October 18, 1989, the SED Central Committee confirms the dismissal of Erich Honecker. The documentary tells the story of the last months of the Politburo, of the demise of the GDR's most important organ of power, from spring 1989 to early 1990.

Filming for this picture took place in Russia over the course of a quarter of a century: in 2000, 2010 and 2022. The film is preceded by an epigraph: “The fate of every person depends on the country where they live, just as the fate of a country depends on its citizens”.

Lake Urmia in Northern Iran was once the largest lake in the Middle East. Human influence brought upon a devastating drought that the lake could not withstand, and today, just 5% of the original lake remains.

Film ist. 1-6 is an avant-garde collage from Gustav Deutsch, using found footage from various scientific films to explore the properties, impact and nature of film.

Documentary about the Jewish Ashkenazi-Polish dancer and resistance fighter Sylvin Rubinstein, who made a career on stage in his sister's costumes after losing his family in the Second World War.

A Cannes film festival award nominated documentary film series made during 1945 and 1946 looking at the impact of National Socialism on the German state and people.

Documentary about opera in Hollywood.

Shot in the Dark is a documentary on three blind photographers: Pete Eckert, Sonia Soberats and Bruce Hall. A documentary on three blind people who devote their lives to creating images. What do they see in their mind's eyes? Do they sense that which we sighted miss, overlook, or don't take into consideration? Their images, as we sighted can see, are extraordinary. "Even with no input the brain keeps creating images," says Pete Eckert. Sonia Soberats states, "I only understood how powerful light is after I went blind." Shot in the Dark is a journey into an unfamiliar yet fascinating realm. "My camera is like a bridge," claims Bruce Hall. All these photographers embrace fantasy, chance, and contingency at a fundamental level. Shot in the Dark enriches our understanding of perception and creation. We all close our eyes in sleep, the sighted and blind alike, and in our dreams - we see.

The film draws attention to the fate of over 300,000 German citizens who were deported from the Soviet-occupied sector to the Soviet Union towards the end of World War II and until the 1950s and sentenced to forced labor as human reparation. It is confronted with shocking fates without hiding the fact that German omnipotence fantasies were at the beginning of this path of suffering.

The "call of the gods" is the religious faith that is deeply rooted among 300 million people of India, from the Himalayan mountain dwellers to the bathers of the Ganges River, and as shown in huge processions in the modern cities.

Symbols of a bygone era, the cars produced by the state-owned factories of the Eastern Bloc are now highly prized by collectors. In the former German Democratic Republic, as in the other Eastern Bloc countries, the individual car was a grail, an almost unattainable commodity.

Neo-fascists are chanting their slogans louder and louder in the squares and streets of Italy from north to south. The electoral victory of politician Giorgia Meloni of the right-wing Fratelli d'Italia party, whose flag bears the flame symbol in honor of Benito Mussolini, and her post-fascist government have given them a boost. A hundred years after the Duce seized power, the word fascist is becoming socially acceptable again. Among many young people in Italy, being far right is considered cool. The identitarian movement "Fortress Europe" attracts them in droves. Fascism nostalgists make pilgrimages to Mussolini's tomb and hold rallies. Right-wing rock concerts but also intellectual "meetings for tradition and identity" form the ideology. A constant support is the ultra-fan scene of the football clubs. The documentary illuminates the facets of neo-fascism in Italy, lets activists have their say, but also a journalist who has been writing about the neo-fascist scene for 20 years.

Premiering on the eleventh anniversary of the liberation from the Nazi regime, this television documentary sheds light on the miserable conditions thousands of German Jewish emigrants still have to bear in Paris - often more than twenty years after their forced exile.

A new dramedic documentary about what politics and democracy mean when your working in the rough business of parlamentarian tasks, assemblies and your every day live in your constituency. Are there things that need to be changed?

Hawks, buzzards, and eagles have conquered every habitat on earth, from the dry arid south to the cool and moist river valleys, to the world's coasts, and all the way up to the sparse high mountains. Some of them, like the incredibly versatile hawk, can even hunt in the forest. All birds of prey sustain themselves through hunting, and they do so with effortless beauty and efficiency.

In his first feature film KALMENHOFKINDER - MURDERED AND FORGOTTEN Nikolaus Tscheschner brings a subject to the public which, as the director states, has been suppressed for forty years. Using the example of Kalmenhof, originally founded as a healing and care facility in Idstein, Hesse, the film deals with the National Socialist ›Euthanasia Campaign‹: the murder of patients with intellectual or physical disabilities by the Nazi regime in accordance with the so-called ›Act on Offspring Contraception‹ of July 14, 1933. The reports of fourteen contemporary witnesses form the central narrative of the documentary. The witness reports are illustrated with archive materials, including photographs and original documents from the Kalmenhof area, read out by the director. The demand formulated in 1989 to recognize and remember these long forgotten victims is still relevant today.

In the macho world of Mariachi music, very few women can hold their own. Just like the songs they play, this film is a snapshot of life, death and the things in between - seen from a bird's-eye perspective.

Parks are not only recreational areas for us humans, but also valuable habitats for animals and plants. These green oases make cities worth living in and provide a surprising wealth of species. Parks are often our quickest contact with nature and a great opportunity to get to know wild animals. This film shows typical and well-known park inhabitants from a new perspective. In interviews, experts introduce us to the unknown sides of crows, squirrels and the like and report on their research. This much in advance: just as city dwellers and country dwellers differ, city animals also have their very own way of life. The next time you go for a walk, you will see the animals in the park with completely new eyes!

A crazy Facebook deal and trouble over the "Gruscheln": studiVZ rose at an incredible pace in the 2000s to become Germany's largest social network. This drove its US competitor Facebook crazy. So much so that studiVZ founder Ehssan Dariani and his co-founders met Mark Zuckerberg in Silicon Valley and were presented with an offer that would go down in history. But a rise in ecstasy was followed by a dramatic fall - of the network and its most important founder. The documentary is about scandals, personal stories of loss and the question: did the studiVZ founders just steal everything?

This film by Rosi S. M., which was made in close cooperation with the residents of a top-floor apartment in Berlin-Schöneberg, offers close-up insights into the life of a commune. The people who live here are looking for alternative ways to live together as a community and share everything – including their partners. The declared goal of the joint project was to use film as a medium for critical self-expression and to create publicity for their political activism.

Alfred Bama, an animal keeper from Cameroon, has an extraordinary connection with gorillas. "Nyango," one of the gorillas he looks after, is the world's only Cross River gorilla in captivity. Until just a few years ago, this species was thought to be extinct. Now, Bama embarks on the greatest challenge of his life: locating Nyango's family in the wild to protect them before it's too late.

At a time when elements of fascisation are becoming ever more apparent, ever more pervasive, artist Vika Kirchenbauer takes a personal look at what is in the air in present-day Germany.

The Days and the Year depicts the life and agricultural work of Gottfried and Elfie on a small farm in the Waldviertel region of Austria. Having decided in favour of ‘small-scale’ farming, the two of them have consequentially pursued this aim, always regarding their animals as living creatures and the soil as a cosmos in its own right.

From the cabinets of curiosities created in Italy during the 16th century to the prestigious cultural institutions of today, a history of museums that analyzes the social and political changes that have taken place over the centuries.

For Berliners, the Baltic island of Usedom was once the most luxurious destination for excursions within striking distance of the city. This is where imperial Germany’s grand health resorts of Bansin, Heringsdorf and Ahlbeck were built. Heinz Brinkmann, who was born in Heringsdorf, traces the eventful history of his island.

CHRONIC CLOWN is a raw, visually striking documentary that follows Evie, a performer living with stage 4 Endometriosis, as she uses the practice of clowning to meet chronic pain with vulnerability, resilience, and humour. Through performance, the film reframes what it means to live and create alongside an invisible illness.

An assessment of the situation of Italian private television, which has developed from a regional communication medium into a commercial enterprise.

In her directorial debut, Martina di Lorenzo tells the story of two female ski jumpers, Katharina Althaus and Eva Pinkelnig, as they prepare for a groundbreaking change in skiing: the first official ski flying for women in Vikersund, Norway. Until now, this supreme discipline of ski jumping was only available to men. The documentary follows the two athletes through their physical and mental challenges as well as their fight for equality in skiing.