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For a long time they were an integral part of our society, today they live neglected in our cities and are deemed a problem. The pigeon is a relic of the past that still affects us today.

In 1930, workers and their children founded a club on Helmholtzplatz in Berlin. A store was rented and converted, giving the children a home where they could hang out during the day and pursue their interests. As young pioneers, they also made posters and banners there to support their fathers' strike.

Documentary about director and actor Eberhard Fechner

It is the story of Werner Gladow, the notorious Berlin gang leader who, at the age of 17, led one of the most "successful" and ruthless criminal gangs of the post-war period.

One-of-a-kind film, photographs and audio recordings were found in a private collection in Prague. This material documents life in the Theresienstadt concentration camp from the perspective of a woman who would now be 124 years old.

Documentary film.

How can children communicate with other road users as pedestrians and cyclists? A pantomime also explains sign language.

Documentary about Los Angeles.

In the Norwegian lands south of Trondheim, not far from the Swedish border, temperatures can drop to -50°C in winter. Yet this harsh climate lends the landscape a special beauty. Ella Kjosnes, 16, is a sled dog leader. She prepares her six huskies for the 200-kilometer Femund race. While the lakes and rivers freeze over, Jan Moen goes ice fishing in the mysterious Hessdalen valley. If he doesn't catch anything, he may be able to observe the strange and partly unexplained light phenomena that regularly appear in the valley's skies. Not far away, Tone and Rolf Eriksen run a hotel on a lake that is only accessible by plane in winter.

Germany’s rising chanson star Alexandra, known for her dark, smoky voice and haunting hits like “Mein Freund, der Baum”, died in a car crash at 27 in 1969. In just three years she’d tasted fame’s glory and its price: lost privacy, relentless pressure, and creative compromise.

For 40 years, Gerhard Steidl has combined the roles of printer and publisher, resolved to personally check each sheet leaving his printing shop in Göttingen. This perfectionism, combined with an unconditional love for books, for the traditional printing craft, and a commitment to the quality standards of manufacturing (in the original sense of the word, made by hand), has gained worldwide attention. The most internationally renowned photographic artists vie for the opportunity to collaborate with Gerhard Steidl, to conceive and produce the perfect publication with him.

Documentary short by Laura Laabs.

Wildlife in Rio

Pregnant - abortion yes or no? Without seeing the young woman's face, her cell phone screen becomes a mirror of her personality. Emotional and funny voice messages, Google searches or photos allow us to participate directly in how she is trying to decide.

Short film directed by Wolfgang Kiepenheuer

Berlin, summer 1988: While Michael Jackson and Pink Floyd perform in the West, East Berliners can look forward to Bruce Springsteen, Depeche Mode and James Brown. The documentary reveals how the organizers enforced the concerts with the state authorities. On the anniversary of the fall of the Wall.

1.5 years after fleeing Russia for being queer, filmmaker Maksim Avdeev breaks the silence with their nationalist father over the phone.

Documentary feature about the accident of the super tanker "Exxon Valdez" in Alaska in 1989.

Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across Asia: Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. Their artistic triumph onstage belies a dynamic and dramatic life backstage. The orchestra is a closed society that observes its own laws and traditions, and in the words of one of its musicians is, “an island, a democratic microcosm – almost without precedent in the music world - whose social structure and cohesion is not only founded on a common love for music but also informed by competition, compulsion and the pressure to perform to a high pitch of excellence... .” Never before has the Berlin Philharmonic allowed such intimate and exclusive access into its private world.

In the early 1980s, six young people came together in Antwerp and, armed with nothing but vision, courage, and radical independence, transformed the fashion world. Forty years later, they look back on a time when creativity trumped convention and commerce.

Documentary film on the first half of the 1992-93 season of Bayern Munich football club. Covers ordinary workdays of footballers from every possible angle. Impressions from training ground, dressing room, match days, meetings with press, Oktoberfest; interviews with players, managers, attendants, spectators.

TV-Documentary

Everyone knows angels! But what are they in fact? Why do they have wings? Have they always had them? Have they always existed or is there any point of start in existence? Where did they come from? What are their names and why those? What is their mission? Has it always been the same? This documentary tells the "Story of Angels", by following emerging images, statues and frescos through all of the ages that formed their appearance until today.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, they say. Shelly Silver’s beholders range in age from seven to nineteen years. They focus their attention on artworks in the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. Their spontaneous interpretations of the works allow for resonances: both, the paintings as well as their young reviewers, reveal different things about themselves, depending on the point of view.

TV-Documentary about the German painter Anselm Feuerbach

A portrait of the German city of Ulm and it's social activities, fassades, court building. Also about the role of the district court during National Socialism.

Documentary about a Sinti community in Duisburg, Germany.

A look at the past, present and future of NATO, which has shaped Europe's security and defense policies since 1949.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt

"It's not what you do, but how you do it that's really important". Following this motto, dance teacher Alan Brooks shows 25 vocational school students what they are capable of, and how they can master life with more confidence as a result. WE ARE GOOD is a gripping account of the fascination of dance, faith in oneself and others, enthusiasm, dedication, respect and lust for life - the dream of a tolerant and diverse community. The film not only spotlights dance and music but also existent social role models and shows how we can emancipate ourselves from them.

Riders of Destiny follow several child jockeys from the remote Indonesian Island of Sumbawa as they go through a season of racing horses. Child horse racing is a cultural pastime which is primarily undertaken by an impoverished class of rural families whose economic actions are severely limited. The film touches on aspects of class, education, child welfare, and income inequality.

In Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, there are many sculptures depicting the gods of Greek and Roman mythology. What do the goddesses of this mythology have to do with matriarchy?

The Rezai's are keeping pigeons on their terrace in Berlin. After having their doubts in the beginning, the five sons are also taking care of the birds. The relationship to the animals reflects their feelings on family and loyalty, and also reminds them of their own childhood and the migration from Afghanistan.

A tour behind-the-scenes of a puppet theatre in Munich, set up by students.

65 years of marriage, four systems, two people, one love: Ilse and Wolfgang Gutsche have gotten along well with each other their entire lives. And they would do it all again.

sr draws a panorama of human activity spanning centuries and continents. In 16 fragmentary episodes the film reports of political and societal conditions, of theoretical discourses, human creations and realities of everyday life.

German silent film about the antarctic

Sexual behaviors of young people are discussed and presented.

"Hundsbuam" documents the everyday life of a group of problem students who attend a special school in Erding, Bavaria.

Portrait of the action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.

For decades, Europeans between Finland and Cyprus were united by a promise of peace and greater prosperity. But since the financial crisis of 2008, the European project has been in its worst state since World War II. The continent is divided by neoliberal economic concepts, corruption, and banks that operate globally. Labor rights and social standards are being increasingly eroded, fueling ethnic hatred, class struggle, and nationalism, and driving people into the arms of right-wing populists. In Christoph Schuch's documentary "Europe – A Continent as Prey," important questions are raised about the problem, foremost among them, of course: How did it come to this? And how can we get out of this dangerous situation?

"Schlesisches Tor" in Kreuzberg is one of the most lively places in Berlin. A small film team stays in the area for 24 hours - from Friday 6am to Saturday 6am - to talk to people passing by. The result is a document on film about love and friendship, work and children, loneliness and history in the year 2007.