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In May 1980, more than 800 people lived for 33 days near Gorleben in the protest camp ‚Free Republic of Wendland‘ and thus prevented for a short time drilling for the planned nuclear waste repository in the nearby salt dome.
For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and insistence on justice. The painful story of a minority between trauma and self-assertion. The two-part film deals with various forms of resistance by German and Austrian Sinti and Roma over eight decades. It is about rebellion against injustice and the insistence on dignity and justice.
The GDR government made the eastern part of Berlin the capital of the other German state, building a new city center and new landmarks. ZDF correspondent Dirk Sager sets out to capture the lifestyle and attitude of the people living in East Berlin. The film shows what has been newly created, but also what has remained.
Conductors Andris Nelsons, Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly, and Petr Popelka will take turns conducting the four movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. This concert event celebrates the bicentennial of the premiere of Beethoven's masterpiece.
What does it mean to be your parents' daughter? - Being the protagonists of their own film, three filmmakers ask themselves this particular question. The setup: one camera, three settings and three encounters with at least one parent, discussing something so essential, it can hardly be put into words: at times brutally honest, at times lost for words, their encounter will show the difference in each child -parent experience as well as its impact on the individual. The artificial setting is opening up room for dialogues on family trauma, the fear of growing apart and the moral certainty that death will inevitably end the relationship.
Documentary about the end of the regency of Kaiser Wilhelm II., Germany's last emperor.
Most people play it for fun, to them it’s a deadly serious matter. A small group of professional players from all over the country gather in Amriswil to crown the Swiss Minigolf Champion. Among them is the young and extremely ambitious Maja as well as Jörg, one of the most experienced players of the tournament. Far away from everyday life, the players need nerves of steel and a knack for selecting the right balls to deserve a place on the podium.
The final chapter of the Taiwan trilogy, exploring the long-term effects of cultural education during Taiwan's military dictatorship.
Not only in Germany, but worldwide, many women are demanding more space in the Catholic Church. However, there are also numerous opposing views.
Short film about the rail system of the Deutsche Bahn. The production of rails, switches and new railroad bridges are shown one after the other.
He described his love of art as his greatest inclination from his youth: Johann Joachim Winckelmann as a representative and rediscoverer of Greek and Roman antiquity. He was the father of European art history and was the victim of a robbery-murder in 1768. The documentary tells of his life, his work and his early death.
Charyarsaba, an isolated mountain village in Nepal. Living here means working hard for one's food and worshipping one's ancestors and the gods, who guarantee a continued existence and provide protection from evil. The residents of this village at the foot of the Himalayas long for "another place" where, as they understand it, one only needs money to be happy and technology makes work easier.
The first German-language documentary to critically examine the zeitgeist phenomenon of "transsexuality." In a nearly 90-minute journey, authors Judith Sevinç Basad and Jan A. Karon combine reportage with investigative research, attending demonstrations, speaking with activists, and meeting desperate parents, as well as teachers, transsexuals, youth therapists, feminists, and publicists. They conclude: Trans activism is perhaps the most dangerous zeitgeist phenomenon, one that is still completely downplayed.
The film accompanies members of a Hamburg choir singing modern pop songs.
The Cologne Edelweiss Pirates were one of those proletarian resistance groups against the Nazi regime that are easily forgotten to this day. They were adolescent urban Indians who threw sand in the gears, who sang forbidden songs like: ...what can Hitler's life give us, we want to be Bundish, we want to be free of Hitler. At night, they added Nazi slogans such as "Wheels roll for victory" with "Nazi heads roll after the war! They derailed a supply train for the front and stole food for Russian foreign workers. On November 10, 1944, thirteen of them were publicly hanged in Hüttenstraße in Cologne-Ehrenfeld without a court verdict. The youngest was 16 years old. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Edelweiss Pirates were not recognized as resistance fighters for decades, but defamed as criminals. The film was the contribution of all those involved in the film to the rehabilitation of the thirteen murdered people from Hüttenstraße.
Conversations with prisoners in the Russian labour camps in Pelym and with inhabitants of the surrounding barren region.
The first “Ferien in Schlampenau, Sommercamp für unnatürliche Frauen” took place in 2007 and has since become an annual event. Four participants talk about polyamory, the summer camp, feminism, being queer and their dreams for the future.
During her lifetime 12th-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen invented a secret language, the lingua ignota, which purpose remains unclear up until today. Taking the idea of visions as a starting point for playing with the filmic image and montage, Lingua Ignota connects a research into the different facets of Hildegard von Bingen’s life - music, plants, language - with an audio-visual diary. Collecting images at Disibodenberg, a former monastery where Hildegard used to live, visiting friends on a Danish Island and seasons changing - the principle of an unknown language connects the images and dictates their order, seeking correspondences between different spaces and temporalities.
Shangri-La (2023) journeys through Mongolia from an intercultural perspective, reflecting on tradition, modernity, and the tension between indigenous and Western belief systems. As filmmakers from industrialized nations — Germany and South Korea — we critically examine our own positions as outsiders, questioning the ways in which histories, environments, and ways of knowing are perceived and represented.
The Alps, 1560. A rare meteorological phenomenon causes the sky to “catch fire”. People fear the Apocalypse, which then manifests as a cold snap that dramatically affects the harvests. This narrative, interwoven with images depicting the technical management of the Alpine landscape, creates a fascinating dialogue between the ancestral apocalyptic imagination and the unfolding climate collapse.
The Tsar travels to Paris.
The short film shows the process of oil extraction up to the delivery to the customer
1,726 female fighters of the Polish underground and female warriors who survived the Warsaw Uprising formed an unusual self-government in a Nazi camp between 1944 until their release in 1945. A film about brave and creative women in dangerous times.
Dortmund's Nordstadt is considered a social hotspot. High unemployment, poverty and crime. Many migrants live here. But the district is on the move.
The connection between clockmaking and the Black Forest is explored.
Short film about glider jumping in the Oberstdorf ski region.
Iran, 16 September 2022. Mahsa Amini dies after being beaten by the morality police. Demonstrations follow, bringing together thousands of women severely repressed by the regime. Narges Kahlor explores the videos of these revolts published on social media, paying tribute to these defenders of the people armed with telephones.
In VIDEO VERTOV, director Gerd Conradt tells his grandson stories from more than forty years of his eventful life - based on film and video documents. The film tells the life story of the video pioneer: love and revolution, red flag and meditation - expeditions to distant countries. For his grandson, Gerd Conradt spreads his film and video treasures on the big screen and leaves behind an "electronic" testament to his 50-year career as a film artist. The first love. Economic Miracle Berlin. Marriage and birth of daughter in Rome. Student at the dffb in Berlin. A life between adaptation and provocation. A life in search of knowledge, always interested in the extreme.
About Japanese shota comics and the people who read, draw and love them.
A documentation about Werner Herzog's motif to do movies.
Documentary concerning the seizing of Stasi files by thousands of Berliners gathered in Lichtenberg on 15 January 1990, bringing to an end a secret service that spied upon an entire nation, turned friends into informants and created a climate of fear, repression and conformity.
Short documentary by Karl Schedereit
In 1970 pornography was passed in Denmark. Cinematographer Werner M. Lenz has gone there two years later. He wanted to document for the Germans what was free there now. But the embarrassing conversations with prostitutes didn't manage it.
Bangladeshi artist Naima Karim was paralyzed by a virus and for a year could do nothing but look at the sky. She then experienced the monsoon even more intensely than usual: the initial gusts of wind, the rapidly darkening sky, the oppressive humidity and finally the downpour of rain, which washes everything clean and leaves behind a fresh scent.
Documentary portrait of the Austrian farmer's son and village photographer Martin Humer, who as a "porn hunter" leads a dubious campaign against porn bars, peep shows and sex stores. His methods have made him enemies, including his worst adversary, a porn publisher. The film shows the contradictions between morality and fanaticism, as well as the Janus-faced nature of pornographic consumerism and the inhuman pleasure industry.
Documentary about the Roma theater of the same name in Kosice, Slovakia, which is organized and run exclusively by Roma and is unique in Europe. After more than 40 years of silence and social and artistic exclusion of the Roma, ROMATHAN is a first cautious step toward carving out a "space of normality" in an otherwise hostile environment. The ensemble has given us an insight into its everyday theater life, and we encounter its members as artistic and creative people who are learning to regain their dignity and self-confidence.
The film observes mentally handicapped children and young people and depicts learning and preparation for later activities and social life.
The Beatsteaks are one of the most commercially successful German punk rock bands, alongside bands such as Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen. After the band was founded in 1995, success was slow to come. It wasn't until 2004 that they had their big breakthrough with the album "Smack Smash".
Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl