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A film about speech.

Humorous statistic that shows how much the GDR amounted to during the first 15 years.

Former East Germany, punk music, the wall, betrayal, jail, exit for the West: a film confronting these things on the offensive – and seeing its view of them as a balancing act.

After a brief overview of the situation of the Protestant Church in the German Reich and in Bavaria in the first months of 1933, contemporary witnesses report on the Protestant Church's fight against the oppression.

It is the most spectacular criminal case of the post-war era: the murder of the Frankfurt noblewoman Rosemarie Nitribitt moves the still young Federal Republic in the years of the economic miracle. However, the story from Frankfurt's red-light district quickly mutates into a full-blown moral scandal in the stuffy Germany of the 1950s. And the police, who come under increasing pressure, make one blunder after another. The case turns into a farce and a murderer is never found. Can a fresh look at the old files solve this mysterious cold case today?

Souleymane, an Afro-German trans man, travels from Berlin to Dakar to repair his father’s kora, and in doing so, himself. A fragile search for harmony between body, sewing, ocean, heritage, and faith.

Matthias Wilhelm is a musician who transfers the universality of his art to the philosophy of his life. People with linked his life, musical organizations that he has been part of, inspirations gathered from different branches of art make his philosophy comprehensible and meaningful. One Day with Matthias turns into a summary of life with full of art and multi-culturality.

If history is written by the victors, where does that leave those who were never allowed to be part of the game? A collective of queer athletes enters the Olympic Stadium in Athens and sets out to honour those who were excluded from standing on the winners’ podium. They meet Amanda Reiter, a trans* marathon runner who has to struggle with the prejudices of sports organisers, and Annet Negesa, an 800m runner who was urged by the international sports federations to undergo hormone-altering surgery. Together they create a radical poetic utopia far from the rigid gender rules found in competitive sports.

An artistic audiovisual project emanating from the economic and social confusion that first emerged in recent years between Germany and Greece and now is spreading throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The two countries are presented here as examples, representative of the differences and conflicts that are exacerbated by a crisis.

Documentary about the film projectionist Alois Gugutzer in a 1970's half automatic 4-screen cinema in Munich.

Offering rare insight into the tough world of soccer agents, this documentary follows industry veteran Jörg Neblung as he manages clients and contracts.

Late afternoon quiet and a silent figure seated on a bench in Nafplion; the historic figures of Kolokotronis and Kapodistrias; plus the old factories and machinery, warehouses and train lines that are part of a Piraeus, now disappearing.

1942, and a spectacular wartime birth in the depths of winter: a young russian nurse unexpectedly goes into labour and, all alone and in freezing temperatures, gives birth to her daughter Tamara in a field on the banks of the Volga. The most personal film to date from co-directors Tamara Trampe and Johann Feindt is dedicated to Tamara's own family history. The search for her unknown father who, as a russian officer, made the young nurse pregnant, is complicated by the fact that her mother has never come to terms with her wartime trauma and worn family photos only seem to show happy-go-lucky life before the war. But the director won't give up so easily and, through a mixture of personal childhood recollections and conversations with relatives and former nurses who were on the front in Ukraine, she puts together the pieces of the puzzle.

The film takes part in the current debate about work, economy and the crisis, showing on the basis of three examples in Serbia, Brazil and Austria how to do it different.

For a life of pomp and splendor, Bastian takes over the kindergarten of a private parents' initiative as treasurer. The documentary tells the true story of an impostor. It is about social coexistence, trust and setting an example of values for children. Bastian doesn't give a damn about these values. For him, they are just annoying conventions, obstacles on the way to a life with a Ferrari and high-class prostitutes. And for this life, Bastian steals from the kindergarten of a private parents' initiative. For the viewer, this is an astonishing balancing act between right and wrong, between pity and schadenfreude.

Using the example of a couple in love, this industry film demonstrates the industry's visions for car sharing, electromobility, smartphone use and in-car navigation.

Three demonstrations that overlapped and escalated shortly before Christmas 2013. The conflict over the Rote Flora, the right of residence for Lampedusa refugees, and the rescue of the Esso houses. In "Gefahrengebiete und andere Hamburgensien" (Danger Zones and Other Hamburg Trivia), director Rasmus Gerlach documented three sources of conflict in the city at that time: a pillow fight on Spielbudenplatz and the toilet brush as a symbol of resistance. The protests by Hamburg's citizens were creative and colorful when the police declared the districts of St. Pauli, Sternschanze, and large areas of Altona to be "danger zones." The highly controversial measure lasted only nine days before it was criticized and is now back in the spotlight—because although it has been declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court, the Hamburg police are sticking to the danger zones in St. Georg and St. Pauli.

Kassetten-Fernsehen tells the story of the development of video as an entertainment medium in West Germany. The story begins with visions of a revolution and ends with a persistent censorship debate in a climate of intellectual and moral change.

In 1916, the name of the French fortress town of Verdun came to symbolize the greatest battle of attrition of all time - a portent of mass death on the battlefields of the 20th century. Based on selected individual fates, the film "The Hell of Verdun" tells the story of a military inferno in which people were regarded as material, not as individuals. More than 700,000 soldiers, German and French, died, were wounded or remained missing, without the course of the front changing significantly.

The documentary tells of women who asserted their ambitions during the GDR era.

Short film about the human body

Retrospective on a unique moment of great music. In 1982, two immense musicians pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and conductor Sergiu Celibidache combined their talents to perform the “Concerto in G Major” by the legendary Ravel.

HF815B - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

In this short film, the late protagonist Ransom Bradford (1937-2013) talks about the reasons for his decision to undergo shock therapy with the aim of becoming straight. At the same time, the filmmaker takes the filmed interviews, which he had kept in his closet for 17 years, as a starting point to reflect on his friendship with Ransom – as well as on their age difference of 36 years. The film invites the viewer to reflect on the ways social norms and stigmatization relate to emotions and are inscribed into bodies. It addresses love and loss and treasures relationality and gay desire.

The portrait of a building, a meditation, perhaps the invocation of its inherent spirit. Moreover, it is a reflection on labor in the near future.

Six pensioners enjoy the apparent privilege of retirement in Germany. But what was seen as a desirable goal during their working lives turned out to be an obstacle course full of unexpected bureaucratic, social and health challenges, when they retired. Valeriy, Svetlana, Manni, Klaus, Ilona and Laura – all affected by old-age poverty - give us a private insight into their unique fates and share their thoughts and worries as well as their moments of happiness with us in intimate conversations.

Professor Eske Willerslev has an ambition to build the world's largest collection of prehistoric human DNA. As the collection grows, he is forced to confront the ghosts of his own past.

On December 12, 1945 Maria Stadler got (as one of the first from the American occupying power) the license to operate a movie theater. At first she ran a traveling cinema, which went so well that she opened on 30 October 1953 Maria's Kino in Bad Endorf, which still exists today. In the winter of 1976/77 students of the Munich University of Film and Television made a documentary about the idealist, who had since become a movie legend.

The sky draws circles on the water. What does it mean when illness suddenly shrinks your radius to the size of a duck pond? An essay about loss and the healing world of dreams, in which a swan accompanies us to the cinema.

Karl-Heinz Schneider travels once again to his former homeland. In his pictorial and masterful narrative style, the author lets us participate once again in his childhood and youth days and vividly shows us the history, culture and people of the former Brandenburg district of Weststernberg.

Documentary deals with the fascination that this man arouses worldwide. How could such a hype and cult develop around such a controversial artist? This feature-length documentary shows how people in Bayreuth live with Wagner's legacy from festival to festival, how enthusiastic Wagnerians all over the world celebrate their composer and what people have to say who deal intensively with his work or interpret it as active artists on stage.

Glienicke Bridge has linked Berlin and Potsdam since the 17th Century. As a symbol of the division of Germany and the world into East and West The bridge became a household name. Though only 3 spy exchanges took place at Glienicke Bridge, comprising a total of 38 agents, it forever became known as The Bridge of Spies.

The film popularizes the conspiracy theory created by the KGB in Operation Infection and biologist Jakob Segal that the HIV pathogen originated in the United States at the Fort Detrick military biological weapons research laboratory.

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's questions about his artistic and personal development in a manner that is at times shockingly laconic. Excerpts from his film "Beware of a Holy Whore" document how much the life circumstances of his group of actors influenced the work of the director.

In the 19th century, Baden-Baden was the summer capital of Europe. The city is particularly attractive to Russians. With Dostoyevsky and Turgenev come two authors who share a deep dislike for each other: Turgenev loves the West; Dostoyevsky hates him. He is passionate about playing roulette, a game that is banned in his homeland...

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

Bern, 1980: A caleidoscopic portrait of Swiss urban life in the early 1980s.

In 1991, the Schwarze Pumpe energy centre in Lusatia is phased out. Tens of thousands lose their jobs, hoping for better times. Today, the dirt and feelings of the past keep coming up.

BER was supposed to be Europe's most modern airport, instead it almost became Europe's first airport ruin and made its builders the laughing stock of the world.