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For women who experience domestic violence, a women's shelter often is the only way out. This documentary short film is intended to give a small insight into this shelter and yet preserve its anonymity.

"Memory makes the most beautiful movies..." A voice is heard in the dark while a flashlight traces the wooden skeletons of half-erected buildings and frames. Using architecture, sound distortion and a nocturnal floating camera, the construction of memory feels like a dream remembered and instantly forgotten; a memory not something to be preserved but destroyed outside the mind.

Demonstration of fire extinguisher that reduces the danger of a burning film. After ten seconds, the fire in a film roll is extinguished by the device. The film can be reused by unrolling and drying. Public and projectionists are no longer at risk.

Documentary portrait of Berlin the 1920s.

For more than a quarter of a century, Russia has been conducting a peacekeeping operation in a conflict area between Transnistria and the Republic of Moldova. Starting from the observation of the trilateral “peacekeeping post” on the Dniester River, this documentary reflects the life in the region, which is sluggish under the supervision of the mission’s soldiers.

Portrait of a child of migrant workers who sees boxing as his only chance of a successful life.

A German documentary about the Marc Dutroux case, one of the most horrid elite pedophilia scandals ever unearthed.

A collection of fleeting observations that document the passage of time through intimate encounters with friends and family captured between 1999 to 2018.

After the death of her father, Christina is a Swedish queen in her childhood. As a young woman, she leaves the throne, changes to the Catholic faith and escapes to Rome. The life of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689), her power and her self-interest fascinate the world to this day. The documentary drama explores the history of the unadjusted queen in Stockholm and Rome, which is still a model for many feminists.

Love across cultural boundaries shapes the story of Amira and Jezzy, who both have their say to express their thoughts and feelings.

Where does this mysterious crop circle phenomena come from? Is it done by man as a joke? So why do people have extraordinary experiences then? Flying ball of lights were seen in and around crop circles. Or is it an alien intelligence which try to communicate with us? The geometry which can be found in crop circles, include a lot of mathematics which can be also found in nature. Our new documentary "New swirled order" deals with these questions and present some very extraordinary Crop circle formations in 2008, like the "Pi"-formation in Barbury Castle or the Crop Circle near Avebury Manor, which showed our solar system with the planetary constellation of December 21 of 2012. Great film. The one crop circle that is connected to pi equation, I found that if you use Pythagoras's numerology equation by adding each digit together 3+1+4+1+5+9+2+6+5+4=40. then add 4+0=4. Which represents corners on a square which is pi. I thought was interesting.

A tracking shot along the objects on the shelves of a film prop warehouse will trigger stories in our minds. The orange-coloured telephone takes us to the futuristic 1970s, plastic salmon canapés on artificial lemon slices invite us to a party, cut and thrust weapons herald mortal danger.

Documentary about the Wu-Tang Clan.

Beavers revisits locations in Berlin first filmed in Diminished Frame (1970), alongside sites in Massachusetts, to reflect on how lived places shape vision and memory. Moving between past and present, the film becomes a meditation on perception, time, and the persistence of personal landscapes.

It's a full-length documentary about the problems of Upper Silesian identity today and attempts to protect what remained after years of Germanization and later Polonization of Upper Silesia.

Enthusiasm resounds at election campaign events with the right-wing extremist German AfD politician Björn Höcke. Some claim that he is his own biggest fan. Former colleagues believe that the chairman of the AfD Thuringia lives in the belief that something great is destined for him. On September 1, 2024, Björn Höcke won the state election in Thuringia for the first time, where he wants to become Prime Minister. Previously, Björn Höcke was twice fined for using a slogan from the Third Reich. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the AfD Thuringia regional association he leads as proven right-wing extremist. In a book, he made his radical restructuring plans for Germany public. But who is Björn Höcke actually? Where does his attitude, his view of Germany, his worldview come from? Which ideological masterminds are behind the figurehead Höcke? Is he being controlled or is he controlling the AfD? And: What can we expect from him in the future?

This documentary takes a look at the Hase, a river that flows through the Osnabrück Land in Germany. The 'Flow of the Hase' shows entertainingly with historic scenes how the requirements on the river changed through time. Today there is a great effort to renaturalize the Hase. 10 interviewees get a chance to speak: Some work professionally with the Hase, others get a special quality of life because of the river.

The temple complex of Banteay Chhmar in Cambodia is half-ruined, but of enchanting beauty. It is the last major temple of the old Khmer empire. The people of the village are rediscovering it: as a place of spiritual inspiration and the center of cultural life. With almost no outside help, the inhabitants of the small village are fighting to preserve and restore the complex.

Marzen photographs this multi-shot document of a Catholic procession.

The Gelsenkirchen coal mine housing estate Flöz Dickebank became famous in the 1970s due to the residents' resistance to the planned clear-cut redevelopment. In 1974, the Gelsenkirchen city council and the owner of the workers' housing estate founded in 1868 (Rheinisch-Westfälische Wohnstätten AG) decided to demolish Flöz Dickebank.

Life and death – the big questions: where do we come from, where are we going, and what is the purpose of our existence here on earth... Questions that have been asked since our early existence. However, throughout history we have apparently never recognized the many signs we encountered on our path, and which could have provided answers. Why? The answer is... we ourselves are the problem! We limit ourselves by our limited way of thinking. And if we than do discover certain directives, we start to distort these so that practically nothing of these remain. It is also the reason why prophets and great oracles, when they revealed their knowledge and wisdom, were misinterpreted by our own limited way of thinking. Yet... answers and explanations are closer than we would surmise. The only thing we have to do is expand our way of thinking, after which we come to the conclusion that our universe and our consciousness consist of many layers.

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a provocative reckoning with the ideological upbringing that seemed so progressive and yet was suffocated by the children's desire to finally grow up. With an ironic eye and a feuilletonistic style, author Richard David Precht and Cologne documentary film director André Schäfer trace a childhood in the West German provinces - and place the major events of those years in completely different, smaller and very private contexts.

An insight into Hamburg's nightlife.

Documentary in which Eckhart Schmidt talks about his films, his poetry, and all his other creative endeavors...

About a dramatic bank robbery on August 16, 1988, where the criminals escape with two hostages and the media is right in the middle of their chase. Two days later the hostage situation was put to an end in a police operation on the A3 motorway. Three people were killed during this crisis - two teenage hostages and a policeman involved in a vehicle crash. The whole episode became a media circus in Germany and the Netherlands.

Documentary on Christian Schocher, director of the legendary «Reisender Krieger» (1980).

A personal reinterpretation of a collection of instructional 16mm films from the German Employment Agency.

This film shows the halls of the Borsig locomotive factory in Berlin with the noise of the machines and riveting hammers. Iron and steel plates, bundles of pipes of all diameters are formed. Huge locomotive boilers, lifted by cranes, move through the hall. They connect with the huge steel wheels, glittering steel parts are inserted into the engine of the locomotive being built. Finally, the giant is on the rails, the class 05 express locomotive of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

Joachim 'Blacky' Fuchsberger talks about his career.

A german bottle of beer, washed up on the shore of an almost inaccessible Lofoten island in the Arctic Ocean. Where did it come from? Did it really travel all the way up from Germany? Back in his hometown, Dresden, filmmaker Steffen Krones can’t get this incidence out of his mind. Is Dresden, by any chance, connected to the Arctic circle via its waterways?

Stephen Lack talks about playing the lead in David Cronenberg's 1981 sci-fi/horror cult classic SCANNERS.

A certain degree of influence by the pharmaceutical industry on politics and authorities would not be surprising. The examples of large pharmaceutical companies directly influencing political decision-makers, ministries and authorities are too blatant. And thus decisions were made in favor of the industry. Paid specialists, bought-in experts, influenced politicians - independent decisions do not seem to be a matter of course in the healthcare system. "Profiteers of Fear" sheds light on the entanglements between politics and business.

5 people talk about everyday life in a village in Berlin's affluent suburbs during the GDR era.

Throughout the continent, discovery of a new generation of independent self learners who share a common passion for African culture and aesthetics and a strong ethic in opposition to the huge fast fashion industry.

For the 60th birthday of the early-deceased Austropop legend, music filmmaker Rudi Dolezal reflects on Falco. He sketches a loose portrait of the artist persona and the person behind it, offering new insights into Hans Hölzel's final years.

Two-part documentary about the roots of the music of hope, the rebels, the lateral thinkers and the oppressed.

A film about the painter Ludwig Richter

Larion Dyakov is a painter, but he doesn't use paint; instead, he "paints pictures through music." He plays the viola and connects it to a chain of various effects devices to loop his phrases and alter the original sound of his classical instrument. The result is a mixture of classical and modern ambient music that can transport you to another world and paint a new picture in your mind's eye, if you let it.

What if you witness a revolution but things get worse? What if your homeland is in ruins with no signs of reconstruction? How do you cope? You can either get angry, sick, and depressed or just escape into memories of a golden but lost past. Four people, two revolutions, and the story of a destroyed Egyptian city.

Where do we come from? Where do we go? While woodworking, beekeeping and going on joyrides in his funny car, Mr. Bulisch answers the big questions of his life.