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A German Film Award silver medal winning short feature on the ancient Roman city on the Mosel.

The news that the Soviet Union had succeeded in launching an artificial moon for the first time in history on October 4, 1957 hit like a bombshell. Sputnik1 is the talk of the town. A metal ball weighing 83 kg with a diameter of 58 cm, hurtling around the globe at cosmic speed.

"Dracula - The true story of the vampire" - Reveals how the vampire myth came into being, when the first "vampire epidemic" broke out, and why Count Dracula has since conquered the world.

A hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), and to their access to cinema itself. In various encounters and conversations Nestler offers an insight into their life and work, including passages from Italian poet Cesare Pavese.

Follow rapper Gzuz on his toughest battle: getting out of excess, prison, and escalation—and into a life as a father, husband, and artist. But old patterns don't just disappear. Between touring, studio work, and family, he struggles with his past. Will he manage a fresh start, or will his life remain a tightrope walk between extremes?

Held captive in his mother's house with a shackle on his leg, 27-year-old Benjamin serves a ten-month custodial sentence. The small house in the outskirts of Vienna is cramped. Benjamin makes music, lifts weights and flies his helicopter. His mother works, folds laundry and makes phone calls. Then in the evening they eat together. The distance that has built up between them over the years gradually gets smaller again. A totally different kind of family reunion.

"Childhoods without Borders: Voices in Motion" is a documentary in which migrant boys and girls narrate the experiences and challenges they have faced in search of a better life.

Documentary film.

Three women tell of their lives with a mentally handicapped child: Birgit's son Jelte is eight years old and seriously disabled. Arne, Anke's son, is 18 and has Down's Syndrome - people generally refer to him as a Mongol. Angelika's son Farid is mentally handicapped. The women talk about their experiences with doctors and the people around them, about isolation and integration, about coping with crises and the changes brought about in their own lives. Parallel to this, the film shows sections of the children's everyday life at school, therapy and the community where they live. Arne and Farid also supplement their mothers' narratives with their own self-confident statements.

A short film exploring memorialization and continuities of racism from DDR.

33 years after the disaster, 5 days and nights illegally in the restricted area, in Pripyat, and on the Duga-1 antenna.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

"Housekeeping" is about hotel rooms, how they are used fleetingly by guests, and about those who have been cleaning the same rooms for years. The way in which each room is occupied individually stands in contrast to the chamber maids' daily experience of cleaning countless rooms, all of them identical in design and appearance. In a field of tension between the chamber maids' work and their knowledge of the short-term inhabitants of the rooms the film visualizes an aspect of daily life which is often experienced but rarely reflected.

Giant Pacific octopuses are mystical creatures. A film team managed to gain insight into the mysterious life of these relatives of snails and mussels. It formed a close bond with the elusive squid while diving in the fjords of the Northeastern United States. In parallel, the dive team followed the evolution of the giant octopus Eleonora at Port Townsend Aquarium.

Documentary about the racist nature of the war in Poland.

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, the so-called ‘painter of the Rothschilds and the Rothschild of painters’, was the first Jewish painter of the modern era. Oppenheim came to represent the emancipation of German Jews in the nineteenth century, although his work depicting traditional Jewish life has mostly been forgotten. With an extraordinary collaborative soundtrack fusing electronic music with classical composition performed by the string quartet of the Frankfurt Philharmonic Orchestra, this powerful documentary explores the seminal artist’s traces — and lingering impact — across Germany, France and Israel.

In the summer of 2008, a butcher, a surgeon, a driving instructor, an engineer, a filmmaker and a theologian left their Saxon homeland on their motorcycles in search of adventure. We follow the group into the heart of Russia, over rough tracks and forgotten monasteries to the legendary Black Bears motorcycle club.

This educational film cynically explores the causes and depressive effects of tourism on the physical and social environment of the Alpine region.

No monarch has reigned longer in British history than Elizabeth II, who has been an authority for 70 years. A ruler without power, yet a factor of power. And even today, she is an icon at the center of the world's public. On the occasion of the celebrations for the 70th jubilee of the throne at the beginning of June 2022, the documentary "The Queen - The Fateful Years of a Queen" highlights six decisive phases in the Queen's life and recounts the moving moments and trying trials of the royal family and the United Kingdom over the decades.

Since the mid 1980s Detlef Gumm and Hans-Georg Ullrich have followed the inhabitants of Berlin's Wilmersdorf district with their cameras. Their long-term observational films describe the hopes and dreams of ordinary people. Dryly humorous and sometimes even grotesque, these films are a touching journey through time pervaded by friend-ship, patience, trust and warmth. Taking these ostensibly normal events, they have turned them into a compelling comédie humaine about health, money and love, fleeting moments of happiness and great misfortune.

For their 100th episode, the hosts of the Bavarian film podcast Viva la Movielución produced a feature film about themselves. Instead of covering a movie, game or series as usual, they made their own show the subject, filmed live before an audience with guests and a Q&A.

Digital nomads are free spirits living independently of location who can do their work at any place in the world. "Digital nomads - Germany moves out" is the first German language documentary on a topic that concerns us all and to which society and the world of work must find answers.

Magic Babe Ning doing some fine tricks in 3d.

Intimate documentary portrait of german cinematographer Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, who worked with many directors of the New German Cinema and was longtime collaborator of Werner Herzog und Herbert Achternbusch.

This expressionist, black-and-white film-poem recalls avant-garde experiments from the beginning of the last century and makes use of stark contrasts between light and dark. Accompanied by ambient noise, the film introduces a dystopian world in which familiar objects are transformed into abstract images, leaving viewers unsettled and disoriented.

Being confronted with the finiteness of life in a car accident while carrying their unborn baby, the filmmakers Marie-Catherine Theiler and Jan Peters suddenly realize that their lives have become way too hectic. They spend too much precious time rushing from one appointment to the next, hunting deadline after deadline. They decide to change their lives and slow down. But how? During a humorous odyssey from one time-expert to the next, Marie-Catherine and Jan ask the questions most of us would like to know the answers to… Within the timeframe of Marie-Catherine’s pregnancy, the directors of TIME’S UP leave no stone unturned, examining with wit and irony how today’s society - and above all they themselves - deal with the subject of ‘time’.

Germans on the Mondo Cane tour, meaning an overview of "our bizarre world" in more than 30 revealing fragments with commentary that twists and turns to give things a universal, and in some places even cosmic, meaning.

One of the two documentaries portray theater director Einar Schleef in Vienna and New York, alternating between observations of his work and interview segments in which Schleef reflects on theater and culture in general. Other individuals also have their say, notably Elfriede Jelinek.

A brief portrait of Tokyo.

Sonja Ziemann talks about her career.

This short vertical video presents the library of the Broumov monastery, combining documentary elements with 3D animation and synthetic commentary with a tinge of music. The internal directorial dialogue reflects Kohout’s own works of art exhibited as part of the Ora et lege project, which related contemporary art to the culture and teachings of the Benedictines.

What beer is to Germans, vodka is to Russians. The Russians consume around 60 liters of their national drink per capita per year - as cheap liquor, fine drink and home-distilled. But the high alcohol consumption has consequences: every year around 30,000 people in Russia die of alcohol poisoning. WELT reporter Christoph Wanner has taken a closer look at the production and sales of Vodka - a lucrative business in which not everything is right.

Documentary about a German village in the middle of nowhere.

A woman patiently cleans her chimney and tidies up her domestic space: this is a daily toil, endlessly reiterated, yet not alienated. Around her unfolds an Irish landscape, and a superimposed text unveils its still topical story, marked by England’s domination, that even Thatcher’s death will not erase. A voice-over refers to a tale by the Grimm brothers, The Bremen Town Musicians. And from this childhood memory is delineated an analysis of its libertarian subtext, as well as a history of its avatars in the context of the upheavals of 19th century Europe.

A filmmaker travels around the world and considers the literal meaning of the concept of "human capital." What am I worth? is the question that he asks himself and the people he talks to. Peter Scharf's discoveries are shocking, tragic and startling - and sometimes very funny.

Calopteryx cornelia only occurs in one color morph and shows the typical dragonfly behavior. Species of the genus Mnais form different color morphs. Males with intensely colored wings are dominant over males with hyaline wings.

The film is not just about two talented and determined actresses with disabilities. The determination, energy and courage of Lucy and Yulia radiate onto the stage and screen and have an impact on many levels of social perception. Their successful entry into professional German theater is a profound statement against the accepted norms of a world where fashion, profit and sexism dictate the aesthetics of the female body.

Münster – we love you! Embark on a breathtaking journey taking place above the roofs of the most beautiful city in the world. Unique shots show the city of Münster in its full diversity, grown over centuries. Marvel at the detailed ornaments on church towers, the beauty of the meadows and woods along the Werse river, ambitious modern buildings and the world-famous Prinzipalmarkt. For more than 6 years, the guys of German Rotor Cam and Münster 4 Life took shots of their home town from a bird's eye view and created an exceptionally wonderful image. They created a testament to Münster which, in its making and story, is surely singular.

Camera study about everyday life on the Hoyerswerda construction site. Film rediscovered in 2014.

Doctors, nurses, patients, hospital managers, and health activists review the impact of the flat rates introduced in 2003, which arguably created an environment in which speed is valued over quality of diagnosis.

Alexander Kluge's 2012 Frankfurt lectures on poetics.