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A German Film Award winning short documentary about the collection and disposal of rubbish.

This film shows how "Statusbericht" was shot. The seven days of shooting are worked through chronologically, which should give the viewer a sense of the shooting break.

A priestess in “Serafisk Sang”, virginal in “Pastorale”, botanic in “Sommertanz” and finally a witch in “Hexentanz”, Mary Wigman is a woman-flower, goddess and a prophetess in turn. Her jerky, sombre and introspective movements proudly claim the expression of the free body. We are at the end of the roaring twenties and Mary Wigman provoked a real revolution in the world of dance.

How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity, extreme violence and state terror without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to this question via two actors, a precisely compiled collage of texts and a deliberately reduced setting.

"Where is my money?" - the question that everyone is sure to have asked themselves at some point is the starting point for filmmaker Philipp Enders' journey through the world of finance. Guided by a mobile app, he ends up searching for his lost money not only at the European Central Bank (ECB) and the stock exchange, but also in a ruined Spanish building. His research uncovers a system of dependencies and the realization that the crisis in the financial system also holds an opportunity for change. With a wink, "Mammon" tells of the mechanisms behind "filthy lucre".

Social hotspots can be found everywhere. Recognizing this, rapper Carlos Zamora started his project Rapflektion in Braunschweig and the surrounding area, to educate teenagers to communicate responsibly, respectfully and without violence through rap. For the past seven years he has been travelling to Latin American countries known for their drug cartels and violence. Other than church initiatives, Zamora's rap workshops for disadvantaged youth are frequently the only projects available for these teenagers.

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and curious about media, so it’s no wonder that he recently began experimenting with artificial intelligence. He has been exploring a particular programme developed in Munich for medical research, which he systematically strains in order to find his images at the farthest ends of the system's creative faculties. With these, Kluge plays in the same essayistic fashion beloved from his television work – historical footage and a plenitude of texts, comics, charts and cabaret. In short: facts and fictions freely intermingle.

Hannah, Katti, and Meret have been part of the same circle of friends since their school days. They grew up together in Kiel, spent their youth together, and are now in their mid-twenties, facing the next turning point in their lives. Hannah has finished her studies and is looking for a suitable job. She is currently working on her applications. Meret plans to leave her home town and move to Switzerland to work in a hospital there. Katti is pregnant and preparing for the birth and parenthood with her boyfriend. These are very different steps on the path to adulthood, and they’re each taking them individually – but also together.

With Sounds of Dortmund, Dortmund Opera picks up where MusiCircus left off in the 2018/19 season. Once again, musical groups and all Dortmund residents were invited to become part of the performative sound collage. For one day, Dortmund was to be filled with music, noises, sounds, and performances. A poetic sound art work that focuses on the diversity of the city with its individual sounds.

A collage of associations evoked by finds. One’s family, three different Germanys including their insidious subchapters, the taste of life. The mother used to be a passionate Chinese checkers player. On the one hand. On the other she was a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. Her journeyman’s piece: a showpiece with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of these words we presumed obsolete. And for everything else!

In the spring of 1937 Leni Riefenstahl had only just started editing the 1st part of her magnum opus Olympia and it became clear that the film would not be ready for another year. The German authorities, who were financing the film, began to fear that these delays would have a negative impact on the future commercial success of the two Olympia films and so it was decided to create a promotional film, in English and in French, in order to maintain public interest for the film.

Witnesses recount how they experienced the bombing raid on Freiburg, a city in southern Germany, on November 27, 1944. At the time, they were still children. They also provide insights into how these experiences and the wartime period shaped their lives and how they view today’s world through the lens of those events.

The film accompanies two aspiring midwives in their everyday work and follows their thoughts and arguments.

Set on the arid seabed of the former Aral Sea, the documentary film "Sea Tomorrow" takes us on a journey into the world after the apocalypse.

Munich Carnival! In the midst of the hustle and bustle, a merry group joins the stream of skiers who left Munich's train stations early in the morning on special trains to enjoy the white splendor of the mountains. From Schliersee station, a short climb past snow-covered alpine pastures and hay barns leads to the host's hut. Once the first hunger pangs have been satisfied, the skis are waxed and off they go in a long line up the steep slope. From the Firstalm, the view stretches far down to the Sunday bustle of the winter sports resort. It's wonderful to bask in the February sun in a light swimsuit. But a snowball fight also has its charms. And just as much fun as the "hut magic" is the evening trip home on the ski train in "hearty" company.

Horst Wendlandt tells the story of his cinematic work since the sixties. The dialogue between the "old and the young filmmaker" creates a fascinating spectrum of German film of the recent past.

Short educational film about television

Documentary film about the first year of German reunification in Bitterfeld. They succeeded in showing the city and regional problems from the perspective of the people of Bitterfeld. Without spoken commentary from the documentary filmmakers, but rather through the power of images and people's stories, a powerful film has been created that shows that Bitterfeld cannot be adequately described as an ecological crisis area alone.

Potrait of director Marilou Diaz-Abaya.

Short film about federalism

A documentary about the Berlin homeless theater group Ratten 07.

“The main thing is that I’m fine!” Charly, a family man and consultant in his early 60s, has had to put up with quite a few setbacks in his life. Born as Karl-Heinz in Franconia, he reinvented himself and created an optimized personality under the stage name “Charly”. Never to be vulnerable again – self-protection is his new motto.

Displaced persons in post-war Germany: The situation of refugees and displaced persons from the East is portrayed using the example of four fictional fates.

Documentary deals with the murder of 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl in July 2002 by three young people.

Hans-Dieter Grabe portrays his neighbour, Raimund, one year before his suicide.

Ralph is on a journey to find the creators of funny memes.

The fourth part of the Wittstock cycle is not only a continuation of the cinematic chronicle of the "Ernst Lück" tricot factory, but also a first summary of the development of the company since its almost ten-year existence. Edith Rupp takes center stage. She is now a master craftswoman and has become engaged, but is still skeptical about what the future will bring.

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection follow-up Ancestral Visions of the Future is described as being “a deeply personal exploration of identity, childhood, and death,” continuing a running theme in Mosese’s work of wrestling with his childhood in Lesotho and his exile to Germany.

This film was shot in and around Dar Es Salaam. It was made with the help of a band called "Roots & Kulture" (Cultural Awareness Projects). Africa impressed me in a very special way. With all my bulky film equipment I remained an intruder and alien to this culture. I became increasingly aware of this during my trip. Richard, the main cast, has become the impersonation of my estrangement. (Georg Eisnecker)

In early 1930 author and journalist Heinrich Hauser embarked on a 110-day voyage from Hamburg to South America on the F. Laeisz shipping company’s four-masted sailship Pamir.

Jewish people, who once called the small Polish town of Będzin home, embark on a journey into their past, one marked by fear, despair, and shame toward their murdered fellow human beings. The images of what they were forced to endure continue to haunt them and shape their lives.

Shortly after her divorce, a doctor from Munich sets out on a trip. With a mute lover at the wheel of an old Mercedes 180, she visits female friends and talks to them about their circumstances and their idea of ideal love.

The film takes us behind the torn facades of Leipzig's eastern district. Over a period of three years, filmmaker Birk Poßecker has portrayed a neighborhood characterized by contrasts, authentic stories, and personalities. Fragile snapshots accompanied by a trashy-romantic VHS vibe. This documentary flickers with its blurred lines between yesterday and today, raising the ever-present conflicts in trendy neighborhoods: displacement, inequality, and racism. The whole thing is carried by the peculiar charm of its residents and the ruinous beauty of eastern Leipzig. Whether it's autonomous squatters, dynamic seniors in the middle of a gun-free zone, or the Persian carpet shop—everyone somehow finds their place here. And this documentary wishes with every single frame that it should stay that way.

Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) traveled around Berlin as a journalist for decades. His books “Walks through the Mark Brandenburg” contain very rich and remote cultural, historical, ethnographic and biographical sources. Bernhard Sallmann takes passages from it that he confronts with the current shape of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

There is no difference between natural foods and genetically modified foods? That’s not what research says. This documentary discusses those who have spoken out against the scientific government scam of genetically modified foods and have been fired, harassed and other things as well as the results of their research.

Different bands every Thursday and mass karaoke have turned the roundabout at Sternbrücke into a cult location. The roundabout concerts are a form of protest: residents are using music to try to save the Sternbrücke bridge from demolition. This fits in well with Hamburg—the city with 2,500 bridges... The secret heroine of this observational documentary is Marlies Thätner from the Sternbrücke initiative, who reports week after week on the ongoing lawsuit against the demolition of the bridge.

Lyonel Feininger's work is as individual and unmistakable as he is himself. As a classical modernist artist, he is difficult to categorize. He lived and worked in Germany for a long time. He began his career as a caricaturist, later became known as a painter and headed the printing workshops at the Bauhaus. His work cannot be classified as cubism or expressionism. The film visits places that inspired him, such as Paris, the villages around Weimar and, above all, the Baltic coast - many of which are reflected in Feininger's work and make the development of his oeuvre comprehensible.

The everyday life of a family in Tanzania is portrayed from the point of view of the eight-year-old son Twaha.