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What does a world that respects Indigenous peoples look like, that's working towards ending racism, colonialism, and other intersecting oppression on a global scale?

Bonobos show a particularly pronounced sexual activity and an extraordinarily broad spectrum of sexual contacts for primates. These also extend to non-reproductive life phases and partner combinations. For example, homosexual contacts and sexual contacts between young animals or with adults are frequent, and females are ready to mate throughout the menstrual cycle. Bonobos use sexual contacts not only for reproductive purposes, but also in the context of social conflicts, where they have a clear tension-reducing or peacemaking function.

"Now the tide is coming: love, money and death" - What is love? What would you do with DM 1 million? What are you afraid of? Six punks and six policemen answers.

Documentary film about sexually motivated offenders.

The Buntentor is a women’s project that emerged from an occupied house in Bremen at the end of the 1980s. We show how the women independently created a space of freedom for themselves, but also experience how their vision of a different life was destroyed by the closure of the house. Four former residents recall this time: Angie in her trailer, Andrea in her garden plot, Esther in her Berlin office, and the trans man Luke in Hamburg, who at the time lived in the Buntentor as a woman. We accompany them in their current everyday lives.

The film links a personal and family story of migration with the history of the Indian subcontinent. In an exploration of the cities of Karachi and Leipzig, the film reflects on the search for a home, and experiences and memories that shape identity.

With the help of film documents, Deimantas Narkevičius reconstructs the creation and inauguration of the Karl Marx Monument, which was designed by the sculptor Lev Kerbel and erected in 1971 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz). All photographs used were originally produced in the GDR for information and propaganda purposes.

Documentary about a Sinti community in Duisburg, Germany.

On the Sorrento peninsula, orange and lemon groves stretch all the way to the coast. In the orange plantations, the high wooden frames are covered with mats to protect the trees from intense sunlight. The function of the artificial irrigation system is demonstrated. The oculation of trees is demonstrated in a young plantation. The oranges are cleaned on the spot, then sent to the laundry, cleaned, dried and made ready for dispatch. In a lemon plantation, many pickers stand on ladders on a tall tree and remove the fruit. The lemons are sorted, wrapped in tissue paper and packaged in home and large-scale factories. Before being exported, the goods are checked again for quality.

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.

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.

Trade union propaganda documentary about the lives of women doing both factory work and housework.

One of the biggest housing projects in Germany. Known for a long time as the “Sozialpalast” it had a reputation for crime, vandalism and drugs.

This documentary looks at the rough beauty and cyclic nature of the North Sea coast in Schleswig-Holstein. It also shows the people who live their lifes according to the tides.

Documentary of 3 parts that narrates based on the film "The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen" (1943), the progression of color cinema developed in Europe.

In Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, there are many sculptures depicting the gods of Greek and Roman mythology. What do the goddesses of this mythology have to do with matriarchy?

An assessment of the situation of Italian private television, which has developed from a regional communication medium into a commercial enterprise.

The portrait of a woman who is driven to illness and despair by her circumstances.

Wilhelm II. visits a market place in Beirut, Lebanon.

He is one of the forefathers of European free jazz: Alexander von Schlippenbach has been following his own path for decades, playing the piano, composing and leading bands. Thsis film now paints a very personal portrait, showing biographical breaks but also departures. He reconstructs Schlippenbach's path into the musician collective of the now legendary “Free Music Production” (FMP), for whom free jazz meant breaking boundaries.

The German singer and actress talks about her life.

"Hundsbuam" documents the everyday life of a group of problem students who attend a special school in Erding, Bavaria.

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.

A film that investigates how, out of friendship and a shared passion, one of the most respected electronic music festivals in Europe could grow in the middle of the East German backwoods.

In Canadian-born John Cook’s restless documentary of an Austrian couple, I JUST CAN’T GO ON, the husband Petrus, channeling “Cassius Marcellus Clay,” takes up boxing to supplement the income from his day-job burnishing frames. His companion, the much older Gisi, works as a janitor. They are an odd couple, scavenging at the bottom of the Viennese social ladder. But there is nothing patronizing or exploitative in Cook’s treatment of the couple and their eccentricities as they try to make ends meet. In one of the film’s key aesthetic choices, Cook eschews synched sound in favor of a stream-of-consciousness soundtrack pitting Petrus and Gisi’s unfiltered remarks in relief against the harsh material world.

Three generations of women grapple with their family's legacy of the Holocaust, its affiliation with the Nazi regime, and their resistance.

Documentary about filmmaker, author, director, and performance artist Christoph Schlingensief and his last major project, building an opera village in Burkina Faso. What was initially planned as a festival theater soon developed into a more ambitious idea, and in addition to the theater, a school, a hospital, and living quarters for teachers and nursing staff were also planned. Beginning with the search for a suitable building site, the film also recounts the difficulties encountered during the work and Schlingensief's advancing cancer.

November 9, 1989, the day the Wall came down, was one of those days when it became clear that the world had changed "immediately and without delay" once and for all. [...] But it was not only politics and the lives of many people that changed with the world, but also the way we think. And more permanently than one might think. For a long time after that evening, there were calls for a major, analytical reappraisal of what had happened. After all the talk about bananas, the German feature pages hoped for "the great German novel of the turnaround". The fact that this has not appeared in the last 30 years has to do with the fact that thinking and art have changed forever along with the world. (Text: Armin Kratzert; Translated with DeepL) (Poster: dpa-Bildfunk/Peter Kneffel)

Rüdiger was a child, Aki two months old and Kurt, the deputy of the pedophile leader of the sect. In 1961 they came to Chile together with 500 other German sect members and for over 40 years they lived secluded from the rest of the world. The film tells about the attempt to survive as a collective after decades of crimes such as torture and murder and shows different ways in which the individual copes with the history of the community.

Hearts are being grown in pigs to save human lives—blurring the boundaries between the two species. Could this be the impetus for a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and pigs?

1960s pop sensation Ricky Shayne's meteoric rise in West German culture. Born in Cairo and raised in Beirut, the Beat scene star found fame in Rome before achieving greater success in Berlin.

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.

Who owns the land? Legend has it that ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi stole a dune in Sardinia, while the locals are fighting for their land and struggling with their dependence on tourism. La Duna is an irresistibly cathartic and humorous documentary that intertwines a portrait of a community with absurd almost-fairytales.

Blast furnaces, winding towers, processing plants – now largely destroyed evidence of industrial development – live on in the photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher. In the documentary film 'The Photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher', the now deceased artist couple talk about their life, work and influence, which was devoted to photographing industrial buildings for four decades. The portrait of the renowned photographers is complemented by contemporary witnesses such as their son Max Becher and former students of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, including Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff and others.

Picture postcards, travel brochures and holiday photos are all this merrily caustic collage needs to portray moods and desires between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. In spring 1990, the first Interflug plane carrying GDR citizens touched down on Majorca. About the mediterranean colours of the island, the first-person narrator remarks in the voiceover: “We knew them from the postcards sent by our West German relatives. This was the West, this was West-West.” Ostensibly naïve, her recollections nonetheless develop an ironic undertone. However blue the sea shines in the photos, however loud the castanets play, the travel group with their East German money are never more than onlookers in this half-board paradise. Everything seems like an empty promise: the bursting oranges on the trees, the sumptuous breakfast buffet and the giant hotel pools.

In the steppes and forests of northern Asia, several species of bear coexist and fight for their survival, in a nature that has been put to the test by climate change.

Detailed instructions on how to build the "Baby" glider model, a design by Helmut Kirschke from 1934.

This documentary questions the uses and abuses of food commodities is concerned. The statements of farmers, scientists, traders, and speculators, as well as manufacturers and politicians are assembled to create a comprehensive view of the factors that determined how wheat was cultivated in the United States and how related markets functioned as the 1980s begun. The film takes its title from the wheat futures or contracts used in commodity market transactions, where the contract months include September.

The film follows Peruvian DJ Flave, who now lives in Germany and has found her own musical voice. Between clubs, rehearsals, and personal memories, a portrait unfolds of an artist who blends techno with Latin American classics. Flave talks not only about beats and rhythms, but also about identity, home, and the power of music to build bridges between cultures.

Wolfgang Döblin, son of the famous writer Alfred Döblin and a talented mathematical genius, obtained French citizenship while in exile and was mobilized as a soldier during the Franco-German War in 1939. Despite the extreme conditions at the front, he worked on his theories of random motion, particularly "memoryless random processes." At only 25 years of age, he took his own life to avoid capture by the Wehrmacht, but left behind significant works in probability theory that underscore his influence on modern mathematics.

“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.

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the two have met again and kept detailed discussions. With their youthful joy of associating, they talk about Kiefer's career and his way of working, about sources of inspiration and materials, about myths and of course history. Between the thematic blocks, Alexander Kluge switched cinematic miniatures, in which he spun common ideas and deepened individual aspects. A great dialogical artist portrait.

A locker room expose about young basketball players in Hagen, Germany who face their fears of losing and challenge enormous odds to succeed.

East German-Syrian co-production about archaeological excavations in Syria.