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1990. As part of the reunification process, the West takes charge of the harmonization project between the two territories. From the outset, all of East Germany's industrial assets were transferred to a public company, the "Treuhand," which operated for four years. This marked the beginning of a rapid privatization of the entire economy of the former GDR, comprising some 8,000 public companies employing around 4 million people who needed to be offered a new future. At the head of this gigantic public holding company, Birgit Breuel, a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), was the subject of both praise and criticism.

Uncleared roads, frozen pipes, district heating breakdowns: winter regularly posed problems for the GDR leadership. From the mid-1960s, the GDR leadership set up a central, state-organized winter service. Entire workforces were seconded from the factories to help their colleagues from the snow clearance service or VEB Stadtwirtschaft. But how did the population cope with the pitfalls and challenges of winter? How was the much-vaunted socialist community really experienced during collective snow shoveling? And what experiences from everyday life remain in our memories to this day?

Four people decide to flee to Europe, each on their own. As they face various challenges, their experiences merge into a common story without getting lost in the mass of reporting.

Can a newly married couple survive when every living necessity can only be purchased with 'cryptocurrency'? Married less than two weeks, and fresh off their honeymoon, Austin and Beccy Craig embark on an adventure to find out.

What is there after death? It is everywhere and shapes religious beliefs, culture and social relations: a history of death from antiquity to the present day.

Europe in lockdown. Is the corona virus still a threat to the health systems of different nations? Or is it the measures that choke people off? What is the mood like among our neighbors? In this documentary we set off in January 2021. Across Europe. We report from 10 different European countries.

A documentary work on Senegal's DUNNIART collective, showing the lives and experiences of creatives and artists who share their work with pride and resilience.

In a Berlin nursing home, four old women wait to die. Growing up during the war, the post war youth, the division of Germany, the fall of the wall in the 80's - the landscape of singular yet intertwined memories. With frightening clarity words tumble from their toothless mouths. In the final act of their lives, castaway by society, these four women take centre stage.

On the foothills of Uummannaq mountain, four cybergoth teens are fighting depression. Water contamination spreads throughout the village pipelines and one cybergoth finds herself laying on a hospital bed. The film is a visual poem narrated by a group of young inuit women, reflecting on ongoing suicide attempts and the separation from their families. The cybergoths remind us of a post-apocalypse future, that is to say, the apocalyptic qualities of the present; a fragile reality where national, communal, environmental, and mental stability is at risk.

In seven episodes, the biographies and study motivations of six students in higher semesters and four students in their first semester are presented.

In winter, with ice and snow, it becomes uncomfortable in the Swiss Alps even for the animals. While marmots retreat to hibernate in the protective burrow, ibex, chamois, mountain hares and bearded vultures stay awake even in the cold season. These animals have developed special abilities to withstand the barren and adverse conditions at an altitude of up to 3000 meters. In the Swiss National Park in Graubünden, they remain undisturbed in winter. Park rangers and researchers are the only ones who are allowed to be out and about in the high mountain landscape even in winter.

On a small island in southern Patagonia, the filmmaker begins a documentary project on climate research, becomes a mother, and returns three years later with her child to continue working on the film. Caught between care work and artistic practice, her focus shifts, guided by the question: How can one continue to be creative while connected to the rhythms and needs of another living being?

The Maginot Line: thousands of subway bunkers and concrete defenses lining the French border from Belgium to the Mediterranean Sea, a monumental engineering feat that was celebrated as a technical masterpiece when it was created. When the impregnable wall was demolished by the unbeatable Nazi war machine in 1940, the conquered fortress became the shattered symbol of French defeat.

Anna Hepp meets with renowned German director Edgar Reitz in one of Germany’s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. Reitz talks about his life, his view of art and his sometimes philosophical viewpoint.

Immerse yourself in the true sense of the word into life, in true 3D. Water or abbreviated H2O, is actually a chemical compound of the elements oxygen and hydrogen. But this has really something! Water is in fact the most important element on our earth. Without water, the emergence of life on our planet would have been impossible. Sometime before several tens of millions of years it took the first great-fish out of the water to the land of the beginning he evolution. Just a few facts about the importance of this elixir of life: The element of water is in the mythologies and religions of most cultures of central importance and is considered the epitome of life.

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.

Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

A collective is a social entity, whose voluntarily organizing members are connected by joint action. In this definition the term “harmony” refers to harmonizing sounds. The syllables are separated as follows: a society in which every individual can make their dreams come true by performance and competition.

The J. Street Project 2002–5 is a sixty-seven minute film that consists of a sequence of static camera shots of street signs in Germany that incorporate the word ‘Jude’ (German for ‘Jew’). Hiller found a total of 303 signs in streets, lanes, roads, avenues and alleys scattered throughout the country. The work focuses on the dissonance between these mundane, everyday signs and the memories they trigger of a genocidal history. The soundtrack records traffic noise, church bells and other incidental sounds. For this factual, indexical project Hiller maintained a neutral seriality in her approach. Cumulatively, however, it becomes clear that the signs are loaded with the memory of Jewish presence in the locations, not just from modern times but from thousands of years of history. The tension between past and present in the film highlights the sense of absence and traumatic loss. The place names operate as memorials of erasure.

Part circus, part theater, part poetry and storytelling, pictures turned into music and pictures turned into music: the variety show does not only bear its diversity in its name, it pursues it with pleasure, develops, interprets and reinvents it again and again. "Like Butter On Toast" immerses itself in this world of continuous experimentation, of enchantment through colors, sounds, movement, upside down and upside down, lets the artists tell their stories, accompanies them through their preparations, their training from childhood to old age.

Educational short film about ground water

Two packers discuss a damaged transport crate, and a young woman arrives to claim it for her father. The supervisor explains the defect and suggests the new container transport system. The father and daughter receive a brochure and watch a promotional film at the Reichsbahn office cinema. The film showcases the efficiency of container transport, featuring various goods like apple juice, strawberries, glassware, and furniture being packed and transported using Reichsbahn containers. The film highlights safety features and the ease of moving large items, concluding with the slogan “From house to house.”

Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

The filmmaker captures daily life in her grandparents' home between painting nails, napping and ironing. Her images are filled with deep emotional attachment and the absurdity of aging.

The documentary focuses on the future of mobility and as a company that wants to help shape the automotive development of tomorrow.

Once again Kurt Tetzlaff portrays Alexander, who in 1990 works as a nurse and is active in the “Action Reconciliation”. The sense of departure of the autumn of 1989 slowly gives way to disappointments about the outcome of the People’s Chamber elections in 1990, the currency reform and the Unification Treaty. The political and social changes took place at a rapid pace that many found hard to follow. The sense of community that carried people through 1989 is fading. “Now it’s every man for himself”, Alexander states. He has no use for capitalism: “I feel just as lied to and cheated as before.” Resignation spreads.

The second part of a trilogy on the subject of farming in which an attempt is made to look at the existence of farmers at the end of the 20th century.

George Grosz, born on July 26th in Berlin, vicious draftsman and painter of the face of the ruling class, enfant terrible of the 1920s, accused of pornography and blasphemy, was one of the most popular visual artists of the Weimar Republic. Little is known, however, that Grosz spent half of his artistically productive life in the USA before returning to Berlin in 1959.

In this film, Nielsen plays the role of a mannequin, using her body as a clotheshorse. She makes a striking entrance on a flight of stairs, which serve as a stage on which to present sumptuous gowns and precious accessories. An outdoor shot shows Nielsen wearing an extravagant hat, posing in front of a Wilhelminian building in Berlin.

We have exclusive insights into the work of Germany’s most successful customs office and its confiscation of drugs and goods. We follow customs officers and their targeted operations.

A film essay documenting the devastation of the Lausitz region. The Sorb writer Jurij Koch describes the destruction wreaked as a component in an act of ethnocide:"The end of a language; even if the step is appantantly an economic necessity in terms of furhtering the region, it signifies impoverishment, the excavation of an ethnic habitat - a restriction of human richness."

The story of Mehmet Göker continues. He has fled to Turkey and accumulated over €10 million in debts with German health insurance companies. He is wanted on an international arrest warrant – yet continues to make money in the German insurance industry.

Hackers are attacking city administrations and hospitals, paralyzing companies and blocking access to critical infrastructure. Cyber attacks are unleashing their destruction with full force. Renowned experts are already talking about a cyber war. In the middle of Germany. The often poorly protected computer systems in Germany are an easy target for hackers. The two authors of "Report München", Benedikt Nabben and Sabina Wolf, spent a year tracking down the hackers. They met secret service agents, horrified victims and made contact with the perpetrators. In early 2023, hackers attack a small German town, steal huge amounts of data and encrypt the city administration's IT systems. It is completely unclear why the town was attacked. But the perpetrators' trail leads to Russia.

He symbolized the USA - the dream and the nightmare. As a debuting writer, Norman Mailer was the “angry young man,” but he died as an angry old man and an icon of America. In between, life was like a roller coaster ride, marked by brilliant success and dark moments. Born in 1923 to Jewish immigrants, Mailer grew up in Brooklyn. The dominant figure in the family was his mother, whose father was a grocer and hotelier in the seaside town of Long Branch, New Jersey. Norman actually wanted to become an aircraft engineer, but took writing courses at Harvard College while studying.

By comparing the St. Nicholas celebrations in Islamic and Protestant communities in Berlin, the relationship between the religions is explored.

GDR August 31, 1985, Klubhaus in Coswig/Dresden - "Intermedia I - Farbraum/Klangbild"- the event was the first and, as it turned out, the last exhibition by the subculture in East Germany, in which over 40 visual artists and twice as many musicians, performers and super 8 film photographers participated. About 1,200 visitors travelled from all over the GDR to witness a six hour programme on both evenings. It remains unclear to this day how many informers working for the Stasi were among them.

The Yakuza is the most powerful criminal organization in the world. But it's not simply black and white. The truth is between the underworld.

The film gives insight in the living conditions of Jewish citizens since 1933 in Germany and the everyday life in the concentration camps, such as in the Main camp of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee.

Battle of the Queen is a film from and about rural Europe, capturing a timeless cultural event: a series of head-to-head fights of cows set in the valley in sunny Southern Switzerland, nestled amongst the Alps. The fights are sudden snorting seesaws, explosions of mass and muscle, archaic and wild spectacles. We follow three concurrent story lines: an anxious farmer with his beloved contender, a neurotic unemployed reporter from Zurich coming to find a story, and a gang of adolescent boys on mopeds trying to catch a pretty girl's eye. The festival is a balancing act between fascinating tradition and modernity. This black and white film serves as both an exciting visual treat and a long overdue documentation of a fascinating Swiss tradition.

A short film about the Hamburg witnesses of the Weiße Rose resistance group.