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For many, the Eurovision Song Contest is the chance for a Pan-European party. But it is also highly political, especially for countries in Eastern Europe. When Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra won in 2022, it was a message of European solidarity against Russian aggression.

Documentary that portrays Vincent van Gogh's live and work through his letters to his brother Theo.

About the arrival and coming together of a family in Germany marked by the Syrian war.

The German coal-mine Graf Bismarck is shut down.

During a CASTOR transport through Germany, and against the backdrop of the usual clashes that break out, two police officers discuss the cycle of life.

Sophie’s sister—that is Elisabeth Hartnagel, the last of Sophie Scholl’s siblings still alive at the time of filming (she died in 2020 at the age of 100). In front of the camera, she recalls her family and, in particular, her siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, two of the key members of the White Rose resistance group.

The woods, the forest, the plantation. Wood, charcoal, palm oil. Where trees are cleared, the way people meet, farm and live together changes, locally and universally. Together with the Congolese women's rights activist Olande Byamungu, the Indonesian instrument maker and musician Ikbal Lubys and the German carpenter and performer Wolfram Sander, the documentary filmmaker and theatre director Daniel Kötter is developing a film parcours and theatre forest in Roden / Kukata Mi/ / Pembalakan, taking the audience to the Bergisches Land near Cologne, to the Indonesian palm oil plantations in Kalimantan and to the charcoal kilns in South Kivu, DR Congo.

Publicity film for Jena Glass.

August 3, 2024 marked the tenth anniversary of the genocide committed by the so-called “Islamic State” against the Yazidis in northern Iraq. The terrorist militia wanted to wipe out the religious minority. Thousands of Yazidis were killed, enslaved or displaced. The documentary accompanies young Yazidis who survived this genocide. Four siblings tell of violence, captivity, enslavement and humiliation, but also of courage, hope and new beginnings.

Pilgyu Shin has a dream: As a gay activist, he wants to enforce the anti-discrimination law in South Korea. In Seoul, he encounters a parallel society in which many queers hide and pretend to be heterosexual. The reason: Christian churches are gathering thousands of members around them in order to threaten the LGBTQ+ community. With their money and influence, they can steer politics. “Burning Blue“ portrays twelve people who stand up against these authorities. It is a battle against time, as they lose more and more members of their community to suicide. Yet dividing barriers keep growing bigger and bigger within their own circle. In a country that stigmatizes minorities and their mental health, the struggle for visibility pushes queer resistance to its limits. The film shines a spotlight on the abuse of power in the church and the growing transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community in South Korea. And it poses the question: Can there ever be a real safe space?

Stage show with Udo Lindenberg. His voice is a little hoarse, but Udo rocks this evening too. Udo Lindenberg and the Panic Orchestra are on a major tour in 1978. rbb television shows the Frankfurt concert "Panic Nights".

Ordinary, friendly, civilized people meet in a Berlin backyard to kick the living daylights out of each other. Why do they do that? A journey into the souls of four sensitive, well-educated, middle-class-people who love Mixed Martial Arts, one of the most controversial and hardest sports on the planet.

Footage from slaughterhouse with sacral music, similar to Dora's 'Carnophage' but with a lot more ambiental, non-narrative aspects.

A film portrait of the SPUR group, which is considered one of the most important avantgarde artist collectives in post-war Germany SPUR in the 1960s.

The Italian painter Tintoretto was born in Venice in the 16th century. He remained loyal to his city for a lifetime. You can still find his pictures in the places for which he painted them: in the Venetian churches, the schools of the lay brotherhoods, the palaces. His most famous works include the monumental depiction of the liberation of slaves by Saint Mark as well as various depictions of the Last Supper. Tintoretto worked for 20 years on his main work, the ceiling and wall paintings in the Scuola di San Rocco, which depict scenes from the Old Testament and the life of Jesus. Dagmar Knöpfel's artist portrait pays homage to the famous Renaissance painter.

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.

In June 2013, a group of 80 Libyans suddenly appeared at the door of St. Pauli Church in Hamburg. From day one, the filmmaker accompanied the St. Pauli pastors and their guests in the church.

For the documentary series Les Ascensions Célèbres, Denis Ducroz has created this historical reconstruction of the first ascent of the Meije, exploring etymology, physical geography, and the history of the emergence of mountaineering in the Oisans massif. The first ascent of the Grand Pic was made on August 16, 1877, by Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau with Pierre Gaspard and son; the rope party moved along the Promontoire ridge on the south face to the Glacier Carré, where Jean-Baptiste Rodier, the second porter, separated from the three climbers who managed to overcome ice and granite to open the famous "normal route" to the summit.

A documentary about stage and film director Julie Taymor

March, 2013. A sensational, incomparable find in the basement of a Munich auction house: 44 auction catalogs from the years 1936 to 1944, containing hand-written notes from the Third Reich. Katrin Stoll, present-day owner, takes a brave step and decides to have her own company's history investigated. Adolf Hitler was the worst art thief in history.

Compilation of clips and scenes from classic movies featuring Dita Von Teese and Eve Ellis.

A film about walking in a certain direction, with the decision to move away from its path, thereby causing a mutation in the brain cells themselves because the pattern has been broken as humanity has been going in a particular direction, which is conflict.

Documentary short.

Short film about the Winter Olympics 1952 in Oslo

In this documentary, Thomas Betzler, born in Darmstadt in 1954, tells the story of his amazing career in the music industry. It all began with his training as a drummer and the founding of his band Peacock. As the world's first tour caterer, he accompanied international stars of the 80s on their tours through Europe in the years that followed, only to find himself back on stage again today. With many anecdotes and a sense of humor, Tommy B. shares his wealth of experience with the audience and provides insights into his own life story and the music industry of the past 50 years.

With the painter Gerhard Richter.

Sixth Wittstock film. This Wittstock film, co-produced by the French broadcaster La Sept, begins in 1990. Koepp shows the consequences of reunification and the economic and social upheavals in East Germany. The state-owned knitwear factory is privatized. Edith is the first of the film's protagonists to lose her job. She helped bring about the changes and left the SED, the GDR's ruling party, in September 1989. The three women agree that things could not continue as they were. Although they were all members of the SED and the upheavals hit them hard. Edith is in her mid-30s, as is "Stubsi," alias Elsbeth. Elsbeth is one of a group of 17 out of 80 workers who are allowed to keep their jobs. For now. Renate is laid off shortly after her 50th birthday and after 36 years of working in textile production. One of her daughters moved to the West before the end of the GDR. A good decision, Renate thinks.

A 2021 short film by director René Wiesner

August Klar has a dream. He’s trying to make a movie, that has never been done before. His ambitions are high, his methods are unconventional and to some extendeds even absurd - But his biggest obstacle is: August has no clue how to make a movie. The Documentary „How to Poetry Film“ follows the young Slam Poet through the Development process of his first shortfilm and dares to take a look at what lies between Euphoria and Rock Bottom while portraying the mind of wild creative that struggles to catch up with his ideas...

Unique images illustrate the contrasts that exist in a seemingly unknown world, even though it is right on one’s doorstep. In relation to the genre, this film with a regional background is highly unique, portraying nature and life in the Alps – between Säntis and Hoher Kasten. Thomas Rickenmann wants to inspire the viewer with the simplicities in life, with the ordinary, and he succeeds in doing so. The basis for this is established with the countless contrasts that are found in this small space. The fact that he opted to do without external sound effects serves to underscore his intent of immersing the viewer in this different, but yet familiar world. He has set the film to accommodate the pace of life on the alp, where it’s not the minutes that count but rather how one deals with nature. By all means, the film can be described as “wellness for the mind”.

The bell tower of the Curon church rises from the waters of Lake Resia, in the Venosta Valley in South Tyrol, Italy. It stands as a lonely, silent witness to the horrible tragedy that befell Graun (Curon) and Reschen (Resia) in 1950, when both villages — with their unique natural and cultural landscape — were submerged by the waters of the newly-built Resia dam and water reservoir. This documentary film project aims to give a voice to the tragedy’s last contemporary witnesses.

Documentary about art performances during the demonstrations against the G20 summit in Hamburg 2017.

Two-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school".

Diving in South Africa is a very special and multifaceted adventure. Off the west coast, near the Cape of Good Hope, the sea is cold and nutrient-rich. Kelp forests thrive here, and you can, among many other animals watching the South African fur seals underwater. Thousands of wrecks from different epochs provide an interesting target. Off the east coast the sea is warmer, and we meet up close a school Small blacktip sharks. In the hinterland of freshwater Marico Oog an unforgettable diving. Join us under the water, you will experience the wonders of our world just as close as the fearsome predators in the vast expanses of the ocean. An unforgettable experience in Real 3D. Details

Marrakech, one of the most beautiful cities in North Africa, developed into a center of attraction for the elite in the 20th century: The cosmopolitan nature of the city, the riads - traditional houses with a garden in the courtyard - and the souks - the markets - all attract famous personalities such as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

Along the railroad tracks in Halle-Trotha, where city and countryside merge, people live on the outskirts of the city. Far away from the urban center, they spend their everyday lives between factories and ruins, supermarkets and wild nature. While Wolfgang is stranded on the river with his boat and has found a new home here, Wilma and Eberhard Schneider have lived on the outskirts of the city since childhood. A few houses away, a Buddhist meditates in a converted factory building. Sometimes the smell of the dog food factory is in the air and the clattering of the horse-drawn carriage echoes through the streets. "Stadtrand" tells of a place that is rarely noticed and yet everyone knows it.

Documentary about a painter.