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European animal protection laws, foreign deployments of the German army and a confiscated tortoise with a Syrian rebel flag painted on its shell. The reptile sanctuary in Munich becomes a meeting place for humans and animals. And the war.

Here's something a little lighter than usual from the series of three-minute musical shorts produced in Germany from 1906 to. 1910 - twenty years before most people think of the birth of talkies. Instead of serious music, it's a duet from an operetta, THE DOLLAR PRINCESS.

Infantry bullets smashing a clay wall shot in slow motion at 1500 fps to give a rough demonstation of the dumdum impact. Temporal resolution of the process by means of spark cinematography at 70.000 fps.

The queer community has long since established itself in large cities, but in rural areas, queer people live less publicly. And when they do, worlds often collide. The documentary shares silent struggles, but also moments of solidarity. The film takes an in-depth look at the challenges, but also the hopes and successes of queer people in rural areas. It shows how social change and greater acceptance can develop in smaller towns. The province is more than just the antithesis of the big city - it can be a place of change in which queer people find their own ways to assert their place.

The film tells the story of the daily lives and careers of two young people in West Berlin. They got married in Gretna Green, Scotland, where it is possible to do so without parental consent.

The Hamas terror attack had dramatic consequences for people in Israel, the Gaza Strip and around the world. Here, we hear individual stories from people living in Tel Aviv. What were their lives like before 7 October 2023? What’s their current perception of the war? What do they see, when they look to the future? In the summer of 2023, Tel Aviv was a lively, liberal and open metropolis, known as the “Mediterranean Capital of Cool”. Then came October 7, and changed everything. Here, people’s lives are forever divided: into ‘before’, and ‘after’. Club owners, culture workers, restaurateurs, LGBTQ activists and architects share very personal insights into a traumatized society. And they’ve not given up hope for better times once the war is over.

Documentary by Joachim Jomeyer

Short sex education film about STDs.

In the 2019/2020 Black Summer, Australia suffered some of the worst bushfires in its history, observed from afar by the Himawari-8 meteorological satellite. Terabytes of satellite data were processed into an unprecedented stream of images for this experimental documentary.

These last major lectures by Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011) follow his philosophical reflection from Parmenides to Karl Marx. They were recorded in October 2009 at his home in Sant’Abbondio, Switzerland.

A documentation of the live Action Ulay performed in Berlin in 1976. It shows step by step his arranged "art theft" of Carl Spitzweg's painting "The Poor Poet" from the Neue Nationalgalerie and his reception in commentaries and reactions from the press.

Documentation of patients with deformities.

A golden summer dress in XXL, the ice-lolly drips slowly onto the hot ground. RIOT NOT DIET creates a queer feminist utopia far away from BMI norms and male* gaze. The fat women* and queers in this movie are not ashamed of their expansive body dimensions, but confidently claim space for themselves. They use their bodies to blow up patriarchal structures and enjoy their corporeality beyond the neoliberal logic of exploitation. In times of self-optimization, your belly is a statement!

Documentary film.

"Basically being a paparazzi is just a kind of press work. But an incorruptible one. Because we photograph what is really happening," says paparazzo Andreas Meyer. Shooting Stars accompanies him while carrying out his rather controversial job.

Documentary portrait of 5 farming families and their struggles

In Gammesfeld there is a church, an EDEKA store, two soccer fields, a gravel factory, and Germany's only bank without a computer. A film about the world, the modern pig, about getting married and, above all, about money.

When is it OK to not put your health first? This documentary examines questions of well-being and the ways people prioritize their fundamental values.

In the Southeastern-most part of Germany, rises Mount Watzmann. This mighty peak is a stone guardian of a remarkable wild region that holds tight to its secret nature. There are more secrets to reveal where the mountains disappear into the depths of Lake Königssee, a lake that holds a stark resemblance to a fjord at the coasts of the Atlantic ocean. Underwater, fossil marine creatures in limestone rock tell of an ancient seabed, buried deep then heaved skywards by battling tectonic plates. Deep grooves and gouges in the rock were left by an ice age glacier, more than one kilometer thick as it chiseled its way down the valley. Though the ice age ended 12,000 years ago, the mountains still carry echoes of that frozen past. "Echoes of the Ice Age" is a portrait of the wildlife in this breathtaking scenery of the Berchtesgaden Alps.

In a world where the border between work and free time is increasingly blurred, the time when we sleep and dream may be the last area completely free of work. We are (often voluntarily) trying to change that. Many try to sleep less (to different and sometimes extreme degrees, like those experimenting with polyphasic sleep) in order to work more, often motivated by the productivity mindset. A correlation has been observed between lack of sleep or disruption of sleeping patterns and the onset of dementia.

They hammer, drum and construct – meet the master builders and percussionists of the bird world – and their tenants, like tits, pigeons and squirrels!

Documentary by Hans J. Gnamm

Documentary short about Husemannstraße in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg.

Hillbillies haven't died off; they've simply become neo-hillbillies. Three families of musicians in the Ozark Mountains of Southwestern Missouri give new meaning to the word "hillbilly". Float down the backwaters, soak up some old time religion, savor a washboard duel, and bask in the neon lights of the pseudo-hillbilly showtown Branson. Lean back and merge into hillbilliness.

The Eurofighter is the Bundeswehr's most modern and powerful aircraft and enables the pilot to move at supersonic speeds. It was developed by Germany, Great Britain, Spain and Italy to dominate the airspace. Manufacturing also takes place at these four different locations. Assembly requires millimetre work and, like regular routine checks lasting several months, is carried out in Germany.

How could the son of a graduate historian and a secretary, who liked to adorn himself with fast cars, fake eyelashes and expensive clothes, who wanted to become an artist, journalist or film director, become the "public enemy No. 1"?

Short film about seals, the hunt for them and how they are processed afterwards.

A look at Christmas customs in Germany, some of which date back to pre-Christian times and are still observed in various German regions.

Short film about the GDR (DDR) and the FRG (BRD)

Short doc in which Anthony Slide (Andre De Toth on Andre De Toth) discusses the work of Andre De Toth in general and The Indian Fighter in particular.

Brown sauce spills onto the plate and table in Wolfram Kohler's collage-like exploration of politics in South Tyrol during the explosive and nationalist commemoration year of 1984.

Educational film about wine.

On 9 February 2022, four friends in Kyiv discuss the situation: There are 120,000 Russian soldiers at the borders - what will happen? An equally historical and private moment.

Between minesweeper and family photos, the filmmaker faces the grief over the grandfather with radical honesty. A rough yet deeply tender work of remembrance.

Opium für das Volk - Karl Marx und die Kirchen isn’t scholarship—it’s Marxist revisionism whitewashing atheism’s war on faith. This German doc falsely equates Christianity with communism in part one, then twists Marx’s "opium of the people" slur into mere "influence" from his Jewish-Christian roots and other critics. It downplays his explicit god-hatred—"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature"—to pretend he had a nuanced "personal relationship" with Christianity. No balance: ignores Marx’s satanist ties, Hegelian dialectics weaponized against Scripture, and how his ideology birthed 100M deaths under godless regimes. Cherry-picks "parallels" to sanitize Marxism as spiritual, not the Bible-rejecting materialism that fueled Bolshevik church-burnings. Watch knowing it’s propaganda to make atheists look thoughtful, not Bible-denying totalitarians.

Ayça rewinds the route that her father Ismet had made 50 years ago from Zürich to Istanbul. Family business meets great history, with its hightlights and its shadows. Father and daughter go through joie de vivre and pain, with the feeling of being rooted and uprooted on both side of the Bosporus.

Travel through Sicily with pleasure

Over the course of evolution, insects have developed abilities that amaze us humans. The small "notched animals", the Latin translation of the word Insecta, are the most successful creatures on this planet. The documentary shows how insects can help solve some of the biggest problems of our time.