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Respected shockumentary filmmaker René Wiesner, director of Mondo Siam and the Pulp Films collection, is back! This time with a documentary feature exploring the collection of a death enthusiast and murderabilia collector opening his collection to the public for the first time! Michael is a collector of true crime memorabilia and murder art, with a unique archive unlike anything you have seen before. From paintings crafted by the hands of John Wayne Gacy and Richard Ramirez, to property that once belonged to Aileen Wuornos, to personal letters from Charles Manson, as well as Michael’s own personal collection of human skulls and death row inmate letters. This unique documentary offers the viewer detailed insight into the world of death row pen pals and murderabilia collecting! Vile Video Productions is proud announce the world release of Michael: A Murderabilia Memoriam!

Elmar Hügler captures the preparations for and the actual ceremony of a wedding without commentary.

Kren filmed, in microscopic detail the reflection and refraction of the light in/on a glass bottle. However, the bottle itself (the whole body) is never seen. What is seen is much more the emanations of light from the glass and its clarity. (Michael Palm)

Rovin lives on a remote farm on the Baltic Sea and explores his surroundings with insatiable curiosity. He is interested in the universe, planets, unknown creatures – and in tardigrades, those tiny multicellular organisms that look like dust bags on legs and are real survival artists. Quite unlike humans, as Rovin points out, because the latter are sure to die out one day. He sees this as a logical fact, not a threat. And when you open yourself up to the grainy, earthy images and the calm narrative, you eventually stop wondering, too, why that should be a problem. After all, as long as the wind blows through the trees and scatters the tardigrades, everything is in good order. In addition to the captivatingly alert boy, Renninger meets Marie, who knows everything about rocks, and Christopher, who decorates a place with these rocks. They are all on a quest and every day find a piece of what one cannot hold onto: the present.

Barbara Marcel runs a film workshop at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Kinshasa. Starting with a discussion of the film The Lion Has Seven Heads by Glauber Rocha (Congo Brazzaville, 1969), the filmmaker questions the relationship between her country, Brazil, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marlene offers an impassioned consideration of militant filmmaking.

In a long-term observation, filmmakers Christian Lehmann-Feddersen & Alf Schreiber document the socio-political aftermath of the G20 summit in Hamburg. While activists are exposed to the legal repercussions, the capitalist system and resistance are regrouping in the shadow of the summit.

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.

During preperations for a stage play, four women between 70 and 90 speak about their encounters with love in their lives.

Documentary feature about Kyrgyzstan, the home of the poet Tschingis Aitmatov and his characters, encounters with nomads, Kyrgyz traditions and the impressive scenery.

Amedeo Modigliani's portraits of women are among the most printed images of modernism. What is their special magic? British art critic John Berger believes that the nudes in particular are about falling in love. The documentary follows Berger's thoughts and explores the secret of Modigliani's art.

Documenting the performance journey of the artists Susie Wimmer, Andreas Schock and Moni Single from "Clowns Without Borders" to Iranian aid institutions - homes for orphans and street children, hospitals, psychiatric clinics and refugee camps.

The development of a child in its everyday environment is documented. It shows how the child gradually conquers, expands and asserts its living space. The hidden camera observes the child from the first weeks of life until the age of eight,

Did Volkswagen spy on its own employees and subject opposition members to torture during the dictatorship in Brazil? The report investigates the allegations.

How does one trigger a revolution? In the Romanian uprising in 1989, everything seemed to happen by itself. The people were fed up and were plagued by poverty and terror. There comes a time when action must be taken! But, it turns out that history is not that simple, as this investigative documentary proves. The film is a thorough and revealing reconstruction of the events leading up to Ceaucescu’s downfall and execution. In actual fact, the Romanian revolution was a strictly managed operation, controlled from the outside. Hungary, Germany and especially America had big fingers in the pie.

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town several times to examine life of the female workers in the textile industry. He interviewed them about their work, spare-time, thoughts and feelings. Three of them were questioned repeatedly for a long-time overview. This is the outcome of 10 years of Koepp's work. Written by Tom Zoerner

short film by Helga Fanderl

The film draws attention to the fate of over 300,000 German citizens who were deported from the Soviet-occupied sector to the Soviet Union towards the end of World War II and until the 1950s and sentenced to forced labor as human reparation. It is confronted with shocking fates without hiding the fact that German omnipotence fantasies were at the beginning of this path of suffering.

Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

A portrait of the German city of Ulm and it's social activities, fassades, court building. Also about the role of the district court during National Socialism.

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.

A journey through the history of electronic music from Cologne – from the 50's until today.

In January 1979, the Raufeisen family travels from one German state to the other to visit their sick grandfather. After crossing the GDR border, the father explains to his wife and two children that he is a "peace scout" and that they will be living in the GDR from now on. - Shortly before, Werner Stiller, a lieutenant in the MfS, had fled to West Germany. The defector revealed the names of State Security spies operating in the West to the Federal Intelligence Service. Some of them were warned in time and returned to the GDR in a hurry, like Armin Raufeisen.

A documentary about a home for the sick and elderly.

In Smara refugee camp, barber Mohammed treats customers of different generations.

Inspired by Brazilian Funk and using Bonde das Maravilhas as a reference, MC Gaby & GOUVER, composes an ode to the island where she lives as a foreigner in Hamburg, in her neighbourhood of Wilhelmsburg.

This documentary explores the lives of the Korean diaspora in Germany, many of whom arrived as nurses and miners in the 1960s to 70s and still reside there today. How have their personal and communal lives evolved?

A German Film Award silver medal winning short documentary.

A tender documentary portrait of Volga German grandparents, Alexander´s story unfolds with the garden as the central motif. This documentary is about cultivating, security, tradition, and strength. This is education!

In the documentary film "Pfaffendorf Forest," we explore the legends and fears associated with the mysterious forest in the city of Koblenz, Germany, through observations and interviews with local residents.

What happened in the GDR on 17 June 1953? Using a lot of original footage, Norddeutscher Rundfunk looks back on the events in a detailed report marking their 20th anniversary and shows different interpretations and explanations. Agent coup? Workers’ revolt? Popular uprising? The interpretations were controversial, even among contemporary witnesses and Western historians.

A short film about the kingfisher Ceryle (Megaceryle) maxima, which lives in sub-Saharan Africa on large rivers and lakes.

Julia needs a new rifle. Her wish is to become German champion. The Schützenheim gives her sociability and customs, but surrounded by the traditions, Julia has to distinguish herself as a woman every day.

The German actress talks about her life.

Ukrainian women tell us what they are experiencing and what they are suffering: the female perspective on an ongoing war.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, internet and media artist Constant Dullaart built his own platform as a response to existing social media. It’s a place where you can genuinely get together with friends, rather than just being a target for clickbait or competing with others for likes and comments.

Documentary about a waterway in Berlin which used to separate the city into two ideologically opposed areas.