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Photage of people at Praterstern square in Vienna, Austria.

The composer Frederic Rzewski ordered a film from Gerd Conradt for his piece “Selfportrait”. The film was supposed to be shown while he was playing his piece of music, he didn't want to be seen. The film shows Frederic Rzewski sitting down at the table in the Trattoria Carlone in the Trastevere district of Rome from a bird's eye view. He orders wine, salad and a portion of spaghetti. We watch as he eats, pays, gets up and walks out of the picture. All in one setting.

Edda has been overcome by solastalgia: anguish over the destruction of our planet. Seeking refuge on the North Frisian island of Pellworm, she meets Sophie, a young farmer who is suing the German government for her right to a future, in this artistic, veracious immersion in the lives of the Fridays for Future generation.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Yellowstone National Park is the oldest national park in the world. It contains the largest number of geysers and hot springs in the world. The park is known worldwide for the diversity of its species: it is home to herds of bison, bears, deer and many more fascinating species. Along with its amazing fauna and flora, the national park offers an insight into the history of Earth s formation. It takes visitors to an era when the free play of volcanos and forces of nature were shaping the world. Come with us and experience in pictures the unique beauty of one of the last paradises on our planet. This film was made with the most up-to-date 4K Ultra HD technology which presents you with a fabulous spectacle.

24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a wide range of professions, social classes, religions and ethnicities.

Film collage on the street line in St. Georg.

Documentary film.

Explore a lesser-known part of Venice: the wild side! In coral reefs and hidden gardens, find everything from poisonous mammals to strange sea life.

El Sistema is a network of childrens and youth orchestras, music centres and workshops in Venezuela, in which more than 250,000 children and young people are currently learning to play an instrument. It was set up over thirty years ago by José Antonio Abreu, who was driven by the utopian vision of a better future. In the dangerous and poverty-stricken shanty towns of Caracas, Abreu lifts children out of poverty through music, changing both people and structures. The film El Sistema shows how Abreus astonishing ideas have led the way out of the vicious circle of poverty - and how the power of music has been able to change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people.

Since the massacre by the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023, it has been clear that anti-Semitism is also a massive problem in Germany. The media reports on anti-Semitic incidents almost every day. Jews no longer feel safe and are often victims of discrimination and hatred. More than 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Jewish life in Germany is still often exposed to anti-Semitic hostility. Schools, kindergartens and synagogues must be guarded. In the wake of pro-Palestinian demonstrations on German streets, aggressive anti-Semitic agitation by angry Islamist mobs is increasingly occurring. Politics is failing to act on its promise. But the breeding ground for this is older. The documentary attempts to show that, based on age-old hatred, stereotypes and prejudices, anti-Semitism from the right-wing, from left-progressive circles and the middle of society is omnipresent in Germany.

Neo-fascists are chanting their slogans louder and louder in the squares and streets of Italy from north to south. The electoral victory of politician Giorgia Meloni of the right-wing Fratelli d'Italia party, whose flag bears the flame symbol in honor of Benito Mussolini, and her post-fascist government have given them a boost. A hundred years after the Duce seized power, the word fascist is becoming socially acceptable again. Among many young people in Italy, being far right is considered cool. The identitarian movement "Fortress Europe" attracts them in droves. Fascism nostalgists make pilgrimages to Mussolini's tomb and hold rallies. Right-wing rock concerts but also intellectual "meetings for tradition and identity" form the ideology. A constant support is the ultra-fan scene of the football clubs. The documentary illuminates the facets of neo-fascism in Italy, lets activists have their say, but also a journalist who has been writing about the neo-fascist scene for 20 years.

Helga Reidemeister portrays four women from Afghanistan-Jamila Mujahed, India-Arundhati Roy, Serbia-Stasa Zajovic and the USA-Sissy Farenthold, who demonstrate their opposition to nationalism and war.

Every evening around 7 p.m., a ritual is celebrated at the Meenakshi temple in Madurai, India. The priests carry out a mustard from the innermost part of the Hindu temple. It contains Shiva. Stops are made at several stations and Shiva is blessed until she finally goes to bed.

Deaf dancer Kassandra Wedel flips the switch on expectations of sound and movement as she conducts her own piece, using patterns and rhythms from her urban environment. Closed captions and choreography serve as the source of the music, with her band interpreting her dancing and not the other way around, to pose a unique challenge to the viewer's perception of hearing and sound perspective.

Over a period of two years, Robert Morgenstern and his team captured the atmosphere and stories of Helgoland and woven them into a portrait of the island and its inhabitants. The primordial elements and moods, swarming water masses, the powerful play of colors of the sunset red, the vastness of the starry sky above the flashing lighthouse and the rustle of the flocks of birds at night give Helgoland a very special magic. Through slow-moon and time-lapse shots, this rhythm of the island becomes alive and vivid in this film. The special perspectives and animal shots in the first work by Robert Morgenstern trace the diversity and special features of the red island and also provide fascinating insights into the work of the ordianists.

Documentary directed by Klaus Antes

A tribute to German film critic and cinema activist Helmut W. Banz made with outtakes from two features by Jürgen Heiter. Banz as an explorer, as a loner and as a friend, as a charmer and as a recluse – a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction.

The story of a couple whose child became a serial killer, convicted for 87 murders. Can they still love their son in the face of this unforgivable guilt? Can parents ever truly stop loving their child?

"Around Berlin, between the Elbe and Oder rivers, water, forest, sand, and heath – the Brandenburg landscape." Numerous canals crisscross the region, connecting the Oder, Spree, Havel, and Elbe rivers. Brickworks. Tranquil lakes nestled among forests, pastures, and reed beds. Lake Werbellin with the Schorfheide nature and wildlife reserve. Lake Liepnitz. Lake Bogen. The fishing village of Havelberg. Brandenburg. Schwedt on the Oder. Rheinsberg. Potsdam. And where all the waterways of the Brandenburg region converge: Berlin.

The film provides a historical overview of the history of the Palestinians between 1948-1974 and shows the living conditions of Palestinians in territories occupied by Israel since 1967.

"Last Hippie Standing", 2002, is a video clip style portrait about the hippie generation. Thirty years ago, this was a movement which came to Goa to find something they couldn't find at home.

Supposedly innocent citizens from the middle of society who march with right-wing extremists, esotericists and conspiracy theorists against the corona measures, including entrepreneurs, single mothers, teachers, normal families. Michael Ballweg's "Querdenker" demos mobilize thousands of lateral thinkers from all walks of life and milieus who would otherwise not meet. What they have in common: the frustration, the anger and the hatred of the corona measures and the "elites" who have decreed them. Where does this frustration and anger come from in the rich southwest of Germany of all places? Why does a minority withdraw into their filter bubbles and ignore scientific facts? And why do they play such a big role in traditional and social media? The documentary accompanies participants and organizers at various corona demos, but also those affected who have experienced COVID-19 up close and have no understanding for these misguided extremists.

This animated short shows the development of boys up to and during puberty. It depicts the typical external changes that occur with the onset of sexual maturity, the structure and function of the sexual organs, sperm formation and pollination.

Altmark is located in the northern part of the German region of Saxony-Anhalt. This area of the country is sparsely populated and rural, and is mostly defined by agriculture and a rather frugal architecture reminiscent of that of the Hanseatic cities. It's here that an extensive military site was built in the 1930s. It is used as a training area for the German army and also includes a garrison town, in which parts of the military corps reside. The site covers a surface area of 323 square kilometres. It is the third-biggest military area in Germany and the most modern in Europe.

The documentary "Helene Fischer - Immer weiter" provides exclusive insights into the making of her 2017/2018 arena tour. Filmmaker Sven Haeusler accompanies Helene Fischer and her team on their long and international journey of preparing for the tour and observes them during their demanding artistic training in Montreal, among other things.

This documentary brings together literary quotations, landscape photos, conversations with former farm workers, and memories of the concentration camps in Emsland.

Corporate agricultural production interests have been able to successfully cultivate and exploit this geological part of the Sonora desert.

Some people love squirrels others see them as pests and glorified rats but we can all agree that the characterful rodents are speedy quirky exceptional climbers and go crazy for nuts.

In the musical road movie, New Zealand musician Hayden Chisholm sets out on a journey of discovery across Germany in search of German folk music. As a stranger with an unbiased view of German culture and an open ear for the lyrics and melodies of modern and traditional musicians, he encounters a lively diversity of regional customs and activities. In Sound of Heimat – Deutschland singt, directors Arne Birkenstock and Jan Tengeler also shed light on the ambivalent attitude toward folk music and the understanding of one's own homeland that is so widespread in Germany. These are topics that have been forgotten in many places due to past ideologization and the "ideal world" of the Musikantenstadl.

Documentary film about the Release Group Hamburg.

Depeche Mode's live performance in November 2013 on their Delta Machine Tour (cut together from two successive shows in Berlin's O2 World), intercut with interviews with the band and their fans and behind-the-scenes footage.

Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen.

Italians in Berlin are a special breed. Thousands come every year to stay - and six years ago, filmmaker Alessandro was one of them. An old saying professes that after 6 years in a foreign country, you finally realize what you really are: an immigrant. You feel disoriented and homesick. Alessandro's quest for other Italians in Berlin evolves into a hilarious real life comedy

"Born to Skate" tells the story of the two skateboarders Sebastian und Chris and a big trip they are going on together. Sebastian tries to retrieve his first big love - skateboarding - a passion he had to give up after a severe injury. Together with his friend Chris, he sets forth on a journey to the roots of his passion. Chris introduces Sebastian to some of the best skateboarders and helps him to not only overcome his trauma but also to regain this old feeling of freedom and light-heartedness before it will be too late. Because after this trip everyday working life will come knocking on Sebastian's door.

A documentary about sculptor Eduardo Chillida.

On his 80th birthday, show legend Frank Elstner ventures into unfamiliar territory. It is not he who is asking the questions this time, but: Anke Engelke, Jan Böhmermann, Barbara Schöneberger, Michelle Hunziker, Thomas Gottschalk, Günther Jauch and Jean-Claude Juncker.

"Chair Times" charts a course through an ocean of chairs. In the focus are 125 objects from the Collection of the Vitra Design Museum. Arranged according to their year of production, they illustrate development from 1807 to the very latest designs straight off the 3D printer, forming a timeline to modern seating design. The film features many people whose vocations involve design and who are experts in the field, such as designers Hella Jongerius, Antonio Citterio and Ronan Bouroullec, architects and collectors Arthur Rüegg and Ruggero Tropeano, architect David Chipperfield, Director Emeritus of MAK Vienna/Los Angeles Peter Noever, Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum, Vitra Design Museum curators Amelie Klein, Jochen Eisenbrand and collection curator Serge Mauduit. And your guide through the history of chairs is Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman Emeritus of Vitra.

Documentary about the everyday life of a bicycle courier in Berlin in 1995.

Shifting between a suburban hostelry, domestic harmony and the idyllic setting of the Prater funfair, Johannes Holzhausen's documentation is a respectful and sympathetic observation of the long-term relationship between two people leading an unspectacular existence on the edge of society. A retrospective view of an unhappy life from the perspective of happier times.

Documentary about nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen.

Through their songs, Sportfreunde Stiller have helped shape the outlook on life of an entire generation. Now, to mark their 30th anniversary, they are back in the spotlight. With exclusive access, the film follows the indie rock band as they create their new album. An intense musical portrait unfolds, capturing moments both on and off stage, as well as in their private lives.

Photographer and cameraman Karl-Heinz Hummel died in 2009 at the age of 80. In what way does he live on? In which things does he continue to exist? And do the places which he saw and where he filmed remember anything of him? He made films in Greece and later worked at a TV studio in the United Arab Emirates. Karl-Heinz Hummel was the great uncle of director Lisa Sperling who, with her editor Florian Kläger, has created this associative, contemplative portrait with an absent protagonist – immaterial but still ever present in the gradually fading memories of his friends in Greece and Ajman. The film’s present is permeated by a recounted past which flares into being the moment its fleeting light is projected onto the screen.

Mary Bauermeister is considered the mother of the Fluxus movement. In an attic on Cologne's Lintgasse, she made art history in the early 1960s alongside personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Nam June Paik. Today, at the age of 85, she has no intention of stopping. From morning till night, this extraordinary artist works in her studio near Cologne: a magical place.

Now threatened with extinction, the last populations have entrenched themselves in Romania, where the more traditional agriculture and the diversified landscapes give a glimpse of the nature of yesteryear in Central Europe. Like a road movie, filmmaker Jan Haft goes in search of the small daytime butterfly with golden reflections whose survival depends on the rich variety of its ecosystem.

20 years ago the small town of Wunsiedel was at the edge: businesses had to close, jobs were lost, locals left for good. When a bunch of idealists decided to stop this race to the bottom. They developed a plan not only to put the region's energy supply on a completely new foundation, but also to create new prospects.

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capitalism, faced each other in a merciless battle. On one side of the Iron Curtain and on the other, throughout the Cold War, the USSR and the United States sought to shape children’s imaginations through their magazines and films. Never in the history of mankind have so many comic books been published and so many cartoons produced for young people. In November 1989, communism collapsed with the Berlin Wall; capitalism was left to decide the future of the world. What if this victory had been prepared for a long time, and our thinking conditioned, from our early childhood, to ensure this absolute triumph?