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Kilian, 24, went to study in Berlin. Back in Vaihingen, his hometown, for a weekend, he bumps into his two high school friends, Lorenz and Sommer. A reunion with a bittersweet taste...

A set of mistranslations offer competing interpretations as to what is really going on when a young woman disposes of a Christmas tree at night.

Franka Eyckner is in Malta on business. As the controller of a language school, she wants to get the principal on track. But the man is a real challenge. John sincerely vows to do better, but there's no sign of real change! It's a good thing there's also Till. The smart craftsman sees into Franka's soul and responds to her sensitively. Unfortunately, Franka is not the only woman who understands Till so well. Franka comes to Valletta to train John, the new head of the language school there. He is to use the sophisticated learning system that is the basis for the success of "Talk to Me", a global language school for which Franka works. But John, a bon vivant, humorously lets Franka down.

Boat builder Helen Brody and insurance agent Liam Shaw couldn't be more different - at least at first glance. Nevertheless, fate brings them together. When Helen's husband Jonah is left at sea after a storm, Liam is supposed to pay out her life insurance a year later. But first Jonah has to be officially declared dead. However, there are growing doubts as to whether he is really dead. In order to find out the truth about Jonah's disappearance, Helen and Liam have to team up and follow Jonah's trail. In doing so, they not only get closer to the truth. They discover more and more things in common and fall in love. But just at the moment when Helen could finally let go of Jonah, he turns up again. Helen is faced with a dilemma that takes her to her emotional limits.

Freddy Kleemann from Constance, who has moved to Berlin involuntarily, doesn't get much of the capital city feeling. While his heavily pregnant wife Juliana feels abandoned by him, his business partner Lara wants more commitment from her daycare center. Not only do the children need to accept the innovative concept with quiet rooms more readily, but the parents' tempers are also running high, much to Freddy's chagrin. His father Fritz, who suffers from dementia, worries him greatly. Freddy senses that the joint search for the right facility could be the last conscious father-and-son project. Accordingly, he wants to take his time and savor the intense moments. Freddy's mother-in-law Regina is supposed to provide relief for the Kleemanns. She likes to be there for others, but would like to be pampered again herself. Perhaps a new acquaintance would do her good? That's what her grandchildren Zoë and Niko think when they secretly register their grandma on a dating platform...

Under the baton of Jordi Savall, the Concert des Nations orchestra and La Capella Nacional de Catalunya choir perform Mozart's Requiem on period instruments in the great hall of the MOZARTEUM foundation in Salzburg.

A cinematic inversion of global power relations, 'Black Savior' parodies the idiosyncrasies of the white savior syndrome, through the story of the Agyeman family from Akanman, who travel to the heart of the cold continent with a goat to save the Swabian tribe.

A haunted woman named Ida journeys from Germany to Jordan, to an eerie and deserted port town on the Red Sea where her partner, Ismail, recently disappeared. Wandering through desolate bars, hotels, and offices, Ida attempts to feel Ismail’s presence one last time and to say goodbye.

Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

La empresa is a strange creature of a most ambiguous nature: a fiction film about documentary filmmaking as fiction filmmaking, and what it all does to a region’s economy as well as a collective psychology. Or is it? Isn’t it more to the point to say that... But before we get lost here, let’s state what La empresa talks about: how the caminata nocturna, the illegal crossing of the border between Mexico and the United States, was turned into a business that ranges from four-hour night-time tours for tourists out for a sick thrill to reenactments for film and television crews. The latter, of course, is at the core of André Siegers’ casually ironic look at this economy of disaster. When the Germans arrive in town, they meet a workforce already in place and willing to play to any national stereotype – as the French seem to get other kicks out of presenting the caminata nocturna than the Netflix internationals.

Garbage manager Rüdiger Dorn wants to move into his parents' house after the death of his mother - but that has to be brought into shape first. It goes without saying that Werner pitches in.

Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides, the documentary tells the story of the Battle of Stalingrad through the voices of those who lived it.

After a victorious battle, three witches predict that Macbeth, who commands King Duncan's army, will ascend the throne of Scotland. Urged on by his wife to force fate, he takes advantage of the monarch's stay in their castle to murder him... The daring Krzysztof Warlikowski revisits Verdi's most powerful Shakespearean opera, with baritone Vladislav Sulimsky and soprano Asmik Grigorian in the roles of the murderous spouses.

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One day, the village policeman Leon Pawlak has to record an unusual report. 15-year-old Lucja reports the murder of her therapist. According to her, the crime hasn't even happened yet - but the half-orphan saw it in a dream. Therefore, Dr. Viktoria Wex sees no need for action for the time being. But that all changes when the therapist's dead body is found in a lake...

After a fatal accident, Martin has to cope with the strange requirements of the Office of Rebirth and Reincarnation (ORR) and its administrator Beate, while he himself tries to find a suitable life for himself.

Part architectural genius, part kitsch fairytale, Neuschwanstein Castle is closely linked to the tragic fate of Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886). The "Mad King" poured his heart and soul into this unique construction which looks back nostalgically to the Middle Ages. A focus on the history of a building filled with dreams and legends which has become an icon of Germany around the world.

When Theo awakens her sense of desire, Anouk, the only girl on the wrestling team, starts seeing the sparring sessions in a different light. A quietly intimate film, in which relationships between bodies, gazes and feelings are negotiated anew.

A roll and a half made to delight in color and the presence of friends. Steps toward learning to read in the dark.

Horrified to learn that her precocious brother Soma is dating school bully Akari, Sara's peaceful matriculation soon becomes chaotic as new enemies arrive.

Coal mining has shaped Lusatia for generations. In the GDR it was still an important industrial location but, after the fall of communism, companies shut down and livelihoods were destroyed. With the planned phase out of coal, the region is facing another upheaval. Britt Beyer takes a sensitive look at the people who must deal once again with the collapse of existing structures and points of reference.

The stories about the little dragon Tabaluga have enchanted generations. To mark its 40th birthday, Thore Schölermann presents a spectacular gala from Berlin. Together with the creators Peter Maffay, Rolf Zuckowski and Gregor Rottschalk, SAT.1 is celebrating the cult character's anniversary and inviting numerous companions and fans to a show full of surprises. Among the well-wishers are Wincent Weiss, Maite Kelly, Johannes Oerding and Beatrice Egli.

Sixty years after the signing of the Élysée Treaty, which opened an unprecedented era of cooperation between the two countries, how is the Franco-German tandem doing? An enlightening assessment, at a time when the war in Ukraine is shaking the world order.

The hunter on the prowl. A stag in a scope. A finger on the trigger. But then – a crack. A smack from a faceless hooded figure. A knock out and darkness.

The war in Ukraine told by children. A director gives the floor to young Ukrainians who share their experience, their emotions and their aspirations in the face of horror.

Paul is visibly confused after a meeting, late in the night. He drives through the night, experiencing a chaos of his feelings and emotions. He celebrates, cries, laughs and screams. But why all this? Again and again his mood is interrupted by strange seeming incidents, in his immediate vicinity...

Thirty years after the Yugoslavian war and the fall of communism, workers from the ex-YU countries find themselves again in the same "bus". But this time not over communist utopian ideals, but under capitalist reality. They are all seasonal workers on a road towards a better future and prosperity, their new Promised Land - Germany. And just when it seems that all the hope on this journey is gone, the Saviour appears to help them all.

Another war in the Middle East - another attack on Israel - another death of innocents. The battle for Palestine has been raging for decades, with Israel's enemies denying the country its right to exist.

A flower seller who finds the perfect plant for each of his customers based on their mood experiences a tragic death. He quickly discovers that he has access to other people's emotional worlds, but not his own. From then on he tries to grow the perfect flower that will finally touch him - and is confronted with his own transience...

Two of Pina Bausch’s most famous works are rehearsed in Germany and Senegal, championing the choreographer’s legacy through a younger generation of dancers.

Siegfried's love story transposed to a high-tech hell... A fascinating re-reading of the third opera in Wagner's tetralogy, served up by Dmitri Tcherniakov's daring staging and Christian Thielemann's virtuoso musical direction.

The new special by Denis Chuzhoy is both a story about life in forced emigration and a reflection on what is happening in Russia right now. With the ability to find humor in the gloomy, Chuzhoy jokes about how not to lose oneself in a foreign country, what to do with depression, and why it is not worth relying on food delivery when learning a new language.

The film follows the fate of two boys, one of whom hopes to become an Olympic runner and the other a photographer.

The criminal psychologist Annett Schuster and the case analyst Jan Kawig have to solve their first case together when a male body is found near the Wartburg. Huddled in a fridge like the victim is praying. The man was known as the "Judge Merciless" at the Higher Regional Court of Erfurt - revenge as a motive is therefore obvious. Annett Schuster finds religious symbols that refer to the Bible quote "An eye for an eye".

A migrant boat has been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea for 30 hours. As authorities ignore calls for help, the Sea-Watch Crew, an NGO, launches an urgent search.

Power Blackouts in Europe separate Ilay from his family - In his destroyed home country Germany, he is trying to find insulin to save, what's left from his family. In a brutal fight with two brothers, Ilay saves the young doctor Loana, who is trying to help him now. Ilay notices that Loana is not alone in this apocalyptic world, but takes her with him because she is his daughter’s only chance of survival.

Three Roman teenagers try to make their mark on the world: Brenda is pregnant; Ale has just turned 19 and is about to become a father; Kevin fills the city with his name. Always connected, they buzz between the coastal countryside and the Eternal City, trying to resist each in his own way the inexorable advance of time and heat.

Water pipe burst and bomb alarm - Berlin in a state of emergency: Dorn and Gerald don't know where their heads are. The routes for the garbage collectors have to be reworked due to numerous road closures, chaos rages.

Day after day, the romantic waiter Thino sets up the guests in the ice cream parlor. When one day he too is struck by Cupid's arrows and falls in love with Anna, an unknown visitor to the ice cream parlor, he is faced with a choice: does he take the chance or wait for the perfect moment?

Butty is the clumsy household robot of a family and tries to do his best every day. When he blows up the oven and destroys the lasagne, he ruins daughter Ally's long-awaited birthday party. Her mother is furious and tells him to fix it, but he only makes things worse. The mother tells him to go away. Butty is so ashamed that he leaves his family.

Barrie Kosky gives the “operetta of all operettas” a new look and devotes himself to its morbid side. The setting is Vienna, city of the golden operetta era, where Die Fledermaus premiered at the Theater an der Wien in 1874. The bat's revenge becomes a nightmare, and not just for Gabriel von Eisenstein. A society, an entire city dances towards the abyss. To take revenge on his friend Eisenstein, Dr. Falke, alias Die Fledermaus, stages a game of mistaken identity at Count Orlofsky's house. A marquis and a chevalier, a countess and budding artists meet there for a raucous party. Glasses clink, relationships are shaken, people love, lie and dance. The party lasts as long as it lasts, true to the motto: “Happy is he who forgets...”.

He is the most sought-after man in Europe in the 1960s. Lex Barker embodies the flawless hero in his films and, as Old Shatterhand, becomes a role model for generations of fans. Revered in Europe, misunderstood and almost forgotten in his native America. But who was this American who rode through Yugoslavia in a leather costume for the European audience? In 1973, Lex Barker died of a heart attack on the streets of Manhattan in New York. But no one recognizes the man who was Tarzan in Hollywood. Nobody knows him or cares about that he, as Winnetou's friend, is revered as an icon in Europe. Lex Barker's European western adventures are just a footnote in American film history. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the documentary tells the story of one of the most beautiful men who ever flickered across Europe's cinema screens, for whom European cinema proved to be a stroke of luck and for whom a failed Hollywood career took him via Italy to Germany.

Billie is secretly photographed by best friend Jenny and ends up on a social media platform against their will. As viewership of the images grows, internet anonymity turns out to be a source of supernatural horrors and Billie's real nightmare begins... Follower is a suspenseful and chilling film that uncovers the abysses of the internet and the human psyche.

Dedicated public prosecutor Judith Schrader is once again fighting organized crime in Berlin. This time she is investigating security companies that are increasingly in the hands of the OC.

Guided by the Minahasa’s influence, this speculative fiction of mystical belief interlaces care and ancestral dialogues, embracing a healing renewal across numinous, material and technological realms.