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A sparkling documentary portrait of Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, now retired in Blankenese, following his witty daily routines, reflections on past roles (Prussian disciplinarian, Hitler parodist, public prosecutor, quirky supporting actor), and memories of Brigitte, whose room and presence still linger.
Drifting through the streets of former East Berlin neighborhoods, the film traces the unsteady affective terrain of isolation and displacement, assimilation and oppression. The bureaucratic condescension and violence of a residency interview sits alongside domestic scenes featuring a father and his young son. The film uncovers the loss and thrumming tensions of exilic life under Western Europe’s smooth gray surfaces.
Fazıl Say concludes the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival at the Elbphilharmonie with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Carlo Tenan. The programme for this eclectic evening includes works by Gershwin, Ravel and Tüzün, as well as Turkish pianist Fazıl Say's Sixth Symphony, composed in 2022 under the title A Hundred-Year-Old Child.
Inspired by a true story, a widowed air raid warden in the midst of World War II struggles to overcome grief and rediscover joy in her life – until she finds a dying sparrow she hopes to save.
From the first steps of an emerging singer to the final bow of a celebrated soprano, 'PRIMADONNA OR NOTHING' follows three relentless women who sacrifice everything to be an opera star.
Felix and Pia, in their late twenties, spend a few days at Felix’s grandparents' vacation home. What starts off as a lighthearted getaway quickly turns tense, and an unspoken distance grows between them, one they both feel. When they finally open up about their feelings and future together, no easy answers emerge. The following evening, they find themselves at a nostalgic bowling alley, where a quirky older bowler shares a story from his life, offering them a new perspective on themselves.
Viktor is no longer alive. Anton travels to Istanbul to break the sad news to Aylin, a mutual friend. In this short film, Irem Gökçen and Aron Eichhorn create a study of things that are lost and those that are beginning, oscillating between the unsaid, melancholy, and courage.
West Germany underwent a period of rapid and extraordinary growth after the Second World War with rising wages and living standards. This economic miracle is often credited to Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard and the hard work of ordinary Germans. But on closer inspection, some hard truths and injustices from the Nazi era casts a shadow on this postwar rosy picture.
A series of bizarre deaths shock the city of Hamburg: Mummified corpses are discovered in school basements. The local police enlist the help of Germany's most popular case analyst, Martin Gaitner. Inspector Danowski can't stand his colleague and doubts his theory of a lone perpetrator who was traumatized at school.
Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control.
After finding out that their father left a huge sum of money behind after his death, Mariam and Noura come up with an elaborate scheme to abscond with the money before their brother — who is legally entitled to half the inheritance — finds out about their father’s death.
With the population in decline, a traditional way of life is ending in a remote, rundown Bulgarian village. This poetic and at times tragicomic film follows the last remaining inhabitants from the perspective of several domesticated animals. There’s a great deal of attention given to sound, light and movement: an overflowing bucket, sunlight dancing in rustling foliage, the ticking sound of ants on the move, and a cowbell clanging in the wind.
Bob Mould, once frontman of Hüsker Dü and Sugar, has shaped guitar rock like no other. At Rolling Stone Beach 2025, he shows that energy and emotion complement each other perfectly – powerful, honest, timeless. Bob Mould is a legend of US indie rock. He already wrote music history with Hüsker Dü, later with Sugar and as a solo artist. His songs combine loud rock and sensitivity. At Rolling Stone Beach 2025, he shows that great emotions can also be transported through distorted guitars. Together with his band, Mould plays classics and new pieces with the same intensity that has distinguished him for decades.
A band attempts to stand out from the musical mainstream and still remain commercial enough. On the one hand ‘Florian Paul & die Kapelle der letzten Hoffnung’ want it all; on the other hand, they want very little. Like many other German indie bands, they face challenges: how do we reach our audience? And at what cost?
The reunion of two ski jumping champions whose romantic past will resurface as they face the demands of their sponsors.
A young woman, Laura Spindler, is picked up on a country road in the Weinviertel region. Public prosecutor Fida Emam learns that the now 18-year-old was kidnapped in Vienna two years earlier.
In 1992, his first album Blufunk Is a Fact propelled him onto the international scene, carried by the global hit ‘Rhythm Is Love’. Over the course of his six studio albums, he added memorable tracks such as ‘Where Is Life’, ‘A Million Miles From Home’ and ‘Beautiful Emilie’ to his repertoire.
For twenty years, the rebel militia Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fought to overthrow the government. According to UNICEF estimates, the rebels abducted between 35,000 and 66,000 children during this time. They were forcibly recruited as soldiers and sexually enslaved. Tens of thousands of civilians were murdered, mutilated or tortured. Over 90 percent of the population in northern Uganda lived in refugee camps. Although these times are over, many people still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. To help them, the animal welfare organization Big Fix is resorting to an unusual means: street dogs. Thousands of stray and often neglected dogs roam Uganda's towns and villages. But it is precisely these animals that can bring comfort to lonely and emotionally distressed people.
Sounds Like Art invites musicians to play in the midst of works of art in a European museum. In this edition, British pop group Bastille present their new album & at the Turner Contemporary Museum in Margate on the English coast. Lead singer Dan Smith says he is particularly interested in the art of Anya Gallaccio and Antony Gormley.
A wise old man embarks on his final journey, entering the Colombian jungle to find a place to die. But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.
A ritual shot on black and white Super 8 film. A witch summons various goddesses and mythological figures until the Queen of women shunned by patriarchy—Lilith—breaks through.
Lucas & Arthur Jussen are currently the most successful young piano duo. Accompanied by the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the baton of Andris Nelsons, they follow in the footsteps of composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his sister Fanny with Mendelssohn's First Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.
When an otherworldly being crashes near a lab, chaos is unleashed.
Student Annika returns home for Christmas, but the anticipation of the family dinner is overshadowed by tensions: stepfather Thomas invites business partners, mother Monika is focused on sister Maya’s career, and uncle Detlef stirs things up with his comments. When Maya decides she’d rather celebrate with her boyfriend Barir, Annika covers for her with a lie.
Siblings Tonja and Anton Raabe have to solve the murder of a young woman and the abduction of a small child in a wooded area in Lusatia near Senftenberg. Tonja is not only confronted with her childhood trauma, but also comes into conflict with her superiors once again due to her synaesthetic abilities and solo efforts.
Solidarity is an irresistible feeling we celebrate, but in fact, it is mostly contradictory. This documentary delves into the phenomenon itself and uncovers the universal power of human rights.
The internet has been flooded with AI-generated rubbish. Automated bots are producing a flood of AI-generated content that threatens to push everything else out of our social media feeds. Will this ‘slop’ lead to the death of the internet? Or perhaps is the internet a dead space already?
An experimental short about the nature of humans and how we experience ourselves as part or seperate from it.
In most middle schools and high schools in Japan, there are compulsory rules on how a student may wear their hair or dress. This film is a visual guide to what some of these hairstyle regulations may look like.
Niko doesn’t really know what he should do in life. Should he keep working at his father’s shop or become an actor? Or maybe just do nothing at all? And then there’s his girlfriend Lilli – and David, whom he’s only just met. Everything could be fine until a tragedy shakes up his life.
The imprisoned Iranian women’s rights activist Maryam is allowed to meet her family for seven days. Her husband and children beg Maryam to flee with them instead of returning to prison but she has not yet made her decision.
Warm vibrato, traditional throat singing, body percussion, a thirst for experimentation: Abel Selaocoe is breathing new life into the world of classical music. The cellist is performing this summer at the Rheingau Music Festival in a program entitled “African Roots,” featuring his own compositions and a score by Giovanni Sollima.
Returning to the archives of this memorable recital, from which it presents numerous excerpts, this documentary is punctuated with testimonials from its principal performers, music critics and several big names in piano, including Lang Lang, Gabriela Montero, David Salmon and Manuel Vieillard, whose Geister Duo is considered one of the most promising duos of their generation.
Ageing misfit Sir Morosus lives alone in an old-style apartment in Charlottenburg in Berlin. He is wealthy, but also lonely and a bit grumpy. Then his nephew Henry moves in with him and his life takes a turn for the better. Director Jan Philipp Gloger homes in on two of the most pressing problems of the day: loneliness and the housing shortage. The Staatskapelle Berlin is conducted by Christian Thielemann.
Wilma has many qualifications and talents, yet suffers just as many disappointments in life. After she catches her husband cheating, she runs away to Vienna in search of a new life. There she lives with bustling bohemians, tries her luck at a variety of jobs and perhaps... at love again.
In his film, Johann Betz focuses on architect Franz Joseph Ruf, who designed more than 300 buildings during his career. These include the Chancellor's Bungalow in Bonn, Maxburg Castle in Munich, and the German pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
The three garbage collectors accidentally get on the trail of a protection racket in the Neukölln neighborhood: Snack bar owner Mohammed has to fend off an aggressive gang of youths and eventually resorts to drastic measures - but Werner discovers that the situation is not quite as clear-cut as it seems. Meanwhile, Tarik's extreme jealousy puts his relationship with Werner's daughter Annika at risk.
Composed in 1782, the Great Mass in C minor, KV 427, ranks among the pinnacles of Western sacred music. Gianluca Capuano conducts this masterpiece with the vocal ensemble Il Canto di Orfeo and Les Musiciens du Prince, a Monegasque ensemble playing period instruments.
His performance with the WDR Big Band at the Leverkusen Jazz Days is a premiere and an absolute highlight, with which the Leverkusen Jazz Days 2025 will open their festival.
Why are men two or even three times less likely than women to be diagnosed with depression? Why are the figures reversed between the sexes in suicide statistics—some 47,000 people in Europe each year, more than three-quarters of whom are men? In men, the signs may differ from those generally identified with depression: anger rather than sadness, hyperactivity (at work or in sports) rather than asthenia, antisocial or addictive behavior, greater difficulty in asking for help due to modesty or shame, etc. But whatever form it takes, mental suffering is still often overlooked by those affected, misdiagnosed by many practitioners, and therefore generally underestimated.
In their concert Terra Mater, leading figures on the early music scene Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata celebrate Mother Nature with Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman. Vocal and instrumental art intertwine with delight until they merge, evoking not only the exuberance of Baroque nature, but also its fragility. A conceptual concert rich in associations.
War veteran Meika lives and works in her van as a courier. After a breakdown, she finds herself stranded at the campsite of the teenager Emily. When a group of alpha boys plays a brutal prank on Emily, Meika's war trauma is triggered.
What Really Matters – Our Season. Our Story After three years in the 3. Liga, the Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden has achieved promotion again. Highlights from the 2024/25 season, exclusive behind-the-scenes looks, and previously unpublished interview material bring the Black and Yellow emotions of this passionate season to the big screen.
After a painful breakup with her ex-girlfriend, a young woman runs away from her memories by moving from Ukraine to Germany. As she gets into a taxi, her story gradually unfolds: her belief that love can overcome all is shattered when the woman she loved chooses fear of judgment over true feelings.
Hard to imagine, but true: According to current estimates, out of 500,000 active male football professionals worldwide, under ten (10) are openly homosexual. While homosexuality hardly plays a role in other areas of life today, the topic seems to be completely taboo in professional football. The feature-length documentary THE LAST TABOO lets those who broke exactly this taboo tell their very personal stories alongside Thomas Hitzlsperger. Like the British professional footballer Justin Fashanu (*1961 in London; † 1998 in London), who broke this taboo for the first time in 1990 and paid for it with his life. His niece Amal tells his story. Marcus Urban, on the other hand, was about to make the jump to the Bundesliga as a teenager and, by deciding to come out, he also went against his big dream. The stories of the US professional Collin Martin and the British player-coach Matt Morton, on the other hand, suggest that normality is not far away.
Anna is pregnant and thinks about castrations. Katinka may not be able to become a farmer and wears her bikini in the milking parlor, but grandma's tomatoes have turned out better this year than ever before. A summer on dying German farms.
In a mosaic of games, films, and media, the protagonist's perspective, a fragmented state of mind, merges, and the boundaries between reality and dreams dissolve. 1g of quetiapine, both a remedy and a means of forgetting, dampens the heart and shatters identity. The film collage reflects on the medicalization of mental suffering and the loneliness that lies in synthetic calm. Through chaotic layers of media, it shows how the self is not healed, but rather rendered illegible and suspended in a borderline state between sedation and despair.
Is a murderer always a murderer? Karla Eckhardt supports easing measures for convicted murderer Anton Lisky. But as soon as she is released, Lisky's work colleague is killed. Was Karla wrong?