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People are mostly complicated, but sometimes things really are that simple. Three encounters.

After Dev finally convinces his girlfriend, Ishika, to try LSD with him in their apartment, she wakes up the next morning feeling lucky to have come out of that crazy trip. But Dev is missing, and right about then, she’s struck with a memory of her killing him, the night before. While she’s trying to wreck her mind to distinguish between the trip and the reality, she’s met with another surprise in the form of her Dev’s parents’ visit!

Forty years since Chernobyl. Volker Heise’s new film recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster for the first time from the perspectives of both East and West Germany and Ukraine, using archive footage only. TSCHERNOBYL 86 is a gripping political thriller featuring previously unseen archive material which brings the events of that time into an unsettlingly present-day context.​

When the former Social Democratic mayor of Düsseldorf flips over to a new populist party, his daughter gets out her camera and observes her family.

“For ‘The Miserable Mother’, stuck at home with her boyfriend, ‘Peter Pan’, and their newborn, motherhood becomes a prison. Within her own four walls, the boundaries blur between inside and outside, society and subject, body and discourse. A musical film.

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.

Kostas owns a small Greek restaurant in the heart of the Black Forest. To the outside world, he appears to be a warm-hearted family man with a boisterous temperament, big dreams, and a chaotic yet lovable family. Yet behind the scenes, he is increasingly losing control of his life.

Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, COVID-19, and now avian flu – a long list of deadly viruses leaping from animals to humans. Why are these spillovers happening, and how are we fuelling them? Directed by award-winner Michael Wech and produced by Emmy®-winner Leopold Hoesch, this film takes us on a gripping global journey into the origins of some of the world’s most dangerous pathogens. For anyone who wants to understand the science behind pandemics and how we hopefully can prevent the next one.

Body in Plural moves between bodies and buildings to trace how a single historic event continues to reverberate through time. From a 1988 mass performance in Yugoslavia to today's protests in Serbia, the film questions how freedom can still be imagined, not as possession, but as relation.

sr draws a panorama of human activity spanning centuries and continents. In 16 fragmentary episodes the film reports of political and societal conditions, of theoretical discourses, human creations and realities of everyday life.

If the world doesn’t accept you and your kind, trailblaze a world that does. Inspired by the Black and Latinx underground Ballroom culture of New York, Sun, Teddy, and Xyza create Ballroom communities in Southeast Asia as safe havens from homophobia, transphobia, color discrimination and HIV stigma.

Carla, who has no legs, is reduced by people around her to a curiosity rather than an artist. She lives for acrobatics, but works as an assistant in a variety show, invisible to the world of stage. When the theater begins to decline, the director offers her the chance to perform.

An Avantgarde Portrait Of Classical Musician Puschan Mousavi Malvani.

An atmospheric experimental film in which dense fog, fractured neon light, and muffled foghorns dissolve orientation. Drifting through an unstable cityscape, the camera reveals a fading “Europa” sign, reflecting inner isolation and a growing sense of political fragility.

Nikita and Alex squat a vacant, gutted apartment. Between playing hide-and-seek and dancing, reality catches up with them when the landlord shows up with renovation plans. Hidden close together in a closet, the boys experience a moment of intimacy. When the coast is clear, Nikita rushes away. Alex is left behind, bewildered.

After the last film played at the legendary Arsenal arthouse cinema in Tübingen, director Goggo Gensch accompanies founder Stefan Paul – filmmaker, distributor, and tireless cineast – on a journey to the screens that shaped Germany’s arthouse cinema movement. Paul and companions tell of the beginnings of arthouse cinemas in the 1970s and their daily struggle for survival. Icons like John Waters and Wim Wenders contribute personal memories, while the Hof International Film Festival celebrates underground films.

Eva Giolo explores the subjective experience of listening as it unfolds through repetition and duration. Through intimate portrayals of the filmmaker’s friends immersed in acts of listening, the camera captures subtle shifts in expression and perception – quite beautifully on 16mm.

Butterflies and Music, The male purple emperor possesses the iridescence that gives it its name: the metallic purple shimmer is a structural colour created by light refraction through special scales. Its scientific name (apatura iris) also reflects this: Iris is the goddess of the rainbow. The butterfly is often seen feeding on faeces, carrion, or even human sweat, as it primarily obtains nutrients from minerals

A Belarusian model dreaming of a career in China finds herself drawn to a mysterious loner who works the night shift at a morgue. Their encounter unsettles her sense of body, beauty, and mortality. The fragile love story of two outsiders who turn each other’s worlds upside down and discover that they are not alone.

Fragments and impressions of urban debris come alive through playful stop-motion and superimpositions. Scraps, ribbons, caps, paper, plastic, cans and objects beyond identification lie scattered beneath the bridges and along the streets. A multi-lingual meditation on the poetry of waste.

A house, as if frozen in time, carries within it the lives of several generations of families. As an adult woman, M. returns to this place to remember her deceased mother. She finds memories of her childhood, of letting go, of the brutality of growing up. As a child, M. is torn between truth and fiction, past, present, and future. Out of fear of losing someone, M. creates a new person.

In a world of deserted or abandoned landscapes, people wander around trying to feel something.

Over a century has passed since the genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama people, yet Germany and Namibia continue to grapple with memory and accountability, as the legacy of colonialism shapes the present. While the governments negotiate a diplomatic agreement, the voices of descendants are often ignored. By hearing directly from the affected communities, the film places these voices at the forefront, exposing the tensions behind political processes and asking what genuine justice and reconciliation could look like.

An experimental film about the ambiguous sensation of fear and elation experienced during the loneliness of a night race. Original footages of the 24 Hours of Le Mans are associated with pictures of Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic airplane The Spirit of St. Louis and quotations by Antoine Saint-Exupéry and Bertolt Brecht.

H5N1: Conservation in Crisis’ reveals the devastating impact of avian flu —not only on wildlife but on those fighting to protect it. David Steel, manager of the Isle of May, bears witness to the unfolding catastrophe, balancing conservation efforts with the emotional toll of loss. As avian flu tightens its grip, the island’s thriving bird colonies face yet another year with the virus outbreak, spreading rapidly through dense nesting grounds.The virus continues to spread and evolve, leaving one question: what does the future hold for seabirds—and for us?

Film about travels and adventures.

In a surreal clinic where women's grief is diagnosed, categorized, and prescribed, two patients — one after miscarriage, one after hysterectomy — confront the absurd rituals of institutional care and begin to reclaim their rage.

A nonbinary transmen of colors journey and reflections through sex work, trauma without being able to get penetrated and the complications this bring with it.

A one-hit wonder desperately longs for the boundless success of his past. When he is caught speeding during a car ride, he increasingly loses touch with his reality.

Although presented as anonymous and confidential, the data collected by mobile apps is in fact sold by brokers on a vast global market. As part of the Data Broker Files investigation, German journalists reveal the inner workings of a lucrative system that operates outside any regulatory framework.

At a demonstration in Berlin against the genocide in Gaza and the German arms supplies contributing to it, protestors are violently arrested, wrestled to the ground, sprayed with pepper spray and captured on camera. This essay pauses those overwhelming moments and isolates what is happening in order to examine it. Drawing from Fanon and Butler, among others, it offers a pointed interrogation of double standards, the state’s monopoly on violence and protesting under constant surveillance.

When 11-year-old Mila finds her demented grandmother Elise's old violin, she begins to play - hoping to awaken a memory in her.

For Reminiscence of a Moviegoer, filmmaker Christiane Büchner works extensive interviews with the late Werner Dütsch, a commissioning editor at the German television station WDR, and massively influential figure in postwar West German film culture, into a moving portrait of cinephilia through time.

So, now I’ve ended up here. A bump at the tip of England with the prettiest pebbles in the world. Shingle, they call it here. A cottage full of memories and ghosts, perhaps. I’m allowed to stay for two weeks. I have the cottage completely to myself. The nights are cold, but I sleep warm in the big bed made of dark wood, which is like a boat.

The libretto of this opera tells the story of D., a young boy called to military service. Desperate to escape his fate, he seeks advice from the Mysterious Lake. It sends him off to seek salvation deep in the bowels of the city, where the march of autocracy will eventually engulf him.

A girl travels through natural landscape, followed by a robotic voice.

Jutta Hipp defied the odds and made it to the heart of the male-dominated jazz scene in 1950s New York.

Space, the last hope. This is the story of a group of children and young adults who, after the end of Earth, left for the stars to establish a new civilisation on a faraway planet.

A shared dream. A common belief. Chasing Sub 2 is the journey towards realizing the impossible: running the world's first sub-two-hour marathon. A decade-long pursuit sparked by Haile Gebrselassie at the 2008 Berlin Marathon, which became a reality at the 2026 London Marathon. Kenyan marathoner, Sabastian Sawe, has won all four of the marathons he has competed in. Adding to his extensive list of accolades is the historic 1:59:30 finish, powered by the latest Adizero innovation: the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3. The fastest and lightest Adizero super-shoe ever made, weighing less than 100 grams. Humanity just got faster.

A poetic documentary showing what sustainable space travel could look like.

A budgie finds itself in a luxurious wellness hotel that promises stressed birds peace and relaxation. But between the lulling sound of the fountains and soothing massages, it longs only to return to the safety of its cage.