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The place: the outskirts of Hamburg, a flat, two rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom. The time: one day and the passing night. Wolfgang “Wolli” Köhler, former owner of a porn-cinema and a brothel, turned poet and illustrator, lives here with his wife Linda. Scenes of cohabitation. Scenes from a life together. Reminiscences of an existence that has led them from Waldheim in Saxony to St. Pauli in Hamburg. Insights into the abject wretchedness of the sex industry. The underworld of covert backyard meetings before the advent of AIDS. Prejudices are undermined, preconceptions challenged. Wolli takes a trip down his own personal “memory lane”.

Sophie’s sister—that is Elisabeth Hartnagel, the last of Sophie Scholl’s siblings still alive at the time of filming (she died in 2020 at the age of 100). In front of the camera, she recalls her family and, in particular, her siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, two of the key members of the White Rose resistance group.

The Yoruba people in particular have always had a strong connection to spirituality. The fact that a mysterious white woman shared their belief in the animistic nature of the world restored the Yoruba people's cultural self-esteem.

Postman Rolf is quite a shy fellow, but mysterious occurrences force him to take action and become a hero.

The documentary examines the construction of the I.G. Farben factory in Monowitz, also known as I.G. Auschwitz, during World War II. The film follows various leads, including the memories of Dr. Hans Deichmann, the former representative for Italian workers. Interviews with survivors of the Buna/Monowitz concentration camp, a former Italian foreign worker, and Polish villagers offer a variety of perspectives. Despite its title, the film focuses not only on the 'crime scene Monowitz', but also on the masterminds and those responsible at the I.G. Farben corporation.

A film about mobility, human creativity, and technology in a Sudanese truck community. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to Sudan in the late 1960s. Since then, local craftsmen technically modify the truck into an ideal vehicle, adequate for traveling off-road and for performing customers’ expectations. The craftsmen and drivers call the lorry “Sifinja” because it is soft and comfortable like the plastic slippers it is named after. In different places in Sudan the carpenters and blacksmiths not only create a shiny iron bride, but they change the whole structure of the lorry through a highly unorthodox performance. Following closely the daily work, art and history of truck-modding on the Nile, a fascinating way of African creativity dealing with global commodities – the automobiles - is opened up. The documentary weaves the original sound of hammering and sawing, drilling and riveting, into a rhythmic, exhilarating audio-visual adventure.

Documentary about the life and work of Sogyal Rinpoche, the most important contemporary Buddhist scholar after the Dalai Lama.

Being classified as subversive, GDR photographer Harald Hauswald was for many years observed by the STASI under the code name Radfahrer (Cyclist).

A charming young German meets his biological parents and siblings in Dubai. The wealthy Iraqi family has found their new home there. Their son Sinan grew up in Hesse with his German adoptive mother and now lives and works in Berlin. The camera is almost invisible and very precise in "My father. My uncle." is always present when Sinan encounters the family, language, religion and culture of his ancestors - it is the discovery of a foreign world, an alternative life that he would have lived if he had grown up with his brothers. For Sinan's parents, he has always been part of the family. They have longed all their lives for the return of their prodigal son and now accept him with unconditional love. They make plans, dream of a life together in Iraq and make suggestions for a future wife. Actually, it would also be nice if Sinan converted to Islam.

In her film “A day and An Eternity”, Anna Hepp takes a look back over the last days of her grandmother’s 94-year life. The old woman lived alone, and Hepp accompanied her everyday life in the cramped confines of her apartment. In this place, the same gestures and the same routine, which had established themselves over the years, took place every day. Anna Hepp’s black-and-white pictures document the traces of age without impinging upon the old woman’s dignity and independence. The traces are engraved in the sagging skin, the shakiness in her hands and the tiredness in her eyes. The camera concentrates on Dorothea’s body whose movements determine the rhythm of the pictures. In long shots, Hepp makes space so that the apparent triviality of the moment can develop into an entire life story.

This programme illustrates the development of the German navy from 1914 to the end of 1945 in a documentary way never attempted before and includes rare film footage in both colour and black and white. The bonus material also gives former U-boat and regular navy officers and men the chance to talk about their experiences in their own words.

The "Curonian Spit" is a 98 kilometre long sand dune peninsula that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. The width of the spit between the lagoon′s beach and the beach of the Baltic Sea often amounts to no more than several hundred metres. In this film, documentary filmmaker Volker Koepp portrays this unique region that in its history was again and again subjected to shifting borders and the resulting social upheavals due to its geographical location between Germany and Russia.

Life and death – the big questions: where do we come from, where are we going, and what is the purpose of our existence here on earth... Questions that have been asked since our early existence. However, throughout history we have apparently never recognized the many signs we encountered on our path, and which could have provided answers. Why? The answer is... we ourselves are the problem! We limit ourselves by our limited way of thinking. And if we than do discover certain directives, we start to distort these so that practically nothing of these remain. It is also the reason why prophets and great oracles, when they revealed their knowledge and wisdom, were misinterpreted by our own limited way of thinking. Yet... answers and explanations are closer than we would surmise. The only thing we have to do is expand our way of thinking, after which we come to the conclusion that our universe and our consciousness consist of many layers.

The Biu Tze-Form is shown from different perspectives and explained in detail. There are many examples of applications to illustrate the purpose of various techniques. All of them shown clearly and thoroughly in the accustomed high quality.

Short animated film based on a fairy tale.

A touching story about human loneliness and a fight with self-esteem that leads to isolation.

Second Breath presents a portrait of Berlin’s long and intractable history through Holly Zausner’s dramaturgy. Inspired by her time living and working in the city in the 1990s, Zausner created a series of three outsized figures made from rubber silicon and knitted material. This film features Zausner interacting with these figures in a sequence filmed at key landmarks in the city, including the Potsdamer Platz, Neue Nationalgalerie, Spree River, and the now-demolished Palast der Republik. In every scene, we see the heft of the figures counteracting her manoeuvres of them, turning the idea of the body as a metaphor for the weight of history from abstraction to physical reality.

Documentary based on the autobiographical dance theatre "Zeit – tanzen seit 1927" by Heike Hennig.

E3 (∞, E = eternity, 3 = 3 month) is the first work trying to capture my drawing and painting style into a moving picture. It captures the beginning, with all its enthusiasm, energy and more or less sub-conscious hope that things develop differently in a new space. Followed by the phase were everything slows down to finally result in a complete breakdown into everyday life. This cycle happens over and over again, in all scales, in all relations … sometimes it can be a cozy, pleasant state … while other times it seems like Don Quixote, fighting against windmills …

The figures of a big firework display develop behind the column architecture of an aboveground metro bridge and the lamps illuminating it. Trains drawing paths of light traverse the picture of explosions. Through the use of a vigorous rhythm of cuts, the black and white movie condenses the simultaneousness of these luminous patterns of movements and transforms what has been filmed into purely cinematic fireworks.

A documentary about the hooligans and the rivalry of two football clubs in Leipzig.

Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality. Combining theoretical texts and film footage, the topic of these videos is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the difference between private and public use of the video, the video running in loop as a contemporary form of ritual. The film footage is not used here as a mere illustration to make the text more comprehensible, or to make certain theoretical positions more evident. Rather, these video lectures thematize the gap between what we hear and what we see, and reflect on the relationship between image and word in our media driven world.

Queen A.D. sets out to explore the vastness of her destroyed empire.

Graffiti Science Fiction from Esher uand Jo Preussler

German filmmaker Benjamin Geissler’s documentary about the search and discovery in Ukraine (and the subsequent unauthorized removal by Israeli Holocaust archivists) of long lost mural frescoes attributed to the Jewish writer and painter Bruno Schulz.

In 1999, Manfred Wilhelms met the then 82-year-old photographer Henry Ries in front of the Brandenburg Gate, where he—carrying a box full of photos of Berlin—was looking for traces of old Berlin and finding construction sites everywhere. This encounter gave rise to “Henry Ries – The Flâneur of Berlin,” a narrative about two cities.

A short film about the Hamburg witnesses of the Weiße Rose resistance group.

One of the most controversial dealings between the FRG and DDR and a political secret until the collapse of Communist Germany: the sale of over 33,000 political prisoners for diamonds, crude oil, exotic fruits and foreign currency.

5th Chi Sao section (complete), Theory, Preparatory Exercises, Applications, Sequences, Drills, Plus bonus material... Sifu Niko continues his successful Wing Tsun video production with a further series of advanced level videos containing the entire Wing Tsun Advanced Level programs. In the accustomed high quality and forgoing secrecy, the strictly guarded Advanced Level Sections are shown clearly and in detail.

A documentary about remembering and forgetting 60 years after the Shoa. Contemporary witnesses no longer live, and the author embarks on a search for an artistic strategy to sharpen the perception of the absent. In a labyrinth of memories we see interviews with Ivoné Simon (né. Guggenheim) from Brazil, the sons of the former homeowner Michael and Claus Fritsche as well as the scientists Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal and Dr. Claudia Curio and others.

For four decades, a woman walks toward her husband's camera. A love story on narrow-gauge film.

Even online sex can be FATAL! Short experimental German splatter movie. DVD came included in GORY NEWS #18/19 (October 2002).