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Heike and Stefan have been a couple for many years and have a big goal together: to sail around the world on their own catamaran. One day the time has come, they leave their home in northern Germany behind and set sail. Their happiness seems perfect when they find a beautiful paradise on the island of Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific. Here, their dream of unrestricted freedom in harmony with nature is fulfilled. Their happiness comes to an abrupt end when Stefan fails to return to the boat after an excursion with a local. A never-ending nightmare begins for Heike.

Prosecutor Charlotte Reinke investigates in a sensitive case: The eight-year-old Laura accuses her father novel of sexual abuse. This indignantly rejects the suspicion. The child had made the accusation under the influence of the mother, who only wanted to take revenge for having left her for another. Does Roman say the truth? Rather accidentally, the prosecutor makes a decisive discovery.

A rapid animation that sums up a range of complex sexualities and desire with humour. Blink and you will miss it!

HF276 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

A family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization.

The gaze in autocorrelation.

The summer of 376 AD. The Gothic female warrior Elja is forced to give in to the marauding Huns and to seek shelter for herself and her clan in the Roman empire. Once at the border they must wait for orders and provisions from the Roman authorities. Elja tries to understand the Roman plans in spite of the language barrier.

Chronology is a puzzle created by images taken from found footage material originated by "Neue Heimat", the architectural project in charge of the reconstruction of Germany after the war. The result is a unique and mysterious atmosphere in which the individual pieces of the puzzle come together and leave it to the observer to create the bigger picture.

Ana's Hollywood dreams are slowly turning to dust, until she gets an offer to give her body to a Berlin science project. Against all odds, Ana fights for her right to seize her dreams.

Fun-loving Miri is a genius with numbers. She puts this talent to good use in her job at the town bank in the small village of Hattenstein, where she actively helps her often overburdened boss. When a local winegrower is found dead in a wooded area, she also develops a penchant for detective work. The policeman Nils, one of her old schoolmates, believes it was a sudden heart attack. But Miri's extraordinary powers of deduction tell her that there is something fishy about the case. With the moral support of her ownerless dachshund, Frauchen, she uncovers a large-scale crime in which even the mayor of the town seems to be involved.

An old hunter finds the lost rosary of a mysterious Saracenic princess, which keeps an old secret power.

I can't move on. I wish I could. But I'm caught in the thought of what could have been, losing my grip on reality.

Paraguay's lush soy farms are battlegrounds between huge agri-business and small farmers. The GMO beans fatten up cattle in rich countries so steaks remain cheap. But the pesticides used are destroying the crops of the campesinos and harming their kids.

Documentary tells the story of the book and shows what impact its racist and ultra-nationalist content has on us today, where arson attacks, right-wing riots and hate comments against asylum seekers are the order of the day.

Perfect lover Bruno has no idea that 'air hostess' Michelle postpones moving in because she's a Munich waitress leading bigamy-like multiple lives while lacking a proper self-image. Bumping into study roommate, stick-tied-up boring hairdresser Doro(thea), Michelle poses as manager of her son Jacob's favorite pop band and accepts an invitation to the Wolfratshausen home. Doro's cop husband Matthias isn't amused to be spied upon by the eagle-eye he never could stand, as if he senses that the gay porn which Doro finds in the garage isn't about to 'compromise their son's future' as she rages but the result of her failure to provide marital satisfaction, unlike Mattias's hot newbie colleague Winnie. Truth time becomes inevitable for most of them, lots of courage is required to deal with it all

A brand new production of ‘’Tannhäuser’’ at the Staatsoper Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has already staged Purcell and Berlioz, Dusapin, Rihm and Hosokawa. Now Sasha Waltz brings to the stage a grand romantic Wagner’s opera with a star cast of some of today best Wagnerian singers: Peter Seiffert in the title role, Réne Pape as Landgraf and Peter Mattei as Wolfram, Ann Petersen sings Elisabeth and Marina Prudenskaya is Venus.

Police detective Roland Prengler goes undercover in the small town of Ahndorf to investigate a murder case that has baffled local officials for quite some time. Three years ago, Lucy, a 17-year-old, disappeared without a trace. The police have good reason to believe she was murdered and they even have a suspect - Walter, a down-on-his-luck drunkard who lives at an abandoned farm on the outskirts of town. Roland's assignment is to befriend the eccentric outsider, gain his trust and get him to confess to the crime. But the deceptive friendship soon takes its toll on the experienced cop and puts his principles as a human being to the test.

In this video installation Philipp Gufler grapples with different images and ideas of masculinity that art has produced over centuries: from vomiting, well-endowed Greeks, to the vain Narcissus, towards Andy Warhol’s gun shooting Elvis Presley. The selected images are printed on Lucent fabrics and behind those the artist coquets with masculine and feminine poses: smoking, applying makeup, knotting a tie etc. The reference to the painting “Pygmalion and Galathea” by Jean-Léon Gérôme can be regarded as the ironic highpoint concerning the gender debate: The ancient legend of the gifted sculptor Pygmalion, who, in the spirit of the Male Gaze, carves his perfect woman out of stone, is a perfect metaphor for the creation of a completely artificial femininity, as it is alsoembodied by transvestites. The prefix trans- is thereby symptomatic for the whole staging of the film: the projections and the artist seem to permeate and superimpose each other constantly.

Three girlfriends want to escape their country life. A dream of Asia ends in resignation.

Follows "Live is Life" aka "Die Spätzünder".

28 year old Enea is looking for love - physical love that is. But as the autist he is, living in Italy, this is anything but easy. So he and his best friends Carlo and Alex set out on a journey through Europe and eventually find a lot more than they are looking for.

When the mysterious captain of a phantom ship is cast ashore in a storm, he tries to escape eternal damnation through the love of a faithful woman.

The history of lesbians and gays in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic) explored through the lives of five people.

The former professional footballer Alex Brehm has taken care of his daughter Charlie since the accidental death of his wife. The girl suffers greatly from the loss of her beloved mother, but is an avid footballer and finds distraction from her grief, at least for a short while. Also, she is "completely the daddy" - until Alex learns one day after a blood test of his daughter that neither he nor his deceased wife Charlie's biological parents can be.

Henry is usually hungover, even more often in a bad mood and rather an imposition as a death assistant. His caring attitude towards his clients is hidden under a very rough exterior. Rebecca, on the other hand, is good-looking, provocative, young and has a brain tumor. She is Henry's latest client and declares it his task to accompany her to a really wild party on her last night. When Henry wants to induce her death the next day, Rebecca has changed her mind. Death should wait, instead she wants to go to a miracle healer in some mountain village and Henry should take her there. There's no point in refusing, Rebecca has nothing to lose and she asserts herself ruthlessly. Pursued by Henry's colleague Benno and Rebecca's husband Daniel - whose existence she has stupidly not told Henry about - they embark on a crazy trip full of absurd encounters that take more out of Henry than he could have imagined.

Emma Waters convinces her friend Julia Adams to have a hen party. When Julia has to auction a kiss, she can't believe who the lucky winner is.

Some documentary material shot in the surroundings of Bonn is superimposed with found footage from Timbuktu. By chemical influences during the developing process the material gets an painterly quality evoking an atmosphere somewhere between dream and reality.

One of four "Saw" Video Contest winners in Germany leading up to the release of "Saw: The Final Chapter" in 2010. Little is known about the film, but it was officially featured on the German 9-film box set following the physical release of "Spiral: From the Book of Saw" in Germany.

During their investigation into a toxic waste scandal, Yousseff and Anne Marie Fuchs' client are found dead, and the two detectives find themselves in a life-threatening situation.

All is no longer right with the world in East Frisia. The weatherproof crab fishermen who take their boats out into the North Sea every night are fighting for survival. In these times of globalization, the North Sea crabs travel thousands of kilometers to Morocco, where they are caught cheaply before being served up again in Germany.

When Jack Frost blankets the landscape there is magic in the air. For many, winter is a time for fun and festivities, but for our wild neighbours it's a challenging period where they will need all of their adaptions to survive.

A kind of graffiti documentary about a trip to Eastern Europe

Struggling to cope with his sick brother, a boy makes a macabre bargain with a monstrous stranger.

Katharina and her son Stefan (16) live in a small town where everybody knows everybody. Stefan has been born with severe asthma. Katharina has ceased to count the nights that she has spent at his bed listening with fear, his breath. Their care and care have accompanied the child's growing up. Very deeply in Katharina is a doubt whether she really loves her child. Stefan's burgeoning sexuality finds its way in a disturbing way. He scares women during nightly journeys through the city, escorts prostitutes in front of a brothel, and watches couples in sex. When a young woman is found dead, the suspicion grows in Katharina that Stefan can be the culprit. He winds more and more out of Katharina's clasp and is increasingly aggressively seeking his own space. When a second woman is found murdered, Catherine's suspicion becomes evident. The relationship between mother and son implies a tragedy.

In the distant future. People have screwed up the world. Chemical waste, mutated biochemistry viruses, and mutant zombies threaten to completely destroy the Earth. Only one man is man enough to face the challenge and save us from the apocalypse: Jim Aal! But the question of all questions remains: Is there still enough beer left to quench his thirst?

Detective Inspector Wencke Müller is passed over for a long-overdue promotion. Instead of Wencke, the police chief’s daughter, Ina-Annabel Michels, is given the leadership position at the Duisburg Police Department. The new team leader immediately takes charge of the current case, which involves the stolen handbag of Sophie Winger, the wife of a politician.

small planets is a film about isolated places and their inhabitants. In the era of globalization, when the world community seemingly moves together, we find groups of people living in isolated places, marginalized by the rest of the society.

After his father committed suicide, Richard decides to stay in a youth center rather than staying with his mother. There, he finds a bizarre bunch of teenagers. Each of them experienced pain from early on, having their own desires and fighting for happiness with peculiar humor and fantasy. Richard doesn’t want to get involved with any of this – if it weren’t for her: Kyra.

Nine-to-fiver Lars gets his favorite tie stolen by an obscure old man. As he follows the man, Lars discovers different ways of living.

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world during the darkest days of World War II. The filmmakers created powerful short documentaries that showed America's strength not through images of tanks, but in portraits of farmers, school children and window washers. The "Projections of America" films were brilliant, moving portraits of America that were unlike any films ever made before, but seventy years later they are forgotten, hidden away in government archives.