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A woman caught between animus and anima struggles for her Self, which seems in the process of dissolution. The horror of the Self to be without any self-image is at the same time the almost mystical desire for a kind of self-perception before of self-conscience. DUST to DUST traces the stages of a self-dissolution or a metamorphosis, the falling apart and rejection of all images.

Billy Kuckuck is robbed of her briefcase, which also contains all her money, by a boy at an appointment - who should clearly be at school at this time. It is only by chance that she meets the thieving boy again when she demands the money for a kitchen stove she has sold from her single mother Louisa. It soon becomes clear that Louisa is in a more problematic situation than the unpaid stove initially suggested. The boy is her son and his name is Marcel.

Sina and Sophie are like two peas in a pod - but Sina doesn't even know that Sophie is her twin sister! This is because she was abducted from hospital shortly after her birth and grew up in a different family. She only finds out about her birth parents when her foster mother dies.

Rest in Peace is all about corpses. About decay and degeneration. About death as an ecological problem, about the dead as human spare parts. About the radical, ultimate end - and the question of whether any part of us remains.

A grieving mother orders a robotic replica of her deceased son, who soon realizes the limits of his existence.

An ailing police inspector (Stefan Kurt) hunts a dangerous criminal who escaped from custody.

Shortly after a family moves into a new house, the parents split up and the family becomes the victims of a furious dispute.

Conceived as the sixth installment of the multi-part series future past perfect, this short film is the result of a long-standing fascination with the famous cambodian white building, a large apartment complex in the center of phnom penh. nicolai's interest and motivation for the film project are rooted in his personal connection to the artist collective sa sa art projects who have also and continuously dealt with the housing complex in artistic ways. for the artist, the architecture of the white building is a prime example of a form adequate to its building materials and developed organically out of function.

A short story about royal exercises in the space-time continuum ... 3D animated film by Stefan Eling

They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems.

How was Adolf Hitler able to count on the German public even in the face of unspeakable suffering and impending doom? Evocative and previously unseen private archive footage, much of it in colour, shows life in Nazi Germany from 1933 onwards till the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. This documentary is a revealing portrait of the German people, how they lived and perceived the world, under Hitler.

Glyphosate and its consequences: since the mid-1990s, parts of Europe have been plagued by mysterious animal deaths. And farmers are also falling ill. Scientists were baffled for a long time until high levels of the pesticide glyphosate were found in the animals. Millions of liters of such pesticides are used every year in European agriculture alone.

ADRENALIN brings the exciting and successful BMW touring car story to the big screen. 50 years of a spectacular sport played out at race circuits around the world. Charismatic drivers and evocative racing cars from five decades plot the growth of the sport and the technology. From the drifting touring cars of the 60's to the first victory of the BMW M4 in the highly sophisticated new DTM. The legends behind the wheel tell their exciting stories and bring the golden era of touring car racing alive again.

Tamar, Josef, Bracha and Wolfgang survived the persecution and the camps. May 1945. The children do not know where their parents are. In the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, they now live next to English soldiers and broken concentration camp inmates. They find shelter in the villa of the Jewish Warburg family in Hamburg-Blankenese. From Hell to Paradise. Anti-Semitism in post-war Germany is catching up with children and educators - hostility in the zoo, disregard in the local hospital. The children are waiting impatiently for the long journey to their new home in Palestine.

"Servus", he said after 49 years as a leading personality at FC Bayern München. Whether as player, manager or president, he played a major role in making FC Bayern the most successful German football club ever. Now, after countless athletical and personal ups and downs, Uli Hoeneß is retiring in late 2019.

For over 15 years, Eve, Estelle, Caroline, Kiki and Judith have been eating every first Tuesday of every month. But that's just the end: Kiki wants to turn an old village school into an idyllic bed and breakfast near a picturesque lake. But the dream threatens to become a nightmare. But even the girlfriends who come to the rescue, have their own problems. Eva is in a midlife crisis, the lawyer Caroline feels persecuted by a dangerous stalker pursued a controversial litigation; and the casual liverwoman Estelle is to be ousted from her company and foundation.

Back in 2017, at the Jazzopen Stuttgart Festival, the great Quincy Jones put on a show that elicited many rapturous standing ovations from the capacity crowd. To kick things off, the seventy musicians of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the SWR Big Band step out onto the stage. It is a warm summer’s evening and they play a grand opening medley in the fading light that seamlessly blends classic jazz with Michael Jackson numbers like “Wanna Be Startin Somethin.”

King Wenzel is worried about his succession. He gets older and his son, Prince Marius, shows no interest in state affairs. One day, during a walk in the forest, Marius is trapped by a demon. He agrees to release him and let him join his father if he finds true love in a limited time, with a bear skin making him monstrous...

Three young people from three different countries share not only an extraordinary talent, hard discipline and a strong drive for success but first and foremost a deep love for music. All their life experiences culminate in the moment they get up on stage to share their gift with the world.

A school in Germany for Jewish children is a safe haven from the Nazi regime, headed by a teacher named Leonore Goldschmidt.

A locker room expose about young basketball players in Hagen, Germany who face their fears of losing and challenge enormous odds to succeed.

In Berlin in the year 2030, young Tim Burdenski is found seriously injured on the Gendarmenmarkt. Following an emergency call from a cab driver, he is taken to hospital but dies despite a delayed emergency operation. Journalist Lena Bach begins to investigate, as the 30-year-old is one of ten so-called "millennium children" who have been followed by a television team in a long-term documentary since his birth on January 1, 2000. All of them come from the middle class.

At 25, Cro is the youngest artist to record an MTV Unplugged album. Cro: MTV Unplugged is the first live and acoustic album by German rapper Cro in the MTV Unplugged series. The album was recorded on May 4, 2015, at the Scala in Ludwigsburg.

Even in retirement, Hunkeler cannot give up investigating. In Basel, a theater director is murdered, and his body is found with its eyes missing.

Jan has been familiar with cannabis and alcohol for a long time, but he cannot resist the new, sweet-tasting temptation with its shimmering smoke. It takes him into a new world of possibilities. Jan develops a serious addiction and an insatiable craving for more. In a frenzy, Jan is swept away into a cosmos of lies, where he experiences both wonderful and overwhelming things, and from which he suddenly can no longer escape. Everything seems to be turning out well, but is it really as simple as it seems? Seemingly incidentally, we experience Jan's conflict between his girlfriend Emilia and his affair with Alexa. A minor issue develops into the central plot line. Inspired by real events, this fictional story, which is not so far removed from reality for many, shows how quickly temptation can become too great and how deep the fall can be.

He was said to be the "First European", our mystic brother out of the ice age. Nobody knows exactly, why he disappeared 30. 000 years ago. It was in 1856 when the first bones of this prehistoric man where discovered in Germany. Since that time the Neanderthal is surrounded by mystery. How much of him does still exist inside us?

An emergency meeting of the sales representatives of a medium-sized company. Sales are dropping, a new strategy must be found! The current product, a bobblehead dog, seems to be eliciting the same response from the uninspired group of salesmen toward the new plan of action.

Ten percent of the earth's surface is covered by glaciers. While these frozen peaks are the planet's largest reservoirs of drinking water, they are also home to precious relics of the distant past. Like tree rings, each layer of ice provides information on past years, such as temperature and precipitation. With global warming - an environmental concern but a boon for glaciologists - these treasures are gradually being released. In 1991, for example, hikers in Italy discovered a corpse lying at an altitude of over 3,000 metres.

Wong deals with Alain Resnais' film L’Année dernière à Marienbad (1961). The Nouvelle Vague icon is characterized by ambiguity in the narrative and innovative visual language—both elements that Wong exaggerates in his work. In L’Année dernière à Marienbad, we never learn the specific location where the action takes place—a circumstance that Wong exploits when he shoots his version in the Marienbad Café and Fuxing Park, both in Shanghai and marked by colonial influences. The overlapping of cultural codes creates moments of irritation, as does Wong's embodiment of both male and female protagonists – familiar attributions are broken down.

This sobering roundup of nuclear mishaps highlights lost bombs, reckless acts and dangerous misuses of nuclear materials following World War II.

Researchers and conservationists are mobilizing to preserve the treasures and wild paradises of the Scandinavian peninsula.

For a quarter of a century, Frank Castorf has created a microcosm in the Volksbühne that many considered to be an identity-forming fortress and a renegade island in the increasingly chic and monotonous centre of the capital. The marathon productions for which he was responsible were true orgies of association that demanded everything from the audience. The film accompanies Castorf's final season and is there when the theatre people get together once more to start a last fireworks display in the face of an uncertain future. (weltfilm GmbH)

The police station in Monreal is about to be closed down because there are too few crimes. So it's just as well that a body is found. But it disappears again and another body turns up. Police Sergeant Katie's aunt is under serious suspicion. Then evidence disappears and her colleague Killmer has his hands full trying to keep track of the case and protect Katie.

Author driven documentary "What we leave behind" (original "Liebe Oma, Guten Tag!") is made from a need to talk in unspoken topics, look for answers and hopefully break taboos. It is a film, where two sisters from Lithuania - a filmmaker and a photographer - take a journey through their German grandmother's past. During the research authors encounter her love story, fleeing, uncomfort of being German in Soviet Lithuania and chain of suicides in their family. It's time to talk. About everything. Long journey, which leads in two directions - towards other person and yourself.

MMA fighters Ismail Cetinkaya, Kamil Lipski and Carlos Eduardo Rocha navigate injury, defeat and emotional growth in this intimate documentary.

Giorgi, a Georgian unemployed actor and tragic looser is suddenly confronted with the arrival of his 15-year old daughter Tina whom he hasn't seen for 10 years. Together with his black lover-to-rent room mate Ngudu and the wooden-legged soap opera actress Mia he desperately tries to show Tina a fake life of a rich man who's got everything, including a big car and a villa. But things go wrong and his daughter isn't that stupid. So soon she starts enjoying the pure chaos around her until all secrets are revealed.

Max "Adlersson" Herzberg, 20 years of age, from Dresden decided not to spend his life working. Ever since, he reviews knives and other products, unboxes limited fan editions of mainly gangsta rap albums, gives talks about himself, drinks, swears and bawls in town, humiliates others, cracks borderline jokes and crosses every boundary he sees - Max is a YouTube creator and makes a decent living off of it. Most of Max's friends have their own channels on YouTube, some even quite successfully. Max and his gang are dubious role models but without a doubt, they are celebrities of their generation having more than 300.000 active fans. Is Max a violence-glorifying influencer with far-right tendencies or a usual adolescent, just trying to find himself and happens to be born into a time where the lines between private life and public self-display are blurring? He might be both, possibly without being overly aware of it.

An unusual friendship in an agitated political context.

Third feature by Mexican-Swiss filmmaker Pablo Sigg who has been working since 2010 on a two-part fiction project, Lamaland, in Nueva Germania, Paraguay. It stars aging brothers Friedrich and Max Josef Schweikhart, direct descendants of the Utopian community imagined by Richard Wagner and established at the end of the 19th century by Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth. Due to her 'South American stubbornness', her brother called her, not without sarcasm, 'Llama'.

Bosnia, a summer's day at the country side 20 years after the latest war. Being the only witness of the secret plan of her favorite aunt Ljilja, little Maja takes a major step in her life. The boundaries of her childhood start to break apart.

Sir Simon Rattle was in no doubt: the performance of the St Matthew Passion which he realised together with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin in 2010 was for him “the single most important thing we ever did here”. Critics around the world agreed. They praised the semi-staged “ritualization” by American star-director Peter Sellars, as well as the outstanding musical performances by the soloists, including Magdalena Kožená, Christian Gerhaher, Thomas Quasthoff and Mark Padmore as the Evangelist.

Every encounter with an image, every interaction searches for its own form. She is the other gaze is a collaboration with five female visual artists of an older generation who have been part of the Viennese art scene since the 1970s and engaged in the women's movement. In dialogue with the filmmaker Renate Bertlmann, Linda Christanell, Lore Heuermann, Karin Mack and Margot Pilz share their early works and artistic practices. They remember how their self-determination evolved between artistic ambitions, economic constraints, adaptation and resistance to the prevailing patriarchal social structures. In their role as feminist pioneers, the protagonists are a great influence on the contemporary art scene and the self-understanding of younger artists today. With their voices and narratives, they become collaborators passing on feminist thinking and artistic experiences.