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The Olsen Gang from Würchwitz want to uncover a secret that has kept researchers, treasure hunters and soldiers of fortune in suspense since the end of the Second World War. With space technology, an unbridled thirst for action and an ingenious plan, the three small-time crooks now want to finally capture their first million. On land, in the air and deep inside the earth, Egon, Benny and Kjeld set off in search of the legendary Amber Room. The Olsen Gang films are cult in the East. In the Würchwitz film studio, the smallest Olsen Gang studio in the world, the legendary films are being remade. In the third part, "The Search for the Amber Room", the Würchwitz film studio receives prominent support: cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn explains his multispectral camera.

Discussion between Werner Schroeter and critic Dietrich Kuhlbrodt at the Vienna International Film Festival 2008.

Two best friends Andy and Tom drive to a nearby lake to celebrate the end of Andy's long-term relationship and his newly won freedom with alcohol. Once at the lake, the two friends discover an abandoned hut in the vicinity that they want to take a closer look at. When they reach the hut, however, the two quickly realize that it would have been better to avoid this dark place.

Pashke (62) has taken the oath to be a virgin in an Albanian mountain village. She lives with the same rights and obligations as a man. Her/his biography also looks at other women, like Sofia, and their perceptions of their lives and gender roles in general.

1 year has passed since the murders. Considering the obviousness that the killer could never have survived the winter in the forest, Michael goes camping in the forest with new friends; and is suddenly confronted with the cruel truth. With all his strength, he manages to drag himself to his last friend Charlie, who is still alive, but who realizes the seriousness of the situation far too late...

This moving portrait of a maternity clinic in Vienna provides a fascinating insight into the drama, pain, and beauty of coming into the world. The everyday miracle of birth, in all its intensity and diversity, is shown using direct cinema techniques and linked to the cycle of accompanying processes in the hospital. A chronicle of the beginning of life—and its organization.

Collection of short films.

Compared to analogue b/w-photography and my experimental work in the colorlab, I tried to find out, what digital photography and computer processing is able to do, what the other techniques can't. We asked ourselves how does abstract film begin, what's its progress, how does it create suspense and how does it end? My model was the division of acts in greek tragedy. The length, the division of the different parts and the different cuts. The first abstract film made from pictures of plants was a purely abstract exercise, without any symbolic meaning nor background. The name stems from a misspelling of my Turkish flowersalesman, which I copied by accident. It is an abstraction of an Ilex twig. Another difference to all the other “flower pieces“ is that the film was made with a graphic-programme, that means each picture was constructed seperately, 25 pictures per second. That makes 4500 pictures which I worked on. Technically it is an animation film.

Documentary film.

Manfred Binder, a loner, has been preoccupied with the future of our civilization for quite some time. He is interested in the impending climate changes. He presents his analyses with unmistakable charisma. From this, he develops ideas that are as compelling as they are imaginative: survival is possible thanks to a "survival capsule" he has built...

A breathtaking journey into the heart of the rose: in photographs of 7,000 roses, she explores color, shape, and form, stems, leaves, blossoms, stamens, and fruits, reflecting with unparalleled formal virtuosity on the natural cycle of blooming and decay.

Short film.

A woman`s passage. Video work screened at Manifesta 4 and other venues

The town of Frontera Corozal was created in the 70s as a modernization and urbanization project in Mexico. 601 Ch'ol families were relocated to identical plots of land by the Usumacinta River bordering Chiapas. I asked the citizens of the town to physically draw in space the contours of an imagined natural landscape or of their own constructed space. I worked with the community council (18 comuneros, all men) to make an inventory of all that exists within the town. The inventory was then narrated by a town council member through the makeshift speaker system that serves as the town’s preferred method of public communication.

"Let it Rock!" is a low-budget documentary about the people of the "Mitte" district in Berlin, who look back at the area′s turbulent past since the fall of the Wall, analyze the "now" and talk about their hopes and fears regarding the future of Mitte - the geographical center of the German capital and a very trendy district now full of young people, nightclubs, chic boutiques, art galleries, bars, and loft-style apartments.

A look at the life and work of Berlin Film Festival photographer Erika Rabau.

A portrait of the Berlin bassist Hans Narva, his music and his ironic rejection of all rules - whoever makes them.

"With Praxis-1 I began an extensive video series, conceived in a structure of successively numbered scenes, which is parallel to all my other film/video works and paintings. Each part of the Praxis-series is approximately 20 minutes long. Both purely video works and also transformed reflections on a few of my 16mm films are shown after having been put in a new light by means of electronic transformations of the picture." (Dietmar Brehm)

The Allied military missions, which were supposed to ensure smooth communication between the Western Allies and the representatives of the Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain after the end of the war, are a hitherto unknown chapter of contemporary history. Although they had a legal status, the National People's Army tried everything to disrupt and obstruct their work. They even accepted the death of Allied soldiers in the process.

Experimental short about running.

80000 Shots is a German film directed by Manfred Walther. It was released in 2002 and had its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. In breathtaking speed, 80000 SHOTS is a documentary about the reconstruction of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. This 53 minutes' film, shot in timelapse between 1990 - 2000 had its première at the Berlin International Film Festival 2002.

ROMANZA brings the most famous love stories of the world: stories from the ancient times, the Middle Ages and in the present. Exclusively for Holiday on Ice Singer Chris de Burgh recorded a new version of his hit “The Lady in Red”.

The underground poetry of the GDR came into discredit when Wolf Biermann publicly declared after the discamouflage of Sascha Anderson and Rainer Schedlinski that the whole circle of poets around the Prenzlauer Berg had been an invention of the Stasi. Exhibitions, performances, concerts and readings in private homes should only have been allowed to better control the scene. The artist's neighborhood as a garden colony of the Stasi?

Manfred had a habit of putting various objects into his nose. After his bride disappeared up his nose at their wedding, he had to change something. Every course of action against his nose proved unsuccessful. But then he strikes up the acquaintance with an animal, and Manfred learns to accept himself just as he is.