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Back then they were just friends, now they are a couple: "Mothers, Fathers, Children" is the sequel to the comedy "How do I raise my mother?". This time it's about the joys and sorrows of the patchwork family: Ginger, the eternal flower child, has to look after her sick mother, neglects her boyfriend Hans and learns to appreciate nurse Laurens in return. Hans, on the other hand, is courted by Marianne, Ginger's daughter wants to meet her biological father, and son Max is deeply in love.

A boy has to decide between coming out and being a professional swimmer. He takes the latter, marries and gets a son. 19 years later the whole thing explodes.

The First Installment Of The “Glimpses”-Series,[As Of Yet: Thirty “Glimpses”(95 mins)], Which Is Characterized As An “Untitled Work-In-Progress Experimental Porn Short Film Project” Firstly Due To The Fact That The “Experimental Porn Short” Which It Will Eventually Culminate In Will Remain Untitled Till The Very End Of This Rhizomatic Creation Process, Has Now Been Crystallized Into A Concise Cinematic Work-In-Progress Sketch (Not To Be Confused With The Aforementioned “Experimental Porn Short”, Which The Overarching Work-In-Progress-Processuality Will Eventually Culminate In), Intended To Be Submitted To Various Porn Film Festivals (With PFF Amsterdam Being The Very First One) In Order To Gather Potential Collaborators As Well As Fundraising-Opportunities For The Extremely Elaborate “Experimental Porn Short Film Idea”, Which I Received Through A “Nocturnal Orgasm”, Instigated By A Sequential Oneiric Vision.

A man struggles with memories of his violent childhood.

A mother is sentenced to one year in prison for matchmaking her underage daughter with her adult boyfriend.

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has fundamentally changed the German-Russian relationship. This is especially a special topic for those people who grew up in the GDR. Because what the USA were to many in the west, the Soviet Union was to many in the east: “the big brother”. And now? The invasion of Ukraine by Russia calls old certainties into question, rocked convictions, and runs like a rift through families. In this film, the ARD journalist and host Jessy Wellmer embarks on a very personal journey through the east of Germany. Born in 1979 in Güstrow in Mecklenburg, the Russian war of aggression also caused intensive discussions in her family which ultimately were the cause for this film. How do the East Germans think with regard to Russia? Why is there often a greater deal of closeness to Russia here? And what does it say about the divide which still exists in the German populace more than 30 years after the fall of the wall?

Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.

Kneuss is an eccentric. He has been hired by his childhood friend Schnaffelmann as a consultant in his advertising agency. During a visit to Schnaffelmann's home, he recognizes his childhood sweetheart Cäcilie Bucher in Schnaffelmann's wife Cécile, and the old familiarity between Kneuss and Cécile, who is frustrated in her marriage, quickly returns. Kneuss realizes that Schnaffelmann is using the advertising agency to cover up his activities in the drug trade.

Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.

Jennifer, Tom and Maria like to have sex together and to rob banks when necessary. Action takes place in typical Bavaria.

Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.

Europe is seeing a clandestine emergence of illegal underground "No Rules" fight clubs: no rules, no rounds, no gloves. Young men are risking life and limb at these hidden events, which allow everything from biting and head-butting to eye-gouging and neck stamping. This world is one of unfiltered ultraviolence and raw instinct. Away Days got special access into this scene. We spent three years attending hidden brawls all over Europe to document what is one of the most authentic new countercultures on earth.

Felix is 20 and well on his way to becoming a conscientious police officer, but shortly before his exam he is deployed as a police officer at a demonstration against German deportation practices, and he meets Ra, an Indian woman, on the other side.

Theo Lubitz, owner of a travel agency, is in love with his pretty secretary Carola. In his spare time, he plays center forward for a soccer club.

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.

Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.

Reduce the world's population by 50 percent to save the planet? That's a great idea, say politicians, experts and ordinary people from the street. But who should go? A fictional documentary about the abysses of our civil society.

Louisa has to struggle through life as a single mother with her children David and Julia. Her colleague and best friend Christa is also fed up with being alone and applies to be a contestant on a TV "single addicted to singles" show. But Christa is too excited, so Louisa stands in for her and actually wins a weekend with the successful music producer Markus Fischer. But the weekend flirtation has blatant consequences ...

James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. Bataille escapes from behind bars to make an appointment to fix the car of music biz tycoon, as well as watch the love of his life take part in the town's annual talent show.

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

Finally, vacation! Marianne, Franziska, and Bernhard Kleinschmidt are spending their holidays together with their friends Oliver and Petra Martens at their parents' vacation home. The young people have every reason to be in a good mood, but something is gnawing at the two young men—Oliver and Bernhard are in love.

The Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui interprets Glucks late Baroque opera Alceste as an impressive symbiosis between dance and music. The opera can be experienced here in all its existential power. (SZ) It is here performed in the revised Paris version from 1776 where Gluck has revalued especially the ballet music. Cherkaoui director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders has worked with top artists across disciplines like superstar Beyoncé. The superb dancers of the Belgian Compagnie Eastman, Antwerp perform Glucks score physically, creating a fine and stringent aesthetics of beautiful images (Opernwelt). Dorothea Röschmann with her inimitable charisma (Financial Times) and Charles Castronovo deliver a brilliant performance in the roles of the self-sacrificing royal couple. Musically impressive.

What happens when a documentary film breaks out of its comfort zone and openly provokes the society? To what extent my compatriots are willing to reflect on one particular episode, the reprisals in Odessa from October 1941?

Every human being knows it: privacy. Where do intimate moments occur, moments in which intimacy is openly expressed. In search of these moments, a gay-porno production firm, the Wa(h)re-Liebe television reporting team from Berlin, flew to Majorca with Lukas Schmid, a documentary film director. Intimitaeten is a cinema-direct documentary film in which various ways of approaching and analysing intimacy are explored.

Four stories set in the city of Regensburg.

Despite his mother's illness, Noah prepares for a musical gig with his friend Jamiro. After taking drugs, he immediately regrets it.

Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages? The war has scarred this generation, but now things are supposed to be looking up. The workers want their fair share and are fighting for an income that also gives them room to live. In October 1956, 34,000 metalworkers in the shipyards and factories of Schleswig-Holstein walk off the job to fight for justice and their dignity. This strike is still regarded as the toughest and longest in Germany. Employers and politicians stand in the strikers' way.

Masha and Ilya were born around the time Vladimir Putin came to power. The girl and the boy, just like their friends, wanted to live in a free, democratic and open country. Fighting for freedom and their future, our heroes organise discussion clubs and protest actions, participate in pickets and give lectures, support their comrades who are behind bars, try to change the minds of their relatives, friends and ordinary passers-by in various Russian cities. "Moscow, come out!" shouts Masha at a rally. But Moscow does not come out, it is busy and in a hurry. The centuries-old machine of unfreedom sweeps the boys away. War breaks out. And we all find ourselves in another reality.

Gypsy girl Zidra falls in love with the lieutenant she is supposed to spy on.

A look at the pervasive power of dust from its tiny particles settling in unseen places to its ability to cause illnesses and create the cosmos.

A story from everyday working life with endless conference calls.

The tension between a working-class family on the rise and their middle-class neighbors is reflected in the relationship between two boys, who take on their fathers' hostility. The situation escalates. When the neighborhood is declared a rabies zone, the worker grabs his rifle for no good reason, injures his neighbor's son, and kills his poodle.

Since his father is ill, young Fari must help his brother Danford on the fishing boat, although he’s afraid of the deep. Far out on the open sea, neither wants to admit that they might not be up to the task.

The Berger and Böttcher families come to Dorothea's finca on Lanzarote for a weekend trip. The mood is tense and escalates as various mysteries are revealed.

A beautiful and popular young woman enters a relationship with a wealthy but womanizing cavalry captain.

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

In Upper Bavaria, 6 different characters meet in a 1st class train compartment.

Micha is 16, a difficult age. Like every year, he spends the summer holidays with his mother and brothers in a country house in Sweden. When the mother goes to Stockholm for a week, Isabelle, the fun-loving daughter of a friend, looks after the children. Micha lives under Isabelle's care, feels taken seriously for the first time and treated as a "man".

Twelve-year-old Wendy is not at all happy that she has to spend her summer vacation with her parents at her grandma Herta's run-down riding stables. Wendy has been afraid of horses ever since a riding accident. But then she meets the pretty mare Dixie, who has run away from the butcher. Slowly, a deep friendship develops between the horse and the girl, and while Wendy does everything she can to save Dixie, she also manages to overcome her fear.

Maja is searching for traces of her past. As a small child, she and her mother, a street clown, took each day as it came, not knowing where they’d be spending the night. By chance their journey took them to a village on the Italian coast. A life as if carried on wings, yet one with no roots, as Marie could not provide them. It was only when living with her grandfather that Maja was able to have something resembling a home.

Two young high school graduates are invited to their teacher's home, but he wants more than just to help with their project. At the forbidden evening, an intense relationship develops between the three of them.

15 athletes, 8 disciplines, 7 countries and 100% Europe. The Old World is the first dedicated European bike movie that bridges the gap between mountain biking and BMX.

The two happy fitters Eddy and Tommy are doing overtime to ensure the great travel-exhibition of the department store they work in is ready for display. Outside, they see a poor newspaper seller, who looks longingly at the beautiful things in the display window. So they simply decide to smuggle the unfortunate inside and compete to win her favor by giving her gifts from the shelves of the department store. In their frenzy of happiness, they don’t notice that the girl is taking the fun little game for the truth. When she realizes that she has to give back the alleged gifts, she runs away.

A retelling of the events that led to the death of Bernd Juergen Brandes. Brandes responded to Armin Meiwes' Internet ad in 2001, where Meiwes indicated that he was looking for a man willing to be killed and eaten.