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During WWII, a bunch of children, with 11-year old Anton and his younger brother Rudi in the middle, meet up at a wall at the cemetery. They regularly have tests of courage. As it is Rudi's turn, he makes his way, armed with a knife, to the grave of a child murderer, where the night ends in terror.

A lonely therapist and her suicidal half-sister are on their way to Norway in a red fire-engine. Accompanied by a Spaniard who wants to go to Finland. Haunted by a bunch of stranded personalities. And two flies who suddenly start dreaming.

Different cultural backgrounds and the sterile apartment building in the suburbs are not Linda and Sevilay’s problem. The problem for these two 15-year-old friends is their messed up parents. What the two teenagers really want to do is run away. Things come to a head on Linda’s birthday.

Divorced and single bailiff Carla Schön has many problems with her pubescent daughter Eva. However, she cannot use these problems because she has to work in her everyday life. Even in her hobby, orchestral playing, she is absolutely tense. But then she meets the musician Andi Jannings and falls in love with him. He is a dry alcoholic and is in constant dispute with his ex-wife. To make matters worse, he is also a caretaker at Eva's school. Torn between her new love and daughter, Carla soon finds that her next job has to do with Andi. He has money problems and, accordingly, has not made any maintenance payments to his ex-wife.

One of three short films about the German town of Dreden Michael Klier directed for the german-french TV channel ARTE.

15 directors explore the question of whether the cinema is dying out as a location, an art form, and language.

A hundred years ago, the British and French colonial powers together redrew the borders of the Middle East, foreshadowing some of the chaos of today.

Few recording studios in the world can claim to have hosted the simply incredible list of musicians that found their way into Berlin’s Hansa Studios, standing virtually alone in the wasteland, metres from the Berlin Wall.

The Internet has changed everything, also for journalism: business models are falling by the wayside, news is available for free, anywhere and at any time.

One of the greatest adventures of mankind told in a one-year storyline: Will Valery Rozov be able to do a wingsuit flight from the top of the world? Starting from training on a 7.500 m peak in India, the images show the feasibility test in vast nature, wind channel testing, the development of a completely new wingsuit and the final adventure: leaping off and flying from the Everest massif.

The journey begins at the airport – a multicultural place where all kinds of people come together. The audience looks over the shoulders of a rather overwhelmed lady at the information desk or watches how security checks à la DivertiMento work. Two frustrated carrier pigeons on the airport roof complain about their plight. Two quirky free jazz musicians try to supplement their income at the "airport music corner" and... and... and... In "GATE 10," Jonny and Manu remain true to themselves and present their fans with a variety of quirky, comical characters – in typical DivertiMento style, of course!

Filmmakers Lilly Engel and Philipp Fleischmann spent five years documenting their three children Lucas, Marius and Renée. The viewer can experience them on their journey from children to teenagers - and at the same time the changes in their dreams. The film is a mixture of documentary and feature film, a childlike look into the future and an adult look back into their own past. A touching and humorous story that tells of great friendship, of growing up, and makes us laugh and think with ease and humor.

Most women in prison are mothers. When a mother is imprisoned, her newborn or her young child can remain with her in prison or they can be separated and taken in by a family member or by the State. These situations aren't without risk for the child. The film takes the child's point of view and its goal is to cast a light on them: too often they are forgotten, invisible and bare scars for their entire life. The filmmaker follows the daily lives of some of these kids in Bolivia, Nepal, New York and Montreal.

Lower Saxony's most hardcore punk band faces off against the forces of evil summoned by their town's elites.

Nelli has been left by the love of her life, Tim, after years of dating. Her best friend Amily tries to bring Nelli to other thoughts. But Nelli is already in a daily rut and wakes up one morning, tied up, in a rundown room. How did she get here? Can she free herself from her predicament? A race against time begins...

Alex inherited her recently deceased grandmother's cottage in Wales. Having lost her husband a year ago and being broke, she moves there with her son, hoping to quickly sell the cottage, so she can use the money to purchase an antiquities shop in London. But with the cottage in dire need for repairs and no potential buyers in sight, she is forced to stay for some time. While there, she meets up with an old friend of hers, who wants to be more than friends, and also runs into an intriguing local politician who is already engaged. She supports the politician's goal of creating a nature preserve right outside of town, although she falls short of pledging some of her land to the cause in order to not upset potential buyers of her property. When her aunt suffers a fall and gets hospitalized, Alex temporarily takes over her aunt's shop. While the love triangle gathers steam between Alex and her two suitors, a local gold digger suddenly claims that there might be gold right under her ...

Twenty-three-year-old Lena lands a lead in Sartre’s “No Exit” while endlessly seeking love. Her call‐girl friend Becky convinces her to try prostitution, plunging Lena into a bizarre free‐love world of surreal encounters. Complicating matters, she falls for her director, Dex White, and cares for her grieving, balloon‐making father.

During the day, Hinnerk, Georg, Paul and Manuel work as parcel carriers for a delivery service. In the evenings, the buddies like to get together and talk about everything that's on their minds. Then Hinnerk learns that their boss's little daughter is going to have to undergo an extremely expensive operation.

In this documentary, Peter Tscherkassky talks about his work, and he demonstrates in the darkroom how his movies are made.

John Neumeier is always on the ballet-related path, dance is his life and ballet is his world. He is the senior ballet director of the Hamburg Ballet, has a workshop in the ballet center for his choreographies and creations, including training for young talents by the ballet boarding school. Neumeier has achieved a lot and yet has always remained a seeker, has never stopped, on the way permanently. The portrait of John Neumeier unites the choreographer's presence, with a look back at the essential creations and formative choreographies, including dancers.

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.

A classy mansion on the outskirts of a big city. The terrace door is open. Anne wonders why. She can't remember having opened the door and her daughter Lisa is still out. When she returns home, Anne tells her the news that her father canceled the weekend trip. As always, it comes to an argument between mother and daughter. The stubborn teenager locks herself in the bathroom. She finds the words "Daddy hates you!" written on the bathroom mirror. Lisa knows exactly who did this. Her drunk mother wants to drive a wedge between Lisa and her father. But suddenly Anne has a horrible realization - The two of them aren't the only ones in the house.

True love never dies, the loving heart never stops beating ... for Kerstin’s ex Thomas, who she still hopes will come back some day. Instead of Thomas, her mother Charlotte shows up at her door, mid-50s and freshly single again, too. Charlotte moves in with Kerstin and her flatmates, one of who shows her how to use a modern dating app to meet new men. As mom starts dating again, her daughter refuses to let digital reality intrude on her romantic daydreams.

Having been brought up by a variety of different mothers, the young foreign language correspondent Lisa Hellmann now longs for a sense of family security in her adopted home of Barcelona. She may have found this with Emilio de Alvarado's family. The (strictly Catholic) wedding is already planned and the obligatory christening is on the agenda. But then Lisa's old-68 grandmother Ingeborg bursts into the ceremony and not only causes displeasure with her views, but also shakes Lisa's faith in the rightness of her actions.

In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.

The film Bending to Earth is a further investigation into inscriptions and transformations of society manifested in the landscape. Several radioactive fields are circled by a hand camera in a helicopter, while a recorded voice-over which appears through several—often distorted—world radio stations describes the materials of those constructions and opens up a mediation of order systems and landscape archives. The fields represent a sort of alphabet of an image engineered in the earth; the camera is an observer of this document and its relation to reality, not just as a pre-existent form but as a potential or imagined object—the part that remains behind the scene, the break within the narrative.

During the Second World War thousands of women in Asia were forced to work as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers. Some of them were still teenagers. They were raped, often beaten and abused. The Japanese called them “ianfu” or Comfort Women. After the war the survivors struggled to continue with their lives, hiding what many considered to be a “shame”. After having been silent for more than 50 years they have started to tell their stories. Until today, they are waiting for an adequate compensation and official acknowledgment of their victimization. They are in their Eighties and Nineties now and time is running out for them. This intimate, touching film tells the story of nine comfort women in the Philippines and follows their efforts to find justice before they die.

Gloria Theater, Cologne, Germany, 2010

Conceived as part of the future past perfect series the seventh part is focused on the surfaces/structures of fluids. simular to pt.01 and pt.04 this short film explores the topic of micro and macro structures and was inspired by the mathematical theory of attractors. as the title already mentions the film was shoot in istanbul at the bosporus.

Among friends, there is always one wanting more. An exploration of improvised contemporary dance in a metaphoric artificial setting. Interpretation of Bacon's "Laws of movement".

On her 50th birthday, devoted mother and laundry worker Beate faces a life-changing medical diagnosis that prompts her to pursue a long-buried dream: swimming the English Channel. Juggling her daughter’s exams, granddaughter’s care, her son and his pregnant partner, and her best friend’s love life, she throws herself into grueling training. Amid familial resistance, and with friend Henni’s support, Beate braves the Dover–Calais crossing and rediscovers her own strength.

On March 25, 2015, Udo Lindenberg's special train to Pankow became a reality. BVG and rbb Radiowelle 88.8 invited the artist to take a ride on U-Bahn line 2. The journey started at the Olympiastadion subway station and ended in Pankow. His song "Sonderzug nach Pankow" (Special train to Pankow) had caused a stir in both the West and the East in 1983. The song was a cheeky request to the comrades to let him perform in the GDR - in vain. When he was allowed to sing for the first and only few times in the GDR in October 1983, his "Sonderzug nach Pankow" was not allowed. In March 2015, Udo Lindenberg traveled to Pankow on a special train on U-Bahn line 2, accompanied by rbb reporters.

Rainer Berg is a frozen food delivery man who has been let down by life. He has withdrawn from the world in order to avoid emotional trauma. His outlook on life is shaken when he is assigned a new colleague, ex-hairdresser Moerer, who turns out to be a pain in the neck. "This van is too small for two!" But it's no use, Berg can only get rid of his annoying co-driver once he has turned him into a good salesman, according to the new boss. Team spirit is suddenly required from the cold-ass misanthrope Berg.

A film about dealing with emotions linked to intimacy and sex in a relationship and at the same time confronted with intrusive memories from a traumatic past.

Elevator-phobic Buchmann is supposed to learn to ride an elevator on his own as part of a therapy program. But when an uninvited passenger joins him, Buchmann needs nerves as strong as elevator ropes.

When a woman steps onto the conductor's podium, she is always one of the first: the first to lead a world-class orchestra, the first to conduct the closing night of London's Proms, the first to win the German Conductor Prize. It seems as though the world of orchestral conducting might finally be ready to change its attitudes toward female conductors.

The documentary filmmaker Djordje Cenic sets out on an autobiographical journey that starts in the "guest workers' milieu" of the Austrian regional capital Linz in the 1970s and takes him to his family's war-torn ancestral village in Croatia. In comically absurd as well as tragic episodes describing small victories and major defeats, homesickness and class distinctions, the film offers - using home movies, photographs and current professional footage - deep insights into the filmmaker's family history. It is an attempt to illustrate the balancing act between "up here" (Austria) and "down there" (Yugoslavia/Croatia) that characterizes generations of guest workers. Directed by Djordje Cenic and Hermann Peseckas. - Written by Djordje Cenic

Earth is uninhabited by man. Most died, few left for Titan, a moon of Saturn. With them they took the remnants of humanity, what was left of it anyway. But there was an accident, the ships were damaged, and the remnants lost. They arrived on Titan without their history and soon began to lose their memory. Sankofa is a film about the woman they asked to find it.

An intimate quest by a son to understand the identity of his father; a look back at the Berlin of the 30s and a special group of friends who loved life and, in the darkest hours of German history, ultimately chose good over evil.

Collectors, counters, surveyors, "self-optimisers" - they all believe in the explainability of the world. It always comes down to giving order to chaos - sometimes through something as simple as the recording of empty bottles that have been collected.

How much can a simple man endure until he loses his humanity?