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Marcel, a discouraged paraplegic struggling with day-to-day challenges, is the only witness of an epileptic seizure and has to intervene on his own in order to help a stranger.

Day after day, the feeding bowl is empty, but cat sitter Helen simply can’t find her mysterious client’s cat. Out of curiosity, she decides to spend the night in the apartment, leading to a surprising and tender encounter.

ANNA is a young woman who loves music, drugs and her friends. She's struggling against the need of becoming a grown-up and tries everything to avoid reality - until a sudden accident disturbs her familiar routine. A film about friendship, the love for music and saying goodbye.

The film LOCKDOWN CHILDREN'S RIGHTS gives a voice to children and adolescents, but also to experts who are concerned with their health, and can provide insight into the traces that dealing with the Corona crisis has already left and will continue to leave. This film was developed together with children and young people: they filmed from their point of view and thus show how the lockdown affects their very personal experience.

The film revolves around the development of the women's movement. Actors come together on stage and debate topics such as feminism, sexuality, gender performances, power structures, and activism, commenting on their own words. The film also provides insights behind the scenes and creates a fluid transition between the past and the present.

"Julian runs away from his Problems and hides in his Bubble, until his emotions finally get him."

On operated by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck the German Empire is finally founded in 1871 on the floors of Versailles castle, ancestral seat of the French monarchy.

Luka, Aleks, Tasnim and Freya are a tightly-knit group. At the beginning of their long-awaited future, an unplanned act of violence drives the four to the edge of their friendship.

A stressed man on a crowded sidewalk. Everything is too crowded. Too noisy. After a brief rude encounter with a stranger, he daydreams about how he could have reacted differently. What he should have said to the stranger. He gets carried away with his fantasies and conjures up his innermost demons.

After surviving a heart attack, Frank is discharged from hospital with the doctor's advice to avoid excessive physical exertion in future. In the theater where Frank is employed as a doorman, a tango dance group is rehearsing. In the seclusion of the porter's lodge, Frank takes his first tango steps and develops an unprecedented fascination for this dance art. Smiled at by his friends, he hides his new passion from his wife Kathrin and daughter Paula and takes lessons with tango teacher Maresa, who gets him more and more enthusiastic about tango despite his corpulence. When Kathrin finds out that Frank, despite his failing health, is "spending himself" dancing the tango, he puts his family duties on the back burner and ultimately risks his life.

Together with their coach, the young members of a Munich boxing club are travelling to Ghana to hold training camp.

Mercurius haunts the village. Dr. Malick Roth and his sister, herbalist Eda, want to capture him again, with the help of their students Sophia and Jakob.

Stine Olson is reunited with his childhood friend Jan and his brother Paul. Both want to sell a property inherited from their father and hire Stine to organize the demolition of the house.

It's the future, Norman's wife is dying. In these final moments, he calls for guidance—but it's not what what he asked for.

This time, Krause is scared when there are changes all around the village. How can he stop the passage of time?

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo. In the midst of the cold war, the games are supposed to become a symbol for a peaceful world. Especially the divided Germany is expected to prove this: By order of the IOC, both German states must participate in Tokyo with a joint team despite deep ideological rifts. The fact that athletes from both German states still had to compete against each other in order to form a joint team for the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck and in Tokyo is all but forgotten. The film tells the story of the East-West German team of 1964 for the first time and is simultaneously a current document about the relation of sports and politics in international relations.

20 years ago the small town of Wunsiedel was at the edge: businesses had to close, jobs were lost, locals left for good. When a bunch of idealists decided to stop this race to the bottom. They developed a plan not only to put the region's energy supply on a completely new foundation, but also to create new prospects.

Helene Fischer's new music film is a 60-minute journey through the new album and the artist's soul. Magical goosebump moments on stage, state-of-the-art staging by an international team and experiencing Germany's biggest superstar up close and personal like never before: Helene Fischer sets new artistic standards with "Im Rausch der Sinne". The popular entertainer presents her new songs, each staged in a new and exciting way, in an unusual showcase. The artist herself leads the high-end staged concert film with personal backstage stories. This has never been seen before on German television. Her fans have been waiting a long time for this and can now look forward to it. The multiple Grammy-nominated British director Russell Thomas and the internationally successful show designer Florian Wieder are responsible for the artistic realization of the concert film and promise special show moments.

About girls who live out their fantasies.

German realist painter Rolf Kuhlmann is known for his complex, multilayered figures in compositions which evoke the world of dreams. In this remarkable documentary, director Claudia Schmid spends a year following the artist as he visits German forests, and ancient archeological sites and refugee camps in Greece. The Endless Moment documents the extraordinary creation of ambitious, large-scale double triptych paintings—from life studies to tactile three-dimensional objects—as the camera captures moments of conception, rumination, execution, and revision.

Because of a misunderstanding, Magrit attends a group therapy session. She never thought she'd need it, and yet...

NATO went to war in Afghanistan. This developed into a 20-year operation that ended in defeat. This senseless war cost thousands of lives.

Terrible mountains is what Leonardo da Vinci called the peaks that surround the Valtellina. They take the leading role in this story, which is rendered with the help of spectacular film footage and the stories of local inhabitants. With its dry stone walls – a masterpiece that has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO – Valtellina is a land of traditions, contrasts and breathtaking landscapes. From the Stelvio National Park, with its imposing Forni glacier, to the peat bog of Pian Gembro, and from the mysterious crotti of Chiavenna to the terraced vineyards on the Rhaetian slope. In an attentive and intimate way, the film takes the audience on a journey along the river Adda that crosses the entire valley. It begins in winter until the following autumn according to the infinite cycle of nature, which is a stern but honest friend of the people living in this land located in the far north of Italy.

One dark and moody autum evening Nik urgently seeks out Lisa to talk about what happend the night before. When she refuses to talk to him about it, he secretly follows her into the woods with dire consequences.

When it comes to self-promotion, no one can beat Blackout Problems: On their website and social media clips, white roses, gas masks and burning shopping wagons. On YouTube, the well-designed studio documentary "Dark Days", thick with pathos, is a gripping introduction to the third long player by the Munich-based band.

In autumn of 1921, the AVUS, the ‘Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße’ (The automobile traffic and training road), was inaugurated in the southwest of Berlin with a car race. The two long straights, each ten kilometres long, were connected by two turns: It was a high-speed track which was meant to expedite the development of the automobile in Germany. The Documentary explores the moving story of the first cars-only road in the world.

What does the past of a distant future look like? A distant future to which humankind will be driven by the forces of neoliberal capitalism, climate change, populism, and the pervasive intrusion of one’s private sphere through digital technology? Julian Rosefeldt’s film Penumbra is not a work of science fiction. Instead, it points to our current situation, albeit within a fictious framework that paves the way for a paradoxical enigma: who will we be when we are gone?

East Germany, 1988. 19-year-old Franka doesn't really care for politics. She prefers going to the disco and dreaming about seeing Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson live in concert. But beneath her carefree façade, she is scarred by the loss of her baby brother. But then she meets Stefan: He's young, idealistic, and part of an environmental activist group. A mix that makes Franka instantly make fall for him – and his group, which welcomes her with open arms. But this wild, revolutionary influence does not stay unnoticed: Her mother, who's with the Party, is worried about Franka. As Stefan's group loses the support of the church, leaving them vulnerable to the state, Stefan and Franka are soon in the government's line of fire…

Corona time, a man alone in his apartment. The ceiling falls on his head, he permanently changes his identity from Sartre to Joyce to a becoming and then melting iceberg and then back again. He shakes the window, the house moves....

Derived from an installation, an asymmetrical orchestration of "motion paintings" pushing the limits of abstraction in the digital age.

Climate justice! OHNE KEROSIN NACH BERLIN is a campaign by the Students for Future, which is part of the Fridays for Future movement. In 2020, 60 people loudly carried the climate protest by bicycle from Cologne to Berlin. This film emerged from the movement and shows the activists' experiences up close.

The courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high murder rate against women - who fight in the ring and in their daily lives to redefine the image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico.

Cats are the most popular pet in Europe. Around 14 million house pets live in German households alone. But hardly anything is known about the nature of cats - their emotional life has been little studied by science. Until now! Scientists all over the world have begun to explore the secret nature of cats.

Edgar is not getting a lot of attention and affection from his parents, as they prefer spending time with their smartphones and laptops than with their son. In the forest, a fox helps lonely Edgar until his parents suddenly get a wake-up call.

Consisting of a series of static shots emptied of all living presence, The Great Void looks without blinking, no more, no less, at the agony of our civilisation.

Two queer Brazilians go skinny dipping in a lake where they talk about love, sex, colonialism and migration, on a pandemic summer afternoon in Berlin.

The young Colombian Luz gets a coveted position as a housemaid with a diplomatic couple. Finally, she will earn enough money to support her family in Bogota. Arriving with great expectations in faraway Germany Luz discovers a dark abyss behind the perfect facade.

A girl saves money during the holidays to buy a panda and takes care of her family's prayer shrine when she notices that a Buddha statue has disappeared.

In a land without light, the sudden appearance of a strange, illuminated object causes a stir among the inhabitants. Egoism and greed infiltrate this dark world. A peculiar parable about the shortcomings of human behaviour.

Mary Bauermeister is considered the mother of the Fluxus movement. In an attic on Cologne's Lintgasse, she made art history in the early 1960s alongside personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Nam June Paik. Today, at the age of 85, she has no intention of stopping. From morning till night, this extraordinary artist works in her studio near Cologne: a magical place.

When 8 year old Kati from Afghanistan stows away in her fathers truck, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a single dad while holding down his first job in a new country.

Pascal is 16 years old and feels like an outsider. The music from his Bluetooth box is his only accompaniment. This changes when Pascal meets 18-year-old Tim.

„Three Peaks & In Between“ tells the story of Jana and the Bicycle race of her life.

Two teenagers try to rob the old workplace of one of them.