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A middle-aged woman with a preference for younger partners, mainly men in their 20s, searches for a genuine human connection while faced with societal double standards, prejudice and toxic masculinity.

A success story at at least 150 BPM: A documentary about Hans Peter Geerdes aka H.P. Baxxter, the mastermind of Scooter

Documentary observes lessons in a ballet school. Between the fun of dance and the discipline and perseverance that each of the dancers brings to it, the film shows different age groups in their practice process. Because behind the graceful perfection on the theater stage lies a long and arduous path.

Sir Malice and Jamal Phoenix continue their exploration from their previous film, Connection First. Sir Malice is a flogger-virtuose and Jamal’s perfect ass is the best receiver.

Rediscover one of the world’s most famous operas with Dmitri Tcherniakov’s modern staging at the Staatsoper Berlin. Performed repeatedly at the opera, the story of Tristan and Isolde is known far and wide—a love potion, a challenge to the king, a tragic destiny—its themes have become staples of the musical repertoire.

A man lives alone in his apartment. He tries to escape the repetitiveness of everyday life.

The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really know about what refugees are going through? Notes on Displacement takes a deep dive by following a single family on a grueling journey, destination Germany. Their fear, disorientation, and solidarity is palpable.

The amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of the great artists of the post-war classical avant-garde, to the great post-industrial cities of the USA, where this genre of genres took over music stores, shady clubs and, eventually, the big stages.

Four American teenagers have received a mission from God that takes them from the safety of their remote religion-filled bubbles to the other side of the planet. In the frozen forested lands of Finland, these impassioned, wide-eyed teens confront local Finns, Europe’s most non-religious and private people, and attempt to convert them to their faith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Florist Gwen is an employee in a flower wholesaler and is ensnared by her likable boss Joey, which the young woman does not mind. They both start an affair. The relationship with her constantly frustrated and stressful mother, Ellen, doesn't look that rosy. Thankfully, there is still her life partner Ron, the down-to-earth calm anchor of the family. While delivering flowers to the cemetery, Gwen falls into an open grave and passes out. When she wakes up again, an attractive and caring man bends over her. It is emergency doctor Lennard, a single widower with a lively teenage daughter whose wife was killed in a traffic accident a year ago. An ex-employee of her flower shop was then convicted. However, the circumstances remain mysterious. When the flower seller find out about this, she initially keep at distance. But then Gwen finds a red balloon in the garden with a message from the doctor's daughter Lilly to her dead mother, who breaks her heart, because she is a half-orphan herself.

Eifel landlady Toni Janssen wants a child, but not necessarily a man. After an alcohol-fueled slip, her ex-boyfriend Hajü, of all people, gets her hopes up. Meanwhile, Heidi accidentally meets an old childhood friend.

The transition from day to night. It magically casts a spell over us, we glide into it like water and enjoy it: despite all its dangers, it is the night we love.

The godless, rough-necked Ludwig Bruckmeier has repeatedly maneuvered himself into prison. Thanks to a generous donation, he is now being accommodated by his energetic probation officer Christine Wurzelbacher in Pastor Gabriel Gottwald's rectory, of all places. The man of God wants to bring the reluctant Ludwig onto the right path with the help of his kind pastoral advisor Elisabeth. But Ludwig turns the church, including the rectory and retirement home, upside down. He doesn't stop at the confessional either. There he has a lucrative encounter with Josef Wurzelbacher, the troubled husband of his probation officer.

Celebrated crossover Violinist David Garrett is back on tour, performing at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome. A spectacular theatrical performance in an ancient setting.

Maya works for the Night-Guard home phone service. That night, she experiences the horror of a young woman being followed by a stranger on her way home.

The inhabitants of the Baltic region are worried about the war in Ukraine. Is the fighting leading to a split in their societies? How do Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians and Russians live together in the current situation? Lutz Pehnert travels from Narva, the north-easternmost city in Europe on the border with Russia, via Latvia to Lithuania and talks to very different people. "Will we be next after Ukraine? Many people in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are currently asking themselves this question. For 40 years, the Baltic countries were involuntarily part of the Soviet Union's family of nations. Since their independence in the early 1990s, they have been the unloved western neighbors of Russia and Belarus.

After Tara and Rae go on a date Tara brings Rae back to her train stop. But when Rae disappears with the Train, Tara ends up being followed by two men she has never seen before. When she decides to run she suddenly finds her life at risk.

Lukas Marxt’s fourth film about the Salton Sea in Southern California focuses on 1944/45, when about 150 dummies, replicas of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were dropped there for ballistic tests. “Marine Target” measures the remains of the wooden target platforms from up close and high above. The disconcerting soundtrack to this fascinating filmic study is provided by a swelling adaptation of the Nigerian hit “Atomic Bomb” by William Onyeabor.

Are the face and voice mirrors of the soul? This documentary reveals in detail their impact on our immediate perception of others and recounts astonishing experiments on our psyche.

Young autistic Hannah visits her father and his pregnant fiancée on Easter holidays. They meet for the first time at the family cottage in the forest. She has many special needs, rituals, games and her father gladly plays according to her rules. The girl tries to make the woman play by them too.

German production of the Broadway musical by Frank Wildhorn as shown in the Wilhelmsburg in Ulm, Germany.

A man discovers new abilities and becomes a superhero.

Comedy tells the story of an Afro-German punk who starts working as a presenter on a teleshopping channel in order to save the trailer park where she lives with her community.

We follow Nick G. and Lars K. through a fateful night. They are going to kill their friend Miriam K. Beyond their wish to see someone die, there is no motive. 39 knife stabs. That's all.

Residing in a dark swamp at the bottom of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls pursue lustful games. The creatures relish nuzzling one another and nibbling their companions’ limbs.

Lipstick, which has been around since the beginning of time and over the centuries has been considered both a symbol of power and an instrument of submission, is used by all kinds of women: queens and politicians, actresses and singers, workers and makeup lovers.

Petra Hoffmann is in her early 50s and pregnant. She is not carrying her own child though, but that of her daughter. Midwife Lena Lorenz has been looking after mother and daughter for a while and the pregnancy has been unproblematic thus far, but shortly before the birth the family starts to break apart.

A prospective wish is announced at the very beginning: "Imagine a land without ownership". Ownership? Since when? How? Where? With which implications? This is what Marwa Arsanios endeavours to discover in the fourth part of her meticulous ongoing project whose generic title is Who Is Afraid of Ideology? After documenting feminist experiments of community autonomy in Lebanon, Kurdistan and Syria (Who Is Afraid of Ideology? I&II, FID 2019), Marwa Arsanios ventures a hypothesis in the form of speculative fiction, from a remote piece of land in Lebanon, a cut in a stone quarry. In this small piece of land, a few sidekicks make that postulate, and slowly share stories of domination and exploitation. This land has a complicated administrative, legal, geological and biological history. (Nicolas Feodoroff - FIDMarseille)

"What if I had just dared?" Thea's perfectly composed life suddenly gets completely out of sync with this all-questioning mind game. Thea's life seems flawless. But what begins with a small question in her head soon becomes a whirlwind of alternative courses of action and her perfectly composed facade suddenly gets out of step. Will she have the courage to collapse her framework of lies in reality? And what if the greater enemy is not reality but fiction?

School secretary Annett Ludwig is jogging by the sea. She discovers a dead teenager under a steep cliff: Theo Jacobsen, a pupil at her school. The 17-year-old was considered an inconspicuous outsider. Karin Lossow knew Theo from commercial school, where she led a course on legal issues as part of a project week. By chance, she had witnessed a bullying attack on Theo, who was at the top of his class, and offered to help the boy. Rainer Witt and his colleagues Holm Brendel and Dorit Martens investigate Theo's laptop. It turns out that he was engaged in a lively trade in test questions, which he sold to his classmates and made thousands of euros in profit. To do this, the alleged model pupil used access to the headmaster's surfer - only school secretary Ludwig knew the password.

"Nothing can be heard anymore; the roar of our plane absorbs every other sound. We are heading straight to the world's biggest display of soundproof fireworks, and soon we will drop our bombs."

Kristallklar tells the tale of a hidden river holding wild brown trout near the border of Luxembourg and Germany. Find out about this magical river from the perspective of Kirill, who recently acquired the lease to the fishing rights of the river and a small tributary thereof. It captures the essence of a fly fishing adventure on the river embarked on by the incredibly passionate Kirill and two companions: Nic, a fly fishing scientist and Simon, the filmmaker. The film tries to capture the feeling of the magnificent surroundings and being at peace on the river. It also delves into topics of conservation of nature and the plans to re-stock the river with native crayfish which vanished from the river. A lot of love went into this film the hope is that it inspires those around the world to find a love for the outdoors and to preserve it for many years to come and just to get out there and fly fish.

Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's dictatorship (1939-75) caused in their day no longer serves to explain the impassable abyss of incomprehension and hatred that the abject policies and radical positions adopted by both the right and the left in recent decades have opened up before the citizens of a country that is barely known beyond hackneyed cultural clichés.

The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and 1896, depended on the labor exploitation of the local indigenous populations, provides an insight into the cultural, social and political situation in Brazil.

A Bolivian by birth, who grew up with adoptive parents in the Swabian town of Mössingen, is looking for his family in the mountains of Potosí. Out of poverty, his mother gave the little boy away when he was just a few months old. The search carries a story that goes far beyond personal fate. Because Manuel was born in a region known for the ruthless exploitation of silver. It's a film about identity, homeland and equal opportunities.

After three unsuccessful attempts at the Olympics, the 30-year-old Aljona Savchenko finally wants to win a gold medal with a new partner in four years. A rather bold plan, especially since the young Frenchman Bruno Massot, chosen by the German-Ukrainian ice princess, has no international successes in pairs figure skating. He moves to Germany and has no idea of the manic perfectionist he's getting involved with. Aljona's training is tough. Constant disputes about the right course threaten to bring the project to failure. Two completely different characters collide. However, the team of trainers manages to calm things down. February 2018: The competition at the Winter Olympics in South Korea begins with the short program. Inexplicably, Bruno blunders and the pair sit fourth by a wide gap. Gold is hardly possible anymore. It only remains for them to show the world their unique free skating. Their intoxicating, perfect run will go down in history. It will be the free skating of their life!

Time and again, the feature film places animal actors at the side of its human protagonists – sometimes as loyal companions, sometimes as fierce opponents. However, its stagings do not only instrumentalise animals to release emotions, but also raise a fundamental question of our anthropocentric self-image: how to deal with the experience of the otherness of the animal ?

Wild is a swiss documentary from 2021 from director Mario Theus, who is not only a filmmaker but also a huntsman. The movie questions the wild hunting in modern days and shows all the contradictions that underlies our meat consumption.

On the run, two Kurdish brothers are confronted with their hidden fears, which divide them deep inside.

35 years of "Dirty Dancing": This anniversary deserves a proper birthday party. Presenter Janin Ullmann celebrates with the celebrity birthday guests, who revel in their very personal memories while watching film excerpts.

An unexpected encounter with an unfamiliar woman rouses Marlene, a young single mother, from her unsatisfying routine. Inspired by the provocative verve shown by her new friend, Marlene takes a plunge into the unknown. Is this what a life without children and obligations could look like? But during Marlene’s quest for freedom, piecemeal images from her childhood begin to intrude more and more, reawakening a repressed childhood trauma.

Divorced policewoman Maren and her daughter Amelie live together in Bad Tölz and are a close-knit team. Not just mother and daughter, but best friends. But then Amelie starts to study, falls head over heels in love with her fellow student Erik and moves in with him in a shared student flat in Munich. Without Amelie, Maren not only feels very alone in the apartment, but also in life. She has to realize that she has been hiding behind Amelie for the last eight years after the divorce and hasn't had a life of her own. So she slowly goes "back on the ice". On the uncertain, slippery and sometimes painful ice that is called "life".

A mockumentary made by Nicolas Frenzel's friends for his 23rd birthday, comically retelling the life of a fictitious Nicolas.

A selection of some of the finest performances from youth orchestras participating in the 2022 edition of the Young Euro Classic festival in Berlin.

01. Disasterpiece 02. Wait And Bleed 03. All Out Life 04. Sulfur 05. Before I Forget 06. The Dying Song (Time To Sing) 07. Dead Memories 08. Unsainted 09. The Heretic Anthem 10. Psychosocial 11. Duality 12. Custer 13. Spit It Out Encore: 14. People = Shit 15. Surfacing

Portrait of the flamboyant violonist David Garrett, from his childhood as a virtuoso to his renditions of Michael Jackson, Nirvana or Eminem's hits.

After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced from grief by painting 365 paintings and to spur conversation in culture.