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The once successful director Hans has reached the low point of his career. He finds himself trapped in an acting revenge fantasy spun for him by dead actresses living their lives in hell, at the end of which he dies.

Child molester Johann Brandt is set free after 15 years due to good behavior and a brilliant social prognosis. A circumstance that does not please his former victims and their relatives at all. They seek revenge and plan their own trial.

In the film, couples, whose love is put to a special test, give us insight into their lives. One partner of each couple is not originally from Europe and the lovers find themselves confronted with immigration law and its impact. The director combines very different facets into an exciting, very moving and strongly expressive documentary mosaic. A compelling, filmic plea for love without borders.

Set in a factory in Asia during an undefined celebration event, Europeans in suits are seen in long wandering shots as they greet one another, shake hands discreetly, and look about themselves expectantly. Further into this ambiguous opening, and propelled by classical Western opera and symphonic orchestrations, Asian workers are observed putting finishing touches of paint and polish onto gleaming surfaces of what will soon be on display in motorbike showrooms. The images and music are sharply punctuated by the abrupt and raw intrusions of live factory sounds that conclude in a jarring visual exclamation, exhuming the verses of an Emily Dickinson poem and laying them out in a contemporary and globalized context.

Hans Wagner lives in a small apartment, taking pills and drinking whiskey to fight his anxiety disorders. When he runs out of both his drugs one day, he has no choice but travel to the supermarket sober. An unexpected adventure begins .

Oliver, a single father from Berlin, and Johanna, also a single parent but from Bavaria, meet and fall in love while on vacation. The widowed teacher and the divorced mother of two soon no longer want to settle for a long-distance relationship. Without further ado, Oliver packs his things and moves with his daughter Holly to the Bavarian province, where Johanna runs a nursery. However, everyday life in a large family thrown together presents everyone involved with unexpected difficulties. Holly is still grieving for her mother and is estranged from Johanna. Her daughter Lisa, who is the same age, is suffering from school problems that are bigger than her mother suspects. And on top of all the family chaos, the heating in the nursery breaks down, jeopardizing Johanna's livelihood.

After a bank robbery in the heart of Vienna, the cunning small-time crook Chester takes refuge with the childlike, naive stamp dealer Herbert. A very bad choice, as Herbert destroys all of his prey due to his clumsiness. Chester, with underworld capo Otto breathing down his neck, is devastated. Then he finds out that Herbert's only relative, Aunt Hertha, has taken out generous life insurance for her nephew and sees his money worries solved. The way there: an adventurous plan.

Hannah, mother of two children, is a teacher at a Hamburg high school. She falls in love with her new colleague Bernd Vossler - not knowing what the consequences are. Hannah enjoys being in love with her new boyfriend, but sometimes she is amazed at his behavior. If Bernd does not succeed in something or he is under pressure, he loses his composure and his hand sometimes slips. On a fateful night, Bernd crosses all boundaries.

Christopher Tauber blends the specifically German genre of relaxing TV content with a zombie apocalypse. He documents the live and death of animals, humans and zombies in a quiet forest.

The body of John Staffler, a well-known, successful lawyer, lies in front of the police officers. In his mouth: a red thong that definitely doesn't belong to his wife. At least that's what the former Hamburg criminalist Viola Delbrück and the Upper Lusatian loner Burkhard Schulz agree on. And also in the fact that the place where the body was found is not the crime scene. The investigation leads them to a country estate where Staffler apparently housed his lover. The trail continues to lead them to a young Polish-German couple, whose escape becomes more and more desperate the closer the two inspectors get to them.

When "The Three Investigators" Justus Jonas, Peter Shaw and Bob Andrews are forced to make an emergency landing on a rocky plateau during a hot air balloon tour, they have no idea that a new mystery awaits them in this wasteland. They end up in a mysterious institute where the musicians of an orchestra can create the illusion of colours, smells and tastes in the listeners with sounds. The fact that this miraculous world has its dark side becomes apparent at the latest when the three detectives meet Chloe, who has secretly sneaked into the institute to look for her missing sister. Chloe suspects that the mysterious orchestra leader Yamada is holding her sister Fran against her will and wants to use her for dark machinations. Together with Chloe, "The Three Investigators" set out to find Fran and discover the dark secret behind Yamada's vow of revenge: his symphony Phonophobia becomes one of the greatest dangers "The Three Investigators" have ever had to face...

A boy meets a girl. It could be love. But there is this jacket, too. And the jacket will change everything...

Wolle and Horse want to help the girl Emma and her grandpa. Verena Winkel from the youth welfare office wants Emma to live in a children's home instead of with her grandpa. Of course, this must be prevented! Wolle builds a time machine with which Emma, Horse and he undertake three adventurous journeys into the past: to the Vikings, to the early 19th century and to the Lapuna Indians.

Hypnotising slideshow of weathered images presents itself as a relic of an imposing event. A village's inhabitants flee into the darkness of a cave to refresh themselves with projected images. Ultimately, they will pay a high price for their wonderment.

During the last half decade, following the death of his wife, octogenarian outsider artist Bruno Sukrow created several dozen mid-to-feature-length Second Life animations, constituting one of the most personal, obsessive, enchanting, perplexing, joyous bodies of work in recent cinema. He’s our Ferdinand Cheval, his oeuvre our Palais idéal!

Since 1920, "Jedermann," "The Play of the Rich Man's Death" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has been performed at the Salzburg Festival in front of the mighty Salzburg Cathedral. In 2013, Julian Crouch and Brian Mertes, as the directing team, took on the challenge of staging a new production. "We will begin ceremoniously with a procession from the Festspielhaus to the Cathedral Square, working with nature, the elements, the city, each other – but above all with the audience – to tell the story of 'Everyman,' his life's journey and transformation. His life must be rich, joyful, and overflowing – also for the audience. On the path to his conversion, he encounters a number of very powerful theatrical characters. We want – like a medieval theater troupe – to captivate our audience with spectacle and humor, to sweep them away, and invite them to follow Everyman's path and to understand it as their own – at least for the two-hour performance."

Abandoned by his girlfriend for a lack of qualities, Flo has to decide what to do and where to go next. By chance, he meets Leonie, who has a heart condition. She takes him on a journey: One heart broken, the other one damaged.

The Flemish painter, humanist and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was fortunate to be recognized during his lifetime as an artist of genius and one of the most prolific among his peers, making him a key figure of the Baroque.

Told in five chapters, ABSCHIEDE is a unique tale about personal loss, grief and hope, starting with a nine-year-old girl and ending with a man at the end of his life.

Young high school teacher Michael Gewa receives a mysterious message - a novel company has bought his internet and cell phone data and issues him a rating based on his digital footprint. After he turns down the offer to keep the rating private in exchange for a monthly fee, things escalate quickly. He finds himself having to fight for his reputation and the damaged trust in him among friends, colleagues and students.

The East German province! It's bleak and cold here. Jonas lives there. He murders. He suffers. He is perpetrator and victim in one person. He lives together with his brother Andreas. While Jonas kills for no reason, Andreas arrives directly in capitalism shortly after the fall of the Wall.

For the first time, this documentary shows Georg Baselitz at work on paintings and sculptures in his studio, ceaselessly reinventing his methods, offering a closely observant, intimate portrait of this internationally renowned artist.

A couple seeks to change the world with, of all things, shoelaces.

As a housewife, wife and manager of a family business, Anne Stadler has everything under control. So the wedding of her only daughter Lisette should be a fantastic event, as she herself was not allowed to experience it. With Elan Anne organizes in the contemplative Black Forest village a social event of the first order, with church blessing, many guests and a big stag party. But in the middle of the preparations, she caught her godfather Gerd in the family-owned sawmill at the fling. When finally Arno Freywald appears, father of the groom Daniel and impostor, the cards are shuffled.

An esoteric fairy-tale, a mystical-dreamlike tale, and a symbolic-Masonic course: No matter which perspective you consider it from, The Magic Flute will always be one of Mozart’s undisputed masterpieces. Amidst exotic, fanciful settings and cruel trials to conquer knowledge, amidst musical enchantment and threatening hostile forces, is the final victory of good over evil and love over hate. Singspiel in two acts to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, the Zauberflöte is one of the Salzburg genius’ last masterpieces, which he probably began composing in May 1791, not even six months before his death. The opera had its debut in Vienna on 30 September 1791, conducted by the composer himself and with Schikaneder as Papageno.

A young film crew searches for ways out of the climate crisis. In different cities they meet people who commit their lives to preserving our environment in different ways. In inspiring conversations they talk about their thoughts, motivation and hope and why we have to break out of our comfort zone. 8 protagonists try to reach out for solutions for climate justice in our future and open up perspectives of hope.

Andreas Kieling, a famous German documentary film maker, explores the coldest places in the world. He observes various animals in Patagonia, the Falkland Islands, Cape Horn, South Georgia and Antarctica.

Directed by Cosmotropia de Xam. Starring Shivabel. Music by Mater Suspiria Vision and Crossover.

Buenos Aires, during the summer heart, in gated communities surrounded by wastelands covered with trash. The barking of stray dogs, repeated power outages, and uncontrollable clouds of smoke drive the inhabitants to confront their most primitive instincts.

Documentary about two young refugees from Iran and India trying to build a new life in Stuttgart, Germany.

A STORY OF STRUGGLE, SACRIFICE AND DEDICATION Discover the world behind the Kenyan long-distance runners. See how they train, live an work hard to realize their dreams. Follow top athlete Geoffrey Kipsang. Watch him as he trains and paces for Haile Gebrselassie, and makes his debut at the 2012 Berlin Marathon.

After her son moves out, single mother Katrin Busche finally wants a partner again - and unsuspectingly plunges another woman into a marital crisis.

Two men, father and son, are building a fence in a speechless routine. They suddenly come up against an obstacle: a stone lies in their path and cannot be moved. As they begin to dig out the stone, the way they have treated each other over the years begins to change, until the relationship threatens to break down. In the end, the fence lies fallow, but the two have found a common language again.