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Alma’s return to Italy becomes a search for belonging and reconciliation.

The camera follows movements that we cannot initially identify. Then we realize that we are observing workers on a flower farm and their daily work routines. From now on, we will no longer perceive red roses solely as a symbol of love.

A lonely customer service agent seeks fleeting moments of connection through anonymous cruising in a local park. These wordless encounters are choreographed like the courtship dances of birds, providing a stark contrast to his isolated life.

5 people talk about everyday life in a village in Berlin's affluent suburbs during the GDR era.

A narrative voice, at first speechless, finds itself in an extraordinary film screening and is confronted with a flood of mysterious images that raise at least three question marks.

A young woman cries. A new day begins. Rike works as a painter and varnisher. She wears white work clothes. Every day she takes public transportation to work. She and her colleagues paint walls white. Every movement is clear. After work, she buys herself a bouquet of flowers, and as she walks through the streets, something changes. The world gives her something back.

Theo and Daniel meet again after a long time at their old soccer field. They used to be here almost every day, but Daniel moved away and seems somehow more distant. While they play, Theo tries to reconnect with the old feeling, but Daniel doesn’t seem to be quite the same anymore. Between quick passes, quiet moments, and fleeting glances, Theo realizes how much something between them has changed.

He saw Odysseus in a boat on the Aegean Sea, and since then he knew he might never come home again.

77 / 5.000 The Disney Channel interactive cinema will be back on the big screen in 2025!

Two young women meet in a sparse motel room somewhere in Germany - an Italian worker far from home and a restless woman in search of home in her own country. While the sounds of construction sites dominate their everyday lives, they find a sense of connection in memories, touch and a shared moment of silence.

Joe has to leave soon. Anxiously, he is trying to come to terms with his fate.

A friend group of drug dealers meets for a final dinner.

The Brecht School’s Diversity Club is setting off for Auschwitz to learn more about the history of the extermination camp.

Some musicians and contemporary witnesses can attest to how attempts were made to suppress punk in the GDR.

An affectionate portrait of the forgotten town of Tapoleng, where church once served as a sanctuary for its residents during the old apartheid order. Here, a new religion emerges – one tethered to a new spiritual practice, community and self-determination.

Helena has lived in the shadows since childhood. Her mother taught her that she suffers from a life-threatening sun allergy. As a result, she hides in the darkness every day, or at least behind protective clothing. When she meets a boy her age, she begins to question her own reality and her mother's intentions. Between fear, hope, and feelings of responsibility, she tries to find out the truth—her mother's and, above all, her own.

The final chapter of the Taiwan trilogy, exploring the long-term effects of cultural education during Taiwan's military dictatorship.

In Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, there are many sculptures depicting the gods of Greek and Roman mythology. What do the goddesses of this mythology have to do with matriarchy?

Max Göran, the artist or director or performer, walks into a tunnel that doubles as a film set, or maybe just itself. She tests out a story told by a friend: a Finnish scientis once smeared his face with blood and let wolves lick it, to prove they weren’t dangerous. But the storyline slips.

With humor and curiosity, Maya Leinenbach reinterprets iconic tapas such as albondigas, calamares, and tortilla—naturally vegan and completely free of animal products. The documentary accompanies the creative process as well as the personal encounters and culinary experiments. The central question always hangs over the table: Does it really taste "better than beef"?

Someone who just doesn't want to wake up.

Jelena Ilić's father suffers from drug-induced psychosis and has been in forensic psychiatry for five years. Now the day of his release is approaching. How can the director be sure that her father will not relapse and become violent again? How can a reconciliation be achieved? And how can society successfully reintegrate a mentally ill offender?

A young couple on a ski trip tries to save a freezing dog outside a hotel and sparks a clash with the staff.

Patrizia and Marie left everything behind and embarked on a five-month, 20,000 km off-road journey from France to Guinea-Bissau—with nothing but an old car, four surfboards, and a mission: to capture the stories of inspiring women redefining their place in society across Northwest Africa. What happened on that long and dusty road was pure magic. From the first female mountain guide of Morocco to the women’s rights activist in Nouakchott, or the young surf collective in Dakar, they all showed that when women dare to break free from conventions and listen to their own voice, a revolution begins—not just for them, but for their communities, their countries, and the world.

On May 30, 2023, the German mountaineer Luis Stitzinger was found dead at an altitude of 8,400 meters on Kangchenjunga, just five days after he reached the summit. It was his tenth eight-thousander. He had climbed seven of them with his wife, Alix von Melle. More than a year later, Alix travels to Nepal again to fulfill her husband’s last wish: scatter his ashes on one of the high peaks in the land of his dreams. The chosen mountain is the 7,246-meter peak Dhaulagiri VII in the Nepalese Himalayas.

The wealthy Fritz Februar abducts homeless people right of the streets. And his newest invention, the Zombeer, will take his hate for homeless people even further. But Wizzy Wendy and Beatrix Fulci are ready to fight the threat by any means necessary.

Ming unexpectedly becomes pregnant in a dull relationship, and her life seems to have come to a sudden halt. She embarks on a journey to the China-Vietnam border alone, encountering gods and ghosts.

Cheekily inverted gender roles, history revisited, empowerment. The weapons here: long fingernails and AI counterimages that serve to expand the visual canon of imagined collectives. Things never archived become visible and culturally imaginable.

Louis loses his backpack in Barcelona and finds help from two guys who offer him a place to sleep. In this unfamiliar environment, he struggles with the intimacy of his hosts and finds himself somewhere between feeling overwhelmed and curious. The film explores what interpersonal closeness between men can look like and how we interpret it.

Two old friends meet for coffee and talk about gaps between buildings and gaps in relationships.

Exploring the power that comes with language itself, the worth of the device, not the meaning, an artist considers the actual price of emigrating into a “better life”, while working in a restrictive political climate.

In the icy Altai, a young Tuwa boy witnesses the slaughter of his beloved horse, “Brother Black Stallion.” Through ritual, grief, and reverence, death becomes memory—and life a continuous cycle. A quiet, poetic yet fiercely physical film about gratitude, impermanence, and our Western distance from dying.

In a daring pastiche of Kenneth Anger, Cologne Group helmers Markus Mischkowski and Christos Dassios pay tribute to the iconic Eastern Bloc car New Knight Tourist.

After a long separation, a young soldier and his sister are reunited under the full moon. This fragmentary fable is enough here to open up a cinematic universe in enchantingly composed vignettes: High-contrast chiaroscuro – an artistic technique that uses strong contrasts between light and shadow to create depth, volume and dramatic moods – frames the enigmatic figures.

After a successful season in the Upper Dhauladhar Mountains, a hunter hides his meat in a cave and heads home with his first load. At home, his wife is upset over his prolonged absence and its impact on their disabled daughter. He promises to return quickly and the next morning, sets out to retrieve the rest of the meat and leave the forest for the season. To his dismay, he finds the cave empty and the meat stolen. Using his hunter instincts he launches a desperate search through the treacherous mountain, discovering that the rival is just as cunning. In this quest for meat, humans behave no differently than wild animals. Battling harsh conditions and difficult terrains, they go to all extremes to prove themselves stronger and more deserving. This allegorical tale of conflicting morals and twisted values reveals the true nature of man in the wild.

Belgium in 2021. A tempest and a flood are threatening a small town which has to be evacuated. In the middle of the chaos and the many individual destinies, a little girl disappears and a train is racing towards its ostensible doom.

In the new episode of the reality show "Aufgeklärt - On Tour", the mysterious disappearance of contestant Franziska's grandfather is finally solved. Together with presenter Julian Leischik and his team, she embarks on a search across the Mediterranean on a sailboat, delving deep into the past. However, the limited space of the boat quickly reveals their limitations, especially as the TV crew is constantly trying to satisfy the audience's needs as well.

A tale of Good Vs. Evil in the realm between life and death.