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It offers a nuanced look at life in the women's ward of a psychiatric clinic, where most patients have been convicted of a crime.

A city, a cinema, and a reluctant farewell. In 2017, in the city of Constance on Lake Constance, Europe’s largest chain of drugstores opened the city’s fifth branch store: more diapers, more toothpaste and more toiletries for the local residents and the consumer tourists from Switzerland. Until the year 2016, the premises were reserved for film culture, this was the location of the former “Scala Film Palace”. When Douglas Wolfsperger returns to the magical site of his cinematic socialization, the public opposition to this pending closure is in full swing. The filmmaker becomes witness to the final rebellion of a dying art house cinema, speaks to passionate film enthusiasts and matter-of-fact city administrators about loss and expansion, the increase in pleasure and trade, intransparent vested interests and advantageous business situations. Inner cities and cultural concepts change – in Constance and everywhere else. But who decides how and for whom?

Live from Hamburg, Iranian-German comedian Enissa Amani shares her take on German engineering, tax deductions and online fan-mail etiquette.

Paragraph 175, which made homosexual behavior punishable by law, was abolished in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1968. At that time, heterosexual nuclear families constituted the center of socialist society, and homosexuality was considered a peripheral issue in the GDR. Out in East Berlin —Lesbians & Gays in the GDR tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of gay men and lesbians in the GDR, from the post WWII years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In the face of death you can really sense life. There are people who share their lives with the dead and some literally with corpses. A trip from Argentina to Manila, Cairo and Sulawesi.

Digital nomads are free spirits living independently of location who can do their work at any place in the world. "Digital nomads - Germany moves out" is the first German language documentary on a topic that concerns us all and to which society and the world of work must find answers.

This short experimental film by Marian Dora combines the images of springtime and the autopsy of an old man; accompanied with organ music.

Imagine this: Jim Button, Vincent Price, and Sam Raimi sitting together over a beer after work. Over the course of the evening, they decide they should do something together... But since such a meeting never took place, the young Berlin puppet maker Florian Moch took it upon himself to combine the relevant influences in a film. The result is probably the world's first puppet splatter horror film. It bears the meaningful title "Splettrhex."

Researchers and conservationists are mobilizing to preserve the treasures and wild paradises of the Scandinavian peninsula.

The documentary RAW CHICKS.BERLIN shows eleven multifaceted portraits of international Berlin-based female music producers with a focus on live acts; women who come on stage with their equipment and present their own songs and compositions. The musical spectrum ranges from experimental via noise-based electronic to electro-acoustic music.

Three-legged dog sketch Rouff is sad and lonely. To escape his loneliness, he folds a new friend, Pete, from the paper he is drawn on. Rouff and Pete's quest for the fourth leg is an adventurous story, not only for children.

The Children of the Noon deals with the universal subject of life. Daily activities mark the passage of time for the children and teenagers in the orphanage in the small Kenyan village of Nchiru. It soon emerges that the fact they are orphans and the genteel poverty they share are not the only problems that unite them and determine their days. A sudden death of one of them breaks the narrative rhythm and changes all points of view, intertwining a dense web of pains and joys, friendships and hopes.

What is our relationship to our pets and why do people try to get as close as emotionally possible to them? Jonas Spriestersbach creates a series of unsettling vignettes that highlight some deeply disturbing but also outlandishly funny behavior patterns between humans and their desire to project themselves in their furry friends. But what does this tell us about our behavior?

For him it was just an affair, for her it was the love of her life. And now she is in Rome to see him, to put pressure on him, to threaten with suicide...

An inner conflict, banned on film, visualized within surreal absurd dreamlike layers. Psychedelic like a dark LSD-Trip and injected by their multiple-personality control system, the good witch Surrealistica and the bad witch Uniferno, run into the inner system of their bodies. Without any security, their rivalry grows to a point of losing all control in an nuclear Inferno. -

The Chronicle Of A Reunion.

The documentary tells the story of three small remote atolls in the middle of the Pacific that overcame their isolation and dependence on diesel generators to become the first 100% solar-powered nation in the world, proving that it is possible to reduce the use of fossil fuels and emission of greenhouse gases to a minimum.

When David visits his family for Christmas, a family encounter of an especially evil kind awaits him. Ironically on Christmas Eve, he realizes that his family has abandoned all sense of brotherly love and liberal values. They are afraid. Afraid of change, afraid that something will be taken away from them. David can’t handle the latent racist talk and shirtfronts his parents. The fact that his father, the very man he has always looked up to, is now spewing right-wing propaganda, shocks him. David cannot simply ignore it.

Documentary about Austrian nature and culture, comprised almost exclusively of aerial footage, narrated by Persian born Austrian comedian Michael Niavarani.

Bhutan, long isolated, wants to open itself up to the world without succumbing to materialism. It wants to modernize without selling its soul. The benchmark for this development is "Gross National Happiness." In a project unique worldwide, officials from the Ministry of Happiness are traveling for eight months to determine happiness in the country using thick questionnaires. A road movie to the most distant of all goals: The film offers insight into a country that has until now been largely inaccessible to film footage.

Helmut Dietl talks about his career.

A tree in front of a wall over the course of a year.

Looking for a deeper meaning to his life, Ralf makes connections to Germany's underground techno scene and has the summer of his life.

A collage of associations evoked by finds. One’s family, three different Germanys including their insidious subchapters, the taste of life. The mother used to be a passionate Chinese checkers player. On the one hand. On the other she was a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. Her journeyman’s piece: a showpiece with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of these words we presumed obsolete. And for everything else!

A city seems traumatized. Even a year after the G20 summit, the police are still looking for hundreds of suspects. 17 interviewees from the police, media, science, stock in this film.

Driven by childlike curiosity and the desire to get to know his new German home better, 9-year-old Hamid has made it his business to observe his surroundings with his binoculars and to document the actions of other people in his neighborhood. When one day a homeless woman comes into his field of vision, he realizes that the time has come for him to leave his observation post on his balcony at home.

The documentary is about the British Choreographer Royston Maldoom (OBE) and his work on the Community Dance Piece that he created with children, teenagers and adults in Germany's city Detmold in 2010. It's a film about the educational power of dance.

Emma is addicted to chewing gum and in the middle of puberty, but doesn't really want to admit it. She doesn't want to do anything with her sandpit friend Lasse other than swinging, playing with her father's railroad world and chewing gum - nothing should change. But Lasse suddenly has a girlfriend and, even worse, he's also interested in sex.

Documentary film about the tree house occupation in Hambacher Forst in the fall of 2018, shortly before their eviction by the police.

A criminological philosophical cinematographical musical comedy with the female music band Les Reines Prochaines. The film is made up of cinematic excerpts, stage performances and interviews with the protagonists. A lesbian trash movie, Pulp Fiction meets Dada.

7 DAYS IN SEPTEMBER is the adventurous story of two exceptional mountaineers, Benedikt Böhm and his partner Sebastian Haag, trying to set a world record speed ascent to the 8,163-m peak of Manaslu in the Himalayas. It's a story of friendship and rivalry, and of their desire to risk everything, including family responsibilities. 7 DAYS IN SEPTEMBER also tells the tale of those who set out with the same vision, like mountaineer legends Silvio Mondinelli or Rémy Lécluse, but whose lives changed forever in a fatal avalanche catastrophe. The film is a personal exploration of one of the most tragic dramas in Himalayan mountaineering history. What drives people to risk their lives like this again and again? What does it mean for the bereaved to love a person whose passion seems to be contrary to all rationality?

This documentary is an homage to the forgotten women of Bauhaus. It's time to finally tell their stories. For both as women and as artists they are role models – courageous and inspiring pioneers of modernity.

Different artists unite to declare their love to the city and our time, in a re-imagination of the silent film classic 'Berlin - Symphony of a Great City'.

Monsters have always been part of our nightmares and fairy tales. But where do they actually come from? How much of it is truth, how much is myth? Going to great lengths in this documentary, the filmmakers join scientists to explore a number of the best-known sagas and legends in the world. The search for the origins of what is likely to be the oldest legendary creature, the dragon, leads to snake pits, archaeological dig sites, gold mines and the inside of an Icelandic volcano. They also travel to Texas, hunting for traces of the “chupacabra,” literally the “goat-sucker,” a modern mythical creature with vampire-like teeth that was first spotted in Central America, and accompany palaeontologists to Kazakhstan in search of the remains of what might be the origin of the alluring unicorn, whose horn the Vikings used for trading.

Sir Simon Rattle was in no doubt: the performance of the St Matthew Passion which he realised together with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin in 2010 was for him “the single most important thing we ever did here”. Critics around the world agreed. They praised the semi-staged “ritualization” by American star-director Peter Sellars, as well as the outstanding musical performances by the soloists, including Magdalena Kožená, Christian Gerhaher, Thomas Quasthoff and Mark Padmore as the Evangelist.

The climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber (Germany) attempt to conquer free the infamous "Bavarian Direttissima" (upper tenth degree of difficulty) on the iconic Mt. Asgard on the Arctic Baffin Island (Canada). A 40 days expedition with polar bears, frostbite and climbing at the peril of their lifes.

Film shows the development of an artistic process over several weeks in the style of well-known education projects such as Rhythm is it! We experience great moments and setbacks, hopes and disappointments on the way to the performance at the end of an intensive time together. The result is an insightful documentary that for the first time takes a detailed look behind the scenes of an art of movement that rarely steps into the bright spotlight. A contemporary portrait of eurythmy. A film that sets everything in motion - and opens up new perspectives.

The Swiss art-rock band Les Reines Prochaines emerged from the youth and feminist movement of the 1980s. The young and cheeky performance artists of yesteryear are now “mature” women but still exuberantly youthful in spirit. Even after 25 years since their debut, they continue to venture across traditional genre and gender borders – with a witty, sensual and radical approach. The film traces the distinctive history of the Reines Prochaines and captures the artists in rehearsal and during their day-to-day life on tour.

Featuring footage of ARCH ENEMY's headline performance at WACKEN OPEN AIR 2016, filmed with 14 cameras, produced and directed by Patric Ullaeus. The audio was mixed by Andy Sneap.

60s style black & white chiller about the unhappily married Cliff and Emily Walker, who are on the way to their vacation, when their car breaks down in a creepy small town named Saxby...