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Glyphosate and its consequences: since the mid-1990s, parts of Europe have been plagued by mysterious animal deaths. And farmers are also falling ill. Scientists were baffled for a long time until high levels of the pesticide glyphosate were found in the animals. Millions of liters of such pesticides are used every year in European agriculture alone.

Intimacy, dairy products and a trip to the store with a secret. Two minutes of film and an unforgettable sequence shot.

Recording from the Bayerisches Staatsballett from 2014. Its action takes place in a villa on the ocean shore. The main characters are ladies, extravagant, devoid of prejudices, actively conquering men. But the frivolous nature of the dance of the French ladies emphasized the character of the choreography of Bronislava Nijinska - it is chic and elegant; such a manner completely led away to high spiritual spheres from earthiness and vulgarity. "Lani" is a ballet sketch, a certain stylistic dialogue with the past and the present.

Doctors, nurses, patients, hospital managers, and health activists review the impact of the flat rates introduced in 2003, which arguably created an environment in which speed is valued over quality of diagnosis.

Gustav Ljungdahl talks about the making of Marian Dora's "Das Verlangen der Maria D."

In the tradition of a big gangsta rap collabo album such as "23" by Sido and Bushido or "Jung, brutal, gutaussehend" by Kollegah and Farid Bang, Haftbefehl and Xatar going by Coup present us "Der Holland Job", which was musically conducted by the producers Bazzazian and Farhot. Accordingly, it is a huge album that musically feeds on the current sound of French and American role models as well as the East and West Coast rap of the nineties. Exactly the approach that has helped both scene heroes to their current size in recent years. In interaction, the duo runs perfectly like Method Man and Redman and entertains - in all the harshness of the story and content - infinitely entertaining like the legendary films of Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill. However, only making a joint album would be out of the question for calibers such as Haftbefehl and Xatar. That's why a film was shot without further ado. The album "Der Holland Job" is accompanied by the short film "Der Holland Job."

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While playing Cops and Robbers with his friends, Daniel begins to realize that between catching and being caught there is something more going on.

"Where is my money?" - the question that everyone is sure to have asked themselves at some point is the starting point for filmmaker Philipp Enders' journey through the world of finance. Guided by a mobile app, he ends up searching for his lost money not only at the European Central Bank (ECB) and the stock exchange, but also in a ruined Spanish building. His research uncovers a system of dependencies and the realization that the crisis in the financial system also holds an opportunity for change. With a wink, "Mammon" tells of the mechanisms behind "filthy lucre".

Documentary on Christian Schocher, director of the legendary «Reisender Krieger» (1980).

Sometimes, we are like marionettes in the hands of those whom we have either consciously or unconsciously chosen to please. A visual adaptation of the poem “Love in the Age of EU” by Björn Kuhligk.

Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

From October 3, 1989 to October 3, 1990, filmmaker Roland Blum was commissioned by ZDF to capture how people in the GDR fared during the period of change, only to meet them again ten years later. The changes that unification with West Germany brought with it often manifested themselves in the way the environment was treated, because it was seen as the GDR's "dowry". The focus is on the Lubmin nuclear power plant, which was shut down in 1990, or natural disasters such as floods.

In 1979, under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, revolution broke out in Iran and overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. This event marks the end of a two and a half thousand year old monarchy. This documentary retraces the lives of these two enemies who clashed for more than thirty years, from the Shah's rise to power in the 1940s until his fall.

A journey through Asia. Russia. Mongolia. Kazakhstan. Georgia. Armenia. Iran. A nine-month timeout in a self-made four-wheel van. Together in a new relationship. 24/7 in a confined space. With more breakdowns and more unanticipated events than suspected. But it formed us. It made us stronger.

Alain, the architect, lives secluded in his luxurious finca in the outback. He solely wears women's clothes und avoids any contact to people. When he's forced to break out, neither the outside world nor his inner world seem to be ready.

HF792 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) traveled around Berlin as a journalist for decades. His books “Walks through the Mark Brandenburg” contain very rich and remote cultural, historical, ethnographic and biographical sources. Bernhard Sallmann takes passages from it that he confronts with the current shape of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

A random night in Munich. A young woman arrives at a police station. She wants to file charges, but as the officer takes her deposition, the tides turn.

Marko is 35-years-old and moving into an apartment with his girlfriend, but he has many doubts. In order to find out why, he follows three friendly couples over two years. With humor and quick-wittedness he uncovers fears, doubts and hopes of a fulfilled partnership. A touchingly ironic voyage of self-discovery.

Animated film by Bruno Sukrow, which has some borrowings from the Hemingway book of the same name.

Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences of the Holocaust, he committed suicide in Paris in 1970 in the Seine. For the first time, the poet's son, Eric Celan, speaks in front of the camera about his father and the difficult life of the family.

Almost 50 years ago, women and men all over the word dreamed of changing the world. What is left today of the expectations and the hopes of the people that flooded the streets? Not much, unfortunately. The filmmaker examines episodes from his own life, trying to understand how they fit—if they do at all—with the major changes of the world that hint all at a catastrophe in the waiting.

A public pool, a sociotope. A scene of daydreaming and gentle snoozing. It is a place where everything is fine, or at least it feels like it. The smell of summer is in the air. In the tightest of spaces many half-naked people share an afternoon, some hours with each other while time flies by so quickly. The madness of everyday life.

Stefan Walther talks about Marian Dora.

The documentary shows new, unique pictures of crocodiles in Tansania, portraying the beauty of the wild reptiles.

Eccentric, hedonistic Berlin lawyer Joachim Vernau leaves remodeling the practice to his practical partner to accept a strange mission: Check in Habana if Katherina Gebhardt rightly assumed having seen a glimpse of him on a flight thereto, never having got a word since his disappearance during the Cold war after a 1980 violent demonstration, and settle their father's inheritance.

Documentary filmmaker Kosta Rapadopoulos travels to his homeland and interviews older men about their amorous adventures with female tourists, who flocked to Greece en masse in the 1970s. We listen to the story of a rapprochement between different cultures: here the impetuous "Greek lover", cooked for by his mother until marriage, and there the emancipated woman who takes the pill! His research leads him to the legendary "Kamakia" - the heroes of the island who gave themselves up to meet the special needs of women. A search that almost pushes Rapadopoulos to his limits.

On 25th December 2011 the Georgian Patriarch Ilia II described his 34 year-long leadership as head of the Georgian Orthodox Church as a ‘sunny night’. Beginning in 1989, and going up to the present, the film essay Sunny Night tells of political and social events since Georgian Independence. A variety of formats and sources, disparate images and voices report on protests, recommencements, uproars and wars, and religious identity that centres around the dominant religion of the nation. In the midst of the ongoing shifts and the various state of affairs, the patriarch stands out as the only constant figure. Meanwhile the sermonised religion begins to take on radical forms, going as far as priests forming front row human-chains, leading protests of several thousand orthodox believers chasing a handful of LGBT activist throughout the streets of Tbilisi in May 2013.

Serengeti Anitolpen

A clique gathers in a house in the country to hold its own personal funeral ceremony for a friend who has committed suicide. It's not unusual for extreme situations to lure people out of their shells. In this case, the suicide prompts them to switch off for a while; this weekend at least, these young people are no longer thinking about tomorrow. Instead, they surrender entirely to the moment and give their feelings free reign. They dance, love, argue, drink, go for walks, or take naps. But they also remember their dead friend, who is present in all their thoughts and conversations.

Kendo is for Taejon, the center of life. But as soon as he has put down the armor, everyday life catches up with him. Since the death of his mother, Taejon must help out in the small Korean restaurant of the parents. He and his father have nearly stopped talking to each other. But the calm is deceptive. Soon, Taejon notices that he has to face up to things. Just like for a fight.

Marian Dora short film

The motel girls show what they've got.

The portrait of a building, a meditation, perhaps the invocation of its inherent spirit. Moreover, it is a reflection on labor in the near future.

DJ Fanal (34), whose real name is Mark, is in Berlin, the sleepless party capital, for two days on business. He has an appointment with his long-time friend and manager Dennis, who already has a full calendar of promotional appointments, photo shoots, gigs and other appointments for him.

Inspired by East German writer and critic Christa Wolf’s 1984 novel Cassandra, about a struggling female artist and visionary. In Search of Vanished Blood comprises six 11-minute video projections streamed around the room through five clear Mylar cylinders, hand-painted with a variety of cultural and historical iconography, which hang in the center of the room. As the Mylar cylinders rotate, the colorful and layered imagery is projected onto the walls, creating a magical environment reminiscent of lantern slide presentations and other proto-cinema experiments in the 18th and 19th centuries