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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'.

Fritz Reinhart is a successful surgeon in Zurich suddenly faced with the suffering in a refugee camp on the Burmese border during his vacation in Thailand. Being a doctor, he is confronted with the issue of providing immediate emergency aid. He has no idea that this is going to last a whole year and that as a "helper" he will be caught in a turmoil of emotions that challenge his existence as a family man, even his entire life, abruptly and radically.

A tapir tries to pronounce the simple sentence “I would like to buy a hamburger” correctly - and drives his teacher to despair.

The body of a homeless man is found in the middle of the city. After the examination by the forensic doctors, it is found that the man has not a drop of blood left in his body. In addition, two strange stigmata adorn his neck. Inspector Rabe and his colleague/partner Susi Müller are faced with a mystery. Their boss is on a commissariat leader training course and they are to solve the case alone. Private detective Axel Strick, on the other hand, is called in by the fortress administration: A grave and an open, empty coffin have been discovered in an old battlements. Stick is to proceed discreetly and find out what the part is all about. Of course, the cases of the two unequal friends Rabe and Stick become entangled in a few too many drinks, and the viewer is allowed to dive into a world full of night creatures, student fraternities and other mysterious deaths ...

Battle of the Queen is a film from and about rural Europe, capturing a timeless cultural event: a series of head-to-head fights of cows set in the valley in sunny Southern Switzerland, nestled amongst the Alps. The fights are sudden snorting seesaws, explosions of mass and muscle, archaic and wild spectacles. We follow three concurrent story lines: an anxious farmer with his beloved contender, a neurotic unemployed reporter from Zurich coming to find a story, and a gang of adolescent boys on mopeds trying to catch a pretty girl's eye. The festival is a balancing act between fascinating tradition and modernity. This black and white film serves as both an exciting visual treat and a long overdue documentation of a fascinating Swiss tradition.

Vele is 17 years old and all she wants is to learn how to read and write - to keep up with her seven year old daughter. After endless years of the Liberian civil war her ability to sign in her own name means the next big step towards independence - away from the painful past, into a brighter future.

Documentary about the social microcosm of Hasenheide, a 50 hectar green area in Berlin, located between Kreuzberg and Neukölln. In this park, you'll find old women with their dogs, young football players, Turks at the barbecue, as well as nudists. For the residents, Hasenheide is sports area, living room, pub and runway all at once. A refutation of the media panic surrounding the park as a place of drug dealing and violence.

Boizenburg is a small town on the Elbe River in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In the middle of the station forecourt stands an aging kiosk, open from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. It also serves as a regular hangout for shift workers from the slaughterhouses, unemployed people, taxi drivers, and retirees. At the end of 2015, thousands of refugees arrive at the train station, wanting to go to the nearby initial reception center. The regulars, who normally drink beer and watch soccer here, begin to discuss politics and reflect on their own situation. We encounter a special moment where they give us insights into their everyday lives and talk about their frustrations and hopes.

Pro Kopf is a dark comic tale of love and murder.

Police officers Schraube and Wattner lead a relaxed life in a quiet provincial town. There is no work waiting for them here, they can just relax all day. This changes abruptly when Mayor Billing wants to bring tourism to the village. The forest lake, of all places, where the policemen relax every day, is to become the center of a flourishing bathing establishment. If the two policemen don't want to lose their idyll, they have to take action. A blowpipe with poison darts is to help them thwart the mayor's plans.

Heinrich Danioth (1896-1953) is the most prominent artist from the canton of Uri and, at the same time, one of Switzerland’s outstanding painters in the 20th century. Although most people know of the red devil he painted on the rock face of the legendary Schöllenen Gorge, the artist has remained relatively unknown to the public. Primarily based on Danioth’s diaries and letters, the film portrays the life story of an artist lapsed into undeserved obscurity. Together with contemporary witnesses still alive today (including his two daughters), the filmmaker reconstructs the artist’s life.

Agriculture and its perspective in modern times. The change from farmers to energy supplier raise questions. Are we doing the right thing?

A documentary about playing bingo in rural northern Germany.

23-year-old Anna is completely overwhelmed with bringing up her three children. Ever since her husband shamelessly had an affair in front of her, she has been in an increasingly emotional state of emergency. Anna silently endures the domestic situation and tries to keep the family together. She refuses to admit that she is pregnant again and hides it until she is surprised by the birth.

In one week increments, Yves Paradis worked on an unscripted, improvised animation, starting only with the concept of a character pushing a big cube in the desert. The result is an unexpected science fiction adventure into a distant future of mankind.

Entangled (hi)stories transform a museum into a sitcom. Storytellers and voices amongst others: Yoko Ono, Tris Vonna-Michell & Bruce LaBruce as well as Maurizio Cattelan's horse coming to life and triggering further events.

Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

November 9, 1989, the day the Wall came down, was one of those days when it became clear that the world had changed "immediately and without delay" once and for all. [...] But it was not only politics and the lives of many people that changed with the world, but also the way we think. And more permanently than one might think. For a long time after that evening, there were calls for a major, analytical reappraisal of what had happened. After all the talk about bananas, the German feature pages hoped for "the great German novel of the turnaround". The fact that this has not appeared in the last 30 years has to do with the fact that thinking and art have changed forever along with the world. (Text: Armin Kratzert; Translated with DeepL) (Poster: dpa-Bildfunk/Peter Kneffel)

208 recognisable three letter words cascade across the screen. The foundations of our capitalist, technocratic society. From time to time, the voiceover throws a spanner in the works.

Set in Munich's petty-bourgeois Westend, film documents life at home with former Fassbinder actor, Warhol collaborator, and horror movie director Ulli Lommel. Rather than a straight documentary portrait of this bohemian household, the camera prefers to follow the narrative impulses of the family members. Lost in serious play, the kids improvise hypnotic death scenes while their mother claims to come from a planet where everything is "ethereal and incorporeal." As parent-child relations are unscripted and re-scripted on the fly, the dilated time of a collective daydream is punctuated by the ordinary sounds of an electric toothbrush, vacuum cleaner, and piano.

DVD from the box set by the German hard rock singer Doro Pesch containing the full video of a concert held by Doro in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 13 December 2008, featuring many guests and friends and celebrating 25 years of the German singer's career.

In the late summer of 1942 Lieutenant Heinrich Sperling and the simple soldier Oskar Baumann meet and become good friends. Together they go through the hell of World War II

A small cinematic poem from subjective street scenes, mirrored faces, and the city passing by, as well as naked female bodies underwater, creating an essay made from observed images.

Vitásek has agreed to something again. He's scheduled to make a cameo at the International Drug Congress, fitting the theme. The date is fast approaching, and no idea for a number is in sight. His family is leaving, and nothing would stand in the way of his creative burst, if it weren't for this slight headache and the raised temperature. Stricken with the flu virus, Vitásek sifts through the package inserts of his medications with meticulous detail, misses the good old mercury thermometers that could still be "shaked up," and gives free rein to his fundamental distrust of doctors.

A city park in autumn. A girl practices football. A boy pirouettes. A couple picnics. A young man waits. For a brief moment the figures intermingle. FE-MALE: a little apparition in everyday life.

Documentary short film about the afterlife of the remnants of the Berlin Wall.

Around six to 15 percent of all people (study by John Hearst 2011) hear voices at some point in their lives. Many of them even live with their invisible companions for their entire lives. Well over half of voice hearers are mentally healthy and lead a completely unremarkable life. Despite this, voice hearers continue to be stigmatized and are subject to prejudice. As a result, few speak openly about their experiences. In recent decades in particular, however, voice hearing has been regarded as a symptom of impaired brain function. The documentary sheds light on the phenomenon. Sufferers describe the voices in their heads, as well as the thoughts and feelings they trigger in them, and scientists explain the causes that lead people to hear voices.

1960s pop sensation Ricky Shayne's meteoric rise in West German culture. Born in Cairo and raised in Beirut, the Beat scene star found fame in Rome before achieving greater success in Berlin.

Following Germany's transformation as a society from the Holocaust to becoming the moral leader of Europe as the country embraces hundreds of thousands of refugees.

A fleeting memory of an old woman looking back at her youth brings about a moment of elegance in times of the after-war misery.

Sex is the most beautiful thing in the world. But talking about it without straying into lasciviousness or becoming inhibited remains tricky. Sprache:Sex places its trust in the power of free expression, the art of conversation, the miracle of the encounter. Sixteen people aged between 13 and 74 prove themselves to be practitioners of these disciplines. It is a matter of insecurities and desires, of preferences and turn offs, of varieties of love and life. A representative cross-section of society? Surely not! Statistically useful results? Even less so! A fanatical handing out of advice? Not a bit of it! Instead, it is a bold experimental set-up. Sober and playful. A documentary dance whose whole is more than the sum of its parts. Who should care? Actually, everybody.

Christmas Eve at a senile grandmother's place takes a turn for the worse when the daughter of the family brings her jewish boyfriend to find that the tree is dressed in ornaments from the 1930s

Khuyagaa is 10 years old and a good rider. He is a nomad, travelling with his parents, grandparents and siblings through the Gobi Desert in Mongolia all summer long. They have to look after the animals every day. Khuyagaa helps diligently when the herd of horses has to be brought in from the pasture or the goats have to be milked. At the end of the summer, school starts again for Khuyagaa. He only has time for his horse in the afternoon. Together with his friends, he goes for a ride through the village and looks forward to the weekend. Because then he can ride out into the vastness of the steppe at a wild gallop again.

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

In the film, journalist Ina Borrmann documents her own fertility treatment.

An increasing number of people in Germany no longer want anything to do with their state. A mixture of idiosyncrats and anti-system activists are turning their backs on the Federal Republic. How did the "Reichsbürger" movement become radical? What are their motives? What emerges is a European community of anarchists, businessmen, esotericists and adventurers - between a self-declared fight for freedom and obstinacy.

The mountain worlds of the Caucasus mark the border between Europe and Asia. The film shows the species and landscape diversity of the lesser Caucasus in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Shielded from the main ridge of the Greater Caucasus, a thermophilic flora and fauna has been able to develop there. For the first time, the land bridge between Europe and Persia is portrayed comprehensively: From the mountains of Dagestan to the canyons of the Caspian Basin and to biblical Mount Ararat.