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Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.

Reporter Jonas is supposed to be investigating a double murder, but then his luxury car is stolen overnight. He can't think of anything else, so he sets off on his own to find it. At his side is photographer Katja.

A Kellergasse – the cellar lane – is one of the distinguishing cultural and physical features of the winegrowing region Niederösterreich – Lower Austria. There are more than a thousand of them. Until recently, wine was not only stored in the Kellergasse, but pressed and fermented there as well. Today, the Kellergassen have less to do with occupation and more with recreation. A documentary by Georg Riha follows a year in the life of this valuable cultural legacy.

The experienced and freelance midwife Emma is in court: Has she over-estimated her abilities and thus jeopardized the health and life of a child?

Michael and Suzie are an engaged couple taking their honeymoon off the coast of Spain. Their reservations are lost and Michael loses their luggage and money to a scam artist promising to get them a room. Suzie berates him and Michael, disenchanted with his nagging wife-to-be, gives in to the temptations that are all around them. He falls in with a free-wheeling motorcycle gang. Eventually his lover leaves him (Hemingway-style) for a bullfighter, and he and Suzie, having found their wild and independent spirit on the island, come back together.

East German documentary short about Somalia in 1976.

Documentary film about the perception of physical disability in Germany, from National Socialism to the present day.

The pub “Zum Weißen Lamm” (the White Lamb) is filled to the brim with nasty bores. The innkeeper, played by a sweat-soaked Helmut Qualtinger, and his self-righteous circle of regulars are thrown into turmoil when a quest who is supposedly “the Rasberry picker,” a former SS officer, checks in.

Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler family house in 1945, the "The Decent One" exposes a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless "Architect of the Final Solution" Heinrich Himmler.

The Tara is a river on the outskirts of Taranto whose waters are believed to have healing properties; bathing there is a tradition for the inhabitants of the city. Starting from this bucolic place, Volker Sattel and Francesca Bertin take us on a journey through a territory where myths clash with reality and where so-called “progress” has taken a heavy toll on nature and society.

Johannes-Passion St. John Passion Equiluz · Moser · Holl · Scharinger Soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor Tölzer Knabenchor Concentus Musicus, Wien Nikolaus Harnoncourt Directed by Humphrey Burton

One night as Lena is walking home from a volleyball game when she begins to realise that someone is following her.

Two friends start a cleaning company whose main purpose is to make them acquainted with housewives.

Documentary about young workers in East Germany.

Skoda is the son of a wealthy, overbearing banker and rather than put up with his father to keep a privileged lifestyle, he has chosen to ditch the relationship and drive a taxi for a living. The film follows Skoda on his nightly rides through the city, and though different characters come and go, Skoda meets a kindred spirit in the form of a teenage woman who finds her own home life equally difficult to shoulder. The two young people are gradually attracted to each other, and they end up one night in Skoda's room together. At that moment, the older woman that Skoda had been involved with opens the door and discovers his infidelity. Skoda is living in her house and driving the taxi she gave him -- her commitment was abundantly clear from the beginning. Pushed over the edge, the older woman commits suicide -- and Skoda is blamed for her death by her ex-husband. He swears to avenge her, and the hunt for Skoda begins.

Evil teenager assassins Rike & Tom want to kill and film the execution of the rock star Daniel Küblböck [or Lana Kaiser to be correct], who is spiritually supported by his dead grandfather Johnny, with the support of the mysterious Baltazar! Will our well-intentioned wizard succeed to survive this Christmas related mess and learn to forgive the others while beign kidnapped and almost executed, even if that means stickin' his finger in cakes, rollin' in tha snow like a cat or having psychedelic music dreams? (and singin' some bangers in the meanwhile!)

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.

Shortly after Ernst Richter, aka Enno, lost his job, his social situation began to change drastically. A supposed war is raging in Germany, and Enno tries to escape this grim reality by holing up in his house. One day, however, he is dispossessed of his property.

Amid the war in Ukraine, Tanya and Zenit’s fragile love story unfolds, stretched between moments of closeness and conflict. Meanwhile, a group of children play war, building block posts, and imagining futures defined by violence.

When Isabelle loses her necklace while walking down the street, the attractive Jimi helps her to fish the pendant out of a gully. Jimi falls in love with Isabelle at first sight and wants something from her in return for his help. For four weeks, he doesn't want to leave the pretty daughter of Simeon Herzog's side. But Isabelle doesn't even think about it and simply leaves Jimi. Even the next day, Jimi cannot forget the fateful encounter and visits Isabelle at the castle hotel. Isabelle only gives in to Jimi's pleas at her father's insistence. Together they organize a fundraising gala and realize that they couldn't be more different.

Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.

To mark the 2026 edition of the Thuringian Bach Weeks, the orchestra and choir of the Junges Stuttgarter Bach-Ensemble, conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann, will present a selection of excerpts from the short masses.

The fairy Kräuterweis transforms the boy Jakob into a dwarf. No one recognizes him now. But Jacob does not lose his courage to face life. Because he still has a trump card up his sleeve! When 12-year-old Jacob mocks an old woman at the market because of her big nose, he has no idea that he will soon regret his actions. A short time later, the boy is already a prisoner of the fairy Kräuterweis and is forced by her to cook for her and her guests for several years. And as if that wasn't punishment enough, she then transforms him into a dwarf with a large nose. After this transformation, no one recognizes him, not even his mother Hanne. And so he has no choice but to put his newfound cooking skills to good use with Duke Kunz the Gourmand.

Tobi revisits an old childhood riddle: Who leaves the deepest traces in the earth? His search takes him to places like Madagascar, Spitsbergen, and Mexico, where he uncovers what connects them and finds the answer he was missing as a child.

A German circus drama.

When her 80-year-old father Robert needs a caregiver after an accident, Ira wants to take care of him at home - despite her difficult relationship with him. He had left her and her mother to start a second family. But now she sees the opportunity to approach him. However, given the high cost of care, she knows how to help but hire the Eastern European caregiver Elisaveta, who works for her black - much to the displeasure of her husband Marquard, who has ambitions as a local politician in addition to his work as a career counselor and never before understood with Robert.

Anna, a lonely mother who runs a party service, lives primarily for Tobi, her little son, whose father had abandoned them years ago. Thomas, a village police officer, befriends them, but various complications arise for various reasons.

Short film directed by Johannes Grieser

Daydreamer Ben is hopelessly in love with his colleague Sophia from the ice cream parlor, yet unsure if she returns his feelings. In a moment of humiliation he rises above himself and finally overcomes his fear of making the first step. Between sundaes and cups of coffee: The beginning of true love.

Film about a group of young nazi terrorists commiting crimes after the end of World War 2.

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

A doctor, who commits malpractice in a major urban hospital, retreats to a remote house in the countryside. Although he is acquitted, his conscience is not so easily appeased. When a murder occurs and the southern Styria village searches for the culprit, he has to take a stand.

A commentary on humanity's increasingly questionable relationship to the natural world. Imagery of wolves and wolfhounds sits in contrast to industrial landscape tableaus, including an abandoned missile base.

An intimate drama based on actual cases about a woman who murdered her own child. Interviewed by a psychiatrist, she recounts how she got in a seemingly hopeless situation which led her to believe that the killing of her child and a subsequent suicide where the only solution left. As more and more fragments of her desolate life are revealed, it becomes evident that the psychiatrist is also keeping a dark secret, and that she has in fact more in common with her patient as the latter would have guessed.

The life of the Cologne architect Mads is as empty as his apartment. Since the death of his beloved wife, the 44-year-old has only been able to function in a reduced daily routine. A chance reunion with his best friend from his youth changes everything. The cheerful single woman René moves in with him with her children - nine-year-old Lola and six-year-old Oscar. Finally, life is coming back into his life! Although René is not even considering the good-looking, successful guy as a new partner, Mads is growing into the unfamiliar role of the perfect patchwork dad. Friends without benefits, but with children - it works amazingly perfectly! When Mads becomes interested in the fascinating Eva, who is just as cautious as he is, an unwanted complication comes into the lightness of being: René receives a medical diagnosis that requires far-reaching decisions. Although he has other plans, Mads knows what he has to do.

Lucy, during a long period of isolation and 23h of sleep a day, has created her dream alter ego Lucy 2, who at the edge of becoming real, does not want her to wake up, or solve her traumas, but there are other parts of Lucy, urging her to live her life again. The film is about projections, projections becoming reality, projections being the reality until you know what they are, projections, or....a film.

Full of idealism, doctor Katrin Berger runs a bush hospital in Namibia together with her colleague Sam. Sensitive Sam feels much more than just collegial friendship for Katrin, but just as he is about to finally reveal his feelings to her, the urbane Stefan, the twin brother of Katrin's late husband, turns up unexpectedly. He claims to be in Africa as part of a humanitarian project. Sam alone seems to sense immediately that Stefan is playing a false game - or is it just his jealousy of his charming rival?

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.

The greatest adventure of his life begins for Checker Tobi on a pirate ship in the middle of the sea. There he discovers a message in a bottle containing a riddle. If he solves it, he will reveal the secret of our planet. An exciting scavenger hunt around the world begins! Tobi climbs the crater of a fire-breathing volcano, dives with sea dragons in the Pacific, explores the loneliest parts of the Arctic with climate researchers and ends up in India at the driest time of the year. In Mumbai, he becomes a Bollywood star before the monsoon transforms the megacity. Tobi finally realizes that he had the solution to the puzzle in mind throughout his journey.