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A variation of 'Der Fan'.

They are the future elite: the offspring of the world's richest families. But what these young adults lack is success of their own. Attending the world's most exclusive boarding school—the school on the Magic Mountain—is supposed to change that. Here, they are to be trained as global leaders. Absolute pressure to perform is included. Among the daughters of billionaires and sons of oligarchs is Berk. Berk is an only child and a loner who secretly longs for his friends and a quiet life in his hometown of Istanbul. But he hasn't reckoned with his father, who has already planned his life in detail. However, when Berk's grades are poor, his father cuts off his funding. Is there enough time to graduate from school? And how do you actually find out what makes you happy? Money is no guarantee of that...

A short film about a boy, Cozmo, who feels uncomfortable being in public with his boyfriend. After realizing he is not the only one affected by the situation he decides to overcome his fears

Berlin piano maker Jan Epstein knows exactly what to do when it comes to restoring highly sensitive instruments. However, he is at least as unsuccessful as a small businessman as he is in his role as a family man. Jan secretly mourns his failed marriage to Serafina and he has a lot to make up to his daughter Mia. An unexpected opportunity arises when Mia unexpectedly wants to accompany him on the delivery of a piano to Italy.

Since the 1980s, Elfie Semotan, born in Upper Austria, has been one of the most sought-after and also idiosyncratic fashion photographers in the world. For more than half a century the now 77-year-old Semotan has been successful at the intersection between art, fashion and commercial photography, with many of her sophisticated arrangements having become legendary. Semotan's sometimes controversial oeuvre is characterized by her strong personality and a continuous opposition to anything mainstream. Elfie Semotan, Photographer is an hommage not only to a great artist but also to the passion of photography itself.

Has the catastrophe already happened or is it about to? Two men and a woman sit in their bunker-like apartments, as if they were in a waiting room. Overwhelmed by the flood of media information and guidebook words of wisdom, they seek stability in the piano play of the educated middle-class and Far-eastern self-optimization techniques. Their passive bewilderment turns into frenzied activism. Now something has to happen! But nothing does.

In fictional sequences inserted into this documentary about economic, social and political perspectives on possible upcoming developments, the filmmakers portray a utopian future as a foreign territory. Six public figures from various cultural and social circles reflect on the future as a matter of time, people and the world.

WWII is over, the director’s family goes separate ways: Her great aunt moves to Israel and joins the Kibbuz movement. Her grandmother returns to East Germany to help build a Socialist society. Only after the German reunification young Esther finds out about her Jewish relatives and spends carefree days in Israel. The Golan Swimmingpool lovingly explores the Jewish identity of a family living in two political systems. The film investigates their ideals and worlds and questions how much of it is left in today’s generation.

The director’s grandparents Wilhelmine, an Austrian Catholic, and Bernard, a Jewish Czechoslovakian communist, have always been part of her life, although she never met them in person. Her uncle Hermann lives in what was once their house, with their furniture, Marx and Lenin busts, Hanukkah lamp, countless photos, letters and oil paintings. Through the film Judith Schein asks whether it is possible for a house and its interiors to narrate History.

To a rhythmic drumbeat and in vibrant strokes of colour, a lovesick bird-of-paradise prances through the black of the night, flaunting his majestic plumage in an attempt to impress the females.

Shadowed by weekly, racist demonstrations in East Germany former factory workers of the German Democratic Republic together with Syrian refugees embark on a self-taught immigration course to share the memories of their lost homelands.

In Iceland, volcanoes line up like pearls on a string. In the mountains and valleys the ground boils. It smokes, hisses and bubbles. Although rising from the sea as a bare lava island, life thrives on Iceland's volcanic slopes. Whether in icy heights or abysmal crevasses that tell of the fact that the earth is tearing apart here, between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates - Iceland is a natural paradise. Magical Iceland: Living on the World's Largest Volcanic Island is a testament to the island's unexpected biodiversity and spectacular landscapes, both above and below the water.

He suddenly appeared. During lunch break he always stands alone in the school yard. Vera watches him with secret fascination.

Two uniformed guards keep watch over a cave as animals carry on philosophical dialogues about important existential issues. Is it time to passionately devote yourself to reality? What about the perpetual reoccurrence of sameness? Meanwhile, the solution to one of the most essential problems is apparent: you just have to wash, peel, cut, and mash it. The apple. The serious practices of reality are calling.

Alba remembers how she fell in love with Pierino, her brother's friend, in the early fifties in Italy.

This film portrait shows Ulrich Tukur on the stage of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, where his career began, on the stage of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall and on his Tuscan farm. This is where he retreats when he needs peace and quiet. This private approach provides a very personal view of the actor, musician and writer Ulrich Tukur.

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?

It is April 15th, 1989. Thousands of fans are rushing into Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield to watch the FA-Cup semi-final between Liverpool FC and Nottingham Forrest. The day ends with one of the greatest tragedies in football: 96 people do not survive the catastrophe of Hillsborough. 766 get injured. The 30-minute-long documentary especially gives a voice to the survivors.

Depicting the events of Mardin-İdil in the late 1980's, the film deals with international migration of Assyrians in the context of "leaving" and "staying", based on the story of an ordinary group. Today, among the 18 people who are narrated, nine live in Germany, seven live in Switzerland and only two people stayed in Turkey. This documentary, while combining the instants, on the other hand explores the memories of the past and today through the present atmosphere and aims to answer these questions: "Is it hard to go? To stay? Or to be together again?"

The Alps are covered by a nearly invisible security system that’s supposed to protect humans from natural disasters. This film attentively follows the sometimes mysterious-looking activities and preparations to portray the human struggle against the forces of nature.

2034 – The moon is moving towards the earth. The exact time as much as the consequences of the impact are unknown. Two different groups of teenagers are meeting each other on one of the last days on earth. What happens then has everything and nothing to do with the approaching moon.

In this concert from his great European tour Duke gives a big band concert to be remembered in Brussel’s Marni Theatre. Featuring star soloists Money Johnson on trumpet, Paul Gonsalves on saxophone, and Joe Benjamin on bass, and even a surprise appearance from singer Anita Moore, this recording is another gem in the Duke’s discography and a must-have for fans.

In 1967 the anthropologist G. Reichel-Dolmatoff published a study on a Colombian aboriginal culture, although the tribe in question was not visited and the only informant interviewed was very far from its cultural environment and tribal territory. In addition, he discovered a relationship between hallucinations and the phosphene formula. From FICCI

Twenty-six people talk about love and hardship, hope and bitterness, fear and happiness accompanied by celluloid images of Berlin at night. A symphony of life, a magical cosmos. The third part of the filmmaker’s “Chants” trilogy on space, time and the body.

"A Postcard from Pyongyang" is a journey into a deeply enigmatic and completely isolated country that keeps the world in suspense: North Korea. Friends Gregor Möller, Philip Kist and Anne Lewald visit in 2013 and 2017 and do what is strictly forbidden and for which they might have ended up in a forced labor camp: even though accompanied by state watchers, they secretly film their travels, accompanied by state watchdogs. We get an extraordinary insight into one of the most closed societies in the world and experience the 'beautiful new world' as the state propaganda machinery displays it.

Documentary shows how the relentless artist applies her method to the audience at a classical concert.

Five young people search for their very own path in a world without schools. This coming-of-age film imaginatively explores how life itself becomes an ongoing educational experience. The first feature film on the future of education encourages us to develop visions together.

John Neumeier is always on the ballet-related path, dance is his life and ballet is his world. He is the senior ballet director of the Hamburg Ballet, has a workshop in the ballet center for his choreographies and creations, including training for young talents by the ballet boarding school. Neumeier has achieved a lot and yet has always remained a seeker, has never stopped, on the way permanently. The portrait of John Neumeier unites the choreographer's presence, with a look back at the essential creations and formative choreographies, including dancers.

What is important when time is up? Five people in the last five minutes before the world comes to an end.

Wolves – some see in them predatory beasts, others romanticize them as mythical creatures. But does their fabled competitive hierarchy also exist in the wild? Over a period of three years, our filmmaker obtained unique footage of a family of wild wolves as has never been seen before in Europe. This is the first documentary about wild wolves in Germany shot exclusively in the wild; it shows how similar the social structures of humans and wolves are and dispels myths about a fascinating wild animal.

An artist facing death. A deep and inspirring journey from darkness into light. The last days of Kollowalla, a russian gay artist in exile, who has to face his own death. A dreamlike, surreal journey of old memories and weird fantasies. A film inspired by great artists like Werner Schroeter, Derek Jarman, And Christoph Schlingensief and how they created impressive pieces of art, while they were in their dying process.

Cold times, people are looking for a place to sleep. A car rambles through the night, to bring out of the dark, what could get lost in there. The film tries to grasp the perception of people who are constantly on the run, who can't remember the last time they've slept in a real bed. The things we witness are turning into inner landscapes. Fragments of conversations become collective thoughts and somewhere in the distance, Kepler 452b is orbiting a sun that is warmer than ours.

Twelve-year-old Frida is almost blind; she can only make out contours, shadows and colors. At the same time, she can "see" much more than other people. She believes that with the energy we all have within us, we can achieve things that we thought were impossible. In Dear Darkness, we see how she puts this into practice. Frida is lovingly encouraged by her parents, whom we see in the background as they invite her to experience a sculpture or go swimming with her. Frida has an entirely unique view of the world, from which she occasionally takes a distance so she can listen, feel and think. To do so she seeks out complete darkness, because only if there are no visual stimuli can she find peace. In this way, she hardly differs from her sighted peers-and this is why part of the film takes place in the dark.

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

For a quarter of a century, Frank Castorf has created a microcosm in the Volksbühne that many considered to be an identity-forming fortress and a renegade island in the increasingly chic and monotonous centre of the capital. The marathon productions for which he was responsible were true orgies of association that demanded everything from the audience. The film accompanies Castorf's final season and is there when the theatre people get together once more to start a last fireworks display in the face of an uncertain future. (weltfilm GmbH)

Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Antigone' relates a story of resistance and justice, told from a black feminist perspective, in which the protagonist rebels against the colonial patriarchal system to bury her brother, transforming the burial into a political act against the oblivion of faces and reminding the spectator of the exploitation and death of black workers in colonial plantations.

Actor Jörg Wischnauski talks about his role in Marian Dora's "Pesthauch der Menschlichkeit".

A lonely therapist and her suicidal half-sister are on their way to Norway in a red fire-engine. Accompanied by a Spaniard who wants to go to Finland. Haunted by a bunch of stranded personalities. And two flies who suddenly start dreaming.

Detectives Karl Jäger and Lola Kraft are investigating again. An inconspicuous family man saves a young woman from being raped and uses unexpected skills that not only attract the attention of himself, but also of the police. But it is not just his mysterious past that troubles the amnesiac victim, but also a killer squad. Who is after him? And what is the mystery of his past?

Two construction workers in Hamburg have to deal with the residents of a skyscraper within a day - because on the one hand it is to be demolished shortly and on the other hand no one was informed about it in advance. Various disputes and strange incidents result only the tip of the iceberg, in which even the first mayor of the city is involved!

This story takes place on the small mediterranean island of Panarea. He is a young priest who devoted his life to God. He thinks that nothing can stop him. One day during the Sunday sermon he sees a girl who will break his heart.

The concentrated analytic-ideological critical power of Wolfgang M. Schmitt.

Although Sebastián feels let down by his father Manuél, he wants to prove to him that he is not a failure. This puts him in a conflict between his own self-acceptance and yet another paternal rejection.