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An intimate portrayal of power exchange.

A journey through a place of an eternal past; where the grandson of a Jewish partisan sets out to experience the dramatic events and places that shaped his grandfather's war years

Lisa Weber’s portrait of Claudia, who had a son when she was 15 and now lives together with him, her mother and her brother in Vienna, is an affectionate and gentle film about the passing of time and about what happens when seemingly nothing is happening.

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright responds to the coronavirus crisis with an intimate live concert. Without an audience and specially arranged for a small string section, Wainwright performs his new album "Unfollow the Rules" for the TV cameras only. Recorded in the ballroom of the Paramour Mansion, a historic residence in Los Angeles, the musician shows that good songs work even under difficult circumstances.

After ten years in Vienna, Lotti Funke is returning to her old hometown of Bleicherode in the Thuringian province. There, however, she is not welcomed with open arms, which is not only due to the fact that she simply left her six-year-old daughter with her old mother.

Max is feeling overwhelmed by the obligations and decisions of becoming an adult. He longs for his old friends and the familiar places of his school days. So he invites his former best friend Jonas on a trip on the boat where they spent their childhood summers. The two now live in different cities. But Jonas brings his girlfriend Nora along, and it quickly becomes clear that the days on the boat will be different than the old friends had imagined … A chamber play on a boat that tells of old friends, of relationships, and of places to which we must bid farewell. And also of how we sometimes must fall into old patterns of behaviour just to be able to feel how we’ve changed.

Set in a ripe, overgrown sunflower field, the film explores a relationship that begins where it seemingly ends - two former lovers, Mira and Ali, caught between lingering familiarity and the strange distance of new strangers.

A documentary tracing 90s Ruhr rap crew RAG’s enduring influence on German hip-hop, their reunion two decades after Unter Tage, and the impact of member Galla’s tragic death.

When the physicist Walter moves into a new apartment in the 1970s, he tries to clear up the enigmatic disappearance of his previous tenant and realizes that the old man is haunting him in an eerie way - from the future.

When Hong Kong, which has a legal system separate from China, brought the 2019 Extradition Bill, citizens took to the streets. Locals feared that the law, which would extradite Hong Kong criminals to the mainland, will be used to target dissidents & undermine the region's judicial independence. This film documents how the protest turned into a pro-democracy movement whose impact echoed in Beijing.

In May 1980, more than 800 people lived for 33 days near Gorleben in the protest camp ‚Free Republic of Wendland‘ and thus prevented for a short time drilling for the planned nuclear waste repository in the nearby salt dome.

A story of the inner life of a military base as a microcosm that seems to have been plucked out of another time. Soldiers focus meticulously on gardening instead of preparing themselves for war.

In Cairo, a German-Egyptian team is searching for traces of the largest temple of the Pharaohs, seeking answers as to why the sanctuary was abandoned more than 2000 years ago.

The Vietnamese Nghi has a bad feeling as she sees the foreign Chinese groom for the first time on the day of her daughter’s wedding. Nghi and Phuong decided that the 17 years old should get married to relieve the family of their debts. But then, the bride disappears after the ceremony and the mother faces the decision what she is ready to give for her family's happiness.

The modern tank was born during the First World War. The British used the rolling steel combat vehicles against German troops for the first time. The Germans then developed the "A7V" - and in the Second World War, the "Panther" and "Tiger". Ferdinand Porsche was also involved in the construction of tanks during the Nazi era with the "Maus". The documentary provides a chronological insight into production and technology, right up to the latest Bundeswehr models.

The catastrophe is tirelessly repeated in Hollywood cinema. The genre of the disaster movie hints at the collective psyche of the respective historical epochs. The perspective of a postmodern longing for moments of spectacular destruction, which briefly interrupts the dull monotony in late capitalist consumerism, shows how contradictory postmodern pop culture is. The disaster movie is symptomatic for the longing to overturn the status quo as well as the opposite desire to find it instantly restored.

In a valley in the Ukrainian Carpathian forest lies the small and forgotten town of Königsfeld. In 1775, the Habsburg Queen, Maria Theresa, sent a hundred foresters and their families here from the Austrian west of the kingdom. All that remains today of the now over two century-old timber industry are factory ruins, potholes in the valley road and an increasingly seldom heard German dialect. Only a few factories survived a flood that cut the village off from the rest of the world, and left it economically isolated. An atmosphere of farewell hangs heavy in the air.

With celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall, this documentary goes around the world to meet the individuals working hard to protect the world’s biodiversity for the future of the planet and the future of mankind.

Between September 2000 and April 2007, eight men with Turkish roots, a man of Greek descent and a German policewoman were murdered. The investigations were initially carried out exclusively in the vicinity of the non-German victims suspected of drug trafficking and organized crime. The families of the murdered were thus victims again, this time of prejudicial stigmatization. After a failed bank robbery, the trail finally led to the right-wing extremist terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU). After the suicide of the two main perpetrators, the trial against the only survivor of the NSU trio, Beate Zschäpe, and four alleged helpers and supporters began in 2013 and ended in 2018.

In a world where death has become a private service company, three workers rebel against their own mortality.

Leaving the studio to go out and capture real life: that was the impressionist aesthetic. Claude Monet was its most famous proponent and artist. This documentary reveals the places that inspired the painter during his lifetime.

A unique look at three of the greatest builders of the African Savannah: weaver birds, aardvarks and termites. In their spectacular buildings they do not live alone! Many roommates from other species, from small insects, reptiles and birds to large mammals, not only live together — they also benefit from sharing the same roof.

In early 2020, the lockdown has brought the world to a halt. Homes become space stations, hermetically sealed off from the outside world. Nobody goes out, only the thoughts go wandering. Students of seven international universities exchange personal impressions of and reflections on this forced isolation online and get to know each other through this joint project.

Thanks to conservation efforts in East Africa in recent years, the mountain gorilla population has increased. But overcrowding due to habitat fragmentation is leading to stress and violence.

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season on January 26. The production, directed by Graham Vick and conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, featured staging with references to the imagery of war.

Sabine introduces herself and talks about her shyness and the difficulties as a transvestite.

Mia, a young, attractive woman and mother starts to question the meaning of life due to external circumstances. She tries to escape into the virtual world of chats, where she meets "Morgenrot" for the first time. It is the beginning of a journey through the unknown, where feelings don't emerge through physical contact, but through words. However, Mia's husband discovers her secret.

The village is happiness. That’s what the images we have of it in our minds tell us—a main square as a lively hub, a corner store, a tavern, and on the outskirts, a view of meadows and farms. But rural exodus is putting the village to the test: young people are moving away, farms are closing, and shops stand empty. But how can the very essence of a village remain alive?

Christian and I are waiting in his apartment for men to be filmed having sex with him.

What girls do when they're alone and lonely.

When Richard catches Oliver watching the series "A Man's Cereal," he is initially ashamed of his roommate. But as the episode runs its course, it's not just the protagonist's life that changes!

Short film.

Aachen Prison is both Germany’s most dangerous and most secure prison. It houses murderers, sex offenders and pedophiles. Their cells are inspected regularly. It offers space for over 700 prisoners. Who works here, who is serving what for? And how do relatives deal with the arrest of a family member? In our prison documentary we take a look behind the bars.

A short experiment about the present moment. A hunt for the unique gift of coincidences. A look at filmmaker Nicolas Humbert - with his very own, poetic approach. Refering to his methods, memories and pictures.

A woman who came to Tehran for a nose operation loses her wedding ring. While her husband is pursuing his hobbies and the employees search the hotel for the lost item, she finds the peace she was looking for.

Ernst is a figure on a postcard, which is in a card stand with many other motives. While the other cards are eagerly bought, no one is interested in his card and Ernst becomes increasingly discontented. Finally, he almost gets bought – but then he is put back crooked again. This brings his world into imbalance and he falls out. For him a colorful journey full of different styles of representation begins – whether 2D, 3D, live action and stop-motion.

Haunted by the ghosts of his past and his angst of his future Roman is determined to prove himself as a boxer. For this dream he is willing to give up on everything: his friends, his health, even his own self.

When our hometown experienced a sudden spike in youth crime, we were quite stunned by the random acts of vicious violence these teenagers were willing to commit. Especially since there seemed to be no obvious reason for these attacks other than boredom and envy, as they mainly targeted people who were attacked by their peers for their clothes and smartphones.