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Time and again he challenged his fate at the gambling table. Based on the genesis of the biographically significant novel "The Gambler", the documentary sheds light on the groundbreaking work and the eventful life of F.M. Dostoyevsky, who celebrates his 200th birthday in November 2021.
Infidelity is a taboo as old as the hills. This documentary explores its philosophical and psychological aspects by questioning libertines, victims of infidelity, psychologists and couple therapists.
Luvi and Telmer find the sleeping Nil on their train ride home at night. A tender bond slowly arises between the women. It sows a growing insecurity into the fragile relationship of Luvi and Telmer. The night lets the characters move away from each other and fall into each other slowly in one moment, passionately in another one.
A full-length homage to the early days of German television, its art and courage to leave gaps. Tests of patience in ecstasy... And perhaps also a testimony to how man has always tried to grasp his environment by means of the constant time, even if it first has to stop.
An encounter between a young nurse and her patient of the same age, Frida, on the border of professional distance and the desire for closeness.
Ophelia, who lives isolated in a mystical forest, receives a surprise visit from her sister Vivienne. The two have not seen each other since their father's death. When the sisters get together, dark secrets are revealed that lead to eerie abysses... A magical fairy tale that plunges us into the psychedelic depths of our fragile minds.
A day at the lake. Andrej's ex-girlfriend Nadia pays him a visit. Nadia and Andrej's former best mate Claudius are a couple now. Nadia's request for help confronts Andrej with a shared dark secret.
After Sinas boyfriend loses all their savings with his criminal wheeling and dealing, every means is right to her to gain her some money.
First part of Eckhart Schmidt's TreCamerone-trilogy.
Humor helps people through hard times. A look at the viral videos, songs and sketches that have filled the Internet worldwide since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and what this lockdown humor says about humans in distress.
Simone Müller puts on her self-made traditional Cheyenne outfit. She tells us about her longing to visit the Western United States. We join her in a get-together with fellow hobbyists as they gather around the fireplace of a tipi in their suburb garden to get lost in play. Yara, an internationally successful western rider from the Ruhr, dresses in her sequined golden show outfit before training with her appaloosa mare Casey. She tells us about her passion for Texas, where everything seems to be a little larger than life. We sit beside Kevin Derwahl, better known by his nickname “Johnson”, as he rides his wartime Jeep through the Belgian Ardennes and pay visit to a stretch of forest that saw heavy fighting during of the Battle of the Bulge. What they all share, beside their passion for America, is the notion that all this is not necessarily about a worldly place…
Tanja Wilken starts her new job in Freiburg's homicide department and there's already a dead body on her very first day. What's more, everyone at the police station seems to be related to everyone else - it's a real bullpen.
‘The Worm’ is a performative video work based on a call from artist Ed Atkins to his mother, with Atkins himself as the digital avatar, caught in an endless loop of glitches.
The two brothers Antonio and Leoluca Tegano fall into the clutches of the Italian construction mafia in their hometown of Munich. But when head Domenico demands something unbelievable from Antonio, he doubts his new family. He is supposed to kill his own brother; according to Domenico, this is the only way he could prove that he belongs to the mafia. Now Antonio stands between his old and new family and before a decision that will change his life forever.
When Khalil, a primary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre, he is forced to question his entire existence in Berlin. His life spirals out of balance as he seems to recognise his long lost sister in the videos – whom he thought long dead. He tries everything to get in contact, to save his sister, to inform the public about this brutal war. And loses himself.
A palliative care team visits homes of terminally ill patients to help them come to terms with the inevitability of death.
For eight months, Ole Jacobs’s and Arne Büttner’s film team followed the Afghan Nasim and her family in the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, where at times 20,000 people had to live in a space designed for less than 3,000 people. This documentary observation shows with great empathy the daily life of the mother of two who time and again manages to deal impressively with the challenges of this unacceptable and extreme situation.
In July 2021, after the last foreign soldiers had left Afghanistan, the film team traveled to Kabul to portrait female singers. No one could have guessed at the time that this would be the last opportunity to do so. A year later, most of them have left...
The documentary breaks through the big taboo surrounding the safety of vaccinations and opens up a public discussion that is long overdue. The investigative documentary deals with a highly sensitive topic without pandering to the prejudices of anti-vaccination activists.
She is one of the greatest divas of the present day and has left her mark on the world of opera: Anna Netrebko. On her 50th birthday, ARTE is dedicating a special portrait to her. As a disciplined professional in preparations and behind the scenes. And very personally in a private conversation. An encounter with a true superstar of classical music.
The film portrays the four young politicians Laura Isabelle Marisken, Aminata Touré, Gyde Jensen and Terry Reintke, who will help shape the future of Germany and the EU in the years to come. He moves back and forth between the different protagonists, draws fine lines between Brussels, Usedom, Kiel and Berlin and delivers a wide range of universal and big themes, packed in personal and intimate moments with the four strong and very different women, and shows how women’s politics works today, enthusiastic and engaged.
Giant Pacific octopuses are mystical creatures. A film team managed to gain insight into the mysterious life of these relatives of snails and mussels. It formed a close bond with the elusive squid while diving in the fjords of the Northeastern United States. In parallel, the dive team followed the evolution of the giant octopus Eleonora at Port Townsend Aquarium.
ROAMERS accompanies different characters on their way through the countries and social media feeds of this world: From the celebrated video blogger from Palestine who quit his lucrative job at PayPal in favor of as much life experience as possible, to the former young top manager who gave up her business in Switzerland and her marriage for the adventure of a round-the-world trip, to the Argentinean couple who use their computer science skills acquired at IBM to distribute self-produced porn videos online "on demand" and thus finance their trip around the world. As digital nomads who become the creators of their impressive life stories on their own initiative, they are all sounding out the boundaries of a new era: between personal freedom and the dependence on algorithms and wifi, between self-fulfillment and self- exploitation - in search of meaning and support in a world that offers ever more possibilities and yet also seems increasingly fragmented.
An homage to Hans Richter for the 35th anniversary of his death in 2021.
5 people, an empty bar. What begins as wild fun quickly turns into limitlessness, into excess and rampant addiction. From the beginning we are hooked, because the film is a single movement: up and down, into deep abysses and into the head. The bar becomes a place of longing and at the same time a prison for the characters performing. A perfect day becomes a perfect night.
The paintings of the artist Güler Yücel tell about weddings and funerals, of almond blossom and olive harvest, of her husband, the poet, and of herself, her love of life and wisdom. “I can’t paint anything that I have not seen”, says Güler Yücel. She is a chronicler and a prophetess, because her pictures describe the cycle of life, which we find again and again in everyday life: on the Turkish peninsula of Datça, over which the wind of two seas blows.
Journalist Sophie Bergmann is working on a legacy study on the effects of Hartz IV on society. She is increasingly reluctant to report on the symptoms of the labor market reform in isolation from its causes. At an EU conference in Brussels, she witnesses the German finance minister being put under pressure by a stranger. When she accidentally sees the same man getting into the car of the editor-in-chief of her newspaper, Sophie is irritated. With the help of Matti, the IT specialist from the editorial office, she begins to investigate.
DEFA made several science fiction films that are hardly known today. These productions, called "utopian films" in the GDR, show astonishing technical achievements. ...Science fiction at DEFA was never a war of the stars, no alien invasion, but in most cases an establishment of contact with the alien via signals, a recurring plot motif. Communication instead of confrontation. These films provide information about the image of a coming socialist society, about expectations and hopes, and they were counter-images to the officially condemned Western SF art.
With Sounds of Dortmund, Dortmund Opera picks up where MusiCircus left off in the 2018/19 season. Once again, musical groups and all Dortmund residents were invited to become part of the performative sound collage. For one day, Dortmund was to be filled with music, noises, sounds, and performances. A poetic sound art work that focuses on the diversity of the city with its individual sounds.
Follow a group of young people as they try to make a short film for a competition.
Torn between her religion and sexual orientation, Derya tries to find her inner peace as a lesbian muslim.
Montage of news, reports, talk shows, live broadcasts, video blogs. Together, they form the basis for a polyphonic choir that intones, condenses and follows the story of the pandemic, from January 2020 to the present day, with a focus on Germany. A chronicle of devastation can be seen as well as a chronicle of discord and rebellion: against the virus, against fate, against reality.
Tragic and true stories about destiny and celebrity.
Paula and Arek don't know whether they can go on together. When apples dont grow on trees, the light disappears while words run out and the wait is over - there is hope, that something remains.
One woman's journey to save - and love - the whales. Enter a world of transcendence in AMA'ARA – The SONG of the WHALES. Spiritual singer and healer Marina Trost follows her calling to cross oceans to save the whales and create a new, loving relationship between humans and these majestic beings. Through channeled music and mesmerizing cinematography, we feel Marina's passion and how she connects intuitively to the whales’ beauty and majesty. Spirituality, sacred song, and healing flow beyond time and space. In this cinematic meditation, we uncover song as a vehicle to our own transcendence. This film is a powerfully poetic love song for our troubled times. (ILLUMINATE Film Festival 2021)
The self-sacrificing mother Anne has lost her happiness somewhere between family and work. She receives little support with her children and she loses touch with them more and more.
A fresh start? Fatim has started over so many times. This fascinating young woman from Mali takes us into her life in Halle and lets us see everyday life in Germany during the pandemic through different eyes.
The film takes place in the universe of H.P. lovecraft. A museum director tries to find out the secret of an old door. “The Book was written by the man benhind the door. But if you just have the book, you can not see him anymore. And if you just have the door, without the book – than it´s just an old peace made out of wood. But when you have both – paper and wood, than you will see the man who wrote the book.”
Two women take refuge as a monster stalks from the shadows. What they discover in this fabled forest translates in unimaginable ways.
X is a cinematic ritual aimed at appeasing the ancestral spirits of the industrial workforce. The film is inspired by the lives of the filmmaker’s father and grandfather, who also play the lead roles.
Zheng Bo focuses on the molecular level of plant life, considering how they build communities and practice politics with their bodies. In the forest, trees work with fungi for nutrition and insects for pollination. Zheng Bo’s new film is a portrait of Grumsin, an ancient beech forest in Brandenburg and one of Germany’s UNESCO World Heritage sites.
A Father's Job tells the story of a Jewish woman's fate in the middle of the last century in Germany. Step by step connections become apparent and result in an overall view that doesn't just comes up with an unexpected counterpart but also turns temporal orientation upside down.