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Hülya is a young German-Turkish writer. Several years after the death of her father, she decides to write a novel about him. In order to get to know him better, she travels to Damal, the place where her father was born and grew up. She meets the people from his youth and reconstructs his life there - at school, at home and in the expansive landscape around the village. While she observes, she does not always get an equally positive picture of her father and the dramatic events that shaped his life and hers. Confusing memories fall into place. At the same time, present, past, reality and fantasy start mingling increasingly naturally and it becomes more and more clear that memory is a far-from-infallible instrument. Nature, idyllically one time and mercilessly next, forms the atmospheric decor for this reflection on the value of family bonds, love and honour.

Everyone knows angels! But what are they in fact? Why do they have wings? Have they always had them? Have they always existed or is there any point of start in existence? Where did they come from? What are their names and why those? What is their mission? Has it always been the same? This documentary tells the "Story of Angels", by following emerging images, statues and frescos through all of the ages that formed their appearance until today.

A fearful dark voice from the Old Roman Empire is terrorizing a young woman towards suicide.

Adrian is living his dream. Since early childhood he has wanted to be a ballet star. The elite state ballet school in Berlin, however, is tough and Adrian's father, a bulldozer operator, doesn't understand his son's goals at all. For eight years, from Adrian's childhood through puberty, Manuel Fenn accompanied him on his arduous journey.

Widerstandsmomente (Moments of Resistance) carries voices, writings, and objects from the anti-Nazi resistance into the present. Politically engaged women of today respond to historical resistance and make links to current events. A line is drawn from what was before and what is today to what might be: a society based on solidarity without discrimination or exclusion.

What would happen if one day people in Europe had to flee? A young woman called Mira tells of her flight from Paris. In search of a different life she takes a train heading east to the utopianesque town of Tara.

The USA is quick on the draw when it comes to military interventions. But when its own population is threatened by increasingly frequent weather disasters, no consequences are drawn. The fuelling of global warming continues unabated. This is brought to the point with the means of an ironic music clip.

A short stop-motion animation

Paradox presents "Fuck the System", the second movie from the legendary daredevil Berlin Parkour crew "Berlin Kidz", released as a limited collector DVD edition in December 2017, sold out in a month, and now available as an exclusive on demand video. 4 years after the first DVD, "Fuck the System" is an adrenaline-fuelled 70' action documentary filmed by the Berlin crew with drones and go-pro cameras to closely capture the essence of parkour, train surfing, urban climbing & risk-taking graffiti in a gripping cat-and-mouse chase in the heart of the german metropolis. With "Fuck the System", we follow the Berlin Kidz from the very inside in their unrelenting quest for freedom.

The best of European Outdoor film festival 2012-2013.

Six chronicles based on an enigmatic space called Solitude.

A snowball fight is fun for everyone! Because it's sooo cold outside, the penguin has to think of something special to get his friends to join in the game.

Six people reveal their own interpretation and search for the perfect black.

A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer (and his fellows), living in the East German countryside. Who lost his memory in 1989 and woke up into several nightmares.

The documentary is about the British Choreographer Royston Maldoom (OBE) and his work on the Community Dance Piece that he created with children, teenagers and adults in Germany's city Detmold in 2010. It's a film about the educational power of dance.

After being kicked out of a party, Koka Bud ans his friends are looking for another place to continue their drugfilled raveparty. A seemingly abandoned house seems perfect, but once the party starts, bodies start to drop. It seems they entered the hidden lair of Dr Mengele and his undead servants, all out for blood.

An owl physicist's quest to solve a tough equation is disrupted by a new woodpecker neighbor.

In the search for adaptation, he finds individuality: Big audition at the "House of society"! There will be something for everyone, even for a young man, who seeks a future at the top. But this proves to be difficult, because for them, who doesn't belong to the upper class, it is difficult to get in there: Those, who do not adapt, will lose! "Weißer Kragen" explores the question of how much you can make from your individuality, questioning the selfishness of high society.

The closure of a DIY store in Bruchsal, Germany. "Everything must go!": beyond the slogan, the film follows the material and human proceedings.

Wanted! Hanns Eisler is a filmic and musical search for traces; an approach to Eisler's life as a homeless wanderer between worlds and his work, which retains its charisma and inspires subsequent generations of artists to new musical experiments.

A gambling-addict father takes his nine-year-old daughter to sports. On the way, he stops at a betting shop, leaving the girl waiting in the car. When he returns, nothing is as it was before.

Matthias Wilhelm is a musician who transfers the universality of his art to the philosophy of his life. People with linked his life, musical organizations that he has been part of, inspirations gathered from different branches of art make his philosophy comprehensible and meaningful. One Day with Matthias turns into a summary of life with full of art and multi-culturality.

What does it mean to be old in times of steadily increasing life expectancy? "When you're no longer needed, then you're old," says 74-year-old winegrower Alfons Wagner in Essenheim near Mainz. On average, Europeans today live 16 years longer than a generation ago. What to do with this gift of life?

A short horror film by Jörg Wischnauski.

For 13 years the quartet Long Distance Calling, which is based in Münster, has been praised and celebrated for its equally weightless and colossal music. After returning to their instrumental roots, Long Distance Calling planned the next step. Under the perfect tour title 'Seats and Sounds', the band performed in front of a seated audience.

Emil, now 27, lost his mother in an accident in a greenhouse during his childhood. He visits his mother's best friend at the time, who has no idea how the conversation will end.

“Stayer” bicycle races were big events up to the 1980s. The cyclists and their pacesetters on heavy motorcycles were popular stars. Today only half a dozen teams remain. They regularly compete on the banked curves of the century-old racetrack in Zurich-Oerlikon. They are perhaps the last of their kind.

For this found footage animated film I downloaded 10,000 photographs of the sunset, adjusted each one and arranged them in order, setting into motion a singular, colossal, collective sunset.

After the demonstration in winter 2013 and the subsequent toilet brush revolution, the Davidwache police station needed a new face. To everyone's surprise, the police chose a woman who soon found herself in a museum: as a policewoman in the tiny Sankt Pauli Museum, in good company with burlesque performer Eve Champagne and other strong women from Sankt Pauli. Rasmus Gerlach recorded their stories for the museum, collecting documents about business feminists, a toilet attendant, and the legendary pub owner Ille, who served drinks in the documentary film “Christmas Eve in Sankt Pauli.”

The film Bending to Earth is a further investigation into inscriptions and transformations of society manifested in the landscape. Several radioactive fields are circled by a hand camera in a helicopter, while a recorded voice-over which appears through several—often distorted—world radio stations describes the materials of those constructions and opens up a mediation of order systems and landscape archives. The fields represent a sort of alphabet of an image engineered in the earth; the camera is an observer of this document and its relation to reality, not just as a pre-existent form but as a potential or imagined object—the part that remains behind the scene, the break within the narrative.

Shining a light on what is generally perceived as the losing side in the political and social upheavals of the past two decades, marxism today is an ongoing project that began by following the fortunes of Marxist-Leninist teachers in the former Communist East Germany. Collins’ short film marxism today (prologue) (2010) mixes contemporary interviews with the ex-teachers alongside archive material, to form the centrepiece of this exhibition, which also includes a new video in which a number of concepts central to Marxist economic analysis are introduced to a new generation of students. Relocating from the start of this school year to Manchester, where Engels wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England, Collins’ project prompts a wider reflection on the city’s formative place in the history of radical thinking. Initiating a series of interactions with nearby schools and the local public, it also enquires into the continuing relevance of Marxist ideas in the present day.

Due to his probation Richard Ahrens can not risk any more slip-ups. Therefore trying to do everything right, everything goes wrong.

Click, click. Tip, tip, tip… Tip, tip. A young woman seeks spirituality and tranquility in the web. Bit by bit she dives into the absurd realm of screensavers and desktop backgrounds until merging with the uncanny operating system named “OS Love”.

Diving in South Africa is a very special and multifaceted adventure. Off the west coast, near the Cape of Good Hope, the sea is cold and nutrient-rich. Kelp forests thrive here, and you can, among many other animals watching the South African fur seals underwater. Thousands of wrecks from different epochs provide an interesting target. Off the east coast the sea is warmer, and we meet up close a school Small blacktip sharks. In the hinterland of freshwater Marico Oog an unforgettable diving. Join us under the water, you will experience the wonders of our world just as close as the fearsome predators in the vast expanses of the ocean. An unforgettable experience in Real 3D. Details

Sonja Ziemann talks about her career.

WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THIS LOVE - THE ZAKARIA PALIASHVILI MUSIC SCHOOL IN TBILISI is an observant and character-based documentary about a magical place. A film about growing up and aging, about farewells and new beginnings, about great dreams and the art of improvisation.

The documentary examines the question of Israel's possession of nuclear weapons. Answering in the affermative the movie also examines how Israel did so in secrecy but with the assistance of other countries.