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Day after day, Mr. Jonas and Mr. Schmidt make their way from door to door selling pots across the country. After work, both go their own way: Mr. Jonas spends his evenings in solitude, contemplating in his cheap hotel room, before going to a bar to drink a few glasses of whiskey. Mr. Schmidt whereas, transforms himself into a glamorous drag queen and dives into the night-life.

Malcolm has a big dream: he wants to become a professional boxer. In addition to his job at a kiosk, the 24-year-old spends all his time in the ring. After a turbulent youth, marked by violence and difficult family conditions that culminated in a stint in prison, Malcolm found a constant in boxing that put him back on the right track. Now he wants to try his luck in the professional world at the "Golden Gloves", America's biggest amateur tournament. When Malcolm’s first fight is less than convincing, his coach, Jesse, who himself is mourning a missed professional career, drastically increases Malcolm’s training regime. It is all or nothing for Malcolm. Are passion, talent and a rigorous exercise routine enough to make a dream come true? Filmmaker Christin Freitag takes a visually stunning look behind the scenes of the amateur boxing circuit in California.

MUNICH IN INDIA tells about the German painter Fritz-Munich. As the Nazis seized power in Germany he was traveling through colonial India between 1932 and 1937, and became the only German court painter of the Maharajas. Konstantin Fritz, the artist's grandson, searches for clues of his grandfather's paintings and of his fairytale adventures. Accompanied by Fritz-Munich's unique historical 16mm film shoots and diaries, the grandson follows the former travels of his grandfather through India today. MUNICH IN INDIA is the story of an unknown but nevertheless extraordinary artist. It tells about his adventures, about German and Indian history and simultaneously gets an insight into contemporary India.

A documentary directed by Julian Benedikt.

What does all this equal? the most epic road rally ever on the the West Coast: The Goldrush Rally. Online community Luxury4Play developed and executed this incredible rally featuring Exotics, Supercars and a mind blowing route from Seattle through Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and finishing in Las Vegas. Watch the cars, people, parties and lifestyle of this life-changing event as it unfolded over all 5 days of the rally. Welcome to the next level of Automotive Lifestyle.

Preparations for the "100 years of Lünen police station" anniversary celebration are in full swing, an event set to conclude with a tribute to outstanding investigative work. An honor the team surrounding Brandt and Wiesel might be worthy of considering their latest case: bar owner Robin Bürger has been found dead in his cooling chamber. The investigation proves to be increasingly complicated as everyone affiliated with it either tries to hide the truth or plot against one another. Soon, Brandt and Wiesel are certain that all of them are two-faced. How right they are with that assumption and how deeply the case will come to affect their own lives are the questions at the heart of this 5th "wieselflink and brandtgefährlich" film.

In the autumn of 2008 a family disappears from the town of Averohn near Hannover. The Schellenberg family is seen for the last time on the evening of the 17th October by neighbors. After that all track is lost of Ruth, her children, the eleven year-old Severine, fifteen year-old Tom and the new husband, Walter. Police, relatives and people in the village are mystified because even after one year's investigations the family remains missing. The documentrarian, Robert Kassai, takes up the subject one and a half years after the disappearance. He starts to investigate in the village with two thousand inhabitants and meets distraught people looking for answers. Video footage taken by Tom with his camera appears during his research. The video documents the final three weeks of the Schellenberg family before their disappearance and leads to an unbelievable truth; a truth between reality and imagination, which has a momentous impact on Robert...

The war of 1870/71 with the subsequent annexation of Alsace and parts of Lorraine, the First and Second World Wars and the German occupation of France testify to the difficult relationship between the French and the Germans.

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important painters of the present, Alexander Kluge's television interviews are legendary. Over several years, the two have met again and kept detailed discussions. With their youthful joy of associating, they talk about Kiefer's career and his way of working, about sources of inspiration and materials, about myths and of course history. Between the thematic blocks, Alexander Kluge switched cinematic miniatures, in which he spun common ideas and deepened individual aspects. A great dialogical artist portrait.

Seven children from different countries and very different cultures try to answer why they are in this world. They tell their stories authentically, seriously and imaginatively, sometimes with the subtlety and humor that only children are capable of. Because only children can find simple answers to seemingly unanswerable questions.

Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out'

Jan's father is not his father at all. The directors knows this and takes this fact as the starting point for a very personal documentary film project about the search for his biological father(s).

A presumably African village, inhabited by Germans. BURKINA BRANDENBURG KOMPLEX describes a geographical construction that makes use of “our” medial and collective image of Africa and puts it to the test through inaccuracies. An archaeological find is made in a mine: a Ferrari®. We tag along with Joachim on his everyday rounds. He has his heart set on realising a common energy project. The Museum of Prussian Cultural Heritage is run by a woman of color. She presents artefacts from Western consumer culture with a special emphasis on German products. Joachim is involved in the ritualistic production of energy in the village, but gets excluded when the ceremony is nearing its finale, finally catapulting himself out of the “story/history”.

20-year-old Benny comes to Berlin from the provinces to make his dream come true. He wants to gain a foothold in the local street dance scene. The opportunity to do so is within his grasp when the Berlin Dance Battle, the city's most important underground dance battle, comes up. Benny's goal is to be one of the dancers there. But the road ahead is tough, the competition is fierce and never sleeps. He introduces himself to one of the best street dance crews in the capital, the Berlin Meltdowns, and receives nothing but ridicule.

"Pastiche of a Vermeer painting and the ongoing theaters of war."

This Documentary approaches the most notorious motorcycle club in the world from the inside. It is a different angel to what and who the Hells Angels are. We look back at the history of the club, it`s origins, backgrounds and worldwide growth and show what mass media has never shown so fair. The Hells Angels talk about, their conflicts and how they deal with them. There are always two sides to a story, the one and the other one.

It's the most dangerous delicacy in the world. Despite incidents of poisoning year after year, the popularity of this exotic dish in Japan remains unbroken. The Japanese blowfish fugu contains one of the deadliest poisons known to man, 1250 times more potent than cyanide. If the cook isn't skilled in the use of a filet knife, the gourmet meal could become a death sentence for the restaurant guest.

In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when the government decides to relocate the inhabitants of the floating village to land.

Under the surface of the earth hides horror for a young man, when in a fever of fear he finds the head of his former lover. His only way is to escape, but the power of thought leads him back to the place of past happiness. Can the feeling of love in life be restored? The heartbeat calls him to himself in the fortress of nature. But there already wakes up an echo of the past.

Josi loves Helene but Helene never replies to the three magic words. Is that because she loves her less?

The dolphin has a lot of fun with a colorful bubble until a careless swordfish pricks it.

Michael and Jan want to go to a party, but David, who also wants to go, is late. After a phone call, it becomes clear that he was still in the forest looking for his lost wallet. But then the cell phone connection breaks down and Michael and Jan set out to search for David. The beginning of a nightmare.

When Jan Peters' girlfriend accidentally takes his wallet on a trip to foreign climes, she leaves the filmmaker standing in Frankfurt Airport without a penny to his name. The only capital he possesses is a group ticket for the public transport system. After hearing about people who supplement their inadequate incomes by 'escorting' groups of tourists across the city, Mr Peters decides to apply the same method to his own situation. The filmmaker starts a business as an 'independent travel escort' and enters an obscure world of supplementary jobs and adventurous business models.

Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) traveled around Berlin as a journalist for decades. His books “Walks through the Mark Brandenburg” contain very rich and remote cultural, historical, ethnographic and biographical sources. Bernhard Sallmann takes passages from it that he confronts with the current shape of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

A golden summer dress in XXL, the ice-lolly drips slowly onto the hot ground. RIOT NOT DIET creates a queer feminist utopia far away from BMI norms and male* gaze. The fat women* and queers in this movie are not ashamed of their expansive body dimensions, but confidently claim space for themselves. They use their bodies to blow up patriarchal structures and enjoy their corporeality beyond the neoliberal logic of exploitation. In times of self-optimization, your belly is a statement!

The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new. The 2018 concert was conducted by Daniel Barenboim. On the programme: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 26 in D major, K. 537 „Coronation”, Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, Alborada del gracioso, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Boléro, George Bizet: Carmen-Suite No. 1.

This one-minute short about funerals, bursting bubbles and black holes shows us how grief transcends through time and space.

Homophobia isn't funny, but everything else is.

Sloth wants to buy an ice cream cone. Unfortunately, he is way too slow and sleepy.

A violent supermarket incident involving a refugee in East Germany is reenacted in a film studio. Ten citizens observe and comment on the case, which highlights the blurred distinction between civil courage and vigilante justice.

France, 1940. Wehrmacht soldiers are settled at the French border. Uneventful days pass by and the soldiers are getting increasingly relaxed on their duty. Except of Hans, the rookie of the group who takes his duty very seriously. He left his comfortable home with noble but naive beliefs about the army and now has to deal with a different reality. Hans' only friend is Peter, a simple but nice butcher’s son. One evening, a lot of stolen alcohol and women’s clothes brings some distraction to the soldiers. They dress up as women and organize a show.

It's a full-length documentary about the problems of Upper Silesian identity today and attempts to protect what remained after years of Germanization and later Polonization of Upper Silesia.

Contemporary witnesses such as Cornelia Jahr, Christoph Polster, and Sabine Bürger-Wüst report on how the environmental movement gave rise to a reform movement in Cottbus.