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Arusha Ntarama lost everything in a massacre in Nyankunde, Congo. Her husband and two daughters died. Statehouse Commander Robert Makeni is to atone for Arusha's loss. She sets off for Berlin, where Makeni is received by the mayor in a hotel under a different name. Arusha wants to expose Makeni and take revenge. The junior manager of the hotel, Marco Held, becomes involved in the revenge plans and gets caught in the middle.

A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong opposition by the population. He realizes that the inhabitants are influenced by strange parapsychological occurences released by an elderly man, who also seems to dominate Walpurga, a young woman the engineer falls in love with.

This documentary tells the story of great love, bitter disappointments and self-doubts - but most of all of courage. The courage to take risks, try something new and be yourself - no matter what age. The film dives deeply into the exceptional and heart-warming stories of a group of transsexuals and drag queens in their sixties and seventies, who summon up their bravery to take to the stage one last time. For two years they have been touring in five continents, basking in the success of a spectacular show called "Gardenia", directed by Alain Platel and Frank Van Laecke. Now, as the show comes to a close, the glamorous aging performers must leave the limelight and go home to the quiet lives they left behind.

Director Dirk Regel staged a very romantic love story, a warm-hearted story of love and trust, of old dreams and the courage to give a lucky chance a second chance against the picturesque backdrop of Verona. The main roles of the prevented dream couple are best filled with Katharina Böhm and Christoph M. Ohrt. Other roles include Theresa Scholze, Ulrike C. Tscharre and Mirko Lang.

In order to finally get that long-awaited promotion, Heinz Hellmich, an old white man, has to show his "wokest" side at work. When he invites his superiors to a private dinner at his home, his family's politically correct façade quickly begins to crumble and the evening takes a hair-raising turn.

Three brothers and their affairs.

The Dutch supervillain Freek van Dyk is keeping the world on tenterhooks - and the world's best secret services can only stand by and watch. Finally, the Turkish Ayran Secret Service intervenes. However, there is a mix-up, because after two of the ASS men are eliminated, ASS head Süleyman is looking for a "Süper agent" and mistakes the clueless Indian cleaner Ranjid for one. He actually just wants to cure his sick cow, but suddenly has to save the world.

For four years, Tom Kummer fooled SZ Magazine and other reputable media outlets in Germany and Switzerland with his fake interviews. He owed his longevity to his professionalism: his work always demonstrated seriousness, thoroughness, and quality. He faked interviews with Sharon Stone, Nicolas Cage, Sean Penn, and Bruce Willis, in which he also talked to the stars about personal topics such as sex and drugs. Today, Kummer works as a tennis instructor in Los Angeles.

Based on Alexander Pushkin’s dramatic verse novel "Eugen Onegin", the ballet tells the tragic love story of the world-weary aristocrat Onegin and the naïve country girl Tatiana. John Cranko’s Onegin holds a special place in the choreographic repertoire of the second half of the 20th century as one of the few original full-length ballets.

Argentinian tango teacher Valentina Martino is not having an easy time of it. Her ex-husband evaded taxes, so she has to stay in Cornwall illegally. She lives there with her niece Elena. To earn money, Valentina works as a domestic help. However, this is not easy, as her employer Jack Rukin, who earns his living as a writer, has just been widowed. There are signs of turbulence when Henry, Jack's neighbor and arch-enemy, makes a bid for Valentina.

Amalindis, the first-born of the two royal twins, is dutiful and agrees to marry Prince Tanka. Zottelhaube, on the other hand, the second-born, does not feel connected to her nobility, but to the great outdoors and a wolf - and lives in the forest. Suddenly, three witches kidnap Amalindis, as the first-born can be a witch herself. The witches see this as a prerequisite for the eldest of them being able to rejuvenate herself in order to survive: she will slip into the body of Amalindis for the next solar eclipse! "Zottel" suspects that time is running out before this transformation. Reluctant to go with Tanka, who is determined to accompany her, she sets off on the dangerous journey to rescue her sister. She has no idea that she, of all people, will fall in love in the process. And she has no idea that it will soon be in question who is actually the first-born and therefore the one with powerful witchy abilities.

Drama about a former couple who met again 55 years after word war II.

At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.

Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure when he accidentally acquires the key to its location, the Peking medallion.

The plan seems to be working. The beautiful policewoman takes up a position in Deniz's company and quickly gains the trust and affection of her young compatriot. Gradually, she learns details about the planned attack from Deniz, who is actually in contact with fanatical Islamists, including German Muslim converts. And she gets to know the head of the group, the shady Abu "Ayman" Gallaz. But Yasemin can't fool him. Ayman immediately starts his own investigations. When his suspicions are confirmed and he is certain that Deniz has been seduced by an undercover agent, he skillfully exploits this knowledge. He lures the police onto the wrong track with targeted false information and gives Deniz the job of eliminating Yasemin.

Radical West German terrorist Rita Vogt abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown.

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.

"Expropriated Springer!" is the motto of the extra-parliamentary movement after the murder of Benno Ohnesorg in 1967. In many cities, demonstrators are trying to prevent the delivery of the Bild newspaper. The film documents the siege of the Springer House in Hamburg in 1968. The police reacted to the protests with unprecedented brutality, leading to a further radicalization of the movement. Like the birth of the Baader-Meinhof group.

Nele is a young call center agent who moonlights as a cloakroom attendant at the State Opera. When she falls in love with the small-time street dancer Kolja, she must confront the demons of her past and descend into the underworld. At the same time, talent scout Höllbach notices Nele's singing talent and offers her a great opportunity for a career as an opera singer. Axel Ranisch's modern adaptation of Orpheus and Eurydice is a cinematic opera pastiche between Puccini, Handel and Christian Steiffen.

A young father, his twelve-year-old daughter, a night club, two secrets and a lie that will solve everything.

Quirino, 77, has lived for more than 30 years in an abandoned village, at the bottom of a deep valley, between the sea and the mountains. Feeling the effects of old age, Quirino faces the dilemma of having to leave the only place he has ever known or end his days there.

A youngster takes over a high class hotel that the mother has been running into the ground and turns it into a successful enterprise.

You don't have to travel to faraway countries to observe wildlife, because the fauna of the big city also provides surprises every day. Contrary to expectations, many bird, mammal and insect species have adapted to the concrete jungle. They have become experts of the urban space. “My Wild Neighbors” takes a poetic look at the lives of animals in the city.

Haydn's oratario "The Creation", by La Fura dels Baus company. Recorded at the Seine Musicale.

A woman offers to pay an exorbitant amount for a beat up old jug in an antique store, but the owner says he will only part with it if she tells him a good story about herself.

Liepa and her daughter move to Germany in search of a fresh start, but soon must confront her family’s disapproval and the challenges of metropolitan life.

Montage of several photos of the work process of a Turkish guest worker.

A film about a young filmmaker of Serbian descent and his relationship to the war in the former Yugoslavia. Zoran was no and still is no extremist. He is educated, open, a Swabian, a German, a cosmopolitan. But the war confronted him with the issue of identity in a special way – and left traces.

A partially-clad woman is gagged and tied to a bed; her captor menaces her with a knife. Will he cut her? A man, whom we soon learn is named Paul, breaks through the door and shoots her captor. But she may not be free yet from torment. Paul may have his own sadistic streak. She's rescued by an unexpected source. Then we follow Paul through a series of stories outside stories, until we wonder if we are ever going to reach reality. So, it seems, Paul wonders as well, as we follow him in interactions with a make-up artist, a director, children on a playground, and passers-by on the street.

Alarm in the Swiss mountain village of Valbensa: brown bear Bennie strays into the hiking area. Some sense a tourist attraction, others fear for their goats. Meanwhile, big game hunter Beat is looking forward to some big prey. But he is only allowed to shoot once Paula, an expert brought in from Germany, has classified the bear as dangerous. Beat also sets his sights on Paula...

In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.

Sensitive Rieke Sattler has been married to her husband, fishmonger Fred, for over 20 years - but the romance of the early years is long gone: charming outdoorsman Fred has turned into a caustic grump who not only drives away customers at the village market with his bad temper, but also repeatedly offends his own wife. One day, Rieke's frustration gets the better of her and she flees to her daughter and her boyfriend in Munich. Here she meets her childhood sweetheart Bruno again - a dreamy bon vivant who courts her by every trick in the book.

Leo the foreign legionnaire, Wilhelm the priest and Charly the brothel owner are unequal brothers. Wilhelm is determined to have Charly's brothel closed down. When Charly kidnaps Wilhelm to his brothel, he recognizes his brother - and promptly pretends to be him. And then Leo comes along as well.

This short film follows the story of a student who is forced to leave the country because of a lack of a valid visa. On his last day in Berlin, he experiences the harshness of displacement, what it means to belong to a city and the absurdity of bureaucracy.

Set in a bleak future in which the world suffocates under the iron fist of a tyrannical regime. Driven by unyielding determination, Ken Shiro sets out on a perilous mission to find the gate to Hell and save his daughter from the Inferno.

Despite the homeopathic doctors studying medicine, they treat their patients against the basis of scientific knowledge. Allegations of fraud surround the topic. In the film, homeopaths embark on adventurous explanations of their popular belief system.

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new control technologies, at personal identification devices, electronic ankle bracelets, electronic tracking devices.

Neurosia is the autobiography of the director Rosa von Praunheim. The movie begins with Rosa presenting his autobiography in a movie theater. Before the film begins, he is shot. But - his body gets lost. A female journalist from a TV station begins researching the life of Rosa. In the course of the movie she speaks to lots of aquaintances, shows short clips from Rosas old movies. Her main aim is to provide sensational and shocking details from Rosas life. It turns out that nearly everybody had some reason to kill Rosa. At the end of the movie, she discovers Rosa at a boat where he is kept prisoner by some of his old enemies. She frees him, and the movie ends.

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.

Luxembourgish presenter, director, producer, and actress Désirée Nosbusch, born in 1965, is a woman of many talents. After starting out in radio at the age of 12, she landed her first role on the big screen four years later, then presented the Eurovision Song Contest in five languages at the age of just 19. Over the years, she has hosted popular TV shows and starred in more than 30 films and TV dramas, establishing herself as a major figure in European cinema.

The shower scene from Psycho reenacted with an egg.

A rookie detective’s first case is to observe an engineer, but she behaves so clumsily in her job, that she’s mistaken for a thief and con artist.

The film offers a comprehensive examination of the exploitation of animals in modern society.

When Resi and her clique get into a fatal accident on their trip to the Alps, they find themselves in a Bavarian afterlife authority that will decide their fate. Elysium, purgatory, rebirth - anything seems possible. When it becomes clear that the group lacks all conviction, the question arises: what the hell happens to someone who didn't believe in anything when they were alive?

Era Oculta – “Hidden Era” unfolds in the vibrant city of Maputo, where Rastafari artist Phambi fights with securing his son’s education amidst the rhythmic beats of Mozambique. Constantly on the brink of expulsion due to payment delays, Phambi’s artistic journey becomes a compelling narrative, showcasing the challenges and triumphs of an artist navigating the unique landscape of Mozambique. The film amidst the vibrant art scene, two young women, allies to Phambi, play a pivotal role in supporting his artistic endeavors. They willingly pose for him, adding depth and inspiration to his creations. Their presence in the film not only highlights the collaborative spirit within the artistic community but also brings a nuanced perspective to the narrative, reflecting the diverse voices that contribute to the cultural tapestry of Maputo.

Two men and their charming friendship.