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The villagers of Churvaleti knew since the end of the Georgian war in 2008 that they were living on a border. Life was simple, but not far from normal. Until a while ago, when Russian patrols started drawing the borderline and putting up barbed wire fences. In Churvaleti, the barbed wire fence goes right through the village. Families and communities got divided. Every other hour border patrols pass by and put anyone in captivity who come close to the fence. In spite of this menace, the villagers find ways to stay in touch with their relatives and friends across the line. Life goes on, but will it ever be the same again?

"Weimar" was the first democracy on German soil. It was a new beginning full of emotion and hope - in difficult times. Weimar is often viewed from the end, from its downfall under National Socialism. Yet it was a great new beginning. The Germans dared to embrace democracy. A documentary as a lively discussion about Weimar. What can Weimar teach us today?

The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colombia highest mountain, the Sierra Nevada Santa Marta. They draw from this unique environment a preserved and singular spirituality. For the first time a director was invited to visit the heartland of the sacred mountain. Hick tells the story of resistance which is a voyage through space and time: from the shores of the Caribbean to the stars that light up the night on the glacier and from the encounter with the first colonizing whites to the return of the warriors following FARC's laying-down of arms.

Silvina is Spanish and unemployed art teacher. She left her three children and her husband in Spain to work for three months for the Amazon Christmas campaign, packing shipments at the company's headquarters in the city of Bad Hersfeld in Hesse. Like her, another 10,000 European workers were recruited by the EURES employment network. They are the protagonists of a documentary broadcast last February 13 by the public network ARD.

Somehow everyone knows that you reveal everything about yourself on the internet - where you are, what you are interested in, who you communicate with, when, where and how. The interactive documentary shows what the internet knows about us, what happens to our data and what this means for our view of the world. The 30-minute television version presents the highlights of the web documentary series about the multi-billion dollar business with our data. The international web project 'Do Not Track' shows the consequences of internet tracking (derived from the English 'to track'), which companies such as Google and Deutsche Telekom use to monitor when and where we click on which online content. Google alone earns an estimated 55.5 billion US dollars per year from this information.

Lisa has a passion for mopeds. So does Heinrich, and the two become friends. Soon their relationship blossoms into something deeper. But in "Schwalbennest", homosexuality is the norm. When her fathers find out about Heinrich, Lisa must choose. Should she respect her family's wishes? Or will she be true to herself and the one she loves?

A collage of half forgotten sub-truths which is constantly added to over time, from unused fragments of super8 (mostly my own, sometimes others), complete with hand painted and scratched sections. The material impossibility of memory. Named after a line in William Burroughs' The Soft Machine.

For centuries, Egyptian temples were victims of looting, earthquakes, desert encroachment, and floods, and were almost swallowed up by the waters of the Nile in the 20th century. This film aims to better understand the history of these temples. Thanks to an unprecedented international mobilization, discover the exceptional heritage saved at the cost of a "pharaonic" trip.

As a child Ibrahim Arslan survived the arson attack on his parents’ home in Mölln in which three members of his family were killed. Today he says that his family suffered not just one, but two attacks. After the Molotov cocktails had burnt out, the Arslan family became a target of attacks again, this time coming from the media, politics and society. These attacks were worse than the incendiary devices because they could have been avoided, Arslan says. In her film, Mala Reinhardt asks why even today many victims of radical right-wing violence are forced to live through the same experience of being treated with hostility and criminalised. The victims, who have formed a network, analyse with impressive clarity which conditions make racism still socially acceptable in our country. The essential thing now is to listen to them. Luc-Carolin Ziemann

What do a luxury automobile, a cymbal, and a wall clock all have in common? What are the diverse attachments and experiences produced by those who make these things and those who consume them? What exchanges take place through the object itself—sensually, esthetically, abstractly? We often forget that most of the things we use are made by the labor of others, often in distant places, living dramatically different, diverse lives. What do these objects mean to them? How does their labor, their aspirations, their sense of alienation or satisfaction connect to ours?

They were called "the 175s". These men were sometimes arrested while making love, often at work, or the police picked them up from home. A few hours later, they were often already in custody, and it was usually not long before they were dismissed by their employer. Their crime: consensual sex between adult men. This was a violation of Paragraph 175, which stated that "unnatural fornication committed between persons of the male sex" was punishable by imprisonment. This is what the German Criminal Code said when it was introduced in 1871.

Paris: the 12th arrondissement, the Aligre market. A road with more than forty fruit and vegetable stands. Pure Vitamin C! Day by day tons of goods are moving. The Total condensing: buyers and sellers of all stripes dealing and strolling. The Aligre is a place of cultures, a symphony of things: oranges, apples, mangoes they are all the stars of the moment in a dense crowd of shouting, hunger, trade and enjoyment. A unique piece of Paris!

In Russia ladybugs are sitting on the lower third of the flag, since they are hiding there like spies in the cables of a computer. Bugs in the machine. On. Off. The mysterious bug ate the Russian Coccinellidae after they had a sexual intercourse for about 5 hours. A woman caged in her apartment. In the news they are saying no is allowed to leave the building. Ban of going out. Someone is inside. Someone is watching her.

Being a toy is good because you can only do something stupid if you can't do anything and do it. And stupid art is the only real thing anyway. Art that shows that is brought into public space and is not removed from there. Art for the street, not consumed for those who want to appropriate it for self-expression or as a financial investment. Art as a material that has become a will to trust, between cunning, stupidity and cheese. This is "Igits World".

Documentary about the 1980s Swiss watch crisis.

A collage of associations evoked by finds. One’s family, three different Germanys including their insidious subchapters, the taste of life. The mother used to be a passionate Chinese checkers player. On the one hand. On the other she was a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. Her journeyman’s piece: a showpiece with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of these words we presumed obsolete. And for everything else!

Four "It-girls" celebrate the 5th of December on the countryside and meet a gruesome figure.

Killer Andre, who kills for the Russian mafia with his partner Arthur, suddenly feels a pang of conscience. He wants to get out...

A city seems traumatized. Even a year after the G20 summit, the police are still looking for hundreds of suspects. 17 interviewees from the police, media, science, stock in this film.

The film transports us from the inside of an old factory of cinematographic films to a sensory journey to places initially unknown, but that gradually enclose a belonging region. The film presents the integration of Socialist Germany – ironically called by Western Dark Germany – and the definition of a new scope. In the darkness of the plant and from other hidden sensations of places, we are immersed in constant discoveries of the territory, combined with feelings of opening and closing, evaluation of distances and survey of new measures. The film overlaps past and future in layers of sensations that balance between the disappearance and the invention of a place.

Are we as human beings any longer able to live in the world we built for ourselves or do we have to go back to our roots to be happy? A young man settles out to a journey into wildest nature in search for an answer.

Last Exit Alexanderplatz is a film about the ongoing, but politically disputed and so far unsuccessful attempt to transform the former East-German Alexanderplatz into a high-end, Manhattan-like business district. Through interviews with the architects and politicians, who were involved in the competition held for the square in 1993, the film highlights the dogmatism and insensitivity that characterized much of planning in post-reunification Berlin. But it also depicts a square, which despite the failures and missed opportunities of the 1990s, seems to have regained its foothold in the city.

She turned a shoe into a hat or a chop into a headdress: fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) loved the surreal and the color pink. She came from Rome and managed to make a name for herself as a fashion designer in Paris in the 1930s with her original ideas. She revolutionized the fashion world with her unusual designs.

After fascination coral reef now follows fascination Amazon, an exciting, turned in the best Real 3D journey into one of the most interesting corners of the globe. The Amazon is next to the Nile, the longest river in the world. It measures approximately 6448 meters and shares with his two source rivers Maranon and Ucayali almost the entire northern half of South America. About 300 kilometers south of the Equator, it crosses the west of the Andes and embossed framed by tropical rainforest Amazon basin to the Atlantic. The Amazon irrigate a total of 5.5 million square kilometers. 3.9 million of them in Brazil. He is also the most water power in the world. Over 10,000 inflows lead to such gigantic proportions.Become a witness of this exciting hunts and learn a lot more to know about the amazing Amazon. This beautiful, but also threatened natural beauty, in the past some of the people live, who have never come into contact with the globalized world.

We’re on a tour through the Jewish catacombs of Rome. The archaeologist’s fragmentary narration is interspersed with directions to the lighting technician. We never see a complete image: our understanding of history is determined by its representation.

Every summer DJs like Felix Jaehn and Alle Farben clock up more air miles than some airline pilots, conquering the international charts from their laptops. They produce hit songs, and have made German-style Deep House popular in Australia, Japan and the US. Accompany Alle Farben, Felix Jaehn and Trance pioneer Paul van Dyk around the world.

A disabled woman obsessively instructs her housekeeper until the oppression becomes something she can’t live without.

HANS (54) died. His ex wife CONNY (33) is now in charge of their daugther LEO (10). After their divorce Leo spent most of her time with her father Hans. Conny is overwhelmed by the new circumstances. Her way of dealing with the loss is supression instead of grieving. From then on, Conny tries to manage her full time job as a stage designer and constantly being on the phone while also taking care of her daughter. As accomplices of an unconventionel lifestyle, Conny and Leo find a new and unique form of a mother and daughter relationship.

At his law firm's New Year's Eve party, young lawyer Felix is blackmailed into stealing confidential documents from his employer.

One day, a little mole discovers that all of the other animals have a friend of their same species to play with, but the mole is all alone and very sad. To make matters worse, all the food is starting to rebel. A fat earthworm escapes in a hurry, right under the mole's nose. The hunt inside the tunnels begins! Finally the earthworm is caught, but just as the mole is about to bite down, he realises that it's not an earthworm but another mole's tail. Now that they've found each other, there's a happy ending under the molehill.

Documentary about a German village in the middle of nowhere.

Nomads tells a moment from a couple's journey. Always left to chance, they are stranded at a motorway junction with no prospect of progress. In search of a campsite, they go to a remote point on the outskirts.