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The triangle has always been a fairly underrated instrument. It never reached higher than second fiddle or more precise: It just reached triangle. Then came a hero we didn’t know we deserve. A hero that single-handedly revolutionised the whole music industry – nay the world! A man responsible for what the triangled metal stick is today: rock’n’roll. But rock’n’roll changes you. The rise and fall of a triangle soloist. The Rise and Fall of Richie Myles.

Rosa von Praunheim was inspired to make this film by his own radio play “Die Nachtigall” (The Nightingale) from 1986, when he improvised together with street singer Friedrich Steinhauer, who called himself “die Nachtigall vom Ramersdorf” (The Nightingale of Ramersdorf), and Luzi Kryn, who became famous for her role in Praunheim’s film DIE BETTWURST. Now, more than 30 years later, Rosa von Praunheim has filmed his material with singer and actor Hubert Wild and an eccentric former teacher, Ellen Reichardt, who has appeared in several of his films already.

When Dieter's wife Tamara, bored with her marriage, elopes, Dieter sets off for Mont Saint Michel with a chance acquaintance, Ronen.

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.

Eifel landlady Toni Janssen and her mother Heidi are once again running the Kupferkanne as a team of two. While Heidi's guesthouse is running at full speed, Toni wants to shift down a few gears at her newly renovated country inn. The new name "Kupferkännchen" is intended to stand for a less ambitious concept: home-style cooking for pub guests. However, their new chef Sebastian Holtmann brings the highest culinary standards with him. Not only does he have a lot up his sleeve, but he is also extremely self-confident. Toni is amazed that Sebastian would like to reopen under his own name.

Matthias and Tobias want to cycle from Germany to Vietnam. Their lack of training shows when they start their endeavor in August 2018. Against all odds and without ever losing their humor they push forward to reach that one ambitious goal.

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 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.

Roland Kaiser interprets the most beautiful German and international Christmas songs in his very own style - enriched with many Christmas stories.

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.

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.

Jacky lives with her friend Caro in a cosy flat share and to the outside world it seems as if everything is fine. But Jacky's soul is restless. She recently broke up with her boyfriend Jan and tries to forget him without any success. Jacky goes to a party where Jan is supposed to be. She seeks to talk to him and hopes to get a new chance.

First part of Eckhart Schmidt's TreCamerone-trilogy.

As autumn colors fall.

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.

Summer vacation in the forest—7-year-old Lene from Mecklenburg isn't looking forward to it at all! Nothing but trees, mountains, and children who speak a language she finds strange: Bavarian! But then there's the story of Wald-Peter, who is said to be trapped in a "cave of sleeping souls," or that of the mysterious Wald-Ursel, whose soul lives on in the forest. Lene meets Forest Obelix and a cool young ranger, learns Bavarian rap, and discovers the best hiding places in the forest.

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.

To Suzy van Zehlendorf, all humans are crazy homo bankivas. In this portrait in documentary form, the artist shows us her process while working on a bust of Sophie Charlotte, the calming benefits of her favorite castle and the useful combination of spiked helmets and MP3 players.

Mary Bauermeister is considered the mother of the Fluxus movement. In an attic on Cologne's Lintgasse, she made art history in the early 1960s alongside personalities such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Nam June Paik. Today, at the age of 85, she has no intention of stopping. From morning till night, this extraordinary artist works in her studio near Cologne: a magical place.

In the Southeastern-most part of Germany, rises Mount Watzmann. This mighty peak is a stone guardian of a remarkable wild region that holds tight to its secret nature. There are more secrets to reveal where the mountains disappear into the depths of Lake Königssee, a lake that holds a stark resemblance to a fjord at the coasts of the Atlantic ocean. Underwater, fossil marine creatures in limestone rock tell of an ancient seabed, buried deep then heaved skywards by battling tectonic plates. Deep grooves and gouges in the rock were left by an ice age glacier, more than one kilometer thick as it chiseled its way down the valley. Though the ice age ended 12,000 years ago, the mountains still carry echoes of that frozen past. "Echoes of the Ice Age" is a portrait of the wildlife in this breathtaking scenery of the Berchtesgaden Alps.

An homage to Hans Richter for the 35th anniversary of his death in 2021.

Neither islands nor mainland: the unique Halligen islands are located in the Wadden Sea Biosphere Reserve.

A major climatic shift, drought is taking hold in Europe. We take a closer look at this worrying phenomenon, linked to global warming and amplified by our intensive farming practices.

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.

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.

Nerdy tax official Eva is fired for giving speeches about a fairer tax system in the park. An Internet video of this goes viral, jeopardizing a planned mega-merger. That's why the company bosses are determined to stop Eva's popularity.

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.

‘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.

Silesia: a contested region marked by migrations. Animosities between the peoples have a long tradition here, not only since the Second World War. But the National Socialist tyranny left clear lesions behind. The director’s grandfather comes from this region, was the organist in a church in Krasiejów – a place which was once also called Krascheow and, for a while, Schönhorst.

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In this experimental documentary filmmaker Sobo Swobodnik explores his milieu of origin.

A projector from 1938 - on the road for 60 years. Helmut Göldner travels from village square to village square to entertain the residents with his mobile cinema. And he has been doing this with unbroken energy for 60 years. In KINOMANN, director Matthias Ditscherlein shows an almost forgotten time - and cinema as it really is.

For their 100th episode, the hosts of the Bavarian film podcast Viva la Movielución produced a feature film about themselves. Instead of covering a movie, game or series as usual, they made their own show the subject, filmed live before an audience with guests and a Q&A.

Jürgen Leppert, also known as "Der Dreher" or "der Kreisel" is a graduate engineer, speaker inventor, 360 degree dancer, gifted Frisbee player and thoroughbred 68er. Everything revolves around the Karlsruher legend, and not just on the dance floor. A declaration of love to music, dancing and rebellion. A portrait of a tough person who still swims against the stream and the living proof that 81 years is far from too old for hard raves.

Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala in the former German colony of Togo (West Africa) hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony in memory of the African colonial soldiers who died here in August 1914. But Wahala's history and its name point to another painful past. In 1903 the German colonial administration set up a "correctional settlement" by the Chra river where people considered to be an obstacle to colonial order were obliged to live. Wahala: a place where the voice of the ancients resonates with present day pictures.

Torn between her religion and sexual orientation, Derya tries to find her inner peace as a lesbian muslim.

Ayse likes to play soccer with boys, she is in love with another girl and she often calls herself Tarik instead of Ayse. She has managed to establish herself and achieve her goals, but now she has to lead a double life because she comes from conservative circles. When she gets her period, she realizes once again what a dilemma she is in.

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are found all over middle Europe: from the northern Balkans to Ireland. Their cultural achievements were equal in almost every way to those of the Romans and Greeks: They could read and write and spoke Greek and Latin - for centuries, they were the powerful elite of their culture. Only one single Druid is known by name to history: Diviciacos - an aristocrat of the Aedui and personal friend of Julius Caesar. Diviciacos was a politician, a judge and a diplomat, but he lived at a time when the Celtic lands of Gaul were conquered by the Romans. Greek and Roman contemporaries distrusted the actions of this forbear of the famous comic book druid Getafix: They imagined him in bloody rituals in somber woods.

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.

Mariarita dancing through her dreams and Rome to find the meaning of life.

Tragic and true stories about destiny and celebrity.

For over a year, the Dannenrod Forest in Germany was occupied by climate activists who lived in treehouses up to 30 meters high to protect it from clearing for a new motorway. In October 2020, the extraction by the police and the cutting of the trees started. This documentary follows the activists through their actions, their dreams and their music and is with them when finally the last treehouses fell in the first week of December 2020.

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.

A cow is taken by aliens.