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The panda wants to be able to dance as well as the two rabbits.

Piano/electric duo Grandbrothers perform at Cologne Cathedral to celebrate the 700th anniversary of its consecration, in a spectacular show featuring their ‘augmented’ piano and light show.

The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.

Chinese mining in Ecuador’s mountains sets the stage for an epic battle between eco-guerrillas and a corrupt government in an intensely dramatic feature by former CPH:DOX winner Marc Wiese.

A flash of all the everyday and poetic that happens within a second in different places in our world, based on a prose ballad by Siegfried Lenz.

Michael J. Hilli is the best filmmaker in the world and therefore he needs a reel to prove that he is. He made it by himself. All alone. So alone. Nobody helped him. - Come with him and experience a cinematic journey - from his extraordinary process before every shooting, where he uses baby tears for the perfect shot, to his self sacrificing method where Michael teaches storytelling to his film equipment.

What would we do if the world ended tomorrow? And what do we do to prevent it? "The End of the World As We Know It" is a film about three people who seek survival in the face of great catastrophes: in a bunker far from civilization, in the contaminated Chernobyl exclusion zone, and as a scientist fighting the climate crisis.

Jagged lands, picturesque coastline and landscapes dotted with lakes and old castles...: a journey through the Scottish landscapes aboard the Royal Scotsman, a luxurious train with Victorian reminiscences. To the north stand the steep reliefs of the Highlands; to the south lie the rolling plains of the Lowlands. To discover these lands, there's nothing like a trip aboard the luxurious Royal Scotsman. This train crosses the whole country from Edinburgh to the Wild West Coast, reminiscent of when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert traveled by rail to their summer residence. Departing from the capital, the convoy takes the Glenfinnan Viaduct, immortalized in the Harry Potter saga, before meandering at the foot of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest peak.

The energetic 2022 performance of Florence + the Machine at Flow Festival, Helsinki, Finland — August 13th, 2022. Florence Welch delivers a phenomenal evening performance.

A gigantic catastrophe has happened and is interrupted for two or three days. Three strangers find themselves stranded on an empty island, between desperation and a hopeless situation. What to do with the remaining time? But on the second day the sea delivers a silent man. The three survivors fall in love with the assumed saviour and forget about the catastrophe.

A journey through the fantastic and mysterious Barcelona that the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) loved so much, the city of myth and legend, the city that was before it became one of the main European tourist destinations.

Pia has gone to her parents' home in Katharinenheerd for the weekend to get away from the stress of university, stressful roommates, and a liaison gone awry. But instead of leaving her alone, she seamlessly continues to be harassed. Pia thinks that just because she's nice doesn't mean she's okay with everything. She decides to simply drive out, out to the Eiderstedt grassland and actually already knows exactly where to go.

An animated documentary about the relevance of Shakespeare's classical works for digital natives in Singapore: Live action and animation combined. The film was created in close collaboration with the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A man excavating a 4,000-year-old city; philosophers living in huts; children finding out something terrible; and a young woman who has disappeared. Something intangible between fact and fiction. In the end, fire and maybe truth. The mountain has its effect on everyone.

Behind the famous fairy tales are two men with a passion for language, literature and politics. The Grimm brothers tell their own stories, in a documentary set in 19th-century Germany.

A nearly finished construction site. The wiring is completed, the walls are painted, the final inspections are being done. The construction manager Thomas Zetzsche is proud of his achievement. The prestigious building he created is a modern dream come true. But suddenly that dream begins to crumble as more and more defects appear. Cables run into dead ends, the fire protection malfunctions and entire rooms go missing. Desperately Thomas is trying to fix the building until he finally accepts that the opening date has to be postponed. Now he must confront his own responsibility in this faulty system and draw the necessary consequences

Born out of fire: on September 19, 2021, a new crater opens up on the Atlantic island of La Palma. Nobody suspects that it will be the largest and incredibly destructive volcanic eruption in Europe for five centuries - a rare chance for scientists to watch evolution at work. ARTE exclusively accompanies the scientific work on the volcano from the first day of the eruption. For almost three months, the volcano hurls gigantic chunks of pyroclastic material, lava and ash out of itself. At times, several rivers of lava are pushed down the mountain flank at a speed of 120 meters per hour. Anything in their way is destroyed and buried under a layer of lava up to 60 meters high.

On a spooky night the three teenagers Tom, Leila and Petey head to an abandoned cemetery. Tom has the most fun scaring his two friends. He even brought an old leather-bound book and tells Leila and Petey that he wants to summon the "spirit of painful bloodshed." In front of an old grave, Tom begins the ritual, but something goes wrong. Did he just summon a real ghost?

Volker can hardly imagine anything better than being the father of a daughter. However, he knows far too little about the real life of 17-year-old Daphne after separating from his wife. He wants to change that with his first daddy-daughter vacation, billed as a trip to Crete's dream beaches. However, the educational program the lecturer has come up with doesn't really suit the teenager's interests.

short film by Eva Claus

WHY WE JUGGLE is a portrait of six artists from all over the world and their motivations for juggling. Through juggling, individual worldwide conflicts are being told. For the protagonists, playing with gravity is a counterpart to their harsh realities and a way to escape them for a few moments.

Based on the poem of the same name by Walt Whitman, Once I Passed is dedicated, on one hand, to the obviously autobiographical context with all its personal drama, and on the other hand to the content of the poem itself, the profoundly quiet, yet powerful story of two lovers.

For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and insistence on justice. The painful story of a minority between trauma and self-assertion. The two-part film deals with various forms of resistance by German and Austrian Sinti and Roma over eight decades. It is about rebellion against injustice and the insistence on dignity and justice.

Under the baton of its founder François-Xavier Roth, the Les Siècles orchestra performs a program entirely devoted to Igor Stravinsky with The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring. For this concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the musicians play on period instruments that reproduce as faithfully as possible the original sound of these three great ballets.

United in their support for Ukraine, violinist Daniel Hope and Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov perform a concert for peace from Dresden's frauenkirche. Composers featured include Johann Sebastian Bach , the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov and Russians Alfred Schnittke and Sergei Rachmaninov.

Concrete hubris looms over the Argentinean pampa around Buenos Aires. The buildings of Francisco Salamone (1897–1959) advertise a pitiless modern age.

After years of touring together, the Berlin supergroup “Moderat” decided in 2017 to go on a (recently terminated) hiatus. “The Last Days” portrays the three protagonists of “Intelligent Dance Music” at their most human. Black and white images taken around their last concert tour serve as a projection surface for off-screen interviews in which Sascha, Szary and Gernot describe each other, allowing deep insights into their artistic dynamics.

How can you give the target age group, “smartphone” an overview of the work of a unique literary genius without getting bogged down in long-winded lectures on verse and drama theory?

Placebo live at Rock am Ring on June, 4th 2022 during their "Never Let Me Go"-Tour.

What and how much do we need for a good life? Not much, says Knut Thomsen from Dithmarschen. Something to eat, something to drink, and the freedom to make time for what you're doing. His wife Berit and he opened a village shop together - a 40 square meter, lively universe of regional vegetables, finely arranged shelves, chatter and togetherness. And an island in a sea of ​​discounters that have long since supplanted the small shops in the country.

The mouse rescues a starving beaver from an island using his wooden ship.

Simon prepares for a date, but realizes he's missing the essential ingredient for his outfit. The tie. Simon races around town looking for his tie, trying to get ready in time for the date.

When filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki fled her native island of Crete as a young adult, she hoped to leave her violent childhood behind her. But in Spain, her memories are reawakened when a man asks her to make a film about him and his violence.

A short portrait of a young man, who choses Ukraine as the destination for his year abroad so he can teach juggling to children who have been affected by war. Surrounded by trenches, he confesses that he feels more comfortable here than in Czech Republic because the people are so kind-hearted. With great sensitivity the film shows a search for meaning surrounded by gunfire.

Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

According to the plot, which is not inferior in intrigue to foreign analogues, honorary members of Chinchinchenel Sergey Nikolaevich and Nikolai Sergeevich arrive at the Lyad psychiatric hospital No. 1 to visit a mysterious patient, Elena Stomach. And nothing foreshadows anything unexpected, but further events will make even a sophisticated moviegoer raise an eyebrow in surprise.

When Mara flees from the military dictatorship in her country of origin in Latin America, she leaves a lot behind. Twenty years later, mother and daughter are living in Berlin when an amnesty and compensation for the exiles are announced. The events and the reunion with an old acquaintance awaken fears in Mara that she was able to suppress for a long time. She relives the past in vivid nightmares.

It’s so difficult for him to get into the day. „Leutnant“ no longer manages to get up in the morning: a man who has lost something, a man suffering from transcendental homelessness. What do they think of him – the others, the teacher Alba, his colleagues? He keeps ordering new mattresses, sending the old ones back. One day, the carrier enters Leutnant's apartment.