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In summer Berlin’s lakes become mystical places where people go to transcend their mundane lives. ECSTATIC UNITY follows Jorge and Gerard on a ritualistic trip to one of these lakes. Enraptured by their natural surroundings and guided by primal instincts, the bearded boys spin themselves into a whirlwind of blissful breath and tantric touch.
Clowns are more than jesters; they hold a mirror up to society. They move between the worlds and like to break rules, albeit with a wink. At the same time, clowns are contradiction experts by nature, because they know on the one hand that life is far too short to be sad, and on the other hand use their art not only to entertain us but to make oppression and violence visible and attackable.
Johann Friedrich von Allmen and his partner Carlos get caught up in a new adventure in which the disappearance of a very valuable koi plays a crucial role.
A man is murdered on a remote riverbank, and a young woman confesses to the murder to the police that same night. Forensic psychologist Karla Eckhardt identifies the confessed perpetrator as Anna Lobrecht, whom she had classified as a compulsive liar in a report two years ago. It's possible that Lobrecht isn't telling the whole truth this time either.
Evgeny Kissin appeared in Salzburg in 2021 with compositions of the late Romantic and classical modern periods in the Großes Festspielhaus. Since his debut in 1987, the pianist has been a welcome guest at this festival, impressing with the maturity and brilliance of his playing. Kissin loves the dialogue with the audience and the direct power of the concert moment.
The author of the film, Evgenia Zobnina, tells in detail about the life and career of Tamara Morshakova, a legendary Russian lawyer, retired judge of the Constitutional Court and a former member of the Human Rights Council.
The film “Outside” tells the story of domestic violence happening every day behind closed doors. Our heroine deals with violence in her own way. The film was inspired by an article about this in a German newspaper, titled "The Numbers Are Scary".
the author Catharina Kleber travels to five different regions of the world to find out how food is influenced by religious precepts. On her culinary journey, she meets an imam in Tehran who also runs a pastry shop - in a very secular way. Islam shapes life and eating habits in Iran.
Between smoke, light and darkness, Celine meets Jakob. But when they get close to each other, Jakob learns that Celine wasn't born a woman. In the unromantic club toilet, they are forced to face their feelings and prejudices. But the more they open up to each other, the more they both have to realize that they only saw each other against the light. You can learn a lot from each other - albeit in small steps.
The short film poem KYKLOP is dedicated to a mechanical eye as an autonomous being. Round wheels and targets similar to him seem to arouse the interest of this main character. The atmosphere is thundery, thunderous. It reminds of the cyclopean thunder demons from the "Theogony" of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. KYKLOP (2023) is another autonomous part of the film cycle by Telemach Wiesinger and Alexander Grebtschenko that began with TURBULENCE (2022) and its pairs of mechanical wings.
What happened in 1953 in Stalin’s secret dacha in Kuntsevo? The last five days of the dictator. The film presents narratives about the life and death of the scrupulous power seeker Stalin. A life full of cruelties and red glamour which ended 70 years ago in his secret dacha in Kuntsevo. The almighty suddenly powerless.
Freja lives in a youth detention center. Her little brother lives with a foster family. Her mother is gone. To reunite her family, Freja would do anything. She desperately wants to lead her loved ones out of the dark by taking them back home to the northern lights. But everybody has to let go someday.
A single mother experiences an intricate interplay between loneliness, deisre, anxiety, boredom, and dream-like states as she waits for her child to return home from a visit with their father. As the days pass, the mother becomes increasingly restless. She tries to distract herself by engaging in mundane domestic task and indulging in fantasies of romantic connection.
Shy photographer Rita and her rebellious classmate Raquel team up in a late-night attempt to make visible the power games at their school.
Only in exile can Uyghurs from the Chinese province of Xingjang still live out their culture. A struggle against oblivion and loss of identity.
How can our cities become more liveable? How can we make the air cleaner? How can space be created for a growing population? Urban planning around the world is transforming cities - and at breakneck speed. The documentary shows examples of a successful traffic turnaround in our cities.
The homeless bed salesman Uwe tries to spend the night in the furniture store, but nothing comes of it. The aging security guard Bernd catches him and wants to get rid of him. What Uwe doesn't know is that Bernd also has a secret. In the nightly anonymity of the furniture store, he sells identities.
What's the meaning of life? How do I find my way? In his existential philosophy work CITADELLE, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry posthumously gives us uncomfortable answers.
Artist Neil Harbisson was born colour blind, but an antenna permanently implanted into his skull enables him to hear colours and today he is the world's first officially recognised cyborg. Meet a man who may be the prototype of the human of the future. He is on a mission to convince the world to adopt his credo: Design Yourself.
For the young nun Charlotte, the strict convent life is a liberation from her previous life in the fast lane. When advertising professional Conrad is stranded in the convent on a business trip, Charlotte feels vindicated in her decision to choose life in the convent. But the convent is in the red and has been making losses for too long, which is why the unexpected guest comes at just the right time for Abbess Katharina and Sister Hedi. With his experience and skills, he could make the convent profitable again and save it from being sold. Although Charlotte has another plan to save the convent, she reluctantly agrees to work with Conrad.
After Adele gets a shocking call from her girlfriend, she is left alone with the consequences of it.
This documentary, composed of various video clips and footage, is an exploration to search for some missing jigsaw pieces in history. Something that turned someone into a hero, or an absolute jerk. Some things are hidden under the carpet, from Hiroshima to Teresa Teng to the Space Race, an Olympic and the moon.
Escape from everyday life in freedom and community and live utopias - for many organizers and artists, the secret of the music festivals that make culturally weak Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a place of pilgrimage for tens of thousands of people every summer. But instead of freedom, community and utopia, there was one thing above all in the festival summers of 2020 and 2021: silence.
In the hole after a breakup: The forays through the city become communicative challenges for a woman.
Due to a mysterious illness, Maya has to go to hospital in Germany during her pregnancy. As a recent immigrant, she tries to cope with the limited visiting hours and her loneliness. Between medical examinations, calls from her partner and guided meditations via cell phone interweave with digital hallucinations.
Paul is visibly confused after a meeting, late in the night. He drives through the night, experiencing a chaos of his feelings and emotions. He celebrates, cries, laughs and screams. But why all this? Again and again his mood is interrupted by strange seeming incidents, in his immediate vicinity...
'Matched" takes place at one bar, showing 16 different first dates from 16 different nights. Some dates are extremely comedic, while others are romantic, dramatic, and even catastrophic.
In order to remain true to herself, a young girl comes out as a lesbian in front of her critical family at a dinner party.
Ivana wants to become an actress. She recently fled from Ukraine to Germany, sleeps on a different couch every night, and calls her mother who is in the air raid shelter, while during the day she has to perform her most natural smile for the entrance exam at the acting school.
The hammerhead shark wants to dance at the shark party but his dancing is hammer hard and wild.
The death of a Burkinabé family’s patriarch and the division of his estate unearths conflict between his heirs and larger questions about inheritance, belonging and the communal customs of West Africa versus Westernized courts.
Everyone knows Columbus, but few know Vespucci. And yet, the continent of America was named after the banker and explorer Amerigo Vespucci. This film attempts to find the truth about the almost unknown Italian – was he a swindler, as was later claimed, or a daring navigator who first recognised the significance of Columbus' discovery?
Adrian, a young ex-alcoholic trying to start a new life, is living on an addiction treatment farm. When Alex shows up out of nowhere and the two outsiders get closer, he risks to lose everything.
A young German actor, Niklas, is preparing the biggest role of his lifetime to be filmed in Sarajevo, where a screenwriter, Selma, is living in the shadow of the Bosnian War. After Niklas arrives only to learn that his big break has been cancelled, he decides to stay in Sarajevo for New Year’s Eve, where he crosses paths with Selma. Their worlds collide, and the two experience a night together that will change their lives forever.
Two boys, a few stolen car parts, a basketball and an awful lot of slaps.
The polar bear and the brown bear are playing hide and seek in the snow.
The polar regions have the most distinct seasons and the harshest living conditions. Even so, some of the most impressive and iconic species call this realm home. Due to their unique relationship with the Sun, the poles are, in fact, exceptionally productive. From fearsome polar bears to hyperactive lemmings, polar wildlife has adapted to thrive in these adverse conditions. And, more than any other realm, the polar regions are essential for the rest of the planet to have life-sustainable conditions. There are many facets to the Sun's polar realms.
Marga is a forty-two-year-old actress who seems to have already passed the peak of her career. After starting her career in theater on the country's major stages (Volksbühne Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Maxim Gorki Theater), it is becoming increasingly difficult for her to find work. Not only in theater, but also in film, it seems to be getting harder to get roles as she gets older and as a woman, especially a woman with a migrant background.
He is a key figure in the struggle between the superpowers USA and China. He is on the FBI's wanted list with a five million dollar bounty on his head. Secret services have been trying to stop him for decades: Karl Lee. With the help of the Chinese businessman, Iran was able to build up the largest missile arsenal in the Middle East. This film reconstructs the hunt for the arms dealer.
Bloodied and in a deep embrace, Jim Aal and Master W wake up with no memory of how all the red bodily fluids could have gotten onto their otherwise neat wardrobe. Just a faint suspicion that yesterday's greedy consumption of both dubious and diabolical mushrooms.
In this adaptation of Franz Kafka's story of the same name, a streamer fasts for 40 days in front of a large online audience. Thousands follow and comment on his life in his 24/7 livestream. He receives support from his manager, an avant-garde ASMR artist. Interest in his performance suddenly fizzles out when he begins a new round of fasting. With less and less of an audience, he has to look for new management, but continues to fast anyway. Left completely alone, he finally breaks his old fasting records, but unnoticed by everyone. When one last viewer appears shortly before his death, the streamer reveals why he had to fast.
The rise of artificially lit, industrial greenhouses in the French region of Bretagne brings dire consequences for the region's biodiversity as well as disruptions of time and perception for living creatures in their vicinity.
There are more than 300 Bach choirs and Bach ensembles worldwide, most of which are made up of amateurs. For many, their lives are inextricably linked with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. What do people seek and find in his music? What connects them across continents? What fascination lies in the music of the famous German composer, which manages to transcend borders, cultures, religions and centuries? The film embarks on a journey through six continents to meet amateur musicians and singers who have made Bach their "centerpiece".