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"Mr. Darcy: The synonym for the romantic hero since 1813, as he first appeared in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. The book had several movie adaptations (especially prominent [were those from] 1940, 1995 and 2005), which not only inscribe Darcy’s character in popular culture, but also illustrate our capitalist notions of love and desire, as well as a wish for escapism into a pre-industrialized, pre-virtualized world. I, too, fell for Mr. Darcy. Thanks to my webcam and Photo Booth, I can finally have my go [at] winning him over." (Daniela Zahlner)

A young girl packs her things. Without a word, she leaves her parents' holiday home. On a country road a car approaches: a young man. He takes her with him. They drive along the Nordic coast. Surrounded by the slight noise of wind and rain, and the sound of tires on concrete. In sight the open soil, faint dunes, waves breaking at the shore. Black. From the backseat the girl sees the young man: He gets into his car, he drives off.

In their youth in the 1990s, Kerem, Dönmez, and Hakan belonged to one of the notorious youth gangs in Frankfurt, which also existed in many other German cities. Drug dealing, acquisitive crime, grievous bodily harm, and manslaughter—their reputation spread rapidly, not least through reports in local and national media.

Lemons are being passed around. Their juice relieves the burning in the mouth and nose. It is April 17, 2011, the last day of public revolt before the suppression of the Iraqi Spring. Amid the protesting crowd, breathing the air laced with tear gas, are two musicians: Hiwa K with his harmonica, Daroon Othman on the guitar. They play the movie score from "Once Upon a Time in the West", that alarming melody of two dissonant notes, immediately recognizable to everyone in the streets of Sulaimany, Kurdistan. As Hiwa K plays the harmonica, the tear gas invades his airways; music and the political situation coincide in the performer’s body. He subsequently compiled video footage shot by others in the documentary This Lemon Tastes of Apple. The title ties the events of 2011 back to Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaign against the Kurds in 1988. The gas that was used back then smelled of apples.

Let yourself be carried by the beautiful, real 3D, underwater worlds.

A Surrealist on her own Path" - Far more than the furry cup that made her famous is part of the oeuvre of Meret Oppenheim. The documentary presents the multi-faceted work and the brightly colorful life of the great artist and muse of the surrealists, who would have celebrated her 100th birthday on 6 October 2013.

Vilmos Zsigmond on 'Blow Out'

Lurking in the grass has paid off for the fox. The narrator’s apprehensive voice takes us to an island where a battle for survival rages among creatures feathered and furry. After all, a bear is only cute if you’re not a rabbit. The animation resembles landscape shots from animal documentaries—but instead of Smokey the Bear we’re served pointed humor, instead of glossy nature, the images are rampant with sprawling absurdity.

Twin sisters and a ladybug.

Ever since man invented the flying machine, it has been the dream of daredevil pilots to cross the Atlantic non-stop. Daredevil men and women in their rattling boxes risk their lives for it. The first successful transatlantic flight took place 100 years ago. The documentary by Radio Bremen and rbb recalls the daring and technical ingenuity of crossing the Atlantic by plane, looks back over 100 years of aviation history, tells of adventurous flight attempts, magnificent achievements and records, acclaimed heroes of the skies, but also of setbacks and disasters. "Pioneers of the skies - non-stop across the Atlantic" shows rare original documents - particularly impressive: original pictures of the first transatlantic flight of the R34 flying ship in 1919.

The heavy metal detox becomes an aesthetic paraphrase on the removal of dental fillings in the latest film by Austrian artist and filmmaker Josef Dabernig.

After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20.000 worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet.

Documentary on Christian Schocher, director of the legendary «Reisender Krieger» (1980).

Sabaudia in Italy, created by Mussolini’s architects as a model “new fascist city”, was supplied with extensive farm lands converted from marshes. Yet, despite its undeniably “brutal” architecture, creators including Alberto Moravia and Pier Paolo Pasolini subsequently found Sabaudia to be a wonderful, hospitable place – the sign of a genuine, traditional Italy, and its resistance to all modern ideologies. Lotte Schreiber constructs a multi-faceted, documentary view of Sabaudia, inspired by but going beyond Pasolini, portraying it as a paradoxical mixture of social class separation, nostalgia, and everyday whimsy. (Adrian Martin)

In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the forties and fifties as a basis for thinking about the codes of representation of former Portuguese colonial power and the way memory is produced. Furthermore, these images are shown by a Guinean archivist who tells the story of his country seen through his own eyes.

A portrait of the filmmaker and documenta 14 artist Wang Bing (winner of the Locarno Festival's Golden Leopard for "Mrs. Fang"). Wang Bing shot his previous films digitally, for example "15 Hours" which consists of a single 15-hour long shot. In Kassel, he bought his first Bolex (16 mm camera). With a stopwatch, he tests how long he film can film at a time.

The story about a man, who lost his dreams and a whale, who kept them safe. But the world turned upside down and the sea became a desert. And the whale had to go to sleep in the sky. Would the man be able to find his dreams again? Would he ever feel the joy of being one with the world? The philosophical tale of someone, who like Jonah, lost his way and was rescued by a whale.

Margarethe decided to die and lays hand on herself. Will she finally find peace of mind?

Doctors, nurses, patients, hospital managers, and health activists review the impact of the flat rates introduced in 2003, which arguably created an environment in which speed is valued over quality of diagnosis.

Gottlieb Schneider is preparing for his cat theater performance for the talent show. But the other children are not making it easy for him: he is being bullied and beaten up. His only friend and helper seems to be his cat Minzi...

Anton, a tiny molecule among billions of others, dreams about a big divine eye watching all of them. When he tries to warn everybody about it, he is brutally being rejected from his authoritarian society. After a dangerous journey through the particle accelerator he meets the Molecular Biologist who gives him the power to return to his home world and get his revenge.

This documentary tells the story of three grandmothers who earn a living as prostitutes. Christel, Paula and Karolina either work in their own apartment, in a brothel, or receive clients at a dominatrix studio. They have no desire to justify what they do, nor do they make a show of their profession. These three women are engaged in a constant merry-go-round of slipping into different identities, selling dreams and trying to manage their own private life. Their multifaceted personalities make it clear just how differently they go about their trade, and what made them choose to earn their bread as a sex worker. The film provides an insight in to the lives of Christel, Paula and Karolina and their sometimes surprisingly middle-class routine.

Experience the transportive landscape paintings of artist Ulrike Arnold, made from earth and other natural materials collected from around the world.

The passion to tinker with historical military technology in your own garage is not only great in the USA. Meanwhile, the trend has also arrived in Germany. The technical performance behind the historical relics fascinates the insiders of the scene. From the Military Technology Festival Finowfurt to the practice lesson in the Panzerfahrschule: The N24 reportage gives insights into the world of military technology fans, into their hobbyists’ rooms and their collector’s showcases. (Text: WORLD)

Frances Kroll Ring, the personal secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald for the last 20 months of his life and a longtime source of information for biographers, documentary and filmmakers.

'Shadows of a Radio in the East', recorded with a mobile phone, is presented as an audiovisual experimentation in the context of a Berlin still overshadowed by a dense and uncertain past.

At original locations, in historic S-Bahn trains, with experts and eyewitnesses who experienced the fear of the S-Bahn murderer in darkened Berlin, the case of Paul Ogorzow and its significance for criminal investigation and police research in Europe is revisited and presented.

Documentary about the connection between the three Giallo-esque Spaghetti Western films "KIller Caliber .32", "Killer Adios" and "The Price of Death".

A virtual tour of a computer-generated desert landscape and a story of failure: In 1998, the “Oasis”, Palestine’s first casino, opened. The peace-making idea associated with this development project lost out against political reality. Game over – the oasis becomes a multifaceted fata morgana of interviews with employees, operators and guests.

Every year more than 3000 mostly young Germans travel to Africa in order to complete a voluntary service of several months in an organization or in a project. The motivation of the travelers is different. It is mostly their personal experiences, stories and reports that shape the public image of volunteer services in Africa. But what do the guides on site think about the coming and going of the German guests? What visible and invisible traces do volunteers leave behind in the projects from the perspective of people living on site? In the perspective-rich documentation, people in South Africa, Ghana and Gambia describe their perspectives and experiences with German volunteers. An exciting film about the diversity and complexity of encounters in context of voluntary service.