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Space debris in Earth's orbit will fundamentally change life on Earth. Scientists are already searching for solutions.

Vincent and Maya must question their friendship while breaking into a video store one night.

12 toy boats and a toy fish slowly slide into water. It´s a balanced night. Watch them take their way. Recognize the interdependencies. Hear the water flow. Take time for slowness. Make your own thoughts. Even sleep in the meantime if you want.

Netta is a young Israeli woman who wishes to move to Berlin, out of all places. Netta's father, the son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision.

These last major lectures by Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011) follow his philosophical reflection from Parmenides to Karl Marx. They were recorded in October 2009 at his home in Sant’Abbondio, Switzerland.

Documentary about Jewish entrepreneur and art collector Max Emden and his grandson's fight for restitution and compensation for losses suffered during the Nazi era.

It's so annoying to be sick! Especially if you're an elephant and have to sneeze all the time. But with good friends you will get better soon.

Who creates order creates calm. Excessive clutter can drive people crazy. Gaël is convinced of that. In order to bring this idea closer to his drunken friend Maurin, Gaël begins to arbitrarily destroy their surroundings, a green oasis far away from the big city, driving Maurin step by step into madness.

Fund managers such as BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and Fidelity are the new players of the financial world: they are not locusts, instead each one is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. They emerged after the last financial crisis of 2007 and are neither banks nor hedge funds and flourish in a practically regulation free zone. They can also best be described as shadow banks. The new players in the financial markets have taken over monetary policy. No one regulates them, neither national governments nor the Public.

A woman walks her dog in the park and meets a man she would rather not have seen.

During his lifetime, he commanded the burning of his complete stock of works, letters and writings after his passing away. Fortunately, his publisher and friend didn't carry out his wish and has in this way saved a crucial piece of world literature. But who really was the graduate lawyer Franz Kafka? The TV documentary reveals that his narratives and novels were not as incomprehensible as many might claim. Several text passages are cinematically implemented and, by doing so, easier to understand. The documentary proceeds towards Kafka's stages of life. To Prague, obviously. To Vienna and to the Baltic Sea, where he eventually found his last love. Going further into the question why he never seemed to come to fulfillment with anyone, even though he was popular among women. Theatre and opera performances, «The Trial» at the Salzburg Festival complete the film as well as investigations at the «Oxford Research Centre», which targets Kafka in its studies.

Frau Maria is the last employee of Stastny Fabrics, a shop in the former textile district in the heart of Vienna. While she prepares bales of fabric for the clearance sale in premises that have gone unchanged for decades, she tells of better times, when business flourished and work was a pleasure. She removes the company nameplate and locks the shop for the last time: With it a part of Vienna’s Jewish history disappears.

When Sandrine's friend tells her about a strange dream she recently had and then gives her a kiss, Sandrine reacts offended and walks away. But despite trying to distract herself from her friends dream and the kiss, it doesn't work. Images and words won't leave her head. Sandrine has no other choice than to deal with them, deal with her own feelings and with her personal identity...

Documentary about anarchist Thomas Walter.

Some Things Are Hard To Talk About is a personal documentary about the secrets of abortions in my family over three generations. After I had an abortion I find out that both my mother and my grandmother secretly had abortions. An intricate story of family history, choices and resulting effects uncovers.

Lots of young tourists dive into the famous club and party life of the German capital. They’re looking for wonder, celebration, dancing and especially this particular Berlin spirit. OH YEAH. BERLIN. portrays artists inside of the Berlin alternative and club scene. Based on distinct motives and senses of individual freedom and creativity, they push and develop their projects. Money doesn’t matter, because there’s none. These folks characterize and reflect the peculiar but attracting lifestyle. An honest Berlin film, personal and real, partly filmed in places where no camera was allowed, yet. All artists share one thing: The love for art and their capital city Berlin with all it ́s freedom.

Revolves around a mineral water pool in director Hristiana Raykova’s hometown of Varna in Bulgaria. Situated right by the sea, this thermal pool is lovingly called “the pit” by local residents. Sitting in the hot water, they lean back up against the pool’s edge and philosophise about their lives. Here personal and political convictions collide, and tell of both social change and stagnation at the periphery of Europe.

The starting point for Vertical Distraction is the body of the city of Frankfurt am Main and its skyline. Feser deals with the architecture he observes and its effect on his own body. He develops body extensions that oscillate in a peculiar way between clothing, prostheses, and sculptural excrescences, dealing ironically and neurotically with patterns of identity and the idea of the natural. The urban landscape is viewed as manifestations of a human organism.

A miniature portrait of the Viennese cinema, as seen through stuttering, flickering glimpses of walls and other surfaces in a pure play of light and shadow.

This film illustrates the thoughts of a man living in social isolation.

The Chachapoya people, who perished centuries ago, left behind hidden necropolises in the headwaters of the Amazon and Kuelap, the largest fortress in the Americas. After extensive research, a German professor now believes he has solved the mystery of the Chachapoya's origins. Similarities between religious symbols and images of gods as well as identical stone slingshots and holes in the skullcaps lead him to believe that survivors from destroyed Carthage reached Peru together with Celtic warriors from the Mediterranean region more than 2,000 years ago.

After the series of murders by the right-wing extremist NSU, the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution is in the crossfire of criticism: Why did they fail so miserably? Why did 16 state offices and the powerful Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution fail to recognize the "brown terror" in time?

Jeff Witzeman goes on a quest to find out why his wife was cured of her cancer in 30 days, naturally, in Germany, after American doctors wanted to pull an organ out, chemo and radiate her, and basically send her off to die. What he found will change cancer treatment forever.

Every athlete must achieve a performance level set by national and international sports associations in order to participate in the Olympic Games: the Olympic standard. The documentary film follows five top athletes from very different sports for 20 months as they prepare for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro – will they achieve their dream?

Basel Tattoo 2016

Needled 24/7, Kissing the Shadows, Bodom Beach Terror, Halo of Blood, Scream for Silence, Hate Crew Deathroll, Lake Bodom, Angels Don't Kill, Are You Dead Yet?, Towards Dead End, Hate Me!, Bodom After Midnight (followed by Black Diamond snippet), Downfall, In Your Face

Editors at take-off GewerbePark, Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany Sugar A Ton of Love Munich Bones Two Hearted Spider An End Has a Start Formaldehyde Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors The Racing Rats Papillon Honesty

Why does a religious community need a secret service? Frank Nordhausen and Markus Thöß explore this question in their documentary about the most mysterious department of the Scientology organization. They spent more than a year researching with a camera in Europe and the USA. The 90-minute documentary is the world's first detailed film about OSA - the Office of Special Affairs. Scientology is classified as an extremist sect in various European countries and is therefore monitored by domestic intelligence services.

Grape harvest in Rasiguères, a village in the French Pyrenees. An intense month of shared life. Amid changing times, workers reminisce about the days of collective work in the fields. Tradition and motions as old as the vines are taken up afresh by today's vintagers and made their own. A 16mm b/w fieldwork film, a document of the past.

Conceived as the fourth part of the series under the name future past perfect, the fourth short film of the row is the result of a long-term fascination with clouds, their movements, structure/texture, and their potentially infinite variety of forms. shot from the plane on various trips, the sequences of cloud imagery are edited and collaged in different ways to match the diverse qualities of constitution and behaviour of clouds. the short movie especially focussed on so-called stratus clouds, a category of clouds that usually appears rather flat, hazy and featureless. their visual quality as seen from above may imply micro and macro structures at the same time thus potentially deceives the viewer's perception.