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"Hundsbuam" documents the everyday life of a group of problem students who attend a special school in Erding, Bavaria.

The two young teenage friends Hamama and Caluna have left everything behind to flee their home country and ended up stranded in a camp in northern Italy. One day, they decide to cross the closed border into Switzerland under cover of darkness by going over the Alps.

An experimental documentation behind the culture of S&M apartment rentals in Berlin answering the questions: who owns them, how are they designed/built, to whom and how they are marketed, and how they fit into their niche market within the cities well-known sex tourism trade?

In september 2008 I shot with a photo camera some passers-by at a tram station in Zagreb. I made 132 single frames in an interval of 4 seconds over a period of 8 minutes. With the support of a special algorithm I rendered the estimated and missing inbetween frames on a computer. The rendered images were transferred on a 16mm film and processed with special chemicals. During this procedure some agressive substances disaggregated the silver based image and transformed it drop by drop into its molecules. Succeeding the dried film was digitized frame by frame in high definition. The final editing was done on a computer. On the soundtrack I added fragments of the original sound recording which were atomized by electronic device and reorganized to a kind of sound cloud created of dust.

In this interview with contemporary witnesses, painter and director Jürgen Böttcher talks about some stages of his professional career. This also includes his path to film art and his work at Deutsche Film AG (DEFA) in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He also tells of his experiences during the shooting of films such as "Barfuß und ohne Hut", "Rangierer" and the documentary film "Jahrgang 45", once banned but finally re-released at the Berlinale 2015. During the conversation, questions about the difference and similarities between painting and film, the significance of music in film, Böttcher's preference for black and white, and his criteria for choosing topics for documentary film projects will be discussed.

Life is no picnic, especially not for Kurdish bachelors in Istanbul. Seven seasonal workers live in an unusual flat share in a dilapidated house.

Documentary film.

Kübra, the only female intensive offender in Berlin, is about to be released from the prison for women in Berlin-Lichtenberg - after a total of four years and ten months there. Salema has lost her parents in the Ethiopian Civil War and has never really arrived in Germany. She has been in prison again and again since she was seventeen - now she should look for a place outside of the supervised dormitory.

On time for their 10th anniversary the hard rockers of KISSIN' DYNAMITE are striking a balance. All members are just in the middle of their twenties, though the group around singer Hannes Braun has seen and achieved a lot since they first appeared on the map in 2006: 5 worldwide released studio albums, extensive touring in Europe and Asia, multiple TOP 20 entries in official German album charts. KISSIN' DYNAMITE are known for producing high-quality studio albums, but the band are even more infamous for their energetic, intense live shows. So there is no better way than to celebrate the first ten years of band history with the group's first ever Live release. All their hits - recorded at their hometown show in Stuttgart, Germany, which took place in December 2016. This is pure dynamite!

Malcolm has a big dream: he wants to become a professional boxer. In addition to his job at a kiosk, the 24-year-old spends all his time in the ring. After a turbulent youth, marked by violence and difficult family conditions that culminated in a stint in prison, Malcolm found a constant in boxing that put him back on the right track. Now he wants to try his luck in the professional world at the "Golden Gloves", America's biggest amateur tournament. When Malcolm’s first fight is less than convincing, his coach, Jesse, who himself is mourning a missed professional career, drastically increases Malcolm’s training regime. It is all or nothing for Malcolm. Are passion, talent and a rigorous exercise routine enough to make a dream come true? Filmmaker Christin Freitag takes a visually stunning look behind the scenes of the amateur boxing circuit in California.

A group of senior citizens is trying to find their place in the digital age.

Chronicles the odyssey of a gay musician in Nazi Germany. Director Klaus Stanjek's cheerful Uncle Willi lived with his family, except when he was touring as a musician across Germany. Only when Willi turned 90 did his nephew Klaus Stanjek detect what his whole family had hidden: that Uncle Willi has spent eight years in Nazi camps and that he was gay. In a radical personal approach, veteran filmmaker Stanjek follows the complex turns that his family takes when they confront his Uncle Willi's secret. The result is a personal and political portrait of his beloved uncle, a talented singer and accordion player, that is one part historical inquiry and one part fascinating detective story.

July 29, 1986: At Hamburg police headquarters, contract killer Werner "Mucki" Pinzner pulls out a gun during interrogation and turns it on the investigating public prosecutor, his wife and finally on himself. All three die. "St. Pauli Killer" Pinzner had been arrested a good three months earlier, on April 15, 1986, and had been in custody ever since. After the bloodbath, Hamburg's judiciary and police came under fire. Two senators are forced to resign.

Living a Moment is the touching legacy of Robert Linhart. Psychotherapist and documentary filmmaker Anita Natmeßnig ("Time to Go") conducted deeply personal conversations with the 53-year-old, who was suffering from cancer, during his final weeks of life. The result: a moving film about life.

A mad doctor in his laboratory, the object of his desire: storms and thunderstorms, and yet another attempt to create life! But nature cannot be manipulated so easily. It brings creative chance into play.

Corinne is no totally normal teenager. Infected since birth with HIV, she cannot confide in anyone. A film about an adolescence marked by a conflict between confrontation and hiding oneself away.

The gulag camps of Magadan lay amid Siberia’s impressive landscape. Now the gates have been opened victims of the terror system still live in the harbour town, often just next door to the perpetrators from back then. An eye-witness account from a land of memories and hope.

Fun, rhythmic animated series of animal photos. Gradually it becomes apparent that these are not innocent shots.

Mockumentary about a German Public Broadcaster and the Plan to build a new youth network

The Ruhr region occupies a special place in Germany, not only because of its very active art and culture scene, but also because it has been the German epicenter of rock 'n' roll for decades. Visually rooted in every detail of the 1950s, fans of the music movement still see themselves as the secret rebels of our society and do everything they can to recreate the lifestyle of that era as faithfully as possible. For them, rock 'n' roll is not just a musical movement, but encompasses an entire attitude towards life.

When Europe turns to chaos, Emily must hold out in her apartment in hope of reuniting with her loved one. The promise to wait becomes increasingly difficult to keep, as desperation grows and hope dwindles.

The man without memory is looking for himself. He finds a woman in love, a child and a dead man.

Nothing comes from nothing. A salad makes your biceps shrink, says grandma. Because grandma is permanently working out – anytime and anyplace. The world is not all peaches and cream, the world is a sweatshop.

"Why do I remember one thing and not the other?" In her film essay "Grandfather Never Saw the Sea", Christine Huerzeler explores her own family history in an unusual and unusually poetic way. The film-maker interlaces family recordings, found footage and recent images into a visual and acoustic examination of her origins. Upon closer inspection, it reveals the frictions, cracks and unconfessed longings which ultimately betray domestic happiness as merely staged. "Be nice to each other, says the father. We have a good time together". Beyond the personal, Huerzeler's film is accurate in documenting the atmosphere of an entire era. The unease of the individual is also the unease of a generation which grew up in a supposedly free society, yet lived under the constantly looming shadow of the Cold War.

At the end of her wedding day, the bride Elaha has locked herself in the bathroom. The last guests are waiting impatiently outside the door, but only her two closest friends are allowed to enter. Secretly they want to insert an artificial hymen inside her, but Elaha is hesitating. Is it not completely bizarre to start a marriage with a lie?

The movie is about two young men who want to become master chimney sweeps. Michael Creutz goes to America to let off steam as a bodybuilder, returns disillusioned and worries about his wife, children and chimney sweep job. Karsten Schulze doesn't want to become a "demigod in black", tries his hand at many professions, gets married and is now the boss of a floor laying company. The friendship between the different characters remains.

From October 3, 1989 to October 3, 1990, filmmaker Roland Blum was commissioned by ZDF to capture how people in the GDR fared during the period of change, only to meet them again ten years later. The changes that unification with West Germany brought with it often manifested themselves in the way the environment was treated, because it was seen as the GDR's "dowry". The focus is on the Lubmin nuclear power plant, which was shut down in 1990, or natural disasters such as floods.

Seven stories describe the experiences of children in refugee situations.

"Over a period of five months, I had my super 8 camera with me at all times. Once every hour I made a shot of myself, wherever I happened to be, interrupting any activity whatsoever. For the hours I slept at night, I filmed black. I changed speed and focus in different variations, and decided on these changes during the filming. I do not consider this film as a self portrait. I simply had to film myself as representing any person in time and space, since no one else could be around all the time. Twenty years later one more week." - M.G.

Frozen Heart visually tells the tragic and true story of a young loving gay couple accompanied by impressive images and strong contrasts.