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As a boy with an exceptionally long nose accidentally falls into a cake, his life changes in unforseen ways. Equipped with a Super-Nose he begins to reexplore life. But everything comes at a price.

"I just want to be seen as who I am today!" John shares his thoughts on identity, body and gender and gives a very personal insight into his life–and an intimate proximity to his body.

An Algerian photographer has largely renounced tradition and settled down to a quiet life with his partner in the Mediterranean city of Bejaia. Then his sister asks him to return to his home village to restore the family's honor. Together with his friend, he embarks on an adventurous journey into the hinterland. A portrait of a homosexual friendship that also reflects the social and political tensions in his country of origin.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned far-right protesters who were "hunting down" foreigners in street mobs following the killing of a German man, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi. The far-right movement PEGIDA called for demonstrations for a second straight day after a gathering of around 800 people in the city of Chemnitz in the country's ex-communist east degenerated into violent chaos, forcing police to call in reinforcements.

Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) traveled around Berlin as a journalist for decades. His books “Walks through the Mark Brandenburg” contain very rich and remote cultural, historical, ethnographic and biographical sources. Bernhard Sallmann takes passages from it that he confronts with the current shape of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

The materiality of reversal-film is being portrayed. This analogue technology, with its exposed chemical skeleton is clashing in an anachronistic filmic gag with contemporary digital animation. Colour is not presented as a natural, but a highly constructed medium in the expierence of film. This is a short experimental-essay which is questioning canonized and hegemonic film-rituals used to build and test cinematic-images.

In the summer of 2008, a butcher, a surgeon, a driving instructor, an engineer, a filmmaker and a theologian left their Saxon homeland on their motorcycles in search of adventure. We follow the group into the heart of Russia, over rough tracks and forgotten monasteries to the legendary Black Bears motorcycle club.

A beautiful European actress is living the American Dream. Her perfect life can't get any better .... until suddenly her phone starts ringing.

Boy meets girl in the future. He dreams about the space station above the earth. She lives there. A perfect match. But unfortunately teleportation isn’t that easy.

A night in Berlin. On her way home, a woman has to deal with German nationalists, Turkish teenagers and a self-help missionary. Surprisingly, the woman seems to be well-prepared for any hostile encounter: Within the blink of an eye, she is able to reframe what others see in her and create a moment that changes the game… In SECOND SKIN, filmmaker Ismet Ergün and her son Kerem Ergün, tell the story of a woman who continuously reinvents herself to master life in today’s society.

For more than a quarter of a century, Russia has been conducting a peacekeeping operation in a conflict area between Transnistria and the Republic of Moldova. Starting from the observation of the trilateral “peacekeeping post” on the Dniester River, this documentary reflects the life in the region, which is sluggish under the supervision of the mission’s soldiers.

A grandchild recounts his grandfather's difficult past and the burden of his own inheritance.

Beyond the forest is the city of tomorrow, before the forest are the villages of yesterday.

Ria is a young girl working at a dry cleaner's. Not much to expect here, apart from the fact that she's expecting. It's ten minutes before the shop closes, when her boyfriend Lenny steps in to hide a mysterious suitcase. He's looking for a safe harbour while she makes a quick and clean decision.

On the bonus DVD for his album "Ungerächte Welt", PTK reviews the past years by guiding the viewer through various stages of his biography. In conversation one learns how formative it was for him and is to grow up and live in Berlin Kreuzberg, which foundations were laid for his views already in the school time and why he even deals in his music with topics such as gentrification or refugee policy. In doing so, he commits different locations with a personal connection and also lets people from his circle of friends have their say, such as other members of the band project Antinational Embassy, his label mate Herzog and the Anti Turista Squad. With a view to the future, this DVD complements its content and focuses on its further work: activism.

Not "da da da", "Hey. Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" is the sound of life. You just have to feel it, and then even still lives swing. Nothing is the way it used to be. Ideas about gender roles, for example, or that grandchildren are always encouraged in their endeavours. Yet, one thing hasn't changed: The grandparents sit on their sofa and defy all external odds with subtle humour and charming determination. Bit by bit, it unfolds that in German history Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

A little man, with a mark of defeat, experiences an unreal dream of love. But he is misjudged as a toy and soon the dream bursts in disruptive jealousy and unsettled self-awareness. But the dream continues in a world where love means torture and to neglect life a virtue.

A mostly silent, group portrait of a variety of relationships.

For centuries, Egyptian temples were victims of looting, earthquakes, desert encroachment, and floods, and were almost swallowed up by the waters of the Nile in the 20th century. This film aims to better understand the history of these temples. Thanks to an unprecedented international mobilization, discover the exceptional heritage saved at the cost of a "pharaonic" trip.

Part 3 of the horror series "The Whistle".

Paris: the 12th arrondissement, the Aligre market. A road with more than forty fruit and vegetable stands. Pure Vitamin C! Day by day tons of goods are moving. The Total condensing: buyers and sellers of all stripes dealing and strolling. The Aligre is a place of cultures, a symphony of things: oranges, apples, mangoes they are all the stars of the moment in a dense crowd of shouting, hunger, trade and enjoyment. A unique piece of Paris!

Amedeo Modigliani's portraits of women are among the most printed images of modernism. What is their special magic? British art critic John Berger believes that the nudes in particular are about falling in love. The documentary follows Berger's thoughts and explores the secret of Modigliani's art.

The film contains quotes from more than 20 films made in Poland in 1952–1989, along with samples from film soundtracks, music tracks, and elsewhere (vintage gay porn movies, music and home video films, social media clips). Completed in Vienna during a covid-19 semi-lockdown, the film conjures my teenage affects and tells them as a blurry and fragmented autobiographical story, simultaneously reacting to the current socio-political situation in Poland, with its “LGBT free zones”, violation of democracy, police brutality, and state censorship.

Myself introduces a film festival

A film about people who have fought for more freedom and justice – and have had to pay dearly for it. The two women and two men from Tibet, Congo, Chile, and Turkey now live in Switzerland. In their native countries they were badly tortured for their human rights efforts. Nevertheless, they have not lost their belief in a better world.

The termination of the INF Treaty between the USA and Russia shows how little mutual trust there is between the world powers today. Thanks to this agreement, short- and medium-range nuclear missiles were disarmed and banned at the end of the 1980s. The political situation has worsened again. Even Germany is discussing the development of its own nuclear weapons. Is a new Cold War looming?

The skin fiend is a stranger. He sent us strange messages (and a package)... We made this film for you, skin fiend. What do you think?

Parts 1 to 3.

As Freddy wakes up this morning, the day does not seem to go his way. His girlfriend cheats on him, his car breaks down and his boss threatens to fire him. In order to save his job, he embarks on a wild tour through the city with the slightly wacky and unpredictable Charlie.

A man can't stop smoking cigarettes.

For over 60 years, a major choir competition has been held in Tanzania, organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Church and attended by more than 1,500 choirs from across the country. To be eligible to participate in this year's competition, choirs must perform the chorale "Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich" (Grant us peace, graciously) composed by Martin Luther, as well as an original composition. In her documentary film "Sing It Loud - Luther's Heirs in Tanzania," director Julia Irene Peters accompanies six people from Tanzania who sing in three different choirs: Martha and Simon work as small farmers near the village of Monduli and sing in the Neema Choir. Maria and Evarest are married and run a car repair shop in the Tanzanian city of Arusha, and they also sing in the Cantate Choir. And then there are the two young people Kelvin and Nuru from the Kanaani Youth Choir.

In October 1813, the largest battle to date took place near Leipzig: the decisive battle of the Wars of Liberation against Napoleonic foreign rule—the Battle of the Nations. Of the approximately 600,000 soldiers from over a dozen peoples and nations who fought in the battle, around 92,000 were killed or wounded. Many more victims among the civilian population of Leipzig were claimed by a typhus epidemic following the battle. The fully animated film by Leipzig-born animator Schwarwel is about these victims, about war, about its destruction and suffering, and we follow the paths of Napoleon, his adversaries, officers and soldiers, a market vendor, a surgeon, a pastor, a cemetery doctor, and a war widow through the turmoil of October 18, 1813, the day that finally decided the battle.

The film shows a convent in Alto Adige run by just two nuns, bilogical sisters. To make sure that "those out there don´t think two nuns no longer make a convent", they try to keep up a full range of activities. The women´s headstrong character and their stubborn insistence on autonomy and self-dependency creates situations that are both touching and funny, and entirely unexpected in a place like this.

Adrift in Berlin, a single mother from Argentina yearns for connection.