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From the coast of the Pacific Ocean, through mangrove forests to the tropical rainforests of Costa Rica - watch the ancient forest unfold in front of your eyes with this incredible 3D expedition! Visit the tropical rainforest of the Natural Heritage Site Guanacaste and meet the iguanas, deadly snakes and capuchin monkeys, as well as being introduced to the world s last primitive and indigenous race: The Maleku Indians. Covering 100,000 hectares and containing 200 metre-tall mountains, this incredible place is home to more than 230,000 species that thrive in this incredible landscape.

Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair with a musician she was dating shortly before their marriage. Now this man, by now a famous concert pianist, enters her life again. Elisabeth resists the temptation to sink once again into the arms of her romantic lover. Since she loves her husband, she stays with him and continues to keep her secret...

A man wakes up and doesn't know what has happened. Moments of memory and traces, which seem to fall in place, lead him to believe that he has murdered a woman.

Tabu, a mythical tale shot in Tahiti, is yet another key to Ottinger’s cinema. Aloha is a dedication to Murnau, as well as Gauguin, Matisse and her other predecessors whose hearts and eyes had been enchanted by foreign cultures. By juxtaposing footage and outtakes from Tabu with scenes from her own films, the director creates a dialogue between fictional universes separated by time and space. A fish is caught by islanders in 1931 and eaten by pirates in Madame X forty years later. What is this film if not an ironic commentary on artistic legacy and succession?

Aegir, King of the Oceans, tours Germany because he's concerned about negative rumors concerning the homeland's war effort.

Eight year old Paul and his mother just moved to a skyscraper. After an embarrassing encounter with Anna, Paul meets her in the elevator. Anna makes fun of him and they start to quarrel. They can't arrange about going up or down. The elevator suddenly drops and carries them deep down into the realms of a wicked witch. The witch is out for their youth, since her own time is running out. Their only chance against her is for once to help together. They meet a blind horse, a clock without clock hand and a knight without courage helping them on their journey.

Breathlessly energetic Berlin-set hip-hop epic »Status Yo!« employs performers and locations from local music scene to tell an ambitious story of one eventful night in the German capital. With just 24 hours in which to organize the biggest party the city's ever seen, Yan Eq, Jamie, Sera and others must deal with their love lives, tenuous living arrangements and various shady characters on their way to hip-hop glory.

Finally out again. The attempt to cheat his boss out of a truckload cost haulage driver Oswald a year of his life and his job. Now it's back home to the prefabricated building. It's just in time that Oswald's buddy Karl knows about trophies made from old D-Mark coins. In the iron foundry on the outskirts of the city, old coins worth several hundred thousand Deutschmarks are regularly stored for further processing - virtually unguarded. As the old coins can still be exchanged, this is a small but sure coup. While Karl is still laughing at Oswald's naivety, he is already beginning to put his plan into action. In a series of tragic and absurd situations, he recruits a team that couldn't be more different, from doped athletes to hated ex-Stasi men. They are united by their desire to use the money to make a difference.

The close friendship between Arthur and Felix is put to the test when one lends the other his health insurance card. Arthur finds out that Felix is terminally ill, but Felix doesn't know it yet. However, because he doesn't have the courage to break the bad news and bitter truth to his friend, he soon becomes entangled in a web of lies and suddenly the tables are turned: Felix, who is actually terminally ill, believes that the healthy Arthur is actually going to die soon. He selflessly agrees to care for Arthur and give him a good time in the supposedly last days of his life. This actually gives Arthur a new perspective on life and Felix also starts to change: He manages to open his heart and learns to love bit by bit.

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere - stranded in the South African savanna: After an emergency landing, the von Zangenheims and the Kowalskis are fighting for survival in the wasteland. Two parents, who are both about to separate, actually wanted to celebrate the wedding of their offspring on a farm in South Africa. But instead of feasting in the lap of luxury, they now have to hold their own against snakes, lions and hippos... Will they make it to the festival in time?

Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the three men may have little in common, yet what binds them together is their search for a home where their wounds from present and past can heal.

Hanieh, a young teacher, lives in the household of her married sister in Tehran. Increasingly exhausted by her paralysing everyday life and the two-faced reality she subliminally experiences as a woman, an employee, a younger sister, and unhappy partner, Hanieh struggles to find her way out.

An ageing genetic scientist recognizes the curse of his own research.

The story of a dealer in Berlin.

At the age of forty-four, Silke finds herself impregnated by one of her ex-partners: humiliated by her unfaithful husband, she had only one thought in mind: to take revenge by doing the same to him. Now the mother-to-be is faced with a difficult decision.

One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...

The young Styrian woman Therese Brandl desperately wants to work in the theater and therefore travels by train to Vienna to pursue artistic training. The scholarship granted by the elderly Countess Hoyer is intended to guarantee her financial independence. Unaware that she is to be picked up from the Vienna train station, the student immediately takes a taxi upon arrival and asks for recommendations for both an affordable hotel and a charming little pub. Therese gets approached by an older gentleman, a gray-haired bon vivant with considerable life experience. After several glasses of wine, they leave the establishment together and go to Therese's room. Apparently, things escalate there, and they spend the night together without having been introduced. The surprise is all the greater for Therese when she goes to the drama academy the following day to begin her training: her future teacher is none other than the gallant and lover from the previous night, Dr. Alexander Dahlen.

A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.

Bavaria, 1812. A lovelorn young poet banished from society is forced to wander across mountains, ice and snow, on a dangerous journey which will either lead him to death or to a new life.

A nightmare wakens Luca on his wedding night and confronts him with dark childhood memories. At the worst moment he struggles against his deepest fears as on the first day after his wedding his marriage is already challenged.

The salmon want to reproduce. While the salmon men swim upstream in a testosterone-driven race, the women indulge in a fertility dance at the source of the river. But the roles aren't as clearly defined as the men expect.

A young father, his twelve-year-old daughter, a night club, two secrets and a lie that will solve everything.

Karlheinz, a down-to-earth Berlin contractor, loudly rails against Polish illegal workers who he claims are snatching up all his jobs. Things aren’t looking good for his small company, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Out of necessity, he takes a low-paying job with a shady contractor. Unfortunately, it’s vacation season, so the single father has to hire a nanny for his young daughter. The charming Wanda, who is anything but a typical housewife, not only turns his family life upside down - there’s also a powerful spark between them.

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to question his personal and familiar environment and discovers that his parents’ relationship – which he assumed to be happy and sound – is built on lies. Unable to deal with this disappointment, he flees from it and moves in with his older brother and his roommates...

Five cameramen of the DEFA travel with the trawler ROS 206 to its fishing grounds in the Arctic Ocean. The journey to the grounds takes 5,5 days. Day and night the nets are thrown out and pulled aboard again when they are full. After three weeks of hard work the trawler returns to its home port. Here the fish are loaded into refrigerator cars, and the sailors enjoy some days of wll-earned rest.

Like ghosts, the temporarily shut down cruise ships lie in the port of Hamburg. A young man comes into town and is stranded on the riverbank, waiting for a message. He watches couples strolling along in the sunset and gets himself some sweets. In a moment of collective pause, ISLANDS IN THE CITY captures a fragile romance. There is a departure in the air, the destination of which no one seems to know.

The journalist Dieter Lindemann and the lawyer Esther have finally become parents - twins. But who stays at home now? Esther has just taken over the management of her law firm. So Dieter stays at home and is looking forward to the time out: sleeping late in the morning, having a leisurely breakfast and playing with the twins in the afternoon. Puppy cake! Balancing career and fatherhood turns into a balancing act between career women and cake batter.

Stefan Schröder is a trainee teacher for Latin and German. He has just moved into an apartment in an old, desolate house in the Berlin suburbs when he receives a letter from the school authorities: they have doubts about his loyalty to the constitution! From now on, Stefan feels persecuted, constantly watched and monitored in his apartment. Added to this is the fact that the actual, mysterious main tenant is away for an unforeseeable period of time and keeps one room locked. The suspicion that someone is going in and out of his apartment and that the people surrounding him are not who they claim to be becomes ever stronger. Stefan frantically searches for a motive.

The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation.

A man sets out to find his wife in an apocalyptic world overrun by the living dead, and where the living are just as dangerous and deadly as the relentless living dead.

An attractive farmer's wife attends a tango course in Munich with a friend while her two grumpy husbands stay on the farm. In the city, she attracts the attention of a passionate Argentinean man who woos her and makes her dream of a different future.

Moritz and Eva Jung's marriage is in crisis. Moritz is tormented by feelings of guilt, but is unable to talk about it with Eva, who keeps urging him in vain to open up to her. Realizing that the marriage has failed, volcanologist Moritz accepts an offer to carry out scientific research on Tenerife. In the volcanic landscape of Mount Teide, Moritz tries to say goodbye to the past. He meets the ranger Sophia.

Relates the history of the Tugendhat House and family from the perspectives of the Tugendhat children.

Adina lives in Germany with her father and little brother after fleeing Afghanistan. War trauma and uncertainty about her mother's fate are constant companions in the family. Adina's need to dance her worries away is countered by her father's strict rules.

After the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Viktor leaves Russia to live a freer life in Berlin — far from his family’s expectations and accusations, and from the conventions of an oppressive regime. He falls in love with David, but soon his past catches up with him.

Journalist Victoria gets a job at a youth magazine, where she was entrusted to the section of letters from teenagers asking questions about sex. Victoria's quite difficult to cope with it - because she... still a virgin! She need to solve this problem urgently! And the best candidate - Editor in Chief, handsome Nick. But how to tell him that he would be her first?

An analysis of the sources of inspiration that fed the imagination of the British writer, poet and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), great master of epic fantasy.

Ghost hunters are on the trail of a supernatural phenomenon and legendary figures in Scotland. The forest of Duffus Castle - long one of Scotland's most powerful fortresses - is as much the scene of eerie encounters as Kilneuair Cemetery or Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull. Let the blue mist of eerie Scottish nights waft into your living room and experience the fascinating 3-D effects up close!

Jella and her husband, Klaus, have moved to the other side of Germany to be close to their three grown children. Jella longs for the rich family life she once had; the children, however, have other priorities.

Ben detests the visits to his in-laws. His wife Karen suffers as a result. On the drive home, their car skids during an argument and crashes into a bridge pillar. Karen dies, son Jonathan has been silent ever since. The seriously injured Anja, who was in the car with him, has no sympathy for her brother-in-law. In her opinion, the thuggish egotist negligently caused the pile-up. Everything is about to come to light in the dispute over custody of Jonathan. Ben, whose life is in tatters, hopes that Karen's best friend Corinna will testify.

In a small village at the end of the world, a letter carrier works with a very special professional attitude: he prefers to replace the mail he is supposed to deliver with letters he has written himself. The villagers love these letters because they make everyone laugh, from the clochard to the policeman, from the fat lady to the priest, and even the grumpy landlord likes this mail. But then the head post office finds out about the matter...

After a terrible fight with her conservative parents, 19-year-old Mina moves in with her sister Mandy, who works a prostitute. Mina finds love when she meets Tony, a DJ with financial problems. But two sinister debt collectors give them a drastic ultimatum: they have three days to raise 11 000 Euros. Mandy’s advice to Mina is a diabolic one: to sell the costliest thing she possesses, her virginity.

The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj and starring Jenny Jugo, Rudolf Forster and Henri De Vries. It is one of many film adaptations of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin's 1834 short story The Queen of Spades.

Teresa Weißbach makes this film about a widower, who finds new life courage with the help of a young woman, to a remarkable romantic drama. In memory of his deceased wife, the Hamburg glove manufacturer Tobaben spends some days in her favorite hotel in Travemünde. There he meets Luzy. The lively young woman is a barmaid in the evening and a housekeeper during the day. She immediately locks him in the heart. He, on the other hand, thanks to her carefreeness finds new life courage, engages her from the spot as a shareholder and takes it easy to accept that the distinguished Hanseatic society promptly tears the mouths.

A darkly humorous short documentary about a preschool-age boy ostracised from interactions with his classmates until a girl who has become interested in his pet crow provides the link to social acceptance.

At the funeral of her murdered friend, a young woman meets a charming man. They quickly become a couple, but then the man comes under suspicion of murder and rape. Charges cannot be brought due to lack of evidence, but the woman, growing suspicious, turns away from him and begins investigating her lover’s past—an endeavor that puts her in grave danger.

Two royal children are abandoned in the river by their evil grandmother just after their birth. However, a miller and his wife have raised the foundlings as their own beloved children. The wicked old queen discovers that the children are still alive.

"Assassination" - A far-right political organization called "Fellowship Loyalty" seeks contact with an easily seducable man whom she finds in Joachim Burthe. The leader of this deeply democratizing group, the equally characterless and unscrupulous Gregor of Askanius, whispers to the fanatical student seeking guidance that it is finally time to put the death sentence on the corrupt system and its representatives.

A smoldering father-son conflict in the ranks of organized crime leads to a tragic family drama.