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Some promises should not be made lightly, because often you can't avoid keeping them. Martin proposed to Rosl when he was young and has long since forgotten it. But now she comes back to it.

Sloth wants to buy an ice cream cone. Unfortunately, he is way too slow and sleepy.

All good. Party a little, some drugs, together suppress the seriousness of the world. All good. From weekend to another, open relationship, the occasional sex between friends. All good. Not being able to say no. Not being able to talk about. Not wanting to over react. Still, everything all good?

Three performers negotiate an urban environment in their quest for meaning. Behind all the artificial encodings is the common experience of searching, conflict and ultimately, liberation.

Following Landstück (2016), Volker Koepp's documentary Seestück is about the magical, natural setting of the Baltic Sea, its coasts and its people – including fishermen, seamen, scientists and young people on both the Baltic and Scandinavian shores. Conversations meander from Caspar David Friedrich to Copernicus, Rousseau and Kant, or simply life itself. Present concerns address the sea's threatened ecosystem and political frictions among the neighbouring countries. One universal truth applies for the small Baltic Sea too: The landscape is a window to the world.

In Plato's cave? is an essay on protest and on voices that linger on. “Sometimes we have to listen very carefully,” a woman hears lingering on her audio recordings as she tries to record sounds from another political event. A voice over narrator suggests three possible answers to a picture. Three answers that leave room for interpretation. Are we still in Plato's cave?

When the mysterious captain of a phantom ship is cast ashore in a storm, he tries to escape eternal damnation through the love of a faithful woman.

As a child Ibrahim Arslan survived the arson attack on his parents’ home in Mölln in which three members of his family were killed. Today he says that his family suffered not just one, but two attacks. After the Molotov cocktails had burnt out, the Arslan family became a target of attacks again, this time coming from the media, politics and society. These attacks were worse than the incendiary devices because they could have been avoided, Arslan says. In her film, Mala Reinhardt asks why even today many victims of radical right-wing violence are forced to live through the same experience of being treated with hostility and criminalised. The victims, who have formed a network, analyse with impressive clarity which conditions make racism still socially acceptable in our country. The essential thing now is to listen to them. Luc-Carolin Ziemann

A deceptively quiet park in the mist. Mysterious things are happening: a woman disappears, trees fall as if struck by a sudden weakness, and shots ring out. Surveillance cameras observe crows from unfamiliar perspectives. They are the protagonists here – it’s a well-known fact that they are among the most intelligent birds. The camera in their territory: is it a friend or an enemy? A commotion ensues, the crows move to attack. Or are we just imagining all this?

Writing against oblivion: The film captures the names of the 66000 Austrian victims of the Shoa written by hand on the Prater Hauptallee in Vienna.

Dr. H. owns a multi-million-dollar property in the heart of Vienna. He inherited it from his aunt, who wasn’t really his aunt. Dr. H. is melancholy and wouldn’t mind putting an end to his life, if it weren’t for his brother B., who isn’t really his brother. Dr. H. tells how, with the help of a veterinarian, he brought B. out of a coma resulting from cardiac arrest, and how B. helped him get the building from his so-called aunt. Dr. H. has set up a charitable foundation that will begin operations after he dies. The filmmaker decides to intervene.

A Kafkaesque journey through a drug addict's attempts to join the Eurovision song contest.

Roland Kaiser is considered one of the greats of German pop music. An icon of light music who masters the rules of success like no other. A star you can relate to: approachable and credible. A new WDR documentary now traces Roland Kaiser's eventful, exciting, and sometimes dramatic life and career. Pop star Roland Kaiser has been on stage for 50 years. The 70-year-old singer has sold more than 100 million records with hits such as "Joana," "Dich zu lieben" and "Santa Maria." The documentary shows Roland Kaiser, who has once again conquered the top of the charts with his album "Perspektiven," as a private person and family man.

Tommy is a gay boy, living with many challenges in his life. His friends make fun of him and push him to do things like stealing alcohol, abusing drugs and jumping down a cliff. After many situations, Tommy asks himself the question "courage - what is that?", that will be answered by the film: "Courage is standing up for yourself!"

When the highly trained assassin receives an order from his boss to kill a child, his life is thrown off balance. He makes a decision that will change his life forever...

Five characters. Five novels. One room. Five fictional characters meet in a bunker, a rancid bar or in an underpass furnished by its homeless inhabitant – a non-place that condemns them to eternal togetherness. Driven by the failure in their histories, they seek repose and comfort in people who can not offer them any. And yet, the hope for instances of humanness smolders in this restless solitude.

One day, Claire has to overcome her fears. She leaves her everyday life behind, to find Carla her second half, who desperatly needs her help. It’s the story of a death and of a rebirth.

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 disabled woman obsessively instructs her housekeeper until the oppression becomes something she can’t live without.

For a life of pomp and splendor, Bastian takes over the kindergarten of a private parents' initiative as treasurer. The documentary tells the true story of an impostor. It is about social coexistence, trust and setting an example of values for children. Bastian doesn't give a damn about these values. For him, they are just annoying conventions, obstacles on the way to a life with a Ferrari and high-class prostitutes. And for this life, Bastian steals from the kindergarten of a private parents' initiative. For the viewer, this is an astonishing balancing act between right and wrong, between pity and schadenfreude.

Münster – we love you! Embark on a breathtaking journey taking place above the roofs of the most beautiful city in the world. Unique shots show the city of Münster in its full diversity, grown over centuries. Marvel at the detailed ornaments on church towers, the beauty of the meadows and woods along the Werse river, ambitious modern buildings and the world-famous Prinzipalmarkt. For more than 6 years, the guys of German Rotor Cam and Münster 4 Life took shots of their home town from a bird's eye view and created an exceptionally wonderful image. They created a testament to Münster which, in its making and story, is surely singular.

They were born and raised on a small island amidst a vast natural landscape - four sisters who now live in cities. Their parents have left Germany to raise their children far from consumerism and external control. On a visit back to the island, the sisters bring along some of the pace and concerns of our world today.

Documentary on the recording of the score for the 2016 restoration of F.W. Murnau's Der Gang in die Nacht.

The mythical mountain of Monte Adrion (Biokovo) shows us pictures from your life.

It is not a landscape. It has produced neither language nor economy. It is a ruined city—wonderful—that produces nothing. Made up of cut-up, alienated, and superimposed images taken from the collective cinema imagination. A document made up of layers, containing evidence of urban and cinematic evolution.

Following the death of his young wife, a widower has isolated himself from the outside world. He lives solely for her memory, until one day he encounters a dancer who looks remarkably familiar. Working together with the General Music Director Ainārs Rubiķis, Canadian star director Robert Carsen stages his production at the Komische Oper Berlin with Korngold’s musical psycho-thriller, one of the greatest hits of the 1920s.

At some point it will be over. But no one wants to imagine the day when it really is over, the day when they warm their muscles in the dressing room for the last time, stand in the wings, wait together, hear the music start and finally spring onto the stage: for the very last time.

How much do you know of nuclear power plants where pets wander around? Olga built a farm inside the reactor. Sergey hides in the station labyrinths from reality, and Vitaly, who for many years supervised the construction of nuclear power plants, settled near on a home-made ship. The Crimean nuclear power plant does not let go of those who built it, or those who lived nearby. It was the most expensive project of the Soviet Union, but the nuclear power plant did not work for a single day. The empire collapsed, the annexation of the Crimea changed the fate of Russia. But which way? People live here, as if in a different dimension, hoping for something and waiting for something. But what?

Freddy Lim is a founder and singer of the famous black metal band Chthonic from Taiwan. Apart from that, he has been a member of the Taiwanese parliament since 2016, sitting on the committees for National Defence and Foreign Affairs. He is a member of a coalition working closely with Taiwan's first-ever female president. The film accompanies the rock star politician for his first year in political office as he opposes China's policy towards Taiwan and Tibet. As an activist fighting for human rights, he meets with the Dalai Lama, but also takes part in Donald Trump's inauguration even though he has many reservations about him. Freddy Lim is on the front line. But he still occasionally puts on his face paint and sings in a diabolical voice at the front of his black metal band. Strangely, the two worlds are coming together.

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.

Talking Money is an observational documentary shot at bank consultation tables all over the world. Weaving stories from eight countries into one global money conversation, it virtually transforms the cinema into a bank. Purely experiential! Who are we when we talk about money? Far from the glamour of distant Wall Street, this is the reality of personal banking, where one’s life problems become a matter of business. A heartfelt comment on capitalism revealing how the invisible power of money works on all of us, no matter who and where we are.

Animatronics, elephants, puppets, politicians, and more juxtaposed using three screens.

Conceived as a gift for Cécile Staehelin after the death of her husband Dieter, the film reflects on music as both memory and philosophy. Dieter speaks about sound as harmony, proportion, and inner life, while he and Cécile are seen performing Bohuslav Martinů’s Arabesque. Beavers punctuates their playing with luminous passages of white light, shaping an intimate portrait of friendship, loss, and the transcendent reach of music.

A paradise is emerging on earth. It is neither a dream nor a utopian delusion but an opportunity for a new kind of society. A step beyond the human as it has been known. A step we don’t dare to consummate.

A brother to his older sister. A portrait about the 2000s generation, about family pressure, being fifteen, money and world domination. A portrait of Valentin.

On the morning of the hen party, four women who don't know each other meet for breakfast to wait for their mutual friend, the bride. When she shows up, a day full of advances and suppressed inner conflicts begins - after all, it's time to celebrate!

The lives of Ruth, Philipp, and Anja are directly linked to coal. And so they are also directly affected by the debate surrounding the coal phase-out. They are concerned about their future, but from different perspectives and in different ways. The days of coal are numbered. A coal commission is currently working on a concept for phasing out coal that includes an end date for lignite mining and power generation while ensuring that the climate protection target for 2030 is achieved. Germany already generates almost 40 percent of its electricity needs from renewable energies.

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