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A grieving mother orders a robotic replica of her deceased son, who soon realizes the limits of his existence.

Gottlieb Schneider is preparing for his cat theater performance for the talent show. But the other children are not making it easy for him: he is being bullied and beaten up. His only friend and helper seems to be his cat Minzi...

Documentary by Volker Koepp.

Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy.

This documentary follows the international team behind the Ariane 5 Rocket and SHOWS the scientific developments Inside Europe's largest launch vehicle.

Berlin - a city in constant change and movement. Underground and suburban trains, buses, boats, trains, bicycles, airplanes, cars and pedestrians move alongside, above, below and with each other.

Sonja Ziemann talks about her career.

Three-legged dog sketch Rouff is sad and lonely. To escape his loneliness, he folds a new friend, Pete, from the paper he is drawn on. Rouff and Pete's quest for the fourth leg is an adventurous story, not only for children.

Harold Nebenzal talks about his career.

A documentary about three young trans people; it provides deep insights into how they deal with their trans identities on a daily basis. They talk about their fears, problems and experiences and how the protagonists defend themselves against transphopic attacks. The film is supposed to show trans-identity as something omnipresent and serve as an aid in finding one's identity.

Travel through Sicily with pleasure

„It used to be down to fate whether you gave birth to a disabled child. Today you can choose if you want to keep it or not.“ The results of prenatal screening can present would-be parents with a very difficult dilemma. Should a physically or mentally disabled child be allowed to live – or not be brought into the world at all? Who gets to decide what is normal and worthy of life? The filmic essay DIE DRITTE OPTION puts a new perspective on a highly controversial topic: while we listen to the statements of doctors, those who carry out prenatal screenings and the disturbing experiences of the couples affected, the visual level places the topic in a much wider socio-political context. Director Thomas Fürhapter’s debut film offers fascinating visual and acoustic impressions that tackle the core questions of birth, death, ethics and questions how far we should go when it comes to optimising our lives.

Filmmaker Hella Wenders follows four children – David, Jakob, Anita, and Lucas – who attend the inclusive Berg Fidel school in Münster, where students are accepted regardless of physical, mental, or social differences and all kinds of impairments are accommodated. She documents the careers of David, Jakob, and Anita, as well as their former classmate Samira, after they left their old school and transferred to different secondary schools. She shows the different dreams, hopes, worries, fears, and hardships of the four children and young people, but also their academic and personal successes.

Michael and Jan want to go to a party, but David, who also wants to go, is late. After a phone call, it becomes clear that he was still in the forest looking for his lost wallet. But then the cell phone connection breaks down and Michael and Jan set out to search for David. The beginning of a nightmare.

In a cold and icy world a young tough huntress procures food for her little village when suddenly an orange burning sphere appears in the blue sky.

After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20.000 worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet.

Martin Meyer is an Imam called Husamuddin. Imam Meyer fights his own war against ISIS by teaching the Koran. He deals with religious training and his students are the inmates of the Wiesbaden prison, in the heart of Germany. Imam Meyer knows these inmates well, some of them are returning fighters, they went to Syria to join ISIS and then fled back to Germany. They all are Germans citizens, second or third generation's immigrants coming from Islamic countries: misfits, excluded, marginalized and fascinated by the words of the ISIS recruiters. Prisons always have been a fertile ground for the seeds of revenge, social redemption and hatred.

A family has a car accident, and now the young daughter is faced with being separated from her parents.

End of the summer in a small town in Brandenburg. One of the main attractions of the annual harvest fest is the legendary dachshunds competitive race. Woody, a nine years old longhaired dachshund, is also competing. Not only to win the race, but also for love.

Documentary on film composer Peter Thomas.

A skinny, young girl spends her time alone feeding pigeons in the park. But even they fly away from her. Suddenly, she gets company. But the beanpole feels uneasy about the new companionship, so she sets about going to a specialist for parasites.

Composer and filmmaker Christian von Borries' new film Desert of the real visits these contemporary wastelands. In a rich collage of acted scenes and documentary footage, he extends the metaphor of the wasteland to today's medial reality. At the heart of so many holographic simulations and replicas, in a world custom-made for selfie and instagram tweets, he reveals emptiness and potential violence. (David Riff) The only way to trace the distinction between the semblance and the Real is, precisely, to STAGE it in a fake spectacle.

A documentary about stage and film director Julie Taymor

Joe tells the story of his slowly unraveling military trauma and what it feels like to live with invisible wounds that others can hardly empathize with. The film seeks to illuminate the inner conflicts that veterans experience throughout their reintegration by following Joe's individual struggle and life in Pittsburgh.

Pictures and social media messages are interwoven together with animated segments to highlight Abu Haidar family’s state of being stuck, halfway.

Fun in summer and with letters! An old color film from the 70es. Developed with coffee and E6.

A visual poem that sketches a future in which the imprisoned and atrophied human body uses its last remaining organs of movement to free itself from its own accumulation of waste products.

A day in the life of Swedish poet Karl Holmqvist.

Every summer DJs like Felix Jaehn and Alle Farben clock up more air miles than some airline pilots, conquering the international charts from their laptops. They produce hit songs, and have made German-style Deep House popular in Australia, Japan and the US. Accompany Alle Farben, Felix Jaehn and Trance pioneer Paul van Dyk around the world.

100 years of family and contemporary history, told through the lives of women from four generations, beginning in 1914, when the director’s grandmother emigrated from Berlin to Hungary. This richly illustrated chronicle, assembled from private and historical images, traces the evolution of a German-Jewish family into Hungarian Catholics, from the middle class to life under socialism, and finally to a return to traditions led by the director’s daughter.

What would happen if one day people in Europe had to flee? A young woman called Mira tells of her flight from Paris. In search of a different life she takes a train heading east to the utopianesque town of Tara.

A train ride and a stroll through the forest reveal strange incidents. The journey carries us through fields, along power lines and running people. Line structures on the margin of chaos signal impending disaster.

Agriculture and its perspective in modern times. The change from farmers to energy supplier raise questions. Are we doing the right thing?

At Christmas eve, Noel is anything but happy. He needs to hide a secret from his familiy.

A brief look at the German digital legacy told in four chapters.

In search of nothing, a young traveler is crisscrossing a landscape that feels like the end of the world. When a rainbow-colored kite pops up on the horizon, his journey takes a different turn - one that he didn't expect.

A collage hewn of archive material and self-produced pictures and sounds, in which the house is the protagonist.

Featuring footage of ARCH ENEMY's headline performance at WACKEN OPEN AIR 2016, filmed with 14 cameras, produced and directed by Patric Ullaeus. The audio was mixed by Andy Sneap.

The Czech Republic became a member of NATO and the EU 25 years ago. This change of course heralded a clear affiliation with the West. Today, however, there are considerable deviations from this course. Many Czechs are now skeptical of the West. In this situation, the country is an ideal target for pro-Russian propaganda and targeted disinformation.

An animated film made from approximately 1700 laser printed photo(collage)s, manipulated by hand.

A journey through the chronology, aftermath and a potential conclusion of a military conflict, as reflected in the topographies that the war, either physically or contextually, shaped and altered.

Every summer, when the major football teams fly their star athletes to training grounds in expensive and sunny locations, some other players meet on a football field in Duisburg. Even though there are professional footballers, they are all unemployed. And they look desperately for a job. "The Other Fields" sheds a new and completely different light on the mythologies of contemporary football. While some may think that “bling-bling” and “glitz” is all there is to modern football, Marco Kugel’s and Simon Quack’s film shows the intricate economic and moral complexities behind the façade of entertainment. Dreams only last a season or two.

The history of cinema has already defined the prison film as its own genre with its own elements and particular qualities, in fiction as well as in documentary. The interesting thing about this essay, filmed in the maximum security prison of Spoleto, in Perugia, Italy, is that it uses none of those elements and qualities, and so defines itself more for what it is not, than for what it is.