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Deep in the night when everyone is fast asleep, funny shapes and jolly beasts rumble though the bedroom. There is so much to discover! Only the break of dawn will put an end to their nightly adventures. But dusk is only a stone’s throw away.

Canapés, champagne, fireworks... and a dead body! Richard Kühn, managing director of a luxury toilet seat company, is murdered during a party - in a quiet little place of all places. The investigators are thrown headlong into the case on their night off...

The film is the personal story of three generations: the (late) grandmother, the father and the daughter, who is directing the film. It focuses on the trans-generational transfer of traumatic experiences. It's a spiritual road movie through deep and diffuse layers of feelings resulting from historical transformations in north-eastern Europe.

ALL UND ALLTAG goes on a journey through the history of the history of DEFA (from 1946 to 1992 the state film film production in East Germany).

Sabaudia in Italy, created by Mussolini’s architects as a model “new fascist city”, was supplied with extensive farm lands converted from marshes. Yet, despite its undeniably “brutal” architecture, creators including Alberto Moravia and Pier Paolo Pasolini subsequently found Sabaudia to be a wonderful, hospitable place – the sign of a genuine, traditional Italy, and its resistance to all modern ideologies. Lotte Schreiber constructs a multi-faceted, documentary view of Sabaudia, inspired by but going beyond Pasolini, portraying it as a paradoxical mixture of social class separation, nostalgia, and everyday whimsy. (Adrian Martin)

The Grandmother wants to teach her Grandson how to hunt the big, bad wolf. But when the grandson finds himself facing the wolf on his own, it appears that the wolf just wants to talk. Not at all what is Grandmother prepared him for.

This video essay deepens loneliness, poverty and depression by developing the tragic story of a boy from the Jiu Valley who commits suicide because of his mother’s absence.

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.

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.

Twin sisters and a ladybug.

A golden summer dress in XXL, the ice-lolly drips slowly onto the hot ground. RIOT NOT DIET creates a queer feminist utopia far away from BMI norms and male* gaze. The fat women* and queers in this movie are not ashamed of their expansive body dimensions, but confidently claim space for themselves. They use their bodies to blow up patriarchal structures and enjoy their corporeality beyond the neoliberal logic of exploitation. In times of self-optimization, your belly is a statement!

A short directed by Philipp Wagner.

A presumably African village, inhabited by Germans. BURKINA BRANDENBURG KOMPLEX describes a geographical construction that makes use of “our” medial and collective image of Africa and puts it to the test through inaccuracies. An archaeological find is made in a mine: a Ferrari®. We tag along with Joachim on his everyday rounds. He has his heart set on realising a common energy project. The Museum of Prussian Cultural Heritage is run by a woman of color. She presents artefacts from Western consumer culture with a special emphasis on German products. Joachim is involved in the ritualistic production of energy in the village, but gets excluded when the ceremony is nearing its finale, finally catapulting himself out of the “story/history”.

On October 31, 2018, Herbert Grönemeyer gave a concert at the Radialsystem in Berlin. He and his band presented his new album "Tumult" to a small audience for the first time. Hope instead of hate, the defense of freedom, getting along, never before has it been so important for him to be loud: "The country is nervous, the times are nervous, and we have to learn to take a stand, speak up and get loud." "My whole album is about the times we're in. That's what inspired me. People like us, who don't spend their mornings and evenings on the internet giving their opinions, have to learn to be loud in a different way, to be loud in a relaxed way." But Herbert Grönemeyer also sings about what remains unchanged: Of love and being loved, of the happiness of small moments and the euphoria of new beginnings.

Stefan has been building his own road-legal racing car for 12 years. Every Friday after work, he drives to his parents' house in Brandenburg to continue working on it in the garage. For him, this car is far more than just a vehicle, but his life's work and obsession. For him, there will never be an end to this work, because he is always trying to improve, optimize and prove that he can push the limits of what is technically possible one step further. David is also looking for a borderline experience. For him, this lies in the thrill of speed and vehicle control. When his rear axle breaks out at 100 km/h on a forest road, he feels alive. He uses the car to test his own limits. He accepts the risks involved. Die Schaltgetriebenen is a film about the power of passion, about the search for meaning and the urge to prove oneself.

After a photo shooting for gothic fashion in an old bunker, the entrance key gets lost. The three models and the photo team are desperately seeking for another exit. While seeking, they are getting deeper into a labyrinth until they are covered by insanity and hopelessness. Not all of them manage to find an exit and one of them has to face a horrifying discovery.

The true story of Germany's biggest Boy Band. Follow Adam and Tjark on their miraculous quest to bring the band back together. Includes exclusive Interviews and brand new behind-the-scenes material.

There exist three different types of faces. The first face you show to the world. The second face you see, when you look into the mirror. The third face is the face even you don't want to know, because it can kill you. The girl in this film runs through all three faces, telling her story with a mafia boss.

This documentary is an homage to the forgotten women of Bauhaus. It's time to finally tell their stories. For both as women and as artists they are role models – courageous and inspiring pioneers of modernity.

The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new. The 2018 concert was conducted by Daniel Barenboim. On the programme: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 26 in D major, K. 537 „Coronation”, Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, Alborada del gracioso, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Boléro, George Bizet: Carmen-Suite No. 1.

The anti-psychiatric Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK) was founded in Heidelberg in 1970 and attributed individual suffering to society’s capitalist structures. It began as a self-organised experiment in group therapy led by doctor Wolfgang Huber with psychiatric patients, featuring Hegel readings and individual agitation, before subsequently radicalizing, which ended in criminal proceedings against its members, some of whom went underground with the Red Army Faction.

A poetic examination of the impermanence of rolling clouds, of droplets on a window, and reflections on large bodies of water in the ever-shifting cycle of precipitation.

Documentary focuses on the Gotthard massif and the technical crossings in a north-south direction, particularly over the last 200 years.

Short film by Roman Holtwick.

Archival footage of a friend’s week-end on the beach encounter the sound of distant memories : the rock band, the pre-sixties flowerpower movement, a feeling of carefreeness and freedom… it was the 1950s in the United states of America. The now aged protagonists share their memories and thoughts about a remote youth, that some still can feel. In Loving Memory of the Future is an essay on memory and the (un-)truth of images.

Documentary about the creation of a painting.

A taxi driver has always had a fantasy about a nun, until one night, a real nun gets into his car. And that's when the action begins.

Farah and her older sister Alima lie closely huddled in their small bed. They try to get their minds off an unknown looming thread – a rumor even the other kids in school talk about. As night falls the shadows grow bigger and darker and every noise becomes incredibly loud and threatening. In the middle of the night there is a knock on the front door. And the small family didn’t expect any visitors.

In the late 1970's Horst follows his heart and decides to move from a suburb in Germany to glamorous New York City. A young, gay man with no money, no job and no knowledge of English, but a strong will. A will to built a new life in a completely different world, in which he hopes to feel free and more comfortable with his sexual orientation. On a warm spring day in May 1992 he dies in his New Yorker apartment from his struggle with AIDS . The only thing that’s left: videos, letters, photos and a few clothes. Plus, the most important thing: memories and stories of his family, friends and his former partner. Can love between partners, between a person and his family be strong enough to last longer than death? What does really stay after a person's gone? Told from a personal point of view, the film takes its audience on a journey to follow Horst's footsteps.

Shopping, laundry, adult conversations: 10-year-old Promise doesn't often get the chance to be a child. He lives with his mother, siblings and many other refugees in a hotel in Cologne. With a camera, the boy wanders through the corridors and rooms and takes a picture of this bizarre new world.

People in our societies are getting older and older, which raises the question of how to deal with illness or the death of friends, but also with the many opportunities that life still offers at 70 or 80. Silvia Häselbarth portrays five Swiss people in her sensitive documentary "Falten" (Wrinkles), five people who have come to terms with aging in different yet similar ways.

Seven stories describe the experiences of children in refugee situations.

Alexandra Kluge, one of the defining actresses of New German Cinema, died on June 11, 2017, in Berlin. Hanna Laura Klar gives a voice to her famous brother Alexander Kluge, her son Andro Steinborn, and numerous friends and colleagues, revealing the two lives of an extraordinary woman and friend. As Dr. Karen Steinborn, she was just as charismatic as she was as the actress Alexandra Kluge in her brother’s films.

Climbing over walls and fences is practiced by various people in the Kassel area for over a month. This causes irritation in everyday life, border crossings, and questions about ownership and space. Where are boundaries drawn, and why is it unusual or forbidden to cross them?

The poems of the Bavarian King about love and death and the beauty of Italy.

Queens of Botswana shows three very different women whose lives have been touched by their love for Heavy Metal, engaged by their involvement with the Marok - as the metal scene calls itself - and infused with their need to be more.

Enno, who became known with the trilogy VERGESSEN IM HARZ, reports on his long-distance hike through Germany's northernmost low mountain range.

The film Three Casualties is an investigation of three movie scenes, showing stunts that lead to the deaths of the stunt doubles performing them. In some cases these scenes remained in the films whereby the audience witnessed an actual death on screen while simultaneously watching a fictional one.

Together filmmaker Nathalie and her friend Fabienne venture into a world of memories and forgetting: Fabienne to prepare for her departure from life and Nathalie in order to face it.

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 shift of technology in all our areas of life opens a range of intim encounters between human and machine and is writing over the natural act of creation. Imagination and fantasy are important factors of our sexual desires, nothing seems more personal than our own thoughts. It’s up to us if we share them or keep them for ourselves.