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Shredded chicken, vandalism, mysterious howling in the night: a demon haunts the Labertal in Upper Palatinate. Hias from the public order office investigates and soon has to recognize: the old legends and fairytales are all true.

Christian Bruhn has virtually set the Federal Republic of Germany to music. He is one of the most successful German composers and music producers in the pop industry. Bruhn's music, on the other hand, is well known: whether it's pop songs like "Marmor Stein und Eisen bricht," theme tunes for "Heidi," "Timm Thaler," and "Captain Future," or advertising jingles from Maggi to Milka: Christian Bruhn has written more than 2,500 compositions. This documentary is the infectiously upbeat portrait of a man who has accompanied and touched people across generations with his music since the early 1960s.

November 9, 1989, the day the Wall came down, was one of those days when it became clear that the world had changed "immediately and without delay" once and for all. [...] But it was not only politics and the lives of many people that changed with the world, but also the way we think. And more permanently than one might think. For a long time after that evening, there were calls for a major, analytical reappraisal of what had happened. After all the talk about bananas, the German feature pages hoped for "the great German novel of the turnaround". The fact that this has not appeared in the last 30 years has to do with the fact that thinking and art have changed forever along with the world. (Text: Armin Kratzert; Translated with DeepL) (Poster: dpa-Bildfunk/Peter Kneffel)

A teenager growing up on an old farm in the countryside of southern Germany, on the border with Austria, is cared for by his father and grandmother. Like everywhere else, the inhabitants of Bavaria are experiencing the changes precipitated by globalisation: unprecedented abundance, political radicalisation and the arrival of refugees.

Seven-year-old Oskar lives in his own world. Other kids avoid him. He enjoys walking around outside and recording sounds with his toy tape recorder. At a family gathering, Oskar overhears a conversation between two adults that will change his life and worldview forever.

Inspired by the concept of smooth and striated space by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari the film plays with different spaces and reflects on the power of mental and physical barriers.

Planet Earth is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and a crew of five friends decide to build their own spaceship out of there. On a quest to search for Club Splendida, a rumoured utopia in the depths of outer space, the team hopes to find “the answer to life, the universe, and everything”. Soon they find out the biggest challenges are on their way and not what they expect.

We have exclusive insights into the work of Germany’s most successful customs office and its confiscation of drugs and goods. We follow customs officers and their targeted operations.

A poem, a kaleidoscope and life itself.

When you look at a screen for a long time, the screen looks into you, too. It's late. You've been juggling numbers all day. The screen seems to vibrate before your eyes. You close your eyes. The afterimage on your retina continues pulsating in over-saturated colours.

»It’s just gone?«, Zacharias asks. »Just all gone«, his Algerian-born father, Mustapha, replies. But the family doesn’t forget the traumatizing events burned into the memory of his German mother, Christiane: her husband’s arrest, imprisonment, and deportation to Algeria in the 1990s.

Former district administrator Georg (89), a Prussian through and through, has been living with Alina, a Polish woman 45 years his junior, since the death of his wife. The housekeeper looks after the sprightly old man and brings a new lease of life to his everyday life. Fatih, a 28-year-old Tunisian, completes the trio. Alina met him over the internet and after a quick wedding, he also moves into the former politician's house. The result is an unusual flat-sharing community that challenges each of the three, but is ultimately crowned with success.

Riders of Destiny follow several child jockeys from the remote Indonesian Island of Sumbawa as they go through a season of racing horses. Child horse racing is a cultural pastime which is primarily undertaken by an impoverished class of rural families whose economic actions are severely limited. The film touches on aspects of class, education, child welfare, and income inequality.

She is the pride of the German Navy: the frigate Hessen is a state-of-the-art military ship specially designed for air defense. Since 2006, the high-tech giant has been in service with a crew of 255. In the world's largest maritime maneuver, the "Hessen" trains as part of the U.S. aircraft carrier group in strategic interaction with six other warships.

A documentary fairy-tale about the struggle for identity in the Hunza Valley set in a village located in the Northern-Pakistan somewhere between the past and the future. A magnificent turquoise lake in between rough, steep cliff surrounds the small village. But the lake hasn’t been always there. One day, an enormous landslide blocked a river. In a few months, this river turned into a huge lake, which is now up to 30km long. Thousands of homes and fields were flooded. Entire villages disappeared forever. Thousands of people got dislocated and had to look for different places where to live. What is left are the stories of those that once used to live there which are passed on from generation to generation.

A documentary about the left revolution in Munich and Bavaria as well as the republic following governing for several months. The movie consists mostly of eye witness interviews of the peaceful change of government.

Six people reveal their own interpretation and search for the perfect black.

Composer Georg Friedrich Haas and African-American kink educator Mollena Lee Williams enter into a complicated relationship.

Silent film about five girls, dealing with the dream of beauty, despair of revolution, broken Gretchen love, absurd self-discovery, and on the heels of Dürer's Melancholia, the future and a massacre vision.

Jana Beller won the TV show „Germany's Next Top Model“ in 2011. Today she is a businesswoman and runs two branches in Bochum of one of the most modern backshop chains in Europe. Model measurements and pastries - does that fit together? And how! The young entrepreneur gives insights into the business of sweet and salty snacks. Shock-frozen, the breads and desserts are delivered from a central production to the individual shops and sold to hungry walk-in customers.

Fifty kilometers from Berlin, there was once a secret Nazi labor camp, but today there is no trace of it. The witness of those events, three restorers and two diggers are invited to go in search of this place. Comparing the prisoners ' diaries with the findings suggests that the culture of memory is gradually losing its power.

The Secret Love Life of the Urban Leopard is a wildlife mockumentary which follows an underground community throughout their everyday life in Berlin. They are the urban leopards, endangered and fabulous. Narrated like a real wildlife film, it introduces the lifestyle, sexual and eating habits, and camouflage skills of it's leopard printed heroes.

Documenting the performance journey of the artists Susie Wimmer, Andreas Schock and Moni Single from "Clowns Without Borders" to Iranian aid institutions - homes for orphans and street children, hospitals, psychiatric clinics and refugee camps.

Horst is a hunter trying to stave off the inevitability of aging. Futile, as we all know. Nevertheless, he suffers a crisis of identity about himself, his world, and the forests and glades he so loves. Two days after the disappearing of his gundog Birko, Horst plunges deep into the forest to try and find the wayward pooch, and in doing so, re-immerses himself in his beloved natural world. He hears barking and ploughs on, in search of Birko. Deeper and deeper he goes. What will he discover, deep in the bosky depths?

WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THIS LOVE - THE ZAKARIA PALIASHVILI MUSIC SCHOOL IN TBILISI is an observant and character-based documentary about a magical place. A film about growing up and aging, about farewells and new beginnings, about great dreams and the art of improvisation.

Lake Urmia in Northern Iran was once the largest lake in the Middle East. Human influence brought upon a devastating drought that the lake could not withstand, and today, just 5% of the original lake remains.

Emil, now 27, lost his mother in an accident in a greenhouse during his childhood. He visits his mother's best friend at the time, who has no idea how the conversation will end.

“POST MORTEM berlin” shows the choreography of a body’s last journey. We experience the process of a cremation: from the arrival of the coffin to the filling of the ash capsule. The technical and hygienically perfected process of cremation renders the deceased's last encounter into an industrialized ritual.

The heavy metal detox becomes an aesthetic paraphrase on the removal of dental fillings in the latest film by Austrian artist and filmmaker Josef Dabernig.

Tension slowly seeping into her relationship with night shift nurse Lou, a conflicted Julie finds momentary solace in a chance encounter with surfer Ben.

Germany, as seen from the water. The landscape passes by in epic tranquillity as the audience immerses itself in the world of barge shipping. The top permitted speed for smaller watercraft is specified in the inland waterways regulations as a maximum of 15 km/h. A woman is along for the ride on Germany’s rivers and canals, with plenty of time to explore this little-known cosmos. In the end, the director dreams of a life on board and endeavours to find her place in the predominantly male domain. Welt an Bord is a hybrid of documentary and narrative film. The basic conditions are set by the limited space on the barge and the work that must be done. Kathrin Resetarits embodies the alter ego of director Eva Könnemann, while she herself takes charge of the cinematography. Together they accepted the captain’s invitation to join in this other life. What kind of life is it anyway? Resetarits/Könnemann listen and work their way through fiction and reality.

After being kicked out of a party, Koka Bud ans his friends are looking for another place to continue their drugfilled raveparty. A seemingly abandoned house seems perfect, but once the party starts, bodies start to drop. It seems they entered the hidden lair of Dr Mengele and his undead servants, all out for blood.

"Searching for the Perfect Gentleman — an Investigative Journey" is a documentary about the search of an African barber shop poster. The virtual journey takes the viewer to various African, European and Asian countries, in order to find the place where it was originally created, produced and sold. What seems easy in the beginning turns out to be a demanding process, yet an interesting experience in accessing information, communicating with people from totally different backgrounds and indulging in uncertainty, to celebrate the search itself — wherever it may lead. The film shows how boundaries between originality and reproduction merge, in a world where everything can be remixed and reprinted easily. Searching for the Perfect Gentleman tells a multi-layered story about trust, persistence and interconnectedness in a globalized world.

"Weimar" was the first democracy on German soil. It was a new beginning full of emotion and hope - in difficult times. Weimar is often viewed from the end, from its downfall under National Socialism. Yet it was a great new beginning. The Germans dared to embrace democracy. A documentary as a lively discussion about Weimar. What can Weimar teach us today?

The 1980s of the GDR – Frank’s puppeteer group is arrested for distributing pacifist leaflets. After being sentenced to imprisonment, the defendants are offered the opportunity to go to the West through a secret buy-out of political prisoners. Frank remains. The same goes for the question of who betrayed them? Different truths and memories stand side by side. The focus is on a person who never tries to act from an attitude of victimization and who depicts his very personal way of dealing with the GDR dictatorship.

400,000 Americans speak Palatinate German? Douglas Madenford, born and raised in Pennsylvania, looks for traces in his homeland and the Palatinate in the documentary "Hiwwe wie Driwwe" by Benjamin Wagener and Christian Schega. Doug meets many people and learns what is left of the Palatine language and culture in America and how it has developed "hiwwe like driwwe" here in Germany and beyond in America. About 300 years ago, many people from the Palatinate fled because of political persecution and economic reasons to the United States and mainly settled in and around Pennsylvania. They also brought their language and culture to the New World. Both have largely survived to this day. In America, people still speak their variant of the Palatinate dialect: the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch.