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The new cycling documentary, in full length.

In France and Germany, a look back at the legacy of the New Right, a radical movement whose modern incarnations are becoming increasingly visible.

A video cassette is inserted: A toddler in a paddling pool somewhere on the beach. Parents and grandparents scurry around. Pictures of Senem's first visit to Turkey, so she tells us. This is the beginning of a search for home. Through interviews with her parents and grandparents, the filmmaker takes us through the ups and downs of the life of three generations of Turkish guest workers in Germany. The stories are accompanied by images of everyday life in Turkey. Today the family has returned to their homeland, only Senem has remained in Germany. Where does she belong? Sober reflection meets poetic collage, trying to find peace in the space between here and there.

A Jewish girl and an SS officer are protagonists of the computer game developed by the young game designer Yaar. The story is said to be based on the experiences of his grandmother in the Krakow ghetto. What begins as a journey into the past quickly becomes a search for one's own identity. FINALLY TACHELES is an intensive examination of the consequences of National Socialism and shows people on their very personal way of dealing with history.

A triptychal cinematic compendium of the previously released Faust Sonnengesang Films about Europe(II), America(III), and Asia(IV), along with a foreshadowing of the renowned author and director Werner Fritsch's planned visual artworks about Africa(V) and Australia.

Fragmented Delicacies is a queer-feminist, experimental post porn which aims to challenge the boundaries of post-pornographic representation and find visual codes for queer sensualities that expand the spectrum of human desire and sexuality.

Oh no, squirrel's ball has disappeared. Hedgehog and owl help search in the autumn forest.

The Kummer family stands ready: The Chemnitz-based family of artists is also working from home during the pandemic. Spotlight snapshots of a family caught between standstill and stubborn perseverance.

A road trip through the Black Forest during the imaginary Opium Crisis 1982, accompanied by KARL's contemporary take on 80s music featuring PAS.

Artists, urban planners and the city of Berlin trying to transform a former GDR ruin into a place for new visions and concepts of city - a place where everything is different than before?

The curtain is up, the stage is clear, the microphone on: Let the show begin. The little singer steps forward and everyone is waiting with bated breath what singing talents are about to be heard. She clears her throat one more time and then it starts. But what is this? She’s not really going to lick the microphone like a popsicle, is she? Surely an idea we’ve all had at one time or another!

Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital wants to destroy a brutalist icon of the Cold War era: The infamous former animal research laboratory called the Mäusebunker. Meanwhile, a dedicated group of politicians, preservationists, architects, gallerists, and students fight for an adaptive reuse of these magnificent, uncompromisingly unique structures. Who will win? No matter the outcome, you’re left with the impression that preservation can be brutal.

A reflection on retirement, the transition into this particular new phase of life and the significance and insignificance of work.

Hong Kong, 2019. Long and Sophie, a retired couple, are amateur singers. Despite the social unrest, their singing performance goes ahead as usual. While Sophie arrives at the venue early to prepare, Long is delayed on the subway by unexpected circumstances.

The Sieben Linden eco-village may be featured on television and in print media and admired for its successful small ecological footprint (only one-third of the German average), but short reports and articles naturally fail to elaborate on how challenging such a sustainable life in community really is.

A young woman that has locked herself inside her one-room apartment during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, receives the unexpected visit of a nightmarish creature that has come to haunt her in her sleep.

Washing elephant ears, cleaning, feeding: even during lockdown, this is routine in the elephant house at Erfurt Zoo. Only the visitors are missing. How are the animals and keepers experiencing this time?

An ode to time decay and the power of fire. A study on disappearance and disintegration.

Springtime in Berlin. The relationship between Marcus and Claudia has reached a downturn. Marcus doesn’t know where to go and seeks refuge at his sister Jana. However, Jana and Claudia get to know each other – none of the three is aware of the interconnections. The two women fall in love, while homeless Marcus finds himself more and more marginalized.

Behind the flowers the girls are waiting for love and salvation.

Silesia: a contested region marked by migrations. Animosities between the peoples have a long tradition here, not only since the Second World War. But the National Socialist tyranny left clear lesions behind. The director’s grandfather comes from this region, was the organist in a church in Krasiejów – a place which was once also called Krascheow and, for a while, Schönhorst.

Documentary film about the Jewish, German-Australian writer Walter Kaufmann, who died in Berlin in 2021 at the age of 97. The film follows in the footsteps of his travels, which he undertook all over the world, for example to the USA, Australia, Japan, Cuba, Israel and East Germany. Significant events, catastrophes and upheavals in the history of these and other countries continue to have an impact to this day and are reflected in the life of the cosmopolitan, who not only shared his experiences in successful novels and reportages, but also took the side of the persecuted, disenfranchised and excluded in his youth.

Love across cultural boundaries shapes the story of Amira and Jezzy, who both have their say to express their thoughts and feelings.

The modern prefabricated house construction makes it possible: foundation, walls, roof - and all that within 48 hours. Every fifth building owner nowadays opts for the simple "let build" method. The industry is booming and produces its own four walls on an assembly line. In our documentary, the reporters follow the path of the raw material from the log to the prefabricated house ready for occupancy and show the challenges that builders and planners can sometimes encounter.

When artist Anna Fries was pregnant, they didn’t feel at all like the stereotypical image of the expectant parent—a woman with hands clasped over her belly, her face glowing, gazing blissfully into the distance. It’s an image that leaves little room for those who are pregnant but do not identify as female, or for the reality that being pregnant can be physically tough and extremely disorienting. High time, then, to de-romanticize and de-feminize pregnancy.

The local train is a sight to behold in the morning, overloaded with crowds fighting to get inside. A special compartment reserved for women appears as a temporary oasis – a haven for solitude and contemplation. Director Rebana Liz John questions the women, who reveal what it means to keep ambitions alive within an oppressive patriarchal system. Black and white imagery evocatively captures the details of the women’s experience in this world. They reflect on their lives, across generations, with humour, disappointment and defiance, forming a complex tapestry whose common ground is endurance and survival.

Shrill, loud, colorful and fun - that's what Neue Deutsche Welle stands for. Songs like "Ich will Spaß", "Sternenhimmel" and "99 Luftballons" are still a must at any good party today. Yet the songs are already over 30 years old - just like the movement itself. The wave spilled over into Germany at the end of the 70s. For a long time, German musicians copied what was happening in the USA or Great Britain. There were hardly any German-speaking pop stars at the time. Inspired by punk, German musicians began to experiment at the beginning of the eighties: initially, the music was still characterized by cool synthesizer sounds and provocative lyrics.

During the First World War, women filled the vacant jobs of men who had been sent to the front. Now they fought for the right to vote, social participation and sexual self-determination. This documentary returns to the focal points of this first major global emancipation movement and delves into the heated atmosphere of the 1920s.

Ginkgo trees are separated by sex; only the female trees bear fruit. Once highly esteemed as natural sources of health, city dwellers today object to their pungent smell and, as gardeners, prefer the less complicated, more fragrant “fruitless” male plants. Tang Han explains with infographics, apt short sound comments and sympathetic objectivity.

To his mother, Agyip is a 19-year-old who works as a hotel receptionist. What she doesn’t know is that by night her son has another persona and another life – as ‘Violet Katy’. In conservative Myanmar, drag is something of a nascent art and often frowned upon, but Agyip and his friend Myint Kant Zin are determined to don their make-up and costumes, strut their stuff and live the lives they want – in spite of family pressure.

Sara is 15, loves TV series, hangs out with her friends, and, like everyone else, is fed up with homeschooling. But Sara lives in great uncertainty: she could be deported any day now.

Footage shot by the late photographer and cinematographer, Hani Jawharieh, slowed-down, studied, and re-assembled with material from where it was found—piles of film reels discarded by former Soviet cultural centers in Amman, Jordan, accompanied with commentary by literary and film scholar Nadia Yaqub. Via Dolorosa (Latin for the Arabic ‘Way of Suffering’) is itself a processional route that Jawharieh filmed in his birth city of Jerusalem.

Europe's fastest and highest wooden roller coaster is located in the Heide Park Resort in Soltau. The amusement park has been characterized by the 60 meter high ride since 2001. With a top speed of almost 110 kilometers per hour, “Colossos” was a real crowd puller, with around 20 million guests traveling in 15 years. The restoration began in 2016. New wood, new rails, new technology - the report accompanies the extensive renovation of Germany's most popular wooden roller coaster.

When Lisa Angermann and Andreas Reinke received their first Michelin star, their restaurant "Frida" was already closed to guests. In fascinating images, the film tells the story of the magic of cooking during the enforced break.

To the beat of dripping chemo, an infusion stand fights for the life of a cancer patient. But he is resisting tenaciously. If only death was not constantly making a courtesy call on him. The stand determinedly continues its mission that only finishes with the last drop.

In this documentary, Thomas Betzler, born in Darmstadt in 1954, tells the story of his amazing career in the music industry. It all began with his training as a drummer and the founding of his band Peacock. As the world's first tour caterer, he accompanied international stars of the 80s on their tours through Europe in the years that followed, only to find himself back on stage again today. With many anecdotes and a sense of humor, Tommy B. shares his wealth of experience with the audience and provides insights into his own life story and the music industry of the past 50 years.

A chamber opera based on Aram Pachyan's eponymous book.

Germany’s infrastructure is falling apart. Countless buildings, bridges and roads are crumbling and need to be torn down. These demolition experts have a true giant at their side. Our documentary accompanies the men of Bavarian demolition teams as they live out what is probably every little boy's greatest dream.

Creating an artwork with no production costs—for sure that's the dream of all artists living in precarity. In "All Now, All Free!" Michael Heindl delivers two works in one at zero cost—however, the film is not intended as a serious instruction manual. Instead, the work joins Heindl's artistic practice of questioning social rules and conventions—here the at times absurd freedoms of capitalism.

The curtain is emblematic of cinema: a veil of illusion that never completely closes but continuously opens.

Three Afrodescendent women living in Berlin go through their wash day routines and rituals. As they care for their hair: choosing products, washing, detangling, braiding, cutting, dyeing etc. they discuss how their relationship to it has changed over the years.

In the city of “Evia” several residents are infected with light. A girl discovers what appears to be the host. She befriends it, feeds it and houses it, to the disapproval of the other residents. They want to drive the host away. A persecution begins…

What beer is to Germans, vodka is to Russians. The Russians consume around 60 liters of their national drink per capita per year - as cheap liquor, fine drink and home-distilled. But the high alcohol consumption has consequences: every year around 30,000 people in Russia die of alcohol poisoning. WELT reporter Christoph Wanner has taken a closer look at the production and sales of Vodka - a lucrative business in which not everything is right.

“I borrow my roommate’s camera to make a film about him. It’s supposed to be a great documentary. The only problem is, I have feelings for him that he doesn’t feel back, there is a new world pandemic and we are stuck together in the same house.” Naama Heiman