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Claire and Paulina wake up after a night of drinking and smoking. As their friends return from the bakery they are faced with a decision.

A stranded alcoholic and a mysterious taxi driver embark upon a different kind of road trip.

This should not be presumptuous, but we are deeply touched by the dramatic and catastrophic situation in Ukraine. The analogy between swarms of birds and people is so obvious. You can achieve almost nothing on your own, you are strong together. #notowar #ukraine #russia

The fear of death can only be conquered if people believe in a powerful savior — otherwise eternal damnation in hell is waiting. The documentary found footage collage "Lake of Fire" shows that the dualistic view and way of life of those believers additionally fuels the climate change — related "hell on earth" in a dangerous way.

The reality of the everyday is elevated to dream and nightmare levels. An enigmatic ambiguity and a mysterious menace hover over the images.

The documentary shows how young women belong to the Sorbian community, while at the same time the tensions between the generations are clearly perceptible.

The Maginot Line: thousands of subway bunkers and concrete defenses lining the French border from Belgium to the Mediterranean Sea, a monumental engineering feat that was celebrated as a technical masterpiece when it was created. When the impregnable wall was demolished by the unbeatable Nazi war machine in 1940, the conquered fortress became the shattered symbol of French defeat.

SPACEBIRTH 2 tells the story of a lonely cosmonaut traveling through the galaxy and searching for beauty. Long on his isolated quest, he becomes tired and despondent. After his final hope of reaching something meaningful is lost, his greatest journey begins. Sucked into a surreal adventure beyond understanding, the cosmonaut discovers what he's really been searching for all along.

"RHYTHM & RESISTANCE" tells the story of three protagonists who are involved in the traditional cultural scene in north-eastern Brazil. Until the day the country's presidential elections draw ever closer. Suddenly, nothing seems the same anymore and it's all about preventing the populist Jair Bolsonaro.

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

In the city of Evia, residents are infected with light. A girl discovers what appears to be the host. She befriends it and houses it. The other residents are not delighted. A persecution begins.

Rocko Schamoni plays a rock star who has aged in the isolation of his castle, whose everyday life takes place somewhere between daily toast and Ludwig II. Posters and prizes remind us of his greatest, possibly only successes, which he celebrated in the 80s of the last century. Otherwise, there is now emptiness in his house and life.

Barbara Marcel runs a film workshop at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Kinshasa. Starting with a discussion of the film The Lion Has Seven Heads by Glauber Rocha (Congo Brazzaville, 1969), the filmmaker questions the relationship between her country, Brazil, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marlene offers an impassioned consideration of militant filmmaking.

Bangladeshi artist Naima Karim was paralyzed by a virus and for a year could do nothing but look at the sky. She then experienced the monsoon even more intensely than usual: the initial gusts of wind, the rapidly darkening sky, the oppressive humidity and finally the downpour of rain, which washes everything clean and leaves behind a fresh scent.

In 1987, a small film distributor from Frankfurt/Main brings the film "Dirty Dancing" to West German cinemas against all negative odds. The film becomes the hit of the year, in complete contrast to France, where foreign films have a hard time against the local film landscape.

Thomas Hoepker is one of the most famous photographers of his lifetime. Now he is slowly losing his memory. He embarks on one last journey together with his wife, a trip they once took more than 50 years ago.

A Berlinale Kompagnon-Fellowship winner.

In a Berlin nursing home, four old women wait to die. Growing up during the war, the post war youth, the division of Germany, the fall of the wall in the 80's - the landscape of singular yet intertwined memories. With frightening clarity words tumble from their toothless mouths. In the final act of their lives, castaway by society, these four women take centre stage.

On weekends, a family’s farmhouse becomes the meeting place of a circle of friends. The children develop their own, childishly brutal dynamics. Power games and constant trials of strength drive them forward. A film about the painful beauty of growing up.

Minimal stories in a Belarusian village apparently indifferent to the popular uprisings in Minsk. The young director, who has left the country, defines them as 'choreographies of everyday life' in a film about 'rules that limit personal freedoms and at the same time ensure that the social organism works...'

What does the unsparing articulation of one’s own sexual needs do to the recipient? Especially when all of it happens in the anonymity of the internet. A fatal game of dependencies in a supposedly safe space.

A garbage-collecting robot on two wheels rolls through the city streets at night. It is controlled by an elderly woman who, during her dull work, is reminded of her youthful ease by a unexpected encounter.

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Night. A Woman. In a stranger's car.

In search of the creation of an autonomous body, Amina Maher reveals her unspoken desires in the process of honest self-exploration, sharing the most private of moments and breaking silences with the help of a friend.

The Bach Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, Cantata 1 to 3

A tv show host returns after a break due to illness.

The final decades of the Roman Republic: For nearly a hundred years, the rival aristocratic cliques that dominated politics had been fighting each other for power. The newcomer Octavian, underestimated by many, fought ruthlessly and cruelly for sole rule. He was the nephew of Julius Caesar, who allied himself with Mark Antony after his assassination. Soon, these two, too, were fighting each other. Historians have called Octavian a "butcher." Yet, with the honorary name Augustus, "the Exalted," he went down in history as a peacetime emperor.

The 2022 midterms are crucial for the second half of Joe Biden's presidency. The documentary shows the state of the political system.

After a coup in Fairyland, the pied piper took over political power. Many inhabitants saw no other choice but to flee, searching for asylum in Germany and trying to build an existance in their new homeland. Of course, that brings about friction. In a self-help group for persons with a fairytale background, they meet with like-minded people. They report their experiences and conflicts with integration and life in Germany. Despite all difficulties, our protagonists remain optimistic, attempting to integrate into German society and they shall live happily ever after.

"Here was our home," says farmer Rahim Shorkar, and points to the water. “There were streets, schools and concrete buildings. We had everything." The river brings rich sediments that make the land fertile, but the Jamuna's generosity comes at a cost. Islands - known as chars - pop up at the river's whim. But they disappear just as quickly, and the people of the Jamuna must jump from island to island.

In 1904, the genocide of the Herero and Nama by the German colonial power in South West Africa began. Hinavandu, a young Herero, finds herself in a collection center after fleeing the genocide. There the fugitives celebrate the end of the war and wait for the day when the Germans will pick them up and bring them back to their villages. Hinavandu dares to hope again. But on the day of her departure, she realizes that they will not be brought home.

In COMPLEXIFYING RESTITUTION (2022), El-Tahri invites the viewer into the spacetime of a project that brings together archive researchers, artists, and filmmakers to interpret, rethink, and reappropriate the archive. The purpose of this engagement with the archive is not to simply delve into history and memory in order to look backward, but rather to use that past knowledge—the fragments that can be unearthed—as a tool to reinterpret our current reality and imagine an alternative future. (Berlin Biennale)

Two men meet in a café and decide to get into a fight over a woman.

How do we remember those who have passed on before us? Such is the question of this short animated film, which tells the story of two Prussian brothers, Vinko and Schanno Franz, who brought joy and music to life with their instruments. The short film that asserts the need to tell the histories of those who can’t tell it themselves, and a demand to not forget them.

Anyone who sits longer will die sooner. Scientists warn of the health dangers posed by the growing lack of exercise among the population and provide a simple but effective miracle cure: simply walking works like medicine for the body and mind. A daily walk protects against disease, makes the brain more efficient and the soul happier. This documentary “Walking - Miraculous Healing for Body and Soul”, scientifically addresses what walking is and the processes that occur in the human body.

What are the wild waves saying ? Following up on Saturn and beyond (Georges de Beauregard International Award, FID 2021), Declan Clarke listens in again. The waves here, are those that, through the figure of the writer Francis Stuart, connected the Irish nationalist movement to Nazi Germany : anti-English broadcasts for German radio from 1940 to 1944, pirate radio transmitter sent from Germany to Ireland, infiltration of German agents helped by the author’s wife who stayed in Ireland… The director plays the writer’s role but we never hear his voice, as if to offset the power of radio as a means of propagating a discourse. Both rigorous and playful, vivid and melancholic, this film is a meditation on political compromission and the mass media that serve as their tools.(Nathan Letoré)

Claudia on her Venus way, showing and doing what erotic is starting with the Fall. And the Rosella with a killer dance, coming with laughter, heavy from Dante to opera ... a miracle of an actress.