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Heading into the lost empires of Turkmenistan.

Precision work at an altitude of 3,000 meters. A unique construction is being built on the Zugspitze - Germany's highest Mountain. With a total distance of 4.5 kilometers, the suspension railway being built there is not only the highest, but also the longest cable car in the world. But that's not all: it drives over a single support that sets another record at 127 meters. How does the alpine climate influence working conditions? Our documentation takes a look behind the scenes of the cable car construction site and accompanies the creation of the impressive structure.

The artist Jan Kummer is suffering from the coronavirus crisis and is trying to sell his paintings as product placements in a film.

An innocent student decides to earn some money by posing as a model at the Academy of Fine Arts. The place seems to function beyond time and space, and the other models advise him to run away.

Asude lives in Lower Bavaria. Her grandparents came to Germany from Turkey in the 1970s. She’s currently studying for her school-leaving examinations and, at the same time, training for her dream of becoming a kickboxing champion. Unreservedly supported by her sisters, Asude competes in the European Championship in Skopje. It is her first fight in the jersey of the German national team.

Most accidents happen at home. Thus the appeal to one’s personal political responsibility comes as a surprise. Randomly reading a Brecht text inspires to take action.

A jumble of emerging history is contrasted with the present efforts to optimise profit through ventures and ominous business ideas. In the midst of this labyrinth is a duo of artists who only want to make films. Their misfortune: the German film funding system allows only those who work in an artistic-documentary style to realise science fiction films. Cause enough to find true science fiction material on real German soil instead of looking for a fiction.

Affective Dynamics Study Group is a collective devoted to 'study' in the Motenian sense, examining issues around interpersonal relations, non-violent communication, vulnerability, complicity and new ways of being and living together. Part consciousness-raising experiential group, part never-ending rehearsal, the collective meets to perform a series of experimental exercises together, borrowed from the fields of somatics, group therapy, activism, and movement practices.

Bushkida is a documentary film about Judeo-Spanish, also called Ladino. Ladino was the language of the Sephardic Jews, who were expelled from Spain in 1492. It is a miracle that this language is still spoken, despite the many tragedies throughout the ages. With our film we try to understand this miracle by searching for Ladino-speakers and their culture.

Louisa and Nikki live in West Virginia. They have adopted eight children whose parents are unable to care for their offspring due to pill addiction.

My (former) neighbour, Samer is a trained translator & interpreter between Arabic and Chinese & would like to work as such. A visual exploration of the gap between what systems expect & reality & a human stuck in between. Negative developed in black tea.

Passage by Jo Pollux

Right-wing extremists in the police and the Bundeswehr are making plans for a coup, stockpiling weapons and keeping lists of opponents - the preparations for "Day X" are more concrete than expected.

At times, the things you experience with Milan are magical. But really not always. More often they are catastrophic, or at least the beginning of a catastrophe. When he asked me to help him get two furnaces from Belgrade, our friendship was facing a serious test once more.

There is a Belladonna in every woman, but some try to hide their face.

These bodies make every camper's heart beat faster: Individually designed and extravagantly furnished long-distance motorhomes are the latest craze on the caravan market - at least for those amateur campers who can afford the unusual models. The off-road companions and rolling luxury suites have no upper price limits. Who are the owners of the most expensive caravans in Germany, and what about the hoods of their rolling homes?

In the German Allgäu, the gigantic Center Parcs Allgäu holiday park was built on an area of 184 hectares. Around 5,000 guests can spend their vacation there in a thousand holiday homes. But it was a long way to go before the plant at the foot of the Alps opened: 1,100 construction workers, plumbers and technicians toiled to get it completed on time. In the end, the roof of a giant slide was missing and the TÜV checked the park attractions. In our documentation we have accompanied the construction workers in the last few days during the completion of the holiday park

Part 2 of the Bethanien Tetralogy.

When the young, spirited Salome moves with her husband David into a suburban apartment house, she plunges the retiree Engel and the wealthy couple Gabriele and Oscar into chaos with her joie de vivre. After a few days, mysterious things happen in their apartment block. Engel secures his apartment, computer scientist Gabriele secures her husband. Everyone in the house now wants to restore their beloved order and, as such, everything becomes even more tricky …

Over the course of two years, filmmaker Tanja Cummings visited Café Zelig, where Shoa survivors find a protected space to exchange ideas. The café becomes a hub of different lives and moments.

Gorilla Milk documents the meeting between an artist, a YouTube vlogger, and a gorilla. Mixing recordings from the meeting with archival content from the vlogger’s YouTube account, the video explores the artist’s and vlogger’s similarities with, and projections onto, the gorilla. The conversation centers around the beauty of the gorilla, who suffered a severe drop in popularity when her breasts started sagging. The public and the caretakers lost interest. And after losing her fertility, even her troop rejected her. Gorilla Milk aims to discuss motherhood, body dysmorphia, and the life of a female in captivity —by the ideas of bystanders, audience, society, and caretakers.

In the closet, Max sees his nightmares merge with reality. Perhaps a crucial night will allow him to overcome his fears.

A young woman embarks on a search for her recently deceased grandmother's will in her house. She encounters strange clues that increasingly support the deceased's decades-long paranoia. As strange discoveries and unexplained events accumulate, she decides to leave the dilapidated house—but the delusion becomes real.

A sequence of bucolic black-and-white fragments of the southern Tuscan countryside opens a portrait of a peaceful daily routine, of reconciled old age spent in a sun-drenched idyll. Without a hint of emotion, Jochen, aged seventy, outlines the unsettled life of a retired drug smuggler, the life of a person with two stories – one as an outlaw, the second as the respectable head of a family.

Spasms and cries that echo through the night announce the presence of a new being.

On the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea lies one of the most megalomaniac projects built by the Nazis. The ‘Monster by the Sea’, a colossus of brickwork that stretches for kilometres, intended as a futurist holiday resort for the inhabitants of the Third Reich. A paragon of ‘guilty architecture’. Later occupied by the communist regime, it has since the fall of the Wall fallen victim to property developers who have found it a tough nut to crack. Nico Weber’s Inside Prora uncovers the storied history of a project that symbolises the utopian intentions of modernism and the emergence of mass tourism.

My father died under obscure circumstances when I was just one year old – one of the millions of Russian men who died too soon in the nineties. Why were those years in Russia so deadly? After 26 years, I want to get to the bottom of this mystery.

Documentary showing the coaches of the French Revolution and more.

The Penan people fight for the preservation of the rainforest, that is threatened by companies seeking to profit from the destruction of their environment.

Times that make you hold your breath - as the invisible air becomes existential. "Holding My Breath" was recorded in the artist's studio, in times of the pandemic shutdown in March 2020. From Kahlen's ongoing series of "Works with Wind" 1989 - 2020.

‘Pomp’. Last chapter of the series. The colors blue and gold are dominating this film. ‘The Blue Hour’ – glittering stars at the night sky and on vaudeville stages. Finger dances in golden gloves of satin, full glasses of champagne in circle choreographies, collective ‘Golden Showers’. Performers in bluecatsuits. Everything moving in circles. Pure ‘Pomp’.

Part 3 of the Bethanien Tetralogy.

Sex, food and, in the end, both at the same time. The filmmaker is watching.

In Reichenwalde, Brandenburg, the world's largest mobile work machine is used in opencast mining: the "Abraumförderbrücke F60" (overburden conveyor bridge). To uncover lignite, the metal colossus has been transporting up to 90,000 tons of earth per shift since the 1970s. The F60 thus takes over an essential part of the coal production, surrounding power plants are dependent on it. Our documentary introduces the gigantic steel monster and explains how the overburden bridge works.

Modern agriculture would be inconceivable without them: Huge harvesting machines such as beet and potato harvesters, tractors weighing tons and high-horsepower foragers. Agricultural technology made in Germany is at the forefront of the world market. How do the powerful harvest giants work? Where are they made? In our documentation we take a look around the agricultural technology fair Agritechnica in Hanover, we are present at a harvesting mission in Western Pomerania and show the effort with which the XXL machines are transported.

Staging macho "bromances" between men like Vladimir Poutine and Xin Junping, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, using G-udit and $chwanger's superimposed faces as they rap in their melancholy style.

BEEWILDERED COMPANIONS is an immersive ethnographic study on the socio-material entanglements of humans and honeybees in times of globalized diseases. Triggered by the migration of a small bee parasite from Asia, the culture of beekeeping in Europe today is deeply shaken. The search for new and better practices is also a struggle of different imaginaries regarding the ontological status of the honeybee as domestic or wild. Can and should a serious disease be controlled by medication or breeding? Or is it better for humans to give up control, as in the long lost craft of tree beekeeping? Only in the deep forests of Bashkiria the tradition is still alive. The cultural appropriation of this knowledge in Central Europe could be an important pillar for a sustainable solution to the crisis. Three multisensory-observational and three plurivocal-discursive chapters juxtapose the diverging inner attitudes with the corresponding practices of animal care.

“As a homosexual couple, you have equal rights until you want to have children”, that is the realization of many lesbian and gay couples. This documentary portrays three same-sex couples, gives an insight into the life of rainbow families and shows the hurdles in starting a family.

Forty years of Böhse Onkelz. We let it melt on the tongue with cake and beer. And because we can't celebrate this insanity, which cannot be expressed in words, with you personally, we chopped our heads together to serve you something for the anniversary - the result was a 45-minute punch of the very best. A distillate, an outline of our years together and the ups and downs of the rapid journey from the first punk pogo party in the youth center to the sea of flags in the Waldstadion. Well get it.

In the original radio play The Machine (1968), Goethe's poem Wanderer's Nightsong is analysed strictly systematically in an attempt to discover the mechanics of poetry. The strength of this work is that poetry itself is more powerful than any analysis or restructuring. What you experience is the sublime.