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After a four-year relationship, Mattia and Nils want to find out whether they are really "everything" for each other. They agree to do whatever they want for a year in order to finally have security afterwards. Details

Joe is an old sock puppet ready for his next gig.

A love story about memories and how they can be distinguished from fiction when the person with whom you once shared them is no longer there.

Since the 1980s they are regularly touring Germany’s Swabian country providing art and culture to the countryside. Gerhard Göbelt and Klaus Friedrich are operating their mobile cinemas with full passion. Whether it is in a city hall, on a meadow in open air or even on a ferry – for lots of people in the countryside they are the guarantee for a couple of carefree hours with good entertainment. However this will change sooner than later because both Göbelt and Friedrich are looking forward to their retirement. Since there are no successors willing to take over their work, it is most likely that a lot of small communities in Baden-Württemberg will lose their last cultural asset. Wolfram Hannemann’s documentary portrays those two “culture heroes” and tries to put their tireless work into perspective which covers several decades of film history. The film was made during the Covid pandemic which also affected mobile cinemas.

Corona Apocalypse Berlin - Lonely queers cruise through Kreuzberg and Neukölln, rattle at the doors of closed-down bars and clubs and even have to flee from the police for violating SARS-CoV-2 infection protection regulations! And the shoot for the campy sex scene in a Kreuzberg parking garage was also quite exciting, as the actions did not go unnoticed by some of the inhabitants of the neighboring high-rise! The film is accompanied by Toni Karat's grim and breathless soundtrack and the latest post-punk release by R Talin!

Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn - the magician duo from Germany enchanted the world for decades. Millions of spectators attended their legendary show in Las Vegas. It was the best show in the world - with elephants, white tigers and breathtaking illusions. Siegfried and Roy, two simple men from Germany, lived the American dream. How did they manage it?

From September 2001 to April 2002 Nan and Nancy along with other Latin American women worked for the asbestos company “Branch,” cleaning the luxury apartments, offices, and banks of Manhattan in the hermetically sealed zone of “Ground Zero.” The women had neither residence permits nor work permits in the USA, and their dust masks had no filter for asbestos. At the PedWest border crossing in Tijuana refugees perform their stories. They play asbestos workers, American soldiers, Red Cross staff, and firefighters. Migrants from Guatemala and Venezuela and Mexicans who were deported from the USA to Tijuana: they are all stuck at the border due to the “Remain in Mexico” policy. Ahorita Frames moves the stories of the asbestos workers from New York in 2001 across the border to Tijuana in 2019, thus reconfiguring the political cartography of power relations.

This short-length film is an architectural and visual experiment in the creation of spatial compositions based on the suprematic paintings from the exhibition “The last futuristic exhibition of paintings 0.10”, or simply, “Zero-ten”. It was an art exhibition which took place in Petrograd within the period between December 19, 1915 and January 17, 1916. The exhibition featured 36 works by Kazimir Malevich and his associates. Through it, Suprematism was presented as a new direction. It was named after the organizers' idea to complete the futuristic period in Russian painting and to mark the beginning of Suprematism. In the red corner of the room, traditional for the icon in an Orthodox house, was placed the "Black Square".

Two marginalized youths who take refuge in groups they do not understand.

Inspired by my job on the assembly line of a factory, Fill3 depicts a production process. The film begins with a stereotypical factory setting that evolves into an an increasingly strange production system.

Told from the perspective of a child, the film uses poetic images to tell the intimate process of weaning between Laurence and her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Umae. The film not only touches on profound themes relating to the physical and emotional aspects of motherhood, but also raises the question of the extent to which raising children is the task and responsibility of a larger community.

A tale about my mother and brothers from other mothers.

Arriving in April 2021, Extended is the fifth album from Modeselektor. The German duo are accompanying this release with a ‘visual album’ in film: 'Work’ stars American dancer Corey Scott-Gilbert who transposes the energy of Modeselektor’s music into a radical performance.

"A visit in the Bavarian Forest, wallowing in the past - Grandmother Rita, the Bolex, Asparagus, the stone rain barrel, glass vases and casted sculptures by Grandfather Bernhard - casted in the "lost mould“.

The young, idealistic D'Artagnan is skilled with a sword and dreams of becoming a member of the famous Musketeers. He sets off for Paris and soon manages to prove his abilities and win the trust of the three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together, they uncover a devious plan by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu, who wants to plunge France into war with England and bring down the king.

Intense interest in Japan by the West made it a favourite destination for filmmakers from the earliest days of film. This selection of films from 1901 to 1913, newly restored by the BFI National Archive, takes us on a fascinating journey through Meiji Japan.

Ethnographic documentary which, thanks to an one-year-and-half anthropological research with a collaborative approach, gives a deep insight into the everyday life, functioning and networking of diverse migrant communities in Barcelona and documents their persistent fight against the prevailing racist power relations.

A dream sequence of depression, addiction and power dynamics. The combination of subtle BDSM elements, covens and the recontextualization of Sorbian traditional costume elements breaks with conventions of Sorbian conservatism.

For as long as Lila and Adrian can remember they lived in a room, that has neither doors or windows, but instead a tube on the wall from which food appears daily. But after a strange light emerges from that tube one day and the food no longer appears, conflict arises between the two. While Lila wants to further explore and understand this foreign light, Adrian opposes it, partly because its presence seems to bring unforeseen dangers.

This documentary explores African pop and women’s visibility in the music industry in Ghana.

50 meters long, 6.5 meters wide and 4.5 meters high - a 130-ton giant, consisting of a drive station for conveyor belts and transport vehicles, has to be brought to the site 13 kilometers away. The route: an obstacle course! Power lines lead to a forced stop. Tight curves and steep descents require filigree work. A real tough job for heavy haulage professional Randolf Peters. Schleenhain in Saxony, around 40 kilometers south of Leipzig. Here, lignite is mined in open-cast mining on a large scale. If a digging point is exhausted, the heavy equipment must be relocated to the next excavation site. Since the drive station with its enormous dimensions does not simply fit on a normal low-loader, Randolf Peters relies on two SPMT (Self Propelled Modular Transporter), so-called self-propelled vehicles, which are driven by radio remote control for the transport.

A short dance documentary film about nationality and identity with a focus on the situation of the LGBTQ+ community in Poland.

The Lighting aims to revisit issues of discrimination rooted in technological development and image production. Three professional Togolese photographers explore how to use instruments to compensate for insufficient exposure while shooting dark skin tones. A leading software engineer, developing facial recognition algorithms at Taiwan's MediaTek, talks about how a newly-created camera algorithm is very popular on the African continent.

Whether riding, standing or lying down - "Old Comrades" can be found on every corner steeped in history in Germany... The film was compiled from unused material with images of the "Hermannsdenkmal" (Teutoburg Forest), the "Kaiser Wilhelm I Equestrian Monument." (Koblenz) and the "Ehrenbreitstein Fortress" (Koblenz). Zur Reihe "Little Germany": The "Little Germany" series offers views from a reformed country, attempts a critical assessment of the German state of mind and provides an entertaining and cheerful over-the-counter mentality diagnosis.

Since the beginning of the century, the medical couple Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci have been dedicated to the goal of individualizing cancer treatment. The company they founded, BioNTech, focuses on mRNA technology. One researcher who has been intensively involved in this field for some time is the Hungarian Katalin Karikó; Ugur Şahin brought her to BioNTech a few years ago. The "m" in mRNA stands for "messenger," and RNA for ribonucleic acid. mRNA transmits the information for the production of an antigen to our cellular machinery, which produces proteins.

„Shift Simmers Slips“ is massively inspired by and freely adapted from Luigi Serafini’s „Codex Seraphinianus“, an illustrated encyclopedia created between 1976 and 1978. The film represents a small fragmentary collage of some of his created worlds, lifeforms and activities.

What actually happens after ovulation? Seriously! This short film takes you on a fantastical journey through the life of an egg cell.

It’s a beautiful summer day and Sven is finally going to take the plunge. He’s at the public pool, at the foot of the ladder leading up to the ten-metre board. Today he is going to jump. Now! Or perhaps some chips as a start? And it would be good to take a shower first. But then he’ll be ready, though …? Oh no, the queue behind him is waiting, there’s no turning back. Sven climbs up the tower.

Portugal’s most famous singer of the twentieth century and Queen of Fado, Amália Rodrigues passed away in 1999. Beloved by all Portuguese people rich and poor, she became an ambassador for the Portuguese art of Fado, this music that expresses the unique Portuguese melancholic yearning that is Saudade.

Shortly before ten o’ clock in Karlsruhe. Bustle in the court room. The rituals before a major court ruling have been exactly the same for decades. The issues are evolving with the times. ARD law expert Frank Bräutigam is right at the centre.

A student has to print out some sheets for online uni, but his printer doesn't seem to like that idea

Thomalina Adams is currently one of the best footballers in the Namibian national team. A few years ago, she even qualified for the second league of the VFL Bochum. Her nickname Pele, which she has been wearing since childhood, especially on the football field, is therefore hardly surprising. But since playing for her club Tura Magic FC Ladies again in Namibia, her football career has stagnated. Namibian Football Association (NFA) structures and traditional role models make it difficult for girls and women to make progress in football. The film follows Thomalina, who left her hometown at the age of 14 to become a professional footballer. The reason for this is the establishment of the ‘NFA Galz & Goals’ project, which promotes girls ’football. As a football ambassador, she wants to encourage girls to take up the sport, as in Namibia, football gives many people security and is an alternative to the streets where alcohol and drugs determine everyday life.

How do people look back on a life that was torn from their hands by arbitrariness, secret police, and the justice system? Gisela Tuchtenhagen and Margot Neubert-Maric portray three former prisoners whose experiences in prison in the GDR left lifelong scars. They fell into the clutches of the GDR justice system at a young age.

Sanaa has been working as a city guide in Berlin-Wedding for years. But work alone is not enough for her. She is stubborn and trans. Her passion for the migrant men in the neighborhood keeps her really on her toes.

Two lost souls in London. Connected through a poem in German and the question of how they will meet.

Majorie loves the ocean, but has never actually seen it. In regular therapy sessions she tries to overcome her fear of trains. When she buys a goldfish that seems to share her longing for the ocean, she slowly starts to face her past. But is her connection to the fish strong enough to go on a train and take him as his last journey to the ocean?

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895), was a lawyer, journalist, publisher, writer, pioneer of sexology and is known as the "first open gay man" and "LGBTQ+"-activist in Germany. At the German Juristentag in Munich in 1867, he publicly called for the impunity of same-sex sexual acts for the first time in a speech, which led to tumultuous scenes among the audience and his speech being broken off.

We follow workers performing routine tasks seemingly indefinitely. The landscape, ravaged by violence and destruction, looks like the setting in a dystopian sci-fi movie. As we move in closer, we begin to grasp what we are seeing and realize it is a road construction site – the more details appear, the more the complexity of this reality emerges.

"The movie being non-narrative is a camera-less work. I used the cyanotype technique to print on 35mm film material. This approach of exposure let me focus on composing one frame at a time discussing the gap between photography and film. What do I want to see, what do I want to hear? It's about searching, not about a product." -M.F.

Earth Odyssey was made by dancers from different continents filming themselves in their confinement with their personal phones and computers. It was made in the first week of April 2020 while almost 2 billion people around the globe were unable to move freely due to the restrictions imposed in an attempt to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The fjords of Norway are associated with a magnificent and untouched nature. But here, too, huge amounts of plastic accumulate, some of which are already firmly anchored in the ecosystem. The Norwegian environmentalist Kenneth Bruvik has set out together with researchers in search of the effects of this plastic flood