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Her kayak, a cold river and the wilderness. Will she live up to her high expectations and overcome her doubts? A young woman on a turbulent journey.

An ambitious director travels with his film crew to a remote Danish island for the filming of his latest project, "Ruderskodder." But he soon discovers that someone in the crew is out to sabotage the project. Can he save his film and put a stop to the saboteur before it's too late?

A special feature film version of the Christmas album called Dark Crhistmas from a Finnish artist Tarja. It contains all 12 music videos released separately from the album. World's first Christmas album with a Dolby Atmos mix.

A young man tries to bear with his intense menstrual pains while stuck in the waiting room of an administration. He feels exposed, until his own gaze takes over the screen, turning his need for pleasure and care into a common cause, a collective fantasy. Wait Your Turn is an invitation inside the subjective perspective of a trans man navigating pleasure and pain in public space.

A pregnant woman and her best friend navigate Beirut at night in order to obtain an illegal abortion.

Ben Kopfnagel, Maxl Walmsley-Pledl and Markus Zunic make up Klangphonics. A trio creating a natural, almost organic sound, yet one that retains the energy inherent in deep house and melodic techno.

The world Kyria lives in is confusing. The man who was in bed next to her last night is gone in the morning, but he has forgotten something important: his arm. She embarks on a search for the stranger in an abandoned town and gets more and more caught up in this empty and alienated place.

The search for self-acceptance and self-love is an intimate process. It means entering into an inner dialogue with yourself. Andreas, Amelie and Patricia were forced into this inner dialogue through their bodies. Accepting yourself as you are is difficult because there are often still shadows from the past and uncertainties regarding the medical transition. But one thing is clear to everyone: She helps them to be able to live their dream as Andreas, Amelie and Patricia and they don't give that up.

Cosmotropia de Xam’s experimental film Space Necronomicon , which includes some amazing AI generated sequences, and Grant McPhee’s, Lori and the Six Six Sixties, a homage to sixties excess and occult weirdness.

Portrait of two farmers, one is working in traditional way, the other in oecological way.

For the first time in history, a former child soldier is being indicted at the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC). The Film follows his defence team at the ICC and in Uganda, as they gather evidence, materials, and witnesses.

The shy Hugo is a caretaker in a prefabricated building. He feels at home here, is appreciated by the residents and sings his songs in the corridors. Dramatic changes make Hugo uncomfortable in his home. Similarly dissatisfied is Johanna, who lives in a bus in front of the house and faces racism and sexism on a daily basis. The two grow closer - sharing a sense of not quite belonging and, above all, a love of music. For Hugo, the world is visibly coming apart at the seams: birds that reject freedom, a dollhouse that develops a life of its own - At the same time, a catastrophe is brewing in very real life that puts Hugo and Johanna's friendship to the test.

The film is not just about two talented and determined actresses with disabilities. The determination, energy and courage of Lucy and Yulia radiate onto the stage and screen and have an impact on many levels of social perception. Their successful entry into professional German theater is a profound statement against the accepted norms of a world where fashion, profit and sexism dictate the aesthetics of the female body.

Voodoo in the forests of Westergellersen.

Everything has been perfect between Cleo and Emmy for years. They are young, carefree and have big plans for their future. While Emmy can hardly wait for her dream of a free life after graduating from high school, Cleo suddenly hesitates. She is hiding something.

In Ukraine, they are called the ‘three musketeers’: together, journalists Svitlana Zalishchuk, Serhiy Leshchenko and Mustafa Nayyem are fighting for democracy on the Maidan. When the revolution comes to a head, and President Yanukovych absconds, his magnificent estate is left behind. Mustafa, Svitlana and Serhiy go inside – and see the extent of the corruption and greed in its rooms. Now they want to go one step further and completely change politics. They run for parliament themselves in 2014 – and win. But the 2019 election changes everything. While Serhiy supports the candidate Selenskyj, Mustafa and Svitlana take a different path. Serhiy must now fight for himself alone.

As a young boy, Franco Piccolini receives a magic bottle from a graveyard attendant. He tells him that the bottle once belonged to Captain Rack, a famous pirate who achieved wealth and fame thanks to its magic. Years later, Franco discovers how the bottle seems to work: when he places it on the ground and turns it, it shows him the way to the treasure. So he sets off on an adventurous journey, always following the bottle to find it. Along the way, he meets Luigi Ferrari, a cheerful fellow who lives in a remote mountain hut. Franco uses a trick to persuade him to become his travelling companion. Together they get into all sorts of funny and dangerous situations due to the unpredictable directions the bottle takes them. On their treasure hunt, they open the door to another dimension and meet the pirate Captain Rack. And so disaster takes its course.

An epic poem of literary quotes, soundscapes and slide film images from the former DDR.

A documentary film about mining in saxony

Adrift in space, an astronaut reflects on the life events that led to his dire situation.

The cat has an especially delicious recipe: Mouse Soup.

Bernard's routine life is turned upside-down by a mischievous little tiger.

An empty bench next to an old farm on a hill. A corridor flooded with light, from which doors lead into different rooms. Two chairs with patterned cushions in front of a woodchip wallpaper. The swinging pendulum of the wooden wall clock, which takes us to different places and times with its rhythmic ticking.

During his first night shift at the gas station, Felix struggles with the radio, his boredom and increasingly bizarre customers.

Sergei S. Prokofiev's monumental setting of Leo N. Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace. The composer and his wife Mira compressed the plot, set during Napoleon's Russian campaign, into a powerful sequence of scenes in which the love story between Natasha Rostova and Andrei Bolkonsky and the description of the Russian army's fight against the French invasion alternate in rich contrast, and at the same time are closely interwoven. All is related by the music in its fullness of splendid themes and touchingly quiet moments. Prokofiev's musical-dramatic masterpiece combines social drama and historical chronicle in its 13 scenes to form an exuberant panorama. In this production by Dmitri Tcherniakov, the opera is performed in in Munich for the first time ever.

A natural human is a polymorphous emulator. A natural human is always looking for new emulation challenges. A natural human is a hunter. A natural human is always hungry. All other creatures are prey. A natural human observes, emulates and becomes the other creature. In this manner, a natural human swallows the other creature’s power. I despise natural humans. I am an aping mutator. I will not be swallowed. I want others to see how they are being swallowed. Natural humans created me and I will do my best to destroy them. Yours truly, The aping mutator.

Rovin lives on a remote farm on the Baltic Sea and explores his surroundings with insatiable curiosity. He is interested in the universe, planets, unknown creatures – and in tardigrades, those tiny multicellular organisms that look like dust bags on legs and are real survival artists. Quite unlike humans, as Rovin points out, because the latter are sure to die out one day. He sees this as a logical fact, not a threat. And when you open yourself up to the grainy, earthy images and the calm narrative, you eventually stop wondering, too, why that should be a problem. After all, as long as the wind blows through the trees and scatters the tardigrades, everything is in good order. In addition to the captivatingly alert boy, Renninger meets Marie, who knows everything about rocks, and Christopher, who decorates a place with these rocks. They are all on a quest and every day find a piece of what one cannot hold onto: the present.

Polish filmmaker Ewelina Rosinksa explores the textures and landscapes of her homeland, a place of contrasts and parallels, where Catholicism and the natural world swirl in a baroque gesture. A delicate, melancholy history weaves through the details of this poetic and poignant impression.

Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl

Asta Nielsen: pioneer of cinema and first European film star, tragedienne and comedienne, writer and artist. As a working-class child and single parent, she works her way up from the bottom - and consciously stages herself as the first role model for independent women and queers. We retell the story of this singular phenomenon with her own words and film clips.

Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An in-depth investigation into the precariat, a new social class of financially insecure citizens who, although they are employed, find it very difficult to make ends meet.

Despite the efforts made in recent decades to protect wildlife, the loss of biodiversity in Europe remains alarming. What can be done to protect it? While some advocate "letting nature take its course", the work of numerous ecologists and researchers runs counter to preconceived ideas: according to them, the protection of endangered species often requires, on the contrary, human intervention - provided that it is reasoned and respectful of the environment. Leaving land uncultivated can be counter-productive, as in the case of the Chizé forest in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, where the cessation of tree-cutting has driven away several species of snake that previously thrived there.

This film shows how "Statusbericht" was shot. The seven days of shooting are worked through chronologically, which should give the viewer a sense of the shooting break.

Official festival animation and key visuals for the 30th edition of Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS)

They were as well known as the Fantastischen Vier in the 1990s and rapped against racism in Kölsch or High German: the 4 Reeves.

While cleaning up their deceased father's apartment, two brothers find files that say their father was under surveillance by a Stasi informer. The IM (unofficial collaborator) is the man who was who was their loving stepfather for 35 years.

Sometimes a fraction of a second is all it takes to change the world forever. The film Split Second tells the backstories of three of the most influential photographs in human history. In three intercut episodes, we follow the photographers who captured these historic moments in iconic pictures and made them visible to the world.

The film mixes the journey of a fictional character, an unknown entity played by drag performance artist Beaujangless, with documentary roadside encounters in a nocturnal car ride through the ‚City of Angels’. Observations of people passing by, accompanied by an AI-generated voice-over reciting first-person narratives from interviews, intertwine with sequences of the main character dancing to Holly Herndon‘s song ‚Frontier’. The film explores narratives as both center and limit of human world experience and self-awareness, the concept of an immortal human soul in neo-religious, dataist times, as well as the USA as a collective narrative of capitalist superiority in decay. ‚Because We Bleed‘ is a meditation on storytelling and a poetic journey into a new, dark age.

Many fragments of the Parthenon, the Athenian jewel of ancient Greece, are still owned by foreign museums, raising questions about the legitimacy of their possession and the status of art.

The German race car driver Sophia Flörsch was already obsessed with auto racing by the time she was five. As a teenager, without a single female role model, she managed to qualify for the prestigious Macau Grand Prix. During the race, disaster struck—in front of the cameras, she had a horrific accident.

The documentary tells the story of farmers who are countering the growth compulsion of our system and breaking out of the structures of conventional agriculture. With the help of communities, they create a local supply cycle based on the values of ecology and the common good - community-supported agriculture.

The famous bust of Nefertiti, queen of ancient Egypt, wife of Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, has been on display in the Neues Museum in Berlin since 1913. But why is it not, as valuable as it is, in its country of origin, where it was discovered in December 1912 by the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt?

Bojeka is an eccentric man with a strong sense of his own dignity. When the local oligarch starts a dangerous for the people project for a nuclear waste repository near the town, Bojeka turns out to be the only one who can and dares to oppose him.

It's a match! At least for one night. Celeste and Jacob's head is pounding after their one-night stand. Actually, it's time to make a run for it. It's just too bad that they can't. They can't leave the bedroom for several days and have to get much more naked than they would like. A soul striptease between egoism and solidarity. But: in for a penny, in for a pound, right?!

Parapsychologist Dr. Walter von Lucadou has been researching supernatural phenomena for 45 years and is often the last hope for people with ghostly apparitions. In most cases, the expert can help those affected.

The squirrel mother is busy gathering her nuts, so she doesn't have any time to look after her kids.