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Structured as a cabaret show and composed entirely of rare visual and sound archival material, Cabaret-Berlin, The Wild Scene explores Berlin during the 20s and early 30s, when it was home to Europe’s most innovative and experimental artists, writers, and musicians, and where Jews played a leading role.

The capitulation of German socialism on November 9, 1989, happened almost incidentally — through a travel law. Thirty-five years after the disappearance of the GDR, this essayistic documentary reflects on transformation through personal memory and public imagery.

A behind-the-scenes look at how a people’s movement against divisive politics takes on an authoritarian party in power in the Indian Election-2024. Wake-up Karnataka unites with citizens’ groups across India, dramatically shifting conversation from ‘mandir’ (temple) to ‘mudda’ (people’s problems), making this a closely fought election.

A road movie about the search for Russian rocket debris in the vast expanses of Kazakhstan. The people we meet along the way tell us their very personal stories about collecting scrap, slaughtering horses, and observing nuclear mushroom clouds.

In Noa’s queer bubble, they feel happy and safe. But a walk home at night rekindles the fear of discrimination and violence. Suppressed during the day, these feelings return as nightmares. In a slice-of-life style, we experience the everyday life of a non-binary person navigating microaggressions, legal mazes, and birthday parties.

Conventional is not an option for her. It has to be special. And free. Freedom is the foundation of Emily's songwriting, which recently made her known nationwide—as a resident artist in her hometown and the face of the city of Leverkusen's new pop music promotion program.

Brad Mehldau is one of the most important jazz pianists of our time. The Frankfurt Radio Big Band and its composer in residence Darcy James Argue present some of Mehldau's pieces for the ensemble at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie.

In a world of light, movement, and nature, the film unfolds in each image—not as a story, but as a continuous flow of impressions that connect and develop in their intensity. Light breaks, moves, reflects, sneaks through the density of landscapes and places. It is a journey without a goal, a dive into moments that unfold from the constant interaction of light, life, and landscape.

In July of 2021 there was a flood of catastrophic scope in the Ahrtal Region of Germany. 135 people lost their lives and countless others lost their possessions, their homes, their most treasured mementos. Three years later the reconstruction is progressing slowly. This is an attempt at exploring, what it means to irretrievably lose a part of ones’ past.

For decades, I've been walking up & down this road, usually starting at the centre of the universe, Hermannplatz, heading north to Bethanien or the market. At some point in time, it seemed that some of the plants, especially one, was telling me to make a film about them; a busy road with lots of cars and, if you look carefully, some plants.

A new, found-footage film by Jan Soldat who has devoted himself for years to the life and death of actors. This time, his focus is Alfred Edel, who died in 1993 and enriched German-language cinema for many years with humor and madness. A belated farewell letter in black and white.

Solène is an ambitious photographer in financial difficulty. When a call from a former client interrupts a photo shoot with her friend Camille, she has no idea what a strange assignment she is about to be given. Finally, the caller tells Solène about his last wish for a very special photo—and in doing so, shakes her entire worldview. An intense journey through her thoughts and feelings begins as she struggles with herself, the assignment, and somehow also with the whole world.

A young man who is proud of his upbringing on a traditional farm, is in love with his best friend. But she wants to marry somebody else and move to Berlin. Everybody is waiting for the new wedding shoes to arrive. A few days later, she is gone and he is waiting for a bus that will take him away too. But the bus doesn’t stop and he keeps waiting.

2091. In an efficiency-driven megacity, built of concrete and neon, a disruptive encounter triggers "II / IKI" to begin her search for her identity.

Unemployed Nikki (37) is taken to a movie set for the first time by his uncle Olaf (67) as a security guard. But the seemingly casual job of briefly stopping a few pedestrians and motorists during the takes turns into a series of failures.

This puppet play satirizes national narratives through Kasperle theatre and Karagöz shadow-play conventions. Structured around three contracts; Faust and the devil, the artist and the state, and erotic power-play; it makes consent, refusal, and accountability visible as puppets defy authority and demand justice.

Glass arrangements on overhead projectors shine. This work is a sea of moods. And although the sources of this emotional scenery are visible in their fragility, we can hardly escape their strength. What happens when all the suns set at the same time?

Now a global benchmark for blending medieval sounds with contemporary music, Faun began in 1999 in Gräfelfing, in the western suburbs of Munich. The Bavarian band has always remained faithful to its “pagan folk” roots and even attempted to qualify for Eurovision in 2015! Their twelfth studio album, entitled “Hex,” is scheduled for release in September. A great way to get us in the mood.

Katharina Tempel, a Hamburg detective superintendent, is investigating the death of a young woman. She discovers that the case has links with her private life: Lena, the victim, turns out to be the sister of Marita Rubesch, the psychologist with whom the commissioner and her husband are undergoing couple therapy...

In this movie, Dmytro Dokunov and Richard Marx explore the question of the different realities which take place simultaneously: Richards in Berlin and Dmytro's at the frontline in Ukraine. How do you have to change your own perception of reality? How will the perception of your surroundings be changed too? The nature in which they live looks almost identical, but war is fundamentally changing the view.

A gay artist flees the repressive laws and war in Russia to go to Berlin, leaving his boyfriend behind. Meanwhile, life in Berlin turns out to be less inclusive he had expected.

Shot on 8mm Kodachrome film in West Berlin in 1988, this dream-like hallucinogenic film is dedicated to the memory of our friend, filmmaker and musician, Lysanne Thibodeau, who brought us to Germany to screen Canadian experimental films. We shot additional black and white Super 8 film in Victoria in 2023, and edited in 2024 at FLUX media gallery.

In a ruined and forgotten landscape, two border outposts are separated by a creaking gate. After countless years of loneliness, the old and nihilistic watchman Hugo is taken by surprise by the arrival of the young and disciplined Didot on the other side of the border. Will the dark past repeat itself?

In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish must act as tough as possible, but looks can be deceiving.

As part of the Usedomer Musikfestival 2025, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra will perform works by Wilhelm Stenhammar and Jean Sibelius under the baton of Jukka-Pekka Saraste. The programme includes four songs by Sibelius, sung and arranged by Finnish soprano Camilla Nylund, as well as the composer's Symphony No. 6.

Kell and Joe, two one-time band mates, meet again in Berlin after the death of their former lead singer and mutual lover Viv. To honor her last wish and pay their respects, they embark on a road trip through the German provinces to her hometown on the banks of the river Rhine.

Founded in 2012 out of the Tomorrow's Warriors programme, London quintet the Ezra Collective are now key players on the British music scene. Blending jazz, hip-hop, dub and reggae, the music of this British band is filled with eclecticism and innovation.

Twenty years after Swiss publishing house Pendo closed its doors, the descendants of its founders repeatedly circle, examine and lose sight of its legacy. Frölke’s film gives structure to this archive via media experimentation.

In postwar Germany, Hannelore and Marina, a “guest worker” from Italy, get acquainted — much to the displeasure of their conservative husbands. Two women seeking empowerment in a patriarchal and racist society.

Over 10,000 years ago, humans settled down. Is there still something like a nomadic gene in us? After numerous expeditions to parts of the world far from Europe, this question arises for the artist group Mangan25. Among other places, they followed in the footsteps of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Australia and North America. Their encounters with indigenous peoples in these regions also reveal traumatic events and colonial upheavals.

Against a green-screen backdrop, a group of children and adults ask themselves questions about their gender. In a natural space freed from normativity, the possibilities of rewriting the scripts of their lives become infinite. Acclaimed director Manuel Abramovich and his performers invite us into a dazzling new reality of desires and possible futures.

When Rafet arrives at a friend's home to take care of her cat, he encounters three strangers. Having a shared past with them, Rafet finds himself in a puzzling situation.

Strong winds shake the leaves of drought-stricken trees in an ancient olive grove near Delphi, reminding us of the wildfires that are engulfing the country. Here, a family of farmers attempts to restore its land.

A frustrated couple blasphemes about their neighbor. Where do such people shop? A commercial promptly takes the two of them on a journey through the the “Sexy Furniture Store”, where furniture is not only practical but also provocative. Order now to unleash their long-hidden sexual energies!

In 1978, Fassbinder documented the socio-political circumstances of his time. Almost 40 years later, we are once again experiencing “Germany in Autumn,” this time against the backdrop of the coronavirus era, which has profoundly transformed our social climate. A staged statement, and not least, an homage to RWF.

Hussein Darby, the last projectionist of Cinema Jenin in Palestine, thought it a golden opportunity. When a German NGO came to restore the theater, Hussein was ready to prove his skills. He believed that it would help him get his job back. To revive the 50-year-old projector, he travels across the West Bank and even attempts to enter Israel. But he doesn’t know that his era has already passed.

A cosmic journey unfolds as Nommo, alien amphibian beings, arrive on Earth through Mali's Dogon people. This unique African story blends animation, music, and verse to explore queer themes and otherworldly encounters.

Things are hopping in the middle of the ocean. Party time, till Blubb-Blubb and Dizzy get kicked out. Blubb-Blubb lures a monster with a string of lights and rides it while Dizzy cheers.

Sardinia attracts over six million holidaymakers to the island every year, and tourism has long been one of the most important economic sectors. But the island location is both a curse and a blessing: attractive for tourism, it inhibits Sardinia's economic development. In search of future prospects, young people in particular are leaving their homeland to work on the Italian mainland or abroad. Sardinia's society is getting older and older. How old is a unique selling point in the whole of Europe. Because many Sardinians who live on the east coast live to be over 100 years old.

A farm near Glücksburg. The return to a moment with Willi in his garden. The search for a tree that once stood here. Memories of the bygone, an echo of what is left. Audio tapes and 16 mm images drill a hole in time, opening up a gaze upon the beauty of an uneventful daily life.