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A poet explores his world, a small town on the Lower Rhine in the 1970s/80s, with words. His son, a filmmaker, now confronts the written words with contemporary images of that area that look like they come from the past. In this superimposition of ambiguous linguistic images with architectures, monuments, streets and parks a view of the inscribed mentality and history of the former Federal Republic of Germany unfolds. The images are as permeable as Dieter Liewerscheidt's poetry in which philosophical, pop-cultural and personal elements are intermingled.

'Otto', made of red clay, can freely transform into whatever shape it wants, and responds to and gets inspiration from every sound it hears through its ears. The sea he lives in is made of staff notes. Whenever meeting the best musicians who made a mark in classical music, 'Otto' introduces the musician and his musical characteristics to the audience. Let's go on a fun trip to meet classical genius musicians with 'Otto', which boasts a unique musical sensibility and soul!

An experimental montage of footage from 1973, shot in an Institution in Hamburg/Germany, where back then people lived, who were judged to be mentally sick. Soundloops and pictures create a certain attention for the viewer.

The movie "Blaues Licht" (Blue Light) is the most extensive of the street art collective "Rocco and his Brothers" work to date.

1960s pop sensation Ricky Shayne's meteoric rise in West German culture. Born in Cairo and raised in Beirut, the Beat scene star found fame in Rome before achieving greater success in Berlin.

A short horror film by Jörg Wischnauski.

At Summer Breeze, around 40,000 fans from the metal scene come together every year. Subway To Sally's sound is sometimes heavy, sometimes danceable, sometimes very rocky and then again ballad-like. The Potsdamers are one of the best-known bands in the field of medieval rock.

Major Luna jumps towards the moon. In a swimming pool she acts out her dreams to float weightlessly in space.

Erich Langeder's film project came about when, in autumn 2017, numerous members of the pre-monastery expressed their desire for a film about their pre-monastery during a district meeting for this year's 100th anniversary celebration. The aim of the film is to show the urban and social development of the district over the past 100 years, as well as visions for the future. A wide variety of people had their say, telling their very personal memories, stories and anecdotes about the pre-monastery.

The cargo ship MS Valentina covers 1640 danube kilometers on its route from Linz, Austria to Russe, Bulgaria. It crosses through seven countries while doing so. The River as an „European Road“ is full of opposites and differences.

Anne-Marie Blanc became a symbol for an entire generation 60 years ago with her role as "Gilberte de Courgenay". Who is this woman who has given countless theater and film characters a face and a soul over the decades? What highs and lows did she experience during her artistic career, which began in 1938 and continues to this day? Anne Marie Blanc gives surprising and poignant answers in the film portrait of Anne Cuneo. Excerpts from films and plays illustrate the stages of her extraordinary career.

An artist facing death. A deep and inspirring journey from darkness into light. The last days of Kollowalla, a russian gay artist in exile, who has to face his own death. A dreamlike, surreal journey of old memories and weird fantasies. A film inspired by great artists like Werner Schroeter, Derek Jarman, And Christoph Schlingensief and how they created impressive pieces of art, while they were in their dying process.

Lurking in the grass has paid off for the fox. The narrator’s apprehensive voice takes us to an island where a battle for survival rages among creatures feathered and furry. After all, a bear is only cute if you’re not a rabbit. The animation resembles landscape shots from animal documentaries—but instead of Smokey the Bear we’re served pointed humor, instead of glossy nature, the images are rampant with sprawling absurdity.

Ever since man invented the flying machine, it has been the dream of daredevil pilots to cross the Atlantic non-stop. Daredevil men and women in their rattling boxes risk their lives for it. The first successful transatlantic flight took place 100 years ago. The documentary by Radio Bremen and rbb recalls the daring and technical ingenuity of crossing the Atlantic by plane, looks back over 100 years of aviation history, tells of adventurous flight attempts, magnificent achievements and records, acclaimed heroes of the skies, but also of setbacks and disasters. "Pioneers of the skies - non-stop across the Atlantic" shows rare original documents - particularly impressive: original pictures of the first transatlantic flight of the R34 flying ship in 1919.

A son triggers a dispute situation at a family dinner.

For 13 years the quartet Long Distance Calling, which is based in Münster, has been praised and celebrated for its equally weightless and colossal music. After returning to their instrumental roots, Long Distance Calling planned the next step. Under the perfect tour title 'Seats and Sounds', the band performed in front of a seated audience.

After eating a mysterious jar of pickled fruit from the 1800s, a curmudgeonly woman transforms into a hideous and bloodthirsty granny hellbent on wreaking havoc on the criminals and lowlifes in her neighborhood.

Jellyfish is a cinematic novel; a meditative approach to talk about notions of gender by translating cognitive knowledge and literary elements into filmic narrative. The film depicts two types of characters: inhabitants of the fictional planet of gender utopian society that are gender fluid, and real characters who find themselves outside of cisnormativity. It offers another way of seeing gender with its possibility to float between different forms without limitations and restrictions.

An art student writes a letter to the socio-economic system she has experienced and in which she is trying to find her place as a student today. In doing so, her desires and needs come to light, seeking to restore balance in this one-sided relationship between a man-made construct and human beings.

All of the actors in the film were standing on the brink of disaster, and all of them courageously took control of their lives. With impressive images and simple clarity, this film shows both the vulnerability and the power of nature and human beings.

A nun guide at the art gallery, accompanied by the sound of her throat-clearing.

Mr Pohle, Mr Domres, Mr Hoffmann, Mr Schneewolf and Mr Czajkowski are competing against each other as candidates for the one direct mandate in the Potsdam parliament. In their campaigns they deal with what moves the rural population. People who are difficult to grasp in the media and in opinion polls and who feel increasingly ignored - their needs and worries are unheard of. This outrageous story is told from the perspective of the director Jean Boué. He has lived in Prignitz, the most sparsely populated district in Germany, for twelve years. He knows the local conditions and tries to find out why rural areas seem to be increasingly less accessible with urban-controlled politics.

September is haunted by the eternal snow of her home, while her boyfriend Oliver always talks about a mysterious man who opens the refrigerator door at night.

These last major lectures by Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011) follow his philosophical reflection from Parmenides to Karl Marx. They were recorded in October 2009 at his home in Sant’Abbondio, Switzerland.

A poetic testimony by Jabbar Abdullah that remembers an intact Syria. In 2011 he experienced the outbreak of war and escaped until a river led him to his new home.

Protest and Desire is a video artwork that challenges popular STD / HIV discourse by focusing on how women of color deal with intimacy, sex, and age that relates to STDs and HIV within the landscape of white Europe.

Fund managers such as BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and Fidelity are the new players of the financial world: they are not locusts, instead each one is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. They emerged after the last financial crisis of 2007 and are neither banks nor hedge funds and flourish in a practically regulation free zone. They can also best be described as shadow banks. The new players in the financial markets have taken over monetary policy. No one regulates them, neither national governments nor the Public.

A special performance at Heimathafen Neukölln in 2019, German rock band Kadavar joined forces with a group of friends and fellow musicians calling themselves The Cosmic Riders Of The Black Sun, and performed a full set of Kadavar songs with additional instruments and expanded arrangements.

At first it seems a spoken word film whose greatness comes only from the famous text of Theodor Fontane.

In the western town of Adamstown, things can get pretty rough at times, and at times it seems like everyone is against everyone else: people, animals, old, young, locals, and supposed strangers.

Short film featuring digital technology about crowds and demonstrations.

Malte Rauch and Esther Zeschky portray Frankfurt citizens.

Air To Breathe is a film about a group of militant workers inside the Opel car plant in Bochum, Germany. The group was founded in 1972, initially with the help of revolutionaries from the 1968 movement. For over 40 years, the group fought for better working conditions inside the plant. Over time, their incessant rank-and-file activism made the workers in Bochum the most radical in the entire German metal sector: Opel Bochum saw several wildcat strikes, and a persistent and successful fight for the reduction of daily working time. The group even attempted to build up direct links between different workforces of General Motors in Europe to fight back against the raise to the bottom of wages and working conditions in a situation of worldwide competition for investments amongst GM plants. Their activities culminated in a six days wildcat strike in 2004.

The wind whips the Caribbean Sea over the railing of the 'Malecon', where fishermen stand and cast their fishing rods, while kissing lovers photograph themselves. On the mouldy facades of formerly magnificent buildings on the waterfront, wet laundry has been hanging for days, unwilling to dry. It is winter in Havana. Four people, four destinies in a unique city. Accompanied by magical images of picturesque architecture and nature, far removed from the advertisements promising romance, sun, beach, cigars and vintage nostalgia. The film offers insights into the reality of life of the idiosyncratic, socialist island state that is still under the embargo of the United States, to which the Cubans respond with solidarity and zest for life, with a clenched fist on the outstretched arm calling 'Viva la Revolución'.