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In a war zone, four-year-old FARAH and her brother RAMZY become friends with an enemy counterpart, SAMIR, turning the barren battlefield into a fantastical playground. Can the kids and the magic survive?

Part 3 of the Bethanien Tetralogy.

Lady Midday watches over the midday calm and, at the same time, the cycle of nature: growth and decay.

An eye has a fatal encounter with a hammer and a block of wood.

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

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.

Karl goes from room to room and tries to fit in. First he visits the business people, then the sports people and after them the party people. Will he find the place where he belongs?

Higher, stronger, more robust: crane builders outperform with superlatives. Loads are getting heavier and have to be lifted to hard-to-reach places. One of the largest crane companies in Germany is the Knaack Krane company in Hamburg. The company currently has around 60 different cranes in stock, the largest of which can lift up to 750 tons. It is a long way through planning and assembly until the machine is used for the first time - the report accompanies the creation of a mega crane.

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.

Part 2 of the Bethanien Tetralogy.

The documentary explores the ailing side of the once-powerful Habsburg dynasty and recounts some curious prescriptions, such as hemp cigarettes for asthma and cocaine suppositories for insomnia. A look at medical standards at the beginning of the 19th century also makes it clear that good basic medical care was far from accessible to all sections of the population.

German celebrities tell us their very own stories about the songs that became the songs of their lives in these 90 minutes.

How have you been spending your time during the coronavirus pandemic? Any interesting activities? Here's a fascinating idea for what to do with too much free time.

When a person disappears, everything remains in its place. The film shows the life of my grandfather, Herbert Hurrle, through the things he accumulated in life. The memories with which these things are filled come to life.

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.

Is it possible to live a more peaceful and creative life on our planet? In a time when the state of the planet poses important questions: What is life worth to us? And what do we still consider sacred? These questions inspired the Director to meet the Indian mystic, philosopher and grassroots activist Vimala Thakar (1921 – 2009). It was an encounter that deeply inspired and changed her life. Almost twenty years later, she researches the profound work of this fascinating woman again in the context of our time, and translates her urgent call for holistic thinking and action into a cinematic work of art.

Documents the profound transformation of Dorrie van Roij-Houtappels and Norberto Rodrigues. Though living thousands of miles apart, they travel the same path to awakening.

A human puppet fights against her determinations and goes through a dramatic phase of self-discovery. Can she break free from her bonds?

April 1945, the Second World War is coming to an end. 6,800 Jewish prisoners are about to be deported to Bergen Belsen concentration camp, Czech Republic. The first of three trains depart with 2,500 prisoners. It will never reach its destination.

A short film exploring the emotional landscape of a shibari session.

Music video directed by Kilian Immervoll & Anna Sophia Rußmann for Heinrich Himalaya.

“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.

A gloomy filmic contribution to sea rescue and a concentrated revelation of the mechanisms of systematic flight prevention in the Mediterranean and the people responsible for it.

A trauma therapy on film for an uprooted elephant cow – a social creature that, like all of us, needs security and a home to form stable relationships.

Set theory, one of the cornerstones of mathematics, serves as a metaphor for “social structures as spatial arrangement”, as the first sequence of the film reveals. The visual playfulness first becomes an exploration of two- and three-dimensionality and then turns out to be a well-founded reflection of social power relations. The search for a supposedly correct “order of things” triggers the compulsive element in many viewers. Who’s (not) afraid of being different?

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.

One year after the collapse of society, a young man uses art to forget about loneliness and the new world around him.

Through a monologue recited in reverse, the video deals with discriminatory depictions of women in the past and present. In a river scene, resembling J. E. Millais’ famous painting of Shakespeare’s dying character Ophelia, the video’s artist appears, speaking constantly into the camera. On different levels, the video moves forward and backward in time. Intelligible words and the usual flow of time do not occur simultaneously, suggesting the entanglement of language, image and social roles.

Snow, film dust, and particles. The worn and torn broken film from an old lanterna magica projector. Retrieved animated footage from around the 1900s is combined with computer animation.

A collage of fragmented shots of an apartment captured on 16mm film might seem mundane at first glance, but in the urgent density of light, material, and movement, it evokes a special emotional rhythm, which is underscored by David M. Shum's spherical sound pattern that evaporates from the space but will never be lost.

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.

In 2008 and 2009, Clarissa Thieme travelled through Bosnia-Herzegovina, setting up her camera at places where war crimes took place during the nineties. Now she returns to the same locations a decade later: what traces are left behind by a violent past?

How to create history through the denial of it, the process of decommunisation in Ukraine has created different types of wounds, art and architecture have been the first to suffer these changes and become objects of oblivion, the animation expresses this discrepancy between modern society and the pieces of forgotten history.

A slice of life glimpse into the life of Janette and Vanessa, two friends who share the experience of being transgender women. Unchronologically told in three chapters, Janette & Vanessa encounter situations that tend to be very trans-specific nightmare scenarios.