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Card games have been delighting people all over the world for over 800 years. What is the secret of Jack, Queen, King and Ace? Is poker a game of luck or a game of skill? And why has there always been an air of wickedness about it?

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and curious about media, so it’s no wonder that he recently began experimenting with artificial intelligence. He has been exploring a particular programme developed in Munich for medical research, which he systematically strains in order to find his images at the farthest ends of the system's creative faculties. With these, Kluge plays in the same essayistic fashion beloved from his television work – historical footage and a plenitude of texts, comics, charts and cabaret. In short: facts and fictions freely intermingle.

The viewer is lured deep into a dilapidated glasshouse, a place where nature is traditionally tamed and studied, by a ghostly figure, dancing to a variation on the popular song from Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967). As the music fades out, he makes way for the vocal group Black Harmony, offering a reinterpretation of the song in their own language - Lugbara. I Wan’na Be Like You deconstructs and reconstructs the novel, film, that song and their legacies.

she just wants to go home.

What is it like to grow up in times of war? In a documentary film they developed themselves, nine young Ukrainian women offer a unique insight into their lives—into everyday life in a state of emergency. In the documentary, nine Ukrainian teenagers tell their stories. Some of the young women have fled to other countries, while others remain in Ukraine, but all of them become co-authors of their own lives: How much is left for oneself when fear for family and fellow human beings, when death, separation, and trauma are omnipresent?

"We Go Past Future" is an experimental paper collage film by Anna Malina. The film reimagines a series of Soviet films from 1919 to 1953, blending them into a unique visual narrative.

With her loyal otter friend by her side, a brave child embarks on a mission to save her hometown from a water crisis. This calm and inspiring story is stylishly illustrated with beautiful 2-D animation.

Anna, who was born in Germany, has a distant relationship with her father Hung and his country of birth, Vietnam. When she finds out through a documentary that he was affected by racist attacks in Rostock in 1992, she is suddenly confronted with her father's culture and history.

In the court of the Memory Guardians, a trial ensues about what to do with the statue of the Kneeling Woman, following her defacement in Zehlendorf and relocation to the Zitadelle Museum in Spandau. While one counsel advocates that the statue be publicly displayed in the Zitadelle Spandau Museum to caution against “left-wing extremism”, another argues that she should be kept in the more private Schaudepot indefinitely to educate about difficult history. Yet another argues for her to be destroyed, given the racist beliefs of her creator, the violence against her and the messiness of contextualising all this Black pain for a public.

Karina finds her grandmother's old diary, which contains entries about a woman named Tamara. A few days later, she and her friends discover a strange basement with a mirror and an upside-down cross hanging there. The spirit of the deceased woman, Tamara, possesses one of them in order to take revenge on Karina's grandmother, Svitlana, by killing her.

Brandt is not at all pleased that Wiesel has been honored for his police work. As a silly argument breaks out between the two investigators, Köster and Seidenpfennig take over. Because a new case requires the utmost professionalism: The universally unpopular Volker Pinkwardt lies dead in his apartment with a head wound. A tragic accident or murder? More and more suspects and questions emerge. And then there's the question of why Wiesel has been behaving so strangely lately, regardless of his quarrel with Brandt?

The peculiarities and endearing quirks of everyday life in a high-rise building.

In Huy Nguyen’s family, there are many things that are left unsaid. Why is the story of his parents’ migration hardly mentioned, even though it has had a profound impact on different generations? Why is the relationship between parents and children so complicated? Is there a common story? And where does each person’s individual identity take shape? To find the answer, Huy sought out his grandparents in Vietnam. There, he recorded their daily activities, meals, and conversations. By building a close relationship with his grandparents, he also tried to understand and be closer to his parents.

A fragmented memory documentary about a Merkur Spielothek in Frankfurt.

Searching aimlessly, Stine moves through the overstimulated city flowing by. Passing by seemingly everyday, yet strange occurrences, the initially subtle, then proliferating abstract visual language with experimental elements shows a real world in which reality and pain, reality and chaos of thought are mixed, in which it is so difficult to let go.

Short film about love.

Five-time murderer Norman Franz is caught and convicted - but he always manages to escape from prison. Where is the felon today? Gripping Sky Original documentary.

The director dreams of making a 16mm masturbation film guided by her grandmother - according to an old recipe. With great displeasure she has to realize that her subconscious makes use of a male gaze and old gender roles.

Vermessung der Tristesse is an essay film. Memories, archive footage, dreams and painful reality collide, touching each other in their own visual language. A state is measured, a process in which sadness and beauty, vastness and closeness, warmth and coldness are combined in opposing ways.

At the Baltic Sea, Tuan and Felix discover their love for water as young children. They soon become divers, as this allows them to spend their hours after school together at the indoor swimming pool. However, when they face each other at the Olympics, their athletic future is at stake. But when Felix unexpectedly suffers a serious injury, Tuan - despite the immense pressure to win the gold medal - decides for his partner.

Somewhere in between the two stations of Warschauerstr. in Berlin, at 6:57am on November 9th, 2024. The 9th of November is known as the "Schicksalstag" (Day of Destiny) in German history because several pivotal events occurred on this date across different years. One of the most significant events was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

CONCRETE WHISPER is rooted in the 1920 surrealist game "Exquisite Corpse", adapted into a modernized chat group format. The legend of the Basilisk is a thematic thread in the film as it playfully delves into the creation of urban myths. The narrative unfolds as stories evolve freely and unpredictably through retellings from person to person.

A horrific reminder to always keep brushing your teeth

The picnicking park visitors occasionally leave behind a few morsels - much to the delight of the Sparrows. However, the Sparrows are not content with mere meager crumbs. They aim to swipe the entire meal from the unsuspecting ones. Their sparcial mission comes with top secret sparrowcifications and requires cutting-edge sparweilance technologies.

Rose and Jiang Yu have been friends for many years, but they have very different personalities. Rose is passionate and casual, living in the moment; Jiang Yu is reserved and cautious, and always follows the plan when doing things. The two came to Europe to study together. Rose chose Paris, and Jiang Yu chose the German town of Kaiserslautern. After a year passed, Rose's exotic boyfriend urged her to return to China. She was fed up with her lonely life in Paris and decided to go back. Before leaving, she came to Kaiserslautern to say goodbye to Jiang Yu. Unexpectedly, during the time the two got along, Rose discovered that she had feelings for Jiang Yu that went beyond friendship.

"inter-rooted" is an exploration of familiar intimacy and familial complexity within Russian-German narratives. The trilogy was created from interviews about the migration and expulsion of Germans from the Soviet Union that Michelle Hanselowski recorded with her grandparents. The films relate to her grandparents' childhood, in which they built a deeper relationship with their mothers through agricultural work and experienced beautiful moments in a rooted reality.

A Syrian refugee, once full of dreams, now lives a life of quiet repetition. At night, after a long day at work, he finds a fleeting escape in a dream—a return to the sea and his childhood—but the alarm clock quietly brings him back to reality.

A UFO lands in Brandenburg: The American car manufacturer Tesla is building a huge factory in the quaint town of Grünheide. With the announcement, controversy arrives, quickly derailing any sense of objectivity in the debate. While some celebrate the economic upswing or even hope to combat climate change, others are alarmed by Tesla’s lax adherence to building regulations in the middle of a drinking water protection zone. Excitement and outrage both grow as Tesla also plans to expand the factory site. As local resistance feels betrayed by decision-makers, the AfD senses an opportunity. An entertaining yet unsettling case study of our culture of political debate and the overwhelming nature of the climate crisis in the microcosm of Grünheide.

Since winning Eurovision in 2006, Lordi have become a household name in hard rock and heavy metal. Founded in 1992, the band has established its monster metal sound with albums such as The Arockalypse and Sexorcism. The Finns are also renowned for their spectacular stage shows and the monster costumes they wear. Lordi at Summer Breeze 2024 is a guaranteed spectacle!

This insightful documentary tells the harrowing story of Sophie and Dominik, a homeless couple struggling to make ends meet. With a baby on the way and a prison sentence looming, they face a desperate situation. When a friend suggests escaping to France, their fate takes an unexpected turn.

In 1933, a film reel shot by an unknown volcanologist is discovered in a village near Mount Vesuvius (Italy). Years later, another film is unearthed during new excavation work near the same location.

For a long-awaited reunion, a family meets on the island of Hispaniola, where grandmother is from. Everyone is happy to show up. Except grandfather. He wants to die, urgently. His wish to close his eyes for good comes true overnight and leaves a stain.

We write the 43rd year since the existence of the Italo-Schlager. Roy Bianco & The Abbrunzati Boys have reached the peak of their work. Two #1 albums in the German album charts, sold-out tours over the European continent, Schlagerstrudel in front of the largest festival stages of the Republic, in the ZDF-Fernsehgarten and at the Brandenburg Gate. How could it come to this point?

They are the secret protagonists of world history: dogs that became famous alongside powerful masters and mistresses. A four-legged friend helps to cultivate an image and can, depending on the calculations, make its owner appear sympathetic or threatening. In England, however, prime ministers have to get used to a cat...

OKTAGON 60: Buchinger vs. Eskiev was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Saturday September 7, 2024 at the Rudolf Weber-Arena in Oberhausen, Germany.

Shake Stew's powerful, telluric tunes make you want to sway to the beat, and invite you to let go into a trance-like state. The Austrian band captivate audiences with their blend of driving African percussion rhythms and heady brass melodies.

The 15- to 16-year-old women from the ISC Alhilal agree: they have made football games more confident. This is also due to the two trainers who demand discipline with great empathy, but also with great clarity.

The first engagement at the small theater in the Mecklenburg province presents Gesa and Arikia with challenges. Schumann accompanies the young women during their first two years, telling of their hopes and doubts, of internal and external resistance.

What drives Chlär is an unquenchable thirst for learning and progress. So it's hardly surprising that his productions are like attempts to awaken the primal, tribal instinct that lies dormant in all of us. Dax J, British DJ and producer, has gone from pirate radio to headlining the world's biggest techno institutions. All the while cultivating a resolutely singular style and an unshakeable attachment to his underground DNA.

Linus is a Christmas buff - the whole circus somehow goes against the grain. But now he is supposed to pull himself by the strap: his sister forces him to give his mother a Christmas present. Easier said than done: Because actually he not only has to find a suitable gift, but above all also to himself.