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Come back to Berlin's Tempelhof Sounds festival in 2022, when Muse and Florence and The Machine electrified a giant crowd at the former airport.

Reflections on a fateful encounter.

Gentian isn’t really sure about himself. Sometimes he wants to be like his older brother Altin, but at the same time, maybe he doesn’t.

CLIMATE ART explores how contemporary art engages with the climate crisis. Journalist Leonie Sontheimer visits influential artists like Olafur Eliasson, Sebastião Salgado, and Agnes Denes, whose works inspire new perspectives—from Europe to the Global South. The film also questions the sustainability of the global art world, challenging its reliance on travel, transport, and large events. It reveals how artists are turning climate anxiety into creative resistance and activism. Included is one of the final interviews with Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who passed away on May 23, 2025.

The Bayreuth Festival's annual new production is one of the most eagerly awaited events of the operatic calendar, and in 2025 Matthias Davids brings his experience as a multi-award-winning director of musical theatre to Wagner's only mature comedy, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. This highly anticipated staging is matched by a superb musical line-up, with Daniele Gatti conducting an international cast including Georg Zeppenfeld as Hans Sachs, Michael Spyres as Walther von Stolzing and the young Swedish soprano Christina Nilsson as Eva. All in all, it promises to be a fresh and revitalizing take on this most inspiring of Wagner's works, which asks fundamental questions about art, inspiration and what it means to be truly creative.

The topic of ritual abuse remains a dark and often ignored issue in society. Victims who speak out about their childhood torment face disbelief, while accounts of systematic abuse and cruel rituals are dismissed, leaving perpetrators hidden. Despite recurring scandals, the underlying mechanisms remain obscure. The consequences for victims are severe, leading to deep physical and psychological trauma, including multiple personalities. Yet their memories are often doubted, allowing the structures enabling this violence to persist in the shadows.

Ten-year-old Zoya loves to cook, with the help of Mischka, her stuffed mouse, which speaks in her grandfather’s voice. Torn between her passion and the expectations of her mother, who coaches basketball, Zoya suddenly embarks on an adventure.

Not only in Germany, but worldwide, many women are demanding more space in the Catholic Church. However, there are also numerous opposing views.

A hybrid work of nocturnal forays through Hamburg in documentary-animated live action. Alongside feminist social criticism, autobiographical references remain never fully deciphered. Alongside the gloomy Wanda Wandalis and Krossen Kerlen, "Didi" enriches the director's dark excursions and artistic positions in a fascinating way with his presence as an eccentric character. This love, embodied by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt (known for his subversive roles in Christoph Schlingensief's films), brings unmistakable charm and humor to the collaboration with Pachet Fulmen. "I'm not interested in pigeonholing," says Fulmen. Her art is a rebellion against convention — uncompromising, uncomfortable, unforgettable.

Franz Stock, a German military chaplain, accompanied hundreds of resistance fighters sentenced to death to Paris. Through his diary, which documented the judicial terror orchestrated by the Wehrmacht during the Occupation, a story that questions the ambiguity of this testimony.

The mismatched, half-Greek brothers Giorgos and Alex set out together in search of their estranged father’s hidden gold. But does the gold really exist? And are the brothers truly Greek? That’s open to debate.

A concert featuring Andalusia and Russia, with Isaac Albéniz's Iberia and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. A seminal work from the previous century that is more topical than ever, with a new work by Fabià Santkovsky, under the bow of Francisco Fullana. An opportunity for the musicians of the Spanish National Youth Orchestra to express all their talent under the baton of Nuno Coelho.

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.

Film follows the two twins and B-girls Joel and Naomi on their way to the 2024 Olympic Games, where breaking/breakdancing will be represented as a discipline for the first time. For the hip-hop subculture and the twin sisters, the same question arises: do they have a chance on the big Olympic stage? How does the subculture fit into the system of competitive sport? An intimate look behind the scenes, constantly accompanied by a break in the system.

The past is ghosts we left at home. The past is what we always carry with us. "nonplace" attempts to document a place that now exists only in dreams and memories, aiming to connect the ever-changing present with the encapsulated past.

A sound designer hears a child scream in pain while recording in the forest.

Mavi is a family caregiver and feels torn between her own life—marked by psychological stress—and the responsibility for her chronically ill sister, Nalin. While her sister’s physical illness attracts attention, Mavi’s own mental state is simply overlooked. In a moment of overload, she tries to distance herself from her sister and, in the heat of the moment, locks her in the kitchen. Fleeing home, she meets Royat in a bar. Royat seems to live free from any and all responsibility. Mavi follows her to a house outside of the city, a place where people gather in search of answers to essential questions, and in doing so, she drifts further away from the person she usually is or is supposed to be. But the more she removes herself from her life, the more she falls victim to dissociation, gradually losing her sense of space and time—until Nalin and Mavi’s partner, Khalil, finally find her and bring her to a clinic.

Diagnoses. Grids. Stairs. Glances. And a lot of main things that aren't actually main things at all.

At the age of 23, Stepan Timoshin is already at the top of his game. The tabloids have dubbed the influencer and TikToker the "sneaker millionaire." In early 2024, he announces that he wants to become president of Hertha BSC. The film follows the young entrepreneur on his mission to become the youngest president of a professional soccer club in Europe. But two days before the presidential election, an article appears in Der Spiegel, whose research suggests that Timoshin's financial background is different from what he claims.

An invitation to a musical voyage. Armenia, with a virtuoso trumpet concerto, Norway, with character studies, and the call of America - or nostalgia for Bohemia - with Dvořák's Ninth. The Yerevan Youth Symphony Orchestra is galvanised by Sergueï Smbatyan's direction and accompanies trumpeter Sergueï Nakariakov.

Found Footage. When the salt ran out at a birthday party in 1991.

A man sees warnings about an ongoing alien invasion while he is heating up his TV dinner. It's all over the news. He panics and tries to warn his parents, but they don't believe it. Unfortunately, he therefore misses the warning not to open the door for anyone.

Samuel struggles with depression. To hide his vulnerability, he feigns a happy life. But when his friend Marvin advises him to seek professional help, this leads to a decision that allows him to lead a normal life again.

Between June 1940 and August 1944, Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris, and Fernand de Brinon, ambassador of the Vichy regime in Paris, met almost daily and developed official collaboration between the governments of Vichy and Nazi Germany.

Two people meet unexpectedly in a bar.

A digital diary. Filmed in Mozambique between September and December 2024. Amidst revolutionary mood, during work, on sleepy beaches. Surrounded by sand, palm trees and an orange sun. VHS and Capulanas. Tanks and friends. Beer and reflection.

Kim has had enough: of school, of her girlfriend, and even more so of her mother. Because of her, Kim's father is now gone. Just gone. So Kim decides to leave. She can't go back, only forward. Until she finally arrives at the one place where she can still be.

An aging school band chats at length about their last concert at their old school, while truly strange things are happening in the Kreideberg district of Lüneburg. What's the deal with the weird coots, and what is the strange hacker up to?

There was an eery silence after a fire had destroyed the Moria camp completely in September 2020. Not just locally, but in public discourse. The world did not seem particularly concerned with the inhumane conditions in other camps on Europe’s external borders or the countless pushbacks in the Mediterranean. Nor did the arrest of six adolescents who were accused of arson resonate in any audible way – though even a second glance at the circumstances of the investigation and the criminal proceedings revealed the actions of the Greek judiciary to be questionable. Not to mention the underlying refugee policy of the European Union.

Celebration of the 15th anniversary of Lena's win in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Satellite.

In an overcrowded refugee camp, young Syrian poet Hadi is unable to express his thoughts, while his neighbor Nadim fears to articulate his feelings. But a hidden cassette redefines the trajectories of both their lives forever.

A tribute to friends near and far. S8 - 50D, shot in March 2025, in NYC and Berlin

The Buntentor is a women’s project that emerged from an occupied house in Bremen at the end of the 1980s. We show how the women independently created a space of freedom for themselves, but also experience how their vision of a different life was destroyed by the closure of the house. Four former residents recall this time: Angie in her trailer, Andrea in her garden plot, Esther in her Berlin office, and the trans man Luke in Hamburg, who at the time lived in the Buntentor as a woman. We accompany them in their current everyday lives.

Burn-out and depression are not individual phenomena but collective ones. The film is an invitation to rest through images and listening, so as to transform individual exhaustion into shared power to act.

Sultan is building a new life for himself in Saarbrücken. Here, he can flourish in a way he never could in his homeland of Oman. Since fleeing to Germany, he has been shaking up Saarland's nightlife as a drag queen. But his past keeps catching up with him. Between new beginnings and inner conflict, SULTAN tells a story of origin, identity, and the attempt to truly arrive.

The film deals with a justice system based on colonial legacy. A post-Mandela plot, partly shot in Berlin, in which many references to German postcolonial history appear.

As Gerts condition worsens after having a stroke, his wife Elise faces the fact that she might not be able to keep taking care of him by herself.

Professor Eske Willerslev has an ambition to build the world's largest collection of prehistoric human DNA. As the collection grows, he is forced to confront the ghosts of his own past.

Ralph is on a journey to find the creators of funny memes.

How free and independent is the press in Europe? In recent years, multiple crises and the rise of authoritarianism have put pressure on journalists. We take a look at these countries, where aggression towards the media seems to be undermining the very idea of democracy.

While her grandmother Elsa climbs down into a mysterious hole every day, her granddaughter Maditha can only walk over it. As the hole gets bigger and bigger, she has to find out what is down there.

Pomona, a cautious but curious woman, discovers giant Greek statues of Mars, the god of war. Her initial awe turns to playful subversion, but when her increasingly daring acrobatic attempts take an unexpected turn, Pomona must confront the question of what these ancient symbols truly mean for her identity and future.

The Feminine Urge explores female rage and the monstrous feminine as a physical, aesthetic, and mythological experience. This experimental short film unfolds as an anthology, presenting a visual narrative about transformation, desire, and resistance.

Crises, the struggle for raw materials, climate change and digitalisation – the world is changing rapidly, and with it the globalised economy. Who wins, who loses? What is in store for us? A search for clues in seven regions of the world.