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What is the link between the end of a chemical reaction and the end of a career? And to what extent are there endings in the universe and in literature? A documentary exploring the perspectives of eight protagonists and their understanding of endings.

Christmas 1989 is a very special time in the GDR. Many GDR citizens 'crossed over' for the first time to collect welcome money and go shopping. Many West Germans explore the East, the first business people and profiteers are on the move in the GDR. A new era has begun for East Germans accustomed to the economy of scarcity, with new opportunities and risks. The film sheds light on the changes in consumerism and life in the East, using the last Christmas in the GDR as an example. What was usually on the gift table in the East and what was there in 1989, the year of reunification? What did the Christmas markets look like back then and how did they change? What consequences did the new freedom have for the employees of GDR retail companies such as HO and Konsum, Intershop and Delikat? Contemporary witnesses and celebrities talk about how they lived, celebrated and shopped at Christmas 1989.

The Casteless Collective is a protest music band from Chennai, South India, playing an exciting mix of folk music and Gaana art coming from North Chennai’s slum area, combined with modern musical styles of rap and rock. Dealing with social issues that Indian society prefers not to look at: the still existing caste discrimination, the ‘untouchables’, and the oppression of women, LGBTQI+ people and those from underprivileged and marginalised backgrounds, as represented by the band members themselves. The film shows the young band’s powerful attempt to break cultural stigmas, and joins their journey towards an Indian future of casteless mentality and reality.

GALILA is a fragment of a young woman who has a mind of her own. Rebellious, honest and incredibly warm. Working in top gastronomy in Berlin for some time now, she still lives unofficially in a substandard apartment, her very own empire.

The animated documentary deals with a new intensity of longing during the first lockdown in Germany.

A performative poetry film about pecunia, passports, and privilege. Money origami stop motion animation, money being burnt and laundered, money in a museum. Psychedelic plant ornaments, juxtaposed with tanks and the devouring of currency from privileged and not-so-privileged countries in front of a national landmark and passport kissing.

A little girl disappears after finding a monster in the basement.

What if someone asked for proof of your sexual orientation? This is a requirement of the German Federal Ministry for Migration and Refugees. Ritah, a 20 year old lesbian woman from Uganda, is confronted with the absurdity of this system in order to receive protection.

A contemplative and musical journey which takes us along the Rhine and through the Alsatian countryside.

This cinematic search for traces takes us from silkworm breeding in a Leipzig allotment garden to the island of Crete. Idyll and war begin to converge – historical, scenic, complex, surprising.

What if you take some of the most absurd tweets and quotes of certain politicians literally? And how could the statement "If there are no vaginas, it would be useless." be visualized in this case? A look at the most absurd word creations and phrases from everyday politics.

A documentary told by seven protagonists, who share their personal and political point of view by expressing the reasons and the purposes for their advocacy as members of the Buenos Aires LGBTQI+ Community. Each one of them narrates personal processes and experiences which constitute their social and political identity as well as the motivation for their struggle for an equal and fairer future.

One in six orders placed online is returned. The free returns policy that used to be the big selling point of e-commerce sites is now causing them enormous difficulties. But one man's misfortune is another man's gain, as in the case of Dinco Muhic, which specializes in the resale of these items. "ARTE Regards" takes a look at the winners and losers of this "returns" phenomenon.

Johannes Unger's two-minute submission to rbb.

Sunday, Fulesee. Two people go diving in a lake. They understand each other wordlessly, everything seems okay. But the dive leads them not only to fish and into darkness, it also reaches into the depths of their souls. At a depth of thirty metres, fears and stories for which they cannot find any signs in diving language suddenly rise up.

Three generations, one desire, one mountain. The story of a father and his son who hike through the wilderness of East Africa with Masai nomads and want to ascend to the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro.

Hacking a claw machine inside C4D.

The ICE operated by Deutsche Bahn is Germany's fastest train at 330 kilometers per hour. Every year, the ICE brings millions of travelers to their destinations in the shortest possible time and has been even faster since the end of 2017: Since then, the high-speed trains have been racing on the newly built Berlin-Munich high-speed axis from the federal capital to the state capital in just under four hours. Our documentary accompanies an ICE train driver in his daily work and shows the training of new ICE train drivers in the simulator.

A tribute to a special place – Kunstquartier Bethanien

100 feet of 16mm Kodak Ektachrome shot at a fun fair at night. Dark forces present themselves in plain sight in this magical place of lights and colours.

Millions of people around the world are looking for a partner on Tinder. The dating app has changed the way an entire generation meets other people. The coronavirus pandemic has given the billion-dollar company another huge boost, with registrations increasing by 20% in the first half of 2020. But romance and candlelight don't always follow the "swipe right".

Visual trip through the distorting perception of the protagonist. Obsessive physicist in a world full of backpackers, observes a distant Nucleus emitting impulses. Rubbed up by the constant noise of the his neighbors cat, which keeps him from his work, he glides slowly to madness. In a surreal desert, he is confronted with the connections between his the neighbours, the cat and the nucleus.

Confined in their flat in Berlin, March 2020, a Mother and her 7-year old son collaborate on a playful testament to creativity — a fantastical short made using only a clothes horse, a shiny hula hoop, and a lamp. In the process, they transform their ordinary corridor into a ghostly and experimental place marked by gamelan sounds and transfixing light imagery.

«Life in the Future» is a part of a project by a Finnish Film Student Club (Kino Club Helsinki). It was made with help by german Research Instituts for Biology (Humboldt University Berlin), Charité Hospital and the Alfred Wegener Institut Bremerhaven. The music was done by Caspar de Gelmini and Bernhard Range.