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The more life lies behind you, the more consciously your own death comes into view. Three people over the age of eighty share their thoughts about the inevitable.

The yellow banana beckons from the fruit basket; it’s peeled in no time and about to disappear in the mouth. But stop! Before you can at last take the first bite, you have to share. The banana becomes smaller and smaller. The elephant, too, wants a piece of the sweet fruit. A piece for you, a piece for me … A little film about the joys of sharing.

The actor-director picks up the old telephone, hangs up, over and over again ; the soundman records all the takes. We are on the film set of Declan Clarke’s latest opus, What are the wild waves saying? (FID 2022). To concentrate on the sound takes of an almost silent film : here is an economy of attention, of caring for details. Serge Garcia shows us a string of sequences of flourishing activity, culminating in collective silence and careful listening. Until in the end Declan Clarke shares, in voice-over, his artistic and intellectual heritage, the nexus of all the moments of labour and observation shown here. (Nathan Letoré)

Ever since the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, Valentyn's life has been moving in heavy swell. In his hometown of Romny, in the east of Ukraine, he is fighting against corruption, and so against the strongest powers in the country. When Valentyn needs a break, he prepares for his third attempt to cross the Black Sea in his self-built kayak.

Rebellious daughter Lila wants to introduce her new friend Kim to her strict Catholic parents. But the supposedly peaceful family dinner ends in political disaster.

In 2022, Paragraph 219a, which prohibited advertising for the termination of pregnancy, was finally deleted without replacement. Paragraph 218, which makes abortions a punishable offence in Germany, has now been in the penal code for 150 years. In the documentary, 50 people who have had an abortion have their say. They are women, trans and non-binary people who describe the choices they had and the obstacles they faced. In the face of a emerging shortage of doctors, a strengthening network of Christian fundamentalists and a worldwide attack on reproductive rights and the right to bodily self-determination, a very important thematic debate

radioeins from rbb is one of the most successful broadcasters in the Berlin and Brandenburg region and is presenting the best live music from the Berlin Waldbühne tonight for its 25th anniversary. The hottest rock and pop bands will be there: Beatsteaks, Danger Dan, Bilderbuch, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis and Cari Cari.

Borrowing its title from the memoir of early Japanese suffragette Hiratsuka Raichō, In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun plunges deep into an oceanic vortex of saturated color and fleeting archival images, conjuring moments from the history of Japanese women’s movements in a headlong montage of bodies in protest, pulsating into abstraction.

In honor of one of Germany's greatest comedians: Diether Krebs would have turned 75 on 11 August. In this documentary, Iris Berben remembers her congenial partner from the comedy series "Sketchup", who died far too early in 2000 at the age of just 52. The film shows the most important stages in Diether Krebs' artistic career, but also provides very private insights into his life beyond the spotlight, a life in which he did not always make it easy for himself and in which he had to struggle with personal crises time and again.

Three teenagers decide one day to put social media aside.

The film "Borscht with Preztel" deals with post-Soviet Jewish migration to Germany. The immigration group of the former Soviet Union is the largest in Germany, but in the majority society hardly anything is known about them, instead stereotypes and prejudices are attributed to them, which leaves little space for the real stories of the Soviet immigrants and they remain invisible.

A melancholic look at Mainz's Jubiläumsbrunnen, whose decayed charm is in a state of conflict with other buildings in Mainz.

After Maxi wins an important music award, the pressure for her to release an album only increases. But pressure equals crisis, crisis equals self-doubt, and self-doubt does not make for a creative atmosphere. Maxi’s inner child can lash out as much as it likes, but her inner cop won’t give it even a minute to play or relax. A playful, glitter-covered study of depression and burnout.

Reflection is a short film that reflects how others see us in relation to who we actually are, and that nobody is or ever will be perfect in others' eyes. As Lamis closes her eyes she realizes that everything that happens in her head isn't true, and that she shouldn't compare herself to other people, and not everything we see is the truth.

Older citizens from a little German town meet refugees in an upcycle-workshop. There they not only create new clothes out of donated knitting ware, but also form new connections with each other.

The Arctic ice is melting. Climate change is progressing faster than in the rest of the world, and it is making the Arctic the focus of global politics. Neighboring countries and world powers fight for influence. At the center of their interest: access to mineral resources and new transport routes, because the melting ice opens up new, shorter shipping routes. Is there a new conflict at the North Pole? And how do people in the extreme north experience the change in their environment? ZDF reporter Johannes Hano and his team travel through the U.S. state of Alaska, and through northern Canada, visiting Denmark's autonomous region Greenland, Norway's Spitsbergen and northern Russia. they experience the magic of a beautiful nature, meet people who have learned for centuries how to survive in an inhospitable region. But now they learn how the struggle for power and influence is waking the Arctic from its slumber. For some time now, Russia has been doing everything it can to gain supremacy.

25 girls from Israel and Germany set off on a journey to learn and sing songs.

Frank has to join the army as a reservist in the GDR. Every day he writes home to his wife in the Erzgebirge. The young couple, who already have a daughter, look for ways to deal with the separation. But their time in the barracks remains lost time, and the description of the weather becomes a cipher for their mental state. Decades later, grandson Elia finds the letters and old photos of his grandparents and turns them into a film.

Holocaust survivor Victor I. takes the viewer on a deeply personal VR journey through his memories of the Second World War: The trauma of the Holocaust, the trauma of war and the trauma of being forcefully uprooted from home. His story, told in his own voice, is one of despair and hope during the most terrifying time in modern history. The experience is guided by audio recordings of Victor's testimonies and supported by stylised visualisations of his memories that are both re-created through his recollections and reimagined through his daughter who grew up with and inherited his memories.

After the death of his parents Alexander returns to sell his childhood home. Soon he notices the memories of his childhood have vanished. Alexander starts looking around to examine if there is something left which will resonate.

A marionette puppet extravaganza full of robots, coffee, and algorithmic capitalism. A punk rock space opera!

After his mother's death, a young boy decides, together with his imaginary companion Agent X, to rescue a dog from the local animal shelter. Although this attempt initially fails, he is finally able to face his grief.

When the night is clear, the inquisitive mouse Armstrong can look at the moon from her attic through a telescope: white and round and unreachable. "The moon is made of cheese!" claim the other mice and do not want to know about Armstrong's theory. So he makes a plan to prove that the moon is made of rock, just like the Earth. He will fly there and get a chunk! But how is that supposed to work? A mouse in space ... Fortunately, Armstrong gets help and thus takes on the legacy of the mouse flight pioneers. He constructs a rocket to take him to the moon and back. After weeks of experiments, experiments and failures that cost Armstrong everything - even his beloved attic and the valuable telescope - the time has finally come: the rocket takes off. According to the picture book by Torben Kuhlmann, "Armstrong" describes how a furry, four-legged inventor succeeds in the impossible. A small step for the mouse, but a big step for humanity, which is already on its heels.

A film that revolves around the following questions: ‘Why are we expected to identify with a “queerness” that we had no power in creating? How can we speak the language of queerness when our languages, terms, expressions are trapped within and abbreviated into an international queer (English) language? How are we pressured into partaking in the norms of acceptable “queerness”? What are the costs of not fitting into these norms, and how can we counter this regulatory and disciplinary function of queerness at our current historical moment?’

Felix Leffrank deals with the ups and downs of an artist’s life in colourful, computer-animated images. During his ordeal between depression, writer’s block, anger and urban loneliness, a story-teller is accompanied by three weird birds who sometimes appear as annoying neighbours, sometimes as inner demons. Jung, Freud and the psychologist Dr. Breuer in the shape of a grey cat promote self-reflection, but the most helpful thing is probably a beer with friends.

What does it mean to make an animated film accessible to people with impaired vision? Can audio description convey what’s happening on the screen and what is, especially in animated film, often entirely a product of the imagination? Anne Isensee (Golden Dove for “Megatrick” in 2017) tackles these complex questions with a light touch, humour and verbal wit. She pulls off the feat of producing a concentrated cinematic investigation into the multi-layered quality of (all) perception.

A stunning circular pictorial history of church domes, mosques and synagogues treated like clockworks.

A gay hook-up for three. Two in front of the camera and one behind.

Diebsteich, a long forgotten neighborhood in the middle of Hamburg, in the district of Altona. Residential area, commercial, cemetery and a Cuban café. But the neighborhood is about to undergo major changes. The railroad company, Deutsche Bahn, has begun work on the controversial relocation of the Altona long-distance train station. A concert hall is also to find space at Diebsteich. The film tells of the concerns and resistance of the residents, who feel ignored in the development of their neighborhood, and of the Cuban café owner, whose popular neighborhood meeting place is to fall victim to the wrecking ball.

A compilation of pure visual poetry, a montage of daily observations, partly working with single frames. Each part is an impressionistic celebration of appearances of our world but also a play of thought. The title is inspired by a quote of Walter Benjamin.

Working with performance artist Leonor Beutler, Christin Turner (who received her MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder) wades into the shamanistic rituals that coincide with our understanding of time as expressed in the natural world.

An empty house. Inside, four surveillance cameras showing different rooms. A woman in a winter coat enters the hallway, holding a large plate of cake. As if in a secret surveillance centre, we look at four monitors and watch the figures in black mourning clothes move from room to room. In the centre of it all is our main character, who tries in vain to escape the countless expressions of condolence. The traditional mourning rite as a social gauntlet. "Dein Beileid" was shot in two planned sequences with four cameras running in parallel. It is a play with the medium of film, an experiment with parallelism. With each viewing, the audience can focus their attention on new aspects and actively explore the plot and relationships. Depending on what we focus on, the film is sad, humorous, or in any case deeply atmospheric.

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