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Documentary film in competition at the 1st Berlin Film Festival

A man's life progress illustrated by images from vintage postcards, magazine advertisements and posters.

An unemployed musician proves her worth by working as a temporary employee in a canteen for taxi drivers, and thanks to the helpful drivers, she gets the chance to successfully showcase her artistic talent.

A film about the refugee crisis in Germany.

The construction of five houses for a workers' housing cooperative has been delayed due to a shortage of workers. It is winter and it is foreseeable that the houses will be completed in the fall at the latest. However, this takes too long for the young electrician Gustav. He is frustrated and wants to finally live within his own four walls. So far, he and his wife Christl, a sales clerk, have been subletting from his parents-in-law. One day, he receives a visit from his Aunt Minne, who informs him that he has inherited an apartment building worth 12,000 marks from his deceased Aunt Erna. He rejoices, as a house is even better than an apartment and he no longer needs to be a member of the building cooperative. The house turns out to be a dilapidated old building with no furniture and no water or electricity. Christl refuses to move into the building and begs Gustav to turn down the inheritance.

Short by Wolfgang Becker.

An innovative production from the world-renowned filmmaker and passionate naturalist Heinz Sielmann, Woodpecker (Zimmerleute des Waldes) is an intriguing celebration of these territorial birds known for their distinctive knocking.

One of the first detailed photo reportages about the country and its people, customs and traditions, the economy and transportation in Indonesia. Skillfully inserted travel sketches from the Suez Canal to Singapore break up the documentary.

Daily routine in a kindergarten. Advantages of kindergartens for working women.

Short film about the Austrian diocese of Sankt Florian near Linz.

Camera study about everyday life on the Hoyerswerda construction site. Film rediscovered in 2014.

Film by Werner Malbran.

A German Film Award short colour documentary.

The film shows the reconstruction of the city of Bremen after 1945 until 1955.

Documentary on the Federal Sports Festival in Hamburg in August of 1953.

A German Film Award winning short black and white documentary.

The film begins dreamily describing the quieter times of the 16th century. The documentary, which was made in the years after World War II, goes on to examine the life and teachings of the reformer Martin Luther.

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

Stop-motion animated Christmas short in which an entire toy department comes to life.

The film reports on the historical development of public transportation.

Documentary about a steel factory in East Germany.

Documentary about Borneo, the island of beauty, passion and demons

A German Film award winning short documentary.

On the Sorrento peninsula, orange and lemon groves stretch all the way to the coast. In the orange plantations, the high wooden frames are covered with mats to protect the trees from intense sunlight. The function of the artificial irrigation system is demonstrated. The oculation of trees is demonstrated in a young plantation. The oranges are cleaned on the spot, then sent to the laundry, cleaned, dried and made ready for dispatch. In a lemon plantation, many pickers stand on ladders on a tall tree and remove the fruit. The lemons are sorted, wrapped in tissue paper and packaged in home and large-scale factories. Before being exported, the goods are checked again for quality.

Spain 1936: Despite the victory of the Popular Front, nothing has changed for the peasants; the grandees continue to oppress them. The poor peasant son Pablo fights back and encourages the others to demand their rights. The grandees flee. Students from Madrid arrive and help the rural population to democratize. Pablo falls in love with Magdalena and learns to read and write from her. When Franco begins his bloody attack on the young republic, they defend the village together. When Magdalena dies in a bombing raid by German planes, Pablo begins to hate the Germans. However, fighting together with the International Brigades, he realizes that there are other Germans too, and that they share a common enemy.

The story of a small locomotive from Little Schnarching that sets out on its own to explore the wide world and, after a series of frightening experiences in the modern world, returns to its quiet home station, timid and remorseful. Based on the children's book by Graham Greene.

Short by Heinz Sielmann.

A German Film Award winning short documentary touring the Gothic nunnery of Wienhausen.

A brief portrait of Tokyo.

Early 18th-century Krakow: The poor student Simon works as a travelling musician in order to finance his studies, and the Polish freedom fighter Jan is on the run from Saxon troops. They meet in the carriage of Count Kovalska, where they fall in love with the Count’s daughters Laura and Bronislava.