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Andrea actually wanted to spend a nice weekend in Italy with her brother Martin and her mother Helga. But when Martin abandons her shortly before departure, she sets off to Verona alone with her mother, to whom they had given the trip as a present for her 75th birthday. The meticulously planned short vacation soon turns out very differently than planned and the mother-daughter relationship is put to the test. When the return flight is canceled due to a volcanic eruption, Helga steals a rental car without further ado. She actually wants to help her daughter, who has to return to Hamburg as quickly as possible due to a work emergency, but Andrea has her problems with her mother's irresponsible behavior...

Julia moves with her family to the remote courtyard of her deceased sister. Despite the gruesome memory, she hopes for a reconciliation with her traumatic past. But for Julia her sister Jette remains omnipresent. She soon believes she hears her voice and increasingly has doubts about the alleged suicide. Julia tries to figure out what happened in the last days before Jette's death and identifies more and more with her. She believes that only one last desperate act can save them all. But evil has many faces.

Germany is in uproar; the new government has adopted a law which enables a government-controlled censorship. Media and cultural facilities are being inspected. The theatre house of Jan Reeberger is one of the inspected institutions. During the inspection two different world views collide, on the one side, there’s Jan with his idealistic and cosmopolitan worldview, on the other side, there’s Micky who is standing up for the new political system.

Sunny and his mother Nena live as social outlaws in the east German countryside, doing drugs in the car and on the beach. But when Nena hooks up with an old flame, and Sunny meets cop Liv, their life can't go on like before.

Drawing inspiration from his personal encounter with the Italian refugee child Giovanna during World War II, Markus Imhoof tells how refugees and migrants are treated today: on the Mediterranean Sea, in Lebanon, in Italy, in Germany and in Switzerland.

Julia and Franz meet in a laundromat, and Franz vows to protect her. One summer night, they’re mugged by three young men. Franz is held back while the leader whispers something to Julia. Though friends dismiss it, Julia knows Franz failed to protect her. His obsession with what was whispered shatters their relationship, revealing love’s dangerous side effects.

Lia leads a normal life. She goes to work and takes care of her daughter. While visiting her parents she is reminded that her life is not that normal after all. Several years ago she had a severe car accident leaving half her face scarred. Especially her anxious mother makes Lia feel insecure again and her despair leads to an emotional outburst.

A story about a man named Max Wind, who celebrates a men‘s evening with his friends under the deck of a ship and leaves his pregnant girlfriend Nele at home. A storm is rising and the atmosphere below deck is tense. As Nele goes into shock from a lightning bolt hitting her house the situations start to escalate.

British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth Miss Marple, are known the world over. But who is the woman behind her bestsellers? A biographical search for clues, the unraveling of an iridescent personality whose existence and works were shaped by the tragic history of the 20th century: the eventful life of the Queen of Crime.

After years of hospitalization for alcoholism, a techno musician makes her son swear to never let her spend the rest of her life in an institution. When her doctors diagnose her with permanent brain damage, 20-year-old Adam, who is deaf and completely on his own, must decide whether to break his promise or help her die...

Mina’s family has introduced her to few potential husbands in Iran. She has rejected them all until she meets Kian, a surgeon who has travelled from Germany in search of a wife.

A smoldering father-son conflict in the ranks of organized crime leads to a tragic family drama.

A condemned man comes out of prison and does his utmost to find the true murderer of his wife in order to get his children back. This is the starting point for the touching crime drama "Innocent" with crime scene commissar Felix Klare in the lead role. He plays with great intensity the family man who wants to bring the truth to light on his own. For relatives, witnesses and even the police, this could be a problem. Between the fronts, Britta Hammelstein becomes an indomitable commissioner, exposing a fatal network of false statements and investigation errors.

Gelsenkirchen, 1979: Three female employees of a photo lab discover by chance that they are paid much less than their male colleagues for their work. Lilli and her two friends want to take a stand against this, as the German constitution already states that men and women have equal rights.

16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and the three boys rape the unconscious girl.

Based on a true story, EXTREME NUMBER is the story of a young refugee from Chechnya who comes to Berlin, Germany in 2004 and is thrown into prison. He enlists the help of a translator to escape and joins a terrorist group that gives him a very special order. Authentic war documentation is embedded into the film as the Chechen protagonist’s flashback. This is real coverage of war, shot by a Chechen rebel from 1994-2000 in Chechnya. Real and fictional levels of the story blend together as a whole.

Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morning the world looks the same as always, but mankind has disappeared.

Sven has a dream. Once in his life he wants to walk the Camino de Santiago - the Way of St. James. But that seems impossible, Sven has Usher syndrome, a disease which slowly, inexorably robs him of hearing and vision. Profoundly deaf and completely blind since 2010, he can only communicate using a special hearing aid in the spoken language.

Munich, the city of singles and unfulfilled desire. Whoever feels like having a one-night stand can just use Safari, a new dating app. But is it also possible to find love via the app? Harry at least meets Lara through Safari, even though he’s married to Aurelie.

62-year-old company boss Anton is happily married to 41-year-old successful lawyer Johanna, his business is doing well and his daughter Marie and son David are finally standing on their own two feet. So it's time for his long-awaited move to the countryside and to tackle the renovation of a house by the lake. However, when Johanna becomes pregnant and he also becomes a grandfather, his focus changes and he decides to be a full-time dad this time. However, being a model dad and company director at the same time proves to be anything but easy, and so not only does he mess up an important job, he also falls out with his children...

A former CIA agent's search for a lost colleague exposes a deadly conspiracy involving his own family and Soviet-era secrets in the mountains of East Germany.

Henriette's second assignment as a premium nanny also takes her to an exotic location. The young-at-heart woman in her mid-50s travels to South Africa to look after two bored children on a farm in the wilderness. Anton and Linus are staying with their grandfather Konrad Eckstein for four weeks. Eckstein doesn't really have much interest in his grandchildren, preferring to spend his time with his animals. Nanny Henriette comes at just the right time - even if he can't warm to the older lady either. But Henriette refuses to accept Eckstein's stoic nature. She investigates why the grandfather has no desire to spend time with his grandchildren and also wonders why Johanna Eckstein's daughter left the farm a long time ago. Who knows, maybe Henriette can reunite the family.

When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns.

Hamburg, St. Pauli, New Year's Eve. Oskar Wrobel runs a music club in an old hospital at the edge of the Reeperbahn. While fireworks go off in the streets of St. Pauli, he prepares the big final party - the club has to close. Thankfully there is no time to think about it because the chaos is breaking into his living room, all while hell break loose at the club. The film, based on the novel by Tino Hanekamp, was filmed with hundreds of extras attending a real-life three-night-long party.

On November 20, 1979 at 5:30 in the morning, hundreds of armed men take over the Grand Mosque of Mecca, transforming the holiest shrine of Islam into a fortress and a trap for almost 100,000 pilgrims inside. This was the beginning of the siege of Mecca…

The only time Maria feels liberated is when she is playing the organ. Bach’s music is something you feel in your gut. At home she bears the brunt of responsibility – both for her rebellious sister Hannah, two years her junior, who is busy planning her escape from the village, and for her father, Johann.

We all share the same kind of brain yet everybody has a different view of the world around us. As a very intriguing example, Carlotta vividly explains how a world without faces does look like. She suffers from the miswiring of a tiny brain region that makes it impossible for her to see and remember faces as a complete construct, called prosopagnosia or face blindness.

A year of decisions. The country and the city are on the brink, the future is open, no one knows where the journey will take us. The First World War has been over for a good ten years, the defeat not understood, the republic a permanent state of emergency. History has only granted it four golden years. The splendor is based on credit and is already threatening to fade. There are 15 parties in the Reichstag, from the far left to the extreme right, and every government is an impossible coalition.

Some celebrate him as a sex symbol and the most interesting actor of our time. Envious people talk about his smooth face, his washboard stomach, and thus explain his fame. It is undisputed that Ryan Gosling is one of the most successful actors of our decade.

They were, at best mocked or ridiculed, at worst incarcerated, tortured, or even beheaded. But they would not be deterred. For decades ten thousands of women in Germany, Great Britain, in France, the U.S. and many other countries fought for their right to vote. Some used the institutions, others turned into media savvy politicians, and still others turned to terrorism, went on hunger strike, or died as martyrs. 100 years later we tell a multi-perspective and emotional story of the international fight, against all odds, for women’s suffrage as an important step towards equal rights.

Over the past 20 years, Eurovision has become bigger, more eccentric, and more international. We've compiled the great moments, tears, sadness, and embarrassing moments of the past 20 years. Here are our top ten!

Traces the story of an extreme athlete, past and present; but also explores the psychology behind life, death, risk and the confrontation of fear.

A mousetrap snaps shut. A dusty town square awakens. A group of men debate how to kill the animal in the little box – each trying to outdo the others’ increasingly sadistic fantasies. Until a stranger suggests letting the creature loose. A voice of reason? Or the sickest manipulator of them all?

"Kruso" tells of the last summer before the Wall came down on the small island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea. Beyond state-organized tourism, the isolated island became a kind of artist colony every year and a place of longing for dropouts and alternatives. Due to its proximity to Denmark, Hiddensee was also the starting point for the flight across the Baltic Sea.

A beautiful desperate widow goes on a dangerous quest to meet a mythical wish-granting unicorn who lies deep in the cannibal-infested "Wishing Forest." Along the way, she encounters a mighty warrior and a deceptive thief, who may or may not be trustworthy. But danger lurks everywhere and they are being tracked by the deadliest cannibal of all, a bloodthirsty savage who worships a magical feral Goddess who feasts on the hearts of his victims.

After her divorce, the Munich editor Gitti Kronlechner put her life on hold until, cheered on by a favorable constellation, she threw herself into a survival camp. Gitti surprised everyone with this courageous step. Mostly herself. So far she only knew Indoor Survival. The nature adventure shakes up Gitti's world view, especially since her Venus, as promised in the horoscope, is not in the fourth house for nothing.

Fifteen-year-old Cobain tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain takes over.

Seven people wait in an underground station below Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin.

“While he mused on the effect of the flowing sands, he was seized from time to time by hallucinations in which he himself began to move with the flow.“ (Kōbō Abe) Liminal zones. Floating particles. Fire, water, earth, air. Voices of fictional characters: sometimes suggestive, sometimes strict, leading the viewer away from the here and now. Who's talking? The relationship between the hypnotized subject and the hypnotist is mirrored in the spectator's relationship to the screen.

West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The parents of the director, too: Margarethe von Trotta and his stepfather, Volker Schlöndorff. With extensive archive materials and film clips as well as Margarethe von Trotta's private diaries the film portrays one German family and the society of the time.

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, leaving his mark in advertising with his irreverent aesthetic and punk sensibility. It was his spontaneous, imperfect images shot for an MTV campaign in 1994 that first made him famous.

In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes dissenters, Muslims and homosexuals. Jan Schneider has stood as a lawyer on the side of dispossessed victims. When he learns that the regime wants to jail him again, he decides to flee with his family. His goal is the South African Union, which enjoys political and economic stability after an economic boom. A freighter is to bring him, his wife Sarah and the two children Nora and Nick together with other refugees to Cape Town, but the tugs abandon their passengers in much too small boats off the coast of Namibia. On rough seas, it comes to disaster, the little Nick is lost, and no one knows if he could reach the shore...

A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. As jews they had to flee Germany and the Hitler regime in the late 1930s. In New York they wrote music history with their record label Blue Note Records.

The unsuccessful writer Max Rhode is a law-abiding citizen. But what Max doesn't know yet: In a few days he will commit a crime so horrific that it is hard to imagine for a human being.

In focusing his attention on the competitors of Mr Gay Syria, director Ayse Toprak shatters the one-dimensional meaning of “refugee”. Using the pageant as a means of escape from political persecution, the organiser Mahmoud — already given asylum in Berlin — hopes to offer the winner a chance to travel as well as bring international attention to the life-threatening situations faced by LGBT Syrians.

Young and pretty Emma is sentenced to anger management therapy after having thrown a toaster at her ex boyfriend and broken his nose. During the course of one day, her fate and her temper will be challenged several times. Will she be able to control her anger or will she lose everything?

Karla and Falk run over a dog on the way to their honeymoon and seriously injure it. After various attempts to save him, the poor animal sees his last hour approaching - but then fate comes to the grand finale.

Thumb wrestling coach Coach Steve and his new protégé are battling for the Austrian championship. Coach Steve wants to take advantage of his last chance at a title. However, the competition seems insurmountable.

A documentary comprising a thirteen 360° panning shots that gradually reveal the environments and conditions in which wood is transported from Austria to Brazil.

Fourteen-year-old Céline sits in front of her father's camera for a perfect photograph. But how long can she hide her emotional world? Is this really her or is it a mask her father makes her wear at every shoot?

Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from being a filmmaker to a guerrilla fighter. In 1974, he joined the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, which worked closely with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck met Adachi in Tokyo in 2018 and talked with him about a wide range of topics, including art, revolution, the influence of western avant-garde art and American underground; the Japanese Red Army; collaboration with secret services; the role of the Left after 1968; and the reasons for failures of leftist ideas and strategies.

"Steve et Jim" is a brief dive into the life of two Berlin flatmates. At first so different in demeanor, at the end of a crazy night they are left with nothing but friendship.

In the Bavaria of the 1980s, a father and his son compare their respective views on a family past heavy with resentment and unsaid.

Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective mother Kathryn and the entire village of Maweni think they can fulfill.