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Film ist. 1-6 is an avant-garde collage from Gustav Deutsch, using found footage from various scientific films to explore the properties, impact and nature of film.

When 24-year-old Tom, Sawcombe's grandson, meets 20-year-old Vicky Harding while doing an internship at the neighboring farm, it's love at first sight. But Vicky's parents find out about it and forbid their daughter to have any contact with Tom.

In the summer of 1963, US President Kennedy visits the Berlin Wall and the hit song "Schuld war nur der Bossa Nova" plays from the jukeboxes in the pubs. And on the outskirts of a small town in the Ruhr region, a teenage clique organizes a party. Among them are 17-year-old Heike and her friend Gaby. While Gaby is being hit on by loud-mouthed Charly, Heike has lost her heart to Manni, much to the annoyance of dreamy Little Joe, who secretly has a crush on Heike. When it comes out that Heike is pregnant, a scandal ensues.

Documentary about the life and career of Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, presenter and creator of the infamous GDR propaganda programme 'Der Schwarze Kanal' ('The Black Channel').

One of those wars between France and Germany. Two Lady soldiers, one German, one French, are lost in the woods. An encounter is inevitable.

The documentary tells the story of the Berlin luxury hotel, which was built by the director's great-grandfather and fell victim to a fire shortly after the end of the Second World War.

The morals and customs of the "native peoples" of Upper Austria are described by a team of anthropologists from Sub-Saharan Africa in the style of European and American anthropologists in the non-western world. While making the film, they discover new cultural phenomena. Wippersberg turns around the research methodology of Western anthropologists of performing ethnologic studies, and then popularising them by means of a documentary film.

Film critic and scholar Helmut Färber analyzes the final scene of Eisensteins "October: Ten Days That Shook the World"

Manfred, who is fascinated by his mother's underwear, becomes the latest addition to Dr Prinz's therapeutic flat-share for transvestites and sexual 'deviants'. During his inspection visits, to prove solidarity with his patients, Dr Prinz himself happily cross-dresses and applies abundant make-up.

Prosecutor Thomas Kopper is transferred to Berlin and confronts the cigarette mafia after a warehouse manager is executed. As Kopper pursues justice, his car is bombed and key witnesses die. Facing a possible leak within the prosecutor’s office, and suspecting his new lover or even the justice minister, he fights to expose the syndicate.

After last year's bombastic success, Anke again invited comedians and other star guests to celebrate the festival of love with her in 1999!

Beethoven's opera Fidelio.

A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state television company TVR and video taken by numerous amateurs becomes a new media-based form of historiography.

Federal intelligence officer and art expert Jo Tresko is in trouble: he is alleged to have leaked insider information about arms deals to his wife, journalist Katrin. Tresko must find the real "mole" in order to prove his innocence...

Explores the culture and lives of the Ainu people

Mockumentary film about the alleged son of director Ernst Lubitsch.

They are young and full of zest for life when they meet by chance in Hamburg in the fall of 1990: Tom signs on to a container ship the next morning, Katja has to return to her class. They only have this one night, but in it they experience all the happiness and sorrow of love. They promise each other to meet again on New Year's Eve 1999, the last day of the old millennium.

Short film about ways to fight right-wing extremism

With ironic emphasis, the film examines an Afro beauty shop on Kantstrasse in Berlin. Customers describe their experiences in post-reunification Berlin and at the same time convey a small product knowledge of hair straighteners and bleaching creams.

German TV movie chronicling the life of singer and actor Roy Black.

"Guilt and Memory" is a contemporary history about four former high-ranking Austrian Nazis. On the subject of "dealing with memory", Marcel Ophüls writes, "Memory cannot be artificially activated - neither by events nor by censorship ... It has to be a personal act of remembering."

When his parents go away and he has to stay behind alone with an unloved housekeeper, a boy retreats into a dream—into a fairy-tale adventure story like something out of "1001 Nights," in which people from his everyday life reappear as fairy-tale characters. Every night, Lippel dreams the dream a little further until it reaches a happy ending, thereby also solving the problems of his everyday life...

Maja organizes a pyjama party for her birthday.

Jelenski and Buttgereit delight us once again with a collection of selected bizarre things that even add one more to the first part.

A political drama about the assassination of a leading politician. When Hugo comes out of jail, the Communist party has embarrassingly swung in a new direction, namely Hoederer's line. Now Hugo must die.

I filmed myself underwater holding my camera in my hand. The film is shown upside down, so that it feels like I'm drinking all the water around me. Some sequences make me appear like a dead person underwater, others show me catching my breath.

Unofficial Germany-produced spin-off of the popular "Faces of Death" series, not to be confused with "Faces of Death V", the official fifth installment in the series.

Short film about first aid for motorcyclists

The TV documentation reconstructs the incidents between May and November 1989 from the point of view of the Politburo of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The incidents include the fraud of local elections, the opening of Hungary's borders towards Austria, the ensuing tide of East German refugees to Hungary and Czechoslovakia for transfer to West Germany, the pompous ceremonies at GDR's 40th anniversary, the inept transactions the Politburo took to salvage the situation, the resulting dismissal of their leader Erich Honecker, the international press conference in East Berlin on 9th November 1989, at which Politburo member Günther Schabowski erroneously announced the immediate opening of the 'Iron Curtain', which finally led to the collapse of socialism in the GDR and the other East Bloc countries.

"Stone-White Man" is an epic documentary in compact form which tells the life story of Viennese artist Richard Erdoes. Erdoes has chronicled the lives and resistance of Native Americans in the United States since the 1950s.

Nick has lost everything. A brutal robbery has destroyed his life and his dreams. Financially, he is facing ruin with just a few hundred marks in his bank account. It's Advent time, and out of nowhere his fortunes change. Nick is lucky in a lottery, his account suddenly contains a lot of money, and he meets the mysterious and life-hungry Eve. It's almost like a fairy tale. Nick blossoms, feels strong and seems to be on the winning side. But his supposed happiness dissolves into nothing overnight. Eve's demanding lovemaking and drugs drive Nick to commit a terrible act. He flees in a panic. When he regains consciousness, he leads the police to the scene of the crime. But Eve has disappeared and nothing points to her. Nick follows the few traces Eve has left behind and immerses himself in a mysterious world of seduction and deception....

After his company went bankrupt, hobby musician Erik toured furniture stores on behalf of a furniture company to advertise their products. A task that would be easy to accomplish if it weren't for the criminal brother who steals some furniture and promptly ends up in jail again. In order to quickly raise the necessary money for the deposit, the half-hearted free-walker Goldi persuades Erik to organize a charity tour for his brother. The “tour to paradise” can begin.

Documentary about farmers in the Austrian Alps.

In this poetic and mystical work, light itself takes center stage and tells its story through images rather than words. At five different locations, various light sources come to life, accompanied by music, and interact with one another. The film uses unusual artificial light and sound installations as well as elements of expressive dance to present the diverse expressive possibilities of the visual arts. Without a continuous plot, but full of anecdotal, condensed scenes, a fascinating and challenging narrative unfolds.

Marine Ringo deserts in Hamburg when he finds his girlfriend with rival Eggers. Squatting with friend Yusuf, he uncovers Eggers’s shady land deals.

The story of a glamour model who turns into a maniac killer after being raped by 2 gangs.

Two women on a journey through Germany from 1989 to 1993.

Siblings are traveling to Paris, their grandmother has died. They try to find her through old letters and pictures and start a conversation. When they finally arrive in Paris, it becomes clear that they won't be staying. They meet a stranger.

Short film.

Film retells the life of Amalie Hohenester.

Good neighborliness and mutual affection characterize the relationship between an elderly lady and her Turkish neighbor and her son. When the boy is killed in a fight with skinheads, his mother becomes increasingly withdrawn. The elderly lady observes her Turkish neighbor's isolation with curiosity and dismay, until she makes a surprising discovery.