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A man in his late twenties, one millionth of a modern metropolis. An unknown microbe that has become a virus.

Experimental short film

The film shows images from everyday life in a small village in Central Anatolia: how people there live, work, celebrate festivals, and interact with each other. For comparison, the film shows the lives of Turkish guest workers in Germany: their everyday lives, their problems, their relationships with each other and with Germans.

Compilation of various German sex education films from the 60s and 70s, which amuse with their staid style and outdated views.

"Cindy Maranne, "Americana" from "Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling," stars in her feature film debut as a newlywed torn between love and violence when her husband is taken hostage in a failed robbery.

Bern, 1980: A caleidoscopic portrait of Swiss urban life in the early 1980s.

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal - who has never seen him - and is always watched suspiciously by their roommate. Nik began writing in prison and now seeks contact with the literary culture, even though he feels disgusted by the pompous fuss of this society. He is not without talent and works on a novel in which he minutely describes the abduction of an industrialist. Henry gets shot at the prison breakout and visits Nik to get help from him. He likes his novel plot and wants to put it into action.

As a teenager, Carla Zachanassian had a child with a man named Serge Miller. When he refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. Now, many years later, she is a multimillionaire and returns to the town of her childhood, where she is welcomed with open arms. However, she has only one thing in mind: revenge—she wants Serge dead.

Vienna 1910. Hans Trautendorffer, an 35 year old journalist bets with his newpaper chief that he'll be able to work as a farm worker in the country for a whole year. But his dreams of a healthy, quiet country life don't come true- at least not the way he expected it.

Feisal, 30, was born in South Africa to an Indian-Malaysian father and a mother of both Scottish and Black African descent; he is a huge fan of the mega-pop star Michael Jackson. Since the mid-1980s, he has been making ends meet in West Berlin with dance gigs and other jobs, and his big break came when, following Michael Jackson’s fifth facial surgery, he was in demand as the singer’s lookalike.

This NDR programme provides insight into the work of a Turkish women's group at the second Hamburg Women's Week, a political education programme organised by the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics under the motto "Women learning together". The programme, the first to be produced by an all-female television team, impressively documents the suspicion and Islamophobic clichés faced by women of Turkish origin in the West German women's movement, attempting to break down prejudices and fight discrimination.

There is excitement in the village of Niklashausen in the Tauber Valley when a folk play about the lay preacher Hans Böhm is to be performed again. Known today as 'Pfeifer Hans', he was burned as a heretic by the bishop in the 15th century after preaching a new kingdom of God without an emperor and pope to hundreds of convinced peasants. While preparations for the play are underway, conversations with the villagers show how much this past still moves them today.

When Luzifer fell from heaven to earth a precious stone fell from his crown, which turned into a huge deep black block of marble. "You think the world is on your string, well Rudy, think again". Luzifer had spoken.

A staged premiere performance is reminiscent of when the stars used to come themselves, but the facade begins to crumble with the demolition of the cinema.

When Dortmund is playing against Schalke, riots and brawls are destined to happen. The fans of both clubs are shown during soccer matches and asked where the abysmal hatred against the opposing club comes from.

Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a man tired of life

The artist Jürgen Vallen in the port of Hamburg, his favorite workplace. A document of obsession: port, cranes, noises, sounds, pictures, drawings. An exciting meeting of three areas: documentary video/art/music.

A reminiscence of a friend who had died of AIDS. His own mourning finds expression in the blending of found and original material, which seems to become one with the film material.

A man tries his hardest to turn a large winged screw. He succeeds. The picture opens with a crack: the screw is stuck in the back of a huge woman who begins to dance. The little man jumps away in horror.

A young pair of lovers record on tape their sexual activities. The only problem: the neighbors in the apartment building can receive the erotic recordings with their TV sets due to an antenna fault.

The story of Ludwig Gehm - a German resistance fighter against Nazism.

"In the videotape "White Screen" of 1988, which Schreiner calls a "noise and material video", the subject are white screens of various materials that is torn over and over again in short sequences both vertically and horizontally. In addition, the cinema’s projection screen is attacked by breaking, cutting, sawing, drilling, and in one sequence is riddled with numerous holes. This destructive act is like that of Lucio Fontana who in the sixties became famous for the slits and drill holes he made in canvases, thus making the picture into an object. Cut and sound are synchronous, there always follows another picture, another sound, another action after the next. But in spite of the overarching theme, the viewer is meets with many surprises (what comes next, and where?), and is left in suspense."

A story about a boy who is not allowed to play soccer with the others.

Freddy wants to be a star. He writes and performs his own songs, but has no record contract yet. He has an idea to form a group of back-up vocalists and recruits four beautiful girls who also happen to be his former lovers. They name themselves "THE FOUR PIN-UPS." But even this doesn't work because Freddy wants the spotlight for himself. However, by chance, the girls find themselves onstage without Freddy; they start singing and capture the audience and sign a contract with a big producer. They seem to be on the road to success with their own sound and a new wave image. Except the dream begins to lose its glow; scandal, conflicts, and disenchantment start affecting the group. They go from number one to...

Dorn, a young adventurer and survivalist, is trying to sell 50,000 porn magazines in a flophouse in Malta when he is interrupted by the police. On the run, he finds a luggage storage ticket from Frankfurt Central Station. Together with his friend Lazlo, he sets out to retrieve the contents of the locker - 5 kilograms of pure cocaine. Dorn, who is completely out of his mind, does not hesitate for a second to turn the substance into money. In doing so, he completely overlooks the danger he is putting himself in. Two rival gangs are hunting him down and trying to seize the drugs with all their might.

Nine-year-old Primel’s single mother must leave town, so her apartment building’s seven tenants take turns babysitting. Primel’s boundless energy sparks chaos, but also warms hearts. In caring for her, the neighbors transform from strangers into a close-knit community.

Having just arrived in Germany, the filmmaker’s narrative voice searches for the meaning of life.

Omnibus film about fear of war.

A movie about the railroad line built between 1908 and 1912 from Jünkerath to Losheim

Buttenhausen, a village: 1933 - 1942 Television journalist Lea Rosh interviews residents and Jewish visitors in Buttenhausen about their memories of the coexistence of Christians and Jews in this village in the Swabian Alb. Her reports on everyday life under National Socialism shed light on the situation of the people at that time.

A documentary from about Kate Bush's live tour in 1979. Two versions of the documentary were produced: one with a German voice-over during the interviews with Kate Bush, broadcast on 17 May 1980 by German broadcaster SWF3. A version with Dutch subtitles was shown on Dutch television on 8 March 1981 by Dutch broadcaster VARA. The live performances in this film were shot in Hamburg (Germany) on 28 April 1979, and Mannheim (Germany) on 8 May 1979. The following songs are shown in this documentary: Room For The Life, Strange Phenomena, Violin, In The Warm Room (in part), Hammer Horror (in part), Kite, and Wuthering Heights. Kate is also interviewed in between the songs, as well as a rare television appearance of both her parents.

Film collage on the street line in St. Georg.

A despotic youth spends his vacation oppressing the peaceful inhabitants of an island with his evil fantasies.

Perhaps her name is Maria: A woman with blonde curls listens to a caller in her New York apartment, moving between the couch and the kitchen floor, getting deeper and deeper into her surreal fantasies, in which she lustfully tries out different roles.

A work on the perception of space, where a video of a motionless figure in a room correlates four different camera positions with four different synthesized tones. We see the inert artist and how she calmly faces the cameras head-on. Six minute version.

A humorous and ironic film that draws attention to the problems of long-distance tourism and European arrogance: A German travels through Africa (Hotel Diana Beach, Mombasa, Kenya); his superficial and clichéd commentary, dictated into a cassette recorder, contrasts with the beauty of the landscape and the fascination of the foreign continent, which cannot be captured by superficial brochure terms. A young tourist who throws herself wholeheartedly into the African adventure succeeds in developing a greater understanding.

The aristocratic families of Rossitz and Warwand, who are relatives, have started to treat each other with mistrust and hatred, since a testamentary contract has stated, that the complete goods will be inherited to the respective surviving line. At the same time the young generation is in love, how can the tender ties between Agnes of Warwand and Ottokar of Rossitz be protected? Killed by their own fathers, they lie in their blood. A radical drama about the term "family". (www.filmgalerie451.de)

Television film about the Hamburg storm surge, when on February 16, 1962, the dikes broke and a fifth of the city was submerged in icy floodwaters, killing 315 people.

"Masculinity" is the subject of this film. Harald, the protagonist, fails in his blind attempt to prove his masculinity at Maria's expense. The Stone Age is over. Is it really?