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Documentary about director Fritz Korner

The film popularizes the conspiracy theory created by the KGB in Operation Infection and biologist Jakob Segal that the HIV pathogen originated in the United States at the Fort Detrick military biological weapons research laboratory.

Documentary film about the extraordinary life story of the Protestant theologian Martin Niemöller. The film links Niemöller's biography with the development of Germany during the 20th century.

Combines three short films: Richard, The Blanket of Life, Elementary Editing Theory

An insight into a girls' group in a mining community in the Ruhr region.

A 360° shot from Schönhauser Allee reveals Stargarder Straße 3A’s neglected courtyard, where tenants, spurred by community leader Michalski, restore its greenery. Built in 1900 as a social-democratic workers’ cooperative, “the red block” once housed activists, ran its own kindergarten and summer fêtes. Wartime saw Nazi block wards, Post-’45 resident Bruno return, and ’50s festivals fade. By the ’60s, tenant turnover and mixed generations reshaped its life. Now, the film crew’s presence reunites residents for the first courtyard celebration since 1952, closing past and present.

Documentary about the relationships between the collection, processing and marketing of human blood plasma, primarily by American companies.

A sketch: Observation of everyday life of people and situations in Vienna. "Visual art is an excellent way of observation in our culture. The everyday situations are seen briefly, continously but rarely as perceived and consciously experienced." (Michael Kreihsl)

Short film about bilingual kids

The portrait of an 87 year old woman who has been writing poems for 3 years. The seven thousand poems she wrote in this short period show her strength and her will to live.

Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Archangelskoje near Moskow to open the new legislative session because at seventy-five, she is the oldest representative in the German Reichstag. Although she is ill and almost blind, she see this as her chance to make her voice heard amid the growing Nazi influence in Germany.

A report on the excavation of the Roman ships in Mainz, Germany.

Franz Bielek is a bailiff by conviction. However, his overzealousness is increasingly a thorn in the side of his superiors, so they transfer him from the provinces to Munich without further ado. Overwhelmed by the big city, Bielek no longer collects a single mark and is sent to Berlin for further training.

Harald T. is overlooked—for life. And even in the pathology department, where the supposedly dead man is finally carted off to, the medical students who have gathered to perform the autopsy cannot find him.

A man wants to take a shower in a public shower, but it is only for "naked showerers". But he is wearing swimming trunks...

The short film shows the process of oil extraction up to the delivery to the customer

The passionate seducer Robert has made all the preparations perfectly to spend a fun evening with Solange, the wife of his friend Fressinet.

A modern fairy tale about a tragic wedding between the Postmaster General and the crossword queen. The ceremony is conducted by the newsreader. Also present are: Mona from the Post Office, Josefine, the singer, and the Pure Amateur. When Josefine refuses to sing, chaos ensues.

A film about the successive stages of the inner loss of one's homeland.

After his father's death, a young man returns from Berlin to his small hometown in southern Germany and faces the decision of whether to continue running his parents' photo shop or to sell it.

Short educational film about migrant workers.

Degraded found footage, primarily of a cowboy.

The Deutsche Bundesbahn presents the intercity train system.

Moscow in the 1920s. A film about the pogroms in southern Russia is being made in a studio. The name of the notorious tsarist governor Muratov, also known as "The Beast", symbolizes the crimes of the time. During filming, an old, decrepit man comes forward who wants to be in the movie because of his resemblance to Muratov. Could it be possible that this man is the real Muratov? Everyone is so preoccupied with the realization of the material that this incident remains hidden. As artists, everyone has their own visions - which often bypass reality ...

Uncertainty, mistrust and sorrow torment the children and young people, war orphans, who find a temporary home in an abandoned castle in Thuringia in the fall of 1945. They are given a bowl of barley soup and a first inkling of safety, security and peace. The adults to whom they are entrusted must learn to cope with their new task as educators. Courage and self-confidence are necessary.

The attempt to capture a wake ceremony on film, poetically, as it was truly experienced by someone who was there and kept vigil over the deceased.

In the fall of 1986, things got pretty wild in the Ryesgade neighborhood. The BZers took over some condemned buildings, and the press focused on the conflict between the BZers, the police, and politicians. The film records what happened day by day—from the BZers' point of view. At the same time, it provides a historical overview of the squatting movements of the 1980s and the confrontations that followed.

The first film ever made by infamous German director Andreas Schnaas, which has since been lost. The film showcases two young men ruthlessly murdering an elderly man.

Peter Krieg documents a journey through the Federal Republic of Germany with his young daughter, during which he explains various concepts to her, such as patriotism, xenophobia, the "religion of the father," and similar ideas. In this way, Krieg confronts the viewer with his very personal, exaggerated, and at times contradictory view of a specific trend in contemporary Germany—a "new patriotism"—and, precisely through his polemic, encourages reflection.

German music and art collective Die Tödliche Doris performs their song "Über Mutti" live at the Front Kino in Kreuzberg, Berlin in 1984. However, the performance is actually a lip-sync of a live recording of the song at a concert in Paris a year earlier. The audience themselves are invited to join in the performance, syncing their responses to the recording of the Paris audience.

"Leiberg embarks on a search for the interaction between painting and improvised music, tinkering with sound collages sets language and sounds against each other (...) Leiberg works with real-movie sequences and uses his pictorial color and form vocabulary as a design element in the film. He primarily uses the resulting films in their capacity as a depot of moving light images in order to project them onto the bodies of dancers in the performances. (Christoph Tannert in "Gegenbilder", p. 39f;)

It is a wildlife film on flights of birds when glowing sunsets. On the soundtrack, a hum noise radio, which resembles the sound of a plane and that seems to criticize the human desire to fly, sometimes absurd when comparing this flight to the flights of birds. "WELTENEMPFANGER, marine and desert landscapes are filtered red, interspersed monochrome red, pure color serves fade, the birds fly into the red and yellow. The color is applied in water on the image which respects the framework, the existence of plan and the analog dimension. She unreal and alter but which works here is its color, not its figurales powers: it remains discreet, less virulent that the brilliant forms of disharmonic sequence that characterize the work of SCHMELZDAHIN

A documentary reflecting on what author H.-J. Börner called "socialist architecture" - the monotonous, cookie-cutter prefabricated buildings that defined East Berlins landscape.

Melanie van der Straaten has the courage to separate from her wealthy, unloved husband and settle down with a new partner, defying all societal restrictions, in humble living circumstances. When her first husband blackmails her after the divorce with the children, Melanie faces her new life with pain and dignity.

Tommi Fischer, a newly divorced copywriter is looking for a replacement mother for his son. When he falls for the emancipated costume designer Evelyn he soon finds himself in the undesired role of a stay-at-home dad.

First part of Gisela Tuchtenhagen's Heimkinder film series.

In a small Saxon town after the Second World War, the former chimney sweep Toni tries to survive on the black market and meets the pusher Ginfizz. Together they initially trade in flour before embarking on a riskier plan: they are to rescue machines from Soviet expropriation for the mill owner Hartmann by transporting them in hidden trucks. In the process, they become entangled in various adventures, from rescuing orphans to transporting pigs, while being constantly pursued by the young policewoman Gisela, who wavers between her professional duty and her attraction to Toni. After Ginfizz is caught and the others remain temporarily free, they help to get the mill up and running again to avert a food shortage.

In search of the history of the German-speaking women’s movement, detective Lore embarks on a journey through time. She takes us back to the decades between 1830 and 1860, into the living rooms and studies of Luise Otto-Peters, Louise Aston, Kathinka Zitz, and Mathilde Franziska Anneke.

As a small West German family traveling through East Germany, without official permits or prospects. Home not as a geographical report, but as a word for the "all-German" circumstances from which we come: a journey through time.

Live at the Markthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, West Germany. January 25, 1981. Setlist: 01 Intro (9'00") 02 African Postman (7'40") 03 Slavery Days (7'40") 04 Man In The Hills (7'10") 05 Follow Marcus (5'05") 06 Nyah Keith (4'45") 07 Lion (6'18") 08 Columbus (6'10") 09 Ethiopean Live (12'30") 10 Foggy Road (6'50") 11 Institution (6'20") 12 The Sun (7'15") 13 Jah Ago Raid (8'20") 14 Door Peep / African Teacher (21'00")

TV-documentary by Ulf von Mechow