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Educational film about the speed of light.

A ding-dong artist unexpectedly joins an adoptive father and causes chaos in his family. Because the son is older than his father.

Winifred, the geriatric daughter-in-law of the famed composer Richard Wagner, talks about her cultural and political influence during the Third Reich. Yet in contradiction to the films's title, Winifred confesses nothing. The contradictions within her discourse do, however, reveal the extent of her delusions and political commitment as an unrepentant fascist. She paradoxically describes herself as a completely apolitical being, adamant that her classification as a grade three Nazi at the end of the war was a grave injustice. Still Winifred cannot contain her amusement when she recalls that after the collapse of the Third Reich, she was the only person left in Germany who would admit that she was a Nazi.

An old lady named Jane, believes she is Tarzan's widow. She wears a leopard skin bathing suit under her black coat when she visits the zoo to talk to the animals, and keeps African mementos in her home. She also has pictures of famous screen incarnations of Tarzan, including Johnny Weissmuller, Lex Barker, etc. up on the walls of her flat, and longs to 'return' to Africa and visit 'Tarzan's tomb'.

The last day in the tanzclub "Dschungel" at Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg. Located at the bar Slumberland, GoltzStraße. 24. It documents with single frame automatic one night from evening to dawn. Sounds from The Doors and Iggy Pop. "Dschungel" moved in 1978 to Nürnberger Straße 35 and became more glamorous and hip.

Portrait of a child of migrant workers who sees boxing as his only chance of a successful life.

Animated short directed by Michael Schaack

A biographical documentary about the Bulgarian born film director Slatan Dudow (1903–1963).

Portrait of siblings George and Mike Kuchar, who have made a name for themselves in the US underground scene with low-budget films.

Using minimal means, Materialfilme is conversely one of the absolutely maximal experiences possible in cinema. It's a masterpiece revealing film as a toxic material, an industrial material—a material that corrodes, that wears, that fractures and most of all, a material that can be purposefully manipulated. Extraordinarily active as a filmmaker, film collector and catalyst since the 1960s, Wilhelm Hein is one of film's true individualists; still absolutely dedicated to the moving image as a means of provocation, subversion and documentation of the most intimate type.

Short by Walter Bockmayer

"This is my first feature-length personal film which I started shooting while on a scholarship at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1975/6 and which was shot during a months-long lecture/film-showing-tour throughout the USA and Canada. The extensive postproduction work on an Optical Printer has been completed in Germany, and the reknown German bass-musician Eberhard Weber made the wonderful soundtrack while watching the film. To me this film is like an elaborate tapestry woven by thousands of fade-ins and fade-outs. It feels like stepping into a river and getting carried along." Bastian Clevé

Children express their experiences of war and diaspora through drawings and testimonials.

Between the TV set and viewer, a function exists whereby the user switches on and off the appliance. I have reproduced this function and made it the content of the TV programme. Sandwich character of real process and reproduction process, of reflection and action. On the screen, a series of viewers is seen sitting in front of TV sets. A fault occurs in the last set shown, meaning the next viewer has to get up in order to repair the fault. This repair brings about a disruption in the next viewer’s screen. The disruption propagates itself until it reaches the real TV set, meaning the real viewer has to rise and eliminate the fault. Time delay: the real procedure is the conclusion of the reproduced procedure. (Peter Weibel)

Karl Richter leads Gundula Janowitz and Hermann Prey in Bach’s monumental B minor Mass The work was filmed in the splendid Baroque abbey church of Diessen in Bavaria, which dates from Bach's time. Messe in h-moll Mass in B minor BWV 232 Gundula Janowitz · Hertha Töpper Horst R. Laubenthal · Hermann Prey Münchener Bach-Chor Münchener Bach-Orchester Karl Richter Directed by Arne Arnbom

A film about and with Max Ernst.

Adventures of a young boy who always gets into various troubles.

A cinematic portrait of Maria, a 13-year-old girl who has been living in Hamburg, Germany, with her family from Spain for several years. The filmmaker observes Maria in her everyday life and her relationship with the people around her - her parents, her neighbor (the filmmaker's mother) and Nina, a German girl about the same age.

German horror movie from 1970.

A young couple from the present day is transported by magic to a distant fairy-tale world. There they encounter clever objects such as the table that sets itself, the flying carpet, and the invisibility cloak. All of these objects can be used for useful purposes. However, since they can also be used to play pranks and cause a lot of mischief, Vera and Peter and their allies are urged to be brave and cautious...

A subversive and experimental film by Otto Muehl.

When actress Elfriede Irrall wants to make a film about her mother Erika Trojan in 1977, she is skeptical at first, but then ready to talk. Erika Trojan speaks surprisingly openly of her life in Vienna, of National Socialism, of family constraints and the desire for liberation, of love and sexuality. The explosiveness and timeliness of the result are without comparison.

A film by Lutz Mommartz

Documentary drama about the Swiss journalist Otto Pünter, who maintained an anti-fascist information office in the 1930s and 1940s.

Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Philharmonia Chor Conducted by Karl Böhm Directed by Vaclav Kaslik

Documentary about stuntman Rémy Julienne.

Gardi Deppe’s film follows women completing a six-week course of treatment in a health clinic (unique in West Germany at the time) for ‘working girls and women between the ages of 15 and 21.’ The film shows striking differences between the perception of the patients and the approach of the clinic and its exclusively male doctors. The women attribute their health problems to social and labour policies. The health clinic responds with medication, sports programs and occupational therapy. The film underlines the need for self-organization and ends with the realization that these women must develop their own strategies.

TV-Documentary about the German painter Anselm Feuerbach

Short film about the Republic of Buryatia using footage from '273 Days Below Zero'

Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow students try to initiate a revolution in Germany, but they are not successful. Büchner has to leave the country and seeks exile in France and Switzerland, where he falls ill with typhus.

Documentary film.

A weary traveller falls asleep next to a sign reading Weg zum Nachbarn. As soon as he dozes off the world turns on its head.