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The "Mutoid Waste Company" is a group of English travellers who have created an alternative lifestyle for themselves as modern nomads. This film portrays their performance in Vienna.

An Asiatic confrontation with a noddle.

Miller, a badly injured cowboy, hears about a magic potion that is supposed to heal all wounds. He wants to get hold of it at any cost. But two men of God fearlessly stand in his way...

Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The characters in this film have a lot to complain about, and they do. They are people whose physical appearance (female) does not match their inner sexual identity (male). The subject is pinpointed in the film independant of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.

Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it means to be German at this particular moment in history.

The small fishing village of Amble by the Sea on the Scottish North Sea coast is struggling with harsh living conditions and dwindling job opportunities. One day, they notice a dolphin feasting on the salmon and instead of moving on, he simply stays on the coast near the fishing village. He is soon christened Freddie and becomes a tourist attraction. Is this the turning point for Amble by the Sea?

A car race ends in disaster for Günni and his Mustang. Ossi" Raoul also has problems: a loan shark is breathing down his neck. Zombie has an idea that can save them both: A used car deal in an old American caravan. So the clique sets off for America.

Director Bernd Sahling documents almost four years in the life of a young man who experienced two political systems, East and West Germany, and cannot fulfill his dreams in either of them.

There are favorites in every race - those who are not permitted to lose again - and outsiders - who are unable to lose again.

The day came to a lonesome night / It lasted for such a short time / Does it stop / Love lasts or it doesn't / "Tu veux ou tu veux pas"

Documentary film about the withdrawal of a Soviet regiment from the former German-German border into an uncertain future.

The debt-ridden bon vivant Marlow is mistakenly transferred a million marks. The money was actually intended for a killer. He wants to get it back by force. Marlow and his daughter find themselves in mortal danger.

State Secretary Herbert Boening is a true careerist: an ambitious, married up-and-comer who, despite all his correctness, keeps a little secret. Her name is Gisela Bachmann, she is a model and he puts up with her, but their secret meeting at a castle this weekend will change a lot of things: The couple misses the moment when the castle gate is locked. The shock of being locked in is worsened when they realize that they are not alone in the castle...

In the struggle for the souls of men, Satan created the most dangerous of all demons, the succubus. The appearance of the succubus is feminine and beautiful. She seduces you, makes your most secret desires come true and makes you a prisoner of your desire. She snatches your soul and takes it with her into the dark realm. A necromancy ends in a massacre. Tobias is the only one to escape. On a cemetery it comes to the showdown. Once again the fight to the death begins.

Diamond expert Ronnie discovers a real gem: Ginnie. Struck by Cupid's arrow, he follows the pretty chance acquaintance to Belgium. As a front man for Ginnie's boss Demarre, he is supposed to pull off a deal involving fake diamonds. And suddenly he gets caught up in a dangerous game of confusion. In addition to gemstone friends, gangster bosses, contract killers and a kidnapped diplomat also get involved.

The path of two foreign men cross in the kitchen of a pension and in the streets of an impenetrable city. The bond that rises between them reaches a dramatic peak when one arouses in the other a long oppressed memory of a moving experience

In the Spring of 1989, the city of Leipzig made a bid to host the 2004 Olympic Games. Comments made on the subject by GDR Chairman, Erich Honecker, at the time are not without irony in view of subsequent events.

Film by Michael Verhoeven.

"Reflections abound on the surface of the canals in Amsterdam. The buildings are less important than the way the sun blinks on to the water‘s surface, which, after a while, results in abstract images in motion. Shots taken backwards in slow motion show an evening sky, with ample clouds. It seems so very different; why it does so remains beyond comprehension." —Milena Gierke

Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German engineers who train workers in the Homs textile factory. Shortly after filming ended, Hafez al-Assad put himself under the dictator. Twenty years later emerged ... the father stayed in the war over a youth club with Syrian orphans in Bad Saarow, whose fathers had died in the Lebanon war and accompanied them to Syria, where they were housed in separate, elite "schools of martyr children". Multi-faceted documents that oscillate between peaceful and tense, hopeful and unsettled.

The manufacturer Xaver Frey is forced into bankruptcy by his bank and decides to commit suicide in a sleeping car from Vienna to Venice. There he encounters the sleeping car attendant Horak, who is about to retire and who uses every legal and illegal means to prevent his suicide.

What happens when green tea meets milk? Find out as four young urban nomads find themselves in Tokyo - a city spinning with pop culture and ancient traditions. Follow a quirky Austrian artist drawn to the offbeat Japanese woman he met at New York's Chelsea Hotel and a mysterious monument he discovers in Tokyo. A privileged young Japanese woman who finds freedom in the role of Elevator Girl, where her many choices are reduced to "up" and "down". A radio announcer from New York who falls in love with a rogue salaryman.

Germany's oldest rock'n'roller lives on welfare in Berlin-Neukölln. He used to be a "star", shook hands with Elvis and performed with the Beatles. Today he lives on the poverty line, but still performs with his band "Jacky and the Strangers". His small but loyal fan base helps him to cope better with the adversities of everyday life.

Feature film.

Documentary about the everyday life of a bicycle courier in Berlin in 1995.

Unusual camera angles and eyewitness accounts of the planning and construction process capture the spirit of the early GDR and the idea of socialist urban planning and architecture. The "National Development Program Berlin" envisaged Stalinallee as the focal point of a district of residential and high-rise buildings and as a model for the architecture and urban planning of the capital. The section of road between Strausberger Platz and Frankfurter Tor is considered the beginning of the construction of the "socialist capital of Germany - Berlin" and was designed in the style of socialist classicism, the so-called "Zuckerbäckerstil", by the architects Hermann Henselmann, Hanns Hopp.

Four women in a therapeutic shared apartment adore their therapist and defend their hero with all available means, including sexual ones, when a strange woman breaks into their world. Doreen comes from the East and is looking for an apartment.

The film tells the story of the varying air quality in Berlin over three different decades.

A drama directed by Ralph Bohn.

Food vouchers, fingerprints, waiting stamps and the discussions with two "individual decision-makers at the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees", their language regulations and the "selection modules" in the office's computer program.

A reunion with Mendel Szajnfeld 27 years after Grabe's first encounter with the Holocaust survivor.

Youngster Dogmatix, ordered by the Germanic tribe on a mission to procure wenches for his bored chieftain, is struck with a blow, along with his mace mate: the Roman Empire arrives and demands some intense bashing!

A film-experiment in six hundred takes, three seconds each, of a European's private images in Africa and of an African's images in Europe. A mutual perception of the one's and the other's native place.

Documentary about the Wu-Tang Clan.

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

The film shows a reenactment of a traditional Sorbian Catholic wedding in traditional costume.

A drama directed by Petra Haffter.

The accomplishments of four handicapped ten-year-olds are recorded on camera. Their determination to do and create is obvious in each action.

A five years old Thomas is trying to accept his grandfather's death.