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Short documentary film about Bitterfeld, now part of the city Bitterfeld-Wolfen, which became a symbol for ailing economy, contaminated air and polluted land on account of its numerous industrial plants.

Make-up and cleats are not mutually exclusive for the soccer players from "Agrispor". In "Mädchen am Ball", Aysun Bademsoy accompanies five young Turkish women on their way up in a women's soccer team in Berlin.

Documentary about the owner of a small museum of mechanical music instruments in rural East Germany

Pavel, a puppeteer from Prague, meets a woman from a completely different social milieu in Vienna who is fascinated by his world of phantasy. Soon however, she realizes that he can express his emotions only with Pepito, his favourite pupper.

Hamburg 1962, you dream in English and only understand German. The four boys in Claude-Oliver Rudolph's film "The Wonderbeats" work as lifeguards or in the pigsty and play a hot beat in the evenings. This is the story of the most successful German beat band. It's called THE WONDERBEATS in our film. The events from 1962 to 1967 are described. During this time the band had 15 hits in the German charts.

In the video installation “Again & Again” Melhus tells—not without humor—the story of a person engaged in an inner dialogue on the subject of reproduction, only to be rejected by the clone whose qualities are superior to his own. The possibility of multiplying oneself ends in a loss of subjectivity. While in this case Melhus questions the identity of the self set before a genetically-altered living situation, in his preceding works he exposed the self as being the projection surface of medial images. Curiously on the theme of cloning a single channel video is multiplied on 8 screens.

1991 drama film.

A South Korean woman who has worked in German hospitals for many years returns to her homeland and follows the shamanic ceremonies of her childhood. A film poem about the ritual dissolution of resentment and grief, as still practiced in South Korean industrial society.

The yellow dot from space, he continues to do his mischief in terms of soul wear. However, because our interstellar colleagues are also fed up with being terrorized by this and his pocket-sized lackeys any longer, they choose Earth's choicest warrior, Peter Brockmann, to put a final and leaden end to the story.

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"

Tuepfelchen, the little Dalmatian dog is despaired. Just a second ago she had been playing with her two brothers and sisters and now they are gone. Together with Kruemel, the young half-breed dog, he starts looking for them. Soon they meet a gang of street dogs. They persuade the dogs to help them. Without success they search the whole city. All of a sudden Butcher, the clumsy Bulldog discovers a trace of the two. The small Dalmatians aren't well. The dog gang decides to act and Kruemel already has a plan.

On August 4, 1971 at 15:55, Dimitri Todorov and Hand Georg Rammelmayr robbed the Deutsche Bank in Prinzregentenstraße, Munich. They were hoping for DEM 2 000 000. Later, when the police stormed the bank, Todorov's partner got killed. Now, after 22 years in prison Dimitri is free.

Two brothers regularly visit the grave of their brother, who died far too early. Being with him is their deepest wish.

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Klaus Koska is the only witness to an assassination - but after he reports his observations to the authorities, he is suddenly the hunted after instead.

Documentary about farmers in the Austrian Alps.

Documentary of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 1989 tour of America.

Former inmates and American soldiers remember the cruel conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp.

A lion is forced to skip its meal.

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of matter, which shows the bizarre richness of the smallest particles floating in the film emulsion. The crystals' constantly changing structures, enriched by the textures, bring about an almost tactile experience, a visual expression of its own base matter.(Jürgen Reble)

"My sister was obsessed with the 1950s and the music of the period. It was her 16th birthday, and we celebrated together, in the bathtub." —Milena Gierke

Feature film.

a short animation film about the stupidity of war. A battle between two horse-mounted armies, facing problems of territory and overweight.

Godzilla and his son Minya fight Angila, Gaos and Mechagodzilla on an island in the pacific.

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!

After a series of career setbacks, a young man tries his hand at working as a sexworker, only to discover that this job has its own set of challenges. When he falls in love with a college student, making a living becomes even harder for him, because at first he doesn’t realize that the woman he loves works in the same line of business.

The film shows the spatial distribution and the behaviour of the Mediterranean demoiselle Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis on typical reproduction waters. The great importance of suitable perches becomes obvious. These perches, e. g. single rush stems, are used by immature, hunting individuals as well as by reproductive males that are controlling territories from these sites. The latter chase all other individuals, the result being a spatial segregation between immature and reproductive specimens during the day. Typical behaviour, such as threatening, courting, copulation, and oviposition is shown in different film speeds.

The different life paths of former girlfriends from Catholic and Protestant homes respectively - one a draftswoman, the other a chemical laboratory technician - in two interrelated films, in which love, like the demands and attitudes to life in the change of its foundations in the process of the decline of the GDR and its accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, play a special role.

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.

The first twenty years of Adelheid Dworak's life (1869 to 1889) are traced in a mixture of biographical feature and historical documentary.

An angry husband comes home to find his wife having an affair with another man. He kills her. He kills her lover. He kills an innocent witness who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Unfortunately for him, his murder victims come back as zombies. And these zombies proceed to play a lot of very nasty tricks on him (razor blades in spaghetti anyone). Will he survive?

It's the story of an old couple having a normal conversation ... well, more or less normal. The Wrong Krauses is a Filmakademie (Ludwigsburg-Germany) first year project from 1994.

Slavoj Zizek, born in 1949 in Ljubljana, psychoanalyst and professor of philosophy, started early on a group of theoreticians who sharpened their thinking of the theses of Jacques Lacan. The Slovenian Lacan School was a spiritual resistance nest in orthodox ex-Yugoslavia, and Slavoj Zizek emerged as a globally operating philosopher-entertainer.

A cinematographic attempt at a maximum of exertion and a maximum of relaxation based on the thoughts of John Cage, Chuang Tzu and others.

Oliver and the much older photographer Hendrik are a couple. A rather contrasting couple: Hendrik has already achieved a lot in his life and is considered an 'old hand' in his profession. Oliver, on the other hand, is only at the beginning of his career as a photographer and has retained a childlike naivety and playfulness in his life plans. Oliver and the young Silvia meet at a photo session. It is immediately clear to the ambitious Silvia that Oliver is her springboard to a modeling career. That same evening, Hendrik proposes to Oliver. But Oliver makes an almost unfulfillable condition: He wants a child! Hendrik is completely at a loss. What should he do? Then Silvia bursts into his house. All she really wants is to be photographed by Oliver. But things turn out differently...

In a fictitious show, candidates attack each other with knives and fight, and in the end the presenter (Burkard Driest) is stabbed to death. Like Das Millionenspiel 25 years earlier, the Private Life Show criticized the increasingly drastic broadcasting formats on commercial television.

Journey into Life follows the struggles of three concentration camp survivors--Yehuda Bacon is Israel, Gerhard Durlacher of The Netherlands, and Ruth Kluger of the United States--in rebuilding their lives after World War II.

Restorer Imke is called back to her hometown, which she once left after a dispute with her family. An unknown assailant has shot at the image of the sinner Mary Magdalene in the church.