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Documentary, showing the last cantonal assembly that was held only by men in the town of Hundwil (Appenzell AR), Switzerland in 1990.

In April 1992, ultra-orthodox Jews of the Athra-Kadisha came to Hamburg to demonstrate against the final destruction of the Jewish cemetery. The cemetery, where bones still lie, was to be built on with a shopping centre. The film shows the history of this Jewish cemetery, recalls the former Jewish community in Altona and gives an insight into Jewish religious life and culture.

The film documents the tobacco season of 1993/94 from the planting of the tobacco through the harvest and sale until the sowing for the next season - using some small planters from the villages around Schwedt on the Oder and a large farm, the former Agricultural Co-operative in Vierraden in an exemplary manner. It describes the transformation in the technical and agricultural fields. Different planters and representatives of the Tobacco Grower's Association discuss the situation of tobacco planting in the GDR compared to current conditions and answer questions on their self-organisation and on the future of tobacco cultivation in the Uckermark.

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

For anyone who has ever confronted a difficult decision in which none of the solutions seems like the right one, CROSSROADS will have a special resonance. Made at a time when the director was facing great uncertainty in his life, the film is an extended, often humorous, look at a man pulled in too many directions, in a world in which everything keeps changing and all roads seem to lead back to the beginning.

The story is an allegory, combining narrative aspects of comedy films, documentary films, fairy tales, and road movies. The story starts with a dying old woman, who is calling for her distant son. Her calls take solid form in the shape of a giant breadfruit, which falls from the sky right in front of her son's residence. Realizing that this is a message from his mother, the son sets out to find her and takes the fruit with him. His trek across the island involves interactions both with people who are either amused or disturbed by his abnormal fruit, and with those to whom the fruit seems to an answer to their "fantasies", "desires and dark longings".

One of the greatest mysteries of our century is the occult background of the Third Reich and its secret societies, such as the New Templar Order, the Thule and Vril Society and the “Lords of the Black Sun” (SS). They were the best ancient orientalists of their time - did they know about the existence of extraterrestrial technology in antiquity? The Allies have always denied knowledge of mysterious, antigravity-powered German circular aircraft codenamed “Vril” and “Haunebu” - but they really did exist. Numerous sources unearthed in recent years clearly support their existence as part of the German secret weapons project towards the end of the Second World War. But how far had the plans progressed? Were flying saucers actually used?

Two people are preparing for an evening, but finally it ends in an elevator.

Manuela, the mermaid, is annoyed: The only thing her counterparts in the self-awareness group are interested in is the question, "Where is your clitoris?".

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

This is about how drugs alter our perception and take the place of normal sensory input.

Piet and Max like to dig corpses from their graves, dismember them and then sell the individual parts to interested parties. Since the job is quite nerve-wracking and Piet is followed by corpses right into the dream, they decide that this grave should now be the last one. Of course, something goes wrong because they are digging out a body with a curse on it. The body mutates into a zombie and pounds around, killing everything that stands in its way. Unfortunately, the bitten also mutate into zombies...

A segment from the 1992 TV magazine "Bookshop" (West 3): French sociologist Laurence Caillet chronicles the life of a Japanese woman who, born in a village in a remote province, rose to become the manager of a hair salon in Tokyo and a sought-after expert on hair care and bridal attire on Japanese television. Includes excerpts from films by Ozu.

In her documentary, Aysun Bademsoy portrays five young Turkish women from Berlin Kreuzberg who used to be members of the successful Turkish women's soccer team "BSC-Agrispor". Until recently, the friends had high hopes for an independent future based on their sporting success. But now the season is coming to an end and the five young women, all in their 20s, will stop playing soccer. They don't know exactly what they want to do with their lives. Apprenticeships are rare, and without money, independence from the strict parental home is impossible. But now they are enjoying the Berlin summer together once again, wandering the streets, chasing boys, going to parties, "hanging out".

When a man is killed by a drunk driving, his son wants revenge, which starts a big battle that will continue for years.

Gabriele Haring and Josef Broukal guide you through cyberspace in a virtual studio, where they meet numerous Austrian experts and internet pioneers.

A team of the All African Television network, wanders into the darkest regions of the Eastern Alps. They observe the habits and rituals of the natives and make not one, but two ethnological major break-through discoveries.

The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death took place in a trench.” Müller begins the interview by narrating how he prepared himself, both mentally and physically, for his throat operation to remove a cancer.

"Adventure of a Dream" is the autobiography of a 20-year-old Romanian, Valentin Nita, and his dramatic flight from Romania to Austria after Ceausescu's fall in 1990.

Two-hour television documentary by Alexander Kluge and Meinhard Prill on the documentary filmmakers of the "Stuttgart school".

The adventures of the unscrupulous successful therapist Mark Stroemer and his adversary Wolke Donner, who gains his trust under a false name in order to put a stop to his activities.

100 film loops for 100 film-viewers. Each loop deals with one basic aspect of repetition in life and film. The essential characteristics of each aspect become evident by endless repetition in the loop. "With the Pocket Cinema project I want to trace the repetitions in life and film as an attempt at the essential elements of film - motion and time.

Karl Weisz, photographer of the trip, the fight, the naked life. With the eye of a survivor who doesn't want to leave the street, his home; with the eye of an ex-junkie who misses the thrill, of a friend who is led by his past.

A family whose descendants always turn into a bloodthirsty monster on their 18th birthday due to a druid curse. Today Michael turns 18 and his grandma gives him another Bible. But Michael doesn't want to know anything about it because he has money debts. Nothing happens when the debt collectors beat him up, but when they kill his grandmother in his absence, he freaks out and turns into a bloodthirsty monster.

A modern Aphrodite – how is it possible to be super sexy and successful at the same time? A career woman faces the conflicting demands of her parents, social life, and her husband. Driven by their off-camera voices to become ever more efficient, Lisa becomes a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The short combines live action and animation in a film with a slapstick tenor that is a colourful, but by no means rosy depiction of the future pressures women will face in a digital working environment.

It is the time of the 1994 World Cup. Günther Schmidt has no friends. Dull he pursues his profession, drinks his beer in the evening in the pub. The feeling of success he only experiences on the weekend when he wins in the model boat competition. The trophies then decorate his small, always dark ground floor apartment in Berlin-Neukölln. His membership with the Republicans shows him as a racist skewer, and he sinks ever deeper into inertia and dullness. When one day Franziska comes to the pub where he is watching a World Cup broadcast, it seems to have come to an end with his loneliness. Günther Schmidt, awakened by the superiority of feelings, wants to prove itself - wants to prove to her - that he is someone...

In a villa, the penetrating hiss of the pumping bellows of a breathing apparatus. The maid has to endure the harassment of her lung-diseased master, who is vegetating in his sickbed—at first, a purely routine matter for the domestic servant. But she will never forget this day...

The legendary Rammstein concert, played two days after the one year anniversary of the release of the band's debut album Herzeleid, and the 100th show in their Herzeleid Tour. Released later as their first ever live video release, originally in VHS, exclusively for members of their official fan club.

The prostitute Carmen is struggling with sleazy lovers in the red light district of Cologne.

Wagner's erotic opera in a production by the German Opera of Berlin under the direction of Gotz Friedrich, with music conducted by Jiri Kout. Recorded at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Seven men who have never met in real life come together on the screen of a cinema on the Portuguese Atlantic coast. They talk in their different national languages about their lives, their thoughts and feelings, and their different European cultures. What they have in common is their proximity to death...

Haymon Maria Buttinger, a legendary Austrian prop master, singer and actor. A showman in front of the camera and his great dream of being Macbeth, Quasimodo and Jeckyll-Hyde just once. The portrait of a friend.

A cunning young man who has just lost his job improvises a bank robbery, taking a young woman who is also unemployed and a fugitive conscientious objector hostage. Pursued by the police and military police, a 15-hour odyssey through Berlin and Brandenburg begins, fundamentally changing the lives of those involved.

Documentary film that deals with four main thematic areas in Fassbinder’s films: The exploitation of love, the human tendency for mutual repression, the resulting loneliness, and powerlessness that leads to an explosion of violence. Fassbinder’s genius lay in his logical and uncompromising combination of these various themes into a harmonious unity, while at the same time creating a very personal self-portrait of himself. All Fassbinder’s films are self-portraits in disguise. His greatness was one of emphasizing the negative, the darker aspects of things. Through his radical use of rigorous subjectivity he was able to be objective, whether in Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun or Effi Briest.

A food fight breaks out at the airport.

The story of the shooting of F.W. Murnau's last film, Taboo, and the curse that followed for the German filmmaker.

Spring 1990, Berlin: Young Niyazi of Turkish descent works at McDonald's in West Berlin and wants to return to Istanbul as soon as possible. He has heard from a friend that apartments in the eastern part of the city are much cheaper. If he worked in the west but lived in the east, he would have enough money to leave the country a year earlier. With the aim of settling in with her, he goes on a blind date with Klara, a young woman from East Berlin. However, she immediately thinks about the advantages she could gain from the acquaintance.

Short film about the profession zoo keeper

“Stein/Licht is a film that wants to make visible by making it possible to look [at]. The opposite of looking [at] is looking for something."

Film about Auschwitz and the extermination of the European Jews.

An unknown disease has annihilated the human race. Sand - just a tiny heap of white sand is all that is left of a human being. When Ruth and Sylvester meet, they are the only survivors. They are immune against the deadly disease; on the brink of madness, they find themselves incapable of shifting the burden of responsibility for mankind, which fate has placed upon them. Could they do anything but start from scratch?

Short film directed by Eckhard Blach

A fairy tale drama set in the mountains. Anna and Alois are on the Großvenedig Mountain. Following their adventures with crevasses, a bold bunch of sailors, and a dinosaurus running out of air, it all ends completely different after all.

An extraordinary documentary about a little-known aspect of Jewish life in the GDR: Róza Berger-Fiedler chronicles the Yiddish Cultural Festival, which took place for the fourth time in East Berlin in 1990. The film features performances by renowned Jewish artists from the GDR, Poland, and Lithuania, as well as conversations with prominent figures in Jewish community life and Jewish cultural production from several European countries.