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In November 1942, shortly after the Wehrmacht launched the attack on Stalingrad, the Soviet counteroffensive called "Operation Uranus" began. The German troops were encircled and met their deaths or fell into captivity. Only about 6000 German soldiers eventually returned from the Russian prison camps. This documentary focuses on the construction of a cemetery for the fallen soldiers in the battle for Stalingrad.

In the mid-nineties, the saxophonist was at the height of his art. Spiritual and terrestrial. To many, he remains one of the true disciples of John Coltrane. A mystic impulse that harks back to the Gnawa healer-musicians with whom he engaged in a few historic sessions. Here, we find him in the midst of that period, in an epic concert with guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly and drummer Trilok Gurtu with his magic sticks. Tracklist: 1. Black Moon 2. Essence 3. Timetable Revolte

Nostalgia for childhood in the subconscious. The lion says to the snake, "Tomorrow it'll be different." The snake sadly strokes its own skin. After a while the lion cries again, "No, no Tomorrow it'll be the same again." The snake asks, "Will it be the same again tomorrow?"

The Soviet Union is the Soviet Union. There's no way out. What's needed is an iron fist, a Stalin, a Hitler or whoever: the rule of an iron fist is certainly what's needed now. A journey into the ravaged landscape of the soul of Russian youth, an intimate study of the human factor in the social catastrophe.

Pavel Schnabel travelled to Weimar in 1988 on behalf of German regional public broadcaster SWR, to film a news feature on the city partnership between Trier and Weimar. He was assigned four "production assistants" from Eastern German television who introduced him to hand-picked protagonists for his film. After the fall of the Wall, Schnabel went to see these individuals again under radically altered circumstances.

The story tells of a love which after ten years is beginning to grow old, and of the attempt to turn the imminent end into a new beginning. After ten years of eventful relationship, man and woman have finally decided to say yes to each other in an abandoned railway station on the edge of town. It is the first evening in their new home. Everything is temporary, nothing is finished. The furniture has not yet been delivered, the heating is not functioning yet, the telephone is not connected, neither is the television. They are inescapably confronted with their own selves and with each other. And although, at least at the beginning, they fervently strive for love and harmony, the past catches up with them. When he, as always, seeks to withdraw by taking flight, he discovers that his key does not fit. He is at her mercy. Ruthlessly, they call each other to account.

«A film of a man in drag doing an erotic and eventually nude dance in a gravel pit. Mostly edited in camera, the fey dance is in surprisingly good sync with the music, making it an amusing send-up of Ravels macho rythms». Fred Camper.

A documentary film essay about war and peace against the backdrop of filmmaker Peter Heller's personal history, who grew up in the trenches of the Cold War. A reckoning with fifty years of peace—during the Cold War and beyond.

Alice saves the land of the deaf from an evil sorcerer who transforms people into hearing mutants. An expressionist fairy tale that explores the struggle of the deaf community in a hearing world.

East German-Syrian co-production about archaeological excavations in Syria.

Ten-year-old Manuel and his 15-year-old brother Holger have lived with their father since he divorced their mother. Their grandma often takes care of them. As Manuel visits his mother, he finds out about her plans to go on a honeymoon with her friend Robert. Manuel, who wants to go on holiday with his mother, is upset about this and doesn't return from the visit. His father thinks the mother kept Manuel and requests a house search. Meanwhile, Manuel accommodates himself at his teacher's and astonishes her with inexplicable reactions until she realizes that Manuel is just looking for love and attention. The plot is interrupted by several cutbacks from Manuel's memories of the parent's conflicting relationship.

A man with electrified hands walks into a monastery (a colorfully decorated tent) with two nuns, they shower him with cookies and he converts them to rockers, party girls and hippies. They go out on adventures involving other hippies, a killer that gorily slices up bodies, pornographic bees, they throw eggs at a dance-crazy sex therapist in a barn, make fun of a black boy playing a violin, experience an insanely psychedelic montage, and more, while stop-motion stuffed hedgehogs and dolls go on a road trip.

Two sisters try to manage life alone after their mother's accident.

Children from poor families recount experiences from their daily lives.

After a long sea voyage, Christian Pointner has returned to his Bavarian homeland to take over the fishing business following the death of his father. In the village of St. Peter, no one believes that Christian will be happy on his father's estate, which is why interested buyers are quickly found. The sudden appearance of Martha Petersen, a “dubious character” from St. Pauli, throws the whole village into turmoil. This “lady” was hiding behind a marriage advertisement to which Christian had responded while still in Hamburg. Christian Pointner is so taken aback by her arrival that he pretends to be someone else, namely his fisherman's assistant Bonifaz. What Bonifaz now has to endure at the hands of the woman from Hamburg is beyond belief. Meanwhile, Christian has his eye on the pretty innkeeper's daughter Eva...

There is no end to the spook: After the yellow dot from outer space had already caused all kinds of damage before, it now decides to drive into the bodies of the nice guys next door, who from now on look for their new victims from door to door with carts, guns and blades. Soon the army must also move out and fight against a whole crowd of obsessed karate fighters, but the final battle is thus far from being defeated, as long as the massacre rages in everyone within Stadtlohn.

A young man in Berlin. It is summer. With no money, he wanders through the city, meets other people, listens to music and reads. His girlfriend will soon be moving to another city.

Although the Romans believe they have conquered all of Germania, a village in the mountain valley continues to resist the empire as long as Caesar's daughter remains married to the local chieftain. One day, when Dogmatix is supposed to accompany this woman to the baths, a group of renegade legionaries manages to send her over the Jordan and conscript him into their own army. As a result, the unexpected giant finds himself in dangerous tiger country, where a legendary time tree is said to be located. By means of this magical botany he undertakes an unbelievable journey, perhaps to be able to set everything right again!

In a German city, horror strikes as a mad killer with a hedge trimmer murders everyone in sight. He carves them up left and right. How many will he kill? Is there any hope to stop him? Some zombies rise from their graves as well. What will they do?

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

Documentary film.

The Fucker's spirit has emerged again, this time via a possessed tape of A Nightmare on Elm Street, embarking on a second wave of senseless violence against humanity.

Two young people—a chess player and a bar pianist—meet at a Berlin hotel. When a small-time drug smuggler dies right before their eyes, they take his money and flee to Paris. But their chance encounter doesn’t turn into a romantic affair, and their dream of striking it rich also comes to nothing.

Andreas Hübner is an unfriendly official who interviews immigrants wishing to stay in Germany. One morning an Adolf Hitler moustache appears on his face. All efforts to remove the fascist identifier fail and Andreas ends up alone in a field asking God for help. The answer arrives in the shape of a yoghurt carton with a 1945 sell-by-date.

A group of terrorists want to improve the political clima in Germany by assassinating a leading Poltican. A grotesque which becomes quite serious.

A boat trip by two men and - despite the title - two women.

Karl Windhammer has inherited a brewery and wants to enter world trade as a great strategist. His long-time friend and best beer representative Oskar puts the brakes on his flight of fancy with realistic arguments and is dismissed. Karl risks losing his family, his friends and the love of his mother. But Oskar has an idea how to bring the megalomaniac brewer back down to earth. With ingenuity and wit, will the family succeed in turning the "Napoleon" of beer back into a human being?

Eleven-year-old Christine, called “Schiene”, spends her vacation on her grandparents' farm and discovers Zirri, a bright white cloud sheep, in her grandfather's flock of sheep.

Documentary film.

Kafka watches a waitress nibbling from a little pot that she has to serve to somebody. Kafka is outraged and complains about it. The girl gets sentenced to stoning and he complains again and regrets what he has done befoe. When he is not able to stop people throwing stones at her, he committs suicide. However, people help the girl to get up and she continues her usual work.

In his documentary film, Karl Saurer recounts the history of Switzerland's largest reservoir, located near Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz. The film brings to life the landscape of the vast Sihl plain, which was flooded in 1937 to generate electricity for rail transport. The dam affected the livelihoods of more than 1,700 people; 107 farms were flooded. Saurer tells a story of colonialism in central Switzerland. In his film, he paints a picture of this event and the associated contradictions and conflicts between the agricultural mountain region and the industrialized lowlands, regional and national aspirations, and economic and ecological interests. Old and new footage and conversations with construction workers and displaced farmers make it clear that the wounds left by the construction and concession in the high valley have not yet healed.

Documentary film about the first year of German reunification in Bitterfeld. They succeeded in showing the city and regional problems from the perspective of the people of Bitterfeld. Without spoken commentary from the documentary filmmakers, but rather through the power of images and people's stories, a powerful film has been created that shows that Bitterfeld cannot be adequately described as an ecological crisis area alone.

A German Film Award winning experimental short feature.

Potrait of director Marilou Diaz-Abaya.

In 1989, teacher Wendler and his wife leave the GDR to join his Bavarian uncle. In the West, the line-loyal educator with a whitewashed CV is immediately accepted back into the teaching profession. He advances to become a model Bavarian. Until one day a pupil from bygone GDR days turns up...

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists—including Jürgen Böttcher, the Autoperforation Artists, AG Geige, Via Lewandowsky, Trak Wendisch, Conny Hege, Klaus Killisch, Helga Paris and Hanns Schimansky—presented works rarely shown in the GDR at the exhibition space in the former La Villette slaughterhouses on the outskirts of Paris.

"The Devil's General" - A post war Germany pick up the involuntarily knowledge about the "black hole" of the 1950s.

A man is completely alone in his apartment. He looks for ways to combat his boredom: he smokes, watches TV, masturbates, eats - but none of it helps. The depressed man's real problem is not mere boredom, but profound loneliness. He sees suicide as his last resort...

An old trailer had been in the trees of a garden for months. Now and then it was coated with various chemicals. Through chemical disintegration and weathering the old plot of the film resolved to a great extent. Colours emerged from black and white. Black areas transformed into mountaineous regions.

The film examines the case of Yakov L (Yankale), a minor civil servant who one day fails to show up for his job. We will learn more about the hero, his life, childhood and relationship with his mother. And in contrast to the sharp square figures depicting office life, rounded objects from the hero's childhood, we see the image of the conflict between the world of our desires and our responsibilities.