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Documentary short about movie castings in Germany.

The history of communism as the story of its crises: The two authors Ralph Giordano and Hans-Ulrich Barth take up various uprisings and protests to demonstrate the discrepancy between the claim to power and the reality in “socialist imperialism.” A more nuanced light is shed on individual uprisings, while at the same time feeding into stereotypical Cold War images of the enemy.

1965 production of The Cunning Vixen directed by Walter Felsenstein at Studio Adlershof.

The German coal-mine Graf Bismarck is shut down.

Irm and Ed Sommer portray 15 artist friends, always filming the same body parts in identical order much in the way a police records department might: feet, knees, genitals, chest, face. At the end, each person signs on a board. Sublime quotes about art and artists contrast with the sight of the naked people, some of them smoking or playing with their genitals.

Max Ernst on amateur astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel.

A young German engineer is invited to Togo by the family of a West African student living in Germany. Here he observes the problems of the young state of Togo.

Documentary about the Berlin Wall.

In this film made for German television, Mack exposes his reflective sculptures and suit to sunlight in the Sahara, a north African desert. The film also shows the artist experimenting with different reflective and transparent materials, achieving various kaleidoscopic effects.

Is Evelyn Foreman schizophrenic, or is she really possessed by a dybbuk?

A German Film Award silver medal winning documentary.

Short film directed by Roland Caemmerer

A mother wants to buy a bike for her son, but she doesn't have enough money.

A man runs away from the police.

A lighthouse keeper explains the functions of the beacon to children. They also learn from him that man invented the compass and nautical chart to find his way around the sea.

An account of the Nazi background of numerous West German government officials.

The film uses slides - photographic planes - which show different surfaces and finishes of a wall, which have been erroded by time. Kren stacks the positives and negatives of these pictures quickly one after the other, so that a moving relief-type structure develops through this combination of "two eyes." A mysterious ambiguous image manifests itself before us, surrounded by all kinds of possible mythological connotations. What is there to see?

The film tells the story of the daily lives and careers of two young people in West Berlin. They got married in Gretna Green, Scotland, where it is possible to do so without parental consent.

The soldier Martin has been relocated to a small border village in Thuringia. During a storm, he comes to the rescue of Renate, a farmer′s daughter. The two young people fall in love, thereby upsetting Renate′s father who has already promised his daughter to the son of the big farmer Grabow. Henceforth, he does his utmost to tear Martin and Renate apart. Meanwhile, Grabow prepares to flee the GDR with the help of the lance-corporal Zimmer who is indebted to him.

Dedicated to the Soviet-Astronauts

Silent interplay between a young man and two girls one morning in a backyard.

A hand-scratched, hand-painted film, mysteriously titled.

Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic photographic materiality of the primary elements, a cross-section of the methods, used in capturing the body in a still photograph. (Mubi)

Short by Thomas Schamoni.

Short film by Helmut Herbst.

Documentary about the work accidents, for the german TV.

Jewish children perform in an opera written for them, at the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia in 1944, after which they and the composer are sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland where they meet their deaths.

In 1945, Ernst Machner returns home from the war in his mid-20s. Tuche would like him to weave for a living, but his comrades persuade him to become a young teacher instead.

As early as 1968, Alessandra Bocchetti attempted to provide an initial overview of the various groups within the Italian New Left in this film.

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.

On an open‐air stage, a small town’s Pioneers enact King Midas’s tale: granted by Bacchus the power to turn everything he touches to gold, Midas’s greed backfires when even food becomes gold. Desperate, he begs the god to reverse the gift, only to be left with donkey’s ears as a lifelong reminder.

A portrait of the German city of Ulm and it's social activities, fassades, court building. Also about the role of the district court during National Socialism.