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A hitchhiker unknowingly hitches a ride with a violent maniac who tortures him and leaves him for dead in the woods, where he soon turns into a zombie. The zombie breaks into a guy's house and bites him, quickly spreading the horror across the German countryside, where all things go awry, apparently.

The film intertwines two stories: that of Hermes, a man who claims to love boys, and the filmmaker’s own exploration of desire. Hermes, a self-proclaimed pederast, shares his experiences and reflections in a video verite interview, expressing his desire to connect with boys before puberty and his struggle with societal judgment. His narration, voiced by an actor for anonymity, covers themes of self-justification, guilt, and childhood memories. The filmmaker’s questions about desire create a mirror effect, highlighting the adult’s longing to be the child they once were. Hermes also recounts the loss of his younger brothers, taken away due to fears of them becoming gay, hinting at a past sexual encounter with them.

Mixing up two briefcases leads to several unexpected deaths.

Profile of Alexandros Papaderos, co-founder and director of the Orthodox Academy of Crete.

Inspired by Paul Poiret's work, students at Munich's University of Fashion Design have creatively attempted to bridge the extreme contrast between his fin de siècle aestheticism and contemporary culture. Paul Poiret was one of the founding fathers of modern haute couture and, at the same time, more than just a fashion designer.

I had forgotten this 16mm black and white film I made in the mid-nineties (maybe 1995). We tried to perform and make a trash violence sex movie in the tradition of the Kuchar brothers or film noir. The girl is Georgia Sulla Tella, the man a real police cop we asked for the role for the bad guy playing in the red-light area of Frankfurt. He was happy to play a bad boy and he is real good. The music is "Sleepwalk" and the drums from a Pink Floyd record. I shot the film and edited it later on my own. The apartment was the one I was living with Georgia, it was our real outfit. She always wore this kind of stuff, you know all the good girls were wild.

This film is based upon true occurrences. Any resemblance to individuals, dead or alive, is not only intentional, but unavoidable. - Excerpts from my Diary and the relevant books of German law.

No folkore, no rituals, no klezmer, no political statements, no twee Berlin Jewish quarters. This film is an attempt to make an imageless film; a plea for a religion of imagelessness, of words, of thoughts.

Documentary film.

Philipp is an outsider in his class and sometimes stands out due to his deliberate aggression. He doesn't find much understanding at home. In his search for a friend, he first comes across an older boy with whom he gets excited about computer games in department stores and tries out his first cigarette...

The idyllic kitchen scene is suddenly shattered when the cut flower steals the show. In the spotlight of the midday sun, it performs its terrifying melodies—a hellish awakening for the mini cat.

An old house in the middle of nowhere... We're moving toward the basement... This is where the absolute freaks live! In the tradition of "Tales from the Crypt," stories are told here of little slime monsters, aliens, zombies, ghosts, and other gruesome creatures of the night. All the spooky creatures, specters, and mass murderers meet here for a cult-classic trashy splatter barbecue!

Actor Jan-Josef Liefers, illustrator Lona Rietschel, and toolmaker Horst Baer talk about their experiences in the GDR, the path to German reunification, and the aftermath.

Sweet, 12 year-old Stefanie, played by child model Soraya Da Mota, dreams of attacking her parents with a flail.

"Götterdämmerung 1945: The last 10 weeks of the Third Reich" - from the battle of the Ardennes till the end. Die Deutsche Wochenschau (The German Weekly Review) was the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from 1940 until the end of World War II.

Operabloom Japanese Cherrytrees in bloom on the Place of the opera in Frankfurt. Everyone is inchanted.

Revolution and resignation within the changes at the end of the GDR.

The first student film by Gerhard Friedl. The Title is short for "Männer der Wissenschaft" - men of science

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

A little world-machine in a cube of six by six feet. The genesis in excepts: The creation of light, clouds, birds, aeroplanes, of the cow, the planets and the moon. A love story in three acts with a depressing ending.

Explores the mobile meanings of language in film with the help of sophisticated telecommunications; an aural/oral offering.

Sex on the metro! The director has taken footage shot in a completely empty compartment on the London underground and married it to the off-camera reading of a pornographic text that includes detailed masturbation instructions for a female rider. The whole sexy trip, driven by musical clinking sounds, is framed by images of a woman in black bandages using a leather whip for self-flagellation. Take a ride on the wild side!

Two lesbian hit women are hired to bump each other off in Heidi Kull's darkyl romantic animated film noir.

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 everyday life of a bicycle courier in Berlin in 1995.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

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.

A crime drama directed by Hartmut Griesmayr.

Gabi, Stefan, and Henry used to work as street-sweepers for the city of Leipzig. A ruin is all that is left of the Municipal Street Cleaning Base of that time, and the city of Leipzig is moving after the reunification. The noise of air hammers is everywhere. Nowadays, their daily routine has become fragile between the social welfare office, pub, and their homes. There is always a remainder, something that doesn't work out even.

Documentary about the problem district of Gropiusstadt in Berlin.

Drama about the life of a few working class Germans.

Based on a text by Heinrich von Kleist.

In 1971, Christo and Jeanne-Claude thought of wrapping the Reichstag. After endless meetings with Government officials, they were finally given permission to wrap the Reichstag in 1994. For 7 days, in June 1995, a steel framework was constructed, then a metalized material was bound with 17, 060 yards of blue rope. The Reichstag, wrapped in this shiny material, seemed to move in the wind. Five million people visited this extraordinary project.

A loose series of examples shows typical accident-prone situations involving children and elderly people. The most common causes of reactions that endanger oneself and others are illustrated using staged case studies in such a way that the transfer to other groups of road users is facilitated.

In his first feature film KALMENHOFKINDER - MURDERED AND FORGOTTEN Nikolaus Tscheschner brings a subject to the public which, as the director states, has been suppressed for forty years. Using the example of Kalmenhof, originally founded as a healing and care facility in Idstein, Hesse, the film deals with the National Socialist ›Euthanasia Campaign‹: the murder of patients with intellectual or physical disabilities by the Nazi regime in accordance with the so-called ›Act on Offspring Contraception‹ of July 14, 1933. The reports of fourteen contemporary witnesses form the central narrative of the documentary. The witness reports are illustrated with archive materials, including photographs and original documents from the Kalmenhof area, read out by the director. The demand formulated in 1989 to recognize and remember these long forgotten victims is still relevant today.