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Johnny and Laurel carry a grand piano from the Titanic back to Buckingham Palace in London. They get lost and end up on the coast of northern Germany. On their journey, they become fascinated by a Walkman.

A film about everyday life in the Prenzlauer Berg registry office in 1980.

Themes of 19th century opera are reprised and enacted in silent movies and old postcards. The program begins with a contemporary executive reenacting the aria from Don Carlos ("She never loved me...") for his lover. He uses household props to stage the aria, he "air conducts," and the couple sings along to what is evidently a recording. Gruesome acts from five different operas (massacre, infanticide, revenge, execution, sexual exploitation and abandonment) are suggested by silent movie footage from two films framed like a backdrop within a window or theater, interspersed with two segments of a graphic color-ball and two male radio listeners.

The film combines photographs (stills) and film photography: 118 photographs and 26 film shots in four sections. 1. Vegetation, 2. a woman working on a printing press, 3. close-ups of the faces of a man and a woman, 4. a sequence of movements on the floor performed by a dancer.

A woman moves through the water, accompanied by cello tones.

Animated short film

Experimental short film

Documentary directed by Johannes Rühl

In the town of Eutin in northern Germany stands a magical oak tree that brings people together.

“With this film I try to retrace my journey, my story through the ruins, neighbourhoods, and streets of Berlin. I filmed the dialogue that took place between the city and myself, the wanderings in the old neighbourhoods (Moabit, Kreuzberg, Wedding), places where you can still find most of the traces of the past, or rather what’s left of them.” (AL)

It is a wildlife film on flights of birds when glowing sunsets. On the soundtrack, a hum noise radio, which resembles the sound of a plane and that seems to criticize the human desire to fly, sometimes absurd when comparing this flight to the flights of birds. "WELTENEMPFANGER, marine and desert landscapes are filtered red, interspersed monochrome red, pure color serves fade, the birds fly into the red and yellow. The color is applied in water on the image which respects the framework, the existence of plan and the analog dimension. She unreal and alter but which works here is its color, not its figurales powers: it remains discreet, less virulent that the brilliant forms of disharmonic sequence that characterize the work of SCHMELZDAHIN

As storms cross over an orchestra and notes fly by, a ship is sinking. While one woman sleeps, another is rescued (in her sleep?). An opera guide is said to include imaginary operas "of our lives in big format," as well as Die Valkyrie, Othello, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, Aida, Margarete von Trotta as the countess/Communist, the African Lady, Solaris, and many others. We find ourselves (that is, the female voice speaking from our position) prompted in our roles by a pair of whispering opera prompts. Though the outcome for the heroine is fatal, the ship arrives in time for Christmas, plying its way through computer graphic stars.

Short documentary by Siegfried Krämer

Three families in Germany - three reactions to the fear of nuclear war. The family of market researcher B. emigrates to Australia. The second family trusts the small nuclear bunker in the garden. The third is involved in a peace initiative.

Beautiful washerwoman Tinette manages to get the upper hand time and again with cunning, leading the covetous men around by the nose in order to finally catch the dyer Taschereau and become the respectable Madame Taschereau.

A documentary about the mother of Che Guevara's partner, Tamara Bunke.

A gathering of modern tribes: headbangers at a metal concert, black cliques, and a stoic Native American. It culminates in an invocation of the greats: Eddie Cochran, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Swan, and so on. "Blue Suede Shoes" is transatlantic culture in a nutshell.

It's pouring rain. Through the open window, a symphony of street noise, angle grinders, and jackhammers drifts in. The siren of an ambulance joins in. A woman is washing dishes. Then the phone rings. An eight-minute phone call with someone who is also washing dishes.

Documentary based on the poem "Self-Portrait" by Ingeborg Freudenberg.

Documentary of a seven-day initiation ceremony of the Spiritual Baptist congregation of the Holy Temple of the Unicorn in Grenada. Christian elements blend with African tradition. Theater blends with medicine, singing with color.

The film is a snapshot of our time, an "authentic document" of our staged homeland. The municipality of Ketsch (population 12,000) symbolizes the entire country. Historical film and photographic material is interwoven with modernity and its colorful symbols.

January 12, 1987, 11 a.m., Mutlangen, Baden-Württemberg. One month after a missile alarm drill by US troops, 20 judges demonstrate in temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius against the stationing of US Pershing II missiles in the Federal Republic of Germany.

An idyll, "for GAL": a pond, a desk, a farm, a kitchen—and storks, lots of them. Colored, which brings to mind "coloratura." An idyll? Isn't something missing?

The eye constantly scans everything in sight, and every image we see is constantly being recomposed from what the fovea has previously stored.

The reluctance of a twelve-year-old rascal and the actions of a phantom lady throw school life into disarray.

Fanad Head is a remote light house in North-West Ireland. This short documentary inspects the light house installations and service supply delivered by a helicopter even in bad wheather conditions.

A silent film essay in Super 8 on the aftermath of the Chernobyl atomic reactor events. Filmed in West-Berlin, three and a half years before the Berlin Wall fell, while shooting another documentary.

The story of 24-year-old Peruvian Viki Aguilar Cuba from Independencia, a poor settlement on the outskirts of the capital Lima. After spending 1 1/2 years in Berlin, where she worked as an au pair and learned German excellently, the young Peruvian returned to her homeland. The film shows her last weeks in Berlin, her farewell to new friends, the warm welcome from her family in Lima, the first four weeks of her readjustment, and the arduous search for work.

A strike of Turkish workers at the company NORDDARM GmbH in Bahrenfeld, next to the beautiful Hermes high-rise building. "We want our money!", "We only earn 1000 DM gross, for this payment we do piecework", were the slogans. Interviews with the strikers about the unsustainable working conditions, the owner G. Politis does not want to say anything about the allegations. A broad solidarity builds up and ends in a great demonstration. The result: the strikers are fighting for re-employment and additional payment of wages.

A film poem by Steve Peinemann for Ramazan Avci, who was beaten to death on the streets of Hamburg by young Germans, and a fictional documentary about the welcoming of the millionth guest worker, Armando Rodrigez, who is presented with a moped.

“If Tibet had not existed, probably no human imagination would have sufficed to invent something equally strange.” This is how English writer John Keay characterizes the still-mysterious land on the "Roof of the World." Photographer and author Dr. Jaroslav Poncar, together with filmmaker Wolfgang Kohl, shot this extraordinary documentary there in the late 1990s. They traced the routes leading to the sources of the Indus River. In this 90-minute documentary, they present a land in breathtaking images—one that no longer exists in the same form today. They filmed in locations that, if at all accessible, remain extremely difficult for tourists to reach. The shoot lasted several weeks and was marked by immense hardships for the film crew, carried out under extremely challenging climatic and logistical conditions. The result is an impressive cinematic work that was awarded at the Mountain Film Festival in Trento, Italy. Music composed by Michael Ranta.

West German collective work about self-organization and the "new Palestinian" of the revolution.

A German Film Award best screenplay winning film.

Short documentary by Siegfried Krämer

This educational film is aimed at 12 to 15-year-old boys and girls and depicts the attitudes and experiences of this age group in relation to their first sexual and partner experiences.

This documentary reports on sixteen- and seventeen-year-old girls and boys in the 10th grade of the Extended Secondary School (EOS) 33 in Potsdam. Concerned and loving parents talk about their educational experiences, educational discussions and their trust in their own children. Certain character ideas of the parents of boyfriends and girlfriends, which are rarely accepted by the young people, contradict the open statements of the teenagers in front of the camera. Questions about contraception and the uncontrolled leisure activities of the pubescent pupils are included in the interviews, and their answers do not always correspond to their parents' ideas. During the final class trip to a youth hostel, the teachers in charge have their hands full keeping the teenagers under control and returning them safely to their parents' homes. Lydia talks openly about her "first time", but her parents are surprised to learn about their sheltered daughter's love affair via a tape recording.

Short film about neighbourhood assistance

Short film about driving and the physics behind it

An fisherman is fishing peacefully by the sea, when all of a sudden the world around him disintegrates.

My fish has three corners, three corners has my fish, and had he not three corners, he would not be my fish!

In an enigmatically arranged tableau vivant, the painter Christine Schlegel permits the messiahs and other saviours to meet. Their ideals are, however, doomed to failure due to timidity, greed and betrayal.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Schgaguler, an old hermit farmer, is one of the few who still masters the art of cucumber planting. "Growing cucumbers is a woman's job, but it's the man who has to stick them in." Kirchberger sets off with him and his film crew at dawn on a horse-drawn sleigh. The cucumbers they have brought with them may only be stuck into the snow at certain places so that they ward off evil or bring a fruitful harvest.

A short film which utilizes found promotional footage of socialist Berlin juxtaposed with footage of an aggressive first date. In the film, Werner used colour footage of an ethereal socialist Berlin as a form of sarcasm which meshes with the imperfect first date; the sarcasm deriving from Eastern Germany’s contentious and fraying relationship with socialism.

A surreal series of images of female figures: veiled, covered by bandages from head to toe, or bound to walls and doors by rope.

The Academy of Arts in Hamburg destroys all art and all artists. It seems as if a military unit has lined up for the final solution, it looks as if the whole of mankind has been assigned to carry out the liquidation of art. Is art dead? Yes. Art is definitely dead. All that is left to a human being is his 'I'.... - Vlado Kristl

A look at the small village of Benidorm on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Within 20 years, the fishing village has become a magnet for tourists from all over the world, with unfavorable consequences for the locals.

6,000 years ago, the goddess Jehva lived with her son and lover Abdijehva and the serpent Uroboros in her orchard paradise in the Middle East. In the Christian world, the obedient Mary, who 'helps her Lord save the world', remains as a remnant of the primordial mother who unites life and death. Once a year, an international pilgrimage of soldiers takes place to Lourdes. Based on the individual stages of this pilgrimage, the film shows the significance that the expulsion from paradise and the invention of the immaculate Mary have for us today.