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What hast thou done? - The voice of my brother's blood is crying to you from the ground. - We are shown how God sows the seeds of discord and divides mankind into good and evil.

Documentary about the impact of uranium mining in East Germany.

At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine to Kluge. He is an unwilling president who has to lead an academy - which will soon be absorbed into a "European Artists Society" - at a time of upheaval. As he is describing the only functional and innovative part of the academy, the "Music Section" that trains master's students, he starts talking about how he almost became a master's student of Brecht. In retrospect he is glad that he missed this chance and escaped Brecht's powerful influence, which took away the individual creative space of his collaborators. Müller describes how he got by with various jobs during his application period and afterwards in 1951: book reviewer, translator of Stalinist songs. When Kluge asks about the basic concept of an academy, the discussion returns to its starting point: Müller claims that the academy is a space that is free from the state.

A documentary project about the collapse of the USSR.

One-of-a-kind film, photographs and audio recordings were found in a private collection in Prague. This material documents life in the Theresienstadt concentration camp from the perspective of a woman who would now be 124 years old.

"In 1991, I traveled from Buenos Aires to Germany to study film. Seven years later, I wanted to make this film: Images Of The Absence. The film tells the story of a family that never became one. My family. Images of the Absence is also a kind of diary of my journey from Germany to Buenos Aires to be able to understand the reasons for my parents' separation and for the long absence of my father. It is a film about love and the end of love, about growing old and death." - German Kral

Under the spell of Cathy Berberian’s voice, scraps of melodies and poems in Sami's head. In love with spring and summer’s flowers, she walks through streets and gardens, pastures, fields and forests.

In Garcia Lorca's mother tongue, death is a woman: "la muerte". Daniel slips into the role of "death as a female" and speaks before a video camera on the life and death of the famous Spanish poet. Then the story begins.

Cover-versions of the Beatles album "Yellow Submarine" with translated to German lyrics, and a DIY lo-fi re-imagination of the film THE YELLOW SUBMARINE, animated and filmed originally as Super 8-movie.

Looks at two communities on either side of the Czech-Austrian border. There's an elderly man in Austria looking for a new wife, and he meets a lone single woman on the Czech side of the border.

Bonobos show a particularly pronounced sexual activity and an extraordinarily broad spectrum of sexual contacts for primates. These also extend to non-reproductive life phases and partner combinations. For example, homosexual contacts and sexual contacts between young animals or with adults are frequent, and females are ready to mate throughout the menstrual cycle. Bonobos use sexual contacts not only for reproductive purposes, but also in the context of social conflicts, where they have a clear tension-reducing or peacemaking function.

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his current production and the nearness to death that has been brought by his illness.

A narrator meets a broom maker, a photographer dreams of pictures, a cook loses himself in a fantasy world.

Walter invests his money in his friend Erwin's train station bar. Neo-Nazis smash it up. Walter's eternal adversary Günther has a hand in this. In addition, his son Alexander goes astray and joins the Nazis.

A young Turkish man who grew up and lives in Germany is lured back to his home village in eastern Anatolia. There, he is expected to fulfill a marriage promise that his family made years ago without his knowledge, leading to tragedy.

Feature film.

Feature film.

Feature film.

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

Place and Time Without Reason Is Violence

It has been nearly 15 years since Do Sanh returned to Vietnam. He is now 29 years old. In the documentary, Sanh talks about his current life, the experiences he has had, and the tough times he had to go through since the filming for director Hans-Dieter Grabe's documentary "Sanh und seine Freunde - Beobachtung einer Rückkehr nach Vietnam" ended in 1974.

"To make a film means to invent a music of pictures, sounds and rhythms; means to compose visual values, that have no equivalents in other art forms," wrote Marcel L’Herbier in the thirties. To plumb the possibilities that lie within the film material itself is what, for me, accounts for the meaning as well as the desire to work in film. Film as the disclosure of a fantastic world which the spectator can dive into and, ideally, have his imagination kindled. ONG DONG DREOKA is a game with images, a carousel that turns, a magic spell, a memory, for adults, of childhood." -Simone Fürbringer

Orlanda is a person between male and female. Their profession is diseuse, a performer who entertains with songs and speeches in the German tradition of the 20's and 30's. To escape from loneliness, as well as to play with taboos, Orlanda decides to marry their friend Elizabeth. On a concert tour in Warsaw, which also serves as a honeymoon, both the newlyweds fall in love with a young Polish man.

A film of Hungarian folk artists, sharing their handicrafts and paintings with the filmmakers.

Documentary film.

Documentary film.

1914, on the eve of WWI, two royal bodyguards make the trip back to England with the body of an illegitimate prince in the belly of the luxury liner The Lusitania shortly before it is torpedoed.

A short 1996 documentary about drum & bass featuring Squarepusher, photek & Source Direct.

Film about the great cineaste Dziga Vertov, the poetic-revolutionary filmmaker who, with his "Kino-Eye" theory and films such as Man with a Movie Camera (1929) and Enthusiasm (1931), made his mark on film history. Filmmakers Thomas Tode and Ale Muñoz approach Vertov from the present in their documentary portrait of this revolutionary Soviet filmmaker. They travelled by train to Moscow, not only because Vertov loved trains, but also so that they could mix his train shots with their own. And, of course, so they could tell the legendary story of the agit-prop trains, the mobile cinemas with which Bolshevik filmmakers travelled the Soviet Union in the 1920s to bring their political ideals to the people.

A pseudo-documentary about the life, work and creations of trash filmmaker Jim Hart.

The skyline of San Francisco. It is about the filming of a friend, Inga, and of myself sunbathing and playing with the camera.

A man is bombarding his environment by throwing everything he owns out of his balcony. The peace is lasting only for a short time, until a fly starts to trouble him again.

A documentary and film essay about the artist scene in East Berlin during the 1950s.

Documentary about the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch.

Second part of a two-part documentary about the now largely defunct network of local railways in the areas around Erlangen and Forchheim, Germany.

Jens is nine and has physical and metal disabilities since his birth. The film accompanies Jens and his parents in their everyday life.

Hannes Röper is looking forward to life after his last day at the cash-in-transit company “Secura,” where he has managed operations for ten years. Unfortunately, a driver calls in sick, so Röper takes over his route and gets robbed. Inspector Ellermann and Röper’s boss are firmly convinced that this string of unfortunate coincidences was actually a setup. So Röper sets out to track down the perpetrators on his own.

Documentary feature about Kyrgyzstan, the home of the poet Tschingis Aitmatov and his characters, encounters with nomads, Kyrgyz traditions and the impressive scenery.

Rests and tests from the inquiry into prototypes. Formal proofs through pregnant experiments on one's own body.

Morgues are overflowing, cemeteries are overcrowded. You have to wait three to four months for a burial place, and if you don't have family to "reward" the morgue during that time, you become dog food.

Documentary film.

Ted, Tina and a friend are going on a hike. When darkness falls, they look for a suitable shelter in the forest. They spend the night in an abandoned hut, without suspecting that something evil is hiding in the walls.

Short film about a woman and a little girl.