Discover Movies

The biodiversity of a pond, which is already endangered in many places, is shown. The individual specimens are introduced over the course of an early summer's day. The highlight is the frog concert at night.

The Russian tricolour is already blowing in the background as Saxony’s Minister President Prof. Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf visits a Soviet armoured regiment on Christmas Eve 1991. Those were truly turbulent times – a few months before, tanks had been rolling across Moscow’s Red Square during the August Coup; only days later, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned.

A short film about the kingfisher Ceryle (Megaceryle) maxima, which lives in sub-Saharan Africa on large rivers and lakes.

Animated short film

Short directed by Vladimir Majdandzić

Tini and her friends find an old Bible in the attic, with the help of which they embark on a journey into the past. Along the way, they meet Jonah and Abraham, Noah and Moses, a whale and a lot of other animals.

The Berliner Philharmoniker celebrate the last day of the 20th century with Grand Finales in the first part of this extraordinary concert, and herald the leap into the 21st century with an explosion of sparkling music in the second half of the programme. For the Grand Finales, Claudio Abbado conducts masterpieces like the final movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, excerpts from Stravinsky’s Firebird and the last movement of Mahler’s 5th Symphony. The world-famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer narrates from Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder.

Documentary about a waterway in Berlin which used to separate the city into two ideologically opposed areas.

In 1956 Hitchcock was in Auerstedt, where an encounter inspired him to make some of his greatest masterpieces…

In 1990 Bielický returned to the theme of perpetual motion. In Perpetuum Mobile 2 he made use of the at that time new possibilities of video editing and processing to create a complex, rhythmic world of human and mechanical movements.

City portrait of Frankfurt am Main.

The portrait of a small hotel and its owner in Brittany at the most westerly point of France, the Pointe du Raz ... Marie Le Coz leads her Hotel de L'Iroise since nearly fifty years. In this time she has made a lot of experiences.

The documentary allows those affected by the racist pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen to speak for themselves. The film also gives space to critical sociologists, journalists and political activists from Rostock.

This Nazi propaganda film "documents" the notorious Katyn Massacre, which took place in the Katyn Forest in Poland and in which thousands of Polish army officers, taken prisoner in the joint German/Russian invasion of Poland, were executed. The Russians said the Germans did it and the Germans said the Russians did it, but investigations completed after the war strongly suggested that it was the Russians who indeed committed the massacre.

"Super 8 destruction orgy. Different information carriers are attacked." –T.F.

The dreams of young Andrea. The camera accompanies the seven-year-old girl in 1976 when she was at school dressed up and singing as a flying butterfly. Later, at the age of 17, she wanted to be "free" from her parents and tried to realize her dream as a dancer at a ballet school in Leipzig, but quickly failed and gave up. From then on, she works as a waitress in a restaurant because she is around people and feels comfortable there. She meets new people outside of her parental home, learns to discuss and represent other opinions. Her boyfriend accompanies her on her new path, but she can rarely see him as he works in another big city, which in turn leads to problems. The life of Andrea, now 19 years old, is portrayed here with excerpts from the film "Butterflies" and shows us what happened to Andrea's dreams of "flying and being free".

Rivha Bogomolnaja's family lived like numerous other Jewish families in the small Lithuanian provincial town of Butrimonys until World War II. When the German troops marched in in 1941, many Lithuanians saw them as liberators from Soviet rule. For the Jews they were death. Even before the troops reached the town, the Butrimonys Jews were rounded up by local "activists", humiliated and many were cruelly murdered.

Michael Lanzmann, a Viennese Jew of the war generation, receives a letter.

Philippe (Many Pe) and Filippo (Many Pa) make windows. A letter and a package are dropped off. The one man is a glazier and the other works with steel and neon. Scissors/stone/paper - who wins?

At the end of time. In the heights of the city. The morning toilet is a deadly game. The contract in the cinema. Localization is followed by application. The glimpse succeeds in startling. The power of the object now always goes beyond it.

A chain of household accidents, provoked by panic over a basically harmless cut.

"Drag-Attack" is an utterly fantastical film composition from the true life of two created characters, the drag queen Chantal St. Germain (Ken Krüger) and Dame Galaxis (Mario Soldo), as they journey around the world.

"Cosmodrome" (= Launch pad for space rockets) is a film about the connection between cinema and cosmos. A revolving globe; the distribution logo of the Universal film studio shows the viewer an act of "initiation" taking place in the cosmos - a key image between cinema architecture and cinematic space.

After the war in Croatia. Everyday life and the way things were during this civil war. A war which was started by the Others, a war no one wanted an which is not really over, although the fighting has stopped. The breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the birth of a new nation is the backdrop in front of which people live their lives.

A region south of Vienna. A walk through history: the Turkish wars, the witch burnings, the persecution of the Jews, the Second World War. The historical witnesses: cemetaries, industrial ruins, the monuments of the postwar restoration.

UFOs over Austria: people who see them, people who don't believe in them, people who hope they will come, people who fear them... A film about opinions and activities of terrestrials and extraterrestrials.

With the act of capturing the strange worlds on film, one's own presence is unveiled as exotic.

Violence, Fear, Passion, Revolution, Pleasure, Shape, Color, Movement, Overprint, Jerky Montage, Frame by Frame, Dementia, Environmental Destruction, Disaster, Death and Renaissance.

Evocation of the last years in the life of Ludwig von Beethoven based upon personal notes taken by his interlocutors.

Two men are sitting by the sea, gazing at the horizon.

The reflections of a young woman on her balcony, shaking her laundry. The private thoughts of this woman are drowned in her own delirium, which is accentuated and framed by the film’s repetitive imagery. The camera slowly zooms out to reveal the urban décor in which the film was made. The anonymous facades of the surrounding apartment blocks push us to imagine that behind each one of these buildings hides a collection of unique lifestyles and thoughts. The artist brings this to light through a strange and almost sad sense of humor.

Love, death, lurking in the streets. Will she ever see her dead lover?

What if you look for death but find the 'petite mort', orgasm? A lesbian grotesque.

Images from Berlin. The streets of the city and its inhabitants, cars and passers-by. You see the renovated synagogue on Oranienburger Straße and suddenly small details in someone's apartment. A woman's voice begins to narrate off-screen. The voice belongs to Sara, who recounts her childhood in Czestochowa, Poland. Experiences from her life: how she ended up in a ghetto as a child, later in a concentration camp, which was liberated towards the end of the war. She then lived first in Israel, later in the GDR. Karsten Troyke gives concerts in the Hackesche Höfe. He sings Yiddish songs, most of which he learned from Sara. She had not forgotten them. Two men talk about the chosen people and discuss Jewish identity with Sara: her two sons.

Documentary film.

Frankfurt by the river.

A coffee trip through the skies. But here, it's not electric blankets that are being sold, but disaster protection equipment and bomb-proof bunkers. To prove that the reinforced concrete holds, the pilot drops an air mine and the reporter on the ground survives the explosion unharmed in the shelter. The passengers are thrilled and reach for their pens. A film about the grotesque business of fear.

Thomas is turning 30 and has invited his friends over. Thomas and Daniel are also members of a gay theater group. Thomas is also full of naive anticipation for his husband, Freddie. Over coffee, the men take great delight in gossiping about their lovers... and it turns out that not everyone at the table is faithful.

This film shows divided Berlin in the 1950s and documents the period of the Cold War: with images of the most important politicians, previously unpublished footage of the demolition of the Berlin Palace and the construction of the Wall and dramatic scenes of the uprising in June 1953. The film also provides impressions of art and culture, everyday life and sport in a city with two political systems, whose division was sealed by the construction of the Wall in 1961 until its fall in 1989.

A provocative skinhead fantasy set in a locker room.

Film by Telscher.

A bust of Mao Tse-tung is being passed from person to person.

This film takes a look at Berlin's development towards becoming a metropolis. It reveals a city in transition, a work-in-progress; it pauses to examine all kinds of architecture, bot old and new and to meet the city's inhabitants, users and planners. At the film's centre, however, is the building and planning currently taking place at the city's central axes: Potsdamer Platz, the Spreebogen, Friedrichstadt, Spreeinsel and Alexanderplatz. The camera, representing the eye of the narrator, leads the viewer through the various architectural sets of Berlin as if guiding us among the pictures of an exhibition.

Educational film about recreational sports.

This educational short film documents the last major steel casting at the Henrichshütte in Hattingen.

Conversation with prisoners of the RAF.