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A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and a thousand-year-old custom. Tom, Sebastian and Paul are three children from very different families. They live in a small village in 'Mansfelder Land', an area where the demise of mining has left its scars. Despite the changing times, the villagers have retained an archaic custom over the centuries. Just once a year, the younger ones are able to triumph over their elders, and this is the first hint at the changing of generations: springtime drives out the winter, and thus the young drive out the old. That's the way it's always been, and how it will always be - and once a year, this old magic returns to the hearts of the villagers.

Judith moved to Berlin three weeks ago and is just starting her career. A new city, a new apartment, her first job - that was her life plan with her boyfriend Christian. But he has changed his mind and won't be joining her. So Judith unexpectedly finds herself on her own. As a psychotherapist for children and adolescents, she is highly motivated to help her young patients, but at the same time has to deal with her new work colleagues, the unfamiliar city and her loneliness. Then she meets marine biologist Martin, who is searching for a humpback whale that has lost its way in the Baltic Sea.

Marianne and Isabel are two sisters confronted with sibling jealousy and smouldering problems from the past, while their mother is hoping for a life-saving kidney donation. Both sisters are potential donors and are faced with the decision of which of them will donate an organ to keep their mother alive.

Sophie and Georg once loved each other, but now they have split up. Almost the entire film takes place in front of the same doorway in Berlin. In an elliptical way, the individual scenes portray a family for whom the word patchwork is the new normal — and take a laconic look at the everyday irrationalities of love.

This 18-minute short film plays out like a series of vignettes looking into the lives of some seriously fucked up people, as they slice, dice and torture innocent people brutally, with each vignette having seemingly no connection to the last.

Olaf Gabriel is the head of the department and at the same time the only employee of the police station in Hedly, a small northern German coastal town. He has quit his service and waits at the station for his successor. But instead of the replacement appears the young LKA official Gracia Keller, who wants to support him. Because on this day Simon Held is released from prison after six years. And he will surely come to avenge Olaf Gabriel, whom he considers to be his brother's murderer. He was killed in police custody after his joint bank robbery - and Olaf Gabriel had been on duty.

Pregnant, and at that age! This is the case twice with the Rosemeyer family. Both 16-year-old Viola and her mother Doris, in her mid-40s, are unexpectedly pregnant. Yet family life is already difficult anyway: teenage daughter Viola wants to go to London to play school and at the same time prove that she is very old enough to start a family with her boyfriend Jo. But Jo would not necessarily be in such a hurry to be a father.

A documentary about the demonstration of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) at Berlin's Alexanderplatz on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II on May 8, 2005.

More than anyone in the cynical film industry, legendary artist Robert Redford embodies the United States' brightest side: perseverance, independence, idealism, and integrity. A champion of active environmentalism and the right to openly criticize any institutional abuse, he has put his artistic work at the service of his political commitments, whether as an actor, director, producer, or founder of the Sundance Festival, a formidable forum for his struggles since 1985.

Germany 1939. The farmer Jonathan Friedberg with the Nazis tried to make a pact to see his family again deported. 75 years later. Jennifer is a young psychology student, and is in a wheelchair because she had an accident years ago. She is working on a study for the university and asked about this in a village at random people on the street. She encounters a strange story that an old, since 2 World War II relates abandoned house. Jennifer is very curious and looking at the house despite all the warnings. She gets caught in an incredible situation. It is a puzzle to solve, which is directly related to her. Moreover, they fall into the hands of criminals who buy their neither the story, nor are willing to let them free. The situation escalated unexpectedly. The horror is falling!

"The Day Of The Purple Sun": The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe. Her journey through the mysteries of the Egypt underworld. Will she be coming forth by day?

Since his wife died ten years ago, Karl has been raising his daughter Nic alone. This has left its mark on the 13-year-old schoolgirl: Nic stands out from the girls her age with her short haircut and tomboyish style of dress. In her ice hockey team, which Karl coaches, she easily outplays her male teammates with the odd body check. But everything changes when editor-in-chief Sonja moves in next door and Karl unceremoniously turns the two apartments into a shared flat following an accident. Sonja observes the father-daughter relationship between Karl and Nic and interferes in their upbringing, especially when she realizes that Nic would also like to be a woman and that not everything revolves around ice hockey.

A Black Forest timber industrialist has to assert herself against male supremacy and economic difficulties in the first half of the 20th century.

Suddenly going back to school, who hasn't woken up from this nightmare? For the teacher Fabian Sorge it becomes reality. Shortly before he became a civil servant, it came out that he forged his high school diploma as a young man.

Bashing - running at full speed against walls and buildings. The story of the rise and fall of this trendy youth sport is told through the mirror of the media industry.

The Creation: The Earth is a Witness, a day-by-day account of the biblical creation week, beginning with darkness before God created light and ending with Moses, the author of the Genesis account of creation, and his son, worshipping God on the seventh-day Sabbath.

Four troubled friends who despite the feeling that they live standardized lives share a flat under the sceptical looks of their neighbours.

Willibald Adrian Metzger restores old furniture, the beauty of which he admires with a good glass of red wine. The amiable loner visits his customers by bicycle because he does not have a driver's license. Usually he only pays attention to old cupboards and chests of drawers, but this time something else piques his interest: a beautiful woman bathing in a lonely mountain lake. The sight promptly knocks him out of the saddle - especially since it is his unfulfilled childhood love Danjela Djurkovic. She doesn't seem to recognize him anymore, because she is only interested in the macabre find at the place where they meet again: a severed finger that is stolen by a bird of prey in the next instant. Is that a dream Willibald and Danjela have a common goal, the Hotel "Sonnenhof" - from whose pool the corpse of a guest has just been fished. The police assume an accident. But before Willibald knows it, the curious Danjela has taken a farewell letter and the dead man's cell phone.

Alsace is a very special region in the heart of Europe, where true natural treasures can still be found in great diversity. Between the Rhine and the Vosges mountains, the warmth and colorfulness of the Mediterranean meet an icy mountain range. Very different habitats lie in the middle of the cultivated landscape. The flying stork, symbolic animal of the region, takes us to these natural oases with their typical animal families: the dwarf mouse in the Ill meadows, the green lizard in the hot dry grasslands and vineyards near Rouffach, the chamois on the rocks and alpine pastures of the High Vosges on the Hohneck and finally our own stork family in the Schlettstadter Ried. The documentary observes the animal families in their struggle for survival from spring to late summer, providing an insight into the most exciting and beautiful moments. Right up to the big moment: when the young leave the family and start an independent life.

One momentous night in Berlin, three women working in a coat room struggle for reproductive choices better than just the neoliberal freedom to have them. Nichts ist erledigt/Not Yet Over, a multi-genre fiction film, incites us to look at feminism’s™ unfinished business from the bottom up.

Moritz Kaiser, good-looking single from passion, enjoys the carefree life in the fast lane. The successful chief designer of a furniture company lives in a luxury apartment and drives a thick sports car. The tide turns when he is fired after an affair with his boss's wife and finds no job. After unsuccessful lavatory cleaning, he lands at the small furniture manufacturer Toby Breuer, who wants to hire only a seasoned family man according to his alternative corporate philosophy.

Many people have negative opinions about their managers. A survey by the Geva Institute in Munich found that 88% of German workers have issues with their superiors, with 20% admitting to hating them. Consequently, nearly 70% find little pleasure in their work, 18% have withdrawn, and only 12% are motivated. The film explores these issues by critiquing neoliberalism, highlighting its flaws in promoting free market expansion and endless growth, even if harmful. It features interviews with scientists, psychologists, and CEOs like Paul Bulcke from Nestlé.

The summer holidays have just begun in Brandenburg, but ten-year-old Lea isn’t going to camp this year with her friends as she normally would. One afternoon she spots five boys lifting a large blue oil barrel over the fence of a paint factory and driving away with their loot on a bicycle trailer. Lea's curiosity is piqued. The next chance she gets, she follows the boys and discovers they built a raft on a small lake. The raft is the boys' property and under no circumstances girls are allowed in their gang. But Lea wants to be part of it very badly and takes them up on a dare. Soon summer is full of adventure.

"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm film staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and based on the archival images. The film-maker Filipa César, invited the Portuguese writer and artist Grada Kilomba and the American radio activist Diana McCarty to reflect on the images and their history, questioning what these film archive mean in a post-African liberation world.

In January 2012 Italian divers discovered the wreck of a massive plane off the coast of Sardinia. At a depth of 65 meters (213 feet) lies a Messerschmidt `Gigant', the biggest aircraft to fly in WWII.

She is one of the icons of our time: Isabella Rossellini, award-winning actress, supermodel, experimental filmmaker, feminist. She was married to Martin Scorsese and was in a relationship with David Lynch for many years. The star talks about successes and fears.

In the light of the current transformations within the global power structure, I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER traces the linkage of economic ascent and decline in seven paradigmatic episodes. India, Bolivia, China, USA, Italy, Thailand, Venezuela - each place contains fragments of another; each episode bears testament to the hopes and fears of its protagonists. By juxtaposing these local experiences in the face of global economy, the film questions the notion of rise and decay.

Life could be so good for the children of Bollersdorf if the town had not been discovered by the Society for Consumer Research because of its mediocrity. New products are to be tested here. The market researchers know that what the people of Bollersdorf like sells well everywhere. But while the local parents enthusiastically take part, their children quickly get fed up with the annoying product testers. Even more so when they want to send their beloved grandmas and grandpas to a care home to bring the average age back into line. This is a case for the coati gang! Together with the clever coati Quatsch, the children hatch a clever plan: With adventurous inventions and crazy world records, they want to prove Bollersdorf's uniqueness so that the consumer researchers finally disappear again...

Shortly after being released from prison, an ex-convict is abducted by a masked stranger. This is a case for Inspector Jäger, who, due to a lack of work in the Calw homicide division, has to assist colleagues in other departments.

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripping portrayal of the most terrible massacre in history.

For Felix Lobrecht, catastrophes have great comedy potential. His school days in Berlin were characterized by drunk teachers and uncivilized classmates.

Ironically, the art detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen is staying in a high-end Zurich hotel when a million-dollar dahlia painting disappears from the private suite of the owner. What would be more obvious to the eccentric Dahlia Gutbauer than to entrust "Allmen International Inquiries" with the discreet replacement?

Mika encourages his lover and management partner in Oslo's leading virtual bookshop, Annika Sörenbrandt to return to her fjord home village Fjærland to help her 25 years-estranged mother Pernille who is disabled by a fall from running the country's oldest paper books shop with her second partner. Thus Annika discovers her illegitimate half-brother Henrik still loves at home, suffering from a severe autistic condition. The siblings bond, yet Annika isn't ready to forgive Pernille's adultery and choosing Henrik over her, as her late father refused to stay with the bastard. Henrik insists to join her a while back to Oslo, professionally minded by Ole.

A thrilling film about people who, with almost archaic power, use their feet to express themselves artistically. Starting with the "Bödälä," a dance from central Switzerland where the feet pound out the beat, the film embarks on a journey that leads to tap dancing, flamenco, and Irish dancing. The rhythmic beating of the shoes recalls the original folk and ritual dances. "Folk dances" are transformed into performance and competition dances. The film features encounters with passionate dancers who all use their feet to express joy, pleasure, and sadness. Starting with the "Bödälä," a dance from central Switzerland where the feet pound out the beat, the film embarks on a journey that leads to tap dancing, flamenco, and Irish dancing.

Evelyn Möller's life could be so wonderful. If only her boss didn't make her life hell. But committing a crime isn't the answer – at least not a good one...

A young man is searching for his place in the world. He finds his way, religion and his "brothers" in the radical Islam. What begins with the wish of helping people in Syria leads Jan through religious murder as an ISIS-soldier and back to his home county Germany.

While Berlin-based businessman Paul Graf is in Shanghai, his nosy busybody mother Maria, who was only to mind his apartment, opens his mail, finds a letter notifying he's to become father and without consulting him travels to see the expectant mother, Nina, at her home, uncle Harald Brandl's farm and stork home. Maria falls in love with Harald but also finds the key to the Graf family's past, fled from Hungary during the Soviet-crushed rebellion. Paul arrives and finds Nina impossible to deal with, yet wants a bond with his unborn son.

In the course of just two decades, the number of C-section births performed worldwide has nearly doubled. A lifesaving alternative or an unnecessary medical procedure? This science documentary investigates the medical and societal impact of this international trend.

A couple have disappeared without a trace on their way home after a medieval festival. This calls not only the officers from Brandenburg onto the scene, but also the currently sidelined investigator Lucy and her former colleague Hannah. During their investigations, they come across the widowed Harald Kurtz and his father-in-law Meckenstock, who live on an outlying farm. Meanwhile, Hannah suffers from hallucinations and finds out more about the family.

Fifty people live in a mighty old house on the outskirts of the small town of Brixen in South Tyrol. Thieves, homeless people, unemployed people, addicts, and refugees from all over the world. Their biographies read like a collection of diverse life stories that have only one thing in common: they are all stranded; people who have fallen off the rails and are often considered problematic, sometimes even undesirable, in our society.

A city park in autumn. A girl practices football. A boy pirouettes. A couple picnics. A young man waits. For a brief moment the figures intermingle. FE-MALE: a little apparition in everyday life.

Mosquitoes - a plague that can even be life-threatening. Exotic mosquito species are conquering Europe - and they can spread dangerous tropical diseases. Author John A. Kantara looks for the latest findings from climate researchers, mosquito exterminators and genetic researchers who are trying to get to grips with the problem with sometimes risky experiments.

A feature film about Thai gangsters, ghosts and betrayal.

"Wild Cats 3D" is the story of the magnificent lions, cheetahs and leopards of southern Africa. Kevin Richardson, the "Lion Whisperer", leads an expedition into their extraordinary world.

Aliens have landed on Earth! They are in search of fresh blood! The aliens have chosen female menstruation as their main food source. No "Bloody Mary" is safe from the intergalactic vampires! But a fearless troop under the leadership of the village idiot Jockel Rangebumm faces the monsters! True to the motto: "You want blood? Then come and get it!" the astro-zombies are properly heated up!

Double 8 focuses on the encounter with Linda Christanell, artist of the feminist avant-garde of the 1970s [...] In the gesture of mutual filming, images are created in the eyes of the others. The gazes into the camera create a visual loop between the two women while at same time pointing at the beholder. These images constitute the two women as self-determined subjects saying: I see you seeing me - instead of being looked at as an object. (Christiana Perschon)

The WDR Computer-Night tells the Story from the first Computer and PCs the Start of the WWW, Searchengines, Social Networks, Cybersex and Cyberspace, Web 2.0, Smartphones and Flashmobs.

"The Power of the Bikers" - A report about the biker groups in Germany. The Hells Angels and the Bandidos put Germany in great fear. The motorcycle clubs are considered the epitome of organized crime in Northern Europe.

In the intensive care station, the young doctor, Miranda Schwarz, is feeling morally conflicted about having to save her tormentor's life.

Successful model Jessica Marsh and her fiancé, up-and-coming business lawyer Oliver Barnes, are the model couple of London society. Jessica's happiness would be complete if Oliver could finally decide to propose to her and start a family. But Oliver thinks Jessica's principles, such as marriage vows and fidelity, are out of date. While Jessica is in Devon with her photographer and godmother Bridget looking for motifs for a new photo series, she meets the mysterious organ builder Max Ryman. Max falls in love with the enchanting young woman straight away, and Jessica also finds it hard to resist his charm and charismatic appeal. But Jessisca calls herself to order - after all, she is happy with Oliver.

Franka Lauth leads a luxurious life. Thanks to her top job in a Berlin advertising agency, she can afford a penthouse, a chic convertible and, by the way, a sofa for 4,500 euros. Her soaring comes to an abrupt end when Franka's ore competitor Markus Spreng steals the presentation documents for a spectacular campaign. Her faint-hearted boss, Roland Kunze, doesn't believe Franka, who then quits in anger.