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Manol — a retired general and a loving grandfather — is a patriarch of firm morals and fixed beliefs, which he has upheld in his household. But on this day, he learns that the boy he raised is gay. The life choices of his loved ones challenge his values in a battle he has lost by default.

Lonely and isolated in Australia, Simon, a middle aged Australian man travels to Cambodia searching for love. Once there, Simon begins a fragile self exploration as he is confronted by his sexual desire against his need for love.

For Tamara Lunger, freedom means pushing herself beyond her limits, daring the impossible, and deeply knowing her true self. The South Tyrolean mountaineer was the youngest woman to climb Lhotse (8,516 meters) and the second Italian to reach the summit of K2. However, failure is not unfamiliar to her, a subject that could have changed her life. Markus Frings and Nora Ganthaler recount the ups and downs of this extraordinary woman's life, accompanying her and her mentor Simone Moro on winter expeditions to Nanga Parbat and the 8,596-meter peak of Kangchenjunga.

Two career driven women are hired to test out a unique treasure hunt deep in the New Mexico desert. Their exciting adventure takes a drastic turn as friendship is tested and survival is pushed to the limit, and before long they realize that not everything is as it seems.

This film, three years in the making, The remote forests of Kalkalpen National Park in Austria, the largest area of wilderness in the European Alps, have been left untouched by humans for nearly a quarter of a century in order to return to their natural, primeval state. The landscape regenerates itself in dramatic cycles of growth and decay, and this bold hands-off method of conservation yields salient results: the lynx, absent from the area for 115 years, has returned.

Mara, a withdrawn and solitary artist, has to spend Christmas with her mother, who decided to move in with her after a long term hospitalization. The two women try to reunite as suddenly suppressed memories start to come alive again.

Anna, a leading criminal lawyer, must solve the death of a college student who said she was raped at a party. Surrounded by students, must decide whether the girl committed suicide or was the victim of a murder.

One last time, Hubertus Meckelmann sounds the horns for a big drive hunt in the wild. In the central area of the former military training ground, hunting will soon be prohibited. For the hunting grounds in the area, this is quite an imposition: the populations of red deer, fallow deer and wild boar, limited only with great effort, will get out of control. Nor will the return of the wolf change anything – according to the hunters in the area, the wolf has no place here, anyway. The film accompanies three hunters in their forests and in long, tranquil shots provides insights into the hidden world behind hunting terminology and loden coats.

Two single parents decide to move in together and their two teenage children fall in love.

In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests at the celebration. Mert’s older sister scares him that if they cannot afford a lamb the father will slaughter him instead.

The Trixters are four grifters on a mission: to avenge the victims of fraud and injustice by taking on the powerful. For these modern-day Robins des bois, no holds are barred. They've decided to take on an arms dealer who has robbed a group of elderly people of their savings.

The evening of decision. All or nothing: Antonia's loving attempt to persuade her boyfriend Max to get engaged with a perfect dinner and thus save their relationship fails. And it's not just because she's a miserable cook. She also receives a fateful pocket call: Max won't show up. Never again. As if she couldn't fall any lower at that moment, Antonia accidentally sets her apartment on fire to make matters worse. That's what happens when you drown your sorrows in wine and are no longer in control of your senses. The perfect dinner turns into Antonia's involuntary baptism of fire...

In the old projection room of a cinema something comes to life. 24 frames per second. 24 beats per minute. The analogue film is infinite. ∞

Two flocks of sheep are searching for companionship. But their shepherds, being at odds with each other, do everything to keep them separated.

Documentary about one of the most severely contaminated regions in the world, located in the southern Ural Mountains.

The guided tours in the Reichstag building are well attended; there’s lots of laughter at the simulated vote on a bill. At the Bundestag’s “Infomobile” in Dresden, a citizen complains that the government is out of touch with the people. SPD parliamentarians attend a workshop to practise strategies for dealing with right-wing populist topics. A crowd chants: close the borders! Journalists from the taz and Bild-Zeitung newspapers discuss the issues of the day. An editorial team from TV station MDR produces a report entitled “Attack on Democracy – the New Right.”

Différance is a term coined by Jacques Derrida. The film is inspired by this term. It alters picture framing which is having different border. It will represent presence and absence in time in the différance.

Five women celebrate their reunion in an Alpine hut, but their past blurs the atmosphere.

Jakob, a young policeman from a remote village, has his world unhinged when a stranger in a dress emerges from the forest and begins killing villagers with a sword.

The ultra-conservative master butcher Franz dies from an electric shock. His spirit is chained to the black African asylum seeker Alpha, who is in the same room. Together they must try to save the bankrupt traditional butcher's shop for Franz's daughter Zita. Business is going badly and her brother Anton has completely different plans. Together with his wife, he wants to open a trendy lounge for the neighboring football club.

Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future. A time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without license as a doctor. He has no practice, no appointments system. He treats people in the courtyards and streets – everywhere he’s needed, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Nobody knows his name or that by day he’s the caretaker of a shabby tenement building. He pushes boundaries and suffers defeats that cost him the last of his strength. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor.

Chronicles the adventurous life of Hungarian-born Jewish lawyer Benjamin Ferencz, who fled to the USA as a child and later became chief war crime prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-1949 and one of the founding members of the International Criminal Court, which entered into force in 2002.

Kathrin is almost 40 and the mother of two teenagers. Since breaking up with her ex, who wants to sneak back into the family, the journalist has been in a relationship with the much younger Luca. He is not a "toyboy", but the love of her life. Unfortunately, there is one problem: Kathrin is not getting her money's worth in bed. To avoid offending Luca, she fakes an orgasm for him. But that's no longer possible: an Asian remedy for skin rashes means that Kathrin can no longer lie. Her life goes completely off the rails...

Leftist extremist groups operating in Europe have chosen violence as a political tactic: they attack the right-wing parties offices, attack the police, provoke riots in demonstrations. Although leftist violence is increasing, it receives almost no public attention. An investigation into the alleged good violence exercised in the name of a supposedly just cause.

People who dare to question important themes today, are often silenced or labeled as suspicious and dangerous. Where once democracies valued and encouraged debate society is dividing itself with stark lines between the left, the right, the good or the bad. What is strangling debate? How liberal is the West? Should we ignore or embrace other perspectives? A critical, thought-provoking journey through ancient tribal conflicts, in a new era wherein world views clash and free speech crumbles under pressure to conform.

In 1967 the anthropologist G. Reichel-Dolmatoff published a study on a Colombian aboriginal culture, although the tribe in question was not visited and the only informant interviewed was very far from its cultural environment and tribal territory. In addition, he discovered a relationship between hallucinations and the phosphene formula. From FICCI

There are few places on earth that have such a diverse variety of terrain and range of climates concentrated in a relatively small area - temperate coastline, scorching arid deserts and tundra, tropical rainforests and frozen snowcapped mountains. And there are few places that are as heavily exploited by humans, yet remain a wilderness.

Beate Thruse develops special female, human-like robots with Catwoman costumes for lonely, desperate men without sex lives. But unfortunately the Cats are all defective and have to be withdrawn. Unfortunately too late, because in the small town of Stadtlohn, the tame Cats have mutated into killer cats.

The Russian expat Mikail lives happily in a civil partnership with his husband in Berlin, when chief inspector Böhnenkamp accuses him of not being gay and leading a greencard marriage. A witness saw him kissing a woman! But as it turns out, things are not always what they seem.

Throughout the colonial period, military doctors accompanied France's colonial army. On the one hand, they served their troops, but on the other hand, they also helped the local population. They saw themselves as humanitarians who helped treat and contain epidemics. The dark side of their mission is also highlighted.

The Baselstrasse is a street in Lucerne. People call it "Rue de Blamage" – it's a noisy street tucked into a narrow space between a hill and a train track. The people who live here don't usually mingle with the rich and famous, but even the roughest haunt can be a home to those who live and work there – and Baselstrasse's two kilometers of asphalt are no different.

It seems two real worlds and in between is a dream. The dream is a transition from one world to another, entry into another world. A flowing real world reflects on each other.

Tom and Katie are looking for Harry. He is found by Monika and her father, but he can't remember anything. He has visited the fabled mountain that should be avoided as it is ruled by the Coppas tribe...

End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jonas has made an exit application, the boys have to recognize that they are soon separated from each other. But they want to dig a tunnel to Australia to meet there themselves again. When Jonas should leave the country with his mother this night changes everything.

Conny Stein from the ordnance disposal service in Dresden has to defuse a bomb on his last day of work before retirement, on a construction site in a power plant. In the process, he discovers a girl who had previously come to the city in a minibus full of refugees and does not speak a word.

Reversed at birth: 15 years later, two families, two cultures and two children collide in a way that couldn't be more different.

Aliens in search of beer visit earth and wreak havoc.

15-year-old Marie tries to escape her life. Together with her friend Kati and her clique, she sets off to celebrate New Year's Eve. A lavish party night begins, at the end of which Marie finds her personal happy ending.

After an accident while climbing in Patagonia, extreme sportswoman Barbara is forced to return to her home country, which she left more than ten years ago. Unlike her boyfriend, who is unable to cope with caring for Barbara, who has been confined to a wheelchair since the fall, her mother Irene and father Hans welcome her "Bärbel" home with kissing arms. She also gets help from her sister Moni, who has even attended further training to be able to give her better support. Thanks to the support of her family and her fierce nature, Barbara is gradually getting closer to her dream of one day being able to walk again and possibly even pursue her beloved hobby.

It seems to be an intermediate world of peace and quiet, the garden and country house where four people look back on testing lives. And forward, to the time they have left. On the one hand, there is regret – on the other, satisfaction. In a way, they are looking forward to the future – but at the same time, a longing for death regularly arises. And who is actually behind the camera? Are we watching actors or real people? Is there really any difference? Garten is full of contradictions – it is not until the credits roll that we realise who these people from very different backgrounds are.

Suzanne has helped her husband Till set up a successful ballroom dancing school. But between classes and paperwork, their routine lacks passion and Suzanne gets depressed. When Till forgets their wedding anniversary, she consoles herself at her friend Viviane's house and, on her advice, writes a love letter which she slips into an empty bottle and throws into the river...

This short follows Gregor Samsa from Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". It is set in the modern world and shows the events leading up to Kafka's metamorphosis. Gregor is a young man working for a textile company, who breaks down mentally after his job becomes overwhelming. He slowly loses his sanity and touch with reality.

Hilla grows up in the 60s, her father is a worker and her mother a charwoman. But she wants a different future for herself, wants to study. After a violent incident she needs a strong shoulder. Who of her life will do?

A passionate group of Australian same-sex ballroom dancers battle homophobia, injury and personal drama as they pursue their dream of competing at the Gay Games in Germany.

The fact that Rudolph Moshammer is a dazzling figure and the most prominent fashion designer in Munich is no longer enough for his silent partners and financiers. So it happens that he is looking for a seductive woman to sell and - to the horror of his mother - brings on the young pedicurist Evi from Augsburg, of all places. With Evi's help, Mosahmmer wins the hearts and purses of the truly rich - if it weren't for his mother, who is scheming in the background. A fictional story that tells of beauty and money, but also of the friendship of two outsiders in Munich in 1983.

Three famous jazz musicians, the German Jochim Kühm, the Moroccan Majid Bekkas, the Spanish Ramon Lopez, realize a long-term dream: One month of free time together in Morocco, time for music, for encounters, for a new CD. They rent a small studio in Rabat and invite guest musicians. They travel to the desert to meet a legendary group of native drummers, to play with them and make recordings. In between excursions into the everyday life of Morocco, computer crashes, and little crises. A film about improvised music and the work on it, a film about encounters of different cultures, a film about understanding and not understanding. Where do you come from, where do you go to?

The night of July 12th 2010 was a memorable evening in the history of the Montreux Jazz Festival. The theme of the night was "Singin' and Swingin'" and it starred Roger Cicero and his fantastic Big Band under the guidance of Lutz Krajenski. Cicero and Hs Band gave an electrifying performance with a mixture of swing ballads, seventies' soul and danceable grooves featuring classics like "Zieh die Schuh aus", "Nicht artgerecht" and "Wenn sie dich fragt" and the English adaptations of his hits "Murphys Gesetz" ("Murphy's Law") and "Ich had das Gefühl für dich verlor'n" ("That You And I Feeling"). Roger Cicero enchanted the crowd and his musicians thrilled this discerning audience. What a show!

In 1991, the mood in East Germany is gloomy. Unemployment and poverty among the population in the GDR are high. Many people blame the Treuhand for the misery. Werner Stankowski, a trained computer scientist and computer specialist, is unable to find work despite hundreds of applications. His wife considers him a failure and leaves him for a rich man from the West. Only his best friend Rudi, who is also unemployed, sticks by him. Rudi's wife Gerda keeps the family afloat with a poorly performing erotic mail order business. Werner then gets a job interview with a computer company in Munich. The Wessis denounce Werner during the interview and humiliate him with Stasi slogans.....