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"The Lordilords" offer us a documentary about one of the most controversial events that ever happened on our galaxy: "The Human Zoo" from planet "Earth". This alien documentary tells the story of how "The Lordilords" came to planet Earth and restore order by initiating a "Human Zoo" after the Third World War. The main focus of the documentary relies on one of the humans who lived at the zoo (Subject 26.621.290) and he gives some insights about the zoo's darkest sides in a form of a daily vlog. "The Human Zoo" invites us to reflect upon many problems which we are facing right now in our current galaxy.

The film is part of Lemkes never-ending Munich series, but this time it leads beyond Schwabing or Maxvorstadt, which makes it more entertaining than its predecessors. After a stop at the Bayrischer Hof, it moves into the Glockenbachviertel, over the Reichenbachbrücke to the Isar, further into the suburbs. These places are not alien to residents of Munich or tourists, but Lemke knows no tour guide romance. He has the usual group of main characters, two or three girls, a young man, and sends them off as if on a great expedition. They bring along the Lemkestyle, which doesn't fit in anywhere, but works like a contrast medium. Their fantasy figures make the reality around them more real.

When Hanna (Fanny Krausz) unexpectedly inherits half of her deceased grandmother's farm in Lower Bavaria, the young woman's life is turned upside down. Because the testamentary conditions have it all! She has to run the farm for four weeks with her cousin Max (Daniel Gawlowski) and worse: spend every night there - otherwise everything goes to church. A bad time, because Hanna is about to step into Alex's Munich coffee bar. And it just so happens that Alex (Matthias Gärtner) is also the man of her dreams. Hanna throws herself into adventure and tries to master the balancing act between town and country. But the longer she is in her old home, the more she realizes her true longings. She doesn't just uncover a family secret,

Countless people around the world know the pictures from Leni Riefenstahl's films, even if they have not seen them in their entirety. The work of the German director has burned itself into the collective memory. Even decades after the end of the Nazi era, she showed no remorse and presented herself as an apolitical, naive follower of the Nazi criminal regime. Her artistic service for the cinema was always recognized. But book author Nina Gladitz shows after decades of research that Hitler's favorite filmmaker was not only a follower, but also a perpetrator during the Third Reich, who instrumentalized other filmmakers such as the brilliant cinematographer Willy Zielke in order to gain fame for herself.

Shortly before his 75th birthday, Wilhelm Schürmann has no desire to adapt his lifestyle even a little to suit his age and his health problems. When, after a bout of weakness, he was told to stop driving - at least for the time being - and move in with his daughter Bettina, the headstrong old man suddenly decided to run away.

Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now the Bode-Museum, the Bust of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, has been the subject of controversy for more than a century.

Jona still lives at home, has just got his first girlfriend and suddenly can’t get up anymore. A big, small incident that shakes his male self-confidence, which he has just awakened. A short film about big and little brothers and the man between pop, air rifle and egg liqueur.

Martin and Eric grew up in a small village in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. They have been friends since they were little boys and met when they were fishing, and from then on went to the lake together every Sunday. But their friendship is also marked by rivalry, because on one of their trips together they also met Frenni, who both fell in love with. The three of them roamed the woods and fields as children and remained friends when they grew up and Frenni got together with Eric. The couple is inseparable and very much in love, and this great love and the friendship of the threesome is only repeatedly tested by the drunken attacks by Eric’s unpredictable, aggressive twin brother Basti.

Thanks to sausages, a group of 6 Queers discover their sexuality across all concepts of gender and identity in a suburban German allotment.

Roland Kaiser has invited a wide range of well-known artists, such as Ronan Keating, Adel Tawil, Glasperlenspiel, Wolfgang Niedecken and BAP, Maite Kelly, Ben Zucker, Sarah Zucker, Santiano, Annett Louisan, Jeanette Biedermann, Max Raabe, David Garrett, Götz Alsmann, Sotiria, Oonagh, Joel Brandenstein and the German Television Ballet, for his new music show. They will not only present their own love songs, but also perform extraordinary duets with the host. Love is probably the most frequently sung about theme in music. It gives people the strength to overcome many things, to accompany them in good times and to carry them through difficult times.

Private detective Ferdinand Zankl is arrested by the Passau police on suspicion of murder. He is suspected of having killed his ex-girlfriend, an animal shelter manager.

After a long time, young Franz returns to the village of his childhood, Klein-Reibach. The big anniversary celebration is coming up. But he is shocked to discover that his hometown is threatened by a crack in the old, dilapidated dam. In order to save the village, Franz has to stand up to the inhabitants, who don't want to know about the impending danger. A drama in three acts.

Brigitte lives alone, but she isn’t alone after all. However one door in her flat remains closed at all times. Behind that door lives her 21 years old son, Timo. Three years ago he decided to separate himself from the outside world. The only thing left for Brigitte is to wait. To wait for the next Whatsapp message. To wait for a court order that could be an inducement for change. She is waiting for the day the door will finally be opened. Whether that would be for better or for worse.

On the occasion of the last “Berlinale” under the direction of Dieter Kosslick in February 2019, the camera follows the festival director on his professional assignments and also takes part in the few moments of breathing deeply.

Malaria has killed more people than all other diseases and wars on Earth combined. In Subsaharan Africa, one child still dies every 60 seconds. Nobody, including Big Pharma, the Gates Foundation, or the WHO, seems to believe that Africans have their own solutions. Director Katharina Weingartner takes us to an area that she calls the “ground zero” of malaria: the countries around the Lake Victoria basin in East Africa. In Uganda and Kenya, she found people who have taken action against malaria using local strategies. The Fever portrays the fight against malaria in East Africa as a case study in greed and courage.

Salman Schocken was the King of department stores in Germany. Before WWII, he owned 22 department stores with 6,000 employees. He possessed a unique collection of 60,000 rare books in German and Hebrew and founded a modern, Jewish publishing house. He was the lifelong supporter of Shmuel Yosef Agnon and he owned the Haaretz newspaper which still survives on the border of consensus. He supported secular, Jewish culture and identified with humanist, liberal Judaism, a relic of 19th century Europe. Today, in an age of unscrupulous market economy and militant Judaism, Salman Schocken’s ways point to an alternative, perhaps not entirely lost.

A mountain hiking tour of friends brings to light unexpected conflicts.

Michael Scott was the most famous scientist in the world. When his mother tragically died one day, Michael decided to lock himself in his research building for years. After re-entering the public, Michael underwent a strange development - he became addicted to water. So he spends his last moments surrounded by water.

In the third film in the popular series, "The Three from Garbage Disposal" have to embark on an unusual "Mission to the Future". A 16-year-old environmental activist is sentenced to a one-week student internship with "Captain" Werner Träsch.

The story revolves around a crew member of a spaceship who is murdered. The remaining crew-mates lock themselves in the cafeteria after the murder to figure out who the murder is. The tension in the room is like crazy as everyone becomes suspicious. Apparently a mysterious virus would turn people into killers.

Dobropillia is a town located in Eastern Ukraine: 70 km from the border where conflicts with the breakaway republics are raging on and people feel always like being on the verge of total war. The sheer uncertainty about the future pushes folks to cling on to their daily habits while trying to get along with the ever-shifting political landscape. A wide array of wildly diversified characters try to cope as good as they can with the hardships in their town. A death metal band keeps rehearsing daily. A teacher guides visitors through the story of the city. The wonders of a vibrating armchair are tested as a tool against stress and anxiety. An elderly lady who has lost her son tries to talk some sense into her fellow citizens urging them to accept peace.

"Beer! Beer!" is an "anti-romantic comedy" set in the early morning following a wild party in Berlin. When Tao, a Chinese guy, meets Sebastian, a local German. As they seem to get more and more intimate with each other, suddenly a mattress changes everything...

Three stories about life and death.

A walk cycle, that becomes more and more desperate: A woman tries to keep up to speed, but life throws her off balance.

On the occasion of Otto Retzer's 75th birthday, Servus TV is showing a personal portrait of his unique success story as a self-made man from dishwasher to the most watched director in Europe.

For the first time in history, a white man has been invited to become a Massai Warrior. The Massai of East Africa are one of the last tribes on earth to live as they did hundreds of years ago. Benjamin will live among the tribe, sleeping, hunting, and surviving in the bush. He will get to know their culture, their customs of dancing and playing, and learn how to conquer the dangers of the wilderness. Will he be able to become a true Massai warrior? To become a Massai is a great journey into the unknown.

A sweat-drenched social satire in the ladies' sauna

On April 11, 1968, Rudi Dutschke is assassinated in West Berlin. He is regarded as the spokesman and symbolic figure of the socially critical, left-wing student movement. As a hate figure of right-wing media and neo-Nazis, he stands like no other for the radicalization of an anti-authoritarian movement. The assassination triggers the biggest political unrest in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. Alongside contemporary witnesses such as Knut Nevermann, Rainer Langhans, Stefan Aust, Barbara Sichtermann, Peter Wensierski, Thomas Giefer, Bahman Nirumand and Gretchen Dutschke, Rudi Dutschke himself provides the most important description of his person.

When the grieving student Patricia finally wanted to contact her deceased grandmother via the Ouija board at the scene of the accident, an uninvited guest asked to enter.

Agnes and Gregor have had a happy marriage for 15 years. No crises, no affairs, no weariness. They looked for each other and found each other, say their friends Conny and Bernhard, who fight a lot and often. If a marriage is harmonious, it is this one. However, when Agnes became socially involved in addition to her job, the distribution of roles in the family, which had worked well for years, was thrown out of balance. The change in their relationship leads Agnes and Gregor into their first major crisis, which neither of them can deal with. They are shocked to find that they are about to lose love.

A few years ago, German artists Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki conducted workshops on the subject of work in 15 cities around the world. The result was the creation of 400 short films depicting various faces of work in the modern world. Now Antje Ehmann and architect Luis Feduchi have returned to the project, this time with filmmakers from Warsaw and Berlin. Will the films made be able to show how the pandemic influenced work and professional reality? Can all the changes occurring be captured in the form of an image? Will the movies themselves change? The German title of the project "Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit" has a double meaning: it means working in one film take and at the same time an attitude towards work.

A cinematic reflection on the lives of two middle-aged gay men and the formative value of personal freedom.

The 78-year-old former architect Richard Gärtner (Matthias Habich) wants to put an end to his life. However, this should not be done abroad, but quite legally with the help of his family doctor. For Dr. Brandt (Anna Maria Mühe), out of personal conviction, it is out of the question to get her elderly but healthy patient a fatal preparation.

Werner Träsch moves into an apartment with his great love Gabi Hertz. However, he can hardly help with the furnishing of her apartment because he is campaigning to save his favorite restaurant "Zur Traube".

1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in law, at a time when women aren't even admitted to universities. The other has lived life outside the law and may now have to pay the tab. One of them needs to get her head together – while the other would do anything not to lose hers. -- Based on a true story.

In this 40-minutes-documentary the ecologist and filmmaker David Cebulla is on a quest to find one of Germany's shyest and most endangered species: the European wildcat. During a scientific pre-study, by chance, he made the first record of a wildcat in an area near his hometown Jena. Thereupon he dedicates a whole year to get the genetic evidence and a really splendid film recording of a free-living wildcat. For this reason he sets up trail cameras and lure sticks. To find out more about these animals he meets up with two interview partners in course of the film. The Thuringian wildcat expert Silvester Tamás answers questions regarding estimates on the stock of free-ranging wildcats and the protection of the species. Matthias Krüger is head-taxidermist at the Jena Phyletic Museum and explains what we can learn from wildcats found already dead.

A portrait of a happy cynic and lateral thinker who has persevered for years in a legal dispute over his dilapidated house with authorities in the luxury spa town of St. Moritz.

The Saturday evening show is based on Marco Rima's current stage program, "Just for Fun." It is embellished with humorous film clips that serve as an introduction to the next stage act and tell their own story. In the approximately 120-minute TV show, the audience is presented with a fictional day in the life of Marco Rima, which is completely exaggerated and humorously exaggerated. These insights into Rima's everyday life are complemented by numbers from the best-of stage program "Just for Fun" and correspond to the daily fictional events in the comedian's life. The show begins with the clip "Fudi vo geschter." This is a Rima classic and, for most of his fans, the highlight of his stage shows. This climax leads to the finale, where Marco suddenly searches for a punchline on stage—a nightmare for any stage performer.

In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to face trial in mainland China. The controversial bill sparked immediate outrage over widespread fear of arbitrary detention and politically motivated trials that would decimate Hong Kong’s autonomy under ‘one country, two systems.’ Protests escalated into epic pro-democracy demonstrations, in part led by young people connected via social media. COCKROACH, filmed during the height of the protests, captures the extraordinary intensity of an unprecedented era in Hong Kong’s history.