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In his film "Far From Heaven", Todd Haynes refers very respectfully to Douglas Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows". Fassbinder was also strongly influenced by Sirk's work. Haynes now explains this double fascination.

A street singer living on the obscure fringes of the L.A. subculture, in early 1968, Wild Man would sing anyone an original song for a dime. He offered these improvised and somewhat off-key ditties to anybody who'd listen.

For over four years, Sandra Maischberger and Jan Kerhart followed Helmut Schmidt on his travels to America and China, observed conversations with old companions such as Henry Kissinger and at the same time repeatedly captured quite intimate moments that would otherwise usually have been covered.

Bastian happens to run into Isabelle in the elevator; he secretly writes his phone number on one of her cigarettes. The next morning, she smokes the cigarette. She accidentally destroys her chance to contact him again. Isabelle therefore goes to a radio station she knows Bastian likes and goes on the air to make a “I’m looking for” call, but at the exact moment she’s live on the radio—which he’s listening to—he gets a call and doesn’t hear her. She waits for him, but of course he doesn’t show up—or is there a chance for a do-over, a chance to go back in time and do it all over again?

The pedophile offender Mr. K. is prevented from jail through the professional statement of the psychologist Alexandra Pausch. Believing she has made the right decision, she closes her eyes towards the potential danger of her dangerous and charismatic patient. But as the horror steps into her own life, she realizes the careless appraisal of her diagnosis.

Hans invites his friends to a lake house to celebrate his success as a writer. But after a weekend of lies and passion, no one is the same anymore.

In 1984, the “First Leipzig Autumn Salon” took place – a risk and a caesura for Dammbeck. Bypassing every state institution, six painters, sculptors and filmmakers organised an art exhibition. It was the first and last of its kind. This recapture of public space through art challenged the government’s monopoly on power and triggered similar activities by other artists in the art centres of the GDR. A brave signal to the SED who saw this exhibition as a “counter-revolutionary development”. After that, there were only two options: regress or leave.

Berlin Kreuzberg: Veit Bischoff keeps his head above water with a dry-cleaning business and reluctantly looks after his mentally disturbed mother on the side. His dreary everyday life is only brightened up a little by his flirtation with the cashier from the betting shop opposite. In an environment where violence, drugs and crooked deals are the order of the day, Veit dreams of emigrating to Australia.

The documentary film describes a day in the big city of Berlin and is based on Walter Ruttmann's 1927 black-and-white silent film Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt, which also depicts a day in the big city of Berlin with musical accompaniment. As with Ruttmann, Schadt's film is also based on the tension curve of a symphony, although it is much flatter here. The spirit of optimism and hectic pace of the 1920s, which dominate the rhythm of its predecessor, have largely given way to a certain melancholy. The film reinterprets Ruttman's approach and shows the ruptures and wounds that Berlin suffered both socially and in the cityscape as a result of the war and the years that followed.

A film based on a mock trial staged at an art fair in Madrid in February 2007 organized by Anton Vidokle and Tirdad Zolghadr. It playfully raises a number of polemical issues in the world of contemporary art: collusion with the "new bourgeoisie," instrumentalization of art and its institutions, the future possibility of artistic agency, as well as other pertinent topics.

Short film by Marian Dora

With over 4000 minibuses pouring in at intervals, thousands of commuters and petty traders trying to scratch a living, Kampala Taxi Park gyrates with the rhythm of a typical African city. Yet in the midst of what looks like perfect chaos, travellers, and drivers still manage to find their way round. This documentary lays out the atmosphere of this amazingly busy spot, from the crack of dawn to deep in the night.

This documentary road movie features the international jazz big band Vienna Art Orchestra on its tour trough Europe and Canada. A search for the truth of surviving and working in today's cultural world. The musical program of Vienna Art Orchestra's 20th Anniversary Tour under the direction of Mathias Rüegg is entitled "An Echo from Europe - From Django Reinhardt to Django Bates" and is intended as an homage to European jazz composers.

Various artists from the New German Wave genre.

Documentary film about a US with German punk band Die Goldenen Zitronen, Wesley Willis, and hip hop duo Grand Buffet.

documentary about Princess Grace oof Monaco

A German couple reacts to the news coverage of the tsunami catastrophe in 2004.

The film shows without demand to completeness the history of "Ton Steine Scherben", the up to now most influential German rock band and asks, what remained of their commitment for a classless society and the ideas of 1968 at the beginning of the 21st century.

The play is set in the time of our Prince Regent Luitpold, who years ago went hunting with the dignitaries of the community of Gombach. When a stately stag ran across their path, His Serene Highness put on his gun but missed the stag. The animal has been allowed to live ever since. To commemorate this hunting trip, the people of Gombach celebrate an annual festival at which the Prince Regent's target is shot. The Prince Regent never misses the chance to shoot in the competition and of course he wins every time. But the truth is that he is a lousy shot and the people of Gombach find it harder and harder not to beat him every year.

3 miniature silent films with music after songs by Robert Schumann and poems by Heinrich Heine

Full live show shot at Hammersmith Apollo 2007 includes tracks from Because Of The Times and classics from the KOL catalogue. 1.Black Thumbnail 2.Taper Jean Girl 3.King of the Rodeo 4.My Party 5.Fans 6.Soft 7.Arizona 8.Molly's Chambers 9.The Bucket 10.Milk 11.Four Kicks 12.On Call 13.California Waiting 14.Spiral Staircase 15.Trani Encore: 16.McFearless 17.Charmer 18.Slow Night, So Long

Horst Wendlandt tells the story of his cinematic work since the sixties. The dialogue between the "old and the young filmmaker" creates a fascinating spectrum of German film of the recent past.

The story of a young lawyer named Lisa Zürcher who, while defending hemp farmer Michael Krattiger, uncovers illegal agreements and procedural irregularities on the part of the authorities.

A man attempts to attract a woman's attention by playing music from his cell phone. This results in a serious accident.

Giulia is an attractive, self-confident young woman. She works for her father Lorenzo in the family-owned Trattoria da Lorenzo in Hamburg's Neustadt district. The trattoria is the business premises, meeting place and living room of the extended Italian family, which also includes Giulia's cousins Gino and Luca. Francesco - "the beautiful Francesco" - is not related to Lorenzo, but is nevertheless part of the family. At some point, Giulia had a brief affair with Francesco - since then he has considered himself her fiancé. In addition to the Trattoria da Lorenzo, Giulia's father has another mainstay - Lorenzo takes orders for thefts, which are then carried out by Giulia, Francesco, Gino and Luca. Nothing big, nothing dangerous - a sideline, so to speak.

3 amateur burglars steal the "Book of Wurzelfurz" which is said to bring the dead back to life. When one of them gets killed in a firefight with the police, the other two use the book to bring him back from the dead. Their plan works but the re-animated friend turns into a rabid monster, hungry for human flesh. Soon, all hell breaks lose and the "Brunstelwald" is swarming again with the undead...

Ever frequently, irritations, anxiety disorders, burn-out, depressions, and other psychological illnesses have become a reason for employees to obtain a sick certificate. How are 24/7 availability, multitasking, or the abolition of regular working hours linked to this phenomenon? BURNING WITHIN draws a picture of the globalisation of work and the insecurity caused by it.

For a short while, the sunlight hits an unspectacular corner in the garden, transforming it into a realm of magic impressions.

The boss commissions a quartet of gangsters to rob a casino. An ambitious reporter broadcasts the robbery live on television. After the job is done, the thieves reach their hideout, but things get out of hand. Suddenly the dead come back to life!

Karin Hoehne is a retired teacher living in Berlin - Haselhorst. On her way to meet her best friend Rosa Brathuhn she involuntarily witnesses a horrible murder on a passing train. A young woman gets chopped up by an ax murderer. Sadly the police, in particular exchange commissioner Rock Milchester, thinks that she is a slightly senile old lady, especially because no corpse was found. So what else can she do but to try to solve the case on her own. Rosa is quickly persuaded and off they go... A first clue is found next to the tracks. It leads Mrs. Hoehne to the salon of the master of hairstyling Horst Brueller where Miss Gisela Drache runs a strict regime. In spite of her age Mrs. Hoehne starts as a trainee and not only diva Veranda Strunzig-Lopez is quickly convinced of her talents, Horst Brueller and his silky lover Bruno as well. A poisoned wig and more bodies indicate that Mrs. Hoehne follows the right lead.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who were still almost girls during the Nazi era. They stood on different sides, present history differently today, and belong to different memory collectives: her great-aunt survived Auschwitz. Her nanny was a socialist and supported her uncle in the resistance. Her grandmother lived in Graz during the war and did what most people did: nothing. The film confronts family narratives, examines the aftermath of history and the mechanisms of its transmission. Preceded by a work by Linda Christanell – "composed of fragments of reality and assembled into a new space."