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LA DADA – KING DEER is a filmic ode to the artist Sophie Taeuber (1889 – 1943) and to her dadaistic work. A dancer and a singer perform a duet with Taeuber’s marionettes and revive Dada as a collective art – still fresh and experimental after 100 years of its appearance. The masking of dancer and singer bring to mind the courage of Sophie Taeuber. Despite the threat of dismissal from the School of Applied Arts she continued performing as a dadaist – henceforth, dancing with mask and pseudonym.

Sibylle, a pragmatic architect, mother and wife, witnesses a suicide of a woman her age while on vacation in Italy. Devastated by this incident, it causes the perception of her life and her family to change. Something inside of her has been set in motion that seems to endanger everything which she has defined herself by...

The 15-year-old farmer prefers to skip class and go around downtown rather than spend his time at school. His father and his older brother neglect him and he spends most of his time with his friend Marika. As their friendship gradually turns into love, Johannes does not know where he belongs anymore. He goes hunting with his father and other people, he starts going out with his brother at night and he distances himself from Marike, who turns away from him in disappointment. He trries to get away from it all – but he can't get away from himself.

Hans, a mediocre heartbroken actor, is greeted by an Angel of Death after attempting suicide an hour before his play's premiere. A sarcastic dark humour conversation begins as Hans tries to convince the Angel that he should be brought back to the world of the living while the Angel enjoys delicious cheeseburgers and lemonade and gives the actor relationship advice.

No marriage without a break, no career without a crisis: writer Max Mangold experiences both. First, the highly successful author of fiery heartbreak novels under the pseudonym Jana van Hausten suffers a severe writer's block, then his wife Susanne tells him that she wants to go to Rostock University for a year - ostensibly for the sake of her career. Coincidentally, her old childhood sweetheart, the fisherman Jörn, also lives there. Without further ado and driven by jealousy, Max travels there to fight for his marriage. And then he has a fateful encounter with hairdresser Nancy, who is a hardcore fan of Jana van Hausten.

Life’s all about two things: firstly, being loved, and secondly not being alone. But what happens when people aren’t enough, or when they’re too much? Geliebt is not a film about the pros and cons of emotional and sexual relationships with animals but a film about the relationship between humans and animals, poised somewhere between love and dependence.

In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the western part of the city legally as well as border crossers who live in East Berlin but commute to the West every day come together for lessons every day. After the school-leavers had completed their written exams in July 1961, they faced their oral exams after the summer vacation in September. But when the Berlin Wall was built in August, Berlin was divided and torn apart from one day to the next - including class 13e. The students from the eastern part of the city quickly have to make a difficult decision: should they attempt to cross the border or throw their dreams of the future to the wind?

For 1000 years, Christian Byzantium was considered the epitome of faith, power and wealth. But in the end, it sank into violence, resentment, war and catastrophe. Who were these Byzantines? How did Byzantium become the new world power after Rome? And what role did Constantinople play in the emergence of the Christian West?

Julia, 28, lives a double life as Escort and tells her daughter Lilli, 10, that she works as a secret agent.

A documentary about the outcome of a decision made by a brother and sister in 1945. One missed meeting, two families, and three generations.

HF778 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

In the midst of Kosovo, an area that’s been haunted by war and ethical conflicts, Elias Elhardt discovers the small ski resort Brezovica. With several abandoned hotels and lifts, time has seemingly stopped here since Yugoslavia’s breakdown over 20 years ago. Snowboard enthusiast Hamdi is one of the locals, that now wants to breathe new life into this special place. He guides Elias through this forgotten world and reflects on the question, how a future can be built if the past still weighs so heavily.

Lawyers Paula Dennstein and Therese Schwarz open a law firm together. But their first case is already a tough one. They have to protect a single widower from the fraudulent machinations of a prefabricated house company - pro bono, of course! But things are also going haywire in their private lives. While Paula's marriage threatens to collapse for good, Therese meets Thomas and is completely smitten by him. The attraction is obviously mutual, until Therese realizes who Thomas really is.

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow alongside her free-drifting descendants. While shooting this film, the directors little by little realised that they knew the street dogs only as part of our human world; they have never looked at humans as a part of the dogs’ world.

Martin Kühn has work to do - and a lot of it. As an inspector, dealing with murders and kidnappings is his bread and butter, but when these crimes happen almost on his doorstep, even the experienced police officer is not left cold.

On the evening of their arrival in the Swabian province, which has been touted to them as the "promised land of work," three young Turks, Erol, Mehmet, and Ümmet, arrive at a migrant workers' bar. There they meet the charming Lena, who lives in the apartment across from them and shows them to their lodgings. In their room, they find a milk bottle with a large pig on it. Do Germans really drink pig's milk? Without any knowledge of German, it proves extremely difficult to verify Ümmet's grim premonition.

Detective Kreutzer follows a case of a jazz singer murdered in a club. What unravels as the detective gets closer to the truth, surprises even Kreutzer himself.

Divorce lawyer Maja lives alone with her son Niklas and has sworn off men after one too many disappointments. Now her first case at a new firm holds quite a surprise: The other party's lawyer is Hanno - an old flame of Maja's. But as she wakes up after a car accident, she realizes she can suddenly hear the thoughts of all men around her. This offers new opportunities for her private life as well as her job.

Two sisters start a bloody campaign against a gang of man-eaters. But when they discover that their own father is the leader of the cannibals, a world collapses for them.

Join us for this small but unique group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, 1000 km off the east coast of South America. She seems fascinating, but also eerie and even sometimes unreal, because it had its volcanic origin seems to allow no life. But on closer inspection, the archipelago is bursting with life of different species, of which about 40 percent found only on these islands and are therefore protected strictly. But those who are allowed to make the long journey to the islands move in almost untouched nature and are amazed at the inexhaustible variety of wildlife. With Fascination Galapagos, filmed in the best real 3D, you can now be there from the comfort of your own home.

The happily married judge Susanne has been carrying a secret with her for many years. As a 17-year-old, she released her baby for adoption. But a letter now confronts them with the past: Paolo, the Italian father of her girl, has died and has inherited his house in Tuscany to the unknown daughter. Despite better knowledge, Susanne sets out in search of her lost daughter - endangering the happiness of two families.

With his blue eyes, blond hair and boyish laugh, he conquered German cinema audiences in the 1950s and 60s: Berlin-born Hardy Krüger made it all the way to Hollywood as an actor. But he was just as passionate a writer, pilot and globetrotter.

The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet Union, so that today there are several frozen conflicts, unresolved for decades, in that vast territory. As in Transnistria, an unrecognized state, seceded from Moldova since 1990. Kolja is a silent witness of how borders and bureaucracy shape the lives of citizens, finally forced to lose their identity.

"Until Nothing Remains” is based on countless reports from Scientology dropouts and shows the sect’s unscrupulous actions.

The suitcases are packed: Frank, Claudia and their 17-year-old son are heading to Toronto, a professional fiasco is forcing the family to make a fresh start. But suddenly Frank's childhood sweetheart Romy appears on the doorstep. Frank swore eternal love 24 years ago. And Romy is now demanding eternal love. A demand that pushes everyone involved to their limits and reveals their darkest sides.

On 20 July 1944, an assassination attempt was made on the life of Adolf Hitler; its failure and that of the coup d'état planned to follow, Operation Valkyrie, lead to the arrest and execution of thousands of people. In his film, "The Traitors' Children", Christian Weisenborn presents harrowing encounters with the children of the executed conspirators, while also taking a look at his own family history. His parents belonged to a group of anti-fascists, which the Gestapo called the "Rote Kapelle" (the red chapel). Weisenborn's parents survived, but 52 of their friends were hanged in Plötzensee in 1942/43. Weisenborn also interviewed their sons and daughters.

In a senior citizens' residence in Berlin, six residents are betting on the Lotto jackpot of € 30 million. But what should one do with so much money in his old days? Lebemann Conrad wants to hit the spot again, while the gay couple Otto and Jakob are fulfilling their dream of sailing. The good-natured Rosi is unabashedly exempted from her children, while the adventurous Karin finally wants to travel the world, if need be even without her sullen husband. But although almost all can fulfill their dreams, fate holds after the lottery luck also a few setbacks.

When Chris finds out that Ramon was released early after a brutal attack on his family, he decides to take matters into his own hands. He breaks Ramon's honor with a video and posts it virally on the internet. The video causes a stir and the boundaries between perpetrator and victim are becoming increasingly blurred.

A noble prostitute is found dead in the toilet of a trendy club. Actually a normal case for Chief Inspector Lukas Laim - he would not know this woman intimately. In addition, the case gets an unexpected twist: Laim and his assistant Tim Berners encounter in the customer file of the victim on the top managers of a pharmaceutical company. Suddenly the sexual offense becomes a serious case of white-collar crime.

On her 50th birthday, devoted mother and laundry worker Beate faces a life-changing medical diagnosis that prompts her to pursue a long-buried dream: swimming the English Channel. Juggling her daughter’s exams, granddaughter’s care, her son and his pregnant partner, and her best friend’s love life, she throws herself into grueling training. Amid familial resistance, and with friend Henni’s support, Beate braves the Dover–Calais crossing and rediscovers her own strength.

Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.

Five brothers first opened the bar "Onis" in 1976 after migrating to Madrid in the early 1970's from a village in the North of Spain. The possibility of making money brought them into the hospitality business in the big city. Since the opening of the "Onis" forty years ago, they have worked together almost every single day.

They were born and raised on a small island amidst a vast natural landscape - four sisters who now live in cities. Their parents have left Germany to raise their children far from consumerism and external control. On a visit back to the island, the sisters bring along some of the pace and concerns of our world today.

A jam-packed train ride of a bunch of restless, tired and closemouthed people looking like half-professional, contemporary celebrity look-alikes; among others, in the company of lots of XXL-coffee-to-go cups, a ghost of a 1930’s dirndl, two police officers in full rig, a jogging zombie and the military...

The life journey of a Pontic refugee from Crimea, as seen through the eyes of his great-granddaughter, two decades after his death.

Becoming a taxi driver is Devki`s biggest wish. To reach this goal, Devki has to stand up first to her father, then her husband and at the end even her father-in-law. Devki's story in 'Where to, Miss?' tells us, why it is difficult for Indian women, to step out of their deep embedded roles.

The world’s farmland is at risk. Demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuel or simply buy up land for profit. The film gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agricultural-business and shows the consequences for families kicked off their land. Land Grabbing shows how “colonialism 2.0” works.

Tom Gaebel, with his smart suit, polished shoes and perfect hair, is the German gentleman of swing. As a tribute to his master, Frank Sinatra, he performs with the WDR symphony orchestra, playing all the Sinatra classics including My Way, Strangers in the Night and New York, New York.

Their family name alone evokes horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. This film looks at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime: men and women who were left a legacy that indelibly associates them with one of the greatest abominations in history. What is it like to have grown up with a name that immediately raises images of genocide? How do they live with the weight of their ancestors' crimes? Is it possible to move on from the crimes of their ancestors?

Frankly ... Jacky Ickx is a documentary that explores the life of Belgian racing legend Jacky Ickx, tracing his journey from motocross to his iconic status in Formula One and endurance racing. Known as “Monsieur Le Mans” for his six Le Mans wins, Ickx’s story is one of fearless racing, deep introspection, and resilience. Through interviews and archival footage, the film highlights his career milestones, thoughts on the dangers of motorsport, and his legacy, both on the track and in humanitarian efforts, offering an intimate portrait of a true motorsport icon.

After breaking up with her unfaithful boyfriend, Katharina Reiff urgently needs a change of scenery. Together with her 16-year-old daughter Nele, she travels to her mother Marianne, who lives on a small island in the North Sea. On the way there, Katharina observes a man being followed by two dubious figures. Good-natured as she is, she takes Sebastian, the stranger's name, with her to the island. When Sebastian's shady pursuers turn up a little later, the shrewd islanders join forces to shed light on the matter.

Shy medical student Milla stumbles across a medieval manuscript from the time of the witch hunts while researching for a presentation: The Bible of Blood. Together with three fellow students, she starts experimenting with the text - with extremely deadly consequences: Because "The Bible of Blood" actually seems to have the power to make her most secret wishes come true. But they have also unleashed a dark power. The inconspicuous students become sex-obsessed beasts who will walk over dead bodies...

Conceived as the third part of the series under the name future past perfect, the short film introduces a narrative story that was inspired by a fascination for automation processes as well as his work on codes and grids that materialized in his record alva noto . unitxt in 2008. the series itself started in 2006 and is designed as a row of conceptually independent movies that document nicolai's focus of interest of the respective year of origin and also builds up on the results of the movie(s) before. a quiet autumn night in tokyo. a man stops his car at a shop front with a number of vending machines to get a last drink of tea on his way home. he inserts a coin, but instead of the usual procedure, the machine starts performing its own peculiar performance...