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Nadine and Janine share a flat together with their friends Mark and Andreas. The flat share is a universe with its own rules, languages, manners and relationships. A stimulating place, where chaos is floating through corridors and rooms. Pending over everything is the approaching breakup of the community, which becomes more and more perceptible within short moments of silence. One of the flat mates, Janine, is going to leave. Janine's farewell party affects each other of her friends in an different way. A precise description of a fragile structure breaking apart.

Super 8 short by Milena Gierke.

Franz Lehár’s “Die Lustige Witwe” is reputed to be one of the most famous operettas in the world. Under the direction of the French Jerome Savary's the “Merry Widow” sparkles. At the first staging of this production at the Opera-Comique in Paris (Octobre, 2005) the singers appeared to be having as much fun as the audience. The Austrian Maestro Manfred Honeck presents his musical view on this operetta.

Munich cardiologist Katja is happy – in two weeks she's marrying wealthy management consultant Richard, and she's about to be promoted at the hospital. But things turn out differently: It's not her who becomes head of the cardiology department, but a competitor. And Richard doesn't react to this rejection as empathetically as the disappointed doctor would like.

Sometimes there is no need for a deeper meaning. Sometimes it's just all about having fun. And about the hangover the day after, the melancholy, a coffee and a smoke. Sensations turn into reality and become a funny, happy dance spectacle.

The courageous fight of one woman to save the whales of the Strait of Gibraltar.

Life in nature, a short animation film by Gil Alkabetz, about people and their environment

A short splatter-drama chronicling the story of Elfride, a loving pregnant wife to neglectful douchebag of a husband, Kurti. Elfride suffers from a tragic miscarriage whilst facing constant verbal abuse from Kurti and his colleagues as they bully and coerce her into cooking them steaks. After guzzling many a beer and downing many a steak, things get violent between the group when only one steak is left at Elfride's end of the table.

Andreas has already been in India for a few months and works as a doctor in a hospital for the needy. He invites his mother Anna over to give her a surprise. His mother has no idea that he wants to introduce her to his future wife Savita. But that's not all, he also shocks his mother with his intention to stay in India forever. In addition, a rival tries to prevent the wedding...

When Henry Ernst toured Romania in 1996, he came across a wedding band who called themselves Fanfare Ciocarlia. This is the story of that meeting, and how Ernst introduced the band to the world.

Post office manager Ruth is good-natured. Unfortunately, her friend Karolin takes advantage of her. One day, Karolin upsets Ruth so much that she violates postal secrecy: she opens the rejection letter that Karolin sends to one of her admirers and writes back in Karolin's name.

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.

Quirin has the cuddly Anna Hechenbacher come to the house. Quirin and his godfather choose a genuine Parisian woman from her catalog of marriageable women to turn the widowed Jakob's head.

Alexandra is spending the weekend at her parents' house. As she arrives at the familiar apartment, nobody's home. Yet successively, the mother, a friend of the family and the father get in. The rooms, which were quite in the beginning, slowly fill up with noises, conversations and activity. Alexandra withdraws from the social world of the family structure repeatedly. Finally, the mother, the father and the friend go to the movies together. Alexandra is left behind by herself.

After many years in jail, Sonjas returns to her home village where she takes up her fight for custody of her 8-year old son Tim. But neither the authorities, nor her in-laws, nor Tims foster parents will ever consider handing over little Tim to Sonja, a purported spouse killer. Sonja must bring light into her dark past if she is to win back Tim's love. Tobias Ineichen's film is led by Melanie Winiger, one of Switzerland's brightest talents.

Life is by no means easy for eight-year-old Dominik from the Berlin district of Hellersdorf. Living with his younger brother and sister and his single mother, he finds himself constantly torn between his sense of responsibility ty to the family and his own desires as he struggles to make his own life. This documentary portrait of Dominik accompanies him during the ups and downs of his daily life.

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

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the audience's enthusiasm were unprecedented, not least because the company was staging a piece that is performed more authentically in Dresden than anywhere else in the world: Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, which received its first performance in Dresden in 1911. Leading the ensemble was the radiant-voiced and profoundly thoughtful Marschallin of Anne Schwanewilms.

Wildlife in Rio

The woman in the battlefield.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt

In order to forget the love of his youth, a man flees to Namibia

The "Dagger of Batu Khan", a goldsmith's work from the 10th century that was thought to be lost, is discovered in a bricked-up cellar vault. Sebastian, whose father is the head curator at the "Green Vault" in Dresden, and his friends are allowed to help prepare the museum's exhibition of the dagger. They accidentally learn that the dagger is to be stolen and their lives are put in danger when they thwart the planned theft.

Shot during an NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) seminar in Berlin, a group fluxuates between guided meditation and discussion on consciousness and self-acceptance. Neuro-linguistic programming is a set of techniques and beliefs that are used primarily towards personal development. NLP is based on the idea that mind, body, and language create an individual's perception of the world, and an individuals behaviors can be changed by "perceiving and feeling yourself". Rapport focuses on the staging of the self that takes place during this kind of group therapy.

A documentary about HR Giger and his work.

About a dramatic bank robbery on August 16, 1988, where the criminals escape with two hostages and the media is right in the middle of their chase. Two days later the hostage situation was put to an end in a police operation on the A3 motorway. Three people were killed during this crisis - two teenage hostages and a policeman involved in a vehicle crash. The whole episode became a media circus in Germany and the Netherlands.

With the help of her adversary Marius Perlinger, Barbara Herzog is able to avert the impending sale of the Maibach paper mill. Marius is suddenly prepared to put his demands on hold. In return, he has a vacant inn, which is part of the company's property, signed over to him. Barbara and Marius slowly grow closer, which has a harmonizing effect on the Herzogs' strained family life. But before things get really serious between the lovers, Barbara's world-traveling husband Wolfgang suddenly turns up...

How could the son of a graduate historian and a secretary, who liked to adorn himself with fast cars, fake eyelashes and expensive clothes, who wanted to become an artist, journalist or film director, become the "public enemy No. 1"?

Documentation Germany

In a Western theme park near Vienna, a handful of "residents" (the people who work there) are living on the small line between reality and fiction. Yearning to live "outside of the fence", they chased their dreams and hoped to catch an individualistic freedom, a life between fiction and reality. Together the inhabitants of "No Name City" try desperately to keep the five year old city, their dream, alive, despite the constantly changing owners and lack of visitor income.

Documentary film about sexually motivated offenders.

A murderously jealous lover and an extremely unruly corpse make for a pitch-black comedy.

a-ha and Simple Minds in Concert