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Full-time mom Marie has everything under control and always gives a thousand percent: raising the children, running the household, scheduling appointments with her husband - not really a problem for the woman in her late thirties if it weren't for her excessive demands on herself. Advertising executive Nela, on the other hand, is trying to reconcile the needs of her son Leo with her own career restart, while her husband wants a second child. And single woman Tine is trying to reclaim her life as a young twenty-something, despite having a young daughter. Something is slowly brewing on the playground, the battlefield of the mothers, where they try to outdo each other with home-baked spelt cookies. How far will the mothers go to hold on to their own idea of happiness? Or does life have surprising solutions in store...?

Documentary film.

Marteria and Maeckes in Uganda. ZDFkultur host Rainer Maria Jilg accompanies the two rappers to Africa. The trip was organized by the charity Viva con Agua, which works to provide clean drinking water in developing countries.

Environmental activist Anna Wagner travels to the place of her childhood. Although she hasn't spoken to her father in more than 20 years, she takes care of everything that needs to be done after his death. When she arrives in idyllic Hückeskirchen, she not only meets the estate manager and many memories, but also the town's mayor, Bea Westkamp: her former best friend, with whom, as a teenager, she set out to conquer the world.

It' been a starry night. The moon illuminated the world with a mysterious cold light. A small group of friends sat together at a bonfire close to the cemetery. They talked a lot, drank and had fun. They had a great time, until suddenly they heard a weird sound.

In Iceland, Elf Commissioner Isolda Thorsdóttir is found shot in an elf park. Crime writer Solveig Karlsdóttir and Inspector Finsen discover a terrified girl, Yrsa, holding the murder weapon. As Solveig calms Yrsa, she uncovers the child’s silence, the mother’s secrets, and a lethal clash of elf lore and corporate schemes behind Isolda’s death.

The US writer Henry Miller (1891-1980), scandalous and nonconformist creator, hated by the most recalcitrant puritans, was a vilified genius, considered a threat, accused of being a sexist, of consciously pursuing the destruction of every civic principle; but he was also someone venerated as a saint, as a sex guru; and today as one of the most important characters of the twentieth century.

Alex is 16, a misfit, a drop-out, a failure. She uses drugs; she cuts herself. She has been sent by her despairing adoptive mother to a farm in northern Germany. At first, Alex hates this remote place and the demanding job of looking after the horses. But under the tutelage of Nina, a 30-something taking a break from city life and her partner, Christine, Alex gradually comes to form a bond with the animals in her charge. Then Kathy arrives at the farm to take a holiday, bringing her own, beautiful horse with her. Alex takes an instant dislike to this privileged newcomer. Slowly, though, the barriers between the two are broken down and Kathy finds herself smitten by the streetwise and energetic Alex. The pair starts horsing around, larking about on the mudflats, until one weekend, when they’re alone at the farm, things spiral out of control.

In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

Manfred and Jürgen, both in the mid 70s, are enjoying their free saturday. Lying in the sun, working in the garden and struggling. On sunday Rosi, an old pal of them, comes around to join their SM-Bondage-Session. An ordinary weekend in Germany.

It's the year 2020. Every day billions of people are victims of the digital, medial, narcissistic, hedonistic, careeristic and consumerist overstimulation and suggestion by the establishment. In a manner that remains unexplained to this day, hundreds of millions of citizens of the first world abruptly and epidemically fall ill with Anhedonia, an inability to feel pleasure and satisfaction. Two exemplary victims of these unspeakable circumstances are the dissimilar, but nevertheless inseparable, aristocrats' sons Franz and Fritz Freudenthal. Wholly bereft of meaning and tormented by their miserable, dull and joyless existence, they slowly waste away; until they become aware of the new and unique lust-stimulus therapy by the world-renowned and very trendy Prof. Dr. Immanuel Young, seeing in it the solution to all their problems.

Romantic Comedy about Alper, an unsuccessful Turkish actor from Berlin, Germany, who has to pretend to be an Italian to win his first role and the heart of a German girl who doesn't like Turkish guys.

All that is missing is one last signature and everyone wants to get this meeting over as quickly as possible - the mother, the new parents, the woman from the adoption office. But there is one unknown factor, and that's Mirko, the father of the baby who has never seen his child.

Lorenz Meran, a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis.

Film observes the daily routine at an official day labourers' office in Berlin Neukölln. A magnifying lens of modern day working society, as a documentary chamber play.

Musicians inspired by the Moon. Since the Apollo landings, the Moon has entered popular consciousness like never before. A journey through pop music's lunar obsession.

A dead girl, a suspicious suspect, a lost family, a dark secret. Two policemen and a young mother in search of the truth.

This is the exciting story of two lion cubs born with a rare whim of nature. In Krüger park, South Africa's major natural reserve, about once in a generation a pride of lions includes a rarity: white cubs. This time two are born to the sister of a lioness with two elder, regular 'golden' cubs, whose natural camouflage is a major hunting and hiding advantage. The tiny pride is precarious anyway, having lost its sole male, with three lion brothers roaming around, eager to render a lioness mating-ready again by killing her offspring. Meanwhile prey and even the cubs are in danger from hyenas and leopards, as everyone lurks for a 'free meal', and some prey defending themselves and their young prove fearsome, notably buffaloes

A short directed by Marcel Wohlfahrt.

THE MAZE dissects the terror-attacks since Paris Bataclan in November 2015 and looks for common patterns. Why was intelligence failing? And why keep our governments pushing for more of the same? A road movie into surveillance reforms, power, money and cover-ups. A search for a way out of this maze - with a glimpse of hope on the horizon.

Wealthy sawmill owner Reinhard Lorenz has two daughters who compete for his love: The older Manuela runs the company, supported by her lover, the authorized signatory Jens Mattern. The younger Katrin returns home from the USA for her father's 80th birthday to reconcile with the patriarch. Both sisters were in love with the same man almost twenty years ago.

A German girl travels to Israel to help people with disabilities, where she learns a lot about the role of her grandparents in WWII and meets a man who wants to move to Berlin.

Julian is in a dilemma. He loves the person, he is in a relationship with, less than his best friend.

The clash of two worlds in the present-day Europe. As the indigenous population seeks to defend the status quo against escalating immigration, the newcomers are burdened by their own displacement. Forced to flee their homes, they are trying to adapt to the strange new environment.

The Big Bang has nothing on this.

Emmanuel Chabrier: España Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. He has been estranged for two months from his beloved wife when a fatal incident at the main drilling-tower occurs. Piwonka has a recurring dream of his wife where it feels like she's trying to communicate with him, to warn him perhaps, or guide his way.

A brutal attack on the homeless Lennard in downtown Frankfurt links the fate of three women: Irina, a 28-year-old nurse, has witnessed the violence. The young Sam lives on the street. She was protected by Lennard after she was beaten up in search of food. The single mother Anne is from the clouds when her 18-year-old son Rio is led away by the police. He is accused of involvement in the violence against Lennard. This is hard to understand for Anne; she struggles to get her son to talk.

Fynn is waiting for the train to meet up with his girlfriend Lara, when he bumps into his old friend from school Tom. They haven't spoken in a while and chat about the past. But before Fynn even notices, the chat turns into something way more serious...

The birth of a child in the apartment next door throws Nadja back on herself. What kind of circumstances is a child born into? To what extent do they shape a whole life? Nadja's longing for a child and partnership is countered by her fear of repeating her parents' behavioral patterns.

Lisa, a lonely woman living in Berlin, is raped and takes revenge, while she simultaneously begins an affair with a strange silent guy.

The unorthodox millionaire's wife Eva Klüber raves when her husband Rainer divorces her and she should keep according to the marriage contract nothing of the common assets. Eva fictitiously her own kidnapping, in order to come to what they see as more than earned money. But her perfect plan is backfiring in several ways.

Alex, Mimy, and Hanil have registered themselves into one of Germany’s most ambitious and unique high schools, one that is entirely organized by its students without any outside funding. The pupils pay their own teachers and decide what they want to learn. No headmaster, no hierarchy, and no pressure. But they still only have two years to prepare for the final test administered and required by the government. A tribute to curiosity, Berlin Rebel High School is a film about the true meaning of learning.

Din lives with his family in a small village near Chittagong, the largest port city in Bangladesh. When he and his friend set off to find a job in the city, they embark on an odyssey that takes them further than they could ever have dreamed of.

A window into Russia, unknown to Western man, and even to many Russians. "Russia - the largest country in the world. In many of its parts, it remains unknown world full of wonders. Let the world and will continue for the generations that come after us".

The director of a theatre play about the holocaust takes some of his actors to Auschwitzt to get in the right mood...

The ENT doctor dr. Arnold Fischer, called Arnie, always tries to please everyone. His friend and colleague Gregor is quite different: Purposeful and enterprising, he thinks especially of his own progress. Together, they want to expand the practice to a state-of-the-art tinnitus center. For this they need the neighboring apartment, but lives in the Mathilda, in which the shy Arnie is secretly in love. He does not have the heart to show Mathilda out of the apartment. And so Gregor tries with not always fine methods to get rid of the unpleasant tenant - which ends in a complete disaster ...

Clueso - Rock am Ring 2015

The registrar Ellen is an unhappy single woman - and has to marry couples in love every day. After a shoplifting incident, Ellen, who is addicted to shopping and tablets, ends up with the attractive therapist Christian. Although he is about to get married, the two begin an affair - until one day he and his fiancée end up in Ellen's wedding room, of all places.

1960. Night. A train on its way to the Iron Curtain. In it Sebastian - a guy like you and me. His actual mission was to escort an important painting to Prague. But after finding one of the guards murdered on the toilet, he is already in the middle of a bizarre 1960ies spy story.

A dream comes true for Anne Bruckmann when she travels to Denmark with her husband Norbert to visit the sperm whale grounds at the North Cape in Norway. But then, shortly after arriving in Sønderborg, Denmark, a serious argument breaks out - with the result that Norbert, already exasperated, breaks off the vacation, while Anne wants to continue the trip alone. Left to her own devices for the first time in her 40-year marriage, Anne finds a good friend and admirer in the sensitive marine biologist Konrad.

A bank robbery in a small town. Police officer Arved Minks discovers that the bank robber, surrounded by police, is his own son. But to free him, Arved needs a miracle that night.