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Women with different ethnic backgrounds tell about life in Germany.

In a small town in an unknown location, two criminal organizations share their territory. The bosses "Mango Red" and "Sean Mason" don't particularly like each other, but they don't get in each other's way when it comes to business. -However, in the last few weeks several small fish working for Red have been killed and it seems to be Mason's handwriting. When they meet, the two become enemies and a bloody gang war begins. The bosses' professional killers cause great damage to the other organization. The gangs weaken each other and fight to the death, but there is actually a very nasty plan behind it by a corrupt cop and one of Mason's killers and the pimp Victor Vortec still has a huge bone to pick with Red's gang...

A monkey reminisces about King Kong

In a room there is a box. In the box there is a forest. In the forest there is a lost child. Living beings made of paper appear and vanish in "Der Kleinere Raum".

The first film about Viktor Schauberger's life's work. A comprehensive survey of historical facts, current research and various practical applications into both technology and the natural world.

The adventures of a toilet cleaner.

In Germany the Kriegsmarine played no role for many centuries. It was not until Kaiser Wilhelm II built a fleet of his own to protect the German colonies and defend against a British naval blockade. Being hopelessly under the British navy, the Imperial Admiralty preferred the use of submarines to achieve the greatest possible military effect with relatively small means. In the Second World War, too, the German submarines played a central role in the naval war until the Allied oversight and new detection systems hunted the hunters. Of the 40,000 U-boat men of the German war marines, 30,000 did not return home. The film tells the exciting story of the German U-boat arm from the early beginnings to the surrender in May 1945. In addition to the 66-minute feature film, the DVD features 117 minutes interviews with important German U-boat commanders: Erich Topp, Otto Kretschmer , Rolf Thomsen, Gerd Kelbling and Reinhard Hardegen.

Film by Alexander Kluge.

Patrick claims to be a millionaire, but can't afford the rent for his one-room apartment in Berlin-Mitte. Nevertheless, he is the founder of an indie label and a rock musician. Increasingly infected by the current Berlin euphoria, he continues to pursue his vision with unique energy.

A documentary about Big Brother S2 inhabitant "the nominator" Christian Möllmann and about DSDS contestant Daniel Küblböck. The highs and lows of short-lived stardom.

A broad review of the history of erotic film over a hundred years.

The J. Street Project 2002–5 is a sixty-seven minute film that consists of a sequence of static camera shots of street signs in Germany that incorporate the word ‘Jude’ (German for ‘Jew’). Hiller found a total of 303 signs in streets, lanes, roads, avenues and alleys scattered throughout the country. The work focuses on the dissonance between these mundane, everyday signs and the memories they trigger of a genocidal history. The soundtrack records traffic noise, church bells and other incidental sounds. For this factual, indexical project Hiller maintained a neutral seriality in her approach. Cumulatively, however, it becomes clear that the signs are loaded with the memory of Jewish presence in the locations, not just from modern times but from thousands of years of history. The tension between past and present in the film highlights the sense of absence and traumatic loss. The place names operate as memorials of erasure.

Germany's world-famous Deutsches Nationaltheater Und Staatskapelle Weimar sets the stage for Richard Wagner's opera, which tells the story of a magic ring that will let its bearer rule the world, but only by someone who first renounces love. Michael Shulz directs and Carl St. Clair conducts this stirring 2008 production. Mario Hoff, Alexander Günther, Jean-Noël Briend, Erin Caves and Frieder Aurich star.

Compilation consisting of 17 of Peter Weibel's earlier works.

Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler embarks on a journey in search of his grandfather.

Modern weapons- techniques and military strategies determined since times the performance and the outcome of wars. In the center of weapon-related innovations stood - at latest since the wars in emplaced and fortified positions, beginning in the 20th century - the mobility. The invention of the fighting tank has made possible a high grade of movability, and determined the result of World War 1. The "blitz" wars at the beginning of World War 2 were possible only by combined deployment of modern tanks and a superior air force. Analyzing of important tank battles stresses the importance of technical standards, of tactical deployment, as well as the high commitment of the tank crews. Films in colour and black and white, partly never seen before, will show for the first time the development of the German Tank Forces from the years of 1914 until 1945 in a comprehensive way.

A journey through time, through the magical worlds of the paintings, engravings and frescoes of the painter Francisco de Goya. Variations on sketches and paintings that, animated, narrate passages of the painter's life and work.

Visits historical sites along the dividing line between East and West, using archive materials and contemporary witness interviews to recount the destinies, events and oddities that were all profoundly influenced by the presence of the Wall...

Documentary film about the largest decentralized monument and art project in the world, and its personal core

Documentary directed by Ulf von Mechow

A short film by Bärbel Neubauer.

Provides a look back at the history of the former East Germany and what remained after it's collapse, a topic now rarely revisited in the media.

Documentary examining contemporary Jewish musical culture in New York's avant garde Jazz scene in the 1990s.

Summary The little Raven wants to have a real name. The whole night he thinks about it and even gets sick of it. So sick that he feels very miserable. But then his friends help him to find a suitable name ... The popular stories of the Little Raven Sock are about dealing with personal weaknesses and strengths and, above all, about friendship.

Bettina Rheims opens the doors of her studio in the Marais to us. We discover the famous photographer taking the time to reassure her model, and her need to set a slow pace. She looks back on her childhood, her photographic satori and everything that photography means to her. In counterpoint, Serge Bramly, writer and faithful collaborator, delivers his confessions on Bettina's beginnings and elucidates her diverse body of work as a whole. From the conception of a new book, to the thrill of discovering the first photographic prints, to the opening of her grand retrospective in Düsseldorf, we follow Bettina, who shares her views on her works.

Albrecht Becker was one of the last people to have survived the enacted Nazi suppression of homosexuals, which started in 1933, with the implementation of Paragraph 175. Imprisoned in Nuremberg from 1935 to 1938, he then decides to enrol in the army. On the Russian front he starts taking photos. After the war he dedicates himself to his job as a cinema production designer and scenographer, working mainly with musical comedies. Becker had started to 'decorate' his body in 1943, practicing the art of tattoos and piercing and taking photos of his progressive transformations. The director puts the spotlight on the body of Becker with photographs resembling landscapes of a body which, by its constant mutations and history, left a mark on its century.

THE BLOCK introduces us to four sad figures living in a run-down East German prefab building: Hans-Joachim dreams of his great love. Silvio shoots out the lamps in former Soviet barracks. Olga wants to return to bombed-out Grozny; being alone is worse than war. Natalya cleanses her body with nettles and snow. The camera captures them in their cramped one-room apartments in extreme close-up, showing the pores of their skin and dandruff. Even in delicate moments, it does not keep its distance. In this way, we closely experience their precarious situation on the margins of society.

The dreadful Hairy Bill Stinky Boots kidnaps the beautiful Lady Lolli Lou. Luckily, the Cowboy Pretty Joe Jack is there to rescue her.

Tamara Wyss retraces her grandparents’ 100-year-old German Empire expedition up the Yangtze through the Three Gorges just before the dam’s completion. Guided by their photos, letters, and recordings, she witnesses disappearing traditions amid China’s breakneck modernization.

HF210 - Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl