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Married for years, Sven has recently become distant in his relationship. Thomas knows the reason: his husband is having an affair. After all the recent sacrifices he has made for him, the betrayal is too great for Thomas. He wants to punish Sven as much as he cheats him, and he has a terrible weapon for that: the Brazil nut

After a media storm that turns her life upside down, a famous Hamburg lawyer takes on the defense of a young musician accused of infanticide.

Germany 1923: Inflation, starvation, unstable political conditions. During this time, 24-year-old Paula Schlier goes undercover at the “Völkischer Beobachter”, the Nazi Party’s official newspaper, and gets caught at the centre of Hitler’s attempted coup.

Father and mother are thrilled: So now their teenager son has a girlfriend. And what a fabulous young woman she is! In contrast to his older sister Milli, 17-year-old Franz was previously an introverted, quiet, shy loner. His parents are all the more impressed when he brings home the pretty, self-confident Zoe one night. Zoe quickly finds her way into the heart of Franz’s family. Or is this young woman just telling people what they want to hear because she sees their hidden desires? After an ecstatic night in the clubs of the city of Munich with a little too much drugs, Zoe has disappeared and Franz's heart is broken. He absolutely has to see her again and goes looking for his first great love.

Theo, the lead singer of a Nazi band, is about to play the most important concert of his career. But then he is involved in a serious car accident. The driver of the car is Mahmoud, who is about to be naturalized. Mahmoud panics and, fearing the possible consequences, commits a hit-and-run. In hospital, Theo is diagnosed with a particularly severe form of "foreign language accent syndrome"; he is suddenly only able to speak Arabic. Ironically, Mahmoud becomes his attending physician. Theo tries to blackmail Mahmoud into teaching him German. Otherwise, Theo threatens to report Mahmoud to the police, which would jeopardize his naturalization. Suddenly Theo's band turns up at the hospital and the situation spirals out of control. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Frank hasn't been back to his home village for years. But he sets off with his small family to attend his mother's funeral. His wife and son Tim immediately feel at home in their grandmother's inherited cottage and want to spend the summer in the countryside. Tim joins the soccer club. But Frank's childhood demons catch up with him. A well-known personality awakens terrible memories and now enters his son's life.

27 floors, 10.000 residents: The world-famous residential park "Alterlaa" in Vienna is considered an iconic monument of social utopia. Director Bianca Gleissinger goes back to the place of her childhood, traces the young and old residents of this biotope with a great deal of humor and self-irony, and puts the architect's former promise of happiness to the test.

Sharaf may dream of being fabulously rich, but when he ends up in prison after killing a man in defense of his honor, he has to wake up fast. Prison mirrors the outside world, with all its systemic inequality, injustice and corruption––although, even here, Sharaf believes he can make his fortune.

A sister and her brother hunt the boar that killed their father.

An ensemble film that curiously discusses shifting power relationships between strangers.

Eva Jensen is a female carpenter form Hamburg who wants to make a new start on the Baltic Sea coast in eastern Germany. She tries to buy a workshop with a view of the sea offered for sale by Heide, who rents out beach chairs. Unfortunately, Heide’s ex-husband vetoes the sale. In trying to understand his reasons, Eva comes across a painful family secret from the days of the GDR. And in other respects too, the newcomer from the West faces prejudice in the village, although her skills are urgently needed. Fish-seller Christian is also interested in the workshop, which Eva just sees as fair competition. Then they discover a common passion, kite-surfing, and unexpectedly grow closer.

Patrol officers Ida Sörensen and Magnus Vinter are called to the scene where a body has been found. Horik, the son of Kort Holm, a Copenhagen underworld figure, has been killed with two Viking arrows.

A woman despairs about the coming collapse of the world. How will it change? What kind of planet will she leave to her daughter? She imagines different scenarios, each more terrible than the last, and decides to do something. No matter how pointless it may seem to her.

The action unfolds in Mega-City One, centering on three judges, corruption, greed, and the impact of drug money. The narrative is raw and relentless, with a primary focus on costumes and the creation of a dystopian atmosphere.

Marie is driving on the highway and needs to pee urgently. But the toilet at the rest stop is broken. And an increasingly absurd odyssey through this toxic male biotope begins for Marie - and ends in blood.

Unexpressed feelings, unfulfilled dreams and a secretly purchased morning-after pill spark a young couple's fight.

Non-binary film maker Toni Karat invited queer and sex-positive people of the ‘Berlin porn bubble’ for this impressive documentary about narcissism and self-love. In authentic and touching self-reflective interviews ten protagonists who are as diverse as possible – lesbian, gay, queer, trans, non-binary and often over 50 – tell their sexual stories and contemplate their personal journeys and struggles. It’s an almost philosophical little masterpiece with a lot of honesty and authenticity on both sides of the camera.

The German ex-top model candidate Luna imagined it completely differently. She stands at the train station in Linz with all her luggage because she was promised a place in an influencer shared apartment. But Luna has too few clicks, too few followers and too little fame, which is why she's thrown out of the shared apartment before she's even been inside. Things are also going differently than expected for programmer Heribert, because he actually wanted to present the app idea at a pitching contest at Ars Electronica Center that would free him and his development team from his boring help desk job. But his pitch is at first pathetic, then embarrassing and ends in a faux pas with a shitstorm. And so he and his colleagues are thrown out before they can even develop. When the completely inexperienced but fearless would-be influencer Luna Heribert discovers first in the viral video and then in real life in Linz, she makes him an offer because she knows: we are better together than alone!

Haas is an 18-year-old girl who was raised by her father in the rural Midwest. When her father suddenly dies, she must carry out his wish to be buried in the town where he was born. There, she meets a young man named Will, a lonely, creative soul who is working to support his family back home. The two of them form a friendship that challenges both of their understandings of love and loss.

Hardly any other game has been as fervently debated as "Cyberpunk 2077". It came out late, was hardly playable on some consoles, and the designers received death threads afterwards. Now they are planning their comeback: with "Phantom Liberty". Once again, superstar Keanu Reeves is in the game - and Hollywood icon Idris Elba. "Inside the Game" follows the designers of CD Projekt Red not only at their workspace in Warsaw, but also during the first presentations of the demo version in Los Angeles and Cologne.

"I didn't look for the mandolin: it found me." By chance, as a child, Avi Avital discovered a passion for this modest stringed instrument, traditionally associated with popular music and amateur performances. His first teacher, a violinist by profession, inspired him to defy the limits of genre and learn to play classical music. The Israeli musician has now become the mandolin's greatest ambassador, performing sensitive arrangements of baroque pieces the world over.

Vincent is 16 and aspires to achieve everything that makes a boy a man: moving out of his mother's house, finding acceptance among the boys on his football team, and sleeping with his girlfriend. But between his first love and the divorce of his parents, lies Vincent's longing to feel at home again.

In the south of Israel, a young boy struggles to deal with the loss of his mother. When his father sells her clothes to a flea market, he steals them back. All except for a cowboy hat purchased by a man who won’t sell it back to him. Determined, he follows the mysterious wanderer into the desert.

Hans Jürgen Syberberg grew up in the town of Demmin, the subject of his current film. The history of the town, in which a mass suicide with hundreds of deaths took place at the end of the Second World War, plays an important role. In his film, Syberberg documents his attempts, initiated decades ago, to re-establish Demmin's central market square as a place of community. A café was revived where people could watch films, drink coffee and sing together. Two architectural firms even presented concrete plans for a redesign of the square. Syberberg's commitment is not intended to restore "old conditions", but to give a place and a community back its lost center.

Suddenly the Russian Galina reappears in her ex-boyfriend Tom's life and asks him to contact his sister, who heads the crisis team at the Foreign Office. Galina offers herself as a whistleblower to Germany after hackers specifically attacked the computer systems of the Berlin Central Hospital. She has the code that can thwart further attacks, but in return she demands money, asylum and inclusion in a witness protection program for herself and her young daughter.

This short film is a manifestation of masturbation. Female masturbation is still taboo in society, however, a man's masturbation is totally fine. A lot of women said they’d never masturbated. We have so many doubts about ourselves. The film should raise this topic, and make people more open to discussing it.

Twenty-seven thousand photos of corpses, and bodies tortured in detention centers of the Syrian regime, are leaked in 2014 by a mysterious deserter with the code name "Caesar". Because of the geopolitical interests of some countries and the indifference of other nations, international justice refuses to prosecute the regime of Bashar Al Assad responsible for crimes reminiscent of Nazi or Khmer barbarism. Filmed throughout Europe over nearly four years between 2016 and 2020, the film recounts the behind-the-scenes and twists and turns of investigations and proceedings that will lead to the issuance of arrest warrants for the highest officials of Bashar al Assad's administration for crimes against humanity.

The story of four kids in Afghanistan whose lives changed dramatically after US troops completed their withdrawal and the Taliban swept to power

Fall 2018: The Hambach Forest becomes a chaotic scene of the climate conflict. In the midst of this chaos, film student Steffen Meyn has a fatal accident. Based on footage he collected over two years, we follow Steffen’s path up the trees and into an activism full of contradictions.

An allotment garden. A used voodoo doll. A conversation about selling.

Red lights flood the gas station as Mike and his girlfriend Toni screw on their motorcycles. Their relationship is worn out and the pressure is on for Mike to prove himself. One thing leads to another, and Mike misses his shot. The asphalt passes under him as he decides to fight back.

Since birth, daydreamer Maxi and party queen Valeska celebrate their joint birthday together in an aquarium store. But when Valeska prefers to go to a real party with Maxi this year, not only the perfect birthday but also their seventeen-year-old friendship is at stake.

In Curious Tobi and the Treasure Hunt to the Flying Rivers, adventurer Tobi needs to find his best friend from childhood Marina, the only person who can help him unlock a mysterious treasure chest. Tobi’s search for Marina kickstarts an adventure that takes him to the greatest and most stunning places in the world. Always with one goal in mind: solving the riddle of the treasure chest and finding the mysterious flying rivers.

In the face of the bucket wheel excavators in the brown coal mining area eating their way through the muddy Rhineland soil, the Lange family is at a crossroads: what do we do when the old has to go and the new is so uncertain? The young entrepreneur Marcel Lange, hungry for success, wants to build a new high-end village and achieve social advancement. To this end, he has already had the prototype Villa Verena built on the edge of the open-cast mine, where the largest renaturalized lake in the world is to be created in just a few years. But his sister Franca is against it. In the old village, which is about to be demolished, she is holding the fort and tinkering in the basement on an electricity storage unit that will supply all the houses with green energy in the future and make them self-sufficient. In the midst of this chaos, widow and mother Angelika Lange has other plans. She wants to finally take a vacation with the relocation bonus and doesn't always want to worry about others.

A group of people who have escaped from their condemnation as witches, raid a witch trial. Besides rescuing the condemned witch, however, the leader of the group has a completely different goal. She wants to kill the witch judge who was also responsible for the execution of her family.

Christie has an unusual dog at home – her husband. Will their marriage stand up to this extraordinary circumstances?

Blick follows a journey through the space between reality and imagination, where everyday moments blend with thoughts, memories, and inner noise.

What does it mean to be seen? Like ghosts, three young people drift through the dusk, trying to break out of invisibility. But if no one sees me, and if I don't see myself, am I there? A joint exploration of thoughts and feelings, desires, constraints and expectations. An attempt at self-empowerment.

Once again, 16-year-old Jonas starts at a new school and, as always, he has no intention of being anybody’s darling. Jonas has muscular dystrophy, is confined to a wheelchair and knows that he will die sooner rather than later from this incurable and progressive disease. His mother Alma, who raises Jonas alone and would rather take a second job than forego therapy for him, is determined to delay his deterioration. She has placed Jonas with Dr. Wildenhahn, an authority on Duchenne disease. The doctor manages to be taken seriously by Jonas, that is until he gets to know Emily, Marianne Wildenhahn's daughter, who goes to his class. Emily has a massively low academic grade, which she hides from her mother because of the doctor’s high standards. Emily falls in love with Jonas, and her sincere affection gives him the courage to love her back. Emily and Jonas become a couple, overcoming all obstacles.

In 2020, the biggest protests against the government to date formed in Belarus. The protesters were met with violence and restrictions, many of them were given draconian prison sentences. A dangerous climate that sought to nip political activism in the bud took hold. For “Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus,” Juliane Tutein filmed and researched for three years in a country that had not seen a change of elites with its supposed independence in 1991. She discovered mainly women at the forefront of the courageous protesters. This portrait is dedicated to three of them: Nina Baginskaya, in her mid-seventies and active in the fight for an open Belarus since the 1980s, Tatsyana “Tanya” Hatsura-Yavorskaya, founder of the human rights film festival “Watch Docs”, and Darya Rublevskaya, the youngest at 22, who works for the “Viasna” human rights centre founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski.

Hercules travels by bicycle from Krefeld on the Lower Rhine to Olympus, the throne of ancient deities. The Hercules myth, as a primal myth of male power, is questioned through biographical reflections and the staging of mythological echoes. The dramaturgical structure of the hero's journey disintegrates in a multi-material perspective into questions about male identity, ideals and remorse.

A dazzling picture of the world's most successful art dealer: Helge Achenbach. When he forges invoices and calls the result a "collage", he falls into a deep slump. At the same time, the film is a grotesque about the development of the art market into a speculative exchange - driven by greed, a thirst for recognition and the grand illusion that the value of a painting can be measured by its price.

In the early 2000s, Dutch graduate Tanja Nijmeijer managed to rise to the top of the Colombian guerrilla group FARC, before Interpol issued an arrest warrant for her. Later she campaigned for peace. Who really is this woman?

The First Installment Of The “Glimpses”-Series,[As Of Yet: Thirty “Glimpses”(95 mins)], Which Is Characterized As An “Untitled Work-In-Progress Experimental Porn Short Film Project” Firstly Due To The Fact That The “Experimental Porn Short” Which It Will Eventually Culminate In Will Remain Untitled Till The Very End Of This Rhizomatic Creation Process, Has Now Been Crystallized Into A Concise Cinematic Work-In-Progress Sketch (Not To Be Confused With The Aforementioned “Experimental Porn Short”, Which The Overarching Work-In-Progress-Processuality Will Eventually Culminate In), Intended To Be Submitted To Various Porn Film Festivals (With PFF Amsterdam Being The Very First One) In Order To Gather Potential Collaborators As Well As Fundraising-Opportunities For The Extremely Elaborate “Experimental Porn Short Film Idea”, Which I Received Through A “Nocturnal Orgasm”, Instigated By A Sequential Oneiric Vision.

Anna and her lodger, Mr. Kurtz, have come to terms with each other in their shared flat. But both Mr. Kurtz's planned conversion of the cosy four walls into a smart home and Anna's feelings for a new acquaintance shake up their life together.

Borchert and his office manager Dominique know little about Regula Gabrielli's past. The youthful indiscretions of his highly esteemed legal assistant come to light when she becomes involved in a murder case.