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Erika has cancer and wants to die with dignity. Ruedi, her husband, does not want to live without her, so they decide to depart this world together. Everything is ready: someone is going to help them, but Ruedi suddenly has doubts. A reflection on “assisted suicide”, recounted in a tragicomic vein.

How does one trigger a revolution? In the Romanian uprising in 1989, everything seemed to happen by itself. The people were fed up and were plagued by poverty and terror. There comes a time when action must be taken! But, it turns out that history is not that simple, as this investigative documentary proves. The film is a thorough and revealing reconstruction of the events leading up to Ceaucescu’s downfall and execution. In actual fact, the Romanian revolution was a strictly managed operation, controlled from the outside. Hungary, Germany and especially America had big fingers in the pie.

Hector Berlioz: Le Corsaire: Ouverture Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird

Director Helmut Herbst’s animated sci-fi short with characters that would be more fully explored in CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS.

Two extremely aggressive (guys?) fall into a bloodlust and (a) fight (is?) broken up! Two of the fights (are so?) much that everything gets (maybe 'spirals' instead?) out of control. Sigi pisses (instead of localized British slang use 'ignores'?) the harmonious gaiety of his wife so (maybe 'and'?) that (maybe 'instead'?) he kills his old brutal way (which we know because... ?). (this overview is a mess)

Dangerous experiments are turning the citizens of a small town into dangerous creatures or rather zombies. Some gangsters, which have nothing to do with the experiments, are fighting against them.

«Ragtag» - in the sense of impenetrable, a colorful mixture - is the title of a joint work by Billy Roisz (visuals) and Toshimaru Nakamura (sound) which was created under the project name AVVA after a 2004 tour in England.

An essay from Edison's famous 1903 short film recording the execution by electricity of a tame elephant from Coney Island's Forepaugh Circus.

June 29, 2004 - 9:15pm. It's pitch dark when Günter, Jörg, Christian and Markus reach the mythical summit, fulfilling the dream of their lives. However, the fatal spiral that will change the course of the expedition has already begun: Jens, who has given up on the summit, is wandering on the Diamir wall, pursued by his hallucinations. The exhausted 64-year-old Günter slips and disappears into the darkness. Markus also falls, losing his down jacket, gloves and all his equipment. He is now alone, freezing cold, lost on the immense wall. The base camp anxiously follows the inevitable chain of events. As another day draws to a close, everyone wonders who will survive a second night on the icy face of Nanga Parbat...

Three police officers are visiting the construction site of their new guard. The citizen-oriented official shows destroyed glass tiles at the back of the station and tells of his experiences with dogs in the new development area. His colleague demonstrates his new bulletproof vest. A supervisor talks about his fears, the term prevention and draws a positive balance of the work of the police. A normal day.

A lonely lesbian attends multiple bars before going home with a woman.

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

When bringing his freshly washed laundry to the attic, a man sees himself confronted with quiet voices and noises. By hanging up pieces for piece smoothly and listening to each, he tries to find out whether the noise comes from the laundry. He ends up in a labyrinth of sheets, without having the mystery solved. Are the voices coming from inside him?

A maniac is once again on the loose in Berlin. A young woman narrowly escapes from the fiend. She is uncooperative with the police, as if she knows the perpetrator and wants to protect him. In fact, her brother and even her husband, one an internist and the other a gifted plastic surgeon, soon become the focus of the murder investigation, as the previous victims have been "expertly" killed and their mouths neatly dissected...

Recorded and filmed during the 30th anniversary tour of the Canadian rock flagship Saga, Contact: Live In Munich is also a document of the end of an era. Singer and co-founder Michael Sadler left the band after the tour to reserve and spend more time with his family and new born son. Another reason why the sold out show in Munich turned into an emotional musical highlight for both the band and the audience. Once again Saga lead the listeners through all the milestones of their highly successful career, combined with material from the last studio album 10,000 Days . Available as a 2CD audio set, 2DVD in digipak or as a Limited Edition with double DVD and double CD in high class packaging. Bonus DVD contains a documentary, photo gallery and 6 tracks from the live show in Mannheim, recorded by Underground TV.

The siblings Jule and Frank argue again about Jules lack of reference to the family. However, both quickly realize that there are more important things...

In this narrative ballet, John Neumeier links the myth of the swan prince Siegfried with the tragic life story of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, who fell into madness, and contrasts his own creations with the old original choreography by Ivanov and Petipa from 1895. Recorded at the Hamburg State Opera in May 2001.

A guy from Altona starts a career as a music manager with seed capital of just 300 Euro.

A documentary of the life of German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909–1955) who rose to prominence in the German cinema of the 1930s and whose final years were used as the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1982 film 'Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss'.

This short film documents the frenetically awaited Pope's visit in Cologne from an interesting perspective. Long before the Papamobil arrives, Christian youth and homosexual counter demonstrators collide.

Throughout her work, Aurand frequently makes her camera and her images felt as an active, moving body—spinning, rushing, departing, returning, expanding, contracting, hanging upside down. In A Walk, her film goes walking. The camera occupies a snowy Swiss setting, as Aurand creates a material, tonal landscape that is both nebulous, serene, and wonderfully energetic.

The filmmaker’s mother recounts her life to her son—speaking directly into the camera. She lived almost as long as the 20th century itself (1900–1996). Her fourth child, Heinz Trenczak, turned this account into “a 100-year-long videotape” for his nephews...

A Super 8 film.

Andy and Christopher puke at each other and finally die.

Looks back at Berlin on 9 November 1989: the peaceful end of the 'Cold War' and a celebration of solidarity.

Japan has created many traditional art forms - the Nô theater is one of the most fascinating! Tranquillity, sublimity, clarity are words that come to mind when you first see a performance in the distinguished Nô National Theater in Tokyo. This art has been preserved and cultivated for 600 years. Exact guidelines determine every step, every word, every movement of the performers. Wrapped in heavy, exquisite costumes, they move across the stage as if in slow motion - accompanied by three drums, flute and choir. The main actor, Shite, also wears a mask - because the Nô is the oldest still existing mask theater in the world.

The story of a young man who searches for freedom in the endless expanse of a post-apocalyptic world and must overcome his father's draconian ideals to do so.

Hannah finds herself in a life-threatening situation, in which she steps out of her own body. Both physically and mentally she has hit rock bottom. She loses consciousness. Everything is quiet, everything is black. All that is left is something miniscule that leads a life of its own.

Harvard professor and psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton explores the question: how do doctors, sworn to heal, become murderers?

This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sphinx" of the East and its saying about the loss of utopias and examining whether Heiner Müller's texts, as he himself said, were messages in a bottle for the future or not.

The emotional death of an oversexed society. No one helps anybody else. But then, shortly before Basti attempts to commit suicide, before he jumps from Vienna's Reichsbrücke into the notoriously gluttonous Danube, something happens between the two young protagonists. Basti and Claudia meet on the bridge. Two bungee jumpers without a cord. They both recognize themselves in the other's life, between reform school and the family's butcher shop, between child abuse and games that involve getting tied up.