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A short crime thriller directed by Boris Schaarschmidt.

Things could hardly be better for the attractive, lively Eva and her sensitive husband Max: The two are as in love as on the first day, have good jobs and live in a charming little house in the countryside. Eva works as an assistant in a renowned Frankfurt event agency and Max is an extremely talented carpenter. But on the very day that Eva is given the opportunity by her boss to organize and lead an important conference, Max confesses to her that he has lost his job. The role reversal in Eva and Max's young marriage puts their relationship to a serious test.

Kain is alone at home with his baby brother. Completely overwhelmed and above all hungry, the situation escalates.

Documentary about the German composer Wolfgang Sawallisch

Desert. A vulture enjoys the silence of a hot afternoon. The sudden appearance of a noisy vehicle destroys the quietness of this situation. Two pistoleros exit the car ready for a duel. The vulture is watching with scepticism, ready to take advantage.

With their border crossings, transit routes and their control by the “Volks-Polizei” (GDR police), with their concrete slabs and their history of construction, reaching back to the “Reichsautobahn” of the National Socialist era, the AUTOBAHN east stands as an example of German and German-German history. With a flair for anecdotes and situations, big politics and the small folks along the side of the road, Gerd Kroske has filmed a documentary, which refers back to the educational films of the transit police and footage of surveillance cameras of the state security and shows much more than a piece of “civil engineering” history.

About the son of an agricultural functionary who helped enforce the socialist order in Philadelphia in Brandenburg, then in Golzow (Oderbruch) and finally in Bernau near Berlin. Jochen therefore went to school in Golzow for only one year. He became a milker, was a border guard, married and lives with three children in Bernau. Just as disappointed with the GDR as he was with its fall, today he is even with all politics.

A documentary about F.W. Murnau.

In Extremo in Concert

Documentary in which Michael Rosenhahn explains the philosophical subtext of the film Solaris (1972).

In 1929, Dziga Vertov shot the revolutionary film “Donbass Symphony”. Churches are destroyed amid applause, crosses and domes toppled, icons burned. Flags are hoisted. High-voltage pylons instead of crosses, coal mines, steelworks, dynamically assembled. The new faith is directed at the visible and is ingeniously and passionately established with all the means of the new art of film. It is the first Soviet sound film, a masterpiece and a classic. But the Donbass, the much-sung Soviet myth, is a British creation, namely that of the Welshman John Hughes, who arrived in 1870 with over 100 British engineers and a concession from the Tsar, developed the coal deposits and built up the steel industry in the Donetsk Basin.

"We Will Live Forever" is the search for traces of the destroyed Jewish culture of Wilna. While the gentile Viennese band "gojim" looks for the musical traces of this extinguished culture, we get a very personal view of the era through the eyes of three witnesses of this time. On behalf of the many who can no longer speak, they tell stories about childhood, youth and resistance in and around the ghetto of Wilna.

Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno directs this impassioned documentary about the slow crumbling of traditional morals and values caused by colonialism and globalization. The film traces Teno's journey from his base in France to Cameroon's capital Yaounde to his hometown of Mbieng. In the process, he captures images of corroding infrastructures and corrupt officials.

Documentary deals with the murder of 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl in July 2002 by three young people.

A portrait of documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe.

The film accompanies protagonists and observers of the Ride of Blood in Weingarten, the largest equestrian procession in Europe with up to 3,000 riders and 30,000 pilgrims. Catholics from all over Upper Swabia take an active part in this procession. The film shows, among others, a country butcher and his family, a couple of beekeepers, a practicing Indian friend from Waldburg, the customs researcher and museum founder Jürgen Hohl, a monastery brother and the abbot of Weingarten Monastery. With ironic overtones, Wolfsperger creates a multi-faceted picture of society that goes beyond popular piety and folklore and delves into existential questions about faith, partnership and death.

In the midst of the family's idyllic life, unheard-of news breaks. Hilde has won first prize in a radio competition - a trip to Hawaii for two!

A short by Alexander Kluge.

In moving interviews, four fathers describe their suffering and efforts to keep contact with their children. A mother justifies the refusal of contact from her point of view. Despite the seriousness of the topic, the film manages to remain entertaining and even delivers an amusing snapshot of German sensitivities and the state of the Republic.

Hare Mucki has watched a popular german movie and purchased a tabletop football through e-bay. He re-enacts the pivotal scene for his friend.

Inspired by Euripides, a theater director sets out to produce a play drawn from the experiences of an all-Turkish cast of amateur actresses, inadvertently setting the stage for a series of passionate discussions on religion, politics and modernity. Captured by documentarian Thomas Lauterbach, the rehearsals become a forum for debate, as devout Muslim traditionalist Aysel defends her lifestyle against the views of her more progressive cast mates.

Der Tag tells the story about the every day occurrence of death. The essay-film sketches the last day of about ten people who died in Berlin. As voice-overs, the “passers-by”, or the different people close to the deceased, tell their story of that particular day from when they woke up, until the moment of death – somewhere in the city. Sometimes this moment is totally surprising, and sometimes it seems somehow forceful...

A dubious refugee smuggler cheats Mahmut of all his money. Not wanting his wife and children to regard him as a failure, he tries to get to Germany after all by hiding in the boot of a Mercedes belonging to two German tourists.

In the capital of Thailand, the music-underground is exploding right now. That is what two German film makers found out during a two-month stay in Bangkok in 2003. The film portrays bands (Beargarden, Apartment Khun Ba, Som etc.) and labels (Smallroom, Bama, Panda, Hualampong Riddim) from the indie-scene, visits festivals and shows (Pattaya, NoisePop) and meets media (Fat Radio, Channel V), who support the Bangkok music scene. In interviews the highly creative protagonists of the local scene express their outlook on music, their conditions and what their work is about in their own words. The intention of making this film is to show to Western people what is going on in Thailand on the cultural side.

Live concert of the 2004 tour "Traces of Sadness" in their home country Estonia.

Today the steamer is called "Liemba" and is probably the oldest regularly operating liner in the world. Its original owners named it after the German Africa explorer Graf von Goetzen. The ship was commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1913 to support German protection troops in the African colonies. It made its way from the Ems to Lake Tanganyika in what was then the colony of German East Africa in 5,000 crates by ship, rail and even on foot. There, three Papenburg engineers assembled the ship and received a "tropical surcharge" for it. And when the First World War broke out, "Graf Goetzen" even presented itself as a gunboat. The film describes the eventful and sometimes involuntarily funny story of this floating museum piece from the perspective of people whose lives were or are fatefully linked to the ship: Germans, Belgians, Britons, Tanzanians. A piece of colonial history and a journey through recent Tanzanian history, maybe a touch of "Fitzcarraldo".

Ima is a story about four women and three generations: grandmother, mother and two daughters... one of them Caterina Klusemann.

Dubai, the Easter Island - and now Hofgeismar in Northern Hesse, Germany. This is an "absolute Lighthouse project", says architect Tom Krause. No, he roars it. "This will be a sensation for all of Europe." Around 420 million are to be invested. Five luxury hotels, 600 villas and apartments, several golf courses, an artificial lake landscape of 34 hectares, as well as a trotting course and an Polo field. And not to forget: 1000 jobs. Mayor Henner Sattler (CDU) is the engine of the whole. An extraordinary city head. He is emotional, gripping to, sympathetic and open. What can possibly go wrong?

Short film by Bastian Hopfgarten.

There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’t exist at all. One such place is a dumpsite. From the humans’ point of view, it is a ghastly place, a stinking desert of trash. But it’s a desert that is teaming with life.

A portrait of a city as seen by temporary Berliners. The documentary recounts stories from the forty-plus years of post-war history, from the days of the Cold War to the arrival of a new Berliner after the fall of the Wall and depicts those who came and stayed and those who passed on through – artists who report on their life, work, and their personal experiences. The film’s pageant interweaves the life stories of internationally renowned artists which are raucous and restrained stories of constraints and freedom, of flight and yearning, miniatures of world history set in a place that has learned to flaunt its difference to the rest of the world.

The Italian painter Tintoretto was born in Venice in the 16th century. He remained loyal to his city for a lifetime. You can still find his pictures in the places for which he painted them: in the Venetian churches, the schools of the lay brotherhoods, the palaces. His most famous works include the monumental depiction of the liberation of slaves by Saint Mark as well as various depictions of the Last Supper. Tintoretto worked for 20 years on his main work, the ceiling and wall paintings in the Scuola di San Rocco, which depict scenes from the Old Testament and the life of Jesus. Dagmar Knöpfel's artist portrait pays homage to the famous Renaissance painter.

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an irresistible state of dissolution at the beginning and end of all things and living things.

The film tells the story of the Hansa Theater in Hamburg, Germany's oldest variety theater, interweaving it with observations from the last season in 2001. It documents the work behind the scenes, the effort that had to be made month after month to bring a new program to the stage. The film lovingly observes the arrival of the artists in their trailers in the courtyard, their daily training, and the preparations made by the kitchen, service, and technical staff, and shows the performances as the culmination of this work. Above all, however, the images convey the joy that the work brings to everyone involved. Memories of Telse Meyer-Grell are visually complemented by archive footage and old photos.

The Stinatz Mafia has been meticulously planning the coup in Stegersbach for five years. It's finally time to take revenge, because Stegersbach has a spa! The Stinatz boy knows full well that if the Cosa Nostra gets involved, things can get fun, because: A true Mafioso dresses modestly. In his behavior and speech, he radiates brotherly goodwill. He acts naive, full of stupid attention to what one says. He patiently endures insults and sideswipes. And then, that very evening, he shoots you!

Melanie Fiona performs at the SWR3 New Pop Festival 2009 in Baden-Baden, Germany.

Heike Baranowsky captures situations in Chinese everyday life, as in her sixteen-minute film projection T Square (2006), which she made together with Waszem Khan (camera: Volker Gläser). The film operates with a hardly perceptible and slow and regular zoom in on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where the evening ritual of lowering the state flag is in pro- gress. The transition from a city panorama to the action at this historically and politically charged location is accompa- nied by a change in atmosphere, both through the onset of darkness and a shift in perception from mere viewing to ob- serving. (Peer Golo Willi)

Vergessensfuge is a meditation on the psychology of obedience and submission, in this instance springing from a handful of photographs taken in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation in 1945. The images are of young women, aged 20 - 30, who were guards at the camp - to say, compliant, obedient Germans doing as they were told to do.

Surreal short film starring "Sturm der Liebe" actress Sarah Stork.

Documentary about three Berlin cleaning ladies, their lives and their shattered dreams. The directors succeed in gaining deep insights into German reality, which the three women candidly reveal. Bourgeoisie, orderliness and an addiction to harmony come to the fore as well as a touching kindness and everyday wisdom.

"What I’m doing here is also a form of animal abuse! Until you realize at some point, you must also refrain to things, right?"