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The final third part of the Fascinating Nature Trilogy provides the discovery of the Seven Seasons. Since we have not only four, but really seven archetypes of climatic seasons on our planet.

LINE OF BEAUTY AND GRACE is a tale about photography and art, family and life, dealing with the history of man and woman, life and art. Many art historians consider Jock Sturges, born in 1947, to be one of the most important fine art photographers of our times. As a catholic and graduated in psychology and photography, he survived the attacks of conservatives in the United States. Sturges has created a series of intensely powerful and moving photographs with an outstanding sensitivity for composition and light. Sturges's artistic work is an uncompromising search for truth and clarity. His private life is marked by his open nature and inspired by the love he shares with his wife Maia. In LINE OF BEAUTY AND GRACE, the filmmaker and photographer Christian E. Klinger journeys into the life and work of this extraordinary man.

The first DVD of the band, chronologically collects all the clips the band made between 1991 and 2002. A better illustration for the musical growth that Motorpsycho went through is difficult to find. On the second DVD you can find a recording of a concert that the Norwegians gave in 2002 in Paradiso. That Motorpsycho has a special bond with the Netherlands is evident from the documentary Norwegian Heroes that was broadcast by VPRO in 2000. This sympathetic film can be found in its entirety in this package. Hair Cuts is a great asset to the true Psychonaut, as the Motorpsycho fans like to call themselves.

The new hard-hitting documentary, The Big Sellout, challenges current economic orthodoxy in contending that the dogmatic claims of the international business establishment for neo-liberal development policies are not supported by modern economic science. More importantly, it dramatically demonstrates how the implementation of these policies is having disastrous consequences for millions of ordinary people around the globe.

This is a simple love story. A silent film with sound in which virtual reality has finally caught up with us. And why does everyone always have to speak English?

At Halloween Night, four young people drive with their car through a car wash that turns into a ghost train and the contours between reality and fantasy start to blur.

After more than 10 years, a high school graduating class gets together for a class reunion. The initial idyll is surprisingly disturbed when one of the former classmates "outed" himself as a contract killer and begins to kill those present...

As the distraught student Tobias is incapable of making a statement, the investigator in charge confronts him with the gruesome truth: the video recordings that reveal what happened to Tobias and his four friends when they ignored all warnings and got lost in a sealed-off forest area. But even when Tobias believes he has seen it all, the real horror is far from over. Nothing is as it seems and everyone is a suspect....

The director deals with the themes of growing up and finding one's place in the world, partly autobiographically. Hyun-Sook Song attempts to illustrate what it means to be foreign or different by comparing different religions (especially Christianity and Buddhism) and customs (Korean and German), but also by contrasting the emotional worlds of children and adults, disabled and healthy people, foreigners and locals.

Sternfeld is sent by a lawyer's office to Taipei to investigate a Compact Disc pirating operation and to document the sales of said CDs on video. He fails to make contact with his informant and ends up wandering aimlessly through the city. His repeated visits to a prostitute do nothing to reduce his feelings of alienation. Only when he meets Chang do his perceptions begin to change.

Immanuel Kant Hospital in Neukölln, Berlin. Midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the spot. The beginning of a story that tells itself. - And a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media.

The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious challenge.

The film draws attention to the fate of over 300,000 German citizens who were deported from the Soviet-occupied sector to the Soviet Union towards the end of World War II and until the 1950s and sentenced to forced labor as human reparation. It is confronted with shocking fates without hiding the fact that German omnipotence fantasies were at the beginning of this path of suffering.

A found-footage film in which time ticks away on the watches of the film industry. They do not just function as dramatic signs for expectation and suspense, but also as icons for the limitation of film (and its shelf life).

During an argument with his father, the bombshell drops: 21-year-old Jens learns that the man he thought was his father is not his biological father. Years later, he rummages through old slides and Super 8 films—and finds a clue that leads to Lebanon.

In Walbrzych (Waldenburg), in the Lower Silesian coal area, the mines are closed. Lukasz and his friend Jacek are now mining the coal on their own. For years. Like hundreds of other coal woodpeckers, they illegally dig for the black gold outside the city gates. The police are always on their heels, but they keep going.

This is clearly underlined in the live recording made in September 2002 at the Paris New Morning club. The New Morning - The Paris Concert DVD contains twelve great tracks, where all of the musicians involved show themselves to be fantastic soloists. High points are the new versions of "Crosswinds", "Dreamer", "Mister BC", "Dessiccated Coconuts", "Stratus" and "Spectrum".

Documentary about a white whale swimming in the river Rhine.

After many years, Dr. Knut Hansen marries his old childhood sweetheart Stina Thorwald.

The growing pains of adolescence, and a young man's attempt to free himself from the grip of a domineering mother.

Corinna Vogt squeezes into her business suit to save her ex-boss's company from a hostile takeover.

Sometimes the decisions we are faced with take a completely unexpected turn. This is exactly what happens to Jürgen, a terminally ill man who is on his way to the last thrill of his life.

Short documentary directed by Ulf von Mechow

Master Fu instructs his student Tong Tong to hunt down the outcast villain Power Chow. Power Chow is using his abilities to wipe out several lives across the country. Tong Tong is initially reluctant to use deadly powers himself, but once he sets out on his journey and makes acquaintance with Power Chow's creatures of the night in the Ghost Forest, nothing can stop him!

An ode to the slaughter of cattle.

Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull is a live album and DVD by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, featuring the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt, conducted by John O'Hara. The DVD was recorded at the Rosengarten in Mannheim on 8 December 2004. The concert was part of a series of the same name. Anderson, O'Hara, and the orchestra toured Europe and the United States throughout 2004 and 2006.

Deprived of his individuality, a man becomes part of an alienated collective in the course of his journey.

In the subway of Berlin, an african woman get into the subway holding in her hand a red shard, she shouts « This is my heart ». These words induce silence during the remainder of the voyage. And one wonders: where do we us keep our prejudices? Selected for the New York Film Festival 2006.

In February 1959, a man enters the empty Anhalter Bahnhof, a railway station set for demolition, and becomes immersed in memories and visions. This animated film uses movement, language, and sound to create a dense portrait of the setting and the man’s lonely personality. The Anhalter Bahnhof, a Berlin landmark damaged in the war, operated until 1952 before being demolished. The film reflects on the forgotten, memory-filled city of West Berlin in the 1970s.

Fourteen couples enjoy themselves in various sex positions that inspire imitation. Just as much fun are some pretty young ladies who shed their clothes without any inhibitions. Experience the perfect vacation feeling in idyllic and exotic locations with plenty of summer, beach, and thrilling eroticism.

Pessac, Quartiers Modernes Frugès: The camera goes from living room to living room, from yard to bath, kitchen to balcony, strolls through a typical day at the row houses built by Le Corbusier in the 20s. This film focuses on the question of how the residents have departed from Le Corbusier’s original concept in the intervening decades so that they feel at home within their own four walls.

HF522 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

Far away in a foreign and apparently merciless world, a little girl struggles to carry water pots that are far too heavy for her. Uncomplaining, she hauls the jugs from a distant place to her sick mother in their wretched home.

The dream of writing seems to come true for trained pharmacist Kim Garben when she is commissioned to write a heartbreak story as a serialized novel for a newspaper. However, Kim, who has been sorely disappointed by men, finds it difficult to write a love story of all things. But then comes the saving idea: she simply hooks up with her lovesick neighbor Ludger, who has just been dumped by his girlfriend.

Glienicke Bridge has linked Berlin and Potsdam since the 17th Century. As a symbol of the division of Germany and the world into East and West The bridge became a household name. Though only 3 spy exchanges took place at Glienicke Bridge, comprising a total of 38 agents, it forever became known as The Bridge of Spies.

Advertising manager Wilms has strangled a girl – possibly. At the airport, he tries to escape his memories. When he is suspected of a crime he probably did not commit, he involuntarily becomes the investigator of his own case...

"Der Viechmensch" (The Beastman/Animalman) is a documentary following a South Tyrolean farmer and his farmhand Karl who are isolated from most of the modern world.

The protagonist wakes up in a sick bed and gets up. He wears a white doctor's coat, including only hospital underpants and anti-thrombosis stockings. He walks like a dream through a cold, tiled environment and finally opens a door where he secretly observes an autopsy.

Award-winning director Langjahr returns to his beloved Alps to document a group of people continuing the legacy of their forefathers. Every year on Swiss National day, August 1, the Wildheuer climb up the steep mountain of the «Hinteren Heubrig», fitted out with scythes and wearing wooden shoes with spikes, just as their ancestors did before them. They are part of a generation who have lived with the challenges of nature and survived it. In his film, Langjahr's poetic realism gives an insight into these people's experience of the simple life, the very foundation of human existence.

Two elderly women talk about the highs and lows of life and love.

Three men in a shared apartment, 54 square meters in Berlin Kreuzberg. You sleep in the kitchen, bathroom and half room. Junkies, ex-knackis and alcoholics between Hartz IV, the next shot, vodka and beer - the nightmare of any bourgeois neighborhood. Andi dreams of his own apartment, Dieter has to go into construction for 100 days, and Wolfgang writes poems. In the claustrophobic narrowness of this community of foggy spirits, happiness and love act like shadows of a time long gone by. As it comes to stirring moments in the dirt, chaos and despair, the conflicts break through increasingly stronger: the electricity bill, the rent, the stolen sweaters. But Andi brings the seemingly paradoxical of her situation to the point: "No person likes to live alone!"