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A documentary about everyday life in a Romanian high-security prison near Bucharest. Filmmaker Andrei Schwartz spent more than half a year accompanying and observing the lives of the prisoners. Up to 22 men share a cell in the hopelessly overcrowded Rahova prison on the outskirts of Bucharest. Schwartz focuses more closely on several individual fates and describes how the men try above all to get through each day unscathed. At the same time, the film shows how the prisoners try to preserve their humanity in an inhumane environment and cope with their bleak everyday lives with creativity, humor, and a spark of optimism.

Wolfgang Döblin, son of the famous writer Alfred Döblin and a talented mathematical genius, obtained French citizenship while in exile and was mobilized as a soldier during the Franco-German War in 1939. Despite the extreme conditions at the front, he worked on his theories of random motion, particularly "memoryless random processes." At only 25 years of age, he took his own life to avoid capture by the Wehrmacht, but left behind significant works in probability theory that underscore his influence on modern mathematics.

Debut documentary of Tatyana Kononenko dealing with the issues of memory and history.

Lovely princess Isabella loses her golden ball down a well and plitsch platsch, the frog comes to her rescue — but with a price! Will the great king allow his daughter to marry a funny little frog?

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Single mother Kerstin Rabel comes up with something very special for this summer vacation to escape the stressful everyday life with her two daughters and get closer to each other again.

Lasting over thirteen hours, Claerbout's film shows two men engaged in a discussion against the back-drop of a neoclassical house in southern France. An act of violence is repeated and re-enacted more than seventy times over the course of the film. Dissolving the boundaries between photography and film, Claerbout’s work puts into question the reassuring stillness of photography and the inevitable narrative progress of the cinematic image.

A snapshot of a month in Provence. The ants are feasting on the bread and cheese, changes in the weather, a clothesline.

The Complete Pregnancy Guide: This Discovery Channel documentary traces the development of the unborn child from conception to birth in powerful and fascinating visuals. Nine months that mean a time of rapid growth and dramatic change for the unborn child and the mother-to-be: the adventure of pregnancy. Discover the fascinating world of Discovery Channel with this film and experience the wonder of life!

Vlado Kristl rejected the word anarchy. Nor did he like the word utopia, nor the term experimental film. As a matter of fact, he didn't like any words if they weren't freed from the conventional ways of thinking. Following the shooting of "Kunst ist nur ausserhalb der Menschengesellschaft" he was only pleased when hardly anything he expressed in his poems performed, thrown and hurled against any hostile and alien environment by Carola Regnier was understood. - Markus Nechleba

Over 90% of the world's opium now comes from Afghanistan. In this shocking new film, we ride the drugs caravan, from cultivation, to process, to market. On route, we lift the curtain on the hidden world of the drug barons; learn how to process heroin in the crudest of laboratories and encounter deadly gunfights on the Iranian border.

"I am lost to the world..." (Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen...), the title is quoted from a poem by Friedrich Rückert. This German romanticist poet wrote of the sadness of disappearance. An anonymous amateur cineaste shot some scenes in Kyoto in 1934. This footage has since suffered from typical vinegar syndrome (Hydrolysis) resulting from improper storage. The films were falling into decay and would probably eventually disintegrate without being seen again by anyone. "Film" is not a immortal document, but a vanishing existence. The film which we can know may be merely slight.

A group of swim-crazy men in Frankfurt don't want to swim straight ahead any longer. A documentary dealing with a group of gay men who cannot be stopped by anything from realizing their dream of floating. Europe's only male synchronized swimming group performs striking supporting shows at swimming championships and is a constant part - not only - of the gay world of sports.

As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett. In it, Sennett describes the effect of the ‘new’ flexible capitalism on society’s shifting system of norms and values.

A wounded man wanders through a forest where he encounters many things while in a dream-like state.

Documentary about the labyrinthine bunker built underground in Berlin around 1940 and the survival of the people in the shelters during the Second World War.

Recorded live on 20.10.2006 at Reithalle Strasse E, Dresden (Germany). Track 14 and 15 recorded live in July 2004 at Zillo Open Air Festival, St. Goarshausen (Germany). Track 16 recorded live on 20.07.2007 at Stubnitz, Kopenhagen (Denmark).

They say that love is blind and there must be some truth in it, because in this comic tale, a good-looking frog falls for the velvety skin of an imitation lady-frog that graces a pair of slippers belonging to the farmer's wife. But their happiness is short-lived, because real frogs can't really fall in love with imitation frogs... can they?

The camera's eye accompanies the successful Austrian author Josef Winkler and the audience in a poetic road movie, jumps in clips and reverse angles from the 'hallowed stable' in a Carinthian mountain village to the banks of the Ganges, and immediately afterwards to the foot of Popocatepetl, experiencing a volcanic eruption.

The new anger has meanwhile also gripped the students. Whether in Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia or Hessen, thousands of students are taking to the streets to protest against the introduction of general tuition fees. For the right to free education, against the creeping privatization of education and the social exclusion of students from low-income families.

German documentary follow the artictic studio of cinematographers and animators.

Created by using 16mm blank film and black pigment, which has been manually rubbed into a layer of transparent silicone. In projection, it becomes a rapid and infinitely complex hypnagogic vision. Frame by frame, this film shows 17,000 of these different black and white images through the rapid speed of the projector. Black surface meets white surface, fabricated by the projection lamp.

HF489, Super 8 (Black & White)

HF223A - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

A film diary about the attempt to do an internship with an early retiree who earns some extra money by buying a group ticket for the subway at Frankfurt Airport every day and then offering to accompany travelers to their respective destinations at the ticket machine - for a small contribution towards the cost, somewhat cheaper than the actual fare, of course.