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- A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending...
- The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.
- A young man learns that his dying father was once deeply in love with a man.
- The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. He befriends the Jew Schlomo Herzl working on a novel with the title "Mein Kampf". Hitler is rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Herzl's concern for the sad young man continues, and leads him to a new career with disastrous consequences for world history.
- A bored man suddenly realizes everyone around him has disappeared though he isn't sure what happened.
- A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own six children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother for her grandchildren as she never did that for Rita.
- West Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they become part of the global uprising joining forces with leftist writers and political activists. By the late 60s Gudrun has joined the gang lead by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof and Bern risks his sanity to finally writing a novel to change the world. An emotional true story of an explosive era starring August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds (2009), A Hidden Life (2019), Salt (2010)).
- The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII end, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.
- The unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
- The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
- A German doctor (Pierre Bokma) battling Sleeping Sickness in rural Cameroon fears that he will be a stranger in his own country as the end of his post draws near, and he prepares to move back home with his wistful wife, and their teenage daughter.
- A young woman comes down with panic disorder and has to come to terms with this.
- Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its 'collective spirit' in cinema. The purpose of film as a cultural tool is examined. Based on celebrated sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's seminal book 'From Caligari to Hitler' (1947).
- The film is a drama about a young woman who has to grapple with the painful consequences of an unplanned pregnancy. It not only reveals loss and loneliness, it is also a story of the search for a meaning to life by 20- to 30-year-olds.
- Feature scenes and interviews with Anne Frank's contemporaries to tell the story of her short life.
- The documentary examines the lives of the residents of a small German village in the Schleswig-Holstein region, Wacken, through a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air Festival.
- Germany, on a normal weekend in the summer. Punks, skins, and autonomy - as their paths cross it comes to disaster - to the Chaos Days. The film tells a story about how it could happen again anytime and anywhere. The story of Mitch, who has a full mouth once and for all by the same old, tired punk stagnation and his sidekick Didi.
- Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and revenge
- This is the story of Magdalena and Rosa Kopp, wife and daughter of arch-terrorist Carlos, known as "The Jackal". From the depths of ostracism and regret they are going on a sobering journey into the painful and exciting centers of international terrorism.
- YALLAH! follows today's most important and progressive underground artists from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Israel through years of rapid change from 2009 to 2014.
- Reifarth relates the history of the Tugendhat House and family from the perspectives of the Tugendhat children. The Tugendhat House is also presented in the social, political and cultural context of the modern Republic of Czechoslovakia formed after World War I; the German occupation; the communist regime; and the Czech Republic, whose formation was made public in a broadcast from the Tugendhat House. The descendants of Fritz and Grete never repossessed the house but always fought to have it restored and open to the public. In 2001 the Tugendhat House was designated a UNESCO World Heritage. From 2010 until the opening in 2012 a laborious technical and aesthetic restoration was realized.
- Pushed is a documentary that deals with some of the things we love and hate about skateboarding. Four protagonists have been portrayed giving very personal views on the toy itself and its significant influence on their work, the DoItYourself culture in skateboarding, the rules of the industry and the aging process. Skateboarding once pushed these guys to create things that people wouldn't necessarily link to this object, leading to the question whether this passion can be considered a subculture.
- Sin and Illy have a plan: on a Greek island they want to get 'clean' on their own. But the intention of the two girls fails already on the way to the airport. Finally Sin realizes she has to go the way out of heroin addiction all alone.
- Gently-paced family road trip in which divorced parents drive from Brussels to the Alps to pick up their son who has been injured following a skiing accident.
- 10-year-old Sascha seems to always be getting into trouble. A doctor prescribes pills to help fix his problems. Only Sascha's best friend Elli isn't happy with the results.
- Coldest German winter of World War II. African-American private Jamar gets lost behind the enemy frontline. When he takes shelter in a cabin deep in the forest he struggles in an uncertain path with fateful encounters to head home again.
- In Gordian Maugg's historic crime story ZEPPELIN! the airship casts its long shadow over three generations of a southern German family: Why did Robert Silcher, crew member of the LZ 129 Hindenburg, die in the flames at Lakehurst on 7 May 1937? Unsuccessfully his son Jakob spent his life trying to shed light on the mysterious circumstances of the accident. His grandson Matthias remembers his father's deep sadness and a trip to Lake Constance in 1973. Matthias' investigation leads him to the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen to one of Robert's former colleagues, Karl Semmle. But the old man rejects Matthias and first wants to know why he is so curious before he breaks his silence. The bizarre circumstances of Robert's death and the lives of his surviving family members thereafter does not come to light until 2004 with the help of Karl Semmle, the only witness of the time who really knows what happened and what drove Robert to sacrifice his own life to save the airship industry - a decision that would go on to haunt the lives of three generations. Filmmaker Gordian Maugg interweaves beautiful archive footage of the Hindenburg in this film, allowing a rare sight on the big screen of this exceptional airship.
- This mountain region that reaches across several countries in Eastern Europe is the home to gold diggers, wizards, cow herders and old Hassids.
- Fuckmybeatz - nightlife in Frankfurt discovers the extra ordinary party line made by DJ Leonardo Aquino. The documentary explains the generation party in Germany and is full of up-tempo house music. Fuckmybeatz was a limited party zone with sex, drugs and club music.
- A psychologist tries to find out why 18-year old Maik has stabbed down a foreigner. Maik however is in an inner conflict: relieve his conscience or betray his friend Thomas, who is waiting for him outside.
- When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an emotional roller coaster that eventually shows them the virtue of being a family.
- After having a stone thrown at her head, Marla learns as a child that the opposite sex can be very hurtful. Many years later she meets and falls in love with Robert. Little does she suspect that he is the stone thrower from her past.
- Jens Eisenkraemer is passionate climber from the German countryside. The drop-out has left his daily grind behind. Within the emotional limits of personal freedom, family and society he is drifting through life today. Searching for his ultimate moment the impulsive rookie is facing his biggest challenges as a climber: The first ascent of a medieval tower, his hometown's landmark and the foundation of a climbing hall. Two things he needs on his path to happiness: a vision and the courage to fail.
- An old contract killer (Erwin Leder) is caught off guard by a little girl who's father he's supposed to kill. She is waiting for Santa Claus so he takes the role to get rid of her, but the harder he tries, the more he gets lost in the dreamworld of the child. Soon everything changes...
- Jonny King wakes up with a headache, a Detective at his front door, a girl tied up in his kitchen and that's before things start to turn bad! The Legend of Jonny King is a dark comedy about how simple misunderstandings can cause situations to spiral completely out of control. Jonny can only sit back and watch as the events unfold around him. The Legend of Jonny King is a strange, hilarious and sometimes disturbing look into the life of someone having a very, very bad day.
- About the infamous techno club Aufschwung Ost/Stammheim in Kassel, Germany. The Techno Club "Aufschwung Ost" opened it's doors in 1994 in Kassel and in 1996 changed it's name to "Stammheim". In the first two years of it's opening it was chosen twice as best German Techno club and as a result Kassel became a magnet for hundreds of techno fans from all over Germany.
- History and present of a heretical company.A film about a great publisher,a big Italian publishing house and about the passion for books: to discovery, develop and publish literature. "To change the world with books."
- An entertaining journey across a country that made a business out of a novel: Transylvania, the origin of Bram Stoker's Dracula and ancient home of all vampires, is also characterized by the Transylvania's Saxons, who have been living there for nearly a 1.000 years - until their history came to an end in only one summer in 1990.
- Anne Frank hiding in the attic from the Nazis. Her only friend is a mysterious friend "Kitty" who she has never seen, but shares a lot of letters with.