Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Tour Du Faso, Africa's top cycling race, where foreigners and locals try to be the winner on a route full of unforeseen…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
After a past as a drug dealer and drug user, "Plusmacher", a young German rapper, navigates life with what keeps him go…
By observing a group of Kazakh migrants working in a remote rural village in Russia, we learn about their harsh story o…
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
When a large construction project begins in a small German town, the consequences are unpredictable.
After the fall of the Berlin wall, in this documentary the incisive filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck takes a look at the history…
A renowned TV host uncovers the secrets of an iconic game show on the former East German television, back in the sixtie…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
How did the revolutionary German sculptor Arno Breker become the object of adoration and protégé of Adolf Hitler? In th…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
At 81 years old, Erika and Tine are a couple out of the mold. As artists who defied East German repression, they now hu…
Conceived as an essay film, we follow a man in a suit walking through Tokyo on an existential journey. We hear a voice,…
In just four minutes, three faces discuss past lives, an unfortunate accident and what the future holds. A cigarette is…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
For the first time, a forest route stretching from Germany to Romania is the scenery of a bikepacking race. This docume…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
In 1811, two bodies were found shot in Lake Wannsee, near Berlin. The German poet Kleist and a woman. What is known abo…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
USA, the land of the possible. This free visual essay deconstructs the imaginary and mythology of the United States as …
Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
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