This Documentary is an intimate exploration of the life and influence of Mary Bauermeister, the pioneering force behind…
This is an intimate film, that explores the Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly's life, revealing his unique approach to m…
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
Experimental filmmaker Khaled Abdulwaheds cinematically deconstructs a photograph of a cactus field in 1998 Syria. Now …
When his piano is destroyed in the Syrian war, pianist and composer Ayham Ahmad continues to make music of resistance n…
Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
Shot on three continents, this unique documentary follows the pioneer of avant-garde composer John Cage through miscell…
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
Respected in both North and South Korea, renowned composer Isang Yun dreams that music can one day reconcile the two co…
Born a woman, Marion decides to become Marian, a man. This documentary follows Marian over 10 years documenting her gen…
Scientists, doctors, natural and surrogate mothers, hospitals, fertilization labs. This fascinating documentary explain…
Through technology and various present-day experiences, this fascinating educational documentary revisits the relevance…
Maya has grown accustomed to being a hairless teenager. After being diagnosed with Alopecia areata, Maya tries to find …
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talen…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
In this beautiful film essay, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films the landscape outside his studio window for s…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
This is a making-of film like you've never seen another. The documentary follows the making of a film about the rise an…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
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…
This is a fascinating insight into the life of Swiss skier and Olympic medalist Lara Gut-Behrami. From the peak of her …
Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
After a past as a drug dealer and drug user, "Plusmacher", a young German rapper, navigates life with what keeps him go…
After leaving Spain to escape Franco's regime, Serafin found in Berlin the possibility to be himself freely. Gay, color…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
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…
In just four minutes, three faces discuss past lives, an unfortunate accident and what the future holds. A cigarette is…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
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