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Premiering the French version in Palermo Grand-opéra in five acts

Frank, a HIV infected former Lufthansa steward, goes back to Rio from Germany with a film crew to look for Mario, a young man with whom he had a one n...

What happens when a group of international artists travel to North Korea to create art like the regime have never seen before? While the world is on t...

Berlin is a metropolis, a big city with international flair and at the same time the habitat of countless raccoons, foxes, bats, squirrels, hedgehogs...

In September 1948, 83 German children arrive in Cape Town. Orphaned by war and handpicked to strengthen the Afrikaner bloodline with "Aryan blood", th...

In August 1961, a few railway cars and barbed wire divided East Germany from West. It was a barrier that would be extended and become increasingly mor...

A film adaptation of Leo Fall's play.

In winter, with ice and snow, it becomes uncomfortable in the Swiss Alps even for the animals. While marmots retreat to hibernate in the protective bu...

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her famil...

A portrait of documentary filmmaker Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Bernd, an insurance broker trainee, flees his mundane life in Germany to set a new World record in hang gliding in Bolivia.

The “Film about the Father” is a difficult genre. Andreas Goldstein, son of the GDR cultural functionary Klaus Gysi (1912–1999) has tackled this task...

A portrait of 19-year-old Ekhlas Bajoo, who was captured by IS at the age of 14, survived the unimaginable, was finally able to flee after six months...

After the death of his father, the ambitious farmhand Hauke Haien works his way up to become the successor to the old dyke count, whose daughter Elke...

Edgar Wurlitzer is on his way home when a woman suddenly jumps in front of his car. He quickly drives on and enlists the help of his friend Werner for...

Weeks after the Russian attack, Vasyl begins to document the suffering and death in his eastern Ukrainian homeland. The police officer's helmet camera...