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- Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.
- Based on the mysterious legend of Idilia Dubb. Germany, 19th century, in the Middle Rhine Valley. 17-year-old Idilia (Lea van Acken) wakes up badly injured in the middle of a gloomy castle ruin and can remember nothing. She is horrified to discover that there seems to be no escape for her. Only her diary can help her decipher her past and reveals a secret romance with Caven (Eric Kabongo), an Abyssinian showman who has to work for Idilia's fiancé Franz Hagerberg (André M. Hennicke) at his human zoo exhibition. The young woman's struggle for survival and her slowly returning memory blur reality and fantasy.
- The German physician Dr. Struensee, brilliant doctor and favorite of women, is summoned to the royal court in Copenhagen.
- As Mika returns to the farm for the summer, she finds a wild white horse in the forest. When one day, she spots a mysterious young man trying to tame the animal, that Mika believes to be a unicorn, Mika and the stranger strike a deal.
- Mika is sent to spend the summer at her strict grandmother's horse farm. She is hesitant at first, but when she meets the wild stallion Ostwind, Mika discovers her amazing horse whispering powers.
- Documentary about the rock group BAP from Cologne in Germany.
- Frankfurt, Germany, 1807. Clemens Bretano, a writer, meets Auguste Bußman, a 17-year old girl from a wealthy banker's family. She is a very passionate and impulsive being and immediately falls in love with him. In contrary to her, Clemens is a silent thinker who expresses his feelings in writing better than in life. Together they tumble into a passionate relationship that later they turn into marriage. Auguste gets expelled from her family and now only has Clemens to be with. But the artist grows tired of her incredible amount of passion to give and attention to receive and threatens to divorce her. From then on, Auguste tries everything to keep up the marriage, but from time to time her real self breaks through.
- Ella is just an ordinary cab-driver in Berlin, Germany. One day she meets Aleksej, a young Russian guy, who offers her DM 100.000 should she decide to marry him formally. Ella first delays answering, but when she finally decides to do it, it is too late. What Ella doesn't know is that Aleksej has stolen the Deutschmarks from his brother Jewjenij, crown-prince of the Moscow Mafia. And Jewgenij is no one who accepts loosing something...
- At sunrise five people meet on a high rise rooftop in order to leap to their deaths.
- April 1945. Because he stole two boxes of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute due to an air force attack, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police. Desperate, Rudi again steals two boxes of chocolate from a store, hoping his old case will be reopened and Dr. Schramm's past brought to light. But Dr. Schramm has Rudi's death sentence removed from his file. During the trial, Schramm defends Rudi as he was his lawyer and not the prosecutor and suspicion rises. Finally his tongue slips and, without fully realizing what he is saying, demands that Rudi be sentenced to death. The trial is stopped, Schramm now only tries to get away and Rudi tries to leave town but finally start a new life with the woman who owns the hotel and who supported him.
- Ingeborg works at a hospital under Professor Burger and his son the surgeon Manfred Burger. A double affair with father and son ends her job. But she is pregnant.
- Film based on the rise of The Red Army Faction, German revolutionary terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.
- A group of friends got into a big trouble and they will try to do anything to get away with it.
- TOXIC LULLABY tells the story of Eloise, who wakes up in a destroyed, life threatening world after a bad drug trip. She joins a group of people, who like her, are motivated by the longing to flee this nightmare, but it's hard to tell who'll carry the day, the survivors or the zombies.
- Johanna starts her new job as a forestry worker and finds the latest victim of a serial killer detective Tönning has been chasing in vain. When the killer calls Johanna she provokes him, hoping to get closer to and maybe identify him.
- Bishop Hemmelrath's sycophantic deputy Mühlich's seminary friend died of a cardiac arrest in his parish, a castle outside Passau. It's only the first of several, each corresponding to an original Grimm brothers rhyme about the seven dwarfs. Mühlich arranges for Braun to be named to that parish and enlists his retainer Armin to train him in martial arts, supposedly as episcopal bodyguard. The victims include banker Zapf and a museum director, both involved in a grim intrigue about the priceless original Grimm manuscripts, which ruthless thieves are after while rivaling academics dispute research prominence. Braun finds the common factors and solves both cases.
- The 17-year-old stepson of the popular television-talk master Maarten Jansen is murdered. His broken body was found wrapped in plastic bags. Soon Jansen gets entangled in contradictions and the suspicion falls on him.
- Frieder and his wife Nina, a doctor, are fixing up their house, though their relationship is obviously strained. Instead of picking up their young daughter Charlotte, Nina drives off to visit her brother Christoph in an isolated cabin. From there, she cycles to a sports hotel in the woods where she stays. Aimlessly wandering around the hotel, she has a brief encounter with an old tennis pro who has been giving demonstrations. Her brother, Frieder, and Charlotte find her, but she does not come home with them. After all the old windows have been removed, Frieder rejects the replacement ones that are delivered. Frieder has a liaison an old girlfriend Maria, who is now Charlotte's nursery school teacher. Nina returns to the house without windows.
- In 1936, in Germany, a young, innocent apprentice, full of Olympic fever, leaves his rural village to see the ceremonies in Berlin. Upon arriving in the capital, he meets a widow and a relationship blossoms. They spend an idyllic summer at her lakeside home, but the forces of totalitarianism cannot be held at bay and soon invade their lives.
- A pact with the evil for eternal life? No bad deal if you are terminally ill. But in what context is the misery of a nameless man (played by David Weinand) with the so-called Souls application, which is currently causing concern everywhere? Eyewitnesses report strange phenomena after downloading the app. Others went mad, and in the worst case, it even cost their lives. For a long time, the police kept filmed events of people in connection with the Souls app under lock and key - until today. But can the unspeakable evil be stopped at all?
- Eberhard Dobermann is a widower and a policeman who loves to control the roads and let people pay fines. Even with his neighbour and friend Jutta Schmalbach he has no pity. Thus he cannot understand why his daughter Karin just falls in love with a racing pilot called Walter. But it gets even worse when Eberhard wins a VW-Kaefer at the annual police party. So he has to learn to drive and thus even brings his teacher close to a heart attack.
- Seen through the eyes of the filmmaker, a child of concentration camp survivors, this program explores the impact of the Holocaust on a generation of Jews and Germans born after World War II. Includes interviews in Canada, Israel, and Germany with the children of survivors, with young neo-Nazis, and with the children of former Nazis.
- A bloodthirsty demon attempts to pit five friends against each other in this send-up of 1980s "splatter" films.
- After a photo shooting for gothic fashion in an old bunker, the entrance key gets lost. The three models and the photo team are desperately seeking for another exit. While seeking, they are getting deeper into a labyrinth until they are covered by insanity and hopelessness. Not all of them manage to find an exit and one of them has to face a horrifying discovery.
- The heinous murders of a serial killer keep the residents of the small town of Sountheim in suspense.
- Joan Jonas, a pioneer of video and performance art, started exploring new media in the mid-1960s and quickly became a highly influential and entirely unique visual artist. In 2012 we followed her work on her latest installation and performance, "Reanimation" which she created for the dOCUMENTA(13) art exhibition in Kassel, Germany. Inspired by the novel "Under the Glacier" by the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness, Jonas created a video installation piece, mixing footage of a trip to Norway, text, drawings, props, and reanimated videos from her previous work. Pairing her imagery with the music of Jazz pianist, Jason Moran, who Jonas has collaborated with on past projects, the artist creates a unique space of sound and scenery. Throughout the film, the artist also offers insights into her inspirations and her early work including "Wind", "Organic Honey", "Volcano Saga" and "The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things".
- Once in the little village of Ahnatal-Weimar, near the city of Kassel, there were three bronze bells hung in the church tower. During World War I, two of the three bells were taken from the tower to be made into ammunition. In the year 1920, the village decided to trade the one remaining bell for three steel bells. These bells have hung there ever since and have now rusted through completely. The «Three steel sisters» have witnessed 100 years of village history and now their time has come. But every end brings with it a new beginning. The church congregation came together to raise the funds for a set of new bronze bells. Through the process they experience what can be achieved with diligence, team work and the sweat of one's brow. After a long process they finally achieve what they had set out to do. Four new bronze bells finally make their way into the church tower.
- Yann Song King is a German musician using subtle humor to criticize corona measures and mandates. Empathic portrait of a musician, peaceful protests in Germany and what life was like for "unvaccinated" people there in 2021/22.
- Simon examines the Romantics' contribution to the idea of 'national belonging' and the distinctly mixed consequences, from the facilitation of authentic cultural development, to the manipulation of their work by nationalist movements.
- Arrogant spoiled princess Isabella of Gerania haughtily rejects all suitors, even prince Richard of Begonia, whom she liked in a previous anonymous meeting. Finally her exasperated royal father gives her hand to the first-come beggar. Richard disguises himself as such in secret, helped only by his sister Maximiliane, hoping to pull of an operation taming the shrew by making her earn her keep, but gradually despairs as her pride persists.
- 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.
- An examination of the raccoon, the largest mammal species to have adapted well to human cities.
- 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...
- What if you could do whatever you always wanted to do for 1000 days? Katerina, young mother of little Emma, dreams of working as an actress again, like she already did before Emma was born. Her husband Holger doesn t show much understanding for her wishes. After a heavy argument, Katerina decides, that from now on, she would start doing only what she really wanted to for 1000 days... Was wäre, wenn du für die nächsten 1000 Tage nur noch das tun würdest, was du auch wirklich willst? Katerina, die junge Mutter von Emma, träumt davon wieder als Schauspielerin zu arbeiten, wie sie es vor Emmas Geburt schon getan hatte. Ihr Mann Holger zeigt nicht viel Verständnis für ihre Wünsche. Katerina entscheidet sich, für 1000 Tage nur noch das zu tun, was sie wirklich will
- The shot from a gun came up close. The Kassel government president Walter Lübcke is killed on the terrace of his home on the night of June 2, 2019. The crime will soon be heard in court, but there is more to it. Research into this film shows that the main suspect Stephan E. and his alleged accomplice Markus H. were firmly connected to the far-right scene. This documentary illuminates the prehistory of the crime and the reactions to it.