Made in Germany Filmproduktion GmbH

Germany 2023, 97 min
by Steffi Niederzoll

Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. When he tries to rape her, she stabs him in self-defense. Later that day, she is arrested for murder. Her trial results in a death penalty sentence. Thanks to personal and secretly recorded videos provided by Reyhaneh's family, their testimonies and the letters written by Reyhaneh in prison, the film retraces the fate of a woman who becomes a symbol of resistance and women's rights even beyond the borders of Iran.

Germany 2023, 100 min
by Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff

Fall 2018: The Hambach Forest becomes a chaotic scene of the climate conflict. In the midst of this chaos, film student Steffen Meyn has a fatal accident. Based on footage he collected over two years, we follow Steffen's path up the trees and into an activism full of contradictions.

Germany, Israel 2021, 84 min
by Yael Reuveny

Being an Israeli child is being a dream come true, what of generations of Jews before us were hoping for. But was does that exactly mean? On the verge of turning 40, I, the director of the film, go on a journey to meet my former classmates to try and ask what happened to the hopes that we had and what happened to the dream we were.

2020, 104 min
by Ulrike Schaz

Paris, 1975. When her French boyfriend decides to take her to a party, the documentary’s director falls into the clutches of the French intelligence apparatus. Why this happened she only learns later: At the same party, a man, later known as "Carlos the Jackal," shot three people, and she was associated with this crime. Her life abruptly changes. Ever since then, she has fought against false allegations, false reports, and false stored data. But, no matter what she does, the story keeps sticking

Germany 2020, 89 min
by Thomas Balzer

On the 5th of September 2006 constructions began with a happy ground breaking ceremony. Six proud men in dark suits took the ceremonic spades in Schönefeld, south east of Berlin, and laughed at the cameras. Including the Prime Ministers of the States of Brandenburg and Berlin, Mathias Platzeck and Klaus Wowereit, former head of the Deutsche Bahn company Hartmut Mehdorn and the former Federal Minister of Transport Wolfgang Tiefensee. Only one person wasn’t allowed on the picture: the mayor of Sch

Germany 2018, 90 min
by Jasmin Herold, Michael Beamish

On a journey for an answer to the question, "How high is the price for a better life?", the director explores Fort McMurray in the far north of Canada, home of the largest industrial project and the third largest oil reserve on the planet. People from all over the world come here to earn sky-high salaries at the sacrifice of the environment. Film and reality collide as the director finds herself in her own personal nightmare.

Germany 2018, 88 min
by Melanie Andernach, Andreas Köhler

The Shaash family is spread out all over the world. The civil war in Somalia forced them into exile. Suddenly, the oldest family member, Imra (88), must leave her exile in Ethiopia. The rest of the family has to find a fast solution. But where should she go? And where can she go? Some where where other family members have already found a new home and a new future? Based on these questions, a transnational family drama unfolds, one in which a family tries everything and fails to find a new home f

Germany 2015, 87 min
by Stephan Bergmann

If life was a Romantic Comedy this is the film that makes us want to celebrate it to the end! The last gigolos have gotten grey. But still they are gentlemen, perfect and suave to the sole. They spend their golden years on cruise ships – as dancers and entertainers for solvent ladies of 60 years and over whoare hungry for amusement. Slowly and with a lot of humour, the film reveals that happiness is mainly down to everybody’s individual skill and luck. Some will try and make their dreams come tr

2015, 84 min
by Mor Loushy

In 1967 Israel defeated a seemingly superior coalition of adversaries and expanded its territory by a factor of three. The country found itself in the full flush of victory. On the sidelines of the general wave of euphoria writer Amos Oz interviewed young kibbutzniks who had just returned from serving on the front. These men talked openly about what they had experienced; about the destruction, the horrors of war and their fears. They also spoke about the behaviour of Israeli troops towards their

Germany 2012, 97 min
by Yael Reuveny

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That the outcome of a decision made by a brother and sister in1945 can effect the course of whole lives, for decades to come. FAREWELL, HERR SCHWARZ is an epic documentary about stories that can be inherited like the color of your eyes. A personal journey between Israel and Germany. 1 missed-meeting, 2 families, 3 generations.

Germany 2012, 82 min
by Astrid Schult

America is fighting relentlessly with itself, with its driving forces being infuriated citizens: supporters and sympathizers of the Tea Party movement. The dissatisfied, the disappointed and the unassured have come together in countless groups. Ben Cunningham from Nashville, Tennessee has been fighting for years for the ownership rights and against tax increases. He wants the US government to keep out the local politics. Ken Marrero transports pallets for a living and wants to teach his five kid

Germany, Austria 2020, 92 min
by Stephan Bergmann

Is death inevitable? ETERNITY AT LAST explores the question of whether we have to accept sickness and death as the natural course of our lives. Visionaries tell the stories of how they take evolution into their own hands, using transhumanist technologies. Living forever is the seductive goal of many scientists today, but what are the larger implications? This multi-layered documentary offers a pragmatic take on how humanity tries to outsmart the most basic fact of life: death.

Germany, France 2019, 94 min
by Suhaib Gasmelbari Mustafa

Ibrahim, Soliman, Manar and Altayeb, filmmakers and friends for more than 45 years, idealists and intensely humane. They were reunited again, after long years of distance and exile, to bring life back to their old dream: make cinema a reality in the Sudan. They are determined to leave a trace of their passage and to inspire the love of films. Throughout the images they created, the ones they lost and the ones that remain a desire, the beautiful and horrific faces of their country appear.

France, Germany 2017, 85 min
by Sonia Kronlund

“You have Hollywood. You have Bollywood. And in Afghanistan you have Nothingwood,” shares Salim Shaheen. About a hundred kilometers away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-director-producer in Afghanistan, comes to show some of his 110 films and to shoot the 111th in the process.He has brought with him his regular troupe of actors, each more eccentric and out of control than the next. That trip is an opportunity for us to get to know Shaheen, a real movie buff who has