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2022, 86 min
by Andreas Fröhlich

30 years of BRINGS – one of Germany’s most famous Rock’n’Roll-Bands! 30 years of triumphs, crashs and resurrections. Rock’n’Roll and carnival, leftwing political attitude and hit machine. BRINGS – All or nothing is an intensive journey along the band‘s biography. We are following the group through dirty cloakrooms and studios, the boiling venues of the Cologne carnival and the bright spotlights of large stadium gigs in front of 50.000 fans. A Rock’n‘Roll road movie about the power of music and t

Germany 2020, 87 min
by Felix Remter, Miriam Remter

BEEWILDERED COMPANIONS is an immersive ethnographic study on the socio-material entanglements of humans and honeybees in times of globalized diseases. Triggered by the migration of a small bee parasite from Asia, the culture of beekeeping in Europe today is deeply shaken. The search for new and better practices is also a struggle of different imaginaries regarding the ontological status of the honeybee as domestic or wild. Can and should a serious disease be controlled by medication or breeding?

Germany 2019, 93 min
by Halina Dyrschka

How can an artist discover abstraction by the beginning of the 20th century and nobody is noticing? A woman, misjudged and concealed, rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre. Hilma af Klint was a pioneer creating her first abstract painting in 1906, four years before Vassily Kandinsky. But why was she ignored? Why are her paintings not available on the market? This first film on her is about her life and work, the role of women in art history and the discovery of an art scandal. Her que

Germany 2019, 105 min
by Marcus Richardt, Lillian Rosa

“The House of Good Spirits” takes a look at the ethos of the Stuttgart State Opera, which has lead the house to achieve exceptional international acclaim. This success is made all the more surprising by the fact that the charismatic directorial team Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, Anna Viebrock and Sylvain Cambreling has a unique approach to work and leadership: Classical music theatre as an integrative shared work, which is created transparently, though an open, democratic dialogue involving the

Germany 2019, 92 min
by Oliver Schwabe

LOVE EATS UP LIVE retraces the work by Tobias Gruben, which 20 years after his death continues to be a nearly completely undiscovered diamond in the rough of German pop culture. The singer of CYAN REVUE and DIE ERDE inspires young bands like MESSER or ISOLATION BERLIN to perform cover versions of his songs.The film depicts not only an incomplete music career, but also describes the never-ending struggle of a son for recognition by his father. In interviews, music, some of which as yet unrelease

2019, 77 min
by Rita Ziegler

Failure and repetition are part of the artistic work of Albrecht Schnider. Even after 30 years of international recognition, the Swiss artist shows himself with unusual openness in his struggle for the uniqueness of a visual moment that withstands his critical eye. The viewer is with increasing tension and expectation on the difficult path to the one valid picture involved. In some ways, the corresponding film sequences are reminiscent of the documentary 'Le mystère Picasso' (1956) by Henry-Geo

Germany 2019, 82 min
by Marc Pierschel

On the Butenland farm, many former farm animals live at eye level with human beings – without having to fulfill any requirements. A peaceful coexistence that seems almost utopian. With their project, Jan Gerdes and Karin Mück are designing a radical counter-model to livestock husbandry, in which the needs of the animals are the main focus, far away from any economic interests.

Germany 2018, 91 min
by Frauke Lodders

How does living with a seriously sick or disabled child influence the family structure? What specific role do the healthy siblings have? The documentary INSEPARABLE accompanies children and young adults from five completely different families and seeks to find answers to these questions in their everyday lives.

Germany 2017, 90 min
by Thomas Binn

ME & YOU – INCLUSIVE SCHOOLING: Since the summer of 2014, children with special needs in Germany have a legal right to take shared classes in regular schools. Many special education schools were closed as a result. This long-term documentary follows five elementary school students – with and without special needs – over the course of two and a half years. They are part of the first official inclusive class at the Geschwister Devries School in Uedem in North-Rhine Westphalia. The documentary take

Germany 2017, 88 min
by Ulrike Pfeiffer

January 2017 saw the death of Werner Nekes, one of Germany's most significant experimental film-makers. He made more than 100 films, often closely linked to his gigantic collection of 40,000 cinematic artefacts. From 1967 to 1978, Nekes lived in Hamburg, at the time the centre of the innovative German film scene. In his capacity as professor at the University of the Visual Arts, he introduced his students to the ideas of radical cinema. Film excerpts tell of Nekes' "life among the pictures", alo

Germany 2017, 90 min
by Claudia Schmid

In Bangladesh, in Benin, in the DR Congo, yet also in Germany: violence against women is ever present.The film delves into the lives of women who have been subjected to horrific violence, yet managed to fight their way free. They talk about the violence that has been inflicted upon them, their struggle for survival, their hopes and their current attempts to build a new life. And the men? Many of them describe violence against women as a normal part of their everyday lives. If a woman has been hi

Germany 2017, 96 min
by Marc Pierschel

Have you ever wondered what the world would look like if we stopped eating animals? The End of Meat is a groundbreaking documentary film envisioning a future where meat consumption belongs to the past.In The End of Meat, filmmaker Marc Pierschel embarks on a journey to discover what effect a post-meat world would have on the environment, the animals and ourselves. He meets Esther the Wonder Pig, who became an internet phenomenon; talks to pioneers leading the vegan revolution in Germany; visits

2016, 90 min
by André Schäfer, Hartmut Kasper

YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE tells the story of a song. A song that has becomethe epitome of a global folk song. Each and every weekend, hundreds of thousands of football fans sing it in stadiums all over the world.But who would know that the roots of the tune go back to Budapest in the year 1909 – to a young playwright and a stage play called 'Lilliom'?We will re-experience the journey the song took from there and immerse ourselves into various different worlds: the sophisticated and artistic social

2016, 96 min
by Till Harms

687 candidates, 10 places, 9 instructors in 10 days. Year for year, the entrance exam at the National Acting School in Hanover is a special challenge for the candidates, but it is also an extraordinary endurance test for the staff. In the battle for the best talent, the examiners are just as passionately involved as the candidates themselves in filling the few coveted admissions. Up close and personal with the instructors and professors, the film focuses on an unknown side of the process, that o

Germany 2016, 92 min
by Elí Roland Sachs

Jakob is my dear brother. He used to love to party, make music and let himself drift through life in Berlin. Then six years ago, he suddenly became a Muslim. He broke off contact with his old friends and his old ways. Now as a Salafist, every question has an answer in the rules of a fundamental Islam.By filming him, I go in search of our lost bond of brotherly love and suddenly find myself on a journey with him, that goes beyond a religious exploration.

Germany 2015, 84 min
by Goetz Schauder

Every two years 24 young conductors travel to the Frankfurt Opera House to compete against eachother in the world's leading Sir Georg Solti conducting competition.CONDUCT! EVERY MOVE COUNTS accompanies five of them through evaluation rounds up to the final, which two of them reach. Aziz Shokhakimov who traveled from the remote Uzbekistan will prove that he is one of the best in his field though being only twenty years old. Music reverberates within the young man. His assertiveness collides with