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2015, 90 min
by Lars Barthel, Gabriele Denecke, Peter Kahane, Thomas Knauf, Ralf Marschalleck, Hannes Schönemann, Andreas Voigt

Gabriele Denecke, Lars Barthel, Peter Kahane, Thomas Knauf, Ralf Marschalleck, Hannes Schönemann und Andreas Voigt are the directors of this portmonteau (omnibus) film. They look back to their childhood and youth in the late fifties and sixties in the GDR. Some were fellow students at the Filmschool in Babelsberg or they met at work in DEFA Studios.For this film they re-nited once more. They looked through their private archives and recall everyday life in divided Berlin and East Germany. They n

Germany 2015, 112 min
by Simon Brückner

The psychologist Peter Brückner has been a lot of things in his life: a 'half-Jew' and a runaway, an underground activist and a Wehrmacht soldier, a communist with party-ban, a father and a family refugee, a democrat and an enemy of the constitution, last but not least the first tenured university professor banned from teaching. He died in 1982 hailed by the protest generation of 1968 as their beloved scholar. His heritage includes the headstrong social psychology of liberation. At the time of h

Germany 2013, 93 min
by Claus Strigel

In a hermetically sealed off safari park in Austria our civilization’s moral challenges collide under a magnifying glass: guilt, responsibility, redemption. Fourty chimpanzees survived HIV experiments 'serving mankind'. Traumatized, highly aggressive and mentally isolated they hate humans and have every reason to. Today four caretakers manage a unique rehabilitation project, where the victims learn how to become monkeys. ''The chimpanzees show us what it means to be human'' Jane Goodall.

Germany 2013, 90 min
by Marco Wilms

Art is a weapon! This motto still holds true in Cairo. After 30 years of autocracy, President Mubarak was swept away by his people. Now the street belongs to them, the young rebels and artists. Graffiti sprayers and painters make the walls speak. They recount the days of fighting in blood-smeared portraits, the time of anarchy in wild collages, the attempts of liberation from a suppressed sexuality in obscene pictures. Walls become a chronicle of the rush of events; electro pop and rap supply a

Germany 2019, 86 min
by Nicola Alice Hens

The untold story of Marthe Cohn, a feisty young woman who joined the French resistance during WWII. After keeping silent for almost 60 years, Marthe now shares the extraordinary story of how she managed to beat the odds and fight the Nazis as a spy. At the age of 99, she still tours the world, showing off her medals and promoting her message to people of all generations. Her harrowing journey is told with reverence, while her joie de vivre shines through, filling the film with hope for the futur

Germany 2020, 97 min
by Andreas Voigt

The river Oder: A historical and cultural landscape churned again and again by the tide of events of the past century. A tale told in concentric circles about a region which was and still is the scene of the beginning, end and open middle of voluntary and involuntary migrations. Virulent issues of daily life and politics that, asked with confident casualness, provide a robust account of the present.Movements and stories in the border region between Poland and Germany – Andreas Voigt’s new film t

Germany 2018, 95 min
by Thomas Ladenburger

This is the story of Anastasia Biefang, lieutenant colonel in the German military, who was assigned male at birth. At the height of her career she decides to finally come out as transgender. Much to her surprise, she does not face any negative consequences in her career in the military. After her transition she becomes the first female commander in the history of the German military, leading a German armed forces´ battalion for cyber- and information domain service. The film follows her male to

Germany 2002, 90 min
by Rosa von Praunheim

Ichgola Androgyn, BeV StroganoV, Tima the Divine and Ovo Maltine are four headstrong drag queens who met in West Berlin in the mid-eighties and have been busy fertilising the cultural scene in both Germany and the rest of the world ever since. Director Rosa von Praunheim has been fortunate enough to work with each of them repeatedly in various films. They all share the fact that they are not mere performers but are also politically active – in AIDS awareness, events against anti-gay violen

Germany 2024, 117 min
by Arne Körner

Dietrich Kuhlbrodt: Hitler boy, film critic, actor, senior prosecutor, screenwriter, punk musician, temporary porn commissioner, and family man! What kind of life, can it be, where all this just happens? On an adventure trip that takes us through the third reich, the nazi poisoned post war BRD, Paris and the reunited Germany we dive into Dietrich’s incredible biography. A trip that shows how to live five different lives at the same time with ease.

Germany 2023, 104 min
by Jochen Hick

Queer people from all over the world have made Berlin what it is today. Many leave their home because they want to, others because they have to. This film follows a few of them.The queer universe of Berlin mirrors the movements of the world and is constantly evolving.In recent decades, a multitude of identities have made themselves heard. Today, gay and lesbian are only two terms among many.

Germany 2021, 92 min
by Paola Calvo, Patrick Jasim

Luchadoras portrays the courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high femicide rates. There is Mini Serinita who's biggest dream is to become a full time Luchadora and leave the factory work that disenfranchises so many women for good. Lady Candy who can see the US Border, where her daughters were taken, from her house but due to visa regulations can never cross it. And Baby Star, the young single mother who was a Lucha Libre Star at an early age and now makes her way t

Switzerland, Germany 2021, 97 min
by Nathalie David (PITCHOUN PRODUCTION)

Harald Naegeli, born 1939 in Zürich, is the Zurich Sprayer. Switzerland issued an international arrest warrant against the graffiti artist. In 1982, he ran away to Germany and received support from Joseph Beuys, before spending 6 months in prison. 2020, back in Zurich, he sprays more than 50 Dance of Death graffiti during the Covid-19 lockdown in Zürich. Naegeli ist now 82 years old and has terminal cancer. This film is an hommage to a great utopian.With: Harald Naegeli, Benjamin von Blomberg, C

Germany 2020, 95 min
by Natalija Yefimkina

In Russia there is a phenomenon beyond ice fishing, matryoshkas and vodka: the garage settlement. Seemingly inhospitable sheds which offer refuge to a large number of Russians – mainly men. Within these few square metres, they create alternative living spaces, with ingenuity and tenacity, according to their own taste and beyond any rules. The garages are an expression of a retreat into privacy, an escape from everyday life. Behind the Arctic Circle, in an area dominated by the local mining compa