Weltkino Filmverleih GmbH

Germany 2022, 117 min
by Pepe Danquart

Few portraits of artists give us the privilege of getting as close to a painter as if we had free access to his studio. Pepe Danquart was allowed to accompany the painter Daniel Richter for three years. He watched him paint with his camera, negotiate with his gallerist, talk with his publisher, and joke with his companion Jonathan Meese. He interviews collectors, attends auctions, and even visits record stores. In this way, the complex picture of a visual artist emerges, who is as inclined to th

Germany 2023, 97 min
by Matthias Freier

Marianne Atzeroth-Freier once brought the 'acid-barrel murderer' to justice. In a mix of archive material and re-enacted scenes, the film reconstructs the difficult investigation Atzeroth-Freier had to pursue in a male-dominated environment. In the 1990s, as one of the first women in the Hamburg Police’s homicide division, Atzeroth-Freier solved one of the most gruesome murders in German history. If anything, by chance. When approached by a mother whose daughter has disappeared, she decides to g

2023, 114 min
by Anna Schmidt

LIVING BACH is a unique quest for Johann Sebastian Bach’s universal secret, travelling across six continents to meet amateur musicians and singers whose lives are inseparably interwoven with the composer’s music which transcends borders, cultures, religions and centuries. The film protagonists will all travel to Leipzig in June 2022 for the International Bach Festival. Their meeting becomes an emotional event when they sing together under the renowned conductor Ton Koopman in the 'We are Family

Germany 2023, 87 min
by Pia Lenz

Eva is 83 and Dieter 86. They danced together for the first time in the winter of 1952. They wrote love letters to each other and imagined a life together. They got married, built a house and had three children. They lost one daughter. At the beginning of filming, Eva and Dieter have been a couple for 66 years. What remains of that and what still counts now? This is what the feature documentary film FOR EVER by award winning director and cinematographer Pia Lenz is about.

Germany 2023, 103 min
by Arndt Ginzel

This film documents evacuation and rescue operations in the small town of Marinka in the Donetsk region from the spring to the autumn of 2022. The impressive close-up footage of the operations is from a GoPro camera worn by police officers who repeatedly drive around the town in a white van which the civilians call the "White Angel". In the spring of 2023, Arndt Ginzel and his team returned to Ukraine and spoke with the rescuers and survivors about their traumatic experiences – and about the dem

Germany 2022, 87 min
by Volker Schlöndorff

THE FOREST MAKER is the portrait of a remarkable man whose life's work was honored with the so- called alternative Nobel, the Right Livelihood Award in 2018. Tony Rinaudo has found a way to grow trees in the most barren areas by activating the tree stumps and roots still alive as an “underground forest” for decades and thereby secures the livelihood of thousands of farmers in Africa. His method “Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration” (FMNR) restores not only soil but dignity and hope. The Chief of

Germany 2022, 85 min
by Tilman König

Lothar König is an original. The long-term youth pastor from Jena doesn’t fit into any system. In the GDR he was under state surveillance, after reunification he was one of the most tireless warning voices against the growing right-wing radicalism. To this day, he takes to the barricades against the extreme right, often on the frontline. Nevertheless, this film portrait by his son Tilman is not an homage but a critical tribute to an outspoken character forced by retirement to re-invent himself.P

Denmark, Germany 2021, 94 min
by Louise Detlefsen

Cake and bubbly instead of medicated immobilisation: IT IS NOT OVER YET portrays a controversial new treatment of people with dementia. They have named it 'care treatment': hugs, touch, talking, humour, eye contact and the joy of community are the prescription.At the small retirement home Dagmarsminde, the founding nurse May Bjerre Eiby has no interest in specific dementia diagnoses or medicine, since neither is improving the quality of life for the 11 residents. Instead, May and her staff have

Germany 2020, 124 min
by Bettina Böhler

Director Christoph Schlingensief's 'Heimat' films (Georg Seeßlen), performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic productions shaped the cultural and political discourse in Germany for two decades before his death in 2010 at just 49 years of age.SCHLINGENSIEF – A Voice that Shook the Silence by Bettina Böhler is the first film that attempts to exhaustively document the vast spectrum of this exceptional artist's oeuvre.The film focuses on Christoph Sc

Germany 2020, 113 min
by Kai Wessel

An homage to Roger Cicero and his father Eugen – the exceptional musicians who died too young and left behind an inimitable musical legacy. The film is portraying the highs, lows and cracks of their outstanding lives and careers across all boundaries. Close companions are telling the deep cinematic story, illuminating a struggling genius and an exceptional gifted singer, who died at the height of his career. Two remarkable biographies and unique father-son relationship. Eugen Cicero played with

Germany 2016, 105 min
by Nicola Graef

Priming, designing, discarding and always trying to establish a certain distance. This is how the dramaturgic concept of this portrait could be described. Consequently, the first shots show Neo Rauch, the Leipzig-based star of the international art world, in his workshop. His success is predicated on the enigmatic and cryptic quality of his large-format paintings.In muted colours he designs arrangements of melancholy figures gliding across time, space and history. Palimpsests filled with referen