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On a lonely Black Forest farm, the shattered dreams of life, painful love and hidden longings of a Berlin clique collide.

A simple worker gets caught up in the maelstrom of real estate sharks, evictions and clan crime, where humanity often gives way to greed.

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is fighting with itself and war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.

In her documentary, Mračnikar formulates a political urgency in a personal way: What happens when your mother tongue is taken away from you?

When a mother and her daughter take a vacation at the Baltic Sea, it quickly turns into a journey into the past that opens up old wounds.

Lale creates a digital clone to escape the stressful world of fashion. UNCANNY ME explores identity, technology and the nature of reality.

To document the imment conflict in eastern Ukraine, photographer Pierre Crom traveled to the Donbass in 2014.

In her harsh milieu study, Gina Wenzel tells the story of youth violence from the perpetrator's perspective.

With destabilising gentleness, Mo Harawe recounts the last hours of the terrorist Farah before his execution.

Caught between German stuffiness and Argentinian religiosity, Madi discovers her own sexuality.

Gerhard goes all in: He leaves his previous life behind for the Thai girl Amy. Romance and thriller begin to intertwine.

An integration course teaches people the finer points of Viennese culture in Chinese, Arabic, Russian and German.

"Don’t become like my father" - a credo that will drive Alex, a man on the run from himself, to the edge of reason.

In the vast emptiness of the Patagonian steppe, 13-year-old Mora embarks on a journey with an old, indigenous Mapuche gaucho.

"Challenging Identities" - A lesbian non-binary artist's documentary on gender, self-love, and narcissism, honored at Berlin Pornfilmfestival.

A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.

About the missing and the found. About the silent and the roaring. About cuddling and sneezing. Six stories about fathers.

The German realities of the 80s, spontaneously captured with sarcastic wit and occasionally parodied to the point of absurdity.

In a world driven by algorithms, a group of "forever teenagers" rebel against the dictates of self-optimization.

Baby photos, Christmas snapshots, school enrollment photos, wedding photos - our lives are an endless succession of photogenic moments.

Under the crushing emotional burden of his terminally ill father and violent brother, 14-year-old Daniel seeks refuge with two outcasts.

A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.

Either the grass is greener, or the houses are bigger, or the sun is warmer ... anywhere else is better.

How is life as a gay in the Swabian province? An intimate insight into a hitherto unknown terrain between church and Stammtisch.

This thought-provoking documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by worker-owned factories in a capitalist, post-socialist, economy.

Ahmet, a champion boxer and professional soldier, starts taking acting lessons. On stage he comes face to face with his own internal battles.

Cinematic memorial to the highly controversial icon of the German women's movement who helped shape feminist discourse for over 50 years.

Johanna Dohnal, icon of the Austrian women's movement and first Minister for Women's Affairs, shaped the Alpine Republic like hardly any other.

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

When a refugee from Ghana requests to participate in a traditional Christian procession, differing opinions divide a small Italian town.

Milena Czernovsky and Lilith Kraxner's debut blurs the line between documentary and fiction filmmaking, joining a recent trend in the film industry.

In this unusual time travel film with a steampunk touch, the protagonists have to escape a time loop, with 90's Pop-Star Jasmin Wagner and Götz Otto.

Quiet drama about the Russian soul, corruption and the postman from Lake Kenozero in northern Russia.

The poetic tale of a man with a neurological disorder and the enigmatic nurse persuaded to support him with assisted suicide.

Karabas, a shamanistic con artist from Kyrgyzstan’s countryside, is reunited with his long lost son. This leads to quarrels between his two wives.

Soviet heroine Polina Schneider gathers a group of avant-garde artists to convert the remote pagan tribes of Siberia to communism.

Marc is a surfer and lives his life one day at a time. But after many strokes of fate, he dreams of turning back time, and starting all over again.

Through Skype and online chat rooms, a Vietnamese couple, Bay and Tam, create their own virtual version of Vietnam in their Munich apartment.

The voyage of a tree from Europe to the Amazon is a silent wittness to global interdependencies and economic absurdities.

A haunting psychogram of an entire generation of ex-GDR citizens who have not yet fully accepted that they now live in the Federal Republic of Germany

"German cinema can be this exciting: Angela Schanelec's fourth film MARSEILLE" (taz)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been shown with such openness and introspection.

A young woman ventures into the deadly beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to save her father from prison.

Romantic drama with Romy Schneider, Klaus Kinski and Jacques Dutronc, directed by Andrzej Żuławski.

This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.

Shot on Super 8mm, Bernadette Weigel's homage to traveling celebrates the uniqueness of each moment.

This moving portrait of a maternity hospital in Vienna provides a fascinating insight into the drama, pain, and beauty of being born into this world.

Green Party icon Petra Kelly is shot in her sleep by her partner Gert Bastian, an ex-Federal Armed Forces general, before he kills himself.

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

The sky is their canvas, the airplane their brush. The Stinis family has been making history in skywriting and painting messages on the sky.

The air smells like summer. A potpourri of suntan lotion lawn and lime blossom fries, of water polo melon and chlorine lemonade hovering in the air.

An eye-opening experience about deep engrained behaviour we barley are aware of in our every day life.

The Wehrmacht massacre at Oradour in 1944, filmed with Philppe Noiret and Romy Schneider in 1975. Hated by the German critics, loved by the French.

"Clowns without Borders" bring a bit of joy to the refugee camp in Moria, Lesbos.

Max "Adlersson" Herzberg from Dresden, 20 years old, has over 300,000 subscriptions on YouTube and reviews knives and gangsta rap fan boxes.

In some of West Africa's traditional societies, mental illness and epilepsy are still seen as demonic possession.

A film about funny and serious games, therapies of re- and self-re-education as well as the history of ideas of the permanent revolution.

What is the connection between computer technology, hippie culture, mathematics, terrorism, the research of consciousness in the 1950s and paranoia?

In the 90s, first attacks on paintings in art galleries and later bombings by German identity movement shocks Austria.

The great adventure of little Duke Ernest.

A film about the absurdities of being a mom today.

A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.

Two street musicians tour through Germany for a year going from gig to gig and looking for somewhere to live.

Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.

An Austrian actor, author, TV personality, failed clergy assistant, gay BDSM enthusiast, a kind of renaissance man. A portrait of Hermes Phettberg.

A fairytale-like story with tableaux vivants of three macabre, mystical and humorous nymphs.

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

The film is about love and hate, about right and wrong words. At its centre are Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, who met in post-war Vienna.

Oskar and Masha made a deal: a relationship but no sex. While Oskar soon regrets it, Mascha sleeps indiscriminately with older men. Can this work out?

In the distant country of ABSURDISTAN, the men are lazy, whereupon the women go on a sex strike.

In Wehrmacht-occupied Poland, two intellectuals flee to a country estate and play a perverse game with its inhabitants.

The director is drawn into the conflict-ridden marriage of her parents by an inheritance issue.

Award-winning investigative documentary combines live action and animation to show the struggle against unscrupulous realtors.

Yagub, a carpenter, earns most of his money from the coffins he makes. He also has to look after his son, who has a disability.

This documentary tells the harrowing story of the global phenomenon of human trafficking.

Years ago Anton disappeared. Out of the blue he invited his family and friends to a party. But everyone's joyful expectation soon fades.

One of Europe's strangest borders lies between the Republic of Moldova and the de facto autonomous region of Transnistria.

A boy playing with a toy gun in the woods is pulled into an altered reality.

Luke and Adam, are best friends and while drunk get involved in shooting a friend's wedding film.

A modern fairy tale about a man who has never shed a tear in his life. After observing a lot of people, he realizes that he is different.

Sandra is new in town and does not fit into the cool clique around Nadja and Isa. Then she falls in love with Mike, who also caught Nadja's attention.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.

With quirky charm and DIY panache this short film captures a young woman's everyday annoyances. DER MENSCH IST SEINES LEBENS FROH - NICHT NUR ALS EMBRYO ...