Sooner Europe Docs: New Perspectives

  • Homeopathy Unrefuted?

    Homeopathy Unrefuted?

    2021

    1h.26min

    16+

    Is homeopathy a hoax or medicine? Here, homeopaths are allowed to share their very different views.


  • Barricade

    Barricade

    2021

    1h.23min

    16+

    A striking documentary by renowned photojournalist David Klammer about protesters fighting to stop the clear-cutting at the Dannenröder Forest.


  • Make Up the World

    Make Up the World

    2024

    1h.39min

    16+

    Props play a crucial role in every movie, yet they are rarely consciously noticed - the big and small things on the set.


  • Narcissism: The Auto-Erotic Images

    Narcissism: The Auto-Erotic Images

    2023

    1h.30min

    16+

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


  • Our Fathers

    Our Fathers

    2021

    1h.15min

    16+

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


  • Allesandersplatz

    Allesandersplatz

    2021

    53min

    16+

    In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.


  • Good Life Deal

    Good Life Deal

    2022

    1h.13min

    16+

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


  • Janine F.

    Janine F.

    2004

    1h.20min

    16+

    The tragic story of an artist who was torn between passion and obsession and died under mysterious circumstances.


  • Re-Destruction

    Re-Destruction

    2021

    45min

    16+

    Acclaimed Lebanese director Simon El Habre paints a vivid portrait of Beirut post-Civil War, highlighting the impact of the 2020 port explosion.


  • Natasha

    Natasha

    2008

    1h.24min

    16+

    Who are the (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out.


  • Face the Wall

    Face the Wall

    2009

    1h.25min

    16+

    Victims of the repressive system in the former East German state give powerful testimony about the cruetly of the dehumanizing regime.


  • Amorous, Antiquated, Audacious

    Amorous, Antiquated, Audacious

    2009

    1h.4min

    16+

    This ambitious directorial debut chronicles lesbian lifestyles and social networking in Vienna in the 1950s and 60s.


  • Metamorphoses

    Metamorphoses

    2013

    1h.24min

    16+

    On the river Tetscha in the southern Urals, in the middle of nowhere between Europe and Asia, is the most radioactively contaminated area in the world


  • Lord of the Toys

    Lord of the Toys

    2018

    1h.36min

    16+

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


  • Black Sun - Mythological Background of National Socialism

    Black Sun - Mythological Background of National Socialism

    1998

    1h.35min

    16+

    The film BLACK SUN illuminates the importance of myths and occult beliefs in the ideology of the "Third Reich".


  • Show Your Wound - Art and Spirituality in the Work of Joseph Beuys

    Show Your Wound - Art and Spirituality in the Work of Joseph Beuys

    2015

    1h.24min

    16+

    The portrait of an artist who in all his art and with his whole being questioned the existing social system.


  • Overgames

    Overgames

    2015

    2h.44min

    16+

    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.


  • The Net

    The Net

    2003

    2h.1min

    16+

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


  • The GDR Complex

    The GDR Complex

    2016

    1h.30min

    16+

    The moving life story of Mario Röllig, who fell in love with a gay West German politician in the mid-80s and was imprisoned for it.


  • Panoptic

    Panoptic

    2017

    1h.10min

    16+

    Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.


  • After the Future

    After the Future

    2017

    47min

    16+

    Gay left-wing activist and disaster relief volunteer Ortwin Passon navigates between a military-like bourgeois world and wild sex parties.


  • Counting Tiles

    Counting Tiles

    2018

    1h.26min

    16+

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


  • Masala Chai

    Masala Chai

    2018

    1h.2min

    16+

    Whether in Delhi, Pune, Mumbai or Kolkata, street vendors from very different backgrounds sell the country's most popular drink, masala chai.


  • Of Neo-Nazis and Superheroes – How the Far Right is Changing a Small German Town

    Of Neo-Nazis and Superheroes – How the Far Right is Changing a Small German Town

    2018

    56min

    16+

    In the summer of 2017, 6,000 neo-Nazis from all over Europe gathered in Themar for the largest right-wing rock concert of the German post war era.


  • Disciples of Hate

    Disciples of Hate

    2018

    1h.0min

    16+

    An ex-Salafist and an ex-Neo-Nazi confront their past. Dominic Schmitz and Felix Benneckenstein were trapped in an ideology for years.


  • Joker

    Joker

    2019

    1h.30min

    16+

    Three solo entertainers share a passion for entertaining. For them, it is not just a profession, but a vocation to which they subordinate everything.