Activism

During the final prayer of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1991, one of the most spectacular protest actions takes place.

After the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, Valentyn decided to become politically active and run for city council in his home town.

A feverish Schlingensief documentary by Bettina Böhler, a renowned editor, portraying this exceptional artist in his full range.

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

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

The shocking story of the sea rescue ship Lifeline, which was denied entry to a safe port for months.

This film places acts of resistance against National Socialism and current struggles in a historical continuity.

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

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

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.

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

In northern Syria, an anti-hierarchical, multi-ethnic model of democracy was launched in the Rojava region under the leadership of the Kurds.

Iris P. was an undercover investigator who maintained close friendships and had intimate relationships with the people she spied on.

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

30 years after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, over 17,000 people who disappeared are still unaccounted for. An unnamed artist searches them.

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

Masao Adachi, born in 1939, is a well-known Japanese scriptwriter and director who in 1974 joined the ‘Japanese Red Army’.

In 1984, a group of artists occupied an exhibition center in Leipzig.

Jowan Safadi, an Israeli Palestinian and musician from the Middle East, is under investigation by Israeli police for "inciting terrorism".

After the bloody genocide 20 years ago, Rwanda made a remarkable turnaround, which was primarily made possible by the country's women.

The gay movement fought its way from the margins to the center of society. What battles still need to be waged?

Fritz Bauer was a public prosecutor, a leading investigator of Nazi history and a pioneer of German civil society.

The ambassador of the state of Arcadia, occupies land and declares this occupied area to be Arcadian territory. Is this even legal?

Filmmaker Juliane Henrich explores the term "Wende" (course change) by means of a speech by Christa Wolf, which she gave shortly before the fall of the ...

Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the diverse Jewish population the Red Vienna labor movement and the rise of Austrofascism.

On the right-wing fringes of the political landscape, ever-louder anti-European, anti-Islamic and nationalist voices can be heard.