Biography

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

The Ukranian grandson of filmmaker Leonid Burlaka draws a rich picture of Soviet history with archive footage of his grandfather.

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.

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

The theologian, feminist, and mystic Dorothee Sölle argued that theology is necessarily political.

Many people are familiar with Waldorf schools, but few are aware of the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, who in 1919 established them.

This travel diary describes the journey of the painter Paul Klee in Egypt between 1928 and 1929 through his letters and his paintings.

This film illuminates the poetic-mystical side of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the UN Blue Helmet missions Dag Hammarskjöld.

A cinematic journey into the biography of the psychiatrist C. G. Jung (1875−1961) and into his powerful world of myths, dreams and symbols.

Rainer Maria Rilke was not only one of the greatest German poets, but also a spiritual seeker who walked his very own path.

This documentary follows full-contact athlete Lukas Kroiss on his cinematic path to the K1 European Championship title.

Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.

Two years before his death, the HIV-positive Baldiga reviews his life, in selected episodes.

Friends and colleagues reminisce about the controversial actor Volker Spengler, who was dubbed the "Downfall of the West".

A hospital in Berlin-Neukölln at midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the scene. The beginning of a story that tells itself.

In the formerly male-dominated world of wrestling, a courageous woman struggles to be taken seriously as an athlete and performer.

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

As a pioneer of the Fluxus movement she revolutionized the concept of art and made history with contemporaries Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

A warm-hearted yet stylistically radical film portrait in black and white and color about Edgar Reitz and his encounter with a young female filmmaker.

Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.

Multifaceted portrait of the composer and music critic Walter Arlen, who musically processed the horrors of the Nazi era.

A filmmaker discovers evidence of a Wehrmacht massacre in Italy in his grandfather's estate and investigates the case himself.

Akin Sipal explores his family history and the role language and literature play in it.

Portrait of action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.

A portrait of Tom Weise, one of the initiators of HustlaBall, a project to promote the acceptance of male prostitutes.

Angelika Levi explores her German Christian-Jewish family heritage through the archives of photographs, audio tapes and films collected by her mother.

A portrait of El Hedi ben Salem, the actor of the Arab guest worker Ali from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film "Ali – Fear Eats The Soul".

How a Holocaust survivor and Dürckheim student became a pioneer of Zen Buddhism in Ecuador.

A house for the needy in Berlin - Schöneweide where 21 men live who have lost everything – is THE BEAUTIFUL HOME for these men.

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

ZOWNIR: RADICAL MAN is the portrait of Miron Zownir, one of the most censored photographers, filmmakers and crime novelists of our time.

A personal take on Turkish history by director Ufuk Emiroğlu. It's a mosaic of a film, which moves freely between documentary, fiction and animation.

This captivating film shows the less-knon sides of the Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, aka Empress Sissi on her travels to Egypt in 1885 and 1891.

After a plane crash Martin goes on a search for traces from the Dolomites over Brazil to the ocean floor.

THE FOLK SINGER leads the viewer into a world full of raw human emotion, slapstick humor and wild American Roots Music.

In THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel accompany the still very active 90-year old photographer Erich Lessing.