Civil society

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Globalization, and rural exodus: despite a gloomy outlook, the people still living in Aracà , a small Italian village, are bravely facing the future.

One of the biggest taboos in society is the rehabilitation of sex offenders. This film takes the offender perspective.

After more than 50 years of bloody civil war, the peace process in Colombia began in 2016, with an uncertain outcome.

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

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

Housing is a human right. How can we guarantee housing in the increasingly difficult real estate markets in Europe's major cities?

Five years after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan the country's future was uncertain but buoyed by cautious optimism.

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

Germany's only trans* pastor.

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.

The Aït Seghrouchen, a nomadic people from the windswept Moroccan desert, brave sandstorms, watch livestock and the cell phone towers.

The doc about the cult surrounding a Soviet physicist Boris Zolotov was awarded the ARTE documentary award.

Follow Jörg Meuthen, candidate for Germany's right-wing party AFD, on his election tour 2016.

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

A visit to four exceptionally isolated places and communities that never cease to amaze even the people who live there.

“What the hell is happening to my country?” After Trump was elected, filmmaker Susanne Brandstaetter investigates the growing divide in the USA.

After the big influx of refugees to Europe in 2015, even the most Bavarian villages the picturesque mountains had to adapt.

How can our society develop in the face of current social, economic and cultural challenges?

For years, Venezuela has been fighting the collapse of its public health system. How do you survive in a country that is in chaos?

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

In elegant CinemaScope images, this film tells the story of the housekeeper Nadja in times of economic crisis as a tender melodrama.

Adoption gave the same last name to six children from very different backgrounds. But what does it mean to integrate race and class into one family?

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