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

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

Before the war, one of Kyiv's hottest subject was one of Trump’s cronies turning a masterpiece concert hall into a shopping mall.

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

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

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

To honor the archaic lifestyles of his ancestors and to preserve tradition, Liêm spends several days each year in the Vietnamese jungle.

This black and white film portrays the life and stories of a village on the Russian-Ukrainian border, combining elements of fiction and documentary.

A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and an old custom: In the village of MANSFELD, the ritual banishment of the old takes place every year

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

Hanan fled with her family from northern Iraq across the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, she did not know how to swim. She now overcomes the trauma.

9 LIVES portrays the fate of young people who decided at the age of 11, 12 or 13 to leave home and to live on the streets.

At the age of 12 Maya starting losing her hair. Within a few weeks she was completely bald. The diagnosis: Alopecia areata.

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

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.

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

To pursue her dream of becoming a singer, an Afghan girl lives as a boy.

Filmmaker Erik Lemke (BERLIN EXCELSIOR) portrays his great-aunt Evelin: she was born a man, in a country that no longer exists.

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

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

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.

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

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

Where does artistic freedom begin and where does it end? And, does art actually still need artists?

The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a computer heart heart deep inside.

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

As a child, Veronika Raila was certified with an IQ of zero. Today she studies literature and theology and publishes poetry and prose.

All Creatures Welcome explores the world of hackers and nerds and sketches a utopian image of society in the digital era.

A visit to the breathtaking places and the people who unlock the secrets of the universe.

The largely unknown story of the GDR contract workers from Namibia.

“When the bombs fell, the first thing we did was run away. It was not until later that we realized we had not looked back.”

A fascinating document about the last Polish president not elected democratically.

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

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.

Two young immigrants from the Balkan are prepared to do almost anything to get a European passport, including a paid marriage.