Made in Germany

A simple worker gets caught up in the maelstrom of real estate sharks, evictions and clan crime, where humanity often gives way to greed.

A digital flat share in the middle of the pandemic. Everyone is always reachable. Love and hate are close together. A comic nightmare by Malte Wirtz.

A lonely hostel hides more than just silence - a secret that needs to be uncovered.

"Girls can't play soccer" - Pauline, Chayenne, Eriona and Liv prove that this is obviously nonsense in this documentary series.

A movie about people who have no chance but still try to make the best of it. And about the price they have to pay for it.

When a mother and her daughter take a vacation at the Baltic Sea, it quickly turns into a journey into the past that opens up old wounds.

In her harsh milieu study, Gina Wenzel tells the story of youth violence from the perpetrator's perspective.

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

Somewhere in the Monchique mountains of Portugal, the Fridayhappiness Associação balances sustainable living with their economic lifeline.

Lola's hidden love for teammate Zoe challenges her both on and off the soccer field. Will she score or lose her chance?

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

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

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

Romy Haag, Rosa von Praunheim, Ades Zabel and Udo Walz talk about their fascination with the dream destination West Berlin.

A 24-hour odyssey through Berlin, full of subtle tension and existential questions.

Is it fact or is it fiction? A documentary-fiction hybrid about the Red Mountain near Trier and the people who dwell there.

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

In a world driven by algorithms, a group of "forever teenagers" rebel against the dictates of self-optimization.

After England and Wales, Rüdiger Sünner explores the spiritual side of Scotland's breathtaking landscapes in the second part of his trilogy.

When Germany surrenders in 1945, two reckless teenagers put their families' escape on the line to save their friendship.

Welcome to the marginal deviation of reality. An inexplicable rift runs through the dystopian Berlin and four outsiders venture to find their friend.

Baby photos, Christmas snapshots, school enrollment photos, wedding photos - our lives are an endless succession of photogenic moments.

Klaus has a new job. And it's brilliant. The best job in the world. There is just one small snag: after work.

Bodo is standing on the top of a roof ready to jump when suddenly his phone rings...

The German Angst of the unknown - a reluctant dialogue.

Under the crushing emotional burden of his terminally ill father and violent brother, 14-year-old Daniel seeks refuge with two outcasts.

A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.

A singer loses her voice and seeks healing in a shamanistic trance.

To live inclusion and not just to play it is the declared goal of the Theater Rambazamba from Berlin.

Looking to breathe new life into the sport of rugby in Germany, a man has launched an inclusive rugby team.

A chance examination delivers the frightening diagnosis of brain aneurysm. The director himself documents the months leading up to the operation.

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

In a former German coal region, a mine gives way to a ghost train, including undead miners.

When Ava's father Gunter, a classic macho dude, shows up at her door, worlds collide.

In Stammheim, right next to the old RAF prison, an educational center for future correctional officers is located next to the prison wall.

A group of radical climate activists takes matters into their own hands and eliminates suspected climate sinners.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.

An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An “City Symphony” entirelly composed from material generated by CCTV.

Authentic, haphazard and unromantic, three residents of a high-rise housing estate search for love, friendship and sexuality.

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

A new start to a better life? Forty Germans on welfare fly to Mallorca to do internships.

Samson and Delilah: The Old Testament story of a man with irrepressible strength - as a silent film, told in a modern way.

Pittiplatsch, star of GDR children's television has a dark secret. Pitti was an avant-garde artist and informer for the state security service.

An intense trip into the gay bondage and leather scene: We meet contestants, bondage film actors, uniform fetishists and long-term slaves.

Self-determination, women's rights, taboos: ME TIME focuses on child-free life and expectations of mothers.

Poetic film essay which conveys a sense of the lived spirituality of the British Isles.

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

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

In poetic tableaux, filmmaker Zora Rux tells a surrealistic-comic story about the search for the true self.

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.

In an age of ever-increasing scientific knowledge, why do more and more people prefer to adopt alternative lifestyles?

Already in 18th century Germany, early Romanticism developed a spiritual worldview that many today seek in Far Eastern spirituality.

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

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

In this unusual time travel film with a steampunk touch, the protagonists have to escape a time loop, with 90's Pop-Star Jasmin Wagner and Götz Otto.

Spiritual travel documentary to the "sacred places" of Ireland and numerous sanctuaries that date back to Celtic times.

What God did Bach believe in and what was the nature of his spirituality? Did it transcend the confines of his Protestant upbringing?

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

Christians on the one hand, and gays and lesbians on the other. Direct Cinema in short form.

The "German indie machine" Malte Wirtz turns to horror and does it so successfully that the audience left the cinema hall in fear.

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

The film clarifies - according to Claude Lévi-Strauss - the "wild thinking" of indigenous cultures based on masks, cult objects, and rituals.

A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.

The Bundeswehr is looking for him, his girlfriend Kerstin breaks up with him, and unexpectedly his older brother Max shows up

Authentic, honest drama about a family threatened by the downward spiral of depression, alcoholism and jealousy.

In a small German town, local journalist Eric investigates the drug scene on his own initiative and at great personal risk.

After the success of his series "Ebersberg", director Manuel Weiss takes a father-daughter duo into the gloomy depths of the German forest.

Young people from the former border region use smartphones to film stories from their personal environment about the topic of German division.

Despite its disarmingly strange erotic scenes, The Skin of Others is a deeply romantic love story.

An authentic and quietly directed personal love letter to all those whose greatest struggle is to just get out of bed every day.

Compassionate mumblecore-style drama about a young woman's struggles with the expectations placed on her by her partner and friends.

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

Noah (12) arrives in Berlin to visit his father and gets caught up in adventures at the Carnival of Cultures.

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

Marc is a surfer and lives his life one day at a time. But after many strokes of fate, he dreams of turning back time, and starting all over again.

After the dark prince MONTRAK (Sönke Möhring - Inglourious Basterds) vanished centuries ago, his henchmen are once again descending upon the land.

New spin on the found footage genre: three friends spend a week in a haunted castle to investigate supernatural phenomena.

Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.

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

This German indie film is a satirical declaration of love for the German small-town crime thriller.

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

Joscha is on high alert. He wants to take a pill, but chance encounters with old friends keep him from swallowing it. Shot in a single t ake!

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

Christoph Schlingensief's answer to "Pop Idol" was "Freakstars 3000".

Through Skype and online chat rooms, a Vietnamese couple, Bay and Tam, create their own virtual version of Vietnam in their Munich apartment.

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.

A grieving teenage girl is drawn to the young man blamed for her brother's death.

The statements of former inmates of the Hohenschönhausen Stasi prison and former Stasi employees are contrasted here.

In this self-reflective improv film, an acting class prepares for a crucial final audition that will decide the rest of their careers.

On 3 summer afternoons, a family meets up a beautiful house in an upscale Berlin neighborhood. They come together but ultimately drift further apart.

The focus is on the relationship between the two directors Bella and Andreas, who explore themes of love, sex, friendship and desire.

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

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina.

Jakob Fisch confesses to a murder he did not commit. Police psychologist Dr. Alea Anzu then tries to convict him of lying.

Tinder users in Berlin talk openly and honestly and about real-life encounters, both the good and the bad, with dates made using the famous dating app

Sex is the most beautiful thing in the world. But talking about it without straying into lasciviousness or becoming inhibited remains tricky.

A position-finding exercise: where does feminism stand today in relation to reproduction?

Karen, a young math teacher, is involved in a traffic accident for which she is not to blame. The accident causes the death of a girl on a scooter.

A delightfully absurd Berlin comedy about bicycle messengers, new age esoterica, and saving the world.

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