Politics: Human Rights

The war crimes tribunal in The Hague is fighting with itself and war criminals from the former Yugoslavia.

With destabilising gentleness, Mo Harawe recounts the last hours of the terrorist Farah before his execution.

A creeping, almost invisible toxic waste catastrophe is taking place on Somalia's coast.

This poignant and thought-provoking documentary offers a unique and deeply moving insight into the lives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

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

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

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

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

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

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

Contemporary witnesses from several European countries provide impressive insights into how the Iron Curtain shaped life across the continent.

Survivors can also be victims in countries where injustice was the norm. Their compelling testimonies are featured in this insightful documentary.

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

Ghadir, Mohamad and their five children never wanted to leave their homeland Syria. Now they are in Germany. The new beginning is not easy.

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

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

A war crime was committed in their home village and consistently hushed up. The two brothers search for clues leaves us stunned and angry.

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

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

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

Based on a true story: The film examines the German justice system and its structural bias.

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

At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.

In restrictive Afghanistan, there are girls who are raised as boys and this is culturally established.

We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.

Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer.

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

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.

A bearded man with a backpack gets on an airplane and a beardless man without a backpack simply does what a man has to do.

A semi-documentary that follows a group of young migrants in Vienna as they negotiate the maze of administrative procedures.

Christoph Schlingensief's provocative works are still highly topical even after 20 years.

Six people talk about the absurd, the sad and above all the beautiful aspects of transitioning.

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

At the age of 17, the Gambian woman Sadi fled from the genital mutilation. Through the Sahara, Libya and across the Mediterranean to Sicily.

Teenaged sex worker Paul finds refuge with a stranger.

The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.

Hobo Beate lives with her disabled child in a tent. One day, law enforcement turns their lives upside down. And so the journey begins.

The moving life story of Mario Röllig, who fell in love with a gay West German politician in the mid-80s and was imprisoned for it.

An attempt to come to terms with the NSU's incomparable series of murders from the perspective of the victims' relatives.

Filmmaker Melanie Gärtner looks closely at the fate of one family to illuminate the social structures that lead to flight and migration.

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

A story about the grind of examination and verifying in the German bureaucracy.

More and more immigrants have been the landing in Germany since the 1950's. But it wasn't until 2005 that a new immigration law went into effect.

This documentary tells the harrowing story of the global phenomenon of human trafficking.

CHINA BLUE by Micha X. Peled is a prizewinning documentary that documents conditions at a blue-jeans factory in China.

Militarization and prostitution: When peacekeeping troops moved into Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, trafficking in women quickly followed suit.

In Daniela Lucatos docu WHEN I DANCE, four dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy attempt to interpret the stories of refugees.

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

Can good cause evil? This documentary investigates the effect of Swiss development assistance in Rwanda before the genocide against the Tutsi.

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

Over a hundred years ago, "Togoland", now the Republic of Togo and part of present-day Ghana, was a colonial possession of the German Empire.

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

Two West Bank teen agers who, along with a group of other young Palestinians, are invited by an NGO to spend a day at the beach – in Israel.

An historian who survived the concentration camps, Otto Dov Kulka grants insights into his long-hidden world of thoughts.

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 ...

Although they have lost everything through their flight, the Jesidesses Hedil and Naam fight for a dignified life for their families.

Teenagers try to flee to Europe under life-threatening circumstances, hidden in trucks, where they become the hunted by the border authorities.

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