Politics

  • Dreams of the City

    Dreams of the City

    Drama

    1984

    2h.3min

    16+

    A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.


  • Reihe 6

    Reihe 6

    Documentary, Independent

    2023

    25min

    16+

    This documentary shows the consequences of the 2008 war for displaced Georgians in a refugee settlement and their struggle to find a new home.


  • Fortuna Valentyn

    Fortuna Valentyn

    Documentary, Independent

    2022

    1h.5min

    16+

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


  • My Wonderful West Berlin

    My Wonderful West Berlin

    Documentary, Queer

    2017

    1h.38min

    16+

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


  • Barricade

    Barricade

    Documentary, Independent

    2021

    1h.23min

    16+

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


  • Alice Schwarzer

    Alice Schwarzer

    Biography

    2022

    2h.16min

    16+

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


  • Johanna Dohnal - Visionary of Feminism

    Johanna Dohnal - Visionary of Feminism

    Biography, Documentary

    2021

    1h.47min

    16+

    Johanna Dohnal, icon of the Austrian women's movement and first Minister for Women's Affairs, shaped the Alpine Republic like hardly any other.


  • Mystik und Widerstand

    Mystik und Widerstand

    Biography, Documentary

    2013

    1h.10min

    16+

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


  • The Tree of Life

    The Tree of Life

    Biography, Documentary

    2005

    1h.10min

    16+

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


  • Black Sun - Mythological Background of National Socialism

    Black Sun - Mythological Background of National Socialism

    Documentary

    1998

    1h.35min

    16+

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


  • Face the Wall

    Face the Wall

    Documentary, Independent

    2009

    1h.25min

    16+

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


  • Justice 2.0

    Justice 2.0

    Documentary

    2015

    49min

    16+

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


  • Nunca Más - No More War In Colombia?

    Nunca Más - No More War In Colombia?

    Documentary

    2018

    36min

    16+

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


  • No News

    No News

    Documentary, Independent

    2021

    1h.21min

    16+

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


  • Moments of Resistance

    Moments of Resistance

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    1h.39min

    16+

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


  • The Mouth - Our Ultimate Prison

    The Mouth - Our Ultimate Prison

    Independent

    2017

    1h.27min

    16+

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


  • After the Future

    After the Future

    Documentary, Queer

    2017

    47min

    16+

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


  • Disciples of Hate

    Disciples of Hate

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.0min

    16+

    An ex-Salafist and an ex-Neo-Nazi confront their past. Dominic Schmitz and Felix Benneckenstein were trapped in an ideology for years.


  • The Waldheim Waltz

    The Waldheim Waltz

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.34min

    16+

    This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.


  • Of Neo-Nazis and Superheroes – How the Far Right is Changing a Small German Town

    Of Neo-Nazis and Superheroes – How the Far Right is Changing a Small German Town

    Documentary

    2018

    56min

    16+

    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.


  • Yugoslavia – How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body

    Yugoslavia – How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body

    Documentary, Independent

    2013

    1h.2min

    16+

    The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.


  • Mass Ornaments

    Mass Ornaments

    Icons & Media Art, Independent

    2013

    1h.19min

    16+

    This work investigates a controversial mass performance from the late Yugoslav era – the Youth Day celebration (“slet”) in 1987.


  • Meuthen's Party

    Meuthen's Party

    Documentary, Independent

    2017

    1h.32min

    16+

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


  • The Rojava Experiment - A Society On The Move

    The Rojava Experiment - A Society On The Move

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    58min

    16+

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


  • Im inneren Kreis

    Im inneren Kreis

    Documentary, Independent

    2017

    1h.23min

    16+

    Iris P. was an undercover investigator who maintained close friendships and had intimate relationships with the people she spied on.


  • Panoptic

    Panoptic

    Documentary, Independent

    2017

    1h.10min

    16+

    Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.


  • Setting the Course

    Setting the Course

    Documentary

    2018

    31min

    16+

    During the cold war, West Germany hid its institutionalized human rights abuse in residential care facilities.


  • This Land Is My Land

    This Land Is My Land

    Documentary, Independent

    2020

    1h.45min

    16+

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


  • Bruno & Bettina

    Bruno & Bettina

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.41min

    16+

    Masao Adachi, born in 1939, is a well-known Japanese scriptwriter and director who in 1974 joined the ‘Japanese Red Army’.


  • The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    Icons & Media Art

    2004

    35min

    16+

    Lutz Dammbeck talks with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) about T.A.Z., Ted Kaczynski, Islam, Marvin Minsky, Cusanus and natural philosophy.


  • The Net_GO TO TRIAL

    The Net_GO TO TRIAL

    Icons & Media Art

    2004

    35min

    16+

    A montage of TV images of the trial of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the "Unabomber."


  • The Net

    The Net

    Documentary, Independent

    2003

    2h.1min

    16+

    What is the connection between computer technology, hippie culture, mathematics, terrorism, the research of consciousness in the 1950s and paranoia?


  • Duerer’s Heirs

    Duerer’s Heirs

    Documentary, Independent

    1996

    58min

    16+

    A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.


  • Age of the Gods

    Age of the Gods

    Documentary, Independent

    1993

    1h.32min

    16+

    How does a highly talented artist end up in the vicinity of a totalitarian regime? What responsibility does art bear in political systems?


  • GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    Icons & Media Art

    1984

    22min

    16+

    In 1984, a group of artists occupied an exhibition center in Leipzig.


  • Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container

    Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container

    Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater

    2002

    1h.30min

    16+

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


  • Ink of Yam

    Ink of Yam

    Documentary, Independent

    2017

    1h.15min

    16+

    In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.


  • And There We Are, In The Middle

    And There We Are, In The Middle

    Documentary, Independent

    2014

    1h.25min

    16+

    A trenchant image of the complications self-discovery and personality formation can be for adolescents.


  • Namrud: Troublemaker

    Namrud: Troublemaker

    Documentary

    2017

    1h.35min

    16+

    Jowan Safadi, an Israeli Palestinian and musician from the Middle East, is under investigation by Israeli police for "inciting terrorism".


  • American Passages

    American Passages

    Documentary, Independent

    2011

    2h.0min

    16+

    An epic documentary panorama about a journey through the United States.


  • Near and Elsewhere

    Near and Elsewhere

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    1h.24min

    16+

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


  • It's All Good

    It's All Good

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.10min

    16+

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


  • Offshore - Elmer and the Swiss Bank Secrecy

    Offshore - Elmer and the Swiss Bank Secrecy

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.42min

    16+

    Rudolf Elmer has had a remarkable career at a Swiss private bank until he became a whistleblower of the offshore banking business.


  • Dil Leyla

    Dil Leyla

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.11min

    16+

    Leyla, a young woman from Germany, campaigns to become the youngest mayor of Turkey - in the town of Cizre, marked by civil war.


  • She is the Other Gaze

    She is the Other Gaze

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.30min

    16+

    Portrait of five female Viennese artists, who in their pioneering role have left their mark on contemporary art.


  • 6 Jahre, 7 Monate und 16 Tage - die Morde des NSU

    6 Jahre, 7 Monate und 16 Tage - die Morde des NSU

    Documentary, Independent

    2017

    1h.16min

    16+

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


  • Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork

    Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork

    Documentary, Independent

    2009

    1h.27min

    16+

    Jaffa, home of the world famous cakes, is a bustling metropolis and focus of this fascinating documentary.


  • Shalom Salam

    Shalom Salam

    Documentary, Independent

    2006

    53min

    16+

    The documentary SHALOM SALAM tells about the conflict in the Middle East through the eyes of Israeli and Palestinian children.


  • Yves' Promise

    Yves' Promise

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    1h.19min

    16+

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


  • GE8EN - The Camera Marches

    GE8EN - The Camera Marches

    Documentary

    2013

    48min

    16+

    An experimental account of the protest culture at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.


  • Zertifikat Deutsch

    Zertifikat Deutsch

    Documentary, Independent

    2009

    1h.30min

    16+

    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.


  • The Peacekeepers and the Women

    The Peacekeepers and the Women

    Documentary, Independent

    2003

    1h.20min

    16+

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


  • Fukushima and the Bats

    Fukushima and the Bats

    Documentary, Independent

    2015

    1h.22min

    16+

    After the catastrophic events in Fukushima, the transition to renewable energy was placed firmly on the political agenda in Germany.


  • The Fire, a Fowl And an (Un)Forgotten Past

    The Fire, a Fowl And an (Un)Forgotten Past

    Shorts

    2017

    12min

    16+

    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 - Death By Installments

    Fritz Bauer - Death By Installments

    Biography, Documentary

    2010

    1h.38min

    16+

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


  • The First Sea

    The First Sea

    Documentary

    2013

    1h.0min

    16+

    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.


  • How to Shoot a President?

    How to Shoot a President?

    Icons & Media Art

    1991

    34min

    16+

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


  • Temptations of happiness: Arcadia - the film

    Temptations of happiness: Arcadia - the film

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    1h.33min

    16+

    The ambassador of the state of Arcadia, occupies land and declares this occupied area to be Arcadian territory. Is this even legal?


  • Frozen Conflict

    Frozen Conflict

    Documentary, Independent

    2018

    1h.0min

    16+

    One of Europe's strangest borders lies between the Republic of Moldova and the de facto autonomous region of Transnistria.


  • Mit dem Wort Wende

    Mit dem Wort Wende

    Shorts

    2009

    3min

    16+

    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 ...


  • Return to Vienna

    Return to Vienna

    Documentary, Classics

    1983

    1h.31min

    16+

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


  • What the Wind Took Away

    What the Wind Took Away

    Documentary, Independent

    2017

    1h.15min

    16+

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


  • Yasuní - Two Seconds of Life

    Yasuní - Two Seconds of Life

    Documentary, Independent

    2010

    1h.32min

    16+

    Instead of being exploited for its oil, the President of Ecuador suggests to leave the Yasuní national park untouched.


  • Little Alien

    Little Alien

    Documentary, Independent

    2009

    1h.34min

    16+

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


  • A German Loves His Fatherland

    A German Loves His Fatherland

    Comedy

    2011

    20min

    16+

    In Nico Sommer's mockumentary a nazi loves a woman of color.


  • Democracy Is On!

    Democracy Is On!

    Documentary, Independent

    2015

    1h.22min

    16+

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


  • Honey and Ashes

    Honey and Ashes

    Classics

    1996

    1h.16min

    16+

    Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.


  • Evolution of Violence

    Evolution of Violence

    Documentary, Independent

    2011

    1h.16min

    16+

    Guatemala. The war ended long ago. Though people want to forget it, the violence continues, and it has spread throughout the society like cancer.