Biography

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

A tribute to the uncomfortable artist and utopian Harald Naegeli, who was supported by Joseph Beuys and Willy Brandt.

Helke Misselwitz visits the Datça peninsula in Turkey, where artist Güler Yücel has found her refuge.

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

The life and work of a charismatic Jewish refugee from Germany, an anti-fascist, and a trailblazing photographer whose would be forgotten.

An intimate look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her incredible rise to become a revered Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court.

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

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.

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

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

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

An intimate portrait of the famous French sociologist duo Monique and Michel Pinçon-Charlot who remain ever embroiled in political battles.

The new Director's cut of Sébastien Lifshitz's intimate and portrait of one of the first French trans woman, Marie-Pierre Pruvot, called BAMBI.

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

This film essay traces the life of influential poet Paul Celan, and illuminates his interest in the mystical tradition of Kabbalah.

A year in Lara Gut’s universe, from the victory of the Alpine Ski World Cup title in 2016 to the comeback after an injury at the peak of her career.

In the 1970s, Peter Brückner was an iconic figure of the German New Left and was the first university professor to lose tenure for political reasons.

Rosa von Praunheim's search for his own roots interweaves his personal life story with the larger historical context of the Second World War.

Lotti Huber, the 77-year-old singer, dancer and actress brimming with the spirit of life, tells of her eventful life in this semi-documenary film.

PRAUNHEIM MEMOIRES pays tribute to 1950s West Germany for better and for worse and how it shaped the nascent artist.

Never-before-seen insights into the work of Federico Fellini, the grand master of Italian cinema.

This Series follows the moving journey of comedian and trans man OCÉAN through his gender reassignment process.

This documentary follows full-contact athlete Lukas Kroiss on his cinematic path to the K1 European Championship title.

The loving portrait of a life on a lurching course, but one that never went off the rails.

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

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

Friends and colleagues reminisce about the controversial actor Volker Spengler, who was dubbed the "Downfall of the West".

A hospital in Berlin-Neukölln at midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the scene. The beginning of a story that tells itself.

In the formerly male-dominated world of wrestling, a courageous woman struggles to be taken seriously as an athlete and performer.

Photojournalist Camille goes to the Central African Republic to cover a brewing civil war. What she sees there will change her destiny forever.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been shown with such openness and introspection.

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

Thomas Broich, a promising young player from Bavaria, was celebrated as the new Schweinsteiger. But he ended up pursuing a different career.

Discover the extraordinary impact of a renowned author who revolutionized American literature by popularizing science fiction.

Self-taught photographer and photography legend Duane Michals is known for the innovation and artistry of his work.

Consumption, glamour, disasters and mass media - the art of Andy Warhol is a reflection of America. Kim Evans portrays Warhol's controversial appearance ...

A warm-hearted yet stylistically radical film portrait in black and white and color about Edgar Reitz and his encounter with a young female filmmaker.

Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.

Hélène writes with biting humor. And yet this poet can't hold a pen, can't speak, and has never learned to read or write.

Sergei Nakariakov has succeeded in freeing the trumpet from the narrow boundaries that are attributed to it within classical music.

Gabriel García Márquez, known as "Gabo", achieved world fame with his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967).

Bernadette Lafont embodied the unyielding desire for freedom and independence like hardly any other actress in her time.

A pastor’s daughter composes a mosaic of photos and film fragments to explore the myth, the relevance, and the future of the Parsonage.

In 1970 Jeffery Kagel could have become a rock star. But he turned down the offer from Blue Oyster Cult and set off on a journey of self-discovery.

After the end of World War 2, 238 German women make a new start in Iceland, following an advertisement from the Icelandic Farmers' Association.

The unusual and offbeat director himself shows for the first time which themes have influenced his artistic work.

Fritz Schranz has created an autonomous world for himself in an old vicarage in Bavaria, which he calls a "monastery for modern art and philosophy".

A Palestinian director uses the story of legendary Syrian entertainer ASMAHAN to offer a fresh take on Middle Eastern history and the Arab Spring.

Salim Shaheen defied the Soviets and the Taliban and is the most prolific Afghan filmmaker you've never heard of.

The impressive life story of a unique dancer who successfully left her mark on the dance world.

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

He was a street musician, redneck, weirdo, fag and, above all, always a rebel - this documentary is a memorial to Cologne icon Jürgen Zeltinger.

Celebrated as a talent of the century at the age of 18, his goal in the 2014 World Cup final at just 22 made him a German football legend.

Florence is trapped at an early age in a hotbed of cruelty. Sexually abused and raped within her own family, she runs away from home as a teenager.

A filmmaker discovers evidence of a Wehrmacht massacre in Italy in his grandfather's estate and investigates the case himself.

Transporting baskets full of hand grenades and secret messages through Nazi roadblocks was just a part of Annitas work during WW2.

Akin Sipal explores his family history and the role language and literature play in it.

Portrait of action artist, environmental activist, natural philosopher, gallery owner and "anarchist" Ben Wagin.

A dramatization of actual events portraying both the contentious rise and success of Jean Senac in Algeria and a friendship that ends in tragedy.

A portrait of Tom Weise, one of the initiators of HustlaBall, a project to promote the acceptance of male prostitutes.

On his 40th birthday, director Thomas Haemmerli learns of the death of his mother. The next shock is seeing his mother's filthy and chaotic apartment. On ...

Carine Roy's documentary is dedicated to one of the world's most famous architects and the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

The artist Reiner Zitta transforms everyday objects and things left lying around into exciting works of art.

William S. Burroughs: cult figure, novelist and pioneer of the underground cultures. In the docu his closest friends: Laurie Anderson, David Cronenberg, ...

This documentary chronicles the life of writer Angelika Schrobsdorff's family, who fled from Berlin and Nazi Germany to Bulgaria in 1939.

The sad story of brilliant mathematician and German war refugee Wolfgang Doeblin, who died as a French soldier.

Angelika Levi explores her German Christian-Jewish family heritage through the archives of photographs, audio tapes and films collected by her mother.

A portrait of El Hedi ben Salem, the actor of the Arab guest worker Ali from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film "Ali – Fear Eats The Soul".

Thomas Brasch (1945-2001), was a charismatic and aggressive artist, he loved conflicts. The documentary offers a unique insight into the fascinating life ...

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

A house for the needy in Berlin - Schöneweide where 21 men live who have lost everything – is THE BEAUTIFUL HOME for these men.

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

ZOWNIR: RADICAL MAN is the portrait of Miron Zownir, one of the most censored photographers, filmmakers and crime novelists of our time.

Jacques Tardi is one of the most important graphic novel authors in the world. Director Pierre-André Sauvageot has created a cinematic memorial to him

Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins.

A personal take on Turkish history by director Ufuk Emiroğlu. It's a mosaic of a film, which moves freely between documentary, fiction and animation.

Monika Krause, a German student who fell in love with a Cuban captain became the official sex educator of Castro's revolution.

David Sievekind, young filmmaker, is in search of inspiration. He meets David Lynch, who assures him that the meditation TM is the key to success. But, ...

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.

The photographer Robert Frank juxtaposes social opposites in his works: New York and the American South, London bankers and Welsh miners. "What a lonely ...

George London was one of the most impressive bass-baritones of the post-war era. He sang alongside Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi and Nicolai Gedda. He ...

Celebrated in the world of fashion for her eccentric outfits, Anna Piaggi was living testimony to the fusion of art, society and culture.

Lorenza Mazzetti's extraordinary life story touches many points in twentieth century history.

This documentary is a memorial to the extraordinary artist, activist and family man Harry Belafonte.

Swiss feminist Iris Meyer and conservative Peter von Roten were unlikely mates who nonetheless had a passionate relationship. This is their story. ENEMIES ...

Leonard Percival Howell founded the Rastafarian Movement, was also sailor, world traveler, and revolutionary. The documentary follows from Jamaica to Panama, ...

THE FOLK SINGER leads the viewer into a world full of raw human emotion, slapstick humor and wild American Roots Music.

In THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel accompany the still very active 90-year old photographer Erich Lessing.