Biopic

A transgender person's journey of self-discovery in early 1930s Berlin just as the Nazis rise to power is magnificently told in this animated short.

In the breathtaking mountain landscape of Georgia, the first freely elected president seeks protection from the putschists.

Rosa von Praunheim recounts the fascinating biography of the revolutionary sex researcher Magnus Hirschfeld and his groundbreaking findings.

Rosa von Praunheim portrays Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, famous transvestite from the former GDR, in a winning mix of documentary and feature film.

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

Denmark 1962: As protests against the nuclear arms race and imperialist policies grow louder, activist Eik meets the beautiful Iben.

This sensitive animated film tells of the horrors endured by cartoonist Josep Bartoli in an internment camp.

Semi-documentary feature film about "Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer.

Green Party icon Petra Kelly is shot in her sleep by her partner Gert Bastian, an ex-Federal Armed Forces general, before he kills himself.

East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back.

Composer Mikis Theodorakis is the enfant terrible of contemporary European music history - an exceptional artist in a dramatic century.

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

Beethoven's life is told as a “cultural crime story” (WDR), a hybrid of live action and animation. How can a deaf composer write masterpieces? An investigation. When ...

Yolande Moreau is an uneducated and devout housekeeper who at night creates boldly original paintings. Real Moreau is now considered one of the most significant ...

The rise and fall of Swiss cycling legend Hugo Koblet still fascinates today - with a comb tucked in his jersey, groupies, vanilla ice cream.