After the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, Valentyn decided to become politically active and run for city council in his home town.
Allesandersplatz
Documentary, Independent
2021
53min
16+
In the heart of Berlin, a GDR ruin is given a new lease on life and becomes a center for art, culture and community.
Re-Destruction
Documentary, Independent
2021
45min
16+
Acclaimed Lebanese director Simon El Habre paints a vivid portrait of Beirut post-Civil War, highlighting the impact of the 2020 port explosion.
Hotline
Documentary
2015
1h.39min
16+
Intensely charged in political terms, HOTLINE is not merely revealing but downright shocking in what it conveys about Israel’s policies on outsiders.
Feels Good Man
Documentary, Independent
2020
1h.32min
16+
How did Pepe the Frog become the symbol of hatred and racism online?
Welcome to the Dome
Documentary, Queer
1992
15min
0 FSK
During the final prayer of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1991, one of the most spectacular protest actions takes place.
Factory to the Workers
Documentary
2022
1h.46min
16+
This thought-provoking documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by worker-owned factories in a capitalist, post-socialist, economy.
Barricade
Documentary, Independent
2021
1h.23min
6 FSK
A striking documentary by renowned photojournalist David Klammer about protesters fighting to stop the clear-cutting at the Dannenröder Forest.
Citizen Nobel
Documentary
2020
1h.39min
16+
In 2017, Jacques Dubochet won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him famous overnight. He decides to use his new fame for something good.
H6
Documentary
2022
1h.54min
6
This documentary about everyday hospital life in China combines the serious and the amusing in a very balanced ratio.
Going Alone
Documentary, Independent
2022
28min
16+
A funeral director who aspired to be an entertainer is now the last escort of people in Berlin who have died in solitude.
Ciao Aracà
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.2min
16+
Globalization, and rural exodus: despite a gloomy outlook, the people still living in Aracà , a small Italian village, are bravely facing the future.
City Of Joel
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.23min
16+
In the small town of Monroe, New York, a dispute over land erupts between an Hasidic community and its secular neighbors and turns into a turf war.
Not in my Backyard
Documentary, Independent
2011
1h.27min
16+
One of the biggest taboos in society is the rehabilitation of sex offenders. This film takes the offender perspective.
Class Struggle
Documentary, Independent
2021
1h.27min
16+
Based on his origins and personal background, director Sobo Swobodnik analyzes the social fabric of society and the German education system.
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.
Metamorphoses
Documentary, Icons & Media Art
2013
1h.24min
16+
On the river Tetscha in the southern Urals, in the middle of nowhere between Europe and Asia, is the most radioactively contaminated area in the world
Where to, Miss?
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.23min
12 FSK
A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.
Der Stoff, aus dem Träume sind
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.16min
16+
Housing is a human right. How can we guarantee housing in the increasingly difficult real estate markets in Europe's major cities?
Afghanistan - New beginning?
Documentary
2006
37min
16+
Five years after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan the country's future was uncertain but buoyed by cautious optimism.
No Kings
Documentary
2020
1h.24min
16+
Until a few years ago, the descendants of the indigenous Tupinambá and escaped slaves lived in isolation in Caiçara, not far from Rio de Janeiro.
Clean Hands
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.41min
16+
A penniless family living on a rubbish dump is offered a house. The condition is that they send their children to school. Is this a fairy tale?
Afterward
Documentary
2020
1h.35min
12
Jerusalem-born trauma expert Ofra Bloch confronts her personal demons in a journey where she meets with people she was taught to hate.
The Wild Frontier
Documentary, Independent
2018
3h.39min
12
Winter 2016, the refugee camp in Calais, dubbed "The Jungle", is a growing city of nearly 12,000 residents.
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.
Do Not Fear
Documentary, Queer
2019
1h.6min
0 FSK
Germany's only trans* pastor.
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.
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.
The Other Rio
Documentary
2018
1h.28min
16+
The spectacle of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are in full swing. But the grim contrast of poverty is only a few blocks away.
Le Ciel, la Terre et L'Homme
Documentary
2018
1h.10min
6
The Aït Seghrouchen, a nomadic people from the windswept Moroccan desert, brave sandstorms, watch livestock and the cell phone towers.
Pariah Dog
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.17min
16+
Calcutta, India, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is home not only to 14 million people, but also to countless stray dogs.
Don't Work (1968-2018)
Documentary
2018
1h.28min
16
In turbulent and disorienting times, a pair of artists uses experimental means to create a hypnotically vibrating portrait of the generations.
Whispering Truth to Power
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.26min
12
The South African public prosecutor Thuli Madonsela is taking on powerful opponents in politics.
Meuthen's Party
Documentary, Independent
2017
1h.32min
12
Follow Jörg Meuthen, candidate for Germany's right-wing party AFD, on his election tour 2016.
Uferfrauen - Lesbian Life and Love in the GDR
Documentary, Queer
2020
1h.56min
12
Six very different lesbian women talk about their lives and loves in the socialist system of the GDR.
Vote for Kibera
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.30min
12
Kenya is on the brink of a fateful choice, and in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, 300,000 people are hoping for an improvement in their situation.
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.
Small Planets
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.41min
0 FSK
A visit to four exceptionally isolated places and communities that never cease to amaze even the people who live there.
The Teacher’s Country
Documentary, Independent
2013
1h.10min
6
50 years after Tanzania's independence from Great Britain, the East African country is still searching for a unifying identity.
Anbessa
Documentary
2019
1h.25min
16+
Asalif and his mother are displaced from their farmland on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. To fight for their livelihood, Asalif taps into his fantasy.
Live and Let Live
Documentary, Independent
2013
1h.20min
0 FSK
Climate change, disease and growing ethical concerns are leading more and more people to question whether eating animals is the right thing to do.
Warrior Father King
Documentary, Independent
2015
1h.22min
16 FSK
Ismail, Kamil and Carlos have fought hard for their place in German society – professional mixed martial artists.
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.
Face_It!
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.20min
16+
An exploration of facial recognition, a modern fingerprint that provides access to a person's personality like a secret code.
El Viaje
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2016
1h.30min
6 FSK
Rodrigo Gonzalez, bassist of the German punk rock band DIE ÄRZTE, travels to Chile, on the trail of the music of his childhood.
Gaza Surf Club
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.27min
0 FSK
Surfing in this film is a metaphor and expression of freedom. Young people in Gaza have the same desires as anyone else.
Push
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.32min
0 FSK
Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord.
Playland USA
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.28min
12 FSK
A poetic time travel fantasy through the imagined history of the United States as a modern fairyland, along the traces of our desire for escapism.
The Red Line - Resistance in Hambach Forest
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.55min
0 FSK
Whether Hambi, Lützerath or Garzweiler - In the face of a destructive and misguided policy, many see only one option: Resistance!
Café Waldluft
Documentary, Independent
2015
1h.19min
12 FSK
After the big influx of refugees to Europe in 2015, even the most Bavarian villages the picturesque mountains had to adapt.
Gestrandet
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.18min
0 FSK
In 2014 a small group of Eritrean refugees are "stranded" in Strackholt amidst the East Frisian emptiness.
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
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?
The Cleaners
Documentary
2018
1h.28min
16 FSK
Dive into the hidden industry of digital cleaning, which rids the Internet of unwanted violence, porn and political content. Who is controlling what we ...
Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals
Documentary
2017
1h.17min
16 FSK
How is ever-available pornography changing our lives? Ex-porn actress Ovidie explains.
In Pursuit of Silence
Documentary
2016
1h.21min
0 FSK
Following a tribute to John Cage's seminal composition 4'33, this film takes us on a fascinating cinematic journey around the world:
God is not Working on Sunday!
Documentary, Independent
2015
1h.22min
16+
After the bloody genocide 20 years ago, Rwanda made a remarkable turnaround, which was primarily made possible by the country's women.
Brown Bread: The Story of an Adoptive Family
Documentary, Independent
2014
1h.27min
16+
Adoption gave the same last name to six children from very different backgrounds. But what does it mean to integrate race and class into one family?
Fritz Bauer - Death By Installments
Biography, Documentary
2010
1h.38min
12 FSK
Fritz Bauer was a public prosecutor, a leading investigator of Nazi history and a pioneer of German civil society.
Khodorkovsky
Biography, Documentary
2011
1h.51min
12 FSK
Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins.
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank
Biography, Documentary
2019
1h.25min
12
The photographer Robert Frank juxtaposes social opposites in his works: New York and the American South, London bankers and Welsh miners.
"What a lonely ...
Free Speech Fear Free
Documentary
2016
1h.20min
6 FSK
In this compelling documentary, Tarquin Ramsay asks just one question: What is the freedom of expression?