Controversial

  • Sweetheart

    Sweetheart

    2022

    16

    Chanelle, a 38-year-old French teacher, enters into a relationship with her 17-year-old student Sandrick.


  • Don't Call Me Bro

    Don't Call Me Bro

    2018

    18min

    16+

    In her harsh milieu study, Gina Wenzel tells the story of youth violence from the perpetrator's perspective.


  • And Yet We Were All Blind

    And Yet We Were All Blind

    2023

    1h.31min

    16+

    A lawyer faces infanticide charges for a child she didn't know she was carrying, igniting a trial that questions motherhood's essence.


  • Me Time

    Me Time

    2022

    1h.26min

    16

    Self-determination, women's rights, taboos: ME TIME focuses on child-free life and expectations of mothers.


  • Achrome

    Achrome

    2022

    1h.36min

    16+

    Haunting anti-war parable about collaboration in the Nazi-occupied Baltics, based on the controversial work of author Rūta Vanagaitė.


  • Adoration

    Adoration

    2019

    1h.38min

    16+

    Paul falls head over heels in love with the schizophrenic Gloria and decides to escape with her.


  • Alice Schwarzer

    Alice Schwarzer

    2022

    2h.16min

    12 FSK

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


  • Auf der Suche nach Heilern oder Ich bin ein Hypochonder

    Auf der Suche nach Heilern oder Ich bin ein Hypochonder

    2014

    1h.23min

    0 FSK

    Director Rosa von Praunheim experiments with alternative medicine and seeks out faith healers to cure his ailments and experience enlightenment.


  • Homeopathy Unrefuted?

    Homeopathy Unrefuted?

    2021

    1h.26min

    0 FSK

    Is homeopathy a hoax or medicine? Here, homeopaths are allowed to share their very different views.


  • Rain of Homs

    Rain of Homs

    2017

    1h.42min

    16+

    Homs, Syria in 2014: A short ceasefire, time to flee. That day, Yusuf and his nephew wanted to leave Homs, But things turned out differently.


  • Leaving Baghdad

    Leaving Baghdad

    2010

    1h.27min

    16+

    The story of Saddam Hussein's personal cameraman exposes the absurdities and brutality of the Iraqi dictators regime.


  • Blue Eyed

    Blue Eyed

    1996

    1h.33min

    0 FSK

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


  • Im inneren Kreis

    Im inneren Kreis

    2017

    1h.23min

    12 FSK

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


  • This Land Is My Land

    This Land Is My Land

    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

    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

    The Net

    2003

    2h.1min

    12 FSK

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


  • Master Game

    Master Game

    1998

    1h.46min

    16

    In the 90s, first attacks on paintings in art galleries and later bombings by German identity movement shocks Austria.


  • My Brother, My Love

    My Brother, My Love

    2018

    1h.54min

    16+

    Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.


  • War of Art

    War of Art

    2019

    1h.42min

    0 FSK

    What happens when a group of international artists go to North Korea to teach local artists about subversive art and rebellion?


  • Whatever Happened to Gelitin

    Whatever Happened to Gelitin

    2016

    1h.23min

    16+

    The Dadaist artist collective Gelitin is known for its sensational, worldwide art happenings.


  • Hands of a Mother

    Hands of a Mother

    2016

    1h.46min

    12 FSK

    A family reunion aboard a ship becomes a turning point in the life of 39-year-old engineer Markus.


  • The Idealist

    The Idealist

    2015

    1h.54min

    12 FSK

    An American B52 bomber with live nuclear warheads crashes in Greenland - years later, a journalist reopens the case.


  • The Forecaster

    The Forecaster

    2014

    1h.33min

    0 FSK

    MARTIN ARMSTRONG, once a US based trillion dollar financial adviser, used the number pi to predict economic turning points with precision. When some ...


  • East of War

    East of War

    1996

    1h.52min

    16+

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


  • Interruption

    Interruption

    2015

    1h.51min

    16+

    A group of armed men storms the stage at a theatre. It's unclear, if this is part of the play or the brutal reality.


  • GE8EN - The Camera Marches

    GE8EN - The Camera Marches

    2013

    48min

    16+

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


  • My Name Is Not Ali

    My Name Is Not Ali

    2011

    1h.32min

    16+

    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".


  • The Beast Within

    The Beast Within

    2008

    1h.12min

    16+

    Dog fights and other blood sports are banned in most countries, but they still are practiced widely in alleyways and backyards around the world.


  • Unlike U - Trainwriting in Berlin

    Unlike U - Trainwriting in Berlin

    2010

    1h.29min

    16+

    Join real legends of the Berlin graffiti underground culture on a trip through the city.


  • Khodorkovsky

    Khodorkovsky

    2011

    1h.51min

    12 FSK

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


  • tagged

    tagged

    2017

    12min

    16+

    This is the story of a 14 year old girl and her mobile phone. The content Elise posts on social media gets out of hand, and out of her control.


  • The Problem Is My Wife

    The Problem Is My Wife

    2003

    52min

    0 FSK

    A documentary reenactment of therapy sessions, which in a fascinating way gets to the bottom of the social as well as psychological backgrounds of male ...


  • The Pig Slaughtering

    The Pig Slaughtering

    2010

    52min

    16 FSK

    Inspired by Jean Eustache’s “Le Cochon”, THE PIG SLAUGHTERING by director Nikias Chryssos shows the traditional slaughtering of a pig.


  • Meine Daten und ich

    Meine Daten und ich

    2008

    1h.19min

    6 FSK

    In the mockumentary filmmaker Axel Ranisch asks various politicians: “How far can the state go to combat terrorism?” The insights are humorous and downright ...


  • Man Loves Dog

    Man Loves Dog

    2010

    30min

    16 FSK

    The controversial portrait of two zoophile men and their relationship with their four-legged friends.