Education

  • We, Students!

    We, Students!

    2022

    1h.23min

    16+

    Rafiki Fariala's debut explores student life in Bangui, revealing hopes amid challenges in the Central African Republic.


  • The Exam

    The Exam

    2021

    1h.26min

    16+

    For a young Kurdish woman, the entrance exam for university will decide, if she can live freely or has to submit to the men in her life.


  • Eat, Grow, Love

    Eat, Grow, Love

    2018

    0

    How can we save the planet? The answer could be as simple as EAT, GROW, LOVE on your windowsill, your rooftop or in your backyard.


  • Sexological Bodywork

    Sexological Bodywork

    18

    Learn about your body and your lust in a new way. Sex educationists, tantra experts, and bondage masters will help you to fully develop your orgasmic potential. This ...


  • The Class

    The Class

    2007

    2h.4min

    0 FSK

    An exceptional, docu-like film that explores the nuances of student-teacher relationships in a Parisian high school.


  • I Stay Home

    I Stay Home

    2021

    1h.27min

    16+

    1 year, 11 teens, 8 countries, 1 pandemic: A unique journey through the first year of the pandemic, seen through the eyes of children.


  • Adventure Anthroposophy - Rudolf Steiner and his influence

    Adventure Anthroposophy - Rudolf Steiner and his influence

    2008

    1h.50min

    0 FSK

    Many people are familiar with Waldorf schools, but few are aware of the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, who in 1919 established them.


  • Dancing Quietly

    Dancing Quietly

    2016

    1h.21min

    12 FSK

    An authentic and quietly directed personal love letter to all those whose greatest struggle is to just get out of bed every day.


  • Soul Kids

    Soul Kids

    2021

    1h.16min

    0

    In this music school, kids from Memphis, one of the USA’s most distressed cities, get a chance to become professional musicians.


  • Sons of Honour

    Sons of Honour

    2020

    1h.26min

    16+

    The sons of mafia families are forcibly removed from their families to protect them from the violent fate of their fathers.


  • Our Defeats

    Our Defeats

    2019

    1h.28min

    16+

    Jean-Gabriel Périot asks students on the outskirts of Paris to reenact iconic films from the '68 era and share their thoughts.


  • The Head of the Cat

    The Head of the Cat

    2021

    29min

    12 FSK

    Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.


  • MansFeld

    MansFeld

    2013

    1h.38min

    6 FSK

    A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and an old custom: In the village of MANSFELD, the ritual banishment of the old takes place every year


  • Adolescentes

    Adolescentes

    2020

    2h.10min

    16+

    Victims of their circumstances: The two best friends Emma and Anaïs face very different futures.


  • Pahokee

    Pahokee

    2019

    1h.50min

    16+

    In Pahokee, a small town in the Florida Everglades, four teens experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school.


  • Alimamy

    Alimamy

    2020

    40min

    16+

    To pay for his children's education, Sierra Leonean farmer Alimamy is taking a gamble: he wants to sell the entire cassava harvest at the next market.


  • Class Struggle

    Class Struggle

    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.


  • Seahorse

    Seahorse

    2020

    16min

    16+

    Hanan fled with her family from northern Iraq across the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, she did not know how to swim. She now overcomes the trauma.


  • Sayounara

    Sayounara

    2018

    1h.26min

    16+

    High school student Yuki's quiet life in a sleepy coastal town is shattered when her best friend Aya commits suicide.


  • Music and Apocalypse

    Music and Apocalypse

    2019

    1h.20min

    0 FSK

    A bitter satire on the university business and its evaluation madness and third-party funding stupidity.


  • Lower Upper Cut

    Lower Upper Cut

    2011

    1h.32min

    6 FSK

    In this self-reflective improv film, an acting class prepares for a crucial final audition that will decide the rest of their careers.


  • The Voice

    The Voice

    2020

    1h.20min

    16+

    A sheltered teenager rebels against the strict rules, religious beliefs, and conniving classmates at his Catholic boarding school.


  • Deva

    Deva

    2019

    1h.13min

    16+

    The story of an orphan with albinism is told in an unusual blend of neorealism and magical realism.


  • Afghanistan - New beginning?

    Afghanistan - New beginning?

    2006

    37min

    16+

    Five years after the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan the country's future was uncertain but buoyed by cautious optimism.


  • Create & Connect

    Create & Connect

    2021

    1h.18min

    0

    80 young artists from all over the world meet at Lichtenberg Castle, Germany to experience the creative and unifying power of music and dance.


  • Bias

    Bias

    2018

    1h.25min

    16+

    The toxic effects of prejudice are well known: sexual harassment, racial profiling, the pay gap. Yet few are prepared to admit it.


  • Coran-Children

    Coran-Children

    2009

    1h.29min

    16+

    Children have to memorize 6,234 Koran verses by heart, 12 hours/day for two years to become a "hafiz". This is life in the Koran schools, the madrasas


  • Meisterklasse Christa Ludwig - Part 1

    Meisterklasse Christa Ludwig - Part 1

    1999

    56min

    0

    The famous German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig makes the public singing master class an experience with her incomparably humorous manner. With a sense ...


  • Meisterklasse Christa Ludwig - Part 2

    Meisterklasse Christa Ludwig - Part 2

    1999

    1h.0min

    0

    The famous German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig makes the public singing master class an experience with her incomparably humorous manner. With a sense ...


  • The Farmer and His Prince

    The Farmer and His Prince

    2015

    1h.21min

    0 FSK

    Before Charles became King of England, he still had time for his beloved garden.


  • The Teacher’s Country

    The Teacher’s Country

    2013

    1h.10min

    6

    50 years after Tanzania's independence from Great Britain, the East African country is still searching for a unifying identity.


  • School of Babel

    School of Babel

    2013

    1h.31min

    16+

    For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed a group of students from all over the world who are all taking the same course to learn French.


  • #Uploading_Holocaust

    #Uploading_Holocaust

    2016

    1h.10min

    0

    Every year, tens of thousands of young Israelis travel to Poland to visit the Holocaust memorials – a digital-sociological observation.


  • Language Is a Love Story

    Language Is a Love Story

    2019

    1h.30min

    16+

    Ms. Louiseau is a dedicated French teacher at a language school in Montréal for adult immigrants. The names of her students* are as varied as her stories. Since ...


  • Dessine-toi...

    Dessine-toi...

    2010

    1h.10min

    0

    Creative outbursts, reflection, lack of inspiration, tears, laughter. Draw yourself... share the grace of "childhood".


  • CaRabA - Life Without School

    CaRabA - Life Without School

    2019

    1h.29min

    0 FSK

    What would kids do if they didn't have to go to school? Five young people follow their interests in a world without compulsory education.


  • Märkische Forschungen

    Märkische Forschungen

    1982

    1h.31min

    6 FSK

    On a forest road in the Brandenburg, local village teacher Pötsch encounters the distinguished Professor Menzel, who got stuck there in his car.


  • Ghetto

    Ghetto

    1997

    1h.56min

    12

    A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.


  • Haymatloz - Exil in Turkey

    Haymatloz - Exil in Turkey

    2016

    1h.30min

    0 FSK

    After the Nazis seized power, many German intellectuals went into exile, some of them to Turkey.


  • The Second Mother

    The Second Mother

    2015

    1h.52min

    0 FSK

    Winner of the C.I.C.A.E. Award and Panorama Audience Award at the 65th Berlinale for its subtle humour and outstanding performances.


  • Jeremy

    Jeremy

    2015

    1h.33min

    6 FSK

    El Jeremías is a heartwarming comedy film about family love and the hard choices that come with opportunity.


  • Kinders

    Kinders

    2018

    1h.35min

    12

    A touching film about hidden potentials, creativity, integration, the power of music and the possible future of our society.


  • Making the Grade

    Making the Grade

    2017

    1h.22min

    16+

    Welcome to the world of the piano lesson. Every year teachers and students in Ireland prepare for graded musical exams. It can be fun for some students ...


  • Stations of the Cross

    Stations of the Cross

    2014

    1h.47min

    12 FSK

    Maria finds herself caught between two worlds: being a teenager and strict religious theachings of St. Pius XII. At school this 14-year-old girl has all ...


  • Barndom

    Barndom

    2017

    1h.30min

    0 FSK

    Barndom (Childhood) is about a Waldorf kindergarten near Oslo. The film follows the children for a whole year and observes them playing, doing handicrafts, ...


  • The Angry Buddha

    The Angry Buddha

    2016

    1h.38min

    16+

    A Buddhist high school for Roma youngsters in Hungary? A school experiment that seeks to overcome exclusion through education and spirituality.


  • Die Kleinen und die Bösen

    Die Kleinen und die Bösen

    2015

    1h.28min

    12 FSK

    Dark comedy about a german probation officer and some of his clients...


  • Relatively Independent

    Relatively Independent

    2017

    1h.6min

    16+

    There are only 50 metres between the Fröbel School and the Model School - but the pupils are separated by worlds.


  • Two Suns Project

    Two Suns Project

    2014

    46min

    12

    What is inclusion and what does it mean for the future? Ana Trkulja documents the Brotfabrik Berlin inclusion project Two Suns.


  • Not without us - Nicht ohne uns

    Not without us - Nicht ohne uns

    2016

    1h.27min

    16+

    16 children on 5 continents - as different as their living environment and personalities are, as similar are their fears, hopes and dreams.


  • Vitus

    Vitus

    2006

    2h.0min

    0 FSK

    Vitus is a highly-gifted boy who almost seems to be from another planet. His parents begin to anticipate a brilliant future for him. But Vitus has other ...


  • Home Game

    Home Game

    2009

    22min

    12 FSK

    Wotan Wilke Möhring portrays the ethics teacher Andreas, whose secret life as a football hooligan is under threat of being uncovered.


  • Zertifikat Deutsch

    Zertifikat Deutsch

    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.


  • La Reina del Condon

    La Reina del Condon

    2007

    1h.16min

    18

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


  • Monsieur Lazhar

    Monsieur Lazhar

    2011

    1h.34min

    12 FSK

    Simon discovers that a teacher has hung herself in the classroom. Bachir Lazhar, 55, Algerian immigrant is the substitute teacher. The class goes through ...


  • Instructions Not Included

    Instructions Not Included

    2013

    1h.55min

    6 FSK

    A man who has made a new life for himself and the daughter, left on his doorstep 6 years ago, finds his family threatened when the birth mother resurfaces. Valentín ...


  • The School Ghost

    The School Ghost

    1987

    1h.20min

    6 FSK

    Carola Huflattich is in the 4th grade, but she does not enjoy school at all. When she meets the school ghost "Boo", the two of them make a deal. Without ...


  • Half Nelson

    Half Nelson

    2006

    1h.42min

    12 FSK

    Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan leads a secret life of addiction that most of his students ...


  • Hashtag: School Trip

    Hashtag: School Trip

    2016

    28min

    16+

    A school class visits the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Buckle up in the bus, go to the toilet, a birthday song for Anja.


  • MARE NOSTRUM - A Concert. A Journey.

    MARE NOSTRUM - A Concert. A Journey.

    2015

    57min

    16+

    Join the fantastical musical journey of a student group preparing for a concert on a cruise ship.