Europe

A moving journey through a landscape and its history: from the border triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic up to the Oderhaff.

A movie about people who have no chance but still try to make the best of it. And about the price they have to pay for it.

How is life as a gay in the Swabian province? An intimate insight into a hitherto unknown terrain between church and Stammtisch.

Contemporary witnesses from several European countries provide impressive insights into how the Iron Curtain shaped life across the continent.

The people living in the German village Genkingen in the Swabian Alps want to re-enact the famous scene from Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.

A personal travelogue by Berlin-based director Thomas Arslan about a journey through Turkey.

Documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz sketches a biography of the French architects and civil engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret and their buildings.

The European self-image, the colonial gaze and the concept of 'noble savages': for decades, René Gardi (1909-2000) shaped our colonial image of Africa

Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, often strand in Lybia. But the war-torn country is one of the worst places in the world to be a refugee.

In 2015, at the height of the Syrian war, Raf’aa, a mother of two, made the journey alone to Germany to secure asylum for her family.

Seven meditave stories of people working with water and the surprising philosophies it inspires in them.

One man's acts of political violence in 1970s Italy rebound on his family decades later.

Winter 2016, the refugee camp in Calais, dubbed "The Jungle", is a growing city of nearly 12,000 residents.

Frog Gordon is a commissioner who is looking forward to his retirement. However, he still needs to find a successor and comes across Mouse Buffy.

A couple makes love in a hotel. She lives in Switzerland, he lives in Belgrad. What’s been destroyed by war will be reborn in this hotel room.

Who are the (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out.

British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands/Malvinas War meet in a swimming pool.

In the glistening light of southern France, the paths of the two women cross at seemingly opposite points in their lives.

Four characters will meet, love and separate in Gare du Nord, one of the busiest train stations in Europe.

A director and his partner are forced into a long distance relationship thanks to strict European visa laws between Italy and Lebanon.

Follow Jörg Meuthen, candidate for Germany's right-wing party AFD, on his election tour 2016.

In nocturnal Paris, Anna slips into the various roles of a woman's life until she suddenly finds herself face to face.

A unique glimpse into the breathtaking star cuisine of Japan and Spain.

A visit to four exceptionally isolated places and communities that never cease to amaze even the people who live there.

In this complex story of politics, loyalty, and identity, a Corsican resistance fighter returns to his homeland despite the threat of death.

Gwendolin and Patrick go on a journey around the world, with the goal of going as far east as they can until they return home from the west.

The young policeman Kari gets into a chase when shots are fired. Videos of the circulate on the Internet and the criticism from the public is harsh.

A three-day parliamentary debate decides on women's right to self-determination in France - brilliantly retold.

A semi-documentary that follows a group of young migrants in Austria as they negotiate the maze of administrative procedures.

Her work at the mall gives Panayiota a bit of freedom, but the thread of layoffs is looming on the horizon.

A French olive farmer offers help to refugees crossing the mountains. But now he too faces prosecution.

Are beating connections still in keeping with the times at all?

A trenchant image of the complications self-discovery and personality formation can be for adolescents.

Stavros, a shopkeeper in the Akadimia Platonos district in Athens, spends his life complaining about foreigners and hanging out in front of his shop with ...

Leonidas, the policeman on a small Aegean island, is bored to death. But one morning an island inhabitant is found dead in a well and Leonidas smells a ...

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

The five protagonists, all 70+, take the audience along on their journey through life and describe what has shaped their lives and what they regret.

Crises, grievances, fear of the future and hope: eight young people search for their place in society in various European countries.

In Helsinki, two destinies intersect in the midst of racism and loss: Cohesion and humanity can overcome everything.

In 2014 a small group of Eritrean refugees are "stranded" in Strackholt amidst the East Frisian emptiness.

The unemployed field hockey fan Frederik is deep in midlife crisis and looks for a new field of activity: synchronized swimming.

Paul Nkamani has made his way from Cameroon through the Sahara to Europe. But even when he arrives in Germany, his future remains uncertain. The Cameroonian ...

16-year-old Rosemarie's search for her mother unearths long-forgotten facts.

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

After weeks of traveling through Europe, the immature William finds himself in Copenhagen, the place of his father’s birth. He befriends the youthful ...

MATCH ME! follows three singles humorously and with a sense for absurd nuances, who put their love luck into the hands of "matchmakers".

With the onset of the mountain winter, Albert has to decide between preserving old ways of life on the mountain or new perspectives in the valley.

Experience the incredible success story of the Iceland national soccer team at Euro 2016.

I lost my brother to a God that is a stranger to me. Jacob seeks the truth and I seek Jacob. Will we find each other again? Jacob is my beloved younger ...

Film journalist Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed.

Top-class arthouse film from Bulgaria. An unsparing document about despair and guilt - visually stunning and impressive.

A road movie in a hearse. After the death of an Italian man, two undertakers, Jovan and José - themselves emigrants - drive the body to Italy.

An attempt to come to terms with the NSU's incomparable series of murders from the perspective of the victims' relatives.

Director Eric Caravaca tells the story of his sister, whose existence was hushed up.

After a professional setback, the architect Alexandre and his wife Aliénor, a psychologist, travel to Italy to complete his book.

Darío traces his tortuous path from the land of his fathers to the land of his children - a film about being - and becoming - German.

The gripping documentary FIDAI is about a veteran of the Algerian war.

Based on Freud's essay "The Uncanny", this bizarre comedy brims with a David Lynch atmosphere.

The walk through the financially battered city of Athens, destination unknown, is a bittersweet confrontation with the Greek economic crisis.

A story about the grind of examination and verifying in the German bureaucracy.

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

Over a hundred years ago, "Togoland", now the Republic of Togo and part of present-day Ghana, was a colonial possession of the German Empire.

Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they fled to Palestine with their families in 1934 to escape ...

A home in the German countryside, clean and proper. Against this bucolic setting a grandmother talks about the Siberian labor camps and starts to cry.

This Documentary follows the ambitious project of building a cloister town with only the tools that where present in the middle ages.

Adapted from a series of short stories, this movie weaves together the lives of people struggling to find their way home on a Christmas Eve.

The filmmaker portrays an elderly woman who has not given up the fight for living independently. A film about everyday life and aging.

An historian who survived the concentration camps, Otto Dov Kulka grants insights into his long-hidden world of thoughts.

THOSE WHO GO THOSE WHO STAY is Ruth Beckermann's meta-film - an analysis of her own cinematic works, a kind of progress report.

In order to save their home village, the local pubs regulars from HIRSCHEN resort to questionable methods.

The band “The Refugees” consists of refugees between the stage and the asylum seekers' home. They have arrived and yet are still on the run. A docu about ...

A love letter to Venice. 6 residents speak about their love of the city, but as well as their disappointments and frustrations, far off mass tourism.