History

The Sutter family can no longer earn a living from their Swiss mountain farm in the 1970s. A family catastrophe is brewing.

During the "Palace years", the love story of Rose, an orphaned and destitute teenager, and Michel, a painter six years her senior.

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a touching story of reconciliation takes place between a young German and a concentration camp survivor.

In her documentary, Mračnikar formulates a political urgency in a personal way: What happens when your mother tongue is taken away from you?

The Ukranian grandson of filmmaker Leonid Burlaka draws a rich picture of Soviet history with archive footage of his grandfather.

A gripping, thrilling drama-thriller with captivating cinematography about Stalin's political purges in 1938.

The life and work of a charismatic Jewish refugee from Germany, an anti-fascist, and a trailblazing photographer whose would be forgotten.

This poignant and thought-provoking documentary offers a unique and deeply moving insight into the lives of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

While Wissam fights for his love, political tensions rise and the Israeli army invades Lebanon.

A multi-layered drama that skillfully explores how both feelings and memories stay locked away in post-reunification East Germany.

A poignant tale of lost innocence, young Dib navigates the tumultuous landscape of 1950s Damascus following his father's death.

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.

Romy Haag, Rosa von Praunheim, Ades Zabel and Udo Walz talk about their fascination with the dream destination West Berlin.

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

When Germany surrenders in 1945, two reckless teenagers put their families' escape on the line to save their friendship.

The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 15-year-old girl tries to find a home in the Berlin of wastelands and ruins.

Women have been an integral part of rock music from the beginning, but have been successfully repressed from the collective memory.

Either the grass is greener, or the houses are bigger, or the sun is warmer ... anywhere else is better.

Four women tell how their lives were changed forever by the Munich Olympic assassination.

In the documentary, which was successfully screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, gays and lesbians from the former GDR have their say.

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

A gang of five teenage girls in a small American town make a pact to live by their own rules and become the Foxfire gang.

During the final prayer of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1991, one of the most spectacular protest actions takes place.

A drug-fueled coming-of-age drama about Kazakh youth's desire for freedom in the post-Soviet upheaval.

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

The theologian, feminist, and mystic Dorothee Sölle argued that theology is necessarily political.

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

Already in 18th century Germany, early Romanticism developed a spiritual worldview that many today seek in Far Eastern spirituality.

This travel diary describes the journey of the painter Paul Klee in Egypt between 1928 and 1929 through his letters and his paintings.

This film illuminates the poetic-mystical side of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the UN Blue Helmet missions Dag Hammarskjöld.

A cinematic journey into the biography of the psychiatrist C. G. Jung (1875−1961) and into his powerful world of myths, dreams and symbols.

The new Director's cut of Sébastien Lifshitz's intimate and portrait of one of the first French trans woman, Marie-Pierre Pruvot, called BAMBI.

What God did Bach believe in and what was the nature of his spirituality? Did it transcend the confines of his Protestant upbringing?

The film BLACK SUN illuminates the importance of myths and occult beliefs in the ideology of the "Third Reich".

Rainer Maria Rilke was not only one of the greatest German poets, but also a spiritual seeker who walked his very own path.

This film essay traces the life of influential poet Paul Celan, and illuminates his interest in the mystical tradition of Kabbalah.

The film clarifies - according to Claude Lévi-Strauss - the "wild thinking" of indigenous cultures based on masks, cult objects, and rituals.

In blunt, direct, sometimes quite graphic sequences, von Praunheim explores the entire gay subculture which touches all facets of American life.

The groundbreaking members of the legendary Berlin club SchwuZ talk about their career, political activism in drag, and 'doing it' for the first time.

Part 3 of the groundbreaking Rosa von Praunheim documentary trilogy on the AIDS epidemic

An Oscar-nominated drama about two explorers and their journey in the Amazon unfolds a magical and meditative spell.

In the 1970s, Peter Brückner was an iconic figure of the German New Left and was the first university professor to lose tenure for political reasons.

Part 1 of the groundbreaking Rosa von Praunheim documentary trilogy on the AIDS epidemic

Rosa von Praunheim's search for his own roots interweaves his personal life story with the larger historical context of the Second World War.

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

Lotti Huber, the 77-year-old singer, dancer and actress brimming with the spirit of life, tells of her eventful life in this semi-documenary film.

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

Part 2 of the groundbreaking Rosa von Praunheim documentary trilogy on the AIDS epidemic.

PRAUNHEIM MEMOIRES pays tribute to 1950s West Germany for better and for worse and how it shaped the nascent artist.

The merciless fighting between militias in the region around Mount Lebanon ended in reprisals against civilians.

The only documentary about Czech writer Milan Kundera's legacy.

Soviet heroine Polina Schneider gathers a group of avant-garde artists to convert the remote pagan tribes of Siberia to communism.

Never-before-seen insights into the work of Federico Fellini, the grand master of Italian cinema.

Young people from the former border region use smartphones to film stories from their personal environment about the topic of German division.

This César-winning documentary provides an insightful glimpse into the lives of older gay men and lesbians in France.

Victims of the repressive system in the former East German state give powerful testimony about the cruetly of the dehumanizing regime.

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

Survivors can also be victims in countries where injustice was the norm. Their compelling testimonies are featured in this insightful documentary.

Argentine 1977: Francisco, a former communist, is given the chance to save two dissidents from the hounds of the military junta.

This doc is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Africa.

Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.

PARABETON shows in chronological sequence 17 buildings by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) in Italy and France.

This film follows a group of Aramaic Christians as they return to their ancestral homeland of southeastern Turkey.

This visually stunning monumental work is an emphatic reminder of the enduring threat of total annihilation by nuclear weapons.

A war crime was committed in their home village and consistently hushed up. The two brothers search for clues leaves us stunned and angry.

The statements of former inmates of the Hohenschönhausen Stasi prison and former Stasi employees are contrasted here.

This film places acts of resistance against National Socialism and current struggles in a historical continuity.

The modernization of post-war style apartment blocks in central Germany becomes a journey into his own GDR past for architect Alexander.

A haunting psychogram of an entire generation of ex-GDR citizens who have not yet fully accepted that they now live in the Federal Republic of Germany

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

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

This film tells the story those photojournalists and the world of cinema. Of two seemingly opposite worlds – fiction and reality.

The first exploration of the incredible challenges that the punk subculture faced when it took root in the Nation’s Capital in the late 1970’s.

The musician Wilhelm Heckmann survived 8 years of concentration camp, branded with the 'pink triangle' for gay prisoners.

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

Stay or go? In the year before the fall of the Wall, a group of dancers have to decide whether to stay in the GDR or flee to the West.

A film about victory and defeat, on the chessboard and in life, and a cinematographic reflection on the struggle for female self-determination.

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

"For me, Berlin died when the Volksbühne dismantled the wheel and a cross was erected at Berlin Castle." Antonio Nábolo

Discover the extraordinary impact of a renowned author who revolutionized American literature by popularizing science fiction.

Jerusalem-born trauma expert Ofra Bloch confronts her personal demons in a journey where she meets with people she was taught to hate.

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

Wax portraits of an unknown woman are the focus of this medical-historical thriller which turns rigid 18th century role models on its head.

This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.

A look at the history of Mexico City through the architecture of a housing complex.

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

This ambitious directorial debut chronicles lesbian lifestyles and social networking in Vienna in the 1950s and 60s.

Arshad Khan, a gay man from Pakistan, examines his relationship to his father, a devout Muslim, through a vast amount of home video footage.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

In the early 1970s, actress Delphine Seyrig and video artist Carole Roussopoulos became icons of feminist video activism in France.

Ziva Postec was the editor of one of the most earth-shattering films in history: she spent six years editing the footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoa.

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

At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.

The film looks at how ideology performed itself in public space through mass performances in socialist Yugoslavia.

A bankrupt Brazilian filmmaker, with a colonial family history, is haunted by the ghost of a mysterious Mozambican.

This work investigates a controversial mass performance from the late Yugoslav era – the Youth Day celebration (“slet”) in 1987.

100 years ago, Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance, choreographed a solo dance to deal with the traumatic accidental death of her children.

In turbulent and disorienting times, a pair of artists uses experimental means to create a hypnotically vibrating portrait of the generations.

When revolutionary troops arrive at their remote mountain monastery, the young monk Gabriel is forced to choose between his duty and his freedom.

A tourist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities when she arrives in a seemingly idyllic little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia.