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Törless is a pupil in a secluded boarding school. He is a loner who resents the cruelty of his fellow pupils.

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

The three young Mongolian cross-country skiers Usukhbayar (17), Oyunchimeg (11) and Gerelt-Od (27) defy all odds to become part of the international sports ...

In a quest to find the sound of the German homelands (“Heimat”), a musician from New Zealand crisscrosses the country.

Motorcycle taxi driver Abel is the sole provider for his family. When his boda boda is stolen, he has to descend into the underworld of Kampala.

Zakir censors the mail of the inmates of an Istanbul prison. In a letter he discovers the image of a woman. Finding her becomes his obsession.

On the outskirts of Berlin, a culture clash is brewing. A Muslim community wants to build a mosque on a vacant lot.

A terrible family secret that spans three generations and a society that refuses to acknowledge the reality behind the house facades.

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

All aboard, for the biggest cruise for gay men.

A very personal trip around the world, where strangers became friends and curiosity became memories.

A lively, blind Parisian woman with the cosmopolitan name Europe has just found out that she is having a baby. But who is the father of the child?

A woman walks out on her husband and two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free.

England, 1959. A woman decides to open a bookshop, despite protests from the local population.

Gabriel García Márquez, known as "Gabo", achieved world fame with his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967).

A team of scientists sets out for northern Brazil on an expedition of superlatives.

The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years.

Atmospheric Kenyan drama about Kaleche, who wakes up in a village of the dead.

Ismail, Kamil and Carlos have fought hard for their place in German society – professional mixed martial artists.

The investor watches over the gated community of Beauval like Big Brother from 1984.

During the melon harvest in the rolling green hills of Moldova, 15-year-old Anishoara experiences the overwhelming feeling of first love.

Rodrigo Gonzalez, bassist of the German punk rock band DIE ÄRZTE, travels to Chile, on the trail of the music of his childhood.

Ali Alavi is a passionate hunter who was recently released from prison. His wife and daughter get shot during a demonstration. Despite his stigma as a ...

Marieke is afraid of love and seeks warmth, tenderness and affection in the arms of much older men, with whom she associates above all gentle, sensitive ...

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 ...

Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Ajami. Here is the Babel of the present, life a permanent state of emergency. Enemies who have been enemies for a long time live here ...

Sid got involved with the wife of a crime boss and is will have to pay for it. He flees to the mountains and finds there what was denied him in his hedonistic ...

Monika and Toník live next to a steel mill under a roof full of holes. The two dream of a future elsewhere and seem blind to the happiness on their own ...

At the end of the Second World War, the German capital was filled with an underground labyrinth of bunkers. These are the stories of the people who stayed ...

Petr gets to know Marie, a young widow and farmer. In the sun-drenched fields of Bohemia, a deep friendship develops between them, but Marie hopes for ...

A rough roller coaster ride with unique survivalists in a world full of challenges and beauty - from the sewers of Las Vergas to Mars.

This doc follows a group of young German politicians over a period of five years starting with their first legislature period as Bundestag delegates.

Brothers Mirko and Letscho take over the family scrap yard.

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

Two brothers are on the wrong track: they decide to use a weapon to solve their family's money problems but without considering the possible consequen

At the request of his mother Gitte, Marko (Lars Eidinger), travels from Berlin to his parents (Corinna Harfouch, Ernst Stötzner) in the countryside.

A heartbreaking drama about love and transience. Winner of four German Film Awards.

Five long-time friends hatch a daring scheme to escape from their old people's home. Their plan is to become roomates in their own place.

This is a far-reaching interrogation of something that’s usually regarded as the undoubted precondition of life and filmmaking: an objective, at best yet ...

For years, Venezuela has been fighting the collapse of its public health system. How do you survive in a country that is in chaos?

Kolyma is a long highway that stretches through the deepest Russian North-east. It was the epicentre of the Soviet prison camp system.

A coming-of-age tale with a difference about the grumpy doctor Annebarbel Buschhaus donning her ice skates again at the age of 58 after an absence of 40 ...

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.

17-year-old Mateo dreams of Los Angeles. He wants to work there and support his family in their small Zapotec village in southern Mexico. The only way ...

Since 2008, albinos in Tanzania have become human targets. Witch doctors offer huge sums of cash for their body parts to be used in magic potions. From ...

In search of his roots, we join world-renowned violinist Daniel Hope on a journey.

Werner Nekes (1944-2017) is one of the most important contemporary experimental filmmakers. His oeuvre includes 100 avant-garde films.

687 applicants, 10 places, 9 examiners, 10 days time: Year after year the entrance examination at the Staatliche Schauspielschule Hannover is a challenge ...

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.

A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.

Led to believe his abusive grandfather is responsible for his sister's recent death, Gabriel returns to his humble home in rural New Mexico. Yearning ...

After losing his job, Walter, a workaholic in his forties, finds himself in an existential crisis and takes on the identity of another man.

Marie is in her mid-thirties and has been with Sascha for a very long time, sometimes she does not even know for how long exactly.

Director Moussaoui interweaves three stories into a multi-faceted portrait of Algeria between slums and luxury apartments, tradition and modernity.

Nori lives alone with his father in Kosovo and sells cigarettes on the street. After an accident he wakes up alone in the hospital.

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

Hamburg, mid 80s, Alex is a cabby. The sound is hard, pubs are dark and loud, people constantly argue about anything, people smoke all the time, and not ...

A firebug is wreaking havoc in a small Norwegian community - the culprit must come from among them.

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

Paul Klee and Max Ernst were fascinated by the visual works of psychiatric patients. The Prinzhorn Collection is the world's largest collection of such ...

The documentary accompanies the living man Marc on his travels around the world to staging his favorite operas – and inspired by it, in search of joie ...

They call him Mr. Light. He's kind and thoughtful, and like moths to a flame, people are drawn to him - except the corrupt mayor, who's approval he needs ...

The film follows five senior athletes along their biggest challenge - maturity. As all of them are between 80 and 100 years old it is a race against time ...

In a personal crisis, assisted living becomes a lifesaver for Richard.

Chandani wants to follow into her father's footsteps and also become Mahout, an elephant keeper. However, according to old Sri Lankan tradition this is ...

A gangster movie from Kenya: funny, sad, brutal. It was the first Kenyan film ever entered into the Best Foreign Film Oscar race. Produced by German Star ...

Beethoven's life is told as a “cultural crime story” (WDR), a hybrid of live action and animation. How can a deaf composer write masterpieces? An investigation. When ...

A gangster movie from Kenya: funny, sad, brutal. It was the first Kenyan film ever entered into the Best Foreign Film Oscar race. Produced by German Star ...

After the death of his son and his wife, the widower Joseph lives alone in a large villa. A young couple moves in with Josef – power games soon begin. Since ...

Lana was abandoned in a zoo where she is raised by animal trainers. One day, a charming cowboy and occasional magician appears at the zoo. Lana must make ...