Migration

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

Unparalleled, intimate profile of the critically acclaimed artist M.I.A. that chronicles her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star.

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

Ghadir, Mohamad and their five children never wanted to leave their homeland Syria. Now they are in Germany. The new beginning is not easy.

Through Skype and online chat rooms, a Vietnamese couple, Bay and Tam, create their own virtual version of Vietnam in their Munich apartment.

Three portraits about the fate of Eastern European migrant workers who have come to Germany in search of prospects.

Deniz, 21 works as a dubbing artist and has just ended her relationship with Jan. In one short day, she goes through a separation and a new beginning.

Life is governed by strict laws. If you don't want to fall out of favor with your backers as a dealer, you can't be seen with plainclothes cops.

The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which shows young people with a Turkish migration history from their own perspective.

Based on a true story: The film examines the German justice system and its structural bias.

A team of specialists is trying to restore identity and dignity to the dead of the worst shipwreck in post-war history in the Mediterranean.

After five years of studying, Arash is fed up with France. His friends persuade him to join them on one last trip, hoping to change his mind.

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

Paula and Rodrigo are young, queer artists, like many others in Berlin. Outside of their utopian rehearsal room, they have to fight German red tape.

Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran.

An actress, a painter and 3 classically trained musicians came to New York from Belgrade before the Balkan War to pursue their art and their dream.

A documentary look into the world of Genclikspor Recklinghausen, an amateur soccer club in Germany with immigrant roots.

After spending years working abroad to support his wife and kids, Senegalese Amin falls in love with another woman.

Somewhere in Sweden, a gigantic dumpster breaks free from a heavy chain suspended underneath a big helicopter.

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

Christoph Schlingensief's provocative works are still highly topical even after 20 years.

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

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 ...

Multifaceted portrait of the composer and music critic Walter Arlen, who musically processed the horrors of the Nazi era.

The documentary film Iuventa relates the events of a crucial year in the lives of a group of young Europeans all involved in different ways in the Jugend ...

Three young new-Berliners dream of the good life in the form of art studies, a rap career or simply a work permit.

A small town in Japan's exclusion zone searches for normalcy in the five years following the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.

An abandoned house in Athens has become a temporary home for refugees hoping to continue their journey.

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

For generations, the Nguyen family has lived on and off the water amid breathtaking natural scenery. Now they are threatened with forced resettlement.

This film accompanies the last days of the traditional Hotel Maritim in Halle before it becomes a refugee accommodation.

Kurdwin Ayub, a member of the European Film Academy, tries to find out why his father falls into euphoria at the very mention of Kurdistan.

In Berlin, traces of national socialism and Hitlers reign are everywhere, even today.

Filmmaker Melanie Gärtner looks closely at the fate of one family to illuminate the social structures that lead to flight and migration.

A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.

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

This documentary chronicles the life of writer Angelika Schrobsdorff's family, who fled from Berlin and Nazi Germany to Bulgaria in 1939.

For little Mahdi, the Palestinian refugee camp Ain El-Helwe is a huge adventure playground. Unlike for most of his family.

Thomas Brasch (1945-2001), was a charismatic and aggressive artist, he loved conflicts. The documentary offers a unique insight into the fascinating life ...

The documentary VIACRUCIS MIGRANTE – MIGRANT CROSSING by Hauke Lorenz gives people a voice who are on the arduous path to "the promised Land".

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

German romantic Bollywood comedy: Nisha is a janitor at the Frankfurt Airport but of dreams of becoming a flight attendant.

A place and its inhabitants have to give way to the open-cast mine.

As in the movie Butterfly Effect, an event at one end of the world can change everything at the other end of the world.

A young woman travels to Israel with her father, a Jew who denies being Jewish, and her mother, who suffers from not being recognized as a Jew.

The terminally ill Parvis K. flees Iran across the Mediterranean Sea to Spain to reconcile himself with his daughter Nasrin, who lives in Europe.

After meeting a French journalist in his home country of North Korea, Kim wants to see her again and embarks on a unique journey to an unknown world.

This documentary is a memorial to the extraordinary artist, activist and family man Harry Belafonte.

In his internationally acclaimed documentary director Fridolin Schönwieser charts the journey of Mexican migrants to the U.S.

Documentary about the first and second generation of Chinese migrants, stranded mainly in the country's Asian restaurants.

Two young immigrants from the Balkan are prepared to do almost anything to get a European passport, including a paid marriage.