Music, Dance, Theater

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

Out of a crisis situation, a group of spiritual entrepreneurs develops new strength.

Heartfelt musical comedy about a woman trying to save her drug-addicted husband.

Bollywood in a refugee camp: in this docu-musical, refugees sing about the loss of their identity without pathos, but with a lot of irony.

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

A tribute to director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.

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

The Greek composer and national hero Mikis Theodorakis settles accounts on stage with a society that robs its children of their future.

Heidi Specogna (Cahier africain) accompanies the Ethiopian singer Nardos Wude Tesfaw, who combines traditional singing and emancipation, over 5 years.

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

Offbeat, very funny French musical comedy that plays on the kitsch and mystique of the Lourdes pilgrimage site .

A melancholic, darkly humorous examination of the theater world and the culture industry.

Alexander Kluge and the multi-media artist Khavn revive the Orpheus myth and use it as a starting point for a true revolution.

They risk it all: the rock band Arikain, formed by Afghans living in Iran, dreams of performing on a stage one day.

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

Parov Stelar, is regarded as the founder of electro swing. His unique sound has been conquering concert halls around the world for more than 15 years.

Faced with the imminent destruction of their opera house, a traditional Sichuan opera troupe plans a big show to save their opera house.

Christoph Schlingensief's answer to "Pop Idol" was "Freakstars 3000".

A choreographer and a visual artist bring together urban dance and opera to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes.

A European theater director wants to stage a play about revolution in Burkina Faso and gets caught up in a real revolution.

Volksbühnen actor and director Herbert Fritsch and celebrity cast transform the classic Hamlet tale into a hilarious, multimedia fever dream.

This LGBTQ musical revolves around Javi, a young sex worker, and his quest for love and happiness.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Video technology provided the opportunity to create an amazingly innovative production that matched Stockhausen's music, libretto, dance actions and gestures. ...

"Giselle" is considered the epitome of romantic ballet and has been part of the standard repertoire of many ballet companies since it premiered 1841.

Possibly Schoenberg’s finest work, and certainly one that he held close to his heart, is his unfinished opera „Moses und Aron“.

David Parsons is one of the golden boys of US dance, combining great popular appeal with quality and integrity of ideas. As artistic director, choreographer ...

Werner Herzog explores the myth surrounding Carlo Gesualdo, a 16th-century nobleman, murderer and composer who was musically far ahead of his time. Carlo ...

Heiner Goebbels creates an impressive web of interlocking musical episodes as a homage to the dramatist and director Heiner Müller. Goebbels has a genius ...

Italian pianist Andrea Bacchetti interprets Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, which represent a high point of Baroque variation art.

Bernard Haitink, one of Mahler's most gifted interpreters, conducts Mahler's "Fourth Symphony" from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with American soloist ...

Bernard Haitink, one of the most gifted Mahler interpreters, conducts Mahler's 3rd with acclaimed british mezzo-soprano Carolyn Watkinson and the Royal ...

Michael Nyman is now one of the great composers of our time, who captivates above all with his richness of facets.

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

With his seven symphonies the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius marks a high point in the symphonic repertoire of the 20th century.

Against the backdrop of open air festivals, a passionate amour fou develops between Georg, Vera and the bon vivant Dave.

Paris Opera Ballet Master and choreographer Patrice Bart plunges into the Opera’s past and brings Degas’ famous statuette "The Little Fourteen-Year-Old ...

Lászlo, an aging film director, is in a creative crisis. His latest project has been cancelled so he joins his son's band on their tour to Japan.

In his documentary Olaf Held examines the culture behind the remix and interviews net artists, composers, journalists and art professors. Remixes, mashups ...

A guided tour through the improvised spaces of Janka Industries, an underground cellar vault and creative microcosm of Vienna’s subculture.

The black-humored comedy about an inept theater troupe united only by their love of Westerns was Croatia's Oscar contender.

Sergei Nakariakov has succeeded in freeing the trumpet from the narrow boundaries that are attributed to it within classical music.

Michael Nyman, famous for his Oscar nominated film score for Jane Campion’s film “The Piano”, is without doubt one of the great contemporary composers. Fitting ...

In many soccer stadiums, fans sing "You'll Never Walk Alone"; the song is part of fan culture. But the lyrics don't actually mention soccer.

The British punk duo from Nottingham is known for their brutally honest lyrics and DIY-ethos.

Cordt Hammer, a journalist, is possibly the last man on earth. He seems to be in the midst of a feminine revolution. Is this a dream?

Paris, 1978. In the male-dominated music industry, Ana uses innovative electronic instruments to create a new sound that will shape the coming decades

Jiri Kylian is a living legend. He is the creator of more than a hundred works, several of which form part of the repertories of some of the greatest dance ...

East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back.

Absolute Zero is one of Saburo Teshigawara's best known choreographies. It explores the complete motionlessness of 273 degrees below zero. Yet in dance ...

"Nederlands Dans Theater" stands for innovative dance theater on the cutting edge of our time. In collaboration with choreographer Jiří Kylián something ...

Anton Chekhov's drama interpreted by choreographer Maja Plissezkaja and the ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre, conducted by Alexander Lasarew. The seagull ...

Two street musicians tour through Germany for a year going from gig to gig and looking for somewhere to live.

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

In August 2007, Anne-Sophie Mutter performed the world premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina‘s 2nd violin concerto in Lucerne with conductor Simon Rattle and the ...

A portrait of POC transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances to fight sexism, homophobia and racism.

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

Look over the shoulders of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.

A bittersweet love story by Oscar-winner Fernando Trueba about jazz and jealousy between Havana and New York.

A look behind the scenes at the wonderful energy and daily routine of the people who bring us the world renowned Vienna State Opera.

A look at five pioneers of electronic music for whom work is their raison d'etre.

The farewell show of queer performers at the Burlesque Brutal club in Vienna.

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

The impressive life story of a unique dancer who successfully left her mark on the dance world.

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 ...

A wacky spectacle of love, music and sex, a cross between a soft porn movie, a Japanese death cult and a musical, with music by Stereo Total.

Five young conductors are competing in front of a high-profile jury at the International Sir Georg Solti Conducting Competition.

Wacky 70s sci-fi music story about the music prophet Sun Ra, who has to save the earth.

Dutch conductor and recorder player Frans Brüggen conducts Beethoven's 3rd with the Orchestra of the 18th Century, which he founded. The orchestra, which ...

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 ...

A new edition of Goethe's material, with a musical Faust in a Kreuzberg setting.

A group of armed men storms the stage at a theatre. It's unclear, if this is part of the play or the brutal reality.

Musical drama about a woman who dresses like a man and falls in love with a young girl. Soundtrack with Arnold Schoenberg's music.

The film follows the lives of three Roadies. 15 years they lived their dream of sex and drugs and rock'n'roll. Now, at the end of their 30's, the desire ...

William S. Burroughs: cult figure, novelist and pioneer of the underground cultures. In the docu his closest friends: Laurie Anderson, David Cronenberg, ...

Documentary about the punk culture of Europe, where community emerges from protesting independence - with the best punk sound in a long time.

A stroll through the bizarre tapestry of what was once West Berlin - a city riddled with empty lots and free space and surrounded by a wall.

These self-assured ladies have everything under control, but in a world dominated by high tech communications and competition even they get the blues.

Explore the contemporary queer arts scene in Berlin and how perceptions of femininity and masculinity are constructed.

Filmmaker Julia Ostertag creates a cinematic parallel universe, an odyssey through a doomsday scenario on the brink of apocalypse.

They were a sensation – yet went virtually unnoticed. The Monks themselves weren't even aware of the influence they had on other musicians.

The film covers beatboxing rappers in on stage performance and opens the doors to their universe of sound, noise and rhythm.

In Daniela Lucatos docu WHEN I DANCE, four dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy attempt to interpret the stories of refugees.

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CD’s, iPods, instruments?

A circus gives the street children of St. Petersburg hope and a chance for a better life.

The 12 Commandments of music business brought together in one film.

A portrait of the music collector couple Marcel and Catherine Cellier, who already documented the music of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Swiss mountains, 3 extraordinary vocal artists develop traditional yodelling into their own musical language.

The captivating story of three gifted street musicians in Jakarta over a tumultuous 5-year period in their own lives and that of Indonesia.

A portrait of the Berlin bassist Hans Narva, his music, and his ironic denial of all rules – regardless of the authority behind them.

An essayistic story about the last century of Soviet and post-Soviet electronic music - from Leon Theremin to Putin's Russia.

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 ...

This film follows singer Bruno Adams struggle against cancer as he continues to tour and write songs.

What makes vinyl in a world dominated by digital music, so legendary? The Gotan Project and vinyl freaks who roam the flea markets voice their passion. ...

Axl arrives in the UK to look for his long-lost father and instead is adopted by the bohemian Mike and Hannah who introduce him to gigs in English pubs ...

Love happens. All over. This episode and music film by Thomas Woschitz plays in France, Japan, the USA and Luxembourg and is about love in all its forms. Thomas ...