What God did Bach believe in and what was the nature of his spirituality? Did it transcend the confines of his Protestant upbringing?
Soultribe: A Dance of Life
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2023
1h.51min
0 FSK
Out of a crisis situation, a group of spiritual entrepreneurs develops new strength.
Good Monsters
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
12
Heartfelt musical comedy about a woman trying to save her drug-addicted husband.
Sarita
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.29min
12 FSK
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.
Roi Soleil
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2018
1h.2min
16+
The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.
Cuba Libre
Music, Dance, Theater
2014
18min
16+
A tribute to director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.
Rock Chicks
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2023
1h.18min
16+
Women have been an integral part of rock music from the beginning, but have been successfully repressed from the collective memory.
Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film
Music, Dance, Theater
2013
1h.15min
16+
The Greek composer and national hero Mikis Theodorakis settles accounts on stage with a society that robs its children of their future.
Stand Up My Beauty
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2022
1h.49min
0 FSK
Heidi Specogna (Cahier africain) accompanies the Ethiopian singer Nardos Wude Tesfaw, who combines traditional singing and emancipation, over 5 years.
Gasman
Comedy, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
1h.27min
12 FSK
A melancholic, darkly humorous examination of the theater world and the culture industry.
Orphea
Music, Dance, Theater, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
2021
1h.39min
12 FSK
Alexander Kluge and the multi-media artist Khavn revive the Orpheus myth and use it as a starting point for a true revolution.
The Forbidden Strings
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.22min
16+
They risk it all: the rock band Arikain, formed by Afghans living in Iran, dreams of performing on a stage one day.
Soul Kids
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
1h.16min
0
In this music school, kids from Memphis, one of the USA’s most distressed cities, get a chance to become professional musicians.
Parov Stelar - Backstage 2022
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
58min
12 FSK
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.
To Live to Sing
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.47min
16+
Faced with the imminent destruction of their opera house, a traditional Sichuan opera troupe plans a big show to save their opera house.
Freakstars 3000
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2003
1h.15min
6 FSK
Christoph Schlingensief's answer to "Pop Idol" was "Freakstars 3000".
Gallant Indies
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
1h.49min
16+
A choreographer and a visual artist bring together urban dance and opera to reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes.
The Revolution Eats its Children
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2020
1h.14min
16+
A European theater director wants to stage a play about revolution in Burkina Faso and gets caught up in a real revolution.
Eleven Uncles
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2010
1h.41min
16 FSK
Volksbühnen actor and director Herbert Fritsch and celebrity cast transform the classic Hamlet tale into a hilarious, multimedia fever dream.
The Phantom of the Sauna
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
2021
1h.33min
16+
This LGBTQ musical revolves around Javi, a young sex worker, and his quest for love and happiness.
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.30min
16+
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.
Keep Moving
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
2h.19min
16+
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.
Create & Connect
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2021
1h.18min
0
80 young artists from all over the world meet at Lichtenberg Castle, Germany to experience the creative and unifying power of music and dance.
Isadora's Children
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.25min
0 FSK
100 years ago, Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance, choreographed a solo dance to deal with the traumatic accidental death of her children.
Meisterklasse Christa Ludwig - Part 2
Music, Dance, Theater
1999
1h.0min
0
The famous German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig makes the public singing master class an experience with her incomparably humorous manner.
With a sense ...
Meisterklasse Christa Ludwig - Part 1
Music, Dance, Theater
1999
56min
0
The famous German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig makes the public singing master class an experience with her incomparably humorous manner.
With a sense ...
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Examen
Music, Dance, Theater
37min
0
Video technology provided the opportunity to create an amazingly innovative production that matched Stockhausen's music, libretto, dance actions and gestures. ...
Mats Ek - Giselle
Music, Dance, Theater
2016
1h.28min
0
"Giselle" is considered the epitome of romantic ballet and has been part of the standard repertoire of many ballet companies since it premiered 1841.
Arnold Schönberg - Moses and Aron
Music, Dance, Theater
2006
1h.51min
0
Possibly Schoenberg’s finest work, and certainly one that he held close to his heart, is his unfinished opera „Moses und Aron“.
David Parsons and Daniel Ezralow - The Parsons Dance Company
Music, Dance, Theater
1992
1h.57min
6
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 ...
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Classics, Music, Dance, Theater
1995
1h.0min
0 FSK
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 - Black on White
Music, Dance, Theater
2019
59min
0 FSK
Heiner Goebbels creates an impressive web of interlocking musical episodes as a homage to the dramatist and director Heiner Müller.
Goebbels has a genius ...
Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations
Music, Dance, Theater
2006
1h.36min
0
Italian pianist Andrea Bacchetti interprets Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, which represent a high point of Baroque variation art.
Mahler - Symphony No. 4
Music, Dance, Theater
1986
1h.3min
0
Bernard Haitink, one of Mahler's most gifted interpreters, conducts Mahler's "Fourth Symphony" from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with American soloist ...
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 3
Music, Dance, Theater
1983
1h.43min
0
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 - Composer In Progress
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2010
52min
0 FSK
Michael Nyman is now one of the great composers of our time, who captivates above all with his richness of facets.
Sound of Heimat
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2012
1h.29min
0 FSK
In a quest to find the sound of the German homelands (“Heimat”), a musician from New Zealand crisscrosses the country.
Jean Sibelius - 7 Symphonies
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
59min
0
With his seven symphonies the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius marks a high point in the symphonic repertoire of the 20th century.
You Are Everything
Music, Dance, Theater, Romance
2016
1h.38min
16+
Against the backdrop of open air festivals, a passionate amour fou develops between Georg, Vera and the bon vivant Dave.
Denis Levaillant - La petite danseuse de Degas
Music, Dance, Theater
2012
1h.52min
0 FSK
Paris Opera Ballet Master and choreographer Patrice Bart plunges into the Opera’s past and brings Degas’ famous statuette "The Little Fourteen-Year-Old ...
Peropero: Breakdown in Tokyo
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2017
1h.25min
6 FSK
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.
The Last Remix
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
1h.24min
6
In his documentary Olaf Held examines the culture behind the remix and interviews net artists, composers, journalists and art professors.
Remixes, mashups ...
Under the Underground
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
54min
16+
A guided tour through the improvised spaces of Janka Industries, an underground cellar vault and creative microcosm of Vienna’s subculture.
Cowboys
Comedy, Music, Dance, Theater
2013
1h.44min
16+
The black-humored comedy about an inept theater troupe united only by their love of Westerns was Croatia's Oscar contender.
Sergei Nakariakov: No more Wunderkind
Biography, Music, Dance, Theater
2004
57min
0 FSK
Sergei Nakariakov has succeeded in freeing the trumpet from the narrow boundaries that are attributed to it within classical music.
Michael Nyman in Concert
Music, Dance, Theater
2009
1h.27min
0
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 ...
You'll Never Walk Alone
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2017
1h.40min
0 FSK
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.
Bunch of Kunst
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2017
1h.43min
12 FSK
The British punk duo from Nottingham is known for their brutally honest lyrics and DIY-ethos.
For the Daemon
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2020
1h.16min
18
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?
The Shock of the Future
Music, Dance, Theater, Drama
2019
1h.18min
16+
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: Forgotten Memories
Music, Dance, Theater
2011
53min
0
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 ...
Saburo Teshigawara: Bound and Other Dance Films
Music, Dance, Theater
2002
0
Absolute Zero is one of Saburo Teshigawara's best known choreographies. It explores the complete motionlessness of 273 degrees below zero.
Yet in dance ...
Black and White Ballets
Music, Dance, Theater
2001
0
"Nederlands Dans Theater" stands for innovative dance theater on the cutting edge of our time. In collaboration with choreographer Jiří Kylián something ...
Rodion Schtschedrin - The Seagull
Music, Dance, Theater
1980
1h.25min
0
Anton Chekhov's drama interpreted by choreographer Maja Plissezkaja and the ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre, conducted by Alexander Lasarew.
The seagull ...
Unplugged Leben: Guaia Guaia
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2013
1h.32min
0 FSK
Two street musicians tour through Germany for a year going from gig to gig and looking for somewhere to live.
Sophia: Biography of a Violin Concerto
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2008
56min
0 FSK
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 ...
Tranny Fag
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
2018
1h.15min
16+
A portrait of POC transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances to fight sexism, homophobia and racism.
Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2002
1h.30min
16 FSK
Christoph Schlingensief's provocative works are still highly topical even after 20 years.
In Rehearsal
Music, Dance, Theater
1998
0
Look over the shoulders of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
Chico & Rita
Animation, Music, Dance, Theater
2010
1h.33min
0 FSK
A bittersweet love story by Oscar-winner Fernando Trueba about jazz and jealousy between Havana and New York.
Backstage Vienna State Opera
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2019
1h.36min
0 FSK
A look behind the scenes at the wonderful energy and daily routine of the people who bring us the world renowned Vienna State Opera.
If I Think About Germany in the Night
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2017
1h.40min
0 FSK
A look at five pioneers of electronic music for whom work is their raison d'etre.
Femme Brutal
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
2015
1h.10min
18
The farewell show of queer performers at the Burlesque Brutal club in Vienna.
Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2017
1h.27min
12 FSK
Composer Mikis Theodorakis is the enfant terrible of contemporary European music history - an exceptional artist in a dramatic century.
La Chana
Biography, Music, Dance, Theater
2016
1h.23min
0 FSK
The impressive life story of a unique dancer who successfully left her mark on the dance world.
Making the Grade
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2017
1h.22min
16+
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 ...
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 3
Music, Dance, Theater
1987
52min
0
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
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2006
2h.0min
0 FSK
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 ...
Faust 1 Superstar
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
51min
16+
A new edition of Goethe's material, with a musical Faust in a Kreuzberg setting.
Interruption
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
1h.51min
16+
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.
Pierrot Lunaire
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
2014
50min
16 FSK
Musical drama about a woman who dresses like a man and falls in love with a young girl. Soundtrack with Arnold Schoenberg's music.
Roadcrew
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2011
1h.20min
0 FSK
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 – A Man Within
Biography, Music, Dance, Theater
2011
1h.27min
12 FSK
William S. Burroughs: cult figure, novelist and pioneer of the underground cultures. In the docu his closest friends: Laurie Anderson, David Cronenberg, ...
Noise and Resistance
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2011
1h.30min
12 FSK
Documentary about the punk culture of Europe, where community emerges from protesting independence - with the best punk sound in a long time.
Berlin Now
Classics, Music, Dance, Theater
1984
58min
16+
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.
Lifetimeshort
Comedy, Music, Dance, Theater
2009
1h.27min
12 FSK
These self-assured ladies have everything under control, but in a world dominated by high tech communications and competition even they get the blues.
Working On It
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
2008
50min
16+
Explore the contemporary queer arts scene in Berlin and how perceptions of femininity and masculinity are constructed.
Saila - Punk Dystopia from Berlin
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2008
1h.34min
16 FSK
Filmmaker Julia Ostertag creates a cinematic parallel universe, an odyssey through a doomsday scenario on the brink of apocalypse.
Monks – The Transatlantic Feedback
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2006
1h.40min
6 FSK
They were a sensation – yet went virtually unnoticed. The Monks themselves weren't even aware of the influence they had on other musicians.
Love, Peace & Beatbox
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2011
1h.10min
12 FSK
The film covers beatboxing rappers in on stage performance and opens the doors to their universe of sound, noise and rhythm.
When I Dance
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2016
1h.7min
16+
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
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
1h.22min
16+
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?
Welcome To The Machine
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2013
1h.40min
16+
The 12 Commandments of music business brought together in one film.
Lucky Devils
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2013
1h.35min
16+
A circus gives the street children of St. Petersburg hope and a chance for a better life.
Balkan Melody
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2012
1h.32min
0 FSK
A portrait of the music collector couple Marcel and Catherine Cellier, who already documented the music of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Echoes of Home
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2007
1h.21min
16+
Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Swiss mountains, 3 extraordinary vocal artists develop traditional yodelling into their own musical language.
Jalanan
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2014
1h.47min
16+
The captivating story of three gifted street musicians in Jakarta over a tumultuous 5-year period in their own lives and that of Indonesia.
Hans in Luck
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2009
1h.2min
16+
A portrait of the Berlin bassist Hans Narva, his music, and his ironic denial of all rules – regardless of the authority behind them.
Elektro Moskva
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2013
1h.26min
16+
An essayistic story about the last century of Soviet and post-Soviet electronic music - from Leon Theremin to Putin's Russia.
Naked Opera
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2013
1h.21min
16 FSK
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 ...
So Glad I Did
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2011
1h.6min
16 FSK
This film follows singer Bruno Adams struggle against cancer as he continues to tour and write songs.
Vinylmania
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2011
1h.15min
0 FSK
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. ...
Universalove
Drama, Love & Sex
2008
1h.15min
12 FSK
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 ...
Unmade Beds
Love & Sex, Music, Dance, Theater
2008
1h.36min
12 FSK
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 ...
Quasthoff singt Mahler - Kindertotenlieder
Music, Dance, Theater
1h.13min
0 FSK
Conducted by Zubin Mehta featuring the baritone Thomas Quasthoff, the Staatskapelle Dresden initiated its Mahler celebrations due the composer’s 150th ...
A Swan Lake
Music, Dance, Theater
2014
1h.38min
0 FSK
“I wanted to do something big and wild and different. Something with water!” said choreographer Alexander Ekman and filled the Main Stage at the Oslo Opera ...
Don Quichotte - Nureyev
Music, Dance, Theater
2012
2h.2min
0
In 2012, the Opéra national de Paris mounted a new production of Rudolf Nureyev's celebrated re-interpretation of the Minkus–Petipa ballet Don Quixote. ...
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Music, Dance, Theater
2011
2h.15min
16+
With choreographers Toer van Schayk and Wayne Eagling, the Dutch National Ballet succeeded in a breathtaking new interpretation of Tchaikovsky's famous ...
Caravaggio – Making of the Ballet
Music, Dance, Theater
2008
29min
0
Mauro Bigonzetti is one of the leading choreographers in the Italian ballet world, which was able to free itself from the dominance of classical opera ...
Claudio Monteverdi: Caravaggio
Music, Dance, Theater
2008
1h.33min
6
Mauro Bigonzetti, one of the leading choreographers of the Italian ballet, has developed the piece Caravaggio in collaboration with the Staatsballett Berlin.
Caravaggio, ...
Unmensch
Drama, Music, Dance, Theater
2016
26min
16+
Three young actors are rehearsing a play called 'Youth is Shit' at the Vienna Theater Experiment. The situation quickly becomes explosive.