Politics

This documentary shows the consequences of the 2008 war for displaced Georgians in a refugee settlement and their struggle to find a new home.

Two Palestinian women become the pawns of both the Israeli and Palestinian security authorities.

A gripping film by Ukraine's Maryna Er Gorbach about the tragic events of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014.

The murder of the transsexual artist Madorilyn Crawford reveals the dark schemes of Colombian politics.

A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in Belgrade and flees to Germany with her daughter.

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

This poignant coming-of-age drama that delves into the complexities of Palestinian identity under Israeli rule.

After thirty years, the Mayor of Lyon is running out of ideas, and thanks to a young and brilliant philosopher, he is now getting new hope.

After the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, Valentyn decided to become politically active and run for city council in his home town.

A political novice joins the campaign team of a presidential candidate, where he faces backstabbing and opportunism.

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.

The mesmerizing world of Albert Serra's PACIFICTION departs from the exotic portrayal of Tahiti, presenting an authentic glimpse into its beauty.

In her surreal and fantastic debut, Flávia Neves masterfully combines the search for her own origins with Brazil's colonial past.

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

Intensely charged in political terms, HOTLINE is not merely revealing but downright shocking in what it conveys about Israel’s policies on outsiders.

An intimate look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her incredible rise to become a revered Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court.

How did Pepe the Frog become the symbol of hatred and racism online?

The conflicts for water in Jordan’s deserts already happening today gives a pretaste of future disputes.

A striking documentary by renowned photojournalist David Klammer about protesters fighting to stop the clear-cutting at the Dannenröder Forest.

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

A geriatric leopard and an aging zoo director are the only ones who can still prevent the sale of the zoo in Ankara to foreign investors.

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

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

An intimate portrait of the famous French sociologist duo Monique and Michel Pinçon-Charlot who remain ever embroiled in political battles.

A dazzling coming-of-age film that interweaves a pivotal moment in Tunisian history with an 18-year-old's struggle for freedom.

In the basement of the never completed Museum of the Revolution, Belgrade dwell the outcasts of a society that is being transformed by capitalism.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A mesmerizing poetic narrative about a group of teenagers navigating the confusing world of sexuality, desire, conformity and capitalism.

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

A transgressive and political film about female nudity and how it is depicted.

35 years of successful struggle for equal rights for homosexual parents.

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

After the Maidan protests in Kyiv ended, "the revolution's objects started a second life" ... in museums

How can you become a parent in France as a lesbian, gay or trans person if the laws forbid you to do so?

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.

Haitian anthropology student FREDA must navigate the tensions between family expectations, postcolonial structures, Christianity, and voodoo.

Jean-Gabriel Périot asks students on the outskirts of Paris to reenact iconic films from the '68 era and share their thoughts.

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.

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.

In the small town of Monroe, New York, a dispute over land erupts between an Hasidic community and its secular neighbors and turns into a turf war.

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

Based on his origins and personal background, director Sobo Swobodnik analyzes the social fabric of society and the German education system.

After more than 50 years of bloody civil war, the peace process in Colombia began in 2016, with an uncertain outcome.

The shocking story of the sea rescue ship Lifeline, which was denied entry to a safe port for months.

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

Jakob Fisch confesses to a murder he did not commit. Police psychologist Dr. Alea Anzu then tries to convict him of lying.

Paul Aivanaa Manaté makes film history as the first Franco-Polynesian director ever and was able to enlist Sebastian Urzendowsky for the role.

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

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

Like all Israeli youths, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. But unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military.

One man's acts of political violence in 1970s Italy rebound on his family decades later.

Gay left-wing activist and disaster relief volunteer Ortwin Passon navigates between a military-like bourgeois world and wild sex parties.

An ex-Salafist and an ex-Neo-Nazi confront their past. Dominic Schmitz and Felix Benneckenstein were trapped in an ideology for years.

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

In the summer of 2017, 6,000 neo-Nazis from all over Europe gathered in Themar for the largest right-wing rock concert of the German post war era.

How does it feel to be a suspected radical left-wing terrorist? Especially if you've fled to to South America to avoid authorities.

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

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

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

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

The South African public prosecutor Thuli Madonsela is taking on powerful opponents in politics.

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.

While the GDR government tries to collectivize agriculture, the appearance of mysterious gentlemen in West German cars triggers wild speculation.

Gripping legal drama about injustice and corruption, filmed in the style of Eastern European social realism.

How do you become a politician? By getting elected! But what does one experience as a candidate in a state election? That's what filmmaker Maximilian E. ...

This documentary highlights issues of outmigration and declining birth rates through the lens of a pediatric ward.

Follow Jörg Meuthen, candidate for Germany's right-wing party AFD, on his election tour 2016.

After a passionate romance, an Afghan student must face patriarchal power structures alone.

Kenya is on the brink of a fateful choice, and in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, 300,000 people are hoping for an improvement in their situation.

In northern Syria, an anti-hierarchical, multi-ethnic model of democracy was launched in the Rojava region under the leadership of the Kurds.

The radical-minded urban planner Angèle neglects her friends and family for her political struggle.

Iris P. was an undercover investigator who maintained close friendships and had intimate relationships with the people she spied on.

In this complex story of politics, loyalty, and identity, a Corsican resistance fighter returns to his homeland despite the threat of death.

1968: During the vacations, university students occupy a vacant apartment and discuss the Marxist ideas of Mao Zedong and their revolutionary ideas.

Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with Lebanon’s turbulent past.

50 years after Tanzania's independence from Great Britain, the East African country is still searching for a unifying identity.

In Paris in May 1968, this documentary examines the social upheavals of the time and compares them to the anti-globalization movement of today.

Bad planning and shortages prevail on an East German construction site. Foreman Hannes Balla uses unconventional methods to overcome the problems.

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

During the cold war, West Germany hid its institutionalized human rights abuse in residential care facilities.

“What the hell is happening to my country?” After Trump was elected, filmmaker Susanne Brandstaetter investigates the growing divide in the USA.

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

Barbara Eder's impressive war drama shows the very unique world of war correspondents and their relationship to war.

Masao Adachi, born in 1939, is a well-known Japanese scriptwriter and director who in 1974 joined the ‘Japanese Red Army’.

The wrenching story of a woman sentenced in 1934 to ten years in prison for antifascist activities.

1964 DEFA, East German Film by Konrad Wolf based on the novel by Christa Wolf. Tale of star-crossed lovers divided by worldviews in a divided Berlin.

Lutz Dammbeck talks with Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) about T.A.Z., Ted Kaczynski, Islam, Marvin Minsky, Cusanus and natural philosophy.

A montage of TV images of the trial of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the "Unabomber."

What is the connection between computer technology, hippie culture, mathematics, terrorism, the research of consciousness in the 1950s and paranoia?

A portrait of a ‘German socialist art’ in the GDR up to the building of the wall in 1961.