Resistance

  • Junk Space Berlin

    Junk Space Berlin

    2023

    1h.45min

    16 FSK

    Welcome to the marginal deviation of reality. An inexplicable rift runs through the dystopian Berlin and four outsiders venture to find their friend.


  • Crossings

    Crossings

    2020

    1h.28min

    16+

    Three young Israelis are forced to serve in the military police at a checkpoint despite their refusal to do military service.


  • Welcome to the Dome

    Welcome to the Dome

    1992

    15min

    0 FSK

    During the final prayer of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1991, one of the most spectacular protest actions takes place.


  • Barricade

    Barricade

    2021

    1h.23min

    6 FSK

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


  • Hallelujah!

    Hallelujah!

    2006

    5min

    16+

    Christians on the one hand, and gays and lesbians on the other. Direct Cinema in short form.


  • Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film

    Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film

    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.


  • Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.

    Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.

    2018

    1h.36min

    16+

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


  • Concerning Violence

    Concerning Violence

    2013

    1h.15min

    12 FSK

    This doc is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Africa.


  • Nunca Más - No More War In Colombia?

    Nunca Más - No More War In Colombia?

    2018

    36min

    16+

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


  • The Revolution Eats its Children

    The Revolution Eats its Children

    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.


  • No News

    No News

    2021

    1h.21min

    16+

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


  • Our Mothers

    Our Mothers

    2019

    1h.16min

    16+

    Guatemala, 2018. The whole country is immersed in the trial of the soldiers who sparked the civil war.


  • Moments of Resistance

    Moments of Resistance

    2019

    1h.39min

    16+

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


  • Where to, Miss?

    Where to, Miss?

    2016

    1h.23min

    12 FSK

    A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.


  • Of Neo-Nazis and Superheroes – How the Far Right is Changing a Small German Town

    Of Neo-Nazis and Superheroes – How the Far Right is Changing a Small German Town

    2018

    56min

    16+

    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.


  • Live

    Live

    2020

    1h.23min

    12 FSK

    In this dystopian sci-fi film, the power of music unleashes rebellious tendencies in an emergencies counselor.


  • The Old Gun

    The Old Gun

    1975

    1h.38min

    16 FSK

    The Wehrmacht massacre at Oradour in 1944, filmed with Philppe Noiret and Romy Schneider in 1975. Hated by the German critics, loved by the French.


  • La Chinoise

    La Chinoise

    1967

    1h.36min

    16 FSK

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


  • Anbessa

    Anbessa

    2019

    1h.25min

    16+

    Asalif and his mother are displaced from their farmland on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. To fight for their livelihood, Asalif taps into his fantasy.


  • Mai 68, La belle ouvrage

    Mai 68, La belle ouvrage

    1968

    1h.57min

    16+

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


  • Severino

    Severino

    1978

    1h.22min

    12 FSK

    Severino, a member of the indigenous population of South America, returns to his home village after ten years in the city. The situation has deteriorated ...


  • No Lullaby

    No Lullaby

    2015

    1h.14min

    16 FSK

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


  • What Will People Say

    What Will People Say

    2017

    1h.42min

    12 FSK

    Norwegian-Pakistani teen Nisha is torn between two worlds until the worlds colide.


  • Brecht

    Brecht

    2018

    3h.0min

    12 FSK

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


  • The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    The Net_A Visit to 'Hakim Bey'

    2004

    35min

    12

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


  • The Net

    The Net

    2003

    2h.1min

    12 FSK

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


  • GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    GDR Experimental: First Leipzig Autumn Salon

    1984

    22min

    0

    In 1984, a group of artists occupied an exhibition center in Leipzig.


  • Ghetto

    Ghetto

    1997

    1h.56min

    12

    A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.


  • El Viaje

    El Viaje

    2016

    1h.30min

    6 FSK

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


  • Osceola

    Osceola

    1971

    1h.48min

    12 FSK

    Director Konrad Petzold addresses the role of Native North Americans and African American slaves in this international production.


  • Ulzana

    Ulzana

    1974

    1h.40min

    12 FSK

    GDR-Western, who describes the actions of white settlers against self-sufficient Mimbreno Appacheans trying to settle down in Arizona in the middle of ...


  • Thinking like a mountain

    Thinking like a mountain

    2019

    1h.31min

    16+

    The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the glacial ice of Colombia's highest mountain range - the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.


  • To the Four Winds

    To the Four Winds

    2018

    1h.40min

    16+

    A French olive farmer offers help to refugees crossing the mountains. But now he too faces prosecution.


  • Push

    Push

    2019

    1h.32min

    0 FSK

    Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord.


  • The Red Line - Resistance in Hambach Forest

    The Red Line - Resistance in Hambach Forest

    2019

    1h.55min

    0 FSK

    Whether Hambi, Lützerath or Garzweiler - In the face of a destructive and misguided policy, many see only one option: Resistance!


  • The Hunter

    The Hunter

    2010

    1h.32min

    12 FSK

    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 ...


  • Istanbul United

    Istanbul United

    2014

    1h.25min

    16 FSK

    The story of an extraordinary alliance of rival soccer fans in Istanbul during the Gezi protests in 2013.


  • Tehran Taboo

    Tehran Taboo

    2016

    1h.36min

    16 FSK

    The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution ...


  • A Farewell to Fools

    A Farewell to Fools

    2014

    1h.25min

    12 FSK

    World War II, somewhere in Eastern Europe. A German soldier is found dead near the village. The local authorities must find the culprit, or they will be ...


  • Piripkura

    Piripkura

    2017

    1h.21min

    6 FSK

    The last two members of the indigenous Piripkura people from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are fighting for the survival of their people.


  • In Heaven's Meadow

    In Heaven's Meadow

    2018

    30min

    16+

    After an assault, Maya tries to find her way back into life.


  • We Weren't Given Anything for Free

    We Weren't Given Anything for Free

    2015

    58min

    0 FSK

    Transporting baskets full of hand grenades and secret messages through Nazi roadblocks was just a part of Annitas work during WW2.


  • Zero

    Zero

    2015

    1h.22min

    16 FSK

    The honey producer and industrial magnate N. becomes an ecoterrorist after a reawakening experience.


  • Fidai

    Fidai

    2012

    1h.22min

    16+

    The gripping documentary FIDAI is about a veteran of the Algerian war.


  • GE8EN - The Camera Marches

    GE8EN - The Camera Marches

    2013

    48min

    16+

    An experimental account of the protest culture at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.


  • Noise and Resistance

    Noise and Resistance

    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.


  • Seed: The Untold Story

    Seed: The Untold Story

    2016

    1h.34min

    6 FSK

    Few things on earth are as wondrous and vital as seeds. Revered and valued since the dawn of mankind.


  • Apache

    Apache

    1973

    1h.24min

    16 FSK

    The story of Ulzana, an Apache chief who has reached a rapprochement with the local Mexican population and generously extends it to whites who travel through ...


  • Frozen Flashes

    Frozen Flashes

    1967

    2h.34min

    16 FSK

    In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But ...


  • The Sons of Great Bear

    The Sons of Great Bear

    1966

    1h.28min

    12 FSK

    In the first DEFA western, Gojko Mitić plays the war chief Tokei-itho.


  • Tecumseh

    Tecumseh

    1972

    1h.48min

    12 FSK

    DEFA-produced film that impressively portrays the tragic fate of the Native Americans who are fought by the Americans and abandoned by the English.


  • Fatal Error

    Fatal Error

    1970

    1h.39min

    6 FSK

    The exploitative boss of an oil company promises the indigenous people a share in the oil deposit on their reservation.


  • Enemies In Love

    Enemies In Love

    2012

    1h.56min

    16 FSK

    Swiss feminist Iris Meyer and conservative Peter von Roten were unlikely mates who nonetheless had a passionate relationship. This is their story. ENEMIES ...


  • The First Rasta

    The First Rasta

    2010

    1h.25min

    0 FSK

    Leonard Percival Howell founded the Rastafarian Movement, was also sailor, world traveler, and revolutionary. The documentary follows from Jamaica to Panama, ...


  • Opération Libertad

    Opération Libertad

    2012

    1h.30min

    16+

    To atone for the injustice of colonialism, a revolutionary group attacks a Swiss bank.