Enemy at the Gates

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Brother of Sleep

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria

Botticelli

Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of art

Autumn Milk

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look a

Effi Briest

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated

Moloch

In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a

The Film Narrator

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent mo

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistre

Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes od

Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius

Dr. med. Job Prätorius enjoys great popularity among patients, doctors and students alike thanks to

Suck My Dick

Story of the successful author Dr. Jekyll. One day, Hyde, one of his invented characters, detaches h

Rehragout-Rendezvous

Bavaria's most laid-back cop returns, juggling parenting and working at the family farm with the reo

Stroszek

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expe

Memory Books

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children.

My Best Fiend

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep tr

Laura's Star

Laura sees a shooting star falling to earth and finds it in a park, down on the floor and with a bro

A Man Like Eva

A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his ca

Germany Pale Mother

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern

Mahler on the Couch

Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that for

Lippels Traum

Eleven-year-old Philipp, known as Lippel, travels from Passau in Bavaria to the Orient without a fly

My Magical Friend Sams

Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the househol

Long Shadows

After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, hi

Felix

Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) ar

Jail Bait

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Wern

Sams im Glück

The Taschenbiers could actually lead quite a contented life - if it weren't for the strange fact tha

Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with i

The Cry of Love

The story The Cry of Love is about the love between two men. Lara brings her first boyfriend, the go

Der Schluchtenflitzer

Andy lives with his parents on a small farm in Lower Bavaria. He rides his "Schluchtenflitzer", a mo

o.k.

A five-man US fireteam dig in at the Bon Song Valley (represented by the Bavarian forest) to await t

Jew-boy Levi

Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on

Supermarket

A drifting teen slips from petty crime into exploitation on the streets of Hamburg, courted by a sel

Under Snow

In Echigo, Japan, the snow often lies several feet deep well into May, covering landscapes and villa

Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special film

Elektro-Lähmung - Ein Film gegen die politische Ohnmacht

An initiative discusses a videotape in which a group of activists portrays themselves and their work

Die wilden Fünfziger

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann s

In a Year with 13 Moons

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She h

Goebbels und Geduldig

It is 1944 and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels narrowly escapes an assassination attemp

The Slurb

One Saturday, the Slurb, a strange little creature with a proboscis nose, enters Mr. Taschenbier's l

The Promise

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends

Das Glück ist eine Katze

Frido Schulz and Rosa Schätzlein have known each other since their student days. But while Rosa made

Vergiftet oder arbeitslos?

Die Jungfrau von Orleans

Mathias Kneißl

Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria

Otomo

The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. Howeve

Women in New York

Wives of rich men have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdres

Eva Mattes: Fragen an die Mutter

Eva Matte's confrontation with her mother, who was a star of Third Reich cinema.

Liebe leidet mit Lust

Keiner geht verloren

Katja emigrated from East Berlin to Bavaria. There she has found the love of her life. Now she invit

Immobilien

The supposedly naive owner of the castle, Louise Strothmann von Auerheim, advertises that the entire

Alice Guy-Blaché

A one-hour biographical documentary about Alice Guy-Blaché, one of the first women to direct films.

Yugofilm

The lives of a Serb family are torn apart by the pressures of the not-too-distant war with the Croat

Und alles wegen Mama

Widows

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mat

Mord am Höllengrund

Single mother Sabine lives with her 18-year-old son Ilya at Kochelsee in Bavaria. Ilya wants to take

Union der festen Hand

Schattengrenze

Céleste

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight

Lena Lorenz - Mutterliebe

Petra Hoffmann is in her early 50s and pregnant. She is not carrying her own child though, but that

Die Unbekannten im eigenen Haus

Krieg oder Frieden

Wünsdorf in Brandenburg was a military base for decades: first for the Prussians, then for the Wehrm

Dear Melanie

In der glanzvollen Welt des Hotel Adlon

The documentary tells the story of the Berlin luxury hotel, which was built by the director's great-

Die Dreigroschenoper

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out,

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich

Chris Marker’s portrait of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky documents the director at work on his

Tausend Lieder ohne Ton

Rita Ritter

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but

Himmlische Helden

Bugsy, a small-time crook, seeks to bring his son home by needing a wife, money, and a career. An an

Peaceful Days

In Friedliche Tage, we enter a totalitarian and inhuman society, in which daily life is a series of

Werner and the Wizard of Booze

Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to

The Net

Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely

Fever

It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her op

Josefa’s Return

Over 40 years ago, Josefa left her home village in a dispute. A lot has happened in the meantime. No

David

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Pur

Ai Weiwei - Evidence

Documentary about artist Ai Weiwei's 2014 exhibition in Berlin.

Ulrike Ottinger: Nomad from the Lake

Ulrike Ottinger is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her cinematic universe has influenced entire

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977.

Der Tag, an dem die Kinder verschwanden

Die Farbe der Seele

Hochzeit

Film based on a play written by Elias Canetti.

Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne

Love Under 17

About the sexual relations of minors, told in eight episodes, dealing with parenthood, hitch-hiking,

Desaster

The film addresses the failure of the individual in anonymous urban society. The film begins as men

Now or Never

Mo lost her heart to Tom, but left him nine years ago for no apparent reason. Now she lives together

Leberkäsjunkie

While dealing with a burnt-down house, smelly diapers and brutal lack of sleep, a Lower Bavarian pol

The Short Life of José Antonio Gutiérrez

A look behind the heroic story of a Guatamalan immigrant who became the first US soldier to die in t

Lang lebe die Königin

The young sales presenter Nina Just is not respected in the slightest by her mother Rose, who lives

Born for Hell

Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam v

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a

The Little Polar Bear 2: The Mysterious Island

New adventures from Lars, the cheeky little polar bear who loves nothing more than to explore the bi

The Paper Brigade

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th

Enfant Terrible

When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich

Longing for Women: Dorothy Arzner

By the time director Katja Raganelli arrived in California to make a film about Dorothy Arzner in 19

Viral Humour

Humor helps people through hard times. A look at the viral videos, songs and sketches that have fill

Danach hätte es schön sein müssen

In 1974, the woman kills herself. I meet the man again in 1997. He still lives in the apartment he m

Fussel

A piece of lint from a Beethoven fan's record collection sticks to the clothes of a bank robber. Ins

„Es geht immer ein bisschen Lack ab“ – Der Schauspieler Uwe Friedrichsen über sein Leben