100 Years of the UFA

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always

MYTHOS DEUTSCHER WALD: Erkundung einer Seelenlandschaft

In Germany, the forest is more than the sum of its trees: it is a myth, the backdrop to a grand German drama. When one looks at German cultural history, it is easy to recognize the forest as a recurring theme—and as a to

Death Is My Trade

A biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.

Wie zerrissen ist Deutschland? - Der Streit um Werte, Meinung und Macht

The German Chainsaw Massacre

Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.

Deutsche Weihnacht

A german christmas video tape, accompanied by music and christmas poems.

Planet Deutschland - 300 Millionen Jahre

Documentary tells the story of Germany's origins from the Carboniferous period to the present day. It leads from the highest Alpine peaks to the rugged North Sea coasts - from the craters of the Eifel to the river labyri

Deutschland privat

"Deutschland privat" is a special project by Robert van Ackeren, who in 1979 asked people to send him their 8mm home movies by placing ads in several magazines in Berlin, Germany. In the ads he announced that he was plan

Napoleon und die Deutschen

NAPOLEON UND DIE DEUTSCHEN shows that it was, of all people, a foreign emperor—the French ruler who dominated the continent for a century—who catapulted the Germans into their national era through conquest and reform. Bo

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

Deutsche Schuld – Namibia und der Völkermord

Between 1904 and 1908, when Namibia was still called German South West Africa and a German colony, up to 60,000 Ovaherero and 10,000 Nama died at the hands of German colonialists. The crimes of the German colonial rulers

Two Germans

What became of Hitler’s last array, born in 1928, visited 40 years later?

Nieder mit den Deutschen

A man returns to Cologne and remembers his time as an “Edelweiss Pirate” in the resistance against the Nazi regime in scenes of present-day Cologne.

The Germany March

Documentary about 41-year old Rüdiger Nehberg marching about 1000 kilometers from Hamburg in northern Germany to Oberstdorf in the south of Germany. Mainly living off his own body, he lost 25 pounds during his endeavor b

Germany Dada

This documentary concerns the contributions of German artists to the Dadaist movement. Created in 1916, the organizers rejected previous convention and delighted in nihilistic satire in painting, sculpture and literature

Henze: The Young Lord (Deutsche Oper Berlin)

A 1968 production of Hans-Werner Henze's comic opera filmed at Berlin's Deutsche Oper. With the plot centering around how a whole town is deceived into taking a dressed monkey as a young lord, the work features performan

Kabul Deutschland

A thought experiment as a chamber play: What would everyday life look like if the incidents on August 15, 2021 in Afghanistan happened here in Germany?

Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris

Little Godard

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he

Unter deutschen Betten

After a disastrous performance and a philandering producer leave her publicly humiliated, a faltering pop star takes up work as a cleaning woman.