Man as Industrial Palace

An animated view of the human body as an industrial manufacturing center. Animation of the Famous 1926 Lithograph by Fritz Kahn.

Love Parade: When Love Learned to Dance

At the end of the Cold War, something new arised that should influence an entire generation and express their attitude to life. It started with an idea in the underground subculture of Berlin shortly before the fall of t

Knall und Fall als Hochstapler

Two drifters land a part in a movie, and are later mistaken for millionaires.

Kyoto ALS Patient Assisted Murder Case

Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual

Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he rev

Drei Väter sind besser als keiner

Jasper finally wants to meet his dad! To fulfill his wish, Mother Maike first has to find out who that is. Three teenage acquaintances come into question: a farmer, a car screwdriver and the village's former heartthrob.

Als meine Frau mein Chef wurde

Hanna, who works with her husband Martin at a Hamburg shipyard, is to be promoted to Deputy Managing Director. Enthusiastically, she accepts the job. But her boss Bernd Möller aims at closing the yard and uses Hanna for

Als ze er niet is

What is 'a mother' really? Does Google provide an unequivocal answer? Wikipedia? Friends perhaps? The latter call it 'coming home' or 'someone who’s always there for you'. Now that his sister, twenty-five years after the

Al's Brand

Unfinished film partially shot in Ireland by cinematographer Halyna Hutchins before her death on the set of "Rust."

When I Close My Eyes

What did the women and children experience in the Japanese internment camps in the Dutch East Indies? What wounds and traumas remained, and how did they cope with them throughout their lives? The camps left significant s

Mijn leven als Deelder

An autobiography dressed up as a documentary, dealing with everything related to poet Jules Deelder: poetry, war, dope, fancy suits and of course: Rotterdam.

Die Weltgeschichte als Kolonialgeschichte

Using trick cards, animations, graphics, and numerous statistics, the film attempts to prove that the economy of a major industrial nation like Germany is existentially dependent on raw materials from the colonies. It al

Mr. Connolly Has ALS

A high school principal is embraced by his community as he continues to lead the school, despite rapidly losing his ability to walk and speak due to the debilitating effects of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

Augsburger Puppenkiste - Als der Weihnachtsmann vom Himmel fiel

When a thunderstorm causes problems on Christmas day, Santa Claus Niklas Julebukk is forced to make a dangerous emergency landing. Niklas Julebukk may still be relatively young, but he's already a real Santa Claus. Unfor

Als wir die Zukunft waren

Seven directors remember their childhood and youth; to the 50s and 60s in the GDR. They appear to be curious, vulnerable children and teenagers who also want to be cool (even though the word doesn't exist for them yet).

Als man anfing zu filmen

Documentary about early cinema

When You Grow Up

What is work? Everyone works and has to work. The 40-hour workweek is a standard in our capitalistic society. Our work consumes the most of our available time for almost our whole lives. Office jobs and assembly-line wor

Europa - Ein Kontinent als Beute

For decades, Europeans between Finland and Cyprus were united by a promise of peace and greater prosperity. But since the financial crisis of 2008, the European project has been in its worst state since World War II. The

Wat Als - Eindjaarsspecial 2019

What if Jesus was a difficult teenager? What if Christmas celebrations were a disease? And what if Sinterklaas really was from Spain? This special focuses on the festive season between Sinterklaas and Epiphany. Featuring

Kunst als Waffe - John Heartfield

With a pair of scissors and some paper, he turned his art into a weapon the Nazis feared. A look back at the eventful career of satirist John Heartfield (1891-1968), pioneer of photomontage and modern graphic design.