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Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?

Follows the band on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars. When Take On Me reached number 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985 the dream came true. Or did it?

A young Autistic boy and his two siblings have to stay for 4 weeks with their grandparents while their mother is away. Because of his unique abilities and interest in space missions, he considers his grandparents land an isolated planet.

At a family gathering on a boat, engineer Markus vaguely remembers what his mother did to him when he was a child. Soon, Markus and his wife Monika have to face an unthinkable truth and violation, that a mother would seem incapable of.

Credit Suisse, the major Swiss bank classified as globally systemically important, no longer exists, despite being "too big to fail". How could this happen?

1900. A village, where crafty farmers discover oil and make unscrupulous deals at the expense of the villagers. The journey of Johanna takes center stage: after the violent death of her father, she stands up to the overpowering oil barons.

Two sheltered siblings from a conservative household face personal revelations that challenge their family's strict beliefs, forcing them to navigate between authenticity and tradition.

Chronicling the rapid rise and fall of former Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius, who found himself at the centre of one of the biggest media scandals in history after admitting to numerous fabrications.

Late-night talk show host Max Baumbacher turns world-famous after waking up with an unusually deep, almost magical voice.

He was an icon, flamboyant pianist, egomaniac, showman par excellence: Liberace - the King of Bling, led his life in the fast lanes between Hollywood, Las Vegas and Palm Springs. In the middle of the Californian desert, where Hollywood stars celebrated wild parties around private pools, he lived a paradoxical life of spectacle and secrecy, illusion and reality. His success is closely linked to the growing popularity of television and the American TV era. Scores of American housewives adored the musician who could play everything from jazz to classic. His public life was as paradoxical as his performances were glamorous. No other artist cultivated such an openly camp persona on America's biggest stages while at the same time vehemently refusing to come out as gay, a facade Liberace kept up until his death. He was one of the first celebrities to die of complications from the AIDS virus, although his death was officially attributed to "heart failure" in order to preserve the memory of the one-man Disneyland. We examine his stellar career and its abrupt end in the context of America's social and media history. Liberace's story reflects the American dream - but also the country's bigotry and the divisions of a rapidly growing society.

Jennifer Weist, frontwoman of the Jennifer Rostock rock band and cultural journalist Axel Brüggemann lead an erotic journey through the history of pleasure by exploring how sex and pornography evolved since the 50s.

In a dying village, a lonely boy tries to enter the spring of his life and becomes a victim of inhuman conditions due to the coldness of his environment.

Since my close friend took her own life, one question has haunted me: Is there a possible world she would have loved to live in? A world full of care and tenderness? The film meets four different people who are all fighting for exactly that: A tender revolution.

Dietrich Kuhlbrodt: Hitler boy, film critic, actor, senior prosecutor, screenwriter, punk musician, temporary porn commissioner, and family man.

More by chance than by plan, Sarah and Tobias open up their long-standing, experienced relationship and decide to go for it: each of us dating five people. If their dates end disastrously, we know we know that we are perfect for each other. If they are fun, we know: we know there's room for improvement and we'll break up. What starts as a casual experiment soon turns into a competition in which both have to ask themselves: Do I even want this relationship anymore?

1905: Heinrich Vogeler is celebrated as the star of German Jugendstil. But self-doubt increasingly torments him. In search of new inspirations he moves to the First World War and returns as a changed man.

Following the course of six rivers on four continents, this documentary takes stock of a vital resource that is becoming dangerously scarce: water. From shortages accelerated by intensive agriculture to possible solutions, this is an edifying investigation into the blue-gold crisis.

Italy is one of the most attractive and popular tourist destinations in Europe. And yet there are still undiscovered corners - especially away from the mainland: Flora and fauna make each of the over 200 islands unique. Some of the most beautiful and varied are explored in the three-part series "Islands of Italy". We travel from the Tremiti Islands in the Adriatic Sea to Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, to the Liparian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, exploring the geographical and ecological characteristics of each island.

Between censorship and self-censorship, this fascinating doc explores how China, an essential market, influences the content and messages of mainstream American cinema.

In occupied post-war Germany, the ex-paratrooper and former SS man Gerhard Mertins rises to become a powerful arms dealer. He has many contacts in the Middle East and with old Nazi greats, a man who therefore becomes interesting for secret services. He starts right after the Second World War as a simple taxi entrepreneur in Bremerhaven, but soon he does best business with the German secret service BND and also the American CIA. Until today many files about Mertins are secret. Because against German laws, against international law, Mertins moved weapons into war zones with the backing and sometimes on behalf of the German secret service BND. For almost two years, the team around author Rainer Kahrs did research for the film. For the first time, the BND granted a camera team access to files on Gerhard Mertins, the first BND arms dealer. For the first time, Mertins' wife and daughter also speak in front of the camera.

Werner Nekes is a leading contemporary experimental film maker. His work includes numerous avant-garde films that received many awards and distinctions. Closely related to his cinematographic work is his very substantial cinematographic collection, spanning about 40,000 objects ranging from the early days of cinema to phenomena of visual perception - a collection that is truly unique in the world. This film shows a cross-section of Nekes' films and reveals some particularly intriguing treasures from his collection. In conversations with Alexander Kluge, Nekes reveals his profound knowledge of cinematography and his lifelong and abiding interest in exploring the concept of perception. The film also looks at his close collaboration with Helge Schneider and Christoph Schlingensief.