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A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.

Wanted for a long time, serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police raid. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him and finds out more than he is looking for.

A 17 year old boy falls in love with a 37 year old woman. As if this wouldn't be enough they are of different social classes and she is married.

A young college student thinks that something sinister is going on in her new dorm room.

In the Marquesas archipelago, the tattoo was a strong marker of identity. With the arrival of the colonizers, the ancestral custom was banished. Heretu and Teiki founded a tattoo school to pass on this tradition.

Spring 1945: After successfully fleeing, Johanna is stranded with her two children and a teenager whom she has taken under her care in a village in northern Hesse.

Johannes Fabrick's movie deals with the heart-breaking, but never kitschy story of Rebecca, a young girl fighting against leukemia, and the different ways her parents handle the desperate situation. While her mother Ellen concentrates grimly on Rebecca's health condition, her father Ralph doesn't let the disease rule his life. When Ellen is told that her daughter won't survive, she wants to take desperate measures...

In the spring, huge blocks of ice break away from Greenland and drift slowly to the south, along the "iceberg road". Some run aground along the wild coasts of Newfoundland, an island in eastern Canada. These white giants represent a great danger to ships and oil platforms, but some Newfoundlanders have taken advantage of this great and beautiful gift of nature: they attack the icebergs with diggers to extract one of the purest drinking waters on earth.

In anticipation of his promotion, Carlo Lehmann and his family move into a house in an exquisite residential area.

In Vinh Son, a small village in Northern Vietnam, many inhabitants make a living from snake breeding, a financial windfall that has made this town the first domestic producer of snakes. Cobras and rat snakes are mainly used to produce drugs and alcohol or to be served at gourmet restaurants. This lucrative trade was initiated in part by the president of the Association of Reptile Breeders, who launched his business in the late 1970s, encouraging friends and neighbors to follow his example. Now, at the age of 75, he wants to hand over the trade to the next generation.

Every day in Hubli, southwestern India, a group of fifty men undertake the monumental task of feeding nearly 180,000 children and must do so in a few hours. These men aren't superhuman in any way. They are the humble local employees of the Akshaya Patra Foundation. Every day, across the country, this NGO provides free meals to more than one million children. In the Foundation's enormous kitchen in Hubli, the challenge begins in the middle of the night. The highly mechanized kitchen is tailor made to cook over 9 tons of vegetables, 15 tons of rice and spices. All the meals are to be delivered without delay to the different public schools in the region. And for students in poor and isolated villages, this makes all the difference. Throughout the day, this film sticks its nose first in the giant pots of these special cooks and then in the plates of the children who rely on them.

Two players of "calcio storico fiorentino", a dangerous and fascinating game that has been played in Florence, Italy for 500 years.

Only few people know that Hungary is a "superpower" in terms of its otter populations. Here thrives the strongest population of these cute looking professional predators - thanks to the hard work of a deeply devoted man and also to the less-known precious wetlands of Hungary. The film revolves around am orphaned but rescued otter pup. Through her story we learn about the life of otters and the work that is going on in the background to save them and their biotope, the Hungarian wetlands.

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population of the world. Yet, there, thousand-year-old legends of the ancient Hindu religion are still alive and well. Countless stories of gods, kings, warriors and princesses are still told by the puppeteers of Wayang Kulit, a shadow puppet theater on the island of Java. This sacred art is inscribed on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. More than just entertainment for the Javanese, Wayang Kulit is also a sought-after way of life for young people. Puppeteers, or "Dalangs", enjoy high social prestige that sometimes propel them to stardom. Today, some young people want to embrace this profession. Among them is Ganesh, an apprentice from a modest family who accompanies a master puppeteer on tour.