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Ein neunjähriger Junge versucht verzweifelt, sein krauses Haar zu bändigen, und löst damit eine zunehmende Homophobie bei seiner hart arbeitenden Mutter aus.

Iona takes her teenage son to the holy island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime. As her son seeks forgiveness for what he has done Iona comes to terms with her loss of faith.

In den letzten Jahren hat es eine Explosion im Bereich der Bewusstseinsforschung gegeben. Wissenschaftler stellen sich den "Großen Fragen", die bisher Philosophie und Religion vorbehalten schienen.

Teenager Felix ist mit seiner Familie im Urlaub in Thailand. Dort verliebt er sich in die schöne Fai und beschliesst unerwartet, noch eine Woche länger in Thailand zu bleiben.

Der neunjährige Roman folgt seiner Mutter Oksana nach Deutschland, wo sie in der Illegalität arbeitet.

This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. The filmmakers expose this delightfully deranged cult by capturing the daily lives of its members. Interviews in movie houses, on the street and in the homes of the subjects tell the story of each individual. Many cannot hold a job, or choose not to. All of them have demoted the importance of the real world, giving all of their attention to the fantasy world of the movies. These human encyclopedias of cinema see two to five films a day, and from 600 to 2,000 films per year. Many have no physical sex lives, living instead in a world of romance with stars like James Dean or Audrey Hepburn. In Cinemania, Hollywood's biggest fans become the true stars. This is the story of their lives, their memories, their unbending habits and the films they love.

"ROAD TO LA PAZ" ist eine unerwartete und liebenswerte Begegnung zwischen verschiedenen Kulturen und eine Odyssee der spirituellen Initiation.

North Korea is a country of stark contrasts. On the one hand, it presents real socialist stereotypes like cryptic messages from a frozen time loop, combined with shocking reports on shortages. On the other hand, polished Pyongyang lures with a futuristic skyline, flashy amusement parks and department stores with a range of goods equal to those in western consumer meccas.

LUISA recently moved out of her parent's home and is curious about what life has in store for her. She loves parties, is up for any fun, flirts and little adventures. She lives in a residential group at a facility for people with disabilities on the outskirts of a small German town. There she receives support in her often turbulent everyday life. Unnoticed, Luisa becomes increasingly quiet, everyday life in the residential group continues until it is unexpectedly discovered that Luisa is pregnant. Luisa herself does not say how this happened, she remains silent. Everyone knows that her boyfriend Anton is infertile. Suspicion of sexual abuse is obvious. Luisa decides to terminate the pregnancy. The police are called in and try to find out whether a crime has been committed. The investigation becomes a test of endurance for Luisa, her relationship with Anton and for all the staff at the residential facility. For the feature film, the authors conducted interview research in advance and documented everyday impressions during numerous internships in residential facilities in order to provide a view of people with disabilities beyond clichés and trivializations. Sexual abuse of people with disabilities is more common than you might think: In Germany, women were 2-3 times more likely to be affected by sexual violence in adult life than the average female population. The equal casting of a German feature film, with ten actors with disabilities (including the main character) and ten actors without disabilities, is a novelty. In several months of preparation with the entire cast, the characters were further developed and existing access barriers were taken into account in such a way that the actors were not hindered as much in their work process.

A film about brothers and sisters 'in heaven and on earth'. Memories of the author's brother who died in very young age lead into the story of the author's aunt: a German nun who found a close 'brother' in a Spanish saint to-be, Rafael Arnaiz. Her mission is to work for his international recognition. A piece of his rib as an official relic was the reward of her work. Rafael had died from diabetes 3 years before Sister Ingrid was born, having lead a life between arts, music, literature, good food and a sober Trappist abbey. A young, attractive guy as a perfect role model for a modern saint? BROTHER SISTER is a very personal reflection about the tightrope walk between inner and outer freedom.

Die Geschichte von Thailands letztem Gefängnis-Henker.

A Face, a Tag Line, an Invention. Two facets that don't seem to belong to the same woman. A Hollywood star as an ingenious inventor piques our curiosity. The director Georg Misch is interested in how truth and myth intertwine. He listens to stories about her told by people who knew her. He dissects the history of the woman with the exotic eroticism who not only made surprising and daring decisions in her private life, but who caused a sensation with an intrepid film project right from the start. What is left? her first film Ecstasy with its scandalous nude scenes, movies that nobody has seen or heard of, a sixty-year-old son who is still struggling with his relationship to his mother, an invention whose patent ran out too soon, so that what has become a cornerstone for wireless communications, which are in constant use in our everyday lives, brought its inventor late fame but never earned her any money. At the end of the day what lingers is the echo of her fascinating beauty. The way the film handles the archive material from various sources reflects the inner conflicts of a Hollywood diva whose other talent as a mathematical genius and inventor was not allowed to unfold so as not to endanger her aura as a successful goddess of the silver screen. As we peel away the convolution of myths that grew up about her while she was still alive what gradually emerges is the portrait of a modern woman beyond the Hollywood star. In the last decades of her life the telephone became her only means of communication with the outside world, even with her children and close friends. She often talked up to six or seven hours a day on the phone, but she hardly spent any time with anyone in person in her final years. For this reason, though also of course because of the significance of her invention to modern communications, the telephone has been chosen as the "structuring motif" of the movie. The interviews in the movie have been staged as telephone calls and lead the viewer through time like a nostalgic conference with the film's protagonists. Calling Hedy Lamarr isn't, however, a portrait; it is above all a film about the Hollywood diva from the perspective of her son Anthony Loder, a fairly successful telephone dealer in Los Angeles who wants desperately to be the Hollywood producer of a feature film about the life of his mother. Through his research he encounters contradictory statements and fantastic theories. There is often only a fine line between truth and lie. Many times the conversations between him and the other protagonists shift and take on a magical aspect, and in a supernatural way Hedy Lamarr sometimes even seems to join in. The Hollywood diva's purported schizophrenia is expressed dramaturgically as a persistent shifting between the extremes of her character and is a strong pattern in the film. The meaning of truth must be constantly reinterpreted. Lamarr's death in February 2000 marked the end of one of the most complex Hollywood biographies of the last century. The film ends where Hedy Lamarr's story began: in Vienna. In her will she asks that her ashes be strewn in the Vienna Woods. A homecoming she always dreamed of but which she never managed to make during her lifetime.

A 76-year old engineer is on a mission: to connect the United States and Russia with a 100-kilometer long train tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protege, Scott, along the proposed route of the InterContinental Railway through Alaska, to the Bering Strait and onward to Russia. The "Strait Guys" endeavor to convince international governments, corporations, and indigenous tribes to green-light their $100 billion railway project, which would provide ground-based infrastructure across the continents, relieve overcrowded Pacific ports, improve global supply chains, and ease tensions between the superpowers. The US and Russia have been successfully collaborating in space for decades. Now the Strait Guys are out to prove it is also possible down here on earth.

In Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists - at least in front of men. Defying censorship and taboos, the young composer Sara Najafi is determined to organize an official concert for solo female singers. In order to support their fight, Sara and her friends invite three French female singers, Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal and Emel Mathlouthi, to join them in Tehran and collaborate on their musical project, re-opening a musical bridge between Europe and Iran. Are they going to succeed and finally be gathered in Tehran, sing together, on stage and without restrictions, and to open a door towards a new freedom of women in Iran ?

Dog Flesh deals with a complex period in the life of Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man who is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past.

Es scheint, als würden wir in einer komplexen und schnelllebigen Welt leben. Statt die Dinge gemeinsam anzupacken, herrschen nur Resignation und Hilflosigkeit. In diesem Film zeigen sechs Menschen, an welchen Lösungen sie bereits arbeiten.

The German Bundestag (parliament) is the political heart of the Federal Republic of Germany - a highly symbolic place loaded with expectations. We accompany four members of the Bundestag through their everyday routines, plunging in at eye level. The documentary Bundestag shows how politics is done today, how complex the processes and formalities behind the scenes are - a closer look at this "center of power".

At the beginning of 1979, after more than 30 years of collective repression, a dramatized and emotional US television miniseries ensured that the German population was suddenly reminded of the terrible Nazi crimes against the Jews. What is now expressed with the hitherto unknown word Holocaust, hits many millions of people in the heart. The unexpected echo and the audience reactions were fierce. Even before the TV broadcast neo-Nazis blasted in vain transmitting towers in Germany to prevent this. From the creation and the shooting over the broadcast to the tremendous reactions, documentary filmmaker Alice Agneskirchner tells the story of this emotional television event, which led to a paradigm shift in the perception of German Nazi crimes.

A doc about right-wing movements worldwide and their completely incorrect interpretation of "Aryanism," a phenomenon which began with French philosopher Gobineau and continued with the Nazis. Filmmaker Mo Asumang embarks on a journey into the madness of racism and meets German neo-Nazis, America's most notorious racist Tom Metzger and members of the KKK in the Midwest. English subtitles.

"I am from nowhere" is what Andy Warhol used to say when asked about his origin. "Nowhere" is the tiny village Mikov in Slovakia which Warhol's mother left for the United States in 1921. Looking for Andy Warhol's roots countless camera crews from all over the world began coming to Mikov. This documentary is looking for the effects of this invasion.

Eine junge Grafikdesignerin und eine animierte Zeichentrickfigur nehmen uns mit auf eine Reise durch die bewegte Zei des deutschen Antifaschisten und Pazifisten John Heartfield, der Pionier im Einsatz von Kunst als politischer Waffe war.