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CLIMATE ART sheds light on the role of contemporary art in the greatest challenge of our time: the climate crisis. Journalist Leonie Sontheimer takes us on a journey to influential artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Sebastião Salgado and Agnes Denes. Their works inspire, provoke and open up new per...

SHE CHEF is a portrait of a newly crowned world champion chef. After completing her training at Austria's top restaurant, "Steirereck," 25-year-old Agnes embarks on an exciting journey to learn from the best chefs in the world and develop her own culinary language. Despite the differing personali...

Backstage of the Uffizi Gallery built in 1561, one of the oldest museums in the world every task becomes a ritual. We meet the passionate staff of German director Eike Schmidt, his assistants, architects, custodians and the concierge. We witness sensitive negotiations with British artist Antony G...

TOGETHER FOREVER
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Four couples from the US, Japan, India and Germany open up about their relationships, which have all lasted, remarkably, longer than fifty years. In frank and funny interviews, each pair reflects on life before and beyond the moment...

Virgilio Martinez is much more than a chef, he is an artist and explorer. Central, his Lima restaurant, reigns as the world's best in 2023. Together with his wife Pía León, he reshapes gastronomy. Virgilio is an explorer of Peru's different regions, giving its origin to the revolutionary concept ...

Neo Rauch is worldwide one of the most successful German painters of his generation. His paintings fascinate by their enigmatic realism, the characters seem to have fallen out of time. They appear to be acting in a sleepwalk-like state. What the painter is presenting changes between dream, fantas...

In “Woolly”, director Rebekka Nystabakk follows her sister Rakel as she becomes the 4th generation to run the family farm. Together with her wife Ida, Rakel is enthusiastic, but aware that they have a lot to learn. Rakel’s father, a farmer for 40 years, knows what lies ahead: years when spring ne...

TANJA - UP IN ARMS
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In the early 2000s, 19-year-old Tanja from the Netherlands decides to go to Colombia as an au pair and is immediately confronted with the country's political turmoil. Horrified by the injustice she observes, she joins the larges...

Renowned Japanese fashion designer Yuima Nakazato is a key figure in the ethical manufacturing movement. As the second Japanese designer ever invited to Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, Nakazato is dedicated to merging his unique artistic vision with sustainable, green technology. Kosai Sekine's...

A celebrated Palestinian influencer from Israel who quit his lucrative job at PayPal in order to maximize life experience; a young top manager who sacrifices both her job and marriage for the adventure of sailing around the world; an Argentinean couple who apply their computer science skills to d...

"NOT ME - A Journey with Not Vital" takes us on an intriguing foray into the eventful life and creative artistic expressions of contemporary Swiss artist Not Vital. This film essay sheds light on the work of the internationally renowned Grisons artist who for a long time remained the "well-known ...

When two friends collect money for the so-called “suffering in America” in the streets of Accra, is it for fun, political provocation, or a prophecy? Two Swiss filmmakers will answer these questions with the help of seven musicians from Ghana—M3NSA, Wanlov The Kubolor, Adomaa, Worlasi, Akan, Muto...

The music documentary FCK 2020 – TWO AND A HALF YEARS WITH SCOOTER by director Cordula Kablitz-Post follows Germany's undisputed techno superstars SCOOTER, with over 30 millions records sold, throughout Europe over the last two and a half years - during private moments, in the studio, on the road...

Filmed during "The Teaches of Peaches Anniversary Tour" in 2022, this documentary seamlessly weaves together exclusive archival gems with dynamic tour footage capturing the transformative journey of Canadian Merrill Nisker into the internationally acclaimed cultural powerhouse Peaches. From the i...

Filmmakers Gregor Möllers and Anne Lewald visit North Korea in 2013 for the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War and again in 2017 for the Pyongyang Marathon as foreign tourists. Using secret recordings, they register their impressions of the notoriously closed country’s propaganda and t...

Making The Grade invites us into the world of the piano lesson. Every year teachers and students throughout Ireland prepare for graded musical exams. These exams can be pleasing for some but daunting for others. Each student has their own particular goal but reaching Grade Eight is considered a p...

Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by tracing the lives of a doctor and of former nurses who once shared the same experience. While gatheri...

In the heart of Mumbai lives Sheikh Rehman, the city‘s last painter of film posters. His stu­dio is run in the old masters‘ style - behind the screen of an old Hindi film cinema. Here, Rehman is both artist and guru, comedian and philosopher. But modernity is taking over and the audiences that ha...

In many countries of the world democracies are eroding from within. In some countries they are dying. It is a death by a thousand cuts. In the Philippines, journalist Maria Ressa and her team from the news platform Rappler fight against a violent president who executes tens of thousands of people...

A cult object of Austrian invention and a bestseller in the USA and worldwide: the Glock. The semiautomatic rapid- fire weapon is one of Austria’s export hits, but not a lot about its questionable meaning reaches the public realm. Like a thriller, this investigative and precisely researched docum...

With global protests on the rise, DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN is a film about the new generation at the heart of this seismic political shift. We will watch as Rayen protests for social justice in Chile, Pepper fights for democracy in Hong Kong and Hilda battles the devastating consequences of climate c...

As a young man, Carlos Saura, the legendary Spanish filmmaker, did not quite know what he would like to become: motorcycle racer, flamenco dancer or photographer? 60 years, 40 films and numerous film awards later, his passion for photography runs like a thread through his life. The publishers Ger...

The first feature documentary about the world-famous mime artist Marcel Marceau. With gestures and facial expressions alone he touched and inspired people around the globe. But the tragic background of his mime acts has long remained hidden. As a teenager, Marceau had to witness his Jewish father...

Once merely a basic foodstuff, bread has now become a brand-name product with ever more varieties and suppliers. But do we know what we are actually eating every day? The film BREAD: AN EVERYDAY MIRACLE takes us on an enlightening journey into the world of bread and its production today. We meet ...

SpaceX and Elon Musk weren’t the first! About the meteoric rise and sudden fall of the first-ever private space company: foolhardy, ingenious and »Made in Germany«. Like a political thriller, FLY ROCKET FLY tells of the charismatic visionary and entrepreneur Lutz Thilo Kayser who relocates to Gen...

THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE is about China's massive hunger for natural resources and how during the last decade it has been aggressively operating to obtain access to these resources in Ecuador. The country is now stuck with the most Chinese debts in Latin America.

Meet Paúl Jarrín Mosquera, wh...

Alcohol: No substance on the planet is so familiar to us and so unbelievable varied in its effects. It is readily available, and despite its psychoactive, adverse health effects, hardly anyone calls it a drug. But how is it that we can turn a blind eye to the three million alcohol-related deaths ...

Andreas Drapa used to be a regular tiler in a small town, breeding pigeons in his free time. now he's Germanys wealthiest high-class racing pigeon breeder, a millionaire and business partner of the rich in China and Dubai where betting on the "little man’s racehorse" has become a very lucrative b...

Oscar®-winning director Pepe Danquart Pepe Danquart's documentary about the celebrated contemporary artist Daniel Richter is far more than a classic portrait or a homage to his work and explores the question of how political a famous painter can actually be in an environment of the turbo-capitali...

Self-taught Bittor Arginzoniz has achieved world fame as a grill genius with his restaurant Asador Etxebarri, ranked number 3 of the world best restaurants in 2019. His personality and the place where he lives make his cuisine unique, minimalism is his trademark. Bittor has revolutionized the way...

In 2010 Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos took part in the biggest international Street Dance Competition, Juste Debout in Paris. It was the first time ever two women became World Champions in Hip Hop. This film depicts their love of dance, each other and about friendship put to the test. About des...

Jairo Fuentes is the young leader of the community of Tamaquito, a village in the forests of northern Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need to survive. For centuries, they’ve hunted in the mountains, foraged for fruit and reared hens, sheep and cattle. But the Wayúu...

There's one thing milk stands for — health. It's seen as natural, nutrient-rich and comes from happy cows in green meadows. Today however, milk is big business and a highly sought-after commodity that is subject to aggressive trading. In Europe alone, 2 billion tonnes of milk and milk powder are ...

Western architecture meets Indian lifestyle. A portrait on the 70th anniversary of Le Corbusier's planned city.
Shortly after the Partition of India and liberation from British colonial rule, a new capital for the Punjab was to be built from scratch at the foot of the Himalayas, with the former c...

Balkrishna Doshi (1927-2023) is one of India's most influential 20th century architects and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Doshi and his practice Vastu-Shilpa has a portfolio spanning over 70 years, including collaborations with both Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. The film introduces...

After the Oscar®-winning film SHINE told the story of his extraordinary life, concert pianist David Helfgott achieved world fame as a unique artistic personality.

HELLO I AM DAVID! is the first ever documentary about this exceptional pianist; a wunderkind whose career seemed to be over after a n...

Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farid...

COME BACK ANYTIME presents a window into the lives of self-taught Japanese ramen master Masamoto Ueda and his wife Kazuko, who have run their tiny Tokyo ramen shop, Bizentei for more than 40 years. Ueda serves his legendary ramen to scores of devoted customers who have joined him over the decades...

Seated at his drawing table, a cigarette in his mouth, the Prizker Prize awarded Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza addresses director Iain Dilthey's camera. A committed socialist and passionate smoker, Siza is one of the major figures in contemporary architecture. His creations are a reflection of...

An odyssey through the life and legacy of László Moholy-Nagy, the innovative artist and educator whose pioneering approach to integrating technology into design continues to influence and inspire.

In the 1920s, rising artist László Moholy-Nagy taught at the revolutionary Bauhaus school in Weimar...

What do BDSM, dance and meditation have in common? Is the practice of violence in a controlled and friendly space an evolution in our civilization? VIOLENTLY HAPPY is a sensual and intimate experience, a film about a group of postmodern Berliners, looking for new ways of living, loving and experi...

The wild 1970s. The search for new consciousness, spirituality and sexual liberation. In England, the young Hugh hears of spiritual teacher Bhagavan Shree Rajneesh from listening to a cassette. He travels to India on a journey in search of himself. The young Indian girl Sheela is being taken to t...

With his studio “Atelier Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design”, Konstantin Grcic is at the forefront of product and furniture design. His clients list reads like a who’s who of international brands: Vitra, Magis, Iittalla, Krups, Lamy, Muji, Hugo Boss, Rado, Audi, among others. He is considered one...

Shot on three continents, this film provides an inside look at Christopher Kirkley’s project “Sahel Sounds” - a blog, record label and platform to explore arts and music of the Sahel region through non-traditional ethnographic fieldwork.

We follow Chris from Portland to Niger, where he meets so...

A feature-length documentary, exploring the growing musical and social phenomenon of chanting, MANTRA – Sounds into Silence shares the stories of people who are finding healing and a sense of inner peace by singing mantras together. It’s a film about spirituality not religion, about people reconn...

Trapped in “the world’s largest open-air prison” and ruled by war, a new generation is drawn to the beaches. Sick of occupation and political gridlock, they find their own personal freedom in the waves of the Mediterranean - they are the surfers of Gaza.

"A group of young men, as well as a few g...

With this new project Schaub expands his field beyond the seeing and explaining of buildings to deal with a very specific aspect of the effects of space - which is transcendence. He guides the viewer through created spaces, art, music and nature, where transcendence can be felt and experienced.

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Young people are signing major record deals and they just sing about love. I’m a great believer of love. But for fuck’s sake, there’s a lot going on! Who wants to hear that if you are on £15 a week? And you turn the telly on and some fucker is spouting on about love“, says singer Jason Williamson...

“The essence of architecture is to open the hearts of the people,” says Japanese minimalist master Tadao Ando, “and to move them in such a way that they are glad to be on Earth.”

Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity, a 2013 documentary by German filmmaker Mathias Frick, offers an exclusive beh...

DESCENDING THE MOUNTAIN takes us on a journey of mystical revelations, experienced through meditation and psilocybin. To understand how psychedelics reveal the nature of consciousness, psychiatrist Franz and Zen master Vanja guide experienced meditators – who have never used psychedelics before –...