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A stroll through East Berlin in 1977 - unique original recordings of the GDR capital by day and night, summer and winter, accompanied by music, offer a comprehensive insight into the diversity of urban life at that time. Numerous sights, famous buildings and squares, such as the television tower, the Red City Hall, the Palace of the Republic, Alexanderplatz and Unter den Linden, are shown. Popular places for leisure and recreation are also filmed, including the zoo, Volkspark Friedrichshain, the Christmas market on Alex and the Pankow outdoor pool. The film team also interviews a wide variety of Berliners, giving an impression of the lifestyle and everyday life of the capital's inhabitants at the time. The cityscape is rounded off with insights into new housing developments, renovated streets, businesses, restaurants and stores as well as official political events, military parades and memorial ceremonies.

A focus on the inner workings of a political party making headlines at district, state and national level as an “alternative for Germany”. Thanks to the film’s striking objectivity, it becomes clear where argument ends and contradictions begin.

An audiovisual experiment that shows how oil is refined into gasoline and ultimately powers cars and other vehicles, accompanied by classical music and experimental synthesizer sounds. Filmed in the Libyan desert, the film traces the path and development of the gasoline, from the extraction of oil as it is drilled in the Libyan desert to the pump at the gas station, making road construction machines dance and convertibles roar through the Spessart forests. This film also drew Herbert von Karajan and Leo Kirch's attention to Hugo Niebeling, in which the director has road bulldozers "dance" to the music of Vivaldi.

Planet der Spatzen

Was wurde aus der Stasi?

This true crime documentary about the case of Milly Dowler looks in new detail at the role of the media, the police investigation into her disappearance and Levi Bellfield, the man who was eventually convicted of her murder. Why did it take police so long to look at Bellfield, who lived just yards from where Milly was last seen? And what was behind the tabloids’ hacking of Milly’s phone?

Documentary about actor André Morell.

Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.

Stars of The Circle drop by to discuss Season 2's big winner, some juicy behind-the-scenes gossip and their enduring friendships with one another.

A documentary revealing the transformative and healing powers of the ocean.

Rosa von Praunheim shows an intimate portrait of his dying friend Mario Wirz.

Rosa von Praunheim creates the portrait of a committed woman, a fighter against homophobia and AIDS. The film, which honors Laura Halding-Hoppenheit, was made in cooperation with the German Aidshilfe.

Sakhalin is a distant island. It is swept away by April snowstorms, and if you leave there, then forever. And if you stay, then for good and for great love. Masha turns thirty, and she still hasn't left. And she still hasn't stayed. She can't decide. Or decide.

A film about three teenagers - Klara, Mina and Tanutscha - from the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. The trio have known each other since Kindergarten and have plenty in common. The three 15-year-olds are the best of friends; they are spending the summer at Prinzenbad, a large open-air swimming pool at the heart of the district where they live. They're feeling pretty grown up, and are convinced they've now left their childhood behind.

At the end of the 1980s, high school students watch fragments of a congress of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers that took place in 1949. During the congress, socialist realism and pictures representing the imposed aesthetics were proclaimed. Viewers will learn about the attitude of young people to the communist system and the art of those times.

Siberia, contrary to people’s first association, is not a deserted land covered with snow. During the one-year stay, Polish documentary filmmakers collected materials that make up the image of the modern industrial area of ​​the North.

This documentary about St. Mary's Altar takes the viewer back to the 15th century, when Wit Stwosz, a master of woodcarving, came to Poland from Nuremberg. At the request of the City Council, he created an altar that is unmatched not only in Kraków.

Follow pop star Lizzo and explore her humble beginnings to her meteoric rise with an intimate look into the moments that shaped her hard-earned rise to fame, success, love and international stardom.

After the Second World War, a cemetery turns into a city. The camera flies over Warsaw to take a bird's-eye view of its mosaic beauty: the Old Town, Śródmieście, and modern blocks of flats. The soundtrack reflects the mood of the summer of 1965.

A documentary film that presents the current condition and the past of the Hel Peninsula, which is gradually taken away by the sea as a result of inappropriate human management. The situation in this small part of Polish land reflects the state of the country right after the fall of communism.