Good Enough Parents
Trauma Umerziehung - Heimkinder in der DDR
Kasperle's Abenteuer
The wire men Kurz (Short) and Lang (Long) want to race each other. They choose a tree on the horizon as their destination. While Kurz prepares for the race, Lang measures the course. Unnoticed, he draws a moat across the track. The start takes place. Initially, Kurz and Lang are tied, but Lang jumps over at the ditch and Kurz remains sadly on the sidelines. The beaming winner is Lang. Kurz calls on the unfair Lang to run a second race.
In a rural setting on the weather-beaten French Atlantic coast, the ten year old daughter of a single mother is implicated in murder. Crime scene evidence contradicts the story of the talented, introverted child as expressed in her Mangas.
Katrin Wiedemann is on the verge of becoming a school principal. All she has to do is give birth to her third child and then she can start immediately after maternity leave. Katrin has no doubt that, as an experienced mother, she can juggle her child and her career. Especially because her husband Philipp has promised to take all of her parental leave. Unfortunately, the school administration has a different opinion and, after the turbulent birth of little Isalie, asks Philipp of all people to take over as headmaster for the time being. In the mistaken belief that he is doing Katrin a favor, he agrees.
Liebe, Wut & Milchzähne
Adventures with Mickey
Three families struggle to find their true selves and their soulmates in a world full of expectations, pressure and obstacles. Inspired by real events, this film shows how they pursue their dreams and potential without losing themselves.
Who is "Kalinka08"? In a chat message, she reports about experiences of violence in the family. A fake? Or does she urgently need help? Sofia and her friends are worried. Despite the Corona-lockdown, they arrange to meet and forge a plan to find Kalinka.
Once upon a time, there was a young prince who wanted to fulfill his greatest wish: to marry a princess! One night, there was a violent storm, and someone knocked on the castle gate. A princess stood before the king, who opened the door. She was soaked to the skin and did not look noble at all, but she insisted that she was a real princess. Not wanting to see her son unhappy again, the queen devised a plan. She prepared a bed for the young woman with mountains of mattresses and blankets, but placed a pea on the floor. In the morning, the princess wakes up feeling terribly bruised, having slept on something hard all night.
Helena has just started a new job - and she's already pregnant. She desperately needs daycare. Madness ensues as she discovers that the odds of getting into a nursery are about as high as winning the lottery.
We filmed a birthday party for our best friend Bea.
Stories from Ukraine about the impact of the Russian invasion on ordinary people and their fight to protect their homeland and each other. They are contributing to the resistance by providing medical aid, food, rescuing pets, expressing their feelings through art and other means. They embody Ukrainian unity and the strength of the human spirit.
Léaud et les Bas
Collapsing prices on the world coffee market have thrown millions of growers around the world into poverty. The price farmers receive for coffee is at its lowest in over thirty years. Coffee plantation owners are bankrupt and the workers are starving. Filmed in Nicaragua and Vietnam, the film describes the human consequences that the collapse of coffee prices has caused in producer countries. Multinational companies have profited because coffee is so cheap. The crisis is worldwide: the International Coffee Organization says that the price crash has pushed over 25 million people into poverty as farmers who used to grow food now sell coffee.
Grandma Kham, an 87 year-old-woman, lives lone and is still strong enough to burn charcoal and weed out grass. But what does she have to go through along the way? And how will she prepare for her own final moment?
Hollywood star Patrick Dempsey trades the red carpet for the racetrack in Destined to Drive, an exhilarating documentary capturing his high-stakes return to professional motorsports after nearly a decade away.
A rural Argentine music teacher and his students fight harmful agrochemical spraying by writing protest songs and staging a large “environmental Woodstock” despite industry resistance.
A house, somewhere or other. In France, probably in the countryside: a few clues give some information, like the age and style of the furniture or the presence of a rabbit. Meagre pickings, and faced with the radical dryness of this barely hospitable short film, viewers may understandably feel offended at being treated with such scant consideration. Robert Taschen will teach them nothing, has nothing to tell them. This roughly sketched portrait is of the man who lives in the house.