Große weite Welt(1997)

Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung(de)

Portrait of a group of skinheads, some politically left wing, others extremely right wing. One feels the cold atmosphere of the society. The film was controversial. It was praised by some for its inside into the skinhead scene, but attacked by others for giving these radicals a platform for their arguments. Even more confusing were the images in its brilliant black-and-white cinematography.

XX(es)

A man near his 30s and without a partner is thinking about fatherhood.

Be 5 Min. Vedę(lt)

Cassandro the Exotico(es)

A lucid view on an extraordinary character, recognized and loved or reviled by the crowd of wrestling fans. Cassandro, the exotic gay lucha libre fighter.

The Tree of Life(so)

In a small town, a nomad cuts down a tree he needs to use. However, he accidentally chops down the wrong tree, felling the tree that sustains life itself. When the latter tree falls, all life disappears. The nomad then finds himself in the middle of a desert that he does not recognize, and he tries to work his way out of it. During this particular quest, he comes across a small tree that is in the process of dying and opts instead to save this one.

Lethal Tender(en)

Bad guys are poisoning drinking water, and there is only one man who can stop them, Jeff Fahey.

Boys on the Rooftop(es)

Sergio and Octavio discover each other in a game between seduction and desire during a night of celebration. At daybreak, each will have a piece of the other: their joint gay moments.

At the Midnight Hour(en)

Wealthy widower Richard Keaton engages young widow Elizabeth 'Liz' Guinness as the 4th consecutive nanny for his pre-teen, equally science-devoted son Andrew, with instructions to disturb neither. She learns of mother Alycia's fatal fall, an official suicide but was probably murder. Dad keeps Andy at a distance, so he draws towards Liz. Real danger starts when Richard's brother, novelist Blain, arrives with his friend Jillian, to sell the ancestral estate against Richard's will.

Wonderlust(en)

Filmmaker Gabriel Miller examines a small group of people's proud isolation as they live off the grid next to a military bomb site to avoid mass society.

The Zookeeper(en)

Jonah Ludovic is a custodian at a small municipal zoo. After a night of heavy shelling Ludovic arrives at his job to find the staff abandoning the zoo. He joins a skeleton crew that includes an elderly guard and a veterinarian. Their purpose: to keep the animals alive until help arrives from an international zoological mission.

María Elena Walsh: Postal Detenida(es)

María Elena Walsh forever revolutionized the language and imagination of children's shows. But very few know the importance of his works for adults, his political convictions against dictatorships and his defense of women's rights. Topics addressed by this work that covers the main conflicts experienced in his personal and professional life. From his adolescence as a precocious poet in an oppressive society, until his later years, after leaving the stage during the last Argentine military government.

The Players(en)

The Players are the best American athletes of the modern rock-climbing era. Dave Graham, Chris Sharma, Emily Harrington, Daniel Woods, Lisa Rands, Joe Kinder, Alex Puccio, Chris Lindner, and Ethan Pringle each embody the progression of their sport. This showcase of action-packed HD footage reveals each player’s ability to make climbing at the pinnacle of their sport a daily routine. Featuring all disciplines of climbing, this is your chance to witness the swagger behind each players' style and explore the lifestyles they are pioneering all across the globe.

Dagli Appennini alle Ande(it)

A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.

Call Him Jess(es)

Holland Zingt Hazes(nl)

Inughuit - folket vid jordens navel(sv)

A documentary of the Inughuit people of Greenland. Qaanaaq a community of 450 people in Thule, the northernmost municipality of the world far up north in the west side of Greenland.

Brother of Mine(en)

A car plays the main part of a torture-chamber in Jens Jonsson’s Bror min, where two brothers pull off a fight inside while waiting for their parents who are fighting outside. The older of the two demonstrates with deep concentration all the funny little gadgets the car can provide in order to torture a kid brother.

Premature Articulation(en)

Comprised of both archival footage and talking head interviews, this pseudo-documentary blends the lines between reality and fantasy while telling the preemptive story of the Canadian punk band known as Chub.

Feet First(en)

An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.

Germany: A Summer's Fairytale(de)

A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face of modern Germany.

Riding Giants(en)

Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Directed by the skateboard guru Stacy Peralta.

Dave Chappelle's Block Party(en)

The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio mans moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unprecedented block party.

One Shot. One Life(en)

In traditional martial arts, mastery of the art is not acquired through technical skill alone. In following ‘The Way’ one must look beyond technique. In Japanese archery or Kyudo, hitting the target is not enough. In order to shoot correctly we are told to “Shoot from the Heart”. As Takeuchi sensei says “As a national team member I had to hit the target no matter what. Eventually all that technique became obsolete in exchange to express myself through the bow”. This is One Shot. One Life. Zen of Japanese Archery.

Louis Theroux: The Night in Question(en)

Louis Theroux heads to American college campuses and comes face-to-face with students whose universities are accusing them of sexual assault.

Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand(de)

Arrival: Matt Riddle(en)

Join Matt Riddle, The Original Bro, on his journey from hard-fought beginnings to his thrilling debut in NXT.

Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu(ja)

Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era.

This Changed Everything(en)

This Changed Everything: 500 Years of the Reformation celebrates the fruits of the Reformation while exploring difficult questions about the cost of division: Could schism have been avoided? Is there hope for reunification? What did Jesus really mean when He prayed for His followers to be "one"?

The Samurai's Footsteps(es)

A group of residents from Coria del Rio uncover a key figure in their town's history -- a samurai on a quest for redemption.

Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'(en)

We hear from Coppola, Spielberg, director of photography Gordon Willis, consulting restoration cinematographer Allen Daviau, film archivist Robert A. Harris, Paramount Post Production executive VP Martin Cohen, MPI senior technical advisor Daniel Rosen, MPI scanning technician Chris Gillaspie, senior digital artist Steven A. Sanchez, digital artist Valerie V. McMahon, and MPI technical director and senior colorist Jan Yarbrough as they offer interesting facts about the original cinematography, details on the restoration of the three films.

The Language You Cry In(en)

THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for -and finds- meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone.

F. Fame(en)

Anna is living the dream. Having rocketed from obscurity to internet stardom as electro-rap iconoclast 'Uffie' following the release of her breakout hit 'Pop the Glock', she is ready to take her place as socialite royalty, adored by indie boys and girls everywhere. Yet such a meteoric rise can never be without its associated pressures. Trapped between drug-fuelled hedonism, music industry bureaucracy and Myspace mania, Anna starts to wonder whether 'Uffie' is a character she can continue to play.

Jackass: Gumball Rally 3000 Special(en)

Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Chris Pontius join the annual race around Europe, have fun in other countries, and get in some trouble along the way.

Defending Our Lives(en)

Documentary about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence. This film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their terrifying personal testimonies. It won an Oscar at the 66th Academy Awards in 1994 for Documentary Short Subject.

Chicks in White Satin(en)

Oscar nominated documentary short about two Jewish lesbians getting a Jewish marriage. They interview the rabbi, the family members, especially one of the mothers who has a hard time coping with the fact that their daughter is a lesbian. They go through their feeling for each other, and what kind of wedding they want, and how to do it...

A Time for Justice(en)

A short history of civil rights movements in the US. Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subject

89 mm from Europe(pl)

This movie shows the simplest difference between Europe and former Soviet Union. It is the eponymous 89 mm - Russian train tracks are 89 mm wider than tracks in European countries. And because of this fact, it is not easy to go through the Soviet border by train in Brest as the passengers in the film do.

School of Assassins(en)

Human rights abuses by graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) are chillingly documented at the beginning of the campaign to close the school.

Straight from the Heart(en)

Parents talk about their gay and lesbian children, and how they came to accept their lifestyle.