ASPAVA: The Documentary

Inside Cadbury: Chocolate Secrets Unwrapped(en)

This one-off documentary goes deep inside the Willie Wonka world of Cadbury, Britain's biggest and best-loved chocolate maker. Behind closed doors at the famous Bournville plant, a team of dedicated scientists struggle to meet the biggest challenge the company's faced for a century - to dramatically cut sugar from their Dairy Milk recipe. Meanwhile, the firm's Easter Creme Egg campaign finds Cadbury agents 'reverse shoplifting' as they hide prize-winning white eggs around the country. Elsewhere in the factory new flavours of chocolate are put into production, with wacky recipes invented by lucky members of the public.

100.000 – Everything I never wanted(de)

An intimate documentary about the making of Fynn Kliemann's debut album "Nie". Without a label, without a marketing budget and excluding the charts, it became one of the best-selling albums in Germany.

Einsteins Nichten(de)

Tamashii asobi - hōkō(ja)

Docudrama starring dollmaker Keisuke Okuyama.

Stuttgart Shanghai(en)

A young pair from Stuttgart fly to Shanghai to hop aboard the textile business of his father while she prepares for the birth of their son. A story about the ever more common movement of Germans into the East for professional gain.

Janine F.(de)

The humorous portrait of a female artist. The film follows the career of 24-year-old Janine F. who in 2002 caused a commotion from the rooftop of a Berlin building.

Cancel Crash(en)

Cancel Crash depicts the dramatic events that saved the world from financial anarchy and present for the first time what actually happened on Black Monday. Framed between the opening bell on a Monday, October 19th and the closing bell of Terrible Tuesday, the story unfolds as the perilous clock ticks, revealing who prevented a global Depression and saved our financial markets. --Tony Vitale

Josep Escobar: El rebelde amable(es)

Der Zauberstreifen(de)

Mein Wunschland(de)

Free Spirits(fr)

Gathered together in a large house by the sea, carers, patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease and musicians are the protagonists of an improbable artistic residency. Beyond what separates them, they come together to create and live together. A hymn to life, to the living, to everything that is still possible... despite everything!

Virágát a napnak(hu)

A flower condemned to perish fights for its survival.

Testimonies of a Massacre: Tula Toli(my)

Filmed along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border and within Rohingya refugee camps, Shafiur Rahman’s documentary on the 2017 Tula Toli massacre exposes chilling interviews and evidence of Myanmar military’s premeditated atrocities. The film documents mass killings, sexual violence, and the systematic destruction of the village of Tula Toli, highlighting a humanitarian crisis that forced over half a million people—many of them children—to flee in an exodus of historic scale.

Rio in Berlin(de)

Rio Reiser would have been 75 years old. Before he became the “König von Deutschland”, he was the King of Kreuzberg - together with his band Ton Steine Scherben. In 1968, Rio moved to Berlin-Kreuzberg, at the time a blank spot on the city map, and made the area around Heinrichplatz his home. Together with R. P. S. Lanrue (1950 - 2024), Kai Sichtermann and Wolfgang Seidel, he founded Ton Steine Scherben and changed German rock music forever.

O Pagode de Amarante(pt)

Film shot in Super 8 in 1984. Filming took place in a neighborhood in the city of Amarante/PI, located on top of a hill, in the courtyard of Mr. João Bitu's residence, with participation by Raimunda Pau Pombo, Nazaré Cambão, Ely Sibita, Tio Zuza, Joaquinzinho, Chico do Boné, among other pagodeiros.

Traum in Rot und Gold(de)

Millions of crosses(en)

A short documentary made from archival footage that explores the various dynamics of Japan and the U.S.A. during ww2

Escaping the Castle(fa)

In the autumn of 1950, members of the largest Iranian communist party known as "The Toudeh Party" plot an intricate escape from Tehran's most important prison known as "The Castle".

The Treasure Hunter(en)

Shot over seven years, Jack and his father dedicate their lives and spend millions of dollars to find the legendary Yamashita's Gold, allegedly buried across the Philippines and never fully recovered by the Japanese Army. A dark path that leads to obsession and addiction threatening the livelihoods of his wife, children and their entire families.

Robert Reid Reports on British Waterways(en)

Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.