
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
1971 | 67 min | Drama
Rosa von Praunheim's cult film was uncomfortable, especially for the gay community, and turned them against the filmmaker.


1971 | 67 min | Drama
Rosa von Praunheim's cult film was uncomfortable, especially for the gay community, and turned them against the filmmaker.

2001 | 85 min | Documentary
Acclaimed Austrian documentary director Ruth Beckermann portrays a dying culture of Viennese urban history. The entertaining as well as insightful doc was shown at Berlinale. The Marc-Aurel-Street in Vienna. The last Jewish shop owner in the former textile disctrict, the Iranian hotelier, the cafe Salzgries with its regular customers. From summer 1999 until spring 2000, Ruth Beckermann made little trips to explore her home district with the camera. The film is also a document about the political ...

1983 | 91 min | Documentary
“In my personal life I lived through different stages. There was one period determined by football, nothing but football; each Sunday we would go to see a match and I myself played in a team. Then came another period: politics. A very strong interest in politics and the attempt to understand this world that I only knew from party names so far. Contrary to today, people at the time had a very good feeling for who was a Jew. Today, with so few Jews around this is no longer so. Types like myself, with ...

1996 | 93 min | Timeless
In this award-winning doc, anti-racism activist Jane Elliott shows how she uses her "Blue Eyed Workshop" to make the life experiences of discriminated minorities more understandable. A former teacher from the Midwestern U.S., she has led a dedicated fight against prejudice, ignorance and racism for more than 50 years. In workshops, she divides people according to an arbitrary physical characteristic: BLUE-EYED and BROWN-EYED. She declares the latter to be better and more intelligent and endows ...

2014 | 47 min | Documentary
If you want to eat meat butcher animals yourself, eliminate math as a compulsory subject, give young people their own parking space: these are some of the demands made by the youth party “DIE FREIEN”. Nine young people between the ages of 15 and 23 have had enough of politics that ignore the concerns of young people. This is why they founded their own political movement “DIE FREIEN”. These demands reflect the lifestyle of the so-called Generation Y: less school, less work, more life. Their political ...

2017 | 47 min | Documentary
Gay left-wing activist and disaster relief volunteer Ortwin Passon navigates between a military-like bourgeois world and wild sex parties. For a while now, he has been writing a dissertation on barebacking (anal sex without condoms) and the political and judicial implications of unprotected intercourse among men in Germany. Passon, who is HIV-positive, wants to obtain a legal demarcation between "unreflective risk behavior without intent" (unsafe sex) and "intentional, risk-conscious, consensual, ...

2024 | 85 min | Documentary
On the shores of the Salton Sea in Southern California, the ground itself begins to speak. What appears to be sand is in fact a dense layer of fish remains, plant matter and insects — the residue of an ecosystem increasingly pushed out of balance. Falling water levels, rising salinity and environmental stress are visibly transforming the landscape, turning the lake into a site of ongoing decay. Voices from the region, including members of the Cahuilla community, reflect on the complex relationship ...

1987 | 92 min | Documentary
"A touching film full of melancholic tension." (John Bunzl, Wien Tagebuch) "I don't know exactly why I traveled east this winter," filmmaker Ruth Beckermann says of her journey through Eastern Europe. "I think I was just curious to know whether there was still any resemblance to the stories I grew up with." Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust; her father was a war refugee from Romania and her mother was a native of Vienna who settled in Palestine in 1938. Tracing the migratory ...

2025 | 82 min | Queer
In this daring autofictional documentary, filmmaker Tim Lienhard, raised in a Catholic family in southern Germany, traces his late-in-life transformation into a provocatively performative drag persona. Now 64, he reflects on identity, sexuality, aging, and self-esteem with shameless openness and humor. His journey takes him from Berlin to the Torremolinos Porn Festival and Pride Week in Gran Canaria, where he meets OnlyFans creators, partygoers, and peers who share their stories of desire and liberation. What ...

2019 | 85 min | Documentary
This documentary tells the story of same-sex parenting in France by looking at the first French association that campaigns for the rights of same-sex parents. The film centers on the APGL (Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents and Future Parents), which has been fighting for equal legal treatment for queer parents for over 30 years. Director Émilie Jouvet gives voice to numerous people involved, such as children and their families, researchers, doctors, lawyers, who have written or are still writing ...

1999 | 82 min | Biography
Rigorous and engrossing, Ruth Beckermann's documentary retraces the steps of Austria's restless "sad empress" Elizabeth during trips to Egypt in both 1885 and 1891. When the camera gazes from the deck of the ship towards the endless horizon of the Mediterranean, the image of a woman who travelled the globe without pause takes shape. Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, also gradually disappears from view, as it were: from the age of 30 she refused to be photographed.