
Rainbow's End
By Jochen Hick, Christian Jentzsch
2005 | 75 min | Documentary
The gay movement fought its way from the margins to the center of society. What battles still need to be waged?


By Jochen Hick, Christian Jentzsch
2005 | 75 min | Documentary
The gay movement fought its way from the margins to the center of society. What battles still need to be waged?

2006 | 5 min | Queer
Award-winning director Jochen Hick humorous doc HALLELUJAH! follows the Pope's visit to Cologne 2005 and juxtaposes two camps of demonstrators. Award-winning director Jochen Hick follows humorous doc HALLELUJAH! follows the Pope's visit to Cologne 2005 and juxtapostions two camps of demonstrators: Christians on the one hand, and gays and lesbians on the other. Direct Cinema in short form.

2014 | 76 min | Documentary
Artists were an integral part of the resistance on the Maidan in Kyiv 2014. Their works, helmets, posters and catapults became museum pieces immediately after the revolution. A revolution changes the social and political landscapes of a country, but most of all it changes the physical landscape. The Maidan protests in the center of Kyiv transformed the square into a living installation and gave the city an almost medieval appearance. After the protests ended, the "blitz-museumization" of the revolution's ...

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, ...

2022 | 65 min | Documentary
Ever since the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, Valentyn's life has been moving in heavy swell. In his hometown of Romny, in the east of Ukraine, he is fighting against corruption, and so against the strongest powers in the country. When Valentyn needs a break, he prepares for his third attempt to cross the Black Sea in his self-built kayak.

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 ...

2019 | 20 min | Drama
Romanian truck driver Stancu has given his nephew Dragan a second driving permit for their truck - a common practice in their company to extend legal driving times. But when Dragan is almost killed by microsleep at the wheel, Stancu suddenly realizes he has to take over. Torn between the pressure to deliver and his concern for Dragan, he becomes entangled in a web of white lies. "The director's clever and accomplished staging creates an almost documentary-like tone that suits the film exceedingly ...

2015 | 82 min | Documentary
In Margina, Ljupcho Temelkovski accompanies a Roma family in Macedonia. The film observes the laborious everyday life of the characters, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism. The many-member family lives together in cramped conditions. The men try to earn money with informal odd jobs and show great talent for improvisation. Margina was shot over a long period of time with a 3-person team. The film succeeds in getting surprisingly close to the people in their private everyday lives. The ...

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 ...

2016 | 50 min | Queer
Tali embarks on an intimate journey to Lodz, Poland, to retrace her personal roots. At the center are her two Polish loves: her lover Magda, and her late grandmother Silvia. Berlin-based Tali Tiller is accompanied by her German-Polish partner Magda. The documentary explores how memories of the Holocaust and war are lived, told and passed down from generation to generation of women.

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 ...