
Meuthen's Party
2017 | 92 min | Documentary
Follow Jörg Meuthen, candidate for Germany's right-wing party AFD, on his election tour 2016.


2017 | 92 min | Documentary
Follow Jörg Meuthen, candidate for Germany's right-wing party AFD, on his election tour 2016.

2016 | 71 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Aslı Özarslan, who is the same age as Leyla, accompanies the ambitious candidate to a region that was de facto ruled by the Kurdish PKK in the 1990s and is still suffering from the consequences of the civil war. The documentary DIL LEYLA was nominated for the First Step Award and the Max Ophüls Prize.

2006 | 90 min | Documentary
Arslan, who spent parts of his childhood in the areas he visits, returned to Turkey for the first time after 20 years of life in Europe. His travels lead via Istanbul and Ankara to the southeast of the country to Gaziantep, from there further east via Diyarbakir and Van to Dogubayazit near the Iranian border. "FROM FAR AWAY is unpretentious and straightforward, and the best documentary in a long time." (Critic)

2003 | 99 min | Independent
Gay lifestyles are an established part of postmodern urban culture. Gone seems to be the concealment of one's sweetheart, gone the policed sex in parks, gone the neighborhood whispering, gone the 'faggot' harassment at work. Where are the problems? In the countryside, there are. In German Swabia, for example. There are gays who have not made the jump to the city or never really wanted to leave. They don't have the urban tailwind of a gay lifestyle that makes it easier to come out and live an accepted ...

2014 | 77 min | Documentary
In THE INVISIBLES, Benjamin Kahlmeyer accompanies three men who make their way through the the wheels bureaucracy in the official process of seeking asylum. How does it feel to place one's own fate in the hands of the strictly choreographed German bureaucracy? A story about the grind of examination and verifying. Those who identify themselves as asylum seekers in Brandenburg first come to the "Central Initial Admission Office" in Eisenhüttenstadt. Wasim from Syria, Mathew from Kenya and Gedeon ...

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.

2018 | 101 min | Documentary
A semi-documentary that follows a group of young migrants in Vienna as they negotiate the maze of administrative procedures. In this clash of two worlds, real refugees who live in Austria, such as the young Afghan Bagher, play themselves. Bagher arrived in Vienna in 2015. Local residents defend the status quo against escalating immigration. The refugees have lost their homes and are refugees for a reason. Forced to flee their own countries, they are trying to adapt to the strange new environment. ...

2018 | 70 min | Documentary
While the healthcare system in Venezuela crashes, and millions flee the country, a doctor, a pharmacist, an activist and two cancer patients are trying to survive amidst the chaos. They face the daily dilemma of choosing to protest or to acquiesce, to emigrate or to stick it out, to lose all hope or to hang on to faith? Together they take to the stage to act out their circumstances and find emotional release.

2013 | 75 min | Documentary
Nonetheless, the analysis closes without conclusion: it is like an offer to her viewers to draw their own associations, their own connections. Beckermann's great strength becomes clear: the free, spontaneous leap from individuality to universality. "A grim ode to Europe" (indiewire) "Ein Film wie eine musikalische Komposition" (Jan Tabor) This film offers an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories that lead Ruth Beckermann across Europe and ...

2018 | 60 min | Documentary
They were radicals: two young people who became fundamentalists during puberty. They gave up their entire lives and themselves for it. Based on their accounts of their experiences, the film poses what is probably one of the most burning questions of our time: Why do people become radical? What lead young people to join radical ideologies? How does hatred develop?

2017 | 76 min | Documentary
For 6 Years, 7 Months And 16 Days, the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU) murdered and terrorized migrants - completely unchecked by the State or any related institutions. Director Sobo Swobodnik examines this unprecedented series of murders and tries to approach the perspective of the victim's relatives. This film was awarded the Documentary Film Music Prize at the DOK.fest Munich.