
Homeopathy Unrefuted?
By Erik Lemke
2021 | 86 min | Documentary
Is homeopathy a hoax or medicine? Here, homeopaths are allowed to share their very different views.


By Erik Lemke
2021 | 86 min | Documentary
Is homeopathy a hoax or medicine? Here, homeopaths are allowed to share their very different views.

2018 | 87 min | Documentary
The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years. Things are expected to improve and everyone helps .With his "invisible make-up", 49-year-old Michael wants to build on earlier successes as an escort boy. Claudia's time as a dancer is over, but new photos are to pave her way back onto the stage. Norman wants to help other people find happiness with his start-up "ChangeU", and himself to a chic ...

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, ...

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 ...

2024 | 91 min | Documentary
Behind the imposing walls of the Natural History Museum in Vienna lies a world that few get to see. While visitors stroll through the magnificent exhibition halls, scientists work in the background to preserve millions of exhibits. Taxidermists attach delicate butterflies to chipboard, beetles are carefully archived, and a stuffed giraffe is maneuvered through narrow corridors. Every artifact tells a story, every detail contributes to the preservation of our knowledge. With calm powers of observation, ...

2010 | 83 min | Documentary
Are we living in a kind of cultural schizophrenia, where people publicly profess the theory of evolution but privately prefer to believe in angels, shamans, gods and spirits? Can the images and values of spiritual traditions be communicated with the astonishing results of modern research or do they remain pure matters of faith? Scientific research continues to yield new insights into our environment, such as the detection of Higgs bosons or gravitational waves. At the same time, interest in esotericism, ...

2023 | 37 min | Documentary
In German classrooms, it is not hard work alone that determines educational success, often it is the home environment. A documentary look at a society in which equal opportunities remain a promise. INVISIBLE HERITAGE – ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN GERMANY follows children and young people from their family backgrounds to their entry into the world of work. In hardly any other industrialized country is the link between social background and educational success as pronounced as in Germany. Despite a ...

2019 | 55 min | Documentary
The female wax portraits had long puzzled researchers: Nobly dressed, she holds a scalped brain in her lap. The portrait stands amid a anatomical models that were considered innovative for 18th century medicine. A lost document now reveals her extraordinary story: her relationship to the pope and the 80 casts of male sexual organs that turn conventional ideas upside down.

2017 | 83 min | Documentary
For years, Iris P., alias "Iris Schneider", investigated the left-wing scene and the "Rote Flora" in Hamburg until her exposure in the media in 2014. A few months later, two other undercover detectives in Hamburg were uncovered: Maria B. (cover name "Maria Block") and Astrid O. (alias Astrid Schütt). What are the consequences of surveillance for the individual and for society as a whole? How free are people who are under surveillance?

2009 | 29 min | Icons & Media Art
While doing research for his film THE NET, Lutz Dammbeck came across the groundbreaking exhibition “Software – Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art”, which took place at the Jewish Museum in New York in 1970. Curated by Jack Burnham, this exhibition presented the symbiosis of conceptual and media art with what were then new technologies developed for the American military. One of the central exhibits was the installation Seek by the Architecture Machine Group of the Massachusetts Institute ...

2022 | 86 min | Documentary
In this documentary, six protagonists share their personal experiences of abortion and sterilization, from unplanned pregnancy to becoming a happy mother, and vice versa, from wanting a child to regretting motherhood. With openness and humor, taboo topics are discussed, provocative questions are answered, and political laws are challenged. From discussing the challenges of balancing care work and career, the ecological footprint and sustainability with children, selfishness and adoption, to feelings ...