
The Chaos Within
2014 | 87 min | Documentary
A mother who survived the Holocaust dedicates her life to the Kabala. Meanwhile, her son recovers the fragments of his heroine-saturated past.


2014 | 87 min | Documentary
A mother who survived the Holocaust dedicates her life to the Kabala. Meanwhile, her son recovers the fragments of his heroine-saturated past.

2022 | 53 min | Documentary
The British Isles hold an almost inexhaustible wealth of "sacred places of worship." Dolmens, stone circles, sacred springs, hermitages, caves, ancient cemeteries and church ruins bear witness to thousands of years of European spirituality, ranging from the Megalithic period and the Celts to the legends of King Arthur and the "Holy Grail" as well as evidence of early medieval Celtic Christianity. In a personal journey, filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner goes to selected locations in Cornwall, Wales and England ...

2025 | 111 min | Documentary
Places with a deep spiritual past can be found all over Germany – from Neolithic cult sites to Celtic and Germanic shrines to the sources of inspiration for great thinkers and artists. These landscapes tell stories of mystics, romantics and wisdom teachers who have left their mark here. Whether in the Harz Mountains, in the Odenwald, on the banks of the Rhine or on the island of Rügen – these places invite you to connect with the spiritual history of the country. Director Rüdiger Sünner explores ...

2012 | 85 min | Documentary
A candid look into the lives of four drug addicts in Berlin’s urban jungle, shedding light on the lesser-known aspects of addiction. ADDICTION follows four people—three men and one womangoing about their daily lives, without sugarcoating and without passing judgment. “We are there when the body demands a fix; we see how the drugs are bought; we observe the preparation, consumption, high, and withdrawal. Four people, four severely addicted individuals, show us their world and let us directly share ...

2014 | 75 min | Documentary
Ivette Löcker accompanies two addicted St. Petersburgers in her documentary chamber play. They are the lost "generation Perestroika", which broke under the newly gained freedom. Ljoscha and his mother live with Schanna in a small apartment in St. Petersburg - but Ivette Löckler is not concerned with an inventory of the things that make up a wasted existence, but with the human achievement of gentleness in dealing with each another. Schannas and Ljoscha's attitude to life is not only bitter. In the ...

2018 | 24 min | Documentary
Ireland is one of the few countries in which Christianization has not caused the complete disappearance of the old pagan religions, but has transformed them into new forms of cult sanctuaries. This film about the Emerald Isle journeys across worlds and eras, offering moving encounters with nature, and spiritual adventures beyond the tourist crowds. In quiet, meditative shots of Glendalough, Monasterboice, Newgrange, Malin Head and other mythical places, Rüdiger Sünner explains - for example with ...

2023 | 56 min | Documentary
Scotland is a region full of secrets and beguiling beauty. Since filmmaker Rüdiger Sünner first traveled to Scotland in 1987, this country has cast a deep spell over him. Here he also encountered millennia-old traces of European spirituality that he had not known before: the sun temples of the megalithic period, "holy places" of a pagan nature religion, the belief in fairies, a nature-loving Celtic Christianity and landscapes in which one could experience "fulfilled solitude". Scotland became a kind ...

2013 | 70 min | Biography
The Protestant theologian Dorothee Sölle (1929-2003) was known for her dedication to politics and feminism, and throughout her life she also studied the texts of the great mystics. In her view, contemporary spirituality meant personally experiencing God independently of blindly accepted traditions. She was inspired by the powerful visual language of the mystics, such as Mechthild of Magdeburg or Thomas Müntzer, who - like her - were rebellious spirits. Mysticism and resistance, according to Soelle's ...

2018 | 82 min | Biography
Throughout his life, Rilke looked to the spiritual and mythological traditions of the world for inspiration in his own search for God. Discouraged by his mother's dogmatic Catholicism, Rilke turned to esotericism and anthroposophy at an early age. In turn-of-the-century Munich, he lived in close proximity to people seeking to understand life, such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Rudolf Steiner, all of whom were on the search for an alternative to Christian forms of belief. His travels through ...

2006 | 61 min | Documentary
German early Romanticism was not only an era of great poetry, but also developed a spiritual worldview that anticipated much of what today's people seek in esotericism, shamanism, Far Eastern religion: the connection of thinking and intuition, understanding and feeling, science and religion, as well as a view of nature as a living organism that cannot be understood only through rational dissection. In artistic independence, the early Romantics developed highly individual forms of spirituality that ...

2011 | 6 min | Shorts
Robert Bohrer's short comedy looks at the bête noire of many a drunk driver in Germany, MPU - MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT. Two years of preparing for the MPU to get back a driver’s license and two years of being sober... well, not really... and today is the final test and the most important conversation with the psychologist. Hold on: today? TODAY??? On this Monday morning, as Frankie leaves a Berlin club with his girlfriend Lanka, he realizes that he has totally forgotten about his big MPU ...