Weekly overview
24 Oct – 30 Oct
IMDb 7.2 Six Weeks On
While the world is in lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lore has to cope with a painful loss: her mother has died. Back in the small town of Erkelenz in North Rhine-Westphalia, she struggles against entrenched family structures and a paralyzing bureaucracy. Above all, she has to find a way to come to terms with the death and say goodbye to her mother.
- Drama
KINDERKINO ZUM MITMACHEN
Kurzfilmprogramm
Echo of Tomorrow's War
Kennzeichen D
The EU has fallen apart, and in Germany, far-right populists are forming a new government. War is imminent. Jonas has deserted; he and his sister go into hiding at the home of their father, Stuber, whom Jonas has not seen since childhood. But there, the situation escalates. A catastrophe occurs even before the war has begun.
- Drama
TMDB 62RT 50IMDb 6.4 Fatherland
Historisches – neu belichtet
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
- Drama
- Thriller
- Action
- TV Movie
IMDb 7.4 Das Mädchen von Fanö
In memoriam Joachim Gottschalk
The two Danish fishermen Frerk and Ipke battle a severe storm off the coast of Fanø harbor. They finally manage to reach land, where they want to recover from the rigors of the journey before heading home to distant Hooge.
- Drama
TMDB 62RT 50IMDb 6.4 Fatherland
Historisches – neu belichtet
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
- Drama
- Thriller
- Action
- TV Movie
10s Across the Borders
Festival-Nachlese
If the world doesn’t accept you and your kind, trailblaze a world that does. Inspired by the Black and Latinx underground Ballroom culture of New York, Sun, Teddy, and Xyza create Ballroom communities in Southeast Asia as safe havens from homophobia, transphobia, color discrimination and HIV stigma.
- Documentary
Alte Liebe
The everyday life of a married couple at a turning point: Lore wants a divorce—after almost 40 years of marriage.
- Drama
Blick hinter die Kulissen der Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
Welttag des audiovisuellen Erbes
IMDb 7.4 Das Mädchen von Fanö
In memoriam Joachim Gottschalk
The two Danish fishermen Frerk and Ipke battle a severe storm off the coast of Fanø harbor. They finally manage to reach land, where they want to recover from the rigors of the journey before heading home to distant Hooge.
- Drama
IMDb 6.8 Paracelsus
Das Murnau-Gästebuch
The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to the world as Paracelsus.
- Drama
- History
IMDb 8.8 Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow
A powerful return to roots, this concert captures Black Sabbath in peak form - reuniting to deliver classic hits with raw energy and legendary precision.
- Music
- Documentary
Barbara Buser – Swiss Pioneer of Sustainability
In Kooperation mit...
The award-winning Swiss architect Barbara Buser saves buildings from demolition and rebuilds them with reused materials. She transforms former industrial sites into urban living spaces that symbolize a careful approach to our environment and to each other. As a woman who is successfully forging her own path in a male-dominated field, Barbara Buser is a role model for the younger generation, who are fighting for a more sustainable, fairer world.
- Documentary
TMDB 79RT 94 Jim Queen
Schlachthof-Special
When Heterosis - a mysterious virus that turns gay men straight sweeps through the Parisian gay scene, Jim, the six packed sovereign of the Gym Queens, goes from Pride royalty to social outcast. With only Lucien, a freshly-out twink with more heart than abs, still by his side, Jim must race to find a cure before the disease erases the community that once worshipped him.
- Animation
- Comedy
Where do I go from here?
Gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen
Majd and Shahfaisal live together in a residential group for unaccompanied refugee minors in Germany. Here, in the protected environment of the group, for the first time after fleeing, they should be able to live a life true to who they really are: teenagers who are just developing a personality, have dreams and are looking for their place in society. But how is this supposed to work if they are not even part of this society due to their refugee status?
- Documentary
Barbara Buser – Swiss Pioneer of Sustainability
In Kooperation mit...
The award-winning Swiss architect Barbara Buser saves buildings from demolition and rebuilds them with reused materials. She transforms former industrial sites into urban living spaces that symbolize a careful approach to our environment and to each other. As a woman who is successfully forging her own path in a male-dominated field, Barbara Buser is a role model for the younger generation, who are fighting for a more sustainable, fairer world.
- Documentary
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