Robert Graf

Selma Urfer

August Everding

Ruth Vesper

Joachim Kaiser

Ruth Leuwerik

Franz Peter Wirth

Hanni Lentz

Hans Abich

Oliver Grimm

Denk ich an Deutschland …

Dominik Graf, now a leading filmmaker, revisits his late father Robert Graf’s acting career (1956–1966), during which Robert appeared in 20 features and 25 TV dramas by directors like Hoffmann, Staudte, Siodmak, Sturges, and Comencini. Through archival clips and personal reflections, Dominik “meets” his father and confronts the West German society and film industry of that era, where scripted narratives often outweighed real life.

Michael Althen

Dominik Graf

A Whispering in the Mountain of Things

A portrait of the young generation in Germany during the 1990s, denying a stereotyping from the outside.

Katja von Garnier

Kix?

Uli Kerschbaumer

In 1996, cinematographer Helge Weindler died in Almeria, Spain, while shooting his wife Doris Dörrie's new film. A year later, she set out to retrace her grief and pain in a very private film.

Doris Dörrie

Werner Penzel

Augenblick

Children from poor families recount experiences from their daily lives.

Sherry Hormann

Angst spür' ich, wo kein Herz ist

A documentary-style essay of the state of the nation in the late 1990s in Berlin.

Andreas Kleinert

Niemandsland

Fatih Akin

Mustafa Enver Akin

Cem Akin

Adam Bousdoukos

Fatih Akin sets out in search of his family roots and paints a portrait of his Turkish family. In 1965, his father came to Germany from Turkey to try his luck as a guest worker. He actually only wanted to stay for two years, but then he brought his wife to Hamburg and still works today in the chemical cleaning factory where he found a job back then.

We Have Forgotten to Return Home

Peter Lilienthal

Ulla Ziemann

Leonhard Kaminski

István Imreh

60 years after the holocaust, director Peter Lilienthal, himself a victim and refugee of the Nazi regime, sheds a light on jewish life in Germany in the early 2000s.

Ein Fremder

Paul Lys

Klaus Lemke

Annika Herr

Klaus Lemke steps out of the door of his Munich apartment and stands on Leopoldstrasse, where he has “lived” for many years. His documentary film is an avowedly gaudy declaration of love for Schwabinger Strasse, the people who live there and their realistic language.

Die Leopoldstraße Kills Me

Loose acquaintances meet up again 25 years later and tell stories about their time together.

Leander Haußmann

Die Durchmacher

Boris Naujoks

Cassis Birgit Staudt

Uli Burtin

Peter Patzak

Director Peter Patzak visits and interviews friends who decided to move from Germany to Rio de Janeiro and New York City.

Adeus und Goodbye

Michael Gutmann

Kriemhild Gutmann

Clara Gutmann

Paulina

Director Michael Gutmann comes to term with his own family's past by accompanying his mother to the Polish village of Klodzko where she grew up.

Familienreise