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Helge Schneider: The Klimperclown
A documentary starring Helge Schneider
Helge Schneider, a musical clown and contemporary jazz musician, turns his life into a multi-faceted film adventure. With occasional original recordings, whether in Super 8 or VHS, as well as acted sketches and realistic photos, the film links the present with the various stages of Helge Schneider's career.
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The Family Approach
A documentary
Between parental love, youth welfare offices and bureaucracy, three educators try their hardest to create a temporary home for children. This is not always easy, as the most diverse personalities and their stories clash here. And yet the residential group becomes a kind of surrogate family for the children. At the back of their minds, however, is always the question: for how long?
Das Deutsche Volk
A documentary
The film tells the story of the victims’ relatives and the survivors of the racist attack in Hanau in 2020, in which nine young people were murdered because the perpetrator did not consider them to be German.
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Girls & Gods
A documentary starring Inna Shevchenko
Can feminism and religion coexist? Inna Shevchenko of the Ukrainian FEMEN collective seeks answers to a difficult question in candid conversations with priests, imams, rabbis and other activists.
Riefenstahl
A documentary starring Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl's film aesthetic is still present decades after its creation and serves as a blueprint for the totalitarian glorification of the healthy and strong. Using new documents from the estate, the film aims to decipher the mechanisms of Riefenstahl's aesthetic with reference to her biography.
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Kreator: Hate and Hope
A documentary starring Miland 'Mille' Petrozza
From a school band from Essen to an internationally celebrated thrash metal legend: To mark Kreator's 40th anniversary in 2024, frontman Mille Petrozza plans to re-record his greatest hits at the famous Hansa Studios in Berlin together with greats from the metal scene such as Metallica, Sepultura, Slayer, Anthrax and many more ... (more)