The Family Approach

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 fast normale Leben

On The Wave

“On the Wave” plunges audiences into the breathtaking and perilous world of big wave surfing through the life of Sebastian Steudtner, the German outsider who rose to become the sport’s world record holder ... (more)

Das Deutsche Volk

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.

Germaine Acogny - The Essence of Dance

Drawing from traditional West African dances and her own exploration of various European dances, Germaine Acogny developed the technique named for her: the Acogny technique. More than 50 years spent on the international stage and in teaching young dancers in Senegal and around the world have given Acogny, now 80, an iconic status across an entire continent.

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.