This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest cities but every beast has its belly and here, in the very underbelly, Chiko lives in a world where violence, staking and keeping a claim, and drug taking are the norm. Where down is not an option, Chiko is determined to rise to the top, whatever and whomever it costs.
A well-off couple adopt a 16-year-old boy from an orphanage in West Berlin, but their attempts to help him assimilate into his new surroundings fail. The repressive tolerance of the well-educated adoptive parents is just too much for the mischievous young boy.
Anna Hepp meets with renowned German director Edgar Reitz in one of Germany’s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. Reitz talks about his life, his view of art and his sometimes philosophical viewpoint.
Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections, traumas, and responses—of three American military veterans whose lives have been shaken by the roles they played in this controversial method of attack.
For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli -- repeatedly voted the world's best -- and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a rare inside look at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adria himself puts it, "the more bewilderment, the better!"
Elizabeth is a young woman who seeks happiness excessively burning out all those around her.
Struggling to cope with his sick brother, a boy makes a macabre bargain with a monstrous stranger.
A story about the six-year-old Ali, who lives in a village in Central Anatolia, and his best friend, a young rooster named Gülibik, with whom he feels deeply connected and shares joys and sorrows with him village.
Grieving the loss of his parents, a teenage humpback whale must embrace his destiny and discover his mystical song to save the oceans from a terrible monster.
The ambitious doctor and scientist, Lucy, develops the mom-ballon, an artificial womb, which disconnects the ability to give birth from the female body, thus freeing women from the natural order. Archaic, dislocating figures drive her to either sacrifice her own child for her scientific research or to finally face her own life as a housewife.
This film accompanies five children of the young ensemble of the Friedrichstadt-Palast during the creation of the new children's play from the castings to the rehearsals to the grand premiere evening in front of 2,000 spectators.
It's calm and peaceful above the clouds. But in the distance is chaos, and night by night it advances...
