Die Chemiearbeiterstadt

Dance Dance Documentary

In 1999, Konami Corp. introduced a Japanese-influenced coin-operated arcade stand-up to the U.S. Its draw was unheard of for a video game: the combina

2004

That's How DEFA Sounded: Film Music from Babelsberg

When people think of DEFA, the film heritage of the GDR, they probably don't just think of film images, but also some of the timeless melodies that we

2018

Return Home

After the near death of her grandfather, Chinese Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong embarks on a personal journey back home to her small town of St. Pau

1992

Stasi: A State Against Its People

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six milli

2021

Karl Marx und seine Erben

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's theories. In Western Europe, the student movement o

2018

Brothers

A film about the close relationship between two brothers. Markus (10) and Lukas (7) live in an old, yellow townhouse in the middle of Oslo. The river

2015

OstPunk! Too much Future

Tells the story of punk in the GDR.

2006

La Brigada – A Mural for the Unidad Popular in Dresden

During the 16th Workers' Festival in Dresden in 1976, a student group of Chilean emigrants paints a mural symbolically depicting the activity of the U

1976

TRANSIT

In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Germany in 1968 to live in the DDR but killed himself

2010

Grenze

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citizens on the verge of adulthood see themselves forced

2004

Boobytrap!

In the new world of high-speed highway driving, there are a host of new dangers to take into account.

1972

Die Mamais

This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfeld chemical plant set themselves the task of becomi

1974

Die Randgemeinschaft

The Alaska Wilderness Adventure

A family decides to move to the most remote place they can find and live for as long as they can. This is the true story of a family living off the la

1978

Salt Lake City: A Downtown Story

In the very core of Salt Lake City, two special downtown blocks serve as a mirror. Just a handful of acres of land hold more than 150 years of the Uta

2012

Mijn Noord

The working-class Tuindorp Nieuwendam neighborhood in Amsterdam-Noord is like a village within the city. Many natives of the Northern Netherlands stil

2025

Wall of Chaos

2021

Dragan Wende - West Berlin

Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His nephew comes to live with him as Dragan remembers

2014

Uferfrauen - Lesbian Life and Love in the GDR

Portraits six lesbian protagonists from rural and metropolitan parts of the formerly socialist Republic and has them tell their captivating and someti

2020

Quand la Seine débordera

2023