In the middle of his life, Paul Gompitz from Rostock makes the decision to travel to Syracuse in Sicily. He is driven to follow in the footsteps of the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume. But: Paul lives in the GDR, behind the most annoying border in the world. His plan is impossible by legal means. So he has to prepare an escape.

Seit 1994 kennen die Regisseure die kleine Insel La Graciosa nördlich von Lanzarote, auf der im einzig bewohnten Ort 600 Menschen leben. Im Film wird der dramatische Wandel von einem einst armen Fischerdorf, in dem jeder jedem half, hin zu einer immer mehr vom Tourismus dominierten Gemeinschaft sinnlich erfahrbar. Protagonisten, die sich für den Natur- und Umweltschutz auf der Insel einsetzen, sind den Angriffen derjenigen ausgesetzt, für die alle Einnahmequellen legitim sind. Die Insel ist als Mikrokosmos ein Beispiel dafür, wie gefährlich ein zunehmender Massentourismus für das Zusammenleben der Gracioseras und Gracioseros ist. Im Mittelpunkt des Films stehen jedoch die Dorfbewohner selbst. Starke Frauen und ihre Bedeutung spielen eine wesentliche Rolle, ebenso Menschen, die sich in La Graciosa verliebt und dort niedergelassen haben. Großartige Kameraaufnahmen sowie Musikkomposition und Sounddesign schließlich machen „La Graciosa - Kanarische Träume“ zu einem mehr als empfehlenswerten Kinogenuss.

An entire generation of Germans was raised on male comedians. But what about their female counterparts? Maren Kroymann, Hella von Sinnen, Bettina Böttinger, Esther Schweins, and Gaby Köster look back at the way women were portrayed on TV in the 1990s and early 2000s, when jokes at women’s expense were the order of the day.

In 1940, in France, Jean Chevalin lives with his family in great poverty after deserting the army. Convinced that some people manage better than others, he decides to pretend to be Jewish in order to receive help from smugglers and reach the free zone. This ruse will lead his family on a journey that will gradually dismantle his prejudices.

Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea has always been a place where people have sought freedom. This film takes us on a journey through an entire century, starting in the golden 1920s, as it assembles the island’s scenery, history, and personal stories into a fascinating portrait. Then as now, the political upheavals that have swept across Germany have left their mark.

Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.

In the early 17th century, a soldier arrives at an isolated Protestant village in Germany claiming to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead. Even though he proves to be a good man, the villagers' suspicions about his identity grow and they force a reckoning.