The little town of Ulm is governed and oppressed by its bishop. Nobody speaks up against him except the tailor, who is also an artist. He rebels against the bishop’s power and believes the impossible is possible. He believes in his dream—that he can fly!
Two homeless boys, Mick and Sauly, live in a fictional big city that looks much like New York. They want to fulfill their dream of escaping to the ocean.
Peter and Anne live in a struggling Upper Lusation weavers' village and would get married if they weren't so poor. Anne's father tells them that things used to be different when the village had a magic golden weaving shuttle that made everyone's work much easier.
Mánari Ushigua, the last shaman of the Zápara Indians, died in 1997. Ushigua helped save the tribe’s culture and protected it from Catholic missionaries and evangelical sects. This film is about Ushigua’s family, its connection to the spiritual world and a life led in harmony with nature.
Peter Kahane's only documentary film to date, Tamara is the story of a rock icon that galvanized an entire generation of East German youth. It recently screened at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Circumnavigator and South Seas voyager Luden Dassow (Erwin Geschonneck) returns with his white fishing boat Tambari to his home village Koselin. But the other fishermen are hardly welcoming.
A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe.
Disenchanted and angry, Dr. Dallow has been released after 21 months in prison for playing piano in a “subversive” cabaret program. He refuses the Stasi offer to "help" him get his university position back in exchange for becoming an informant.
A melancholic dream about dance and music, as well as unfulfilled desires and wanderlust behind the Berlin Wall.
In this documentary, Young Pioneers visit celebrated cyclist Gustav-Adolf "Täve" Schur. In 1955, he became the first (East) German to win the Peace Race, an international amateur cycling competition.