Thirty years after the Cold War ends, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police searches for the truth after learning his brother spied on him for the regime, and discovers the lasting effects of living in a surveillance state.

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the fir...

Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

In this documentary Angela Zumpe searches for traces of her brother, who moved from west to east Ger...

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citize...
Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His ...

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performan...

Portraits six lesbian protagonists from rural and metropolitan parts of the formerly socialist Repub...

Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race...

In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many mee...

2024 is likely to be a decisive year for Sahra Wagenknecht's political future. In the arena of power...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...

By exploring the relationship between the watched and the watching, our film uncovers the trauma and...

The story of the cross destiny of George Orwell (1903-50) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the genius ...

A documentary that explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to the East German Secret Pol...
In the midst of the transition towards reunification and a market economy, two teams meet for the la...