A knife in the pocket, adrenaline in the blood and only one dream in mind: to be a gangster - and the biggest one at that. Yehya was 15 years old and close to realizing his dream when he met the filmmaker Christian Stahl in the stairwell. Yehya wasn't just the nice boy from next door, he was also "the Boss of Sonnenallee" - one of the gangster runners of the Berlin borough of Neukölln. And gangster runners want to make it in the gangster world. In the eyes of the authorities, he is an "intensive offender"; in his own eyes, Yehya is "one of the top ten of Neukölln. I got my own prosecutor!"

An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigran...

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daugh...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scrip...

Filmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Ab...

The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small ...

Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a brea...
The documentary portrays the art historian Wilhelm von Bode as a realistic visionary.

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rig...

The story of the legendary Berlin club and its founder, a woman whose life is inextricably interwove...

The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic ...

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...
The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

Documentary examines the history and evolution of the Olympic Games, taking a close look at the Olym...