In the strip club where Katya works as a dancer, she is always surrounded by music. Parties with girlfriends, clubs, bars, portable speakers while walking, there is practically no sound in her world, except for dance music. She gets out to the dacha, where she begins to remember about completely different music, and then about silence.

The story of photographer/director James Bidgood whose 1960’s beefcake photographs were unlike any others. Depicting elaborate fantasy scenarios drenched in lush color they transcended the genre. His film "Pink Narcissus" was initially credited to ‘Anonymous’ on its 1971 release date shrouding it in mystery. Falsely attributed to Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol, among others, it wasn’t until almost twenty years later that it was revealed to be Jim’s work. "Velvet Vision" follows the process of Jim trying to shoot again after a forty-year hiatus while also delving into his past as window dresser, drag artist and costume designer. Jim’s struggles are a universal story; an outsider pursuing artistic endeavors to cope with their ostracization from society. His fantasy life became a mechanism to keep him tethered to reality as he traversed the fine line between genius and insanity.

The German Democratic Republic has not been on the political map of the world for more than 20 years. However, her sports legends are still alive. The former athlete herself, the champion of the GDR in diving, and now the director Sandra Kaudelka chose 4 protagonists for her film. This is one of the most successful shot putters in the history of the sport, Olympic champion Udo Bayer; two-time world champion in diving Brita Baldus; one of the best sprinters in the country, Ines Gaipel; record holder in the 400 meters, winner of the Moscow Olympics Marita Kokh. From the memories of the protagonists about their sports youth and stories about the present, an idea of ​​​​the country that they once personified is formed.

How to become a different person in 30 days? 30-year-old Albina, who is looking for a good well-paid job, is trying to find a way. Albina makes a difficult path to renewal not only through online home learning, but also through the Challenge diary, which challenges the girl every day.

This documentary offers an intimate insight into the actionist process of Johannes Rass's animal sculptures. It begins with the slaughter and butchering of a bull at the farm of a Lower Austrian farmer and butcher. In Hermann Nitsch's former studio space in Prinzendorf a. d. Zaya, Rass prepares the individual pieces of the bull, which are then reassembled into their original animal shape. The resulting bull sculpture is captured photographically and consumed by the guests in a final act - as part of the Nitsch Foundation's “Whitsun Festival 2024”. One month after the action in Prinzendorf, the exhibition WUNDERKAMMER opens at the Künstlerhaus Wien, where, among other works, Rass presents photographs of the bull sculpture in real size. Urbaniak expands the documentation of Aktion Bos Taurus with interviews from the artist, Rita Nitsch, Günther Oberhollenzer, and the butcher Oliver Geißbüchler. Through the action — the artistic process, which reveals proximity to Nitsch's practice — Rass's work, with its independent conceptual approach, raises questions about our ambivalent and alienated relationship to animal carnality.

The film is the owner of almost all the main prizes in the field of documentary films. A chamber story about the life of one family living in the village. Before us is the daily routine of two people, a sister and a brother, living under the same roof in a rural house, but professing completely opposite life values.

Konstantin Stupin or simply Stupa is a rock-n-roller from Orel. He is 44 years old, we take him out of the madhouse and start shooting the film.

A film-reasoning about the connection of generations. There are many questions, and almost no ready-made answers. Tatyana Andreevna Frolova is a guideline for finding these answers. Grandmother speaks about her difficult fate with a smile, without bitterness. Her attitude to life, grateful acceptance of everything that she had to endure, becomes the basis of a dialogue, after which, you may want to understand yourself and critically look at your life attitudes.

This project explores the Russian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. For decades, the newsroom has continued its work despite changing political regimes, persecution, and censorship. “Radio Liberty” has been repeatedly targeted and shut down. In this documentary series, journalists from the Russian Service of RFE/RL reflect on how their profession and major historical events have shaped their lives, reveal what the newsroom looks like from the inside, and recall a time when journalism in Russia was not considered a crime.

Documentary chronicle about the 30s of the twentieth century. The chronicles depict many demonstrations, processions, and speeches, but in the details one can guess the life of not gods and giants, but the most ordinary people who make history.

Moscow. Relationships in 2018.

The fragments of this history were hardly destined to unite, any connection with the past was systematically destroyed in post-revolutionary Russia. The priestly family of the Faustritskys turned out to be among the many that seemed to be lost forever. The memorial with names burned down, family photo archives were destroyed out of fear. However, by an “accidental” coincidence, the book of the life of the priestly family suddenly opened itself to posterity, and it turned out to be possible to read, without a doubt, the brightest page in his story about his readiness to die for the faith.

The protagonists of the picture are members of the esoteric club in Rostov-on-Don, who think that one can understand God by practicing Magic. This is the subjective view of a person who found himself in a new environment, passed all the tests, training courses and was allowed to participate in the rituals.

The epic of repairing a door in the Russian outback.

The Velikoretsky Cross Procession is considered the most numerous and most difficult pilgrimage route in Russia. Many participants in the procession believe that if you walk this path with pure thoughts and a specific request to God, then it will be fulfilled. The main character of the film, Leonid, also has a request, a secret dream. And there is a feeling that this procession is the last for him.

Leading political technologists Wolf and Hare are busy discussing the news of current politics! They smash the political elite to smithereens from Putin to Trump, from Erdogan to Merkel. All scandals, high-profile events, intrigues are revealed. Politics is available without embellishment in the satirical show DW "Reserve".

What do escalators in Medellín, Arabic lettering in Amman, story-telling furniture from London, urban farming in Detroit and a co-living complex in Tokyo have to do with the Bauhaus? The architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919. He brought together some of the most illustrious artists in Europe to create a school that would fuse the fine arts and the crafts. Together, they set out to fundamentally rethink the world and society. Although the Bauhaus school – which later relocated to Dessau and then to Berlin – only existed for a few years, it revolutionized ideas about the organization of modern life. In 2019, the Bauhaus will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. To mark the occasion, planetfilm has produced a documentary for Deutsche Welle. The film focusses on the influence that the philosophy of the Bauhaus movement still exerts on the globalized society of the 21st century. It also explores historical parallels between 1919 and the present day: Society is facing major upheavals and challenges, just as it did back then. Filmmakers meet architects, urban planners, designers and artists from around the globe who, in the spirit of the Bauhaus, want to rethink and change the world.

A film about the preparation of North Korean residents of the DPRK for the Arirang holiday, about how thousands of people are rehearsing the most massive performance in the country at a stadium in Pyongyang.

Movie about successful escape from extermination camp Sobibor.

The 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the world. Even those who are not passionate about classical music recognize the famous Ode to Joy. Despite the grim context in which it was created, the 9th Symphony leaves us fascinated, moved and uplifted by its creativity, its power and its culmination in the Ode to Joy. More than 160 years after it was written, Beethoven’s hymn to brotherhood was adopted by the European Union as its official anthem. But Beethoven’s Ninth is also met with enthusiasm far beyond the borders of Europe. What’s the explanation for its never-ending success? What is it about this work of art that fascinates people all over the world?