Wdr Movies

A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

Rebecca and Bruno meet in a bar, in a not particularly happy moment of their life, and they start dating. They consider themselves just friends and ta...

During World War II, 8 million people from abroad were forced to work in Germany, making up 30% of the workforce. By 1993, when a film on this topic w...

Symphonic Fantasies: Music from Square Enix was an award winning symphonic tribute concert held in Cologne, Germany on the September 12, 2009 featurin...

A gigantic scandal breaks out in the United States. Charles Enak, sent into space, refuses to return to Earth. He does not give any reasons for his de...

A 17 year old tries to find his own identity in October 1958 while Elvis Presley begins his service as a G.I in Germany. He is torn between his parent...

Documentary that blends dramatized reconstructions, personal reminisces and newsreel footage to tell the story of the flight of German refugees throug...

Peyangki is a dreamy and solitary eight-year-old monk living in Laya, a Bhutanese village perched high in the Himalayas. Soon the world will come to h...

Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, w...

A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. We see how knowledge is passed down from generation to generation: within t...

A documentary portrait of famed Ukrainian-American violinist Nathan Milstein (1903–92),covering his life and career through conversations with the ar...

An Israeli director currently living in Berlin returns to Israel to meet some of her friends from primary school. She learns what has been happening i...

The promise of a better life is pivotal in ten-year-old Fee’s decision to travel from her home in Romania to Germany. But she falls victim to child tr...

After the series of murders by the right-wing extremist NSU, the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution is in the crossfire of criticism...

Children act as adults and adults behave like children. A neglected French castle, its surroundings and 18th century music are the stage for a costume...

A rock band moves into a farmhouse in a little village. They are eyed suspiciously by the citizens of the village.