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1942 in Helsinki. The state of Finland has made an alliance with Nazi Germany. One man alone is trying to stop the Finnish security services which were operating in secrecy, to turn over Jewish refugees into the hands of Gestapo.

Follows Toni's journey from seeking boxing training from Elliott, a gym owner, to becoming a pioneering female boxing manager guiding Payne to a championship fight, while drawing upon lessons learned from Elliott.

Outsiders becoming champions - and champions falling to the ground. UPPERCUT is a two-version-film-experience. In the so-called "still" version, one summer night 2014, TONI enters ELLIOTT's boxing gym in Bushwick, New York City, after having been fired from her job as a personal trainer. Determined, she wants to become a fighter. Elliott first refuses to train her but in the course of the night these two, so different people become more and more curious about each other. They fight, they dance, they argue. They talk without fear, they listen without prejudice. On boyfriends and mothers, on respect and beliefs. But their last bout changes Toni's fate forever. How? See UPPERCUT "sparkling". The story's other chapter: Eight years later Toni surprisingly does not carry Elliott's knowledge in herself as a professional boxer but passes it on to her young proteges as one of the first successful female boxing managers. Her greatest hope is PAYNE, whom she mentors at his very first championship fight night. UPPERCUT - the "still" version world premiered at the International Film Festival in Oldenburg 2023, UPPERCUT - the "sparkling" version will have its World Premiere in early spring 2024.

A man must overcome his demons in order to save his brother who has been falsely convicted of a crime in a foreign land and sentenced to death.

Royd Tolkien's brother, Mike, was diagnosed with ALS. Royd nursed him through his final years of life to find that Mike had left him his bucket list to fulfill on his behalf - but he won't know what he's facing until the tasks are revealed.

Jojo, a young art student, discovers the microcosm of an art academy with all of its opportunities and contradictions.

Nicholas Quevedo, a Cuban-American rumba singer moves from Havana to New York with nothing else but his love for rumba and his unbreakable dream to make it in the Big Apple, but his journey would be confronted by unimaginable challenges.

A look at the life of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace who rose to fame in the late 1970s.

Mario Tozzi, geologist and lead researcher at the CNR, returns a year later to the flooded areas of Romagna to address the many questions that still await answers: what really happened from a weather point of view? Why was the damage so extensive? Did too much water simply fall in a short time or was there human error?

Dusk. Day fades slowly towards night, offering some resistance. Steph enters Rick's boxing studio in Berlin-Wedding. She is insecure, wild, frustrated - and determined. She craves recognition. From Rick. The owner of the gym, a former heavyweight boxer from Boston. He once had everything a champ could need. Now, he is broken. Badly injured early in his career, worn out, disillusioned, sick. She has a lot of potential, but is not there yet. He can't do much more, and is painfully aware of it. She offers energy, determination and skill. In the course of this night, two soulmates find each other. Without knowing it. They talk, train, struggle, fight, cry, laugh. The result is wisdom, conflicts and injuries. She is pushed to her limit, and he is pushed beyond his. UPPERCUT is a chamber play. One night, two people. Who meet, look at each other, confront each other. Who get to know each other and through this, challenge each other, go beyond their limits. Who like each other, sometimes more, sometimes less. UPPERCUT is action, dance, boxing and sweat. UPPERCUT is life, tragedy, chance and failure. UPPERCUT is female, male, human.

My Way retraces the perilous journey undertaken by an Afghan refugee who was forced to flee his homeland in search of security and a better life in Germany.

AND NOW, LOVE is the story of 96 year-year-old Dr. Bernard W. Bail, a highly decorated Jewish World War II hero who was shot down over Nazi Germany. Imprisoned in a German Hospital, he began a clandestine affair with his nurse, Irmgard, who introduced him to a spiritual love unlike he had ever experienced which became the guiding light for his life and career. Determined to understand why this pure love is so often unattainable, he became a doctor and psychoanalyst who revolutionized the psychoanalytic process with a new theory called "the mother's imprint," an idea that strikes at the root of all mental illness. Bail posits that we all live impressed by this imprint, the unresolved negative feelings a mother has about herself that are unconsciously passed down in utero from generation to generation. This imprint is the result of centuries of female oppression and abuse that cuts us off from pure love and knowing our true potential. Though the psychoanalytic establishment tried to censure him for going beyond traditional Freudian methods, Bail moved forward with boundless courage and dedication as he formulated a new psychoanalytic paradigm to help his patients. As his work evolved, his conviction in the undeniable link between social progress and the centuries of oppression and abuse women have suffered made him the ultimate feminist and a firm believer in the idea that if the world is ever to know peace, women must lead the way. In her newest documentary, filmmaker Jill Demby Guest chronicles Bail's personal journey as he fights his way out of a Philadelphia immigrant ghetto, across the skies of war-torn Europe and through psychoanalytic institutes resistant to new ideas. Interviews with Dr. Bail, experts in psychology and neuroscience, as well as testimonials from patients, paint an indelible portrait of his courage, fortitude, compassion and single-minded purpose. Renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Gilbert Kliman praises Bail as an "avant garde thinker who did not fear to tread where Darwin had given up." From his well-deserved place at the forefront of psychoanalytic thought, Bernard Bail has introduced the world to the experience of pure love, or as he says, "not the illusion of love, but real love."

Young German dancer Aurora arrives at art conservatory villa for fellowship. She finds portrait of 1940s dancer, revealing shocking family event that alters her life permanently.

Three friends are setting up a theater play, while their personal dramas seem to unfold into one single night, waiting that, sooner or later, their Bardot - or their Godot - might finally show up.

"You can't play Rock 'n' Roll when you're 56". That was Chris Norman's philosophy some 40 years ago. The original frontman and founder of 70's British Pop-Rock group Smokie is about to celebrate his 70th birthday, with no plans to stop rocking.

A film documentary about 5 mountain climbers.

Five paragliding pilots carefully plan an expedition to fly among the remote, soaring peaks of the Himalayas but for one of the group the adventure soon turns into a nightmarish struggle between life and death.