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Khaled, Mahmoud and Subhi volunteer with the White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims in the besieged city of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.

How will we live together with artificial intelligence? What will we win, what will we lose? The documentary shows us tomorrow's world today.

Science fiction turns into disturbing fact as forecasting softwares, algorithms and databases quickly become the new fortune-tellers for future crimes, driving us to ask: how much are we willing to abandon for the sake of security?

Into the mind of Matthew Herbert, the revolutionary British musician and composer known for his political pieces and combining music derived from real life sounds with politically sensitive issues.

Aishe, Khawla and Rehab are on a mission - they repair leakages, clean water tanks and show housewives how to handle water properly. Aishe, after losing her husband, was trained by her best friend and self-assigned first female plumber of Jordan Khawla Al-Sheikh, in order to be able to solely provide for her three children. They have been working together in Khawla's plumbers NGO since and they have become close friends. As Aishe's 40th birthday is approaching, she shares her dreams of self-realization with Khawla who encourages her to set a goal and go for it. Khawla herself seemingly accomplished everything - until she has to stand trial due to corruption allegations. The reputation of the plumbers organization is suffering as well as Aishe's and Khawla's friendship. Aishe is still determined to earn her living with plumbing. She drums up her own business by taking on jobs in her village, distancing herself from the organization and slowly becoming independent. When Khawla needs Aishe to testify for her in court, Aishe is not sure what to do - be loyal to her best friend or focus on her own business?

What began as a childhood dream is now an epic 18-month adventure that spans the globe. More than a few have embarked on an 'around the world' adventure; some have even completed it, but no one has ever done so powered exclusively by the sun. Meet Louis Palmer and his home-made "Solartaxi". Full of surprises and apparently insurmountable obstacles, his journey begins in the summer of 2007. Solar energy is functional, efficient, and most importantly, reliable. A car with zero emission is not a dream. This film is proof. Along the way, Louis and his Solartaxi meet princes, movie stars, politicians and scientists, but most importantly, encounter ordinary people, showing them, mobility with the mere power of the sun is possible.

Walking Under Water will take us under the waves to walk with the last compressor divers from the Badjao tribe in Mabul Island.

In an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.

A young German author, impressed by photographs of a Czech photographer, goes with his friend's recommendation to visit him. She was welcomed with a combination of the worst rude words. So it all began. This is a film about an old man with no needs and a remarkable past, facing the hype as an artist against his will. There isn't any important city in the world where his unusual work hasn't been exhibited. In this very moment some of the leading metropolis' galleries are exhibiting, for amazed visitors, the photographs taken with the strangest camera ever made. But, while in the art circles worldwide his photos cost up to 12 000 Euros, Miroslav Tichý lives alone in an old, waste house, isolated from the world, surrounded with only a few friends. "They should have come earlier, now it's too late." - he said refusing to talk about the fame. The German director Natasa von Kopp discovers for us the new "Tichý Ocean" in the middle of Europe in the beginning of 21st century. And this film's discovery is as amazing and thrilling as the great discoveries of new seas and continents.

Filmed over 10 years, Love Alone Can't Make a Child is an intimate portrait of two women, their love, and their determined efforts to fulfil their shared desire to have a child despite immense challenges.

One man's dream of bringing a European cow in his picturesque village in Azerbaijan unsettles the conservative community that wants to keep their secular traditions intact.

In Havana, transsexuals Odette, Juani and Malú wait for genital surgery - performed by European top surgeons and organized by the president's daughter, Mariela Castro. Castro is leading a sexual revolution combined with classic state socialism. New possibilities face old problems: will Cuban trans people find happiness despite intolerance, poverty and prostitution?

Baby, it's eurodance movie.

Three expats learning to drive realize that the great challenge is not the strange traffic rules (in their new countries(, but rather their ingrained behavioral patterns. They all need a driving license somewhat urgently. While taking lessons and trying to pass their tests, they realize how their cultures are entirely in their way. Their confusion over driving on the right or left side of the road, waving hand-signals or clicking are just the beginning of their 'comedy of errors'.

The documentary follows four specific athletes on their preparation, trip and the event of the Olympics in Berlin.

Beijing Bubbles is a portrait of the punk and rock scene in Beijing, which as a subculture is barely recognized there. Center stage of the film takes not only the music, but first of all the attitude to life of the young musicians who deny consumerism and pressure to perform well. The Berlin filmmakers Susanne Messmer and George Lindt go on a ramble through the musical underground of Beijing and thereby meet people, who give them naturally and spontaneously an up-front insight in their daily live. Kind of a video diary it gives insight in a counter culture hardly anyone would assume in an authoritarian state like the People's Republic of China.

New York and West Berlin were economically run-down in the early 80ies. Against this backdrop, in both cities emerges an underground culture that radically breaks with the pop cultural tedium which the 70s hat left behind.

Vetri joined the Tamil Tigers at age 16 to fight in the more than 25-year-long civil war in Sri Lanka. Although the war ended in 2009, the scars have not yet healed.

A bomb victim, a small-town mayor and an intrepid bomb squad race against time to liberate their city from over 300 undetonated World War II bombs before they go off.

The International Leipzig Festival and the Prague Institute of Documentary Film, with the Federal Kiltur Foundation, called on filmmakers to submit their ideas that deal with the theme of time and its acceleration. 5 projects were chosen.

'Friss oder stirb' - die TV Show der Toten Hosen! is a docu series giving insight in the daily life of the most successful German-speaking rock band ever. Die Toten Hosen are portrayed during the development of their new album, the preparations of their tour and the tour itself. Very private moments were documented by the musicians themselves with an additional camera. The series shows how everyday life is for Die Toten Hosen in the circus of show and music business.