Gods of the Plague follows the story of an ex-detainee who is drawn into a world of crime when he becomes involved in a bank robbery. He navigates the dangerous underworld of nightclub owners, police informants, and betrayal as he struggles to secure his future. The film delves into themes of loss, financial problems, and the consequences of one's actions.

In Knife in the Head, a neurosurgeon discovers that his patient has been brutally attacked with a knife. As he fights to save the man's life, he uncovers a web of corruption and police brutality. With memories fragmented and a traumatic past, the neurosurgeon must navigate a complex system to find justice and healing.

In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.

Pioneers in Ingolstadt is a dark comedy set in Ingolstadt, Germany. The story revolves around a group of young soldiers stationed in the town, and their interactions with the locals. It explores themes of love, naivete, and the absurdity of military life. The film combines elements of romance, drama, and comedy to create a unique and thought-provoking story.

Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, centering on three women who search for a career as singers and dancers.

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind him, but refuses to contact his former girlfriend and her family. Under the name of his jail buddy Henry, he moves in with his pen pal - who has never seen him - and is always watched suspiciously by their roommate. Nik began writing in prison and now seeks contact with the literary culture, even though he feels disgusted by the pompous fuss of this society. He is not without talent and works on a novel in which he minutely describes the abduction of an industrialist. Henry gets shot at the prison breakout and visits Nik to get help from him. He likes his novel plot and wants to put it into action.

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.

Feminist short film set in West Berlin.

Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.

Documentary drama about the Swiss journalist Otto Pünter, who maintained an anti-fascist information office in the 1930s and 1940s.

This surrealistic experimental film finds the son of a young nobleman staying with hash-smoking hippies in a seamy section of Munich. He falls for a hippie girl who is involved in shaking down the young man's parents for money. She falls in love with the young man but the group continues to extract money from the parents in return for their wayward son. When he discovers the shakedown, his rage leads to tragedy for the star-crossed lovers.

Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.

Directional debut by Germany's most famous queer filmmaker.

Early Rosa von Praunheim short film. Originally intended to be the ending of "Die Bettwurst".

Short film about queer left-wing people in West Berlin.

In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and late capitalist myths of happiness". The protagonists: an American hustler, a drama student, a Munich waitress and her boyfriend who hope for money, a career and luck from a trip to Rome together.