Michael Palin explores the countries that were, for much of his life, hidden behind the Iron Curtain, and now are very much part of the New Europe of post-Soviet times. 1 - War and Peace Countries visited: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania In Medjugoree Michael encounters a visionary who first started having visitations from the Virgin Mary 25 years ago. In Dubrovnik he meets with lute maestro Edin Karamazov who made the recent 'Songs from the Labyrinth' album with Sting. Michael ends this visit with a sheep sacrifice which heralds an afternoon of music and hospitality typically Balkan. 2 - Eastern Delight Countries visited: Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey Michael makes a remarkable visit to Göreme, where the rocks have been carved to form homes and some of the most remarkable churches of the early Christian era. Leaving the Cappodocia region by balloon, he sails east towards the borders of the New Europe, which if Turkey were to join the European Union would include Iran, Iraq and Syria. 3 - Wild East Countries visited: Trans-Dniester, Romania Michael travels from Transdniester, a breakaway state from the Republic of Moldova, to the Vaser Valley in Romania, where he joins 80 lumberjacks as they board a wood-fired steam train. He finally ends up at Bran Castle in Transylvania, the ancestral home of Vlad the Impaler and alleged home of Bram Stoker's Dracula. 4 - Danube to Dnieper Countries visited: Hungary, Ukraine Michael travels by road, rail and river through Hungary and the Ukraine, ending in the Black Sea resort of Yalta. Along the way he visits Budapest's 'House of Terror', a National Park in Hortobagy, an area which Attila the Hun was reputed to have rampaged across, and ends up meeting a Leeds market trader who married the Ukranian prime minister's daughter. 5 - Baltic Summer Countries visited: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia Michael travels from Tallinn in the north, through Latvia, to Lithuania in the south, sailing into the Baltic from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, formerly East Prussia. In Estonia he visits a pyramid house and samples the medicinal properties of leeches. In Latvia he visits one of the most secretive places of the Communist-era, the astronomical telescope. 6 - From Pole to Pole Country visited: Poland Arriving in Gdansk via canal, Michael meets former electrician Lech Walesa who formed 'Solidarity', Poland's first independent trade union, which led to the demise of communism in that country. Heading to Warsaw he visits the Palace of Culture, Stalin's controversial gift to Varsovians. Michael then makes his own personal pilgrimage to Auschwitz. 7 - Journey's End Countries visited: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany High in the Tatra mountains of Slovakia, Michael skins a pig, and learns how to make sausages. He then departs to Brno to visit Tibor Turba's famous mime school, where he is asked to mime a cockerel. Travelling in a DC3, used during the Berlin airlift, he visits the island of Rugen, built by Hitler for his KDF ('Strength through Joy') programme.

Berlin, a summer in the age of neoliberalism: the spectre of the soviet avant-garde is haunting the city. A young Georgian contract-worker is surprised to find the ghost of the Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in his kitchen. At the same time, his friend Kasimir inherits a big fortune, but what shall he do with all this money? Framed by a travel through time leading to Flaubert's 19th Century und the shooting of a revisionist melodrama for German television, the film follows the adventures of these three characters in contemporary Berlin. A suprematist digital comedy about the transmission of emancipatory energies.

This series captures the reactions of ordinary people as news of the meeting (Trump and Kim Jong-un at the summit) filtered through the country.

这是一个近乎无声、如梦幻般的故事，其灵感源自无声电影时代以及埃德加·爱伦·坡和E.T.A.霍夫曼的黑暗作品。两位性格古怪的柏林人分别发现了一个被遗弃的百货公司模特配件。此外，由于一系列离奇的后果，这两个男人开始接纳他们那与自身脱节的“伴侣”。这是一个关于无回应的性行为和模糊性别认同的警示故事，呈现了性进化与误导激情的超现实景象。

曾经顶尖医者因救人重伤昏倒，醒来后惨遭恶意构陷，背负庸医骂名，落得家庭破碎、牢狱缠身。漫长十年刑期结束，他满心期盼与亲人重逢，却得知独子身患重病，孩子心中更是对他满怀怨恨。为挽救孩子性命，他放下所有骄傲，低声下气悉心照料，屡次遭受旁人当众羞辱也默默忍受。可当年陷害他的恶人依旧不肯罢休，妄图利用重病的孩子再次设局加害。绝境之下，他不再刻意隐藏一身医术，凭手中银针妙手回春，顺势揭开尘封十年的冤案真相。世人这才知晓，饱受唾骂的他，是被掠夺十年人生的顶尖国医。

In the first leg of an epic 1300 miles across Nigeria, Michael is in bustling Lagos

Kembs村有4284名居民。迈克、弗雷德和J - C这三个20岁的年轻人在这个位于德国和瑞士边境的阿尔萨斯村庄长大。在这里，没什么可做的……在近乎普遍的冷漠氛围中，这三人面带微笑，埋头向前冲。他们在甲级足球比赛、在车库深处策划的糟糕计划以及骑摩托车兜风的过程中寻欢作乐。但是……

作为一个电影营销标签，“柏林学派”逐渐开始获得世界性关注。佩措尔德、阿斯兰和夏娜莱克也通过电影节蜚声国际。纪录片通过分析这些导演发展与接收过程中的重要作品，试图展现和分析这些不同导演的风格和主题中的共性。2016年，柏林学派的摇篮，德国电视电影学院（dffb）迎来了成立50周年庆典，这也是这部记录片诞生的最重要的原因。 The „Berlin School“ has been a cinematic trademark for years now, gaining attention from all around the globe. Directors such as Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan and Angela Schanelec have been screening their movies at the most prestigious film festivals there are. Both international critiques and lovers of arthouse cinema meet the movies with great enthusiasm. The documentary is going to try to show and analyze the similarities in the different directors’ styles and subjects, including important landmarks in their evolution and reception. In 2016, the birth cradle of the “Berlin School”, the German Film and TV Academy Berlin (DFFB) is going to celebrate it’s 50 years of existence – a most important reason to finally acknowledge this relevant contemporary cinematic style with a documentary.

影片根据Solly Perel的真实经历改编，讲述了和希特勒同一天生日的13岁德国犹太男孩Solly在二战期间通过机敏过人的应变能力和绝无仅有的巧合，保全生命，并最终与集中营中的兄长团聚的令人惊叹的故事。片中年轻的Solly是苏联共青团员，是德军的战斗英雄，是希特勒青年队的队员，甚至还爱上了一个纯雅利安女孩，但犹太人的特殊标志——割礼，却无时无刻提醒着他的身份。从无所谓、迷茫到怨恨，战争让他承担了太多与年龄不相称的压力，但最终他依然认同了自己的民族，并在成年后毫不犹豫地为自己的儿子也实行了割礼。

本片记录北京红衫游泳俱乐部为纪念因渐冻症离世的队员飞龙，俱乐部组织者麦克叔叔与其他队员一起为了完成飞龙生前遗愿。一起训练游泳，参加京津冀游泳比赛的纪实。