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.

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

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.

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.

2002年，客居上海的美国人Dana Showtyme创办了“Iron Mic”（钢铁麦克）说唱比赛，参赛选手们在规定时间内自由式即兴说唱，两人对决一人胜出，以现场观众的喝彩声作为评判标准。这是历史最悠久的中文说唱比赛，一代又一代的说唱歌手选择从这里开始，展示技艺并表达对Hip-hop文化的理解，Iron Mic冠军曾经代表着至高无上的荣誉。作为中国最具影响力的Hip-hop活动，Iron Mic见证了“说唱音乐”这种文化形式在中国的萌芽和发展，它的故事便是一部浓缩版中国说唱音乐进化史。《钢铁麦克》——一部关于中文自由式说唱的纪录电影，集合众多Iron Mic冠军选手的采访，并收录了创始人Showtyme十几年来积累的视频素材。什么是Freestyle Battle？用中文怎么说唱？中国说唱的前路在何方？这些都是本片想与观众共同探讨的问题。

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。

魔力麦克是一个经验丰富的男脱衣舞明星，他手里有一个艺名叫做孩子的学生，在和他学脱衣舞。而麦克也乐意于教授年轻一代关于取悦女性、游玩以及挣快钱的“艺术”。他们在达拉斯旗下的一间叫做Xquisite的夜店工作，每天都过着刺激、精彩、纸醉金迷的生活……

魔力麦克是一个经验丰富的男脱衣舞明星，他手里有一个艺名叫做孩子的学生，在和他学脱衣舞。而麦克也乐意于教授年轻一代关于取悦女性、游玩以及挣快钱的“艺术”。他们在达拉斯旗下的一间叫做Xquisite的夜店工作，每天都过着刺激、精彩、纸醉金迷的生活……