Dirk van den Berg
Directing
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A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Life Is Beautiful

A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.
Separation City

The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding from the Nazis. With this docu-drama, the first major German film adaptation of the life story of the Frankfurt girl is now available. The film follows Anne's fate from a happy childhood to hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. It focuses on the relationship between father and daughter. Otto Frank was the only one who survived the betrayal of the Secret Annex residents. The most secret thoughts and longings
Meine Tochter Anne Frank

On November 20, 1979 at 5:30 in the morning, hundreds of armed men take over the Grand Mosque of Mecca, transforming the holiest shrine of Islam into a fortress and a trap for almost 100,000 pilgrims inside. This was the beginning of the siege of Mecca…
The Siege of Mecca

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.
1979: Big Bang of the Present

With the offer to work for a major manufacturer of security software, hacker Alissa finds herself in a hermetically sealed high-tech world.
Access Denied

Dino feels inadequate in life and needs to be able to free himself of everything inside him. With the help of psychoanalysis and a priest friend he achieves his goal.
L'amico immaginario
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WunderWelten - Der Dal-See. Die schwimmende Welt von Kaschmir
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Im Schatten der Bombe / Silent War

The film analyzes the greatest - and all man-made - threats to humanity: nuclear weapons, climate change, digital disinformation and the loss of democracy.