Zdf 3sat Movies

How do people live in snowbound areas? What are the mechanisms for simply moving snow around? How have ski resorts mechanised what ought to be a...

In this film, shot in Drachhausen/Hochoza in southern Brandenburg, film students from Potsdam reinterpret Schiller's play ‘Die Jungfrau von...

The second recording of 2025 Arena di Verona, this time with Anna Netrebko.

Portrait of Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.

In a dystopian world where hard work is rewarded with lucid dreams, Kian's quest for eternal bliss is shattered by a rebellious newcomer. Forced onto...

The monks were 5 American GIs in cold war Germany who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles; they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical...

Henrik Ibsen's drama from 1882 in Ostermeier's vision since 2012. Dr. Stockmann discovers that the source of drinking and spa water is riddled with...

After years of silence, a mother returns to her dying father, only to fixate on his new partner, using her as a distraction from confronting the...

Was grandpa a Nazi? When director Jens Schanze confronts his mother with her father's past, decades of silence have passed. The information that...

The ensemble of buildings that makes up the maternity clinic and art school in Hamburg where the director taught is the starting point for this sober...

Does history with all its nightmares have to keep repeating itself? What bolsters the thin layer that shields us from the abyss?

Successfully completed your studies - now what? Raffly already has a lucrative job offer from a large German company, but neither an apartment nor a...

By 2045, twenty localities in Germany will be resettled because of brown coal open pit mining. The film Waste Land follows the inhabitants of three...

23 year old Killian finds himself by chance living in a container in the Northern Sea. Here he spends his days as a bird warden, keeping stock of...

Elsa is 20 and graduated from high school last summer. She spends her days sleeping. Reading. Thinking. Everyone else has made up their minds:...

In this autobiographical documentary, Rosa explores her anxiety, derealisation, and a mother-daughter bond shaped by shared trauma.

Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a...