Actor: Isabell Polak

Woman in Love

An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.

Joy of Fatherhood

A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all...

Precious Ivie

Two Afro-German half-sisters that never met before, get closer through their father's death, search their roots and find themselves.

Katie Fforde: Mein Wunschkind

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Mein Vater, der Esel und ich

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Gegen das Schweigen - Machtmissbrauch bei Theater und Film

Insults, humiliation, violence, sexual assault - the world behind the camera and the scenes can be a nightmare for many theater and film professionals. Apparently there is a real climate of fear in some film and theater productions. Some directors, but also well-known actors, apparently abuse their power and treat those around them on set or on stage with contempt or even abuse. Individual cases have been known for years, including under #metoo. But are they really isolated cases? Or can directors and actors allow themselves anything because the system allows it? In their three-year research, the documentary filmmakers spoke to more than 200 film and theater professionals about the problems in their industry. How much responsibility do the alleged perpetrators bear for abuse of power and how much responsibility does the financiers, production companies, broadcasters and also the audience bear?

Als ich mal Groß war

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