Following a protest against loggers, a young activist falls into a ravine. Injured and stranded, she wanders through the forest until she finally discovers a small... |
Germany, shortly before elections – a mysterious disease outbreak afflicting only men strikes. Differences between the sexes long believed to have been overcome re-emerge, shaking society to its... |
After a deadly accident, the life of Dane, a driver for a humanitarian NGO in N'Djamena, is turned upside down. Director Achille Ronaimou reflects on the common practice of blood money.
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The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.
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A grotesque drama about the last days of the ancient philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca and the beginnings of Emperor Nero's despotic regime in Ancient Rome. Seneca fails in his own philosophical... |
A wave of evictions grips Berlin. The squatting scene dissolves and it’s members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film portrays a subculture through different generations. People... |
The 42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to advancing age and as a woman, collides with the limits of patriarchal society. A radically humorous critique of the... |
The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, Bolivia, and the restorative "City... |
Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-1959).
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Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean architecture Freddy Mamani Silvestre.
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Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic productions shaped the cultural and political discourse in... |
A revelation stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expect.
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A justice thriller of a different kind.
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There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.
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A disturbing hoax in a no-man’s-land in Germany, two weeks before the end of the war.
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“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.
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The last days of the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964).
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A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.
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Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.
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An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.
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At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience and escape from overstructured German post-war reality. The... |
A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel.
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CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of illegal immigration.
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Coming home from Afghanistan.
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PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman architecture made of Opus caementitium.
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30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.
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The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not unfamiliar with the pitfalls of life, Werner Schroeter... |
Sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story ...
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Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall.
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Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur as antagonists of real friendship and moreover of love.... |
FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min
One night to find an ever-escaping truth – fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.
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TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min
Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.
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Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!
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15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.
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Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.
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Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.
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Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!
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Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.
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An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!
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A day in the life of a dead man.
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For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An ecstatic piece of political education and a tale of a party’s... |
Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.
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The biographies of the two photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach.
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Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.
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Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.
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In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones, which she collected for him over 30 years ago.... |