Albert Serra accompanies the Peruvian star matador Andrés Roca Rey from one Spanish bullfighting arena to the next, creating a radical... |
FR, IT, GER, BE, PT 2024, 110 min
Between "Slack Bay" ("Ma Loute") and "The Life of Jesus" („La Vie de Jésus“), between heaven and earth, director Bruno Dumont presents us... |
Following a protest against loggers, a young activist falls into a ravine. Injured and stranded, she... |
GER, MX, AR, USA 2024, 89 min
History and Fate of your body. Where is the future, what is the future, how is the future and who is the future?
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The Basis of Make-Up (IV). Photography and beyond – Part 33.
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Germany, shortly before elections – a mysterious disease outbreak afflicting only men strikes. Differences between the sexes long believed... |
After a deadly accident, the life of Dane, a driver for a humanitarian NGO in N'Djamena, is turned upside down. Director Achille Ronaimou... |
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... |
A wave of evictions grips Berlin. The squatting scene dissolves and its members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film... |
Home song with harmonium. Collected and edited by Hans Jürgen Syberberg. From the restored kitchen of the former estate house in N.
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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... |
FR, ES, DE, PT 2022, 165 min
A thriller shot in Tahiti and set in the shadow of nuclear testing.
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The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy Mamani... |
Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-... |
Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean... |
To concentrate on her ballet career, Nadja let her son, Mario, grow up with her mother and hardly ever saw him for years. When she meets... |
Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic... |
A revelation stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expect.
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GER/Argentina 2020, 76 min
A sardonic distillation of themes revolving around death, consciousness and human relationships. The sequel to DIE LETZTE STADT – morbid,... |
Max Linz’s satire on the university business, stuck into third-party funding and evaluation.
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The Grundtvigs Church (1913-1940) in Copenhagen, designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and built by six master bricklayer and... |
DE/FR/PT/ES 2019, 132 min
A forest between Potsdam and Berlin becomes a stage for a beautiful provocation against Puritanism.
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The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the... |
ROI SOLEIL, Spain 2018, 62 min
The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.
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In a small German town near the edge of the Ruhr region, a farmboy tries to find his place in the world. Torn back and forth between city... |
LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV, F/Spain/Portugal 2016, 115 min
Suffering and dying do not stop at the most powerful, even the absolute.
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A justice thriller of a different kind.
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22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Casa do Povo in São Paulo, as... |
A disturbing hoax in a no-man’s-land in Germany, two weeks... |
There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.
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A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue... |
Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi,... |
“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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AND-EK GHES... means: ONE FINE DAY... A song, a promise to the beloved, to the children, to oneself. Members of the Velcu family from Faţa... |
A documentary turns into a cinematic REVISION. Like a puzzle, the film puts together the facts around the death of two men on a field at... |
The last days of the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964).
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Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.
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On 14.09.2012 at 2:56pm, the cruise liner Adventure of the Seas reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a... |
A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.
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Two bodies and two worlds collide. Driven by her passion, the aid worker Dorothea loses more and more control.
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Two buildings and the ideologies of their creators in confrontation.
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The exploration of the fundamental questions of citizenship, responsibility, and justice that have challenged Haitian society ever since... |
Documentation based on a rediscovered interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the 70s.
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A political manifesto in feature film format.
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Stella Miles travels from Glasgow to Berlin to claim ownership of a house which is dramatically steeped in the history of the 20th century... |
state-theatre is a modular art project of Berlin theater and filmmaker Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck on the urban... |
Four real-life adult film performers at a working day in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California – a hybrid... |
An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.
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A tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.
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A sophisticated duel between two strong female characters.
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HISTÒRIA DE LA MEVA MORT, F/Spain 2013, 148 min
Together with his new servant, Casanova embarks on a journey to the Carpathian Mountains, to meet Dracula.
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„Best of Sundance, a true original!“ (Indiewire)
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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... |
Haiti/BEL/F/USA 2013, 100 min
Raoul Peck explores the situation after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.
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A film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy.
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CDN/DK/MEX/PHI 2013, 88 min
An experimental, emotional comedy that relates the end of cinema with the end of the world.
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A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod,... |
PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman... |
After LA PIVELLINA another brilliant mix of documentary and fiction.
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Coming home from Afghanistan.
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30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.
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A study for Corporate, the third part of the Women and Work trilogy.
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An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?
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On the search for his missing daughter, Lothar discovers that more and more children and adolescents disappear under inexplicable... |
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... |
A family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.
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EL SENYOR HA FET EN MI MERAVELLES, Spain 2011, 146 min
A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.
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A group of acting students fighting their angst and the school system.
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The fictional restaging of a drone pilots unfinished story.
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Sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story ...
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Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back.
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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... |
A fictitious autobiography.
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After a Romany family was killed in a Hungarian village, a neighbours family trys to manage the day after the crime. Based on an actual... |
A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary.
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North America’s new generation X. Matt Porterfield’s celebrated festival-hit!
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Christoph Schlingensiefs last play, performed with artists from Burkina Faso, where his “Opera Village Africa” lives on as his legacy to... |
ELS NOMS DE CRIST, Spain 2010, 193 min
Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play "De los nombres de Cristo" (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended... |
John Cassavete’s A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE in the 21st Century.
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A political wildlife film that centres around a country where the border between war and peace fades.
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An outstanding German zombie film.
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The gangster film’s structures brought to light.
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A series including seven films by Heinz Emigholz. It is the name Heinz Emigholz gave to films that have forced themselves upon him wanting... |
In the city of Wünsdorf near Berlin Scheffner follows the traces of the past. The starting point are voice recordings of colonial soldiers... |
A very powerful and original documentary on youth.
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Camp meets art in Herbert Fritsch's take on Hamlet.
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A one-night stand with consequences.
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Isabelle Stever visits a fourth grade class in Munich and its young teacher, who has designed a 'class council' based on Freinet's... |
Peck’s searing critique of absolute power within the most elegant chamber drama.
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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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The description of a lifeline through architecture.
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„Peter Kern explores the tension between nationalistic phrases and latent homosexuality.“ (tip Berlin) With legendary actor Helmut Berger... |
A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.
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27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect and pioneer of European Modernist architecture Adolf Loos in order of... |
Wild, risky, dangerous: German cinema needs more Torpedos!
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FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min
One night to find an ever-escaping truth – fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.
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Whoever shows his wound will be healed.
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EL CANT DELS OCELLS, Spain 2008, 93 min
The Magi travel in search of the Messiah who has just been born.
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Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur... |
An ambivalent childhood ...
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Four generations meet in a summer mansion – as past resentments are vented the idyllic atmosphere slowly starts to... |
Victory of the invisible – the predecessor of ORLY.
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The legendary opera performance at the Amazon in Manaus.
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40 buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler’s pioneering work in Southern... |
A multilayered journey through the hometown in his head, Guy Maddin’s MY WINNIPEG is a vigorous caprice of fact and fiction.
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The second part of Tatjana Turanskyj's trilogy about women and work is a film narration about the complex body and gender politics in the... |
A love story between art, capital and marketing.
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A personal travelogue, a documentary about a trip through Turkey.
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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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Precise observation and bizarre comedy – Ulrich Köhler’s second feature film after his celebrated BUNGALOW.
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Henner Wincklers second feature film after his exceptional debut SCHOOL TRIP.
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Two summer days in the suburbs of Baltimore. Matthew Porterfield’s debut and the puristic prequal of his celebrated PUTTY HILL.
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HONOR DE CAVALLERIA, Spain 2006, 107 min
Based on the novel "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes.
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“The Animatograph” is a conglomeration of various media: cinema, theater, performance, installation, painting and opera.
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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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Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.
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Four experimental movies by the artist Bady Minck, located somewhere between Salzburg and Alfred Loos' spinal marrow, between dream and... |
Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.
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How must be a person who gives informations to the secret service? The much acclaimed debut of Benjamin Heisenberg hits a nerve.
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Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!
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Hamlet in the labyrinth. 11 films by Herbert Fritsch in cooperation with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. After texts by William... |
A slice of life – in 75 shots.
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Schlingensief’s attempt at self-therapy after the trauma of directing PARSIFAL in Bayreuth.
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Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!
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Part one of Schlingensief’s Atta trilogy – set between his parents’ home, an amateur film club and studio.
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Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.
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A woman abandons her two stepchildren in Poland. A modern adaption of the fairy tale “Hänsel and Gretel”.
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A delightfully offbeat black comedy about a guy who first loses a testicle to cancer and then has a ball trying to steal it back from the... |
Peter Kern documents Schlingensief’s Hamlet.
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Quiz 3000 presents what is for him the only acceptable form of serial dramatic art in this theatrical “televisionary” TV quiz... |
Bottle-turning with undressing - The debut of Henner Winckler (LUCY).
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An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!
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A young couple is fighting on their own wedding party.
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Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became... |
The third part in Arslan’s trilogy about Turkish youth growing up in Germany, focusing on 21-year-old Deniz during one long, labyrinth-... |
Cinema and reality coming close.
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14 works of the swiss artist, civil engineer and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart designed between 1910 and 1935.
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With inevitable intensity – the portrait of a young woman, wandering around in the urban setting of Berlin.
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The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.
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The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.
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His staging of “Hamlet” at Schauspielhaus Zurich takes shots at the right-wing populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP).
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The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.
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U3000 – the underground talk.
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Eight buildings designed and furnished by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan at the end of his career.
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If you don’t want to fall out of grace with your contacts as a dealer, you must never be seen with an undercover cop. If you don’t want... |
A day in the life of a dead man.
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An eerily stunning and haunting film about the social and emotional demise of a man who is not able to adapt to life in post-... |
The DVD brings together for the first time the cinematic oeuvre by Riki Kalbe.
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For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An... |
Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.
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The everyday live of three German-Turkish teenagers in their neighbourhood Berlin-Kreuzberg. The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin... |
The surviver of the Fassbinder family meet on Potsdamer Platz for the shooting of the Last New German Film – a remake of Pasolini’s THE... |
A dark vision of comic star Enki Bilal.
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Werner Schroeter’s exceptional documentation on the art of singing and how it is brought into existence.
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Christoph Schlingensief’s grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous,... |
Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.
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Klaus Telscher is one of the most important German experimental filmmakers of the 1980s and 90s. His sophisticated work is atmospherically... |
The biographies of the two photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach.
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The first feature film by Thomas Arslan portrays a group of young people in Essen in the 1990s.
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With his own poems, music and images from 13 years, Klaus Wyborny has composed a / his biography as a film: texts and perceptions that are... |
Four short films, filmed at former World War Two warzones which are still affected today. GEFÄHRLICHER ORT, SOLDATEN SOLDATEN,... |
Rüdiger Neumann is a filmmaker and professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg whose teaching has influenced two... |
Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.
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A film portrait for the WDR! Perhaps one of the best films by Christoph Schlingensief? Unsparing, cheeky persiflage on all homestories and... |
After a wedding party three friends from Hamburg strand in newly reunited Berlin. A restless odyssey through the wastelands of a big city... |
They sought love and found only hatred – the even more disgusting, more evil and more perverse peak of the German... |
After his success THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Michael Klier once again deals with the situation of people during changing times after Fall... |
The death of a friend provokes a goup of artists to take a serious look at their own survival. THE HOLY BUNCH examines the manifold... |
Passion story on the open sea with Tilda Swinton and Hanns Zischler.
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After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous... |
One light, one day, one leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the... |
From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration... |
USSR, EG, SUD, GDR 1964-1989, 174 min
Eight films by directors Suliman Elnour, Eltayeb Mahdi, Ibrahim Shaddad of the Sudanese Film Group (SFG).
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Andreas Kleinert’s award-winning graduation film at the film school “Konrad Wolf”.
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A documentary-like introspection into the low dives and low-lives of the marginals and petty criminals found in the dead-end parts of... |
Harry (Ian Dury), a drummer and pyromaniac who likes to play with fire, and German car mechanic Gina (Pia Frankenberg) are forced to share... |
After the essay “On Marionette theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist.
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Berlin-based British filmmaker Cynthia Beatt and actress Tilda Swinton follow the Wall on the west side of Berlin.
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Visconti meets “Dallas” in Schlingensief’s official remake of Veit Harlan’s OPFERGANG (1944)!
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The Chronicle of a farewell.
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Between gentle poetry and exciting narration – the award-winning feature debut by Christian Wagner.
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USA/BRD 1976–1987, 194 min
Movies of Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman released on DVD for the first time!
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Dr. Faustus in eternal ice: Udo Kier as the devil's aunt and Tilda Swinton as Brünhilde. A young couple trapped in eternal ice, bound to... |
The movie-political pioneered by Deepa Dhanraj, for the first time in the restored version on DVD.
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Meat, Your Parents: A morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour!
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A bullet rained love story in Berlin.
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Alfed Edel and Udo Kier in front of Schlingensief’s virtuoso handheld camera for the first time!
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As a goodbye from the HfG Offenbach, Schlingensief and his students converted a projector into a camera.
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Between Broadway act, classical music and operetta – cinema never came that close to the good old mixtape!
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Andreas Kleinert’s short documentary about a cashier in Clärchen’s ballroom.
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“Destiny put her on the wrong side. She is rich, but wants to be poor. She’s well on her way, she’s making movies.“ A revealing (social)... |
A six-hour monologue composed of poems, prose, letters, speeches and dramatic texts, performed by Edith Clever. In a setting approximating... |
Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.
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A city (Hamburg) is afflicted by a series of slaps in the face. Pia Frankenberg’s short film proves that cinema can strike back!
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Open voyeurism dominates the scene. Wherever one has the chance, people work themselfes into the ground through feelings and drive the... |
“‘Why not’ is not an argument.” Schlingensief’s direct attempt to explore new forms of narration. Instead of logical argumentation and... |
Based on the tragedy “The feud of the Schroffensteins” by Heinrich von Kleist.
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An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An 82-... |
Schlingensief shouts into the camera: Everything will be different now! The first film of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.
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After the tragedy “Penthesilea” by Heinrich von Kleist.
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1980s Berlin: A personal and cathartic composition of destroyed buildings, post-war architecture and the discordant character of Maurice... |
One of the most intense, ruthlessly unadulterated performances Hopper has ever put to screen!
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The cinema takes off to new possibilities. Part two of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.
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Beautiful things shouldn't really come from Karstadt, but they do.
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One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.
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Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.
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AL/MOZ/USA 1969-1982, 311 min
As a multi-layered contribution to an aesthetic of resistance to colonial violence, the edition is also of current interest. Six films by... |
Syberberg’s film adaptation of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal”.
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A young woman strolls through the night, then boards a train. Seeking closeness to others she chooses an unusual method by searching... |
Germany is a foreign country where you have to make an effort.
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One of the most important avant-garde films of the seventies, the first time available on DVD.
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„Mr. Money“ is watching you.
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As a journalist, Sopiko interviews a wide range of different women about their living conditions and desires.
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Fernando Birri‘s ORG is a monstrous, three-hour long film that has only been screened extremely rarely since it premiered at the Venice... |
The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial... |
Watching filmmaking through the lens of the camera.
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Syberberg’s controversial film essay on Hitler as possible projection of the secret wishes of the German.
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The „second biggest film so far“ of the Amateur-Film-Company-2000.
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Schemes, assassinations and espionage in the old Indian empire on the eve of colonialization
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The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial... |
The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial... |
SHAIHU UMAR by Adamu Halilu is one of the first feature films in Hausa. The film is based on the eponymous 1955 novella by Abubakar Tafawa... |
The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial... |
Berlin during Cold War. A man gets between the fronts and ends up as a double agent.
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Between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SUPERMARKET is rightfully regarded as a cult classic of German cinema.
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The last ten years in Karl May’s life. A man fighting for his work, which lets him become an iconic figure of his time.
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Based on a pulp novel of the same title.
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The last king of the old type, within the setting of his fantasies, at the beginning of the industrial age.
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Klick’s psychedelic endgame in noman’s land.
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Christoph Schlingensief’s short educational play about school. A real rarity for all Schlingensief fans!
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A strange case keeps the police and the inhabitants of a small town busy. A little girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, a... |
Christoph Schlingensiefs first film.
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A stroll through St. Pauli at night – cult director Roland Klick lets a young love flare up between nouvelle vague, German beat and total... |
A day in the life of an office worker and an aging striptease dancer who both live in the same house. Normally they don’t notice each... |
Roland Klick chases young Otto Sander through the tristesse of a small farming village. A masterpice and short film... |
A little boy in pre-Christmas season. Roland Klicks first movie!
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GER 1974-1983 / 1995-2000 / 1986-2004, 94 min
The films THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP (I-III) are the starting point of over 30 film works of the series “Photography and beyond”, which also... |
In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three... |
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