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... |
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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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 Silvestre in El Alto, Bolivia, and the... |
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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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, confrontational and hilarious.
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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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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 their assistants in the period of 27 years, and the ... |
The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the after are brought together in 93 minutes, allowing their... |
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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ROI SOLEIL, Spain 2018, 62 min
The last hour of the French monarch Louis XIV as a gallery performance.
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Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia.
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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 appendix, The Story of Vio Nova – accompanied by... |
A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue, three buildings by Julio Vilamajó in Montevideo. As... |
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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“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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Documentation based on a rediscovered interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the 70s.
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Two buildings and the ideologies of their creators in confrontation.
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A tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his actor Günther Kaufmann.
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Four real-life adult film performers at a working day in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California – a hybrid documentary/fiction film.
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An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.
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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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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... |
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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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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An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?
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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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On the search for his missing daughter, Lothar discovers that more and more children and adolescents disappear under inexplicable circumstances.
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The fictional restaging of a drone pilots unfinished story.
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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... |
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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Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back.
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A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary.
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A family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.
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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 to be made during the course of his work on other films... |
An outstanding German zombie film.
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John Cassavete’s A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE in the 21st Century.
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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 for an exhibition.
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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 this day.
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A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.
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The description of a lifeline through architecture.
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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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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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27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect and pioneer of European Modernist architecture Adolf Loos in order of their construction.
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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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Wild, risky, dangerous: German cinema needs more Torpedos!
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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 California is the cornerstone of a branch of modern... |
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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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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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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A woman abandons her two stepchildren in Poland. A modern adaption of the fairy tale “Hänsel and Gretel”.
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An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!
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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 state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director... |
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 show.
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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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Eight buildings designed and furnished by famous architect Louis H. Sullivan at the end of his career.
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U3000 – the underground talk.
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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... |
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 120 DAYS OF SODOM.
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Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.
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Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.
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Christoph Schlingensief’s grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous, scatological, certifiable splatter comedy about a Messiah in... |
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 at the same time homage to a good friend.
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They sought love and found only hatred – the even more disgusting, more evil and more perverse peak of the German Trilogy.
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After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous response to German reunification!
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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 Führerbunker as it really was.
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From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration of love to the cinema!
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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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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 each other in tender love, threatened by everyone.
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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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Meat, Your Parents: A morbidly wicked parade of ghosts of the past, packed with black humour!
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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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A six-hour monologue composed of poems, prose, letters, speeches and dramatic texts, performed by Edith Clever. In a setting approximating the darkness of night, entirely focused on the speaker,... |
“‘Why not’ is not an argument.” Schlingensief’s direct attempt to explore new forms of narration. Instead of logical argumentation and figure psychology, from now on only single moments of... |
Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.
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Schlingensief shouts into the camera: Everything will be different now! The first film of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.
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The cinema takes off to new possibilities. Part two of the “Trilogy on Film Criticism”.
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One of the most intense, ruthlessly unadulterated performances Hopper has ever put to screen!
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Beautiful things shouldn't really come from Karstadt, but they do.
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Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.
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One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.
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Watching filmmaking through the lens of the camera.
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The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of... |
The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of... |
Between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, SUPERMARKET is rightfully regarded as a cult classic of German cinema.
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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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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 cinematic madness. A modern Orpheus and Eurydice.
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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 other, but on this day their paths cross twice.
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Roland Klick chases young Otto Sander through the tristesse of a small farming village. A masterpice and short film classic!
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A little boy in pre-Christmas season. Roland Klicks first movie!
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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.... |
