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 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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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 him again at a family party, an affection develops that... |
Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic productions shaped the cultural and political discourse in... |
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... |
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 and country-side, between best friend and older brother,... |
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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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 Luncii, Romania, move to Berlin and perform themselves... |
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 German‐Polish border in 1992. Scheffner composes an... |
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 dinghy adrift with 13 persons on board. From a YouTube clip... |
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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The exploration of the fundamental questions of citizenship, responsibility, and justice that have challenged Haitian society ever since it emerged from decades of dictatorship.
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A political manifesto in feature film format.
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A sophisticated duel between two strong female characters.
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state-theatre is a modular art project of Berlin theater and filmmaker Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck on the urban conditions of the performative in the six cities: Lagos, Tehran,... |
An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.
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Haiti/BEL/F/USA 2013, 100 min
Raoul Peck explores the situation after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.
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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 and escape from overstructured German post-war reality. The... |
A film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy.
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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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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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After LA PIVELLINA another brilliant mix of documentary and fiction.
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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 series of killings in Hungary.
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A group of acting students fighting their angst and the school system.
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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... |
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 political wildlife film that centres around a country where the border between war and peace fades.
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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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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 to be made during the course of his work on other films... |
North America’s new generation X. Matt Porterfield’s celebrated festival-hit!
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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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In the city of Wünsdorf near Berlin Scheffner follows the traces of the past. The starting point are voice recordings of colonial soldiers that were recorded there during the First World War. A... |
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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„Peter Kern explores the tension between nationalistic phrases and latent homosexuality.“ (tip Berlin) With legendary actor Helmut Berger in the leading role!
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A foundling in the outskirts of Rome. A circus family. A new preliminary home.
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Peck’s searing critique of absolute power within the most elegant chamber drama.
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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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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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A love story between art, capital and marketing.
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Victory of the invisible – the predecessor of ORLY.
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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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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... |
The legendary opera performance at the Amazon in Manaus.
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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 crack.
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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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Henner Wincklers second feature film after his exceptional debut SCHOOL TRIP.
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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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Four experimental movies by the artist Bady Minck, located somewhere between Salzburg and Alfred Loos' spinal marrow, between dream and nightmare.
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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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Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.
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“The Animatograph” is a conglomeration of various media: cinema, theater, performance, installation, painting and opera.
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Schlingensief’s attempt at self-therapy after the trauma of directing PARSIFAL in Bayreuth.
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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 Shakespeare.
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A slice of life – in 75 shots.
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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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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 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 hospital’s pathology lab.
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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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Bottle-turning with undressing - The debut of Henner Winckler (LUCY).
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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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14 works of the swiss artist, civil engineer and legendary bridge builder Robert Maillart designed between 1910 and 1935.
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Cinema and reality coming close.
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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 third part in Arslan’s trilogy about Turkish youth growing up in Germany, focusing on 21-year-old Deniz during one long, labyrinth-like day in her life, in which she experiences everything... |
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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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-unified Berlin.
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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 DVD brings together for the first time the cinematic oeuvre by Riki Kalbe.
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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 Trilogy" with Berlin hip-hop legend Kool Savage.
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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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Werner Schroeter’s exceptional documentation on the art of singing and how it is brought into existence.
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A dark vision of comic star Enki Bilal.
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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 dense, playful as well as caustic, and his complex filmic... |
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... |
Rüdiger Neumann is a filmmaker and professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg whose teaching has influenced two generations of filmmakers, many of whom now play an active role 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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After a wedding party three friends from Hamburg strand in newly reunited Berlin. A restless odyssey through the wastelands of a big city pending between an unpredictable future and a still... |
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 his success THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Michael Klier once again deals with the situation of people during changing times after Fall of the Wall.
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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 relationships between the edificies of a monumental architecture... |
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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Andreas Kleinert’s award-winning graduation film at the film school “Konrad Wolf”.
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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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A documentary-like introspection into the low dives and low-lives of the marginals and petty criminals found in the dead-end parts of Warsaw and West Berlin.
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Harry (Ian Dury), a drummer and pyromaniac who likes to play with fire, and German car mechanic Gina (Pia Frankenberg) are forced to share an apartment due to Hamburg’s housing shortage. Pia... |
Berlin-based British filmmaker Cynthia Beatt and actress Tilda Swinton follow the Wall on the west side of Berlin.
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After the essay “On Marionette theatre” by Heinrich von Kleist.
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Visconti meets “Dallas” in Schlingensief’s official remake of Veit Harlan’s OPFERGANG (1944)!
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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 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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A bullet rained love story in Berlin.
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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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Andreas Kleinert’s short documentary about a cashier in Clärchen’s ballroom.
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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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“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) portrait — sparked by the present and filmed in exciting... |
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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Based on the tragedy “The feud of the Schroffensteins” by Heinrich von Kleist.
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Schlingensief’s way of getting even with German avant-garde film.
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After the tragedy “Penthesilea” by Heinrich von Kleist.
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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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An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An 82-minute “... |
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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Christoph Schlingensief, 22, on the state of the nation.
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Syberberg’s film adaptation of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal”.
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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 Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Assia Djebar... |
One of Schlingensiefs first 16 mm short films.
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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 through people’s luggage. Pia Frankenberg’s first film as a... |
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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Fernando Birri‘s ORG is a monstrous, three-hour long film that has only been screened extremely rarely since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1979.
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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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Schemes, assassinations and espionage in the old Indian empire on the eve of colonialization
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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 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... |
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 Balewa, which has been reprinted many times. Balewa was... |
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... |
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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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 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 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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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 includes the subgroup “Architecture as Autobiography”. Shown... |
