Following a protest against loggers, a young activist falls into a ravine. Injured and stranded, she... |
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 it’s members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film... |
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... |
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... |
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,... |
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... |
The renovation, demolition and reconstruction of different parts of the Kunsthalle Mannheim between 2013 and 2018. The before and the... |
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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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... |
Documentation on the recordings of KREIDLERS LP “ABC” filmed at Kartuli Pilmis Studia Tbilisi and in the streets of Tbilisi,... |
22 buildings by the Kibbutz architect Samuel Bickels, filmed in Israel in 2015. As prologue, the Casa do Povo in São Paulo, as... |
A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue... |
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... |
“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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A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.
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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... |
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Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.
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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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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... |
Stella Miles travels from Glasgow to Berlin to claim ownership of a house which is dramatically steeped in the history of the 20th century... |
A political manifesto in feature film format.
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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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Four real-life adult film performers at a working day in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California – a hybrid... |
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state-theatre is a modular art project of Berlin theater and filmmaker Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck on the urban... |
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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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... |
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 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,... |
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... |
Coming home from Afghanistan.
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An African Bayreuth? An Opera in Burkina Faso?
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A study for Corporate, the third part of the Women and Work trilogy.
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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... |
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... |
After LA PIVELLINA another brilliant mix of documentary and fiction.
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The fictional restaging of a drone pilots unfinished story.
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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... |
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... |
Sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story ...
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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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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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A one-night stand with consequences.
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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... |
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... |
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... |
Christoph Schlingensiefs last play, performed with artists from Burkina Faso, where his “Opera Village Africa” lives on as his legacy to... |
Isabelle Stever visits a fourth grade class in Munich and their young teacher, who instituted a 'class council' according to the Freinet... |
„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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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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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... |
Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur... |
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... |
The legendary opera performance at the Amazon in Manaus.
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An ambivalent childhood ...
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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... |
Four generations meet in a summer mansion – as past resentments are vented the idyllic atmosphere slowly starts to... |
A personal travelogue, a documentary about a trip through Turkey.
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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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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Peter Kern documents Schlingensief’s Hamlet.
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A young couple is fighting on their own wedding party.
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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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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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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-... |
The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.
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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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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-... |
For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An... |
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... |
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... |
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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The biographies of the two photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach.
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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... |
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,... |
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... |
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... |
After the German reunification-syrup, here comes the film to wake you up! Loud and aggressive! Christoph Schlingensief’s unscrupulous... |
Passion story on the open sea with Tilda Swinton and Hanns Zischler.
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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... |
From ugly duckling to swan. Roland Klick does not stick to clichés, but in recourse to the fairy tale once again formulates a declaration... |
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... |
Harry (Ian Dury), a drummer and pyromaniac who likes to play with fire, and German car mechanic Gina (Pia Frankenberg) are forced to share... |
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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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... |
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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As a goodbye from the HfG Offenbach, Schlingensief and his students converted a projector into a camera.
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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)... |
A six-hour monologue composed of poems, prose, letters, speeches and dramatic texts, performed by Edith Clever. In a setting approximating... |
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... |
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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1980s Berlin: A personal and cathartic composition of destroyed buildings, post-war architecture and the discordant character of Maurice... |
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-... |
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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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... |
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... |
Germany is a foreign country where you have to make an effort.
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„Mr. Money“ is watching you.
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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... |
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... |
The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial... |
The „second biggest film so far“ of the Amateur-Film-Company-2000.
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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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The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible seven early experimental works by Heinz Emigholz, which provided a crucial... |
Based on a pulp novel of the same title.
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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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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 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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