Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic productions shaped the cultural and political discourse in... |
GER/FR/Portugal/Spain 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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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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A disturbing hoax in a no-man’s-land in Germany, two weeks before the end of the war.
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“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.
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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... |
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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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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Stella Miles travels from Glasgow to Berlin to claim ownership of a house which is dramatically steeped in the history of the 20th century.
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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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An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.
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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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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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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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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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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... |
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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A personal travelogue, a documentary about a trip through Turkey.
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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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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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A slice of life – in 75 shots.
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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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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... |
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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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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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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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... |
The series girls & boys in history is a surreal historical document.
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A day in the life of a dead man.
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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 informers to trap you, don’t trust anyone. If you want to... |
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 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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The biographies of the two photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach.
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Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.
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Christoph Schlingensief’s grotequely erotic, blasphemous, ultraviolent, incestuous, scatological, certifiable splatter comedy about a Messiah in... |
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 less memories than visual codes of memory.
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Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.
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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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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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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 Führerbunker as it really was.
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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 Warsaw and West 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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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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A bullet rained love story in Berlin.
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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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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 Weddington’s music.
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An omnipresent giant who sees everything, but can’t be seen himself ... An 82-minute “... |
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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Syberberg’s film adaptation of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal”.
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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 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 murderer and a web of lies.
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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.... |
