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A exploration of the origin, theory, philosophy and themes of Stephen Dwoskin's films from 1963 to 1984.
The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin
Sí al amor
On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the history of France, written by a man whom many then considered a hero: the winner of Verdun.
Pétain, such a popular hero
On the occasion of his 80th Birthday, a celebration of Britain's longest-serving all-round television entertainer Bruce Forsyth.
Happy Birthday Brucie!
Maremar
Tricicle presents the last of their shows, the culmination of decades of work and inexhaustible humor: the best of the best of the best.
Tricicle: HITS
One day before her 18th birthday, Laura Hellmer finds out by chance that her mother Katharina, a renowned political journalist, has lied to her for years: Laura's father was not a Spanish war photographer who died before she was born, but probably lives and is in Chile. Without further ado, Laura sets off for South America to find her true father. While she is in Santiago following in the footsteps of her mother, who once reported on the victims of the Pinochet dictatorship, Katharina travels to her daughter.
Letters from Santiago
Ben Winter returns from his tour in Afghanistan with the German ISAF. Having survived a suicide bombing, which claimed the life of his best friend, he is trying to find his way back to his old life, with his girlfriend, family and friends. But his memories are catching up with him. Increasingly, he is losing contact with reality and his trauma gets the upper hand. A near-accident makes him and his family finally aware of the deep-rooted trauma and feelings of guilt he brought back from Afghanistan and he checks into a veterans' hospital for treatment.
A Long Way Home
In the run-up to parliamentary elections in mid-October, Polish filmmaker Marcin Wierzchowski travelled across his country to gauge the atmosphere in a society that is more divided than ever.
Poland: A Nation under Stress
A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.
Shergar
Freddy dreams of becoming a soccer star, but he doesn’t have the age or the talent. But when the best player is hurt and has to sit out, Freddy gets a chance to prove himself.
El crack
A bittersweet tale of timid, gentle lovers, one of whom is unhappily married, who conduct a clandestine affair.
Lovers of Their Time
Tintin and his friends go to Syldavia and join a secret space program.
Destination Moon
A harmless speeding ticket from Italy can sometimes have huge consequences - this experience must make construction manager Otto Schlegel, as he returns after a romantic weekend with his secret lover Renate from the south. There is an election campaign in the city, as no one may allow a misstep. As if that were not enough trouble, Schlegel has a new employee who wants to prove himself as a cover-up: Renate's husband Michael. But the press has already received weather. But the witty Schlegel does not let it get that easy. He struggles to keep his post and his great love Renate ...
Liebe im Halteverbot
Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the glamour of jet setting at Mach 2 were stunning scientific innovations and political intrigue. Fifteen years after Concorde's final flight, this documentary takes you inside the historic international race to develop the first supersonic airliner. Hear stories from those inside the choreographed effort to design and build Concorde in two countries at once - and the crew members who flew her.
Flying Supersonic
Quirin has the cuddly Anna Hechenbacher come to the house. Quirin and his godfather choose a genuine Parisian woman from her catalog of marriageable women to turn the widowed Jakob's head.
Der Komödienstadel - Die Jacobi-Verschwörung
Gentle, patient Bavarian policeman Barney Brunner soon starts regretting having agreed to merge his household -including duly skeptic preteen son Feddy - with his chaotic lover, workaholic social worker Hanna König -with teen brat Lia, who asks neither before inviting her hunky boyfriend Alkan in her bed. Hannah's mother Wilhelmine being hospitalized after a car crash, she volunteers to run her wedding agency, but finds it dangerously in debts and commandeers Barney's 'help' to save it. Barkeeper and bride client Jenny pawned the rings bought by groom Simon Riedel, an unsuspecting ministerial driver, who ignores her gambling addiction and semi-fraudulent first marriage. Hannah even drags her home, wrecking Barney's last hope of some privacy or quiet, even expects his legally dubious help for the thief.
Hochzeitskönig
Tutto a posto
214, rue de Rivoli : Le dîner spécial 20 ans
Hiltrud Janssen soon achieves what only a few people in her life are able to do: she celebrates her 100th birthday. It's just a shame that she fell out with her younger sister Betty many years ago. Back then, Betty worked as a housekeeper for the influential CDU politician Heinrich Verhoeven and had an affair with him. Verhoeven was accused of adultery, but Betty was able to convince her sister Hiltrud to make a false statement. Verhoeven was acquitted and Hiltrud never spoke to Betty again. Hiltrud and Betty's sister Martha, now 98 years old, thought the 100th birthday was the perfect occasion to reconcile the estranged sisters and arranged a meeting.
Wir sind doch Schwestern
A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
Experience Preferred... But Not Essential
The people of Merchingen used to live from tourism, which has been at a standstill for years. With the incorporation, the idyllic provincial village is now threatened with the loss of its independence. In its hour of greatest need, a rumor spreads that the statue of the Virgin Mary in the local field chapel is shedding tears. This prompted skeptics, but an ecclesiastical investigation confirmed the authenticity of the supernatural apparition. The people of Merchingen rejoice, but the hardworking farmer's wife Kathi feels increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin, as she knows better than anyone else about the earthly origin of the divine sign.
Das Wunder von Merching
While filming in the mountains the first Eco-responsible porn under the guidance of an intimacy coordinator, a film crew finds itself stuck in a snowstorm.
Mortelle raclette
They are young and full of zest for life when they meet by chance in Hamburg in the fall of 1990: Tom signs on to a container ship the next morning, Katja has to return to her class. They only have this one night, but in it they experience all the happiness and sorrow of love. They promise each other to meet again on New Year's Eve 1999, the last day of the old millennium.
Millennium Love
A look at US society through the prism of Moby Dick, the mythical novel published by Herman Melville (1819-1891) in 1851.
Moby Dick: An American Allegory
A journey through the fantastic and mysterious Barcelona that the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) loved so much, the city of myth and legend, the city that was before it became one of the main European tourist destinations.
Bestseller Barcelona: The World of Carlos Ruiz Zafón
On the outskirts of Jerusalem, only a few kilometers from the separation wall, stands the huge hospital complex, Hadassah Ein Kerem. Here, there is no place for politics or religion. There is only one enemy: disease. In this hospital, Israeli doctors work side by side with Palestinian doctors to save the lives of children.
Healing Hearts
Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Six ex-Classmates meet for the first time in 12 years and hilarious memories change into highly emotional situations.
Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Rolling
Architect Sophie has finally found a beautiful apartment where she wants to move in with her boyfriend Martin. But although his marriage has long since ended, he is reluctant to leave his wife and daughter.
Tür an Tür
During an evening spent at his house with his sister, a girl realizes that she doesn't really have much in common with her boyfriend.
The Permissive Society
Hélène Berr, une jeune fille dans Paris occupé
Roger has his own clear world. He loves his apartment. Roger works as a janitor in a house about to be demolished. Leftover GDR supporters, failed geniuses, artistic neo-Nazis live there.
Anderst schön
Play by Arthur Hopcraft about Christmas in a Northern town, and the relationship within a family.
Jingle Bells
The phone call from Sybille was usual. Her family didn't even know that this call just started their last fine day...
The Last Fine Day
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
It offers a nuanced look at life in the women's ward of a psychiatric clinic, where most patients have been convicted of a crime.
Other World
An investigation into the death of a young British man sparks a global hunt for the individual selling hundreds of young people lethal poison.
Poisoned
An intimate biography featuring extensive interviews with the reclusive designer.
Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times
A collection of twenty-four of the strangest short films, set to the music from Radiohead's 'Hail to the Thief' as well as tracks unreleased before. Originally developed to be a program on a regular television channel, but instead, the group went on to create an internet TV channel (Radiohead Television) in conjunction with the release of their 2003 album Hail to the Thief.
The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time
Farce in which the nouveau riche Mrs Frush buys Thark, a large country house, from Sir Hector Benbow but then complains that the house is haunted. An assortment of characters go to the house to investigate.
Thark
93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré : la crème de la crème
Le Crime de la maison Grun
When Hanna (Fanny Krausz) unexpectedly inherits half of her deceased grandmother's farm in Lower Bavaria, the young woman's life is turned upside down. Because the testamentary conditions have it all! She has to run the farm for four weeks with her cousin Max (Daniel Gawlowski) and worse: spend every night there - otherwise everything goes to church. A bad time, because Hanna is about to step into Alex's Munich coffee bar. And it just so happens that Alex (Matthias Gärtner) is also the man of her dreams. Hanna throws herself into adventure and tries to master the balancing act between town and country. But the longer she is in her old home, the more she realizes her true longings. She doesn't just uncover a family secret,
Hochzeitsstrudel und Zwetschgenglück
An outward look into the universe, as scientists challenge traditional planetary thinking, and reveal the existence of unknown worlds: exoplanets.
Exoplanets: Thousands of New Worlds
When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, the family wants to give the child the best possible treatment. Unfortunately, they decide against chemotherapy in favor of a gentle natural remedy. When the hospital doctors notice that the child's condition is deteriorating, the necessary race against time can only begin once the parents are convinced of the effectiveness of conventional therapy.
Natascha - Wettlauf mit dem Tod
When six year old Olivia is diagnosed with the Wilms tumor in her kidney, the doctors suggest an immediate operation and chemotherapy. Healing chances would be 95%, but when her parents learn how other children suffer from the procedure, they're terrified and refuse to expose their daughter to such a torture. Instead they consult faith healer Hamer, who claims to be able to heal cancer without drugs. When the youth welfare office attempts to force them to have Olivia medicated properly, the family flees from Germany. So Olivia's condition worsens, and a great press campaign is started to change the parent's mind...
Olivia - Ein Kinderschicksal bewegt die Welt
Mid-fifties Anne Marie Fuchs lives modestly and withdrawn in Düsseldorf. When a murder happens, it becomes clear that the inconspicuous lady, who is always in short supply, seems to be an absolute investigator with a razor-sharp mind. No wonder, because Anne Marie Fuchs is a former East German spy, especially one who still has a bill from her active time open.
The Fox - Dark Trail
Not All Dads Pee Standing Up is about Zoe and Dan who love one another. They live cheerfully with Simon, their multi year old child, close to Bruges.
Not All Dads Pee Standing Up
The importance of the internet and social media platforms is undeniable, concerning their contribution to the freedom of speech; however, the boundaries are often overstepped under the dark cloak of anonymity.
Les réseaux de la haine
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
Pal
Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night party, Mouse makes a snowmole for Mole. In a dream, Snowmole takes him to a land where his every wish is granted. But dreams can become nightmares and wishes can sometimes backfire!
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Using the moniker 'Solo', Gary McKinnon broke into 97 US military and NASA computers from London over the course of 13 months, causing outages and deleting files. He also posted a criticism of the military's security on their website.
The People v Gary McKinnon
Klara can hardly believe it when her friend Jens separates from her. For the cyber-agent at the BND, the relationship is completely unexpected and she is outraged when she learns that Jens already has a new girlfriend with Susie. Without further ado, she uses the advantages of her job, in which she has just been given extensive intelligence by the BND by her boss, Immert, in an attempt to sabotage their relationship.
Leg dich nicht mit Klara an
Up in the frozen north of Lapland, Santa Claus recalls how his work began, how he first decided to bring toys and joys to kids around the world, how he met his helper elves, his errant flying reindeer, and embarked on his very first night's work delivering presents around the globe.
Santa's First Christmas
Siblings Tonja and Anton Raabe have to solve the murder of a young woman and the abduction of a small child in a wooded area in Lusatia near Senftenberg. Tonja is not only confronted with her childhood trauma, but also comes into conflict with her superiors once again due to her synaesthetic abilities and solo efforts.
Der Krimi aus Brandenburg: Die Raaben und das tote Mädchen
Alles was recht ist - Die italienische Variante
The teenage Bisbi, who plays the role of mother to her younger siblings, is the daughter of the indolent Aris, someone who just observes the passing of the years, hoping that circumstances will provide what his family may need, like the cicada in the fable; even when Bisbi tries to make him understand that their survival depends on their personal effort, which is what the industrious ant did every day…
El canto de la cigarra
Sonja and her fiancé Thomas are about to get married. Their young happiness is shaken when Sonja is sexually assaulted by her childhood sweetheart Adrian after a birthday party.