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The documentary portraits three old lesbians: Hannelore Keydel, a former professional runner, Christel Rieseberg, the owner of one of the the first Lesbian bars in Post War Berlin and Wienke Zitzlaff, a political activist though out her life.
A short animation about the aberrations and confusions of love.
«I’m something special»: a graceful lady in court dress declaims this sentence in the late Baroque interior of Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. A chorus of male voices answers her from the castle stair: «We love you». A monotonous yet grotesque litany is created, that acquires a rather neurotic note in being so repetitious. Reduction to two camera settings, which strictly track the two axes of the Baroque interior, enhances the impression. The prologue is a sequence in which a child, also in court dress, leads the viewer into this absurd scenario. In the end banality breaks into the artificially generated tension as ironic relief.
A gigantic blood-red monster, made of steel and flames, floating on the still waters of Lake Constance – this is Robert Carsen's unconventional vision of the setting of Verdi's masterpiece Il Trovatore for the 60th anniversary of the Bregenz Festival. The High Definition live recording of this most spectacular outdoor production combines astonishing images, relevant reflections on today's world and superb musical expression from the soloists and the world-renowned Wiener Symphoniker Orchestra, inspired by musical director Thomas Rösner.
100% violent amateur trash shit!
A young man wakes up after a night of excessive drug use in a completely unfamiliar and surreal environment. His only connection to reality is a shady man who claims to want to show him the truth. This marks the beginning of a terrifying journey into a nightmarish world from which there is only one way out...
Documentary about Alpine farming
A clique meets at Siggi's on Shrove Monday to get ready for the parade. Klaus and Nadine are in a great party mood, but Frederick has lost his girlfriend Diana after an argument and wants her back. Until Siggi eats the pasta salad.
Reinhard Mey Germany's most famous singer & songwriter
Hubert von Goisern: Goisern Goes East
1944 - The Nazis had kidnapped a professor of physics and his daughter to construct a time machine. Years later, in the 21st century - 3 explorers detect the hidden laboratory and try to reactivate the time machine... A crazy film from and with WELLE:ERDBALL that takes you along on a trip through the time. The normal edition includes the movie and the soundtrack on audio CD, the limited edition includes additionally a Bonus DVD with a making of, trailers and photos.
A crush of 450.000 people descended on the grounds of an abandoned military base to write history as images of the biggest concert staged in Canada were broadcast around the world, in a public declaration that Torontos SARS outbreak is over. This concert sprawled across an expanse of grass and tarmac equivalent to 540 football fields called Downsview Park, and was meant to prove that Toronto was a safe place to visit. AC/DC were at the top of their game, proving to all who witnessed, that they are truly one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands ever.
An old oak tree retells its life story: 2000 years of cultural history condensed into just over 10 minutes...
An ARD documentary that explains the Pokémon trend at the time.
Documentary short about Iceland's gay elf population.
Documentary about the opera singer Sena Jurinac.
A chameleon fails to conform to normality as he and his siblings grow and explore their world. Different in every way, from what he likes to eat to his abilities, he gets the blame when another chameleon is snatched by a bird of prey. He flees in terror when the other chameleons turn on him, but he unwittingly stumbles upon the missing chameleon and saves him. The group’s rage is forgotten when they are reunited with their lost sibling and the ‘strange’ lizard is finally accepted.
The sensitive protagonist of this short film lives a secret double life as Arno/Nora. While Arno works in a meat processing factory, beautiful singer Nora devotes herself to the nightlife. The transformation from Arno to Nora, however, does not only lead to internal conflicts but also meets with increasing external disapproval and aggression.
The veteran warrior of the Supermegaforce Erwin Braddog sneaks through a forest in Vietnam to surprise his nemesis James Lee while eating bananas. The henchman doesn't take this lying down and throws his magic cape around his neck. A bloody fight, including the use of a corkscrew, is unleashed on that sunny day in 2007...
In 1948, the first Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the UN. Central point: The president’s widow and head of the commission, Eleanor Roosevelt. By using experimental animation and acting, the film re-enacts the discussions.
The film is one of my recently series work, "Re-interpretation for the private films" which has been cited from old home movies. A Japanese diplomat, Mr.A.O. started for his assignment to Berlin since 1929. He was also the person fascinated by filmmaking. Of course, generally said his films were just the "Home Movie", however when we saw his films carefully, we could be found out the sensibility of other filmmakers in 20s, just like Ruttmann, Vertov or so. I'd like to observe the lost films.
Documentary film.
1968 is a year after which an entire generation was named - a generation that is said to have fundamentally changed our society. With the cry "Under the gowns, the mustiness of 1,000 years", students at universities mobilized against rigid social structures in the Federal Republic of Germany. It was a rebellion against the established, against outdated values and for more freedom and justice. Students at the Free University in Berlin were at the forefront.
Paint and texture and scrawled line drawings, the frames fading into each other. Zooms into the heads of museum busts to retrieve dream-history images from within.
Short animation film about a man driving through a cityscape.
In the global competition between cities, Hamburg is competing with other metropolises. Urban development should ensure favorable location factors for companies, investors, and tourism, and the last gaps in the so-called “string of pearls” along the banks of the Elbe are being closed to enhance the city's image. Over 50 interviews were conducted for the film. No external experts were consulted. A wide variety of St. Pauli residents have their say: residents, employees, artists, restaurateurs, master brewers, major investors, social workers, hoteliers, lawyers, the district administrator, and many more. Thus, beyond the red-light district, petty criminals, and poor people clichés, the film presents a diverse spectrum of opinions.
ARTE documentary series "contact sheets" takes the pictures and working methods of the greatest photographers of the present under the microscope. In 33 individual portraits showing the DVD box the whole range of artistic photography: with portraits of Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, Lewis Baltz, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Duane Michals and Sara Moon.
A documentary film about the daily work of two employees of the “task force for reconstruction,” who piece together bag after bag of ripped up state security documents. „Behind an extremely dry-didactic title, you discover a consequently composed and humorous film about german history. It shows how Germany copes with the past and bureaucracy, and you wouldn’t believe it, it’s also about men and women.
St. Pauli in the morning when somebody familiar is missing.
short film by Ute Ströer inspired by Heinrich Hoffmann's fairy tail