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A moving love story in a time of hatred: During the civil war in Kosovo, the young Serbian widow Danica falls in love with Ramiz, a Albanian soldier who, wounded in battle, seeks refuge in her home on the Serbian side of the River Ibar.
Festivalhalle Moers, Moers, Germany
Immerse yourself in the true sense of the word into life, in true 3D. Water or abbreviated H2O, is actually a chemical compound of the elements oxygen and hydrogen. But this has really something! Water is in fact the most important element on our earth. Without water, the emergence of life on our planet would have been impossible. Sometime before several tens of millions of years it took the first great-fish out of the water to the land of the beginning he evolution. Just a few facts about the importance of this elixir of life: The element of water is in the mythologies and religions of most cultures of central importance and is considered the epitome of life.
With precisely articulated turns of phrase, Sibylle Berg - celebrated novelist, playwright and columnist known for her provocations and the sharpness of her comments - takes the film's two directors on an anecdotal and humorous foray through her eventful life.
The story of the Bugattis of Milan and Molsheim, the eccentric family behind the brand: Carlo, the patriarch and furniture designer; Rembrandt, the troubled sculptor; Ettore, the gifted engineer; Jean, the unfortunate heir. Art and design. Beauty and luxury. The fastest cars. Races. The need for speed.
In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.
Off the coast of Central Africa lies an isolated island, covered by primeval rainforest and surrounded by dark ocean waters, inhabited by a greater variety of species than nearly any other place on Earth this terra incognita is called BIOKO. The ruler of this realm is one of the world's least known primate species, the drill.
The young and attractive Berliner Merle works in a chip shop in the Weddinger Kiez and has to fight again and again with all kinds of macho and questionable representatives of the opposite sex. One day she meets her avoidable dream prince, but even this appearance is deceptive. At the same time the two broke vultures and good-for-nothings Scott and Boris are up to no good in the neighborhood
Clara Schumann led an almost cinematic life as the daughter of a strict and ambitious father, as an internationally extremely successful pianist, as the wife of a famous composer and as the mother of seven children.
In addition to cardiac death, brain death has also been considered the end of life since 1968. However, scientists are increasingly expressing doubts. Transplantation medicine needs a death criterion, because vital organs can only be removed from the dead. But are organ donors really dead? Since the first successful heart transplant in 1967, organ donation has been part of everyday clinical practice in many countries. However, acceptance seems to be declining in some countries: In Germany, the number of post-mortem organ donors is falling continuously, from 1,200 people in 2011 to 797 in 2017. And in countries such as Japan, transplant medicine has been viewed critically by the population for decades and is hardly ever used.
A seventeen year old girl and her friend are staying in a house near the woods in the Bavarian mountains while onset on winter. They are expecting the arrival of the girls parents with big concern, because there is a secret, which should never be known. This concern is only interrupted by a sailing appetite to hunt, of something ore someone, who is living in the woods.
Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle intensity, and casts the score in a mellow glow. As Marfa, the spurned lover of Ivan Khovansky‘s son Andrei, Doris Soffel unfolds such a rich palette of sonorities, from the pathos of the lower ranges to shaded discant heights, that “one is tempted to speak of a Russian mezzo”. The final chorus, which Mussorgsky did not compose, is played in the orchestrally transparent version of Igor Stravinsky – the third great Russian composer who contributed to making “Khovanshchina“ a timeless, gripping stage work. With his stripped-down sets and historicising costumes, director Dmitri Tcherniakov, one of the new voices of contemporary Russian theatre, builds a bridge to the political present. A lesson in history and music!
In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and Helge Schneider, Ulrike Pfeiffer takes us on a journey into the broad expanse of Nekes' cabinet of wonder and his cinematic works. At the same time, this documentary provides an insight into the history of experimental film in Germany.
Johannes Ganten, in his late 50s, known as John to his friends, leads a comfortable life as an emeritus professor. Everything has always come to him, which John takes for granted. He has never thought about anything until this morning - the Christmas holidays are just over - when he finds a note in his letterbox with the words: "Tomorrow you must die! Ganten doesn't really take the warning seriously. His old friend Peter takes a completely different view and can't understand John's attitude at all. Only the second warning and some very strange encounters gnaw away at Ganten's unshakeable self-confidence. The hours he then experiences change his life.
Of powerful women and suspicious triangles – but first we need some background knowledge.
On average, every European eats almost 66 kilograms of meat per year. But do we actually know exactly where our meat comes from and what journey it has taken before it ends up on our plates? What options do German and French consumers have to find out where an animal comes from? An investigative research trip across Europe.
Freddy Lim is a founder and singer of the famous black metal band Chthonic from Taiwan. Apart from that, he has been a member of the Taiwanese parliament since 2016, sitting on the committees for National Defence and Foreign Affairs. He is a member of a coalition working closely with Taiwan's first-ever female president. The film accompanies the rock star politician for his first year in political office as he opposes China's policy towards Taiwan and Tibet. As an activist fighting for human rights, he meets with the Dalai Lama, but also takes part in Donald Trump's inauguration even though he has many reservations about him. Freddy Lim is on the front line. But he still occasionally puts on his face paint and sings in a diabolical voice at the front of his black metal band. Strangely, the two worlds are coming together.
A Tyrolean farm boy helps his grandfather on the farm. He drives over the snow in the morning on his little bicycle tractor, collects bottles, boils eggs, feeds the cows in the barn, milks them. Every day the ritual of the previous day repeats itself. Until suddenly it doesn't work anymore.
Henriette is terminally ill with cancer. Since her diagnosis, contact with her sister Gerlinde has fizzled out. It is only when she talks to the open-minded pastor Linus Gobert that she begins to accept her fate and gets closer to her sister again. But before she can tell Gerlinde about her illness, she is shot dead in the street. Gerlinde, the only witness to the crime, doubts that it was a robbery.
Student film following children playing in Poland
A fleeting memory of an old woman looking back at her youth brings about a moment of elegance in times of the after-war misery.
During the day, Hinnerk, Georg, Paul and Manuel work as parcel carriers for a delivery service. In the evenings, the buddies like to get together and talk about everything that's on their minds. Then Hinnerk learns that their boss's little daughter is going to have to undergo an extremely expensive operation.
Preparations for the "100 years of Lünen police station" anniversary celebration are in full swing, an event set to conclude with a tribute to outstanding investigative work. An honor the team surrounding Brandt and Wiesel might be worthy of considering their latest case: bar owner Robin Bürger has been found dead in his cooling chamber. The investigation proves to be increasingly complicated as everyone affiliated with it either tries to hide the truth or plot against one another. Soon, Brandt and Wiesel are certain that all of them are two-faced. How right they are with that assumption and how deeply the case will come to affect their own lives are the questions at the heart of this 5th "wieselflink and brandtgefährlich" film.
Most people play it for fun, to them it’s a deadly serious matter. A small group of professional players from all over the country gather in Amriswil to crown the Swiss Minigolf Champion. Among them is the young and extremely ambitious Maja as well as Jörg, one of the most experienced players of the tournament. Far away from everyday life, the players need nerves of steel and a knack for selecting the right balls to deserve a place on the podium.
Inspired by the concept of smooth and striated space by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari the film plays with different spaces and reflects on the power of mental and physical barriers.
He described his love of art as his greatest inclination from his youth: Johann Joachim Winckelmann as a representative and rediscoverer of Greek and Roman antiquity. He was the father of European art history and was the victim of a robbery-murder in 1768. The documentary tells of his life, his work and his early death.
When you look at a screen for a long time, the screen looks into you, too. It's late. You've been juggling numbers all day. The screen seems to vibrate before your eyes. You close your eyes. The afterimage on your retina continues pulsating in over-saturated colours.
ZDF.neo kultur record of In Extremo gig live at Wacken Open Air 2012
Maren feels very much at peace in her new home. Her relationship with her father is improving and her son comes to Munich from New York for a research project. But the ex-banker can't really rejoice, because the financial situation is still tense. A creditor holds promissory bills from Bertramshof, which he sells on to a wealthy sausage manufacturer. When it turns out that the new co-owner is closely related to Maren's father Maximilian, the financial difficulties are compounded by unexpected family problems.
The first “Ferien in Schlampenau, Sommercamp für unnatürliche Frauen” took place in 2007 and has since become an annual event. Four participants talk about polyamory, the summer camp, feminism, being queer and their dreams for the future.
In VIDEO VERTOV, director Gerd Conradt tells his grandson stories from more than forty years of his eventful life - based on film and video documents. The film tells the life story of the video pioneer: love and revolution, red flag and meditation - expeditions to distant countries. For his grandson, Gerd Conradt spreads his film and video treasures on the big screen and leaves behind an "electronic" testament to his 50-year career as a film artist. The first love. Economic Miracle Berlin. Marriage and birth of daughter in Rome. Student at the dffb in Berlin. A life between adaptation and provocation. A life in search of knowledge, always interested in the extreme.
Boy meets girl in the future. He dreams about the space station above the earth. She lives there. A perfect match. But unfortunately teleportation isn’t that easy.
The story follows a number of protagonists who are hiding from truths or escaping them, lying to each other in a circle of deceit. Meanwhile therapy patients offer glimpses of truth that underscore the increasing web of lies whose consequences will eventually engulf the protagonists and force them into confronting their truths. If the story has a message it is: you can't keep a lie a secret forever.
Venus variations on Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley.
Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions. Excessive partying has left its mark on the parents and shaped the son. With raw honesty, the family takes stock of living and growing up together.
The interface of contrary realities is torn. Passion and fear of unbelievable strength are connecting and scattering the siblings. What remains: the search for love - the getaway into another reality?
A new short film portrait that, as often in Ute Aurands work, was filmed over several years and in different places, in this case Germany and Japan. "Filming portraits allows me to emphasize private gestures and moments, and thus to transcend the narrative or documenting." (UA)
The best films of the European Outdoor Film Tour 13/14. CASCADA (USA 2013, 6 min) Endless rain and millions of mosquitos: is the Mexican jungle the best destination for a kayaking trip? THE ROAD FROM KARAKOL (USA 2013, 30 min) An American in Kyrgyzstan: Kyle Dempster hunts down the last great unclimbed peaks and almost gets lost in the remote wilderness along the way. WIDE BOYZ (UK 2012, 20 min) Too big for your fists, too small for your ass, the brutal world of offwidth climbing: Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker take on the gnarliest offwidth cracks in America. THE BEGINNING (CH 2012, 6 min) Canyoning with the Swiss supermen. NORTH OF THE SUN (NOR 2013, 23 min) Waves and waste on the freezing Norwegian coastline: a perfect Winter for hardcore surfers Inge Wegge and Jørn Ranum. SUPERVENTION (NOR 2013, 10 min) Outstanding freeskiing and snowboarding in the most remote places of Norway.