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Berlin has long established itself as one of the first places to go for up-and-coming creative minds from all over the world and clearly stands out within the German art scene. But what draws the young bohemian to the cultural metropolis on the Spree of all places? And what opportunities and dangers does the existing oversupply on the art market hold?
“POST MORTEM berlin” shows the choreography of a body’s last journey. We experience the process of a cremation: from the arrival of the coffin to the filling of the ash capsule. The technical and hygienically perfected process of cremation renders the deceased's last encounter into an industrialized ritual.
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.
Franz Christian Gundlach, known as F. C. Gundlach, influenced an entire generation of photographers, such as Andreas Mühe and Kristian Schuller. Wim Wenders interprets Gundlach as a "visionary of photography". For F. C. Gundlach, who was born in 1926 in Heinebach in northern Hesse, Paris marked the start of his career: he had his first exhibition there in 1951. He quickly rose to become a star photographer. He moved to Hamburg and made his mark on fashion photography with fashion spreads for women's magazines such as "Film und Frau" and "Brigitte".
Despite her advanced age, an elderly woman overcomes her fear of the water to learn how to swim.
A village in the "Bergisches Land" in the summer of 1943. Anna is worried about her son who is fighting on the Eastern Front. While her husband Werner wants to believe the propaganda of the Nazis, Anna secretly listened to the radio broadcasts of the Allies to figure out the true circumstances of the war. When Werner finds out, a world seems to collapse for him. But that's not the only secret Anna keeps hidden from Werner.
Wong deals with Alain Resnais' film L’Année dernière à Marienbad (1961). The Nouvelle Vague icon is characterized by ambiguity in the narrative and innovative visual language—both elements that Wong exaggerates in his work. In L’Année dernière à Marienbad, we never learn the specific location where the action takes place—a circumstance that Wong exploits when he shoots his version in the Marienbad Café and Fuxing Park, both in Shanghai and marked by colonial influences. The overlapping of cultural codes creates moments of irritation, as does Wong's embodiment of both male and female protagonists – familiar attributions are broken down.
Documentary film.
Wombo the alien lands in distress on planet earth. He is chased by a dog, ends up in a vegetable basket and nearly gets cooked for dinner! But why is it all happening to him? The reason is simple: our alien friend happens to look like a potato!
A kaleidoscopic film experience.
Individual elements from a carrier of visual information have been isolated and used to construct alternative visual reagents. Repetition is administered as a binder to tame the wild particles in motion, achieving a golden ratio in the mind's eye.
A film portrait of the SPUR group, which is considered one of the most important avantgarde artist collectives in post-war Germany SPUR in the 1960s.
This thriller is more complex than it might seem at first glance. What is the truth, who is lying and who is not? Does the film itself even fool you? You find out for yourself!
Ten Tinder users report honestly and unsparingly about their very different experiences with the dating app - about their wishes, dreams, experiences and ideas. Hip, digital Berlin is just the right city for Tinder. Young, creative people in particular are moving to the Havel and Spree rivers, often wanting to remain independent and self-determined and not commit themselves, but at the same time almost everyone longs for closeness, tenderness, romance and sex. Getting to know people in Berlin is not difficult, but entering into a relationship is. The Tinder phenomenon helps young city dwellers to somehow combine the two preferences of self-realization and love. Or does it? Because as practical as the dating app may be, it also brings with it some problems and dangers.
Five characters. Five novels. One room. Five fictional characters meet in a bunker, a rancid bar or in an underpass furnished by its homeless inhabitant – a non-place that condemns them to eternal togetherness. Driven by the failure in their histories, they seek repose and comfort in people who can not offer them any. And yet, the hope for instances of humanness smolders in this restless solitude.
An old song resonates in the mind of Helmut, a song that returns to open the door to the old ghosts of his childhood and confronts him with the most dominant presence of his life, Aunt Helga.
Hedgehog Hogi's life and adventures told from a hedgehog's perspective.
“I know you” is easier said than “I know myself.” Here, someone probes their own fear in a childlike voice and sketchy images. There are certain pieces of evidence, like the shovel used by a young woman to dig a deep hole. And there is that black thing that grabs her soul like a spider. A cautious and curious mutual approach in sometimes concrete, sometimes abstract ink drawings.
The animated film tells the semi-documentary story of the "Peaceful Revolution" in East Germany, which reached its decisive turning point with the Monday demonstration on October 9, 1989, in Leipzig. It traces the path to the success of the resistance, the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and finally, the reunification of Germany in October 1990.
Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy.
This video essay deepens loneliness, poverty and depression by developing the tragic story of a boy from the Jiu Valley who commits suicide because of his mother’s absence.
In late antiquity, the religions were not yet rigidly opposed to each other, so that Christian apocrypha, the Babylonian Talmund and the Koran reveal spiritual diversity. Alexander Kluge's usual sparsely illustrated (television) essay film consists mainly of historical text quotations, whereby he attempts to derive conclusions about our modern consciousness from history.
The Swiss art-rock band Les Reines Prochaines emerged from the youth and feminist movement of the 1980s. The young and cheeky performance artists of yesteryear are now “mature” women but still exuberantly youthful in spirit. Even after 25 years since their debut, they continue to venture across traditional genre and gender borders – with a witty, sensual and radical approach. The film traces the distinctive history of the Reines Prochaines and captures the artists in rehearsal and during their day-to-day life on tour.
The essayistic documentary MAJUB’S JOURNEY tells the story of an African man who lived in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and worked as an extra in the movie industry. He was born in the German colony Deutsch-Ostafrika and became a soldier for the Germans during World War I – when he was only nine years old. After the Germans lost the war, they failed to hand him his military pay. About a decade later he decides to travel to Germany and personally collect his outstanding money. This film tells his story – his childhood in the colony and his life and in Nazi Germany – including the holes that the archive leaves open.
Zhanna und Lyosha are survivors. The couple, now in their mid-thirties, became heroin addicts in the turbulent years of upheaval in Russia. They know their days are numbered, and pit their frail zest for life and gallows humor against this fact. The film draws on these moments and offers an intimate portrayal of a fragile and ambivalent love affair.
SauAcker depicts the obstacles faced by Philipp, a young farmer determined to modernize his father's old-fashioned farm. His motto is "I'll do it my way". Philipp is fully committed and is even risking his relationship to attain his goals. The documentary paints a funny and charming picture of the two wayward heroes and presents an entertaining angle on the realities of contemporary society.
"Probably the best living pianist" headlined the Berliner Morgenpost's review of Grigory Sokolov's sold-out June 2013 recital at the Berlin Philharmonie. "The four Impromptus could no be interpreted more dramatically... The D 946 Pieces cried out with despair an longing for death." (from DVD cover)
Behind the locked doors of his apartment, a man faces troubling phenomena, straddling the thin line between fantasy and psychosis. His apartment seems to mutate uncannily as it is incrementally invaded by strange drawings. Painfully, he retches up a creature as black as the ink on the pages… A new union is coming. The creature starts to explore her new surroundings, a place she will eventually make her own.
Russell, a theatrical agent, is hoping to get his wife back after decades of family life as the kids have finally left home. His wife, Edie, is not happy about this. Their son Matt, is wrestling with a relationship in which he earns less than his successful girlfriend and daughter Rosa is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair. Living on your own, it seems, may not be as glamorous as it's cracked up to be. Rosa is the first of the Boyd children to think she may have to move back in with her parents-just until she can make ends meet again. Set in Boston, Massachusetts, this is the empty nest, twenty-first-century style-with grown children coming and going just as parents are getting ready for their second honeymoon.
Special agent Michael, who is not at a loss for martial arts skills, is personally commissioned by his boss to infiltrate a gangster syndicate suspected of dealing in illegal weapons of war on a large scale. It's just as well that the daughter of a businessman could do with a bodyguard. Michael selflessly saves her life and is promptly hired as a bodyguard. It turns out that his ward is being blackmailed. Does this have anything to do with the weapons?
Animated film by Bruno Sukrow.
The Czech Republic became a member of NATO and the EU 25 years ago. This change of course heralded a clear affiliation with the West. Today, however, there are considerable deviations from this course. Many Czechs are now skeptical of the West. In this situation, the country is an ideal target for pro-Russian propaganda and targeted disinformation.
A zombie outbreak documentary in two parts filmed at the Code Dead events.
Documentary on film composer Peter Thomas.
