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Billy and Rose are on the run. After being surrounded by a SWAT team in a hotel room, they had to take a hostage. Corrupt cop Jack makes no secret of the fact that he won't let them go alive. The rivals have known each other for too long. When the situation seems hopeless, Billy has one last demand before they surrender: Father Toni should come with his Bible... and he mustn't forget the rings!
Live performance with 16mm projectors. This is a simulation of a prototype for a “feeling machine” envisioned by Dr. D. Forme in 1917. This simulation is based on a short description and diagram found in the doctor’s notebooks. The description focuses on only one section of the machine. Brief mentions of the other sections were included but no detailed information was discovered. The machine was never built, yet according to the description its purpose was “to replace the faulty mechanism of human emotion”.
The series accompanies scientists in their research on nocturnal animals.
Documentary about a German village in the middle of nowhere.
The best of European Outdoor film festival 2012-2013.
Shadowing a team of door-to-door canvassers working for worldwide relief agency Malteser International, this revealing documentary charts their daily struggles with success and failure when it comes to convincing people to give to charity.
A Surrealist on her own Path" - Far more than the furry cup that made her famous is part of the oeuvre of Meret Oppenheim. The documentary presents the multi-faceted work and the brightly colorful life of the great artist and muse of the surrealists, who would have celebrated her 100th birthday on 6 October 2013.
A wolf child, a cat, an angel. Young Daewit suffers violence at the hands of his father. He is eventually rescued and able to flee the place of his abuse. He finds refuge with a family of wolves: a foster child in a modern world. Lost, he embarks on a seemingly endless journey, a journey full of riddles and deprivation. He tries to find himself, his identity – amidst the all-encompassing sorrow.
Student film following children playing in Poland
Patrick and Sara are in love. And they are involved in a group campaigning for the rights of refugees. When their rapprochement leads to sexual assault, their private love story takes on an unintentional political dimension.
East Berlin, October 7, 1989: While the state elite was celebrating the GDR's 40th birthday before the eyes of the world, resistance was forming in the streets. Guests celebrated in the Palace of the Republic in Berlin. In front of it, people loudly demanded reforms. There were also demonstrations outside Berlin, for example in Plauen. The situation escalates ...
In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the forties and fifties as a basis for thinking about the codes of representation of former Portuguese colonial power and the way memory is produced. Furthermore, these images are shown by a Guinean archivist who tells the story of his country seen through his own eyes.
People in our societies are getting older and older, which raises the question of how to deal with illness or the death of friends, but also with the many opportunities that life still offers at 70 or 80. Silvia Häselbarth portrays five Swiss people in her sensitive documentary "Falten" (Wrinkles), five people who have come to terms with aging in different yet similar ways.
For the first time, this documentary shows Georg Baselitz at work on paintings and sculptures in his studio, ceaselessly reinventing his methods, offering a closely observant, intimate portrait of this internationally renowned artist.
Documentary on the recording of the score for the 2016 restoration of F.W. Murnau's Der Gang in die Nacht.
Glyphosate and its consequences: since the mid-1990s, parts of Europe have been plagued by mysterious animal deaths. And farmers are also falling ill. Scientists were baffled for a long time until high levels of the pesticide glyphosate were found in the animals. Millions of liters of such pesticides are used every year in European agriculture alone.
Conceived as a gift for Cécile Staehelin after the death of her husband Dieter, the film reflects on music as both memory and philosophy. Dieter speaks about sound as harmony, proportion, and inner life, while he and Cécile are seen performing Bohuslav Martinů’s Arabesque. Beavers punctuates their playing with luminous passages of white light, shaping an intimate portrait of friendship, loss, and the transcendent reach of music.
In a small Gernan Village 3 old people die. Their Kids decide to keep acting as if their were alive, so they can get their retirement benefit.
Lucca is in the middle of her A-level exams, heading for a career as a high-flying lawyer when she is mistakenly accused of criminal damage and sentenced to community service in a hospice. There she meets Valerie who is determined to carry out the last wishes of her friend Herma, despite Hermas son who is only interested in his inheritance. Lucca helps Valerie to kidnap Hermas ashes and they begin a journey which turns Luccas ideas and values upside down.
A documentary directed by Julian Benedikt.
The film documents the development of a performance by students from Koszalin/Poland and Hamburg in the former Neuengamme concentration camp. Under the guidance of dancers, musicians and rappers from New York, San Francisco and Hamburg, the young people get involved in this place and its history for five days. Despite initial reservations and openly expressed fears of dancing or singing here of all places, a process begins in which the students of both nations find their own, very moving form of expression to deal with the past.
Idling follows the lives of the artist's game avatars when the player is away from the keyboard. In a vast array of third-person open world games, the characters are idling in their unique ways. As the clips transition through a day and night cycle, the avatars' stillness extends the focus onto the virtual environment and the behavior of NPCs (non-playable characters), resulting in a meditative setting for the observation of the seemingly self-governing virtual worlds that seem to never cease activity whether or not anybody is watching.
Mr Pohle, Mr Domres, Mr Hoffmann, Mr Schneewolf and Mr Czajkowski are competing against each other as candidates for the one direct mandate in the Potsdam parliament. In their campaigns they deal with what moves the rural population. People who are difficult to grasp in the media and in opinion polls and who feel increasingly ignored - their needs and worries are unheard of. This outrageous story is told from the perspective of the director Jean Boué. He has lived in Prignitz, the most sparsely populated district in Germany, for twelve years. He knows the local conditions and tries to find out why rural areas seem to be increasingly less accessible with urban-controlled politics.