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Bruce Lacey wandering around and interacting with stones

Else, a half-breed child from the secretive harem of the German colonial elite, is the daughter of the governor's deputy Jesko von Puttkammer, who disappeared to faraway Germany. Else became an old woman who had suffered all her life from remaining fatherless. The film finally confronts Else's only half-sister from German nobility with the mulatto sister-in-law from Africa.

Short 'newsfilm' looking back at the events of 1981, beginning with the killing of 13 young blacks in New Cross, London. The film goes on to show the anger this aroused among black people, and their march in demonstration - `The Black People's Day of Action'. Also covers the Brixton riots.

Rocksteady to both a visual and musical documentary of the big shots of the English 2-Tone movement of the late 1970s that has the exhaustive, high-energy performances exploding onto stage. Jump, shout, twist and crawl and dance to the tunes of Ska and its anthems of its rough riders and three-minute heroes captivated in the moment of a generation of England's concrete jungles and razor blade alleys. No longer on your radio but now on stage, together, with the likes of Madness, The Specials and The Beat et al, this concert footage of an era is a must-see, rare and fascinating look into a once vibrant youth culture of working-class England and its musical dance craze.

Outtakes from Maya (1979).

Ann Turner delves into the atmosphere of the works and reveals, besides Degas the gifted draughtsman and painter, also an experimental graphic artist, sculptor, photographer and poet.

Peter, medical student and son of old materials dealer Richard Müller, wants to get engaged to the daughter of the director of a local construction company. The profession of his father has so far only vaguely hinted out of shame. And so his future in-laws think Richard is working in ministry. When he learns about it, he is initially offended. After all, he lives his profession with body and soul. But then Richard takes advantage of the misunderstanding and pays the bride parents a visit.

A man sings about his baldhead.

In the village of Medela, the village elder Fritz Schmal is buried with great sympathy. Beforehand, Till goes with his father to his property to check on the stork on its new nest. When they join the funeral procession afterwards, the stork has just returned from Africa and joins her husband on the nest. So it comes as Grandad Schmal had predicted. The following flashback shows how it all began.

A new fun show in which Frank Zander and Isabel Varell show just how versatile they are. In 45 short sketches, the pair travel through time - from paradise to Neanderthal times to ancient Egypt, from the Romans to James Bond. They also poke fun at "immortal" lovers: Adam and Eve, Caesar and Cleopatra, Napoleon and Josephine.

In this quirky romantic comedy, Evelyn, a charming yet independent woman, finds herself entangled in a series of absurd relationships with eccentric men. As she navigates the chaos of romantic misunderstandings and social expectations, Evelyn seeks a meaningful connection, learning that true love is not about pleasing others, but finding herself. Directed by Loriot, the film combines sharp social satire with his signature dry humor, offering a witty exploration of love, gender roles, and the absurdities of romance.

This film was constructed using the so-called “photo-finish” technique employed in sporting events. The same principle was applied, precisely, to the motion picture camera. The subjects are explored and self-explored using a thin slit arranged horizontally halfway along the aperture plate as they enter the motion picture camera itself. The images then are formed as an extremely dense series of lines as in a primitive video screen, such as the Nipkow. The cinematic rhythms of the film vary with the accelerations and decelerations imposed beyond the synchronism between movie camera and subject: with motion from top to bottom, or else with the movie camera lying sideways, (in that case the line is vertical) then, from left to right and vice versa. Of course without a shutter or claw [in the camera]. This filmic technique is well known in scientific cinematography, and it is this very combination that I most urgently desired to encompass in my graphic compositional concerns.

Unfinished early documentary by Ulrich Seidl about a foto shooting with Sonja Kirchberger and Peter Baumann at the Tunisian seaside.

Foire du trône was made in a big annual Paris fair, like Coney Island. I filmed the people and the games, and that forms the first part of the film. The second part is an elaborate working of the coloured lights. (T.H.)

An alien child, Mirko, is exiled to Earth for his parents' crimes.

The young officer Count Yorck von Wartenburg - he bears one of the most famous names of the German past - awaits his execution as a participant in the conspiracy of July 20, 1944. Von Wartenburg, together with his comrades, suffers infinitely long days of terrible torture, disrespect and humiliation as a death candidate. In a dream, he experiences his escape and the real continuation of his fight against fascist barbarism, for which he must detach himself from his class and is involved in the anti-Hitler front by communists and the Soviet army.

A businessman who receives his niece who comes from the interior experiences different situations in a hotel accommodation.

Stop-motion animated short film in which a puppet on a trike captures a puppet bird-man.

With and about her friend and painter Bettina von Arnim. Filmed in her house in southern France.

A legendary stolen Inca emerald comes into the possession of a man’s daughter after he fled to the jungles of South America following a hit-and-run accident. The valuable gem causes chaos in a small German town, a situation exacerbated by a friend who was also involved in the traffic accident and turns out to be a jewel thief.

A short documentary about an event in the director's childhood, during WWII.

A César award nominated short feature.

A young provincial has come to Paris to study Chinese. From a modest background, he has to do odd jobs to survive, finding accommodation as best he can in a furnished room where he is hardly free. Not being wealthy, he has solved his travel problems by getting a tandem, which, in the streets of Paris, is rather rare. Eccentric, unpredictable but tender, Georges, known as "Guidon Futé", falls in love with one of his classmates from Langues Orientales.

A look at the fight for civil rights in the north of Ireland from 1968 to 1988.

Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, including Frankie Howerd, Russell Harty, Trevor Brooking, the Lord Mayor of London, Professor JK Galbraith and Arthur Askey. The special guest for the 40th anniversary programme was Paul McCartney who was also a fan of the show: 'I love its homeliness. It conjures up the best in traditional British pleasure, like the great British breakfast. It's an honour to be asked'.

Recovered Zulueta short.

The history of Expressionism summed up in 6 absolutely terrifying minutes.

A 40 minute long, Super 8 film

2084 – mankind is about to go for the stars. Humans with XY-chromosomes live in individual cells having no contact with each other. They are considered to be extremely dangerous for society. They are kept alive because some still believe, that they might harbour some original creativity. To stay alive they have to produce a yearly "survival-permit-panorama" (SPP) that gets fed into the public media net

Bodenproben focuses on the Prinz-Albrecht site, the former headquarters of the Gestapo in Berlin, which was used as a rubble dump until the provisional Topography of Terror memorial was erected in the fall of 1986.

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have dark secrets to share.

Marcel is his garage's handyman. With the smell of grease and petrol wafting through the air, alternating between night watchman, petrol pump attendant and confidant, he is visited every evening by the slightly lost night owls who pass by. They all confide in him about their daily troubles.

An ex-West End playwright, interviewed by a hack-journalist for a railway station biography. How can this turn into a love story?

On his way to Santiago de Compostela, a pilgrim recounts his experiences through the letters he writes to his friend.

In a small town in the North West of England a vagrant serial killer is stoned to death by a gang of teenage vigilantes wearing white hoods. He then rises from his grave in the woods as a zombie a year later to gorily kill the vigilantes one-by-one!

A Super 8 film with sound by Joseph Morder.

A portrait of the summer vacation of some young Chileans from different socioeconomic statuses during 1984.

Four contemplative stories about problems with love: "Profitability" is about money, "The Smile" is about coping with a difficult situation, an "Experiment with Alf" is supposed to save a marriage, and in "Paternity" a lawyer and her husband are committed to a little girl who is the subject of a lawsuit.

Speaking from Henry Moore's own studio in Perry Green, Hertfordshire, John Read shares his personal memories of the artist he filmed six times over 28 years.

Urca (Renato Pozzetto), a young man living in the mountains of Lombardy, takes off with his hang glider to go to finally see the sea. During the voyage flying over Milan, but just as he was admiring the city from an attack of coughing and is forced to crash-land in the San Siro stadium. He discovers the city that his elderly mother had recommended to avoid at all costs, falling in love also noting its strengths and its shortcomings.

1. As an unsuspecting wanderer between Maikammer and Hambach / Germany makes history 2. Reassurance 3. Aborigines 4. Moons

Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado, recorded in high definition audio.