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Gustav Mahler’s symphonies are a universe in themselves – infinitely multi-dimensional, and full of cosmic primordial power. Performances of these works are among the highlights of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Rattle era.
One day Jonah left his family. He gave no explanation and no goodbye — only a telephone number that redirected to an answering machine. Now, as he drifts deeper into an abyss of paper planets and cardboard comets, his connections to time, reality and home are falling prey to the vacuum of space. The signal from Earth is fading and his memories are blurring into obscurity. Only home can save him now but is it too late for Jonah?
Two boys push their mother towards the lookout of the eiffel tower, visitors are overwhelmed by the beauty of Versailles and couples kiss on the Pont-Neuf, while a young woman gets stood up on a weekend trip to Paris.
Life in Neuperlach, a Munich suburb, is quaint. It is a safe neighborhood, where people know and greet each other. Everybody has their own backyard; single car garages are lining the narrow footpaths and everything is groomed. But for some time now that peacefulness is troubled, because refugees are supposed to move in next door. As some of the residents are afraid of the noise to be expected, they are putting up a noise protection wall. Biotope shows the life of the locals and gets to the bottom of the reason for building that wall.
On December 21, 2017, the writer Heinrich Böll would have turned 100. In the Federal Republic, Böll, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, was tremendously present and well-known. His criticism of media hectoring, his commitment to peace and his solidarity with the weaker made him, the writer, a kind of moral authority. Whoever wants to get to know him anew today - 33 years after his death - discovers a personality with amazingly modern, timelessly topical sides, with themes and concerns that today, far more than 30 years after his death, have a completely new meaning again: Anti-fascism, pacifism, the fight against media agitation, personal freedom, solidarity and comprehensive humanity. In Tina Srowig's documentary, Böll's son René, his publisher Reinhold Neven DuMont and friends and companions recall important stages, great successes, turbulent conflicts and very human, moving and amusing moments in the writer's life.
A poetic testimony by Jabbar Abdullah that remembers an intact Syria. In 2011 he experienced the outbreak of war and escaped until a river led him to his new home.
A man, a tower of toast bread and a package of inconspicuous contents. A film that begins with a skillful exercise and ends with a treat.
A guy helps a stranger and gives him a place to stay under the condition that he would work for him. Soon his intentions become more sinister and his tasks become more sadistic.
Told in five chapters, ABSCHIEDE is a unique tale about personal loss, grief and hope, starting with a nine-year-old girl and ending with a man at the end of his life.
Two attractive young men are looking forward to their dates. But for one of them his date is going differently than planned.
"IDLE" is about an alternate future of humanity. It is a praise of idleness. The film follows a humanoid being in a post-apocalyptic landscape dancing and enjoying leisure while housekeeping robots do their job and unintentionally create works of art. A voice speaks a text based on the essay "Laziness as the Real Truth of Mankind" (1921) by Kazimir Malevich.
The two teenagers Melek and Fabio couldn't be any more different. But they have one thing in common that brings them together: Both want to get away from home. Fabio because he is gay and Melek because her Turkish parents limit her dreams. Together they learn to face their problems. A film about understanding, being gay and migration.
Aykan Safoğlu takes his artistic friendship with Nihad Nino Pušija as the point of departure for Touching Feeling. Their friendship began in 2014 in the nGbK, an artists’ association in Berlin, where Pušija has been active since the 1990s as an artist, curator, activist, and photographer. Pušija has been recording the world around him for years with his camera: queer life in Kreuzberg, the life of the Romani in the former Yugoslavia and in German refugee shelters; everyday occurrences, but also scenes of flight and migration. Pušija’s photographs form the basis for the film; mark by mark, Safoğlu uncovers them on the black screen. The scratches on the picture’s surface turn into contours and fragments: prompting Safoğlu’s reflection on his role as observer, the defiant beauty of everyday life, and the terrible rupture that war and destruction left in their trail in the 1990s across the Balkans.
New movie by Gabriel Tempea
Nothing comes from nothing. A salad makes your biceps shrink, says grandma. Because grandma is permanently working out – anytime and anyplace. The world is not all peaches and cream, the world is a sweatshop.
When trying to drink away a heartbreak, things happen at night, that one doesn’t remember the next day...
Myself introduces a film festival
Frankfurter Street comes alive with painted suggestions and the sounds of a garbage man, a stray cat and a lunchtime meeting.
The camera’s gaze rises high above an area in Berlin, where the paths of tourists, homeless people, passersby and police officers cross. We are in a watchtower that once controlled the no man’s land where East and West collided.
During an apartment visit in East Stuttgart, three parties try to convince the broker that they're each the best candidates.
Structuralist Philipp Fleischmann continues his architectural examinations of exhibition sites, using specially constructed cameras to capture the interior and exterior of his country’s national arts pavillion at the Venice Biennale.
Michael Klier documents some ideas about Dresden while shooting three short films for the TV channel ARTE.
Short film set in Nuremberg
The terms of the human and the lie are treated philosophically via a read text. Definitions connect and question things. In addition hypnotically rotating orchids.
Portraits and fragmented views of Paris intertwine.
A bullfight in the South of France. White foam is flowing into the arena, blurring the view of animals and humans. Tourneur shows young men in the ring with a bull – their gestures are between archaic subjugation and modern dance. Image and sound, foreground and background, on-screen and off-screen combined in a highly artificial and surreal way. Up to the moment when the bull suddenly breaks through the presentation.
A little girls fantasy runs wild as she reenacts Mexican telenovelas she's watched on tv.
We see the machinery of image projection fail all the time. What happens when art steps in and takes over the process?
Talking Money is an observational documentary shot at bank consultation tables all over the world. Weaving stories from eight countries into one global money conversation, it virtually transforms the cinema into a bank. Purely experiential! Who are we when we talk about money? Far from the glamour of distant Wall Street, this is the reality of personal banking, where one’s life problems become a matter of business. A heartfelt comment on capitalism revealing how the invisible power of money works on all of us, no matter who and where we are.
The ocean. The vastness of the sea. A whale cow and her calf. In Blau the life and mythology of these giant marine mammals are woven into one fantastical story.
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.
Louisa is living a gloomy life. She takes rescue in literature, loosing herself in books and novels. One day she takes a book from the library, she did not choose: A guide to Lucid Dreaming. Soon she discovers the endless options of this new universe of opportunities: living a dream.
Documentary about the Bayerische Staatsopger (an opera house in Munich, Germany).
Wally's life is increasingly turned upside down by her mother's alcohol addiction. Helplessness, excessive demands and desperation shape her childhood - a daily struggle for survival.
In October 1987, the documentary film collective Amber Films from Newcastle became the first British film crew ever allowed to shoot in East Germany. They filmed the workers of the state-owned fishing concern in Warnemünde and a brigade of crane operators at the state Warnow dockyards. Just two years later, East Germany was history, including most of the jobs it once provided. Twenty-five years later, in 2014, the filmmakers returned to an utterly different Rostock. They visited the people they had filmed in 1987. Together, documentarians and subjects look at excerpts from the earlier film, and talk about the enormous changes the men and women experienced, how they dealt with them, and how they feel today.