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The pandemic, the lockdown, the loneliness. The two protagonists of "HEROES" go on a journey to the place where heroes become heroes. On the screen and in front of it. A fantastic journey into the most fantastic of all cathedrals: the cinema. Created in 48 hours.
The German Bundestag (parliament) is the political heart of the Federal Republic of Germany - a highly symbolic place loaded with expectations. We accompany four members of the Bundestag through their everyday routines, plunging in at eye level. The documentary Bundestag shows how politics is done today, how complex the processes and formalities behind the scenes are - a closer look at this "center of power".
This is a story about a little girl who lives in a red world who accidentally discovers other colors and looks for them.
The German-French photographer Gisèle Freund (1908-2000) went into exile in Paris in 1933. She witnessed many major events and knew some of the most important personalities of the 20th century. Her works include the famous portrait of André Malraux and the iconic photographs of Frida Kahlo in Mexico City.
This is an animated short about my best friend and me and how we effed up our lives for quite a bit. It's a story about friendship, sex and mental health. In it's core it's a lesson learnt that one cannot change who they are deep inside - no matter if gay or straight.
They might not look as impressive as wolves but the little dogs of the world are just as complex and endearing. By following dog families from across the world we’ll see the similarities and differences in how they live from how they interact and defend themselves to how they find food.
An educational experimental piece of porn focusing on squirting, its stigma and empowerment.
About our way from the water to the stars.
Curtains up for a battle of material! More and more and more and more (repeat). A critique of capitalism packed into three minutes, in the form of an explosively colorful music video. An immense display of different techniques, countless characters, and screaming, shrill (neon) colors. Money dances—and we shake along. (wp)
Europe's largest refugee camp is frequently reported on in the media. However, these reports have slowed down, especially during the corona pandemic, and what you see from the camp are often images of misery. However, this is only part of the reality, which is why we try to capture the island's many facets. Lesvos is much more than just the suffering and hardship of the refugees.
The Story Of Leonora is a short film about a little girl who is given a red eye by two giant water bears and follows her demon to the edge of another world, a red world.
From the first conspiratorial meeting to publication: gripping documentary about the story behind the scandal video that brought down the Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache in 2019.
Hú Zhǎng Zū writes ancient Chinese poems with water on the ground in Fuxing Park, Shanghai. After a few minutes the characters dry out and disappear. Almost everyday she comes here and practices her handwriting with her friends and colleagues. Together they have lively discussions about the strokes and shapes—amongst each other and with the many spectators. Hú Zhǎng Zū is the only woman within the turmoil of men, and due to her high writing art she is respected and highly admired. I come back to see her often, in order to learn from her and capture these ephemeral moments.
Half a century after La speakerine, rediscovered in 2018 at the Berlinale, Margarita Tsomou, co-editor of the feminist magazine Missy and professor of performing arts, revisits the practice of television advertising to advance inclusive feminism. A new manifesto addressed to the film industry as well.
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In this anthology of short films, the phrase "Gay Agenda" is reclaimed from the religious right and transformed into a celebration of gay culture. Sit back and enjoy "Don't Be a Dick!", "I Am Désiré", "After Noon", and "Upside Down Revolution".
Pascal Dusapin delves into the deepest abysses of the human soul and, with highly complex music that is dazzling and incredibly changeable, creates a blood-stained work, a parable about man's lust for power. Macbeth, who murdered the king and became king himself, died a violent death after his reign of terror. Pascal Dusapin and his librettist Frédéric Boyer have cursed Macbeth and his lady to relive and reenact their story over and over again in the underworld. Lorenzo Fioroni stages it as an eternal nightmare in the antechamber to hell, where all the spiritual garbage of human history has accumulated in Paul Zoller's stage design.
An unsuspecting teen summons the "Scandydan".
Oh how nice is Panama. However, it may be even nicer in Sweden. At least in winter 2020/21, when a small virus called SARS-CoV2 paralyzed the continent of Europe in particular. While in most countries the fight against the virus was announced with a wide variety of measures such as lockdown, compulsory masks and contact restrictions, which were also punishable by law, Sweden went a different way.
Weaving audio-visual recordings of zoo-animals into a fine web comprising of actions and reactions, this video finally spirals into a collective animalistic concert. Relating the different animals to each other through audio-visual montage creates fictional relations amongst the animals; a society of animals. Zoologische Gesellschaft (Zoological society) thus comments on human communities, who created zoos as mirror images. There is an otherness there, and at the same time a disturbing proximity, which we’d like to dismiss.
On a quiet evening, a wild, seemingly endless chase breaks out between a young man and a woman. The real meaning of the chase dissolves in the all-blurring race.
The conservative, oldfashioned Thomas is picking up his boyfriend Axel at the airport. Axel is a flight attendent,, travelling through the whole world. Axel is eager to talk with Thomas about a very special topic - he would like them to have a three-way relationship, a polygamy, with a Boing 737!.
Parks are not only recreational areas for us humans, but also valuable habitats for animals and plants. These green oases make cities worth living in and provide a surprising wealth of species. Parks are often our quickest contact with nature and a great opportunity to get to know wild animals. This film shows typical and well-known park inhabitants from a new perspective. In interviews, experts introduce us to the unknown sides of crows, squirrels and the like and report on their research. This much in advance: just as city dwellers and country dwellers differ, city animals also have their very own way of life. The next time you go for a walk, you will see the animals in the park with completely new eyes!
The charming emotion “Fear” that lives in your head wants to give an interview. Maybe you can become friends! Or is there a reason to be afraid of being afraid?
1.5 years after the last visit. Freshly shaved, a new hairstyle and a few extra kilos. The doorbell rings again. Will he open this time?
What would cruising among lesbians look like? Cruising seems to be a normal part of the gay culture and we all know scenes from famous gay films where men cruise in parks or other public spaces. At the same time, cruising is barely practiced among lesbians. Why? Pussy Cruising tackles this topic in a humorous way and takes you on a flirtatious journey between vibrant fantasy and mundane reality.
In Switzerland, four young adults explore, contemplate and, in the form of a letter, say goodbye to their favorite natural site. Stunningly beautiful forests, mountains, glaciers and lakes follow one another, like postcards trying in vain to freeze these landscapes soon transformed by the climatic catastrophes that this generation will inevitably witness. - Camille Kaiser
The murderer came from the neighborhood: On February 19, 2020, an assassin shot and killed nine young people for racist motives in Hanau. Survivors and relatives report how they experienced the night of the crime and the months after it and how they defend themselves against the logic of the perpetrator who wanted to make them strangers in their own homeland. Since that February night, they have been fighting for the memory of the victims and for clarifying what happened. And they ask many pressing questions about the night of the crime and the perpetrator that no one has wanted to answer so far. The documentary consistently looks at the crime from the perspective of the bereaved and uses their stories to tell about troublesome life of a citizen of foreign descent in Germany today, about inequality and about the everyday racism of the authorities and educational institutions.
Apocalypse series such as "Fear the Walking Dead" have shown us all too distressingly that, in the face of the apocalypse, stockpiling may secure your own supplies in the short term, but in no way offers protection against the actual threat. And an end-time classic like “Contagion“ already preached ten years ago that hand hygiene and face masks are essential if a global pandemic is to be contained. In "Fiction for Future", we ask old masters of the genre such as Roland Emmerich, Terry Gilliam and Frank Schätzing what the nightmarish tales of doom tell us about the horrors of our future. How will global challenges such as climate change and pandemics change our lives? Can we master the major challenges of our future? And if so, how?
Marie-Pierre Bonniol's "Volatile" is playful, montaging images of flight. The film is visually quick-witted and constantly in motion, as its electronic sounds created with the voice rise to a frantic and unnerving pitch.
A constellation of 6 super 8 films made by Helga Fanderl for "UNA (POSIBLE) VUELTA AL MUNDO EN SUPER 8" online program (2021). 1. Wörlitz 2. Blätter (Leaves/Foglie) 3. Rinnsteine (Streams/Ruscelli) 4. Gasometer I (Gasometro), 2010, 1’40” 5. Im Schnee (In the snow/ Nella neve) 6. Feuerturm (Fire tower/ Torre di fuoco)
The "Carnival of the Animals" is Camille Saint-Saëns' best-known piece. Saint-Saëns did not want it to be published. On the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in December 2021, the documentary reports on the circumstances under which the piece of music was created, tells of Saint-Saëns' life and how the "Carnival of the Animals" ultimately became an evergreen in the music world.
Bernd-Lutz Lange and Gunter Böhnke present a cheerful and thoughtful review of 30 years of German reunification that could not be more topical. From the auditorium, the cabaret duo looks out onto what has been their most important stage for many years, the "academixer" stage.
A group of friends reminisce about their Ghanaian high school’s exchange trip to Jackson, Mississippi a decade earlier. The more they remember, the uncannier it becomes.
The film tells a very personal story, the story of the director herself. It is a documentary about how she fled to her parents house at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis in spring 2020, where she spent the three months of lockdown in isolation with her parents. Unluckily back then, she was supposed to realize her master thesis, a film, but the pandemic made the realization of her actual concept impossbile. Hence she saw herself forced to radically change her concept and shoot the movie within their home. The result was the attempt to make a science fiction film with her parents in quarantine.
Two generations, one meal together. Young meets old, traditional meets liberal. In the story 'Empty Nest', mother, father, their only grown son and his girlfriend come together when they visit their parents. The overprotective mother does not cope with the departure of her only child, while the proud father's thoughts revolve solely around aging. The conversations are about life, memories, and expectations, while quietly telling of loneliness and grief.
During his tour, a nightwatcher discovers two atypical dead bodies in a position of loving kiss blindfolded. Meanwhile he starts to be fascinated by their otherworldliness, he feels the inevitable desire to transform and liberate himself.
Dubai – the Middle East’s land of the future. “Higher, faster, XXL” is the motto of the desert emirate in the Gulf popular with tourists. One of the highlights is the Atlantis Resort at the top of the artificial island “The Palm Jumeirah”. The Aquaventure water theme park is also part of the complex. It was the largest of its kind in the Middle East even before now. But the makers of the Atlantis are stepping things up a gear! A new section of the park is being built on an area of almost six hectares in size, including a 34-meter-high slide tower. The opening date is fast approaching, but there are still frequent delays on the construction site. The documentary accompanies the construction work and the opening of the amusement park.
Director, cinematographer and author Susanne Kellermann takes a very personal look at her husband Fritz Wepper. When he receives a serious cancer diagnosis in spring 2020, Susanne Kellermann begins to follow his everyday life and his work during the filming of the final episodes of "For Heaven's Sake". Fritz Wepper talks impressively about his childhood, the parallel filming of "Cabaret" and "Der Kommissar" and about dealing with the last things in life.
The girls are filming themselves having fun to show who they really are.
The Reich Film Archive was founded in 1934 and existed up to the end of the “Third Reich”. It paved the way for the preservation of films, the safe storage of the highly-explosive film material of the time, and also initiated the international exchange of film archives (FIAF). During the Second World War, it was part of the Nazi war propaganda and the intended destination of so-called “booty films”. In order to protect it from air raids, parts of the archive were relocated in a salt mine near Helmstedt after 1943. Following the end of the war, its inventory was split between the film archives of the GDR and the FRG, which were then remerged after the reunification of Germany.
While he waits for his friend to pick him up for a party, he's about to overthink his entire existence...
One of them had never got to know his father and met him unexpectedly when he was older. For another, the father was a gloomy fixture in their life. Six stories that could not be more different and yet show how important fathers are to us all.
What narratives escape the frame of war, and how do those bearing witness, in turn, consume media? Offing, re-focuses the lens on the tender and the mundane as acts of life, and re-centers relationality as a way into the unrenderable essence of sound and subjectivity. Employing the spoken online voice of artist Salman Nawati, against footage shot by Toukan outside of Gaza, the film departs from the summer 2021 war on Gaza.
Woodworkers have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. When ordinary forest companies get stuck, the specialists are called. They remove storm damage in the forest, saw at breathtaking heights and cut down giant rotten trees before the dreaded bark beetle can spread uncontrollably. Whether with the help of a harvester, rope crane or 'flying saw' - you are well equipped for all locations.
Respected shockumentary filmmaker René Wiesner, director of Mondo Siam and the Pulp Films collection, is back! This time with a documentary feature exploring the collection of a death enthusiast and murderabilia collector opening his collection to the public for the first time! Michael is a collector of true crime memorabilia and murder art, with a unique archive unlike anything you have seen before. From paintings crafted by the hands of John Wayne Gacy and Richard Ramirez, to property that once belonged to Aileen Wuornos, to personal letters from Charles Manson, as well as Michael’s own personal collection of human skulls and death row inmate letters. This unique documentary offers the viewer detailed insight into the world of death row pen pals and murderabilia collecting! Vile Video Productions is proud announce the world release of Michael: A Murderabilia Memoriam!
Najib, Manu and Jörg have been living in Berlin for many years and are still struggling with the nature of the city. While wandering around Kreuzberg at dawn, a curious camera follows the characters in their (un) likely encounters. A chaotic bubble of different perspectives, destinies, languages and cultures nevertheless float into the everyday life of Berlin at the edge of night and day.
A docudrama about the Gay Trials of Frankfurt 1950-51. When a teenage hustler was arrested by the police he revealed the names of his clients to save his own neck. His betrayal destroyed the lives of more than 200 gay men within 10 months.
Two friends, Eypee and Andong, look for the monk, who had saved Eypee's dad on a hiking trip decades ago.
From industrial sounds to the sounds of nature: the film accompanies field recordist Patrick Franke with a camera and microphone, while also exploring our relationship with nature in times of pandemic.
Carlotta cannot recognize faces, not even her own. For her, human faces are no bastion of trust, but places of fear and confusion. She is one of the 1% of all people whose part of the brain responsible for facial recognition does not work properly. With his film LOST IN FACE, neuroscientist Valentin Riedl travels through Carlotta's universe, full of anthropomorphic animals, lucid dreams and bumpy false paths. He peels back her charming, idiosyncratic solutions that she employs to be able to join the masses of human conformity, until she one day decides to build a ship and leave her fellow humans. Her never-ending search for answers leads her to art-and thus an avenue to her own face and back to humanity.