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Lisa has grown up in an orphanage. She is looking forward to her adoption, as she doesn't know that her new parents are about to divorce. The Saber-toothed cat which she meets in a museum intervenes as a "feles ex machina".
Documentary film.
The history of agriculture must have begun 10,000 years ago with hemp, also known by its Latin name cannabis. This assumption scientists conclude from finds made in the territory of modern China. In a way, hemp has also helped write the history of mankind, in religions, wars and revolutions the plant has never been absent. This film gives an interesting insight into the tradition, cultivation and processing of this universally usable plant.
A portrait of the filmmakers Bärbel Freund and Karl Heil like a song in its changing verses, the locations were chosen according to mood and season: in spring, in snow, in Venice, in the flat, alone and together.
Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...
HF770 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl
Short documentary about Russian special forces during the Third Battle of Grozny during the First Chechen War
A retirement-home newcomer resembling a superhero inspires hope in those around him, while trying to maintain his own. A tale of forgotten heroes.
Documentary about Vietnam.
Eleven-year-old Christine, called “Schiene”, spends her vacation on her grandparents' farm and discovers Zirri, a bright white cloud sheep, in her grandfather's flock of sheep.
For decades, agent Werner Mauss managed to work in secret. There were no film recordings, no photos of him. He even managed to keep his name secret for a long time.
In the 1930s and 40s, American Noel Field saved innumerable lives, and his volunteer work offered hope for refugees and immigrants. A delegate to the League of Nations, Field specialized in peacemaking policies and disarmament. During the Spanish civil war, he associated with anti-Fascists, anarchists and Communists. A colleague of Allen Dulles and close friend of Alger Hiss, Field was under scrutiny for suspicious activities.
Inge arrives at the palace. Something disturbs her. An uncanny experience has left its mark. Viktor, the assistant of the count, shows her to the countess. Inge has to tell her of the terrible incident. A little, mean picture, colored with postmodern sensations.
Despite seeing his film project HERCULES rejected by DEFA Studios in 1983-84, Dammbeck remained fascinated by the Hercules story. He started experimenting with different media combinations, using overpainting, photography, film clips, collage, painting, and movement. These experiments resulted in groundbreaking multimedia collaborations, as well as the film THE CAVE OF HERCULES, in which Dammbeck explores a series of questions inspired by this classical figure. Who was the legendary hero Hercules? Is there a new Hercules today? How are heroes created in a totalitarian society? What are the virtues of heroes? This multi-layered experimental film combines projections of collected film clips, quotations from “The Willful Child” by the Brothers Grimm, and “Hercules 2 or the Hydra” by Heiner Müller, as well as dance scenes with Eva Schmale that were performed – at Kampnagel in Hamburg – specifically for the film.
Beauty contest in a large Berlin disco: the prize is a promotional tour through various Arab countries, during which they are to advertise for the Beluga discotheque and real estate group in expensive hotels by luxury pools.
Six years after the Berlin Wall fell and five years after German unification this documentary looks into the fast changes in architecture and street life of Berlin Mitte and stays in tune with a piano piece of Ludwig van Beethoven.
The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to create a new kind of musical theater based on the theories of two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill and poet-playwright Bert Brecht. The show opens with a mock-Baroque overture, a nod to Threepenny's source, The Beggar's Opera, a brilliantly successful parody of Handel's operas written by John Gay in 1728. In a brief prologue following the overture, a shabby figure comes onstage with a barrel organ and launches into a song chronicling the crimes of the notorious bandit and womanizer Macheath, "Mack the Knife." The setting is a fair in Soho (London), just before Queen Victoria's coronation. In this production, Weill champion HK Gruber led the Ensemble Modern in a performance of Weill's complete original score, the first time it had been heard in Germany in many years. This production was broadcast on German television (3sat).
Entführung aus der Lindenstraße is a German television film directed by George Moorse. It was produced in 1995 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the German television series Lindenstraße, and stars many cast members of that show.
Set within a Viennese apartment block, this affectionate Austrian comedy makes fun of the strange habits of the famed city's residents. The building is located in a middle-class area and has residents from many age groups and walks of life. Many of the tenants are much older, but there are also a few children about. In one apartment lives a large group of Polish construction workers, while a Yugoslavian woman and her huge family attempt to survive in their tiny flat. The episodic story of the lives of these and other tenants is framed by a visit from a civil servant from the Office of Statistics.
Two men meet in a Berlin pub. One speaks only Russian, the other only Greek. Although neither understands the other's language, they use gestures and body language to talk about their life stories, earthquakes, torture, deportation, and a shared lover. There are no subtitles. All the audience has to go on are gestures, facial expressions, and a few fragments of words.
Random encounters in a muddy landscape.
The film depicts life in Nepal’s leper colonies, where leprosy, now curable, is seen as a divine curse. During the monsoon, when gods leave the Kathmandu Valley, people face afflictions like leprosy. Nepal has 170,000 cases, with many severely disabled and ostracized due to fear and religious beliefs. Lacking support and medical care, they end up as beggars in cities.
The film is about a woman chasing ideal beauty and deals with advertising manipulation, specifically dieting commercials. Striving to meet the ideal of ‘beauty’, she is lured by the appealing promises of advertising. While she tries one curious diet after the other, the viewer becomes aware of the unpleasant difference between illusion and reality.
A fairy tale drama set in the mountains. Anna and Alois are on the Großvenedig Mountain. Following their adventures with crevasses, a bold bunch of sailors, and a dinosaurus running out of air, it all ends completely different after all.
Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find author Laura Luna and take her to the future with him. Frank finds Laura and they become a couple, but Luise shows up and makes it a menage a trois.
The film portrays life on the Balduintreppe in Hamburg during the 1980s and early 1990s and thus takes us right into the heart of the time of the Hafenstrasse squat, which in many respects was a turning point. It circles the harbor steps, relives the squatters' battles with the police and visits the residents between utopia and the housing struggle.
Amrum was their destiny: Christian Römer wants to come to terms with himself on the island. He is due to be ordained a priest in a few weeks. Katja is also looking for a break from everyday life and from her unfaithful boyfriend Thomas. Naturally, the young people get closer than they would like and the drama takes its course...
Deep in a deserted forest stands an old log cabin... A bad-tempered redneck has barricaded himself here and is becoming a nightmare for a group of teenagers who want to play war! The cannibalistic hillbilly attacks the band with brutal force, leaving a veritable bloodbath in his wake...
In 1950s Berlin, eleven-year-old Susanne spends her time alternately in eastern Pankow with her mother and sister and in western Zehlendorf, where her wealthy grandmother enables the piano student to attend a music school. What she sees as a well-established everyday life comes to an end when her father Emil returns traumatized from captivity as a prisoner of war and begins to reorganize the family's life.
Inspired by the song The Boat Goes to the Bottom by Zap Mam, this film depicts variations on that sinking feeling. The film is made by drawing and painting on cells and paper, cut outs, photos, photocopy and optical printing.
The story is an allegory, combining narrative aspects of comedy films, documentary films, fairy tales, and road movies. The story starts with a dying old woman, who is calling for her distant son. Her calls take solid form in the shape of a giant breadfruit, which falls from the sky right in front of her son's residence. Realizing that this is a message from his mother, the son sets out to find her and takes the fruit with him. His trek across the island involves interactions both with people who are either amused or disturbed by his abnormal fruit, and with those to whom the fruit seems to an answer to their "fantasies", "desires and dark longings".
Lisl Ponger creates an imaginary map of the twentieth century on which the stories of emigration are engraved like well-worn tracks of occidental memory. The pictures, made by observant tourists, are revealed, in their tensile relationship to the soundtrack, as a post-colonial journey. A journey through exactly those countries which long ago have been shrunk together in space and time. Finally the wonderful neon signs of the “Hotel Edison” and “Radio City” remind one of the origins of this form of appropriation of the world, of the time of great expeditions, of Benjamin‘s shop-windows and passages, and of the time when technical apparatus and means of transportation fundamentally altered the perceptions of modern man.
The different life paths of former girlfriends from Catholic and Protestant homes respectively - one a draftswoman, the other a chemical laboratory technician - in two interrelated films, in which love, like the demands and attitudes to life in the change of its foundations in the process of the decline of the GDR and its accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, play a special role.
Short film directed by Anja Czioska.
After accepting a mysterious order to kill, a sorceress conjures a malevolent curse to carry out the ultimate act of revenge. The horror and carnage that follow grow beyond her wildest nightmares, as the curse is unleashed upon everyone who crosses its path. Who will survive—and who can stop it?