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An experimental documentary about filmmaker Raoul Peck, who traded his director’s chair for the position of Minister of Culture of the Republic of Haiti. As a passionate filmmaker, he wanted to tell stories and perhaps bring about change. As minister, he has to deal with the turmoil of real-life Haitian politics.
Documentary film about the withdrawal of a Soviet regiment from the former German-German border into an uncertain future.
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".
Based on a true story: Anel climbs onto a Streetlight for fun. He falls down and is apprehended by a man in handcuffs. During the course of the movie, it's revealed that this "Security officer" isn't all he seems to be.
The film centers on Ben Szegedy, a successful American dentist who is becoming increasingly hard of hearing. At an international conference, he is unable to answer questions from interested audience members after his presentation. He cannot understand them. Ben's life in limbo begins.
George Grosz, born on July 26th in Berlin, vicious draftsman and painter of the face of the ruling class, enfant terrible of the 1920s, accused of pornography and blasphemy, was one of the most popular visual artists of the Weimar Republic. Little is known, however, that Grosz spent half of his artistically productive life in the USA before returning to Berlin in 1959.
A schoolgirl from Hamburg spends a riding vacation on a farm in Schleswig-Holstein and casually explores her own feelings and those of other young people.
The little people emerging from the optical film projector activated by a fly accompany the audience through key milestones in a century of film history. Which classic films can you recognize in the film?
Based on Grimm's fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats," this animated film tells a menacing story from the age of consumerism and media. The kids admire the wolf as a hero on television and fail to recognize his dangerousness even when he stands at their front door. Only the youngest kid finds a hiding place from him—in the television. Although their mother rescues the kids from the wolf's belly, he has already left his mark.
An unknown force from outer space once made its way to earth 3,000 years ago, flying around as a yellow dot like a mosquito and feeding on human flesh bite by bite. A voodoo priest from the Caribbean decided to take up the fight against the evil. But even he, after banishing the alien into a shell, could hardly prevent the modern civilization of the present, or Jochen's clique, from bringing that curse back to life one day while having fun in the bath. Holidaymakers beware, the yellow danger is on the loose!
The main characters of the story are Pauli, a teacher's son, and Sepp, the son of a sawmill owner. They get to know each other while serving as altar boys, become friends and decide to form their own gang with themselves as leaders. Their first major objective will be a battle against a notorious gang from the neighboring village . . .
Emilia Klein from Norilsk, Siberia, and her daughter Christina have organized a dance group in Allermöhe. 300 girls and boys participate, and the trend is increasing.
Musician Riccardo promised his son they would celebrate Christmas together in Turin. But a concert in Munich gets in the way. While Riccardo ventures to Turin, his son makes his way to the Bavarian capital.
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.
Rhythm and Blues, the expanse of the landscape and a station wagon with longhorns on the front combine to make a homage to classic road movies.
Documentary by Voice-of-Germany journalist Amjad Ali, Norbert Pintsch, Joachim Polzer and Senta Siller from 1991. Second part in a series of three documentaries on Pakistan.
Self-portrait of the director as a junk princess. To the sound of a yéyé song, she mimes her pleasure in every sense of the word.
A black-and-white film that takes an ironic look at alienation between the races and the sexes. It is a mix of cell animation, painting, live action and early Atari computer animation.
Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images of various disasters with very graphically elaborated title card texts. The somewhat awkward Mexican Banda music underlines the bittersweet character of the work.
First shower film. The camera on a tripod is on the "timer" and I move very slowly so that the viewer feels that something is wrong.
Robin, the Lion King's son, is determined to find the misfortune-bringing treasure of the Black Panther. He meets Pino (Myu-Myu), the Panther's son, who is also searching for it. The story tells how the two enemies ultimately become friends.
Educational film about Locomotive driver training
Profile of the German philosopher Gustav Heckmann who was the initiator of the so called "Urgent Call" against Hitler. In 1932 this was the last attempt by intellectuals (like Albert Einstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann and others) to prevent the takeover of power by Hitler in Germany. Gustav Heckmann was later a friend of both Max Born and Werner Heisenberg.
Picture montage was a central aspect in the early history of visual media. As early as the 16th century, techniques such as the folding picture montage anticipated those used in film today. Other examples of early forms of montage are transparencies, picture puzzles and blow books, which direct the gaze towards hidden information. In the myriorame, the multi-thousand picture-show, it is possible to assemble infinite landscapes.
Documentary film.
Paul Klee and Walter Benjamin described an "angel of history." The heavy gale blowing in from paradise propels this angel into the future. The movie is dedicated to Joris Ivens.
"At the beginning of the 19th century there is no Chicago. There was a fort that was set on fire by Indians shortly thereafter. Later, the turbulent expansion of a settlement began, which became a center for the immigrant workforce, traditional industry, slaughterhouses, and, in 1941, armaments for war. The Windy City on Lake Michigan is the fastest changing city in the world. This 35mm Arriflex film time-lapse footage is annotated with classic techno cuts and information about the tunnels under Chicago, the slaughterhouses, organized crime, Sears & Roebuck catalogs and other peculiarities of this strange city."
Observes the lives of three families - all victims of war. Three tragedies focus in particular on the way children and young people suffer.
Is life like the fairy tale of Lucky Hans, who lost his lump of gold when he swapped the life he had, for what he thought was a better one?
Documentary portrait of 5 farming families and their struggles
An approach from the outside: the highway, the cows, the construction sites, the skeptical press reports, the police on site, the interior senator, a young Russian German suspects that the Germans have problems with the many Russians. Superstructure Director E. Kossak says: "every district must have something of its own, here deliberately the Fleete; you can paddle directly from here to Hawaii". The next films will show to what extent the first impression is true.
In this highly personal and intimate travel diary, Birgit Hein has filmed with great candour her problems with aging, her need for tenderness, the frustration for being alone and her experiences in Jamaica.
In search of something new, 19-year-old Beyhan from Turkey has left home. But her journey leads her to the same landscape she knows, and the people talk about experiences she already had as a child. Her travel experiences blur with her dreams and memories. When she returns, defeated, she meets a Japanese poet who asks her to go with him to a party for Beyhan.
This time, The Sperm Bank Murderess of Gerolstein Castle takes the audience neither to Egypt nor to Babelsburg, but straight to the beautiful Eifel region, where bloodthirsty vampires live and men under pressure are helped quickly and unbureaucratically. Mother Elvira has a moronic, gay son who is finally to be fixed up. The victim: Petra Porn. In a cloak-and-dagger operation, mother and son set off for Bitburg, but end up in a cemetery where Count Otto von Gerolstein and his butler are up to mischief. The horny count gives Elvira a good vampire bite - and the dream of a part-time job in the blood bank is over. The lady is transferred to the sperm bank, where a master butcher falls in love with her.
The film consists of sequences from what appear to be social documentary, people at a zoo, in a park, in the street in the snow; “nature” films of insects and reptiles; original, found and stock footage with no apparent associative or narrative function, tinged through the filter of Reble’s chemical treatments that gives the images a painterly quality, an arbitrary resonant abstraction. - Senses of Cinema
The history of Baden-Württemberg begins in 1952 with an imposed fusion. In 1956, opponents of the merger have organized themselves to the point that a referendum is to reverse the decision after the fact. The referendum does not take place until 1970 with a turnout of 62.5% and ends with a vote in favor of the merger of 81.9%. The example of the Baden-Württemberg fusion is used to illustrate how such a fusion takes place, how conflicts are settled, and what the final outcome is.
“EGG TRYING TO GET WARM features an egg spinning on a hot plate – Trockel’s sly commentary on the sexist social assumptions implicit in the domestic setting.” –Diane Solway
Charyarsaba, an isolated mountain village in Nepal. Living here means working hard for one's food and worshipping one's ancestors and the gods, who guarantee a continued existence and provide protection from evil. The residents of this village at the foot of the Himalayas long for "another place" where, as they understand it, one only needs money to be happy and technology makes work easier.
With ironic emphasis, the film examines an Afro beauty shop on Kantstrasse in Berlin. Customers describe their experiences in post-reunification Berlin and at the same time convey a small product knowledge of hair straighteners and bleaching creams.
Short film by Katrin Barben.
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.
Thesis at the University of Television and Film in Munich. In this milestone in film history, pet owners compete against their pets in a fictional TV show.
Tom, married, lives in Los Angeles where he runs a successful computer software business. The reason for his visit to Switzerland is the death of his younger brother Philipp whom he has not seen for years. As the only relative, he has the task of putting his brother's estate in order. Apathetically, Tom sets about clearing up the chaos in Philipp's apartment. - He falls in love with Christin, Philipp's former girlfriend and ignores all the strange happenings which apparently have something to do with his brother's death. It is only when Christin disappears without trace that he is shaken out of his indifference. He is determined to find her at all costs ...