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Cornered Star

The post-industrial city of Marl, Germany carries the scars of the economic depression following the mining industry’s demise. City squares are filled with public sculptures bearing witness of past wealth surrounded by public buildings that are Brutalist masterpieces. Here, a horse stands alone. The horse is almost static, but in spite of his relative fixity, it remains the only source of life present in this deserted urban environment. The work looks at the archetypical forms of equestrian public sculptures and more broadly questions the use, codes and authority of public space artwork.

Cornered Star

NR 2018
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants. An eminently political opera in which power struggles are interwoven with family conflicts, Simon Boccanegra echoes the life of its composer – the man who championed the cause of Italian unification and overcame the loss of his wife and children. Calixto Bieito, that most Shakespearean of opera directors, brings humanism and truth to a work haunted by gleaming images of the sea.

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

NR 2018
Dennstein & Schwarz - Sterben macht Erben

In the heirs, the friendship ends, as is well known - especially if the illegitimate scion of a count is to come unexpectedly to a million-fortune. In a bitter inheritance dispute, Paula Dennstein and Therese Schwarz are the lawyers of the parties to the dispute, who at eye level deliver a sophisticated exchange of blows and outdo each other in bluffing. While the idealistic career starter leaves no stone unturned to help her client to his rights, the lavish legal advocate of the noble family must prevent the family's reputation from getting under the wheels.

Dennstein & Schwarz - Sterben macht Erben

6.0 2018
Roland Kaiser - vom Findelkind zum Superstar

Roland Kaiser is considered one of the greats of German pop music. An icon of light music who masters the rules of success like no other. A star you can relate to: approachable and credible. A new WDR documentary now traces Roland Kaiser's eventful, exciting, and sometimes dramatic life and career. Pop star Roland Kaiser has been on stage for 50 years. The 70-year-old singer has sold more than 100 million records with hits such as "Joana," "Dich zu lieben" and "Santa Maria." The documentary shows Roland Kaiser, who has once again conquered the top of the charts with his album "Perspektiven," as a private person and family man.

Roland Kaiser - vom Findelkind zum Superstar

NR 2018
The Beer Jesus from America

Stone Brewing is a brewery founded in 1996 and headquartered in Escondido, California. Greg Koch is one of the co-founders. After being crowned "Beer Jesus" by a Berlin tabloid, he wants to start a craft beer revolution in Germany. Greg Koch wants to fight the most popular industrial beer in the world. And realizes that it won't be a piece of cake. Germany not only has a well-established beer culture, but also a 500-year-old beer purity law. This cannot simply be circumvented. And then there's the "German bureaucracy", the cultural differences and a few other hurdles that Greg has to overcome.

The Beer Jesus from America

NR 2018
das bin nicht ich, das ist ein bild von mir

To make an object based on a photograph means adding dimensions such as space, time and continuity. Roasting skewers, hairpins and nails were the tools of self-liberation in the photo series Zerstörung einer Illusion ("Destruction of an Illusion") by Karin Mack, which was produced in 1977 with a self-timer and her hand processing work in the darkroom. Forty years after its creation, it is a new perspective that transforms and sets into motion the examination of the self-image and role as a woman into a three-dimensional object. Light and rotation create an illusory horizon of perception inherent in filmmaking and make the living shadows dance in the delirium of the real. (C. P.)

das bin nicht ich, das ist ein bild von mir

NR 2018
La séparation des traces

Essay on the epic story of an ordinary man, a filmmaker, born in the beginning of the Second World War. From 1942 to 2016, his personal story and the world history, the history of his films, of cinema and the images that inspired him. Life and creation entangled, untangled, intertwined, jostled together. From his childhood to his first steps as an artist. From the distant war to the war against everyone, from the dreamed revolution to the consumer society that ruins your dreams like Coca Cola dissolves your bones.

La séparation des traces

7.0 2018
HueBR

Brazil. In a neighborhood like so many others, 4 kids meet to play. The year is 1994, World Cup. The streets are painted and the atmosphere is joyful. It's time to celebrate. Despite the frenzy over the Brazilian team, they do not play football, but a game with their hands. They get their sticks, plastic bottles, a tennis ball and chalk... A TACO or BETS match will start, depending on the region in the country. The place is peculiar, the field is the street, the fans are the people who come and go and there is no referee, which causes a lot of confusion. They play, get hurt, fight, help each other, but the most important thing is to have fun. Here it does not matter differences, prejudice nor contradiction because there is only one condition : friendship and unity".

HueBR

NR 2018
Betrayal

For a life of pomp and splendor, Bastian takes over the kindergarten of a private parents' initiative as treasurer. The documentary tells the true story of an impostor. It is about social coexistence, trust and setting an example of values for children. Bastian doesn't give a damn about these values. For him, they are just annoying conventions, obstacles on the way to a life with a Ferrari and high-class prostitutes. And for this life, Bastian steals from the kindergarten of a private parents' initiative. For the viewer, this is an astonishing balancing act between right and wrong, between pity and schadenfreude.

Betrayal

NR 2018
Raging Royan

"Royan la Rage" is the crossed portrait of a family facing his visceral need to desire. André, the father, has no more wishes. To feel free to be and to desire, he has to get rid of his money. Miss Canine, a financial domineering, snatched him from his daily hypocrisy. Doubts about his double life gradually contaminate his wife and his daughter. The newfound lucidity at a price. Behind the utopian world of the seaside resorts, it spreads like a virus and makes appearances disappear.

Raging Royan

NR 2018