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Women in jail talk about their former lives and about their crimes. Three of the prisoners explain how they came to commit the act of violence that put them behind bars. The more we learn about their backgrounds, the more we begin to doubt the dispensation of justice.
Six friends spend the night at a lake in the middle of the woods of their childhood. What starts as a nostalgic summer getaway soon turns into an apocalyptic nightmare when our heroes have to face skinhead thugs running wild on testosterone and faceless giants creeping up from the deepest darkness of the underground.
The man with the legendary satin smooth voice. Barry White, came to Frankfurt at the peak of his career in 1975. Accompanied by Love Unlimited, the female vocal group which Barry had formed in 1969, he enchanted the audience with a truly memorable concert performing some of his celebrated declarations of love.
A joyful gathering escalates as drugs are handed out and people die
Luise wears a headscarf and Islamic clothing. She regularly attends the mosque. At the age of 19, the German woman converted to Islam, and her parents fear losing her. Today, Luise is twenty-five years old, married to Mohamed, an Arab computer science student, and happy in the world she has chosen for herself. The couple has two children, with whom they lived in a house with Luise's parents until recently. Outwardly, the family appears to be united. But internally, they struggle daily with conflicts, deal with contradictions, and experience borderline situations that they can hardly bear.
The film gives insight in the living conditions of Jewish citizens since 1933 in Germany and the everyday life in the concentration camps, such as in the Main camp of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee.
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt
The scientists of a medical laboratory in Germany, Paul and his colleague Henry are researching on their own risk for a secret project. They try to reactivate the brain waves of a recently died human to collect information about the function of the human brain after its death. They are successful but with fatal results. The death body returns to live as an undead...
A prefabricated house, three friends, one death!
The “Dead Devils Death Bar” is a meeting place for various representatives of a newly-formed middle class, who drink and gossip. Their expectations of the place however, will remain unfulfilled, developing into a conspiratorial nightmare. In a single, continual tracking shot, the film narrates the course of one night, with only 9 actors playing the 26 bar patrons, as well as sometimes singing along with the sound-track.
This is an essay on the aesthetics of National Socialist film. The history of the Third Reich is investigated in light of its own image making. Which hopes, desires and fears are reflected in these images? The film unfolds chronologically, with original material from 1918 to 1945. The focus of this film is the analysis of National Socialist documentary and 'Kultur-Film', which staged a media-produced world of illusions whose destructive intent is apparent from the very beginning.
The painter Rahula lives a modest but contended existence with his family in Mingun, a village on the banks of the Ayeyarwaddy 11 km upriver from Mandalay. As a new work takes shape on a canvas in his studio next door to the towering base of Mingun's famously brick pagoda, we learn how this easy-going artist has managed to survive a sizable chunk of Myanmar's chequered history. Sawing the air with a cheroot, the jovial Rahula also reveals how he acquired his unusual name, his now successful abstract style, and his supportive wife, of whom he admits: 'If it weren't for her, I would still be painting pictures of monks and pagodas for the tourists.'
A demon has taken possession of you! A man. It is dark. A destroyed soul pursues him to end his life. What you see that night will not let you go easily. An insane nightmare begins...
Documentary looking at soccer hooligans around in the UK and around the world.
Two guys decide to commit suicide on some train tracks. A bonus feature alongside Ostermontag.
After a night out celebrating with his German colleagues, a Norwegian trade union leader ends up getting mugged by two prostitutes. Owing to the help of an unlikely Samaritan, he rediscovers the joy of helping the little man.
Six women, born between 1907 and 1925, look back on „their“ century. Based on a specific catalogue of questions, the female directors explore the subjective experiences of their protagonists…
shatter something beautiful with perverse ugliness
Documentary film.
One week each year Iranians stay out all night. Women abandon legal curfews. Men weep. Communities gather to mourn their saint's death, ask that wishes be granted, give thanks for prayers answered. While this week showcases Iran's most restrictive religious elements, it offers openings for this culture's most intimate connections. Is a change in the perception of love inherently political because it affects individuals and their view of the world? As we follow three couples negotiating love, we learn freedom is not what we assume it is and love is more than we imagine it to be.
Germany short film
In Gammesfeld there is a church, an EDEKA store, two soccer fields, a gravel factory, and Germany's only bank without a computer. A film about the world, the modern pig, about getting married and, above all, about money.
This is the 2003 production of Thomas Bernhards play "Elisabeth II. - Keine Komödie", directed by Thomas Langhoff. It was the first time this play took place in Austria, at the famous Burgtheater Vienna.
The multi-award-winning Finnish documentarian Mika Kaurismäki, brother of Aki Kaurismäki (The Man Without a Past), helms the nonfiction work Sonic Mirror -- a protracted exploration of rhythm as one of life's driving forces. Revered drummer Billy Cobham serves as host, taking the audience on a long musical journey around the world and through a myriad of musical genres and styles. Cobham, Kaurismäki, and co. segue from Western concert halls and stages to the music of African tribes performed by Brazilian street children to the distinct music of autistic patients. Along the way, the filmmakers raise serious questions about the function of music as an identifying force, a means of communication, and an emotional release; they also probe the enduring connections between group awareness and self-awareness. The film ultimately builds to a hugely affirming and cathartic expression of music as collective expression that unifies its performers in spirit.
Waltraud was the name of an angel who had fallen from the sky. Her wings were too small and she just couldn't see how this had happened.
3 amateur burglars steal the "Book of Wurzelfurz" which is said to bring the dead back to life. When one of them gets killed in a firefight with the police, the other two use the book to bring him back from the dead. Their plan works but the re-animated friend turns into a rabid monster, hungry for human flesh. Soon, all hell breaks lose and the "Brunstelwald" is swarming again with the undead...
The humorous portrait of a female artist. The film follows the career of 24-year-old Janine F. who in 2002 caused a commotion from the rooftop of a Berlin building.
French Drag King Océan LeRoy is an established celebrity in Berlin’s transgender scene. Famous for his performances of quick transition from woman to man, Océan also lives the contradiction in real life: seductive Drag Star at night, smart sexy successful businesswoman during the day… For almost a year filmmaker Saskia Heyden observes the charismatic and fascinating Ocean against the fitting backdrop of formerly divided and ultra-hip Berlin. Introspective and articulate, Océan LeRoy dwells in ambiguity between day and night, woman and man, openness and mystery. Gloriously challenging the binary yet thriving on both sides, Ocean travels a two-way path of gender with ease.
Bonus DVD for the album 'Sängerkrieg Akustik Radio Show'
A little girl finds the whole world in a leaf.
In the film, director Jörg Adolph documents the entire process of creating and marketing a novel - from the author's first pages of text to the publisher's advertising strategy. Over a period of 17 months, he accompanied the author John von Düffel and observed his work on the novel "Houwelandt". No step and no stage of the work is spared. You can see the intensive consultations with the editor as well as the meetings with the publisher and the reactions on the competitive book market.
The film begins with a visualization of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, and Wyborny nearly misses the first movement. Yes, the "savage and bare fire" (Kaiser) of this tempestuous last piece of Beethoven nearly tears him apart. He who, while the aggressive Allegro explodes (when the sonata has begun to spread out with a deliberately "false" address in the old French overture rhythm), gets wrapped up in every pause and every peak; he who absolutely wants to work on these dialectical poles of tension in the finest agogic gradations, to shape the contrasts of the tempo in an angular way, will be torn apart. Wyborny escapes from the abyss, Beethoven would have done the same in an emergency, improvising on his own. Many spectators probably did not notice the drama. Others noticed it, were shocked, pulled themselves together, took a breath - and then were overwhelmed by the ingenious solution.
Eddie and his Greek friend Yamas are broke as usual. Yamas just got out of jail, and already Eddie is planning another coup. He wants to rob the millionaire pimp Mac Ten. Nothing easier than that, but everything turns out differently. And soon the two are really in the shit...
The two eleven year old farm boys Toni and Max are best friends, share everything with each other. But Max won't believe Toni is secretly engaged to the beautiful young Karin. But when Karin tells Toni that she'll be his wife - if he helps on his fathers farm and moults to a farmer - Toni understands the hint and gets down to work.
Interview with "Jake" a young transgendered Brit who is undergoing the process of changing from female to male.
The film follows the construction of the new expansion of Zurich's Museum Rietberg, from the groundbreaking in May 2004 through to the opening in February 2007.
Peter Nestler portrays the everyday life of two young music students from Budapest who are trying to balance their family life, which is shaped by Roma traditions, with their academic education at music school. Brigitta, 12, and Tünde Máko, 10, live with their parents and two older sisters in Budapest's 6th district, the city's former Jewish quarter. Music is very important in this family, and both girls have been playing the violin since the age of five, just like their father and grandfather. Their grandfather discovered the girls' talent, and since then Brigitta and Tünde Máko have been attending a music school where they also receive private lessons.
When captain Archer and the crew of the Enterprise tests a new drive, they were transferred into a parallel universe. There they make acquaintance with the Red Empire, which consists of cybernetic lifeforms who plan to eliminate all biological life, even in the normal universe.
The autobiographical documentary is about the existence, birth and farewell of my son Martin Tim, about personal questions and developments after the confrontation with the shocking diagnosis - above all about the sudden demand on me to decide on the duration of life and the conditions of the death of one of my four children.
The final third part of the Fascinating Nature Trilogy provides the discovery of the Seven Seasons. Since we have not only four, but really seven archetypes of climatic seasons on our planet.