Germany

  • Henrika Kull – Glück AKA Bliss (2021)

    2021-2030DramaGermanyHenrika Kull

    In a world where their femininity is considered a commodity, two sex workers fall in love with each other. Together – and yet each on her own – they experience the one moment when happiness seems possible – but their love is threatened by different ideas of life and their own abysses.Read More »

  • Werner Herzog – Lebenszeichen AKA Signs of Life (1968)

    Werner Herzog1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArthouseDramaGermany

    “A soldier is assigned to guard a fortress on a remote Greek island and finds himself unable to cope with the crushing boredom of the task in this interesting drama, an early film by renowned-director Werner Herzog. The story is set during WW II and concerns a soldier who was wounded and stationed on the Nazi-controlled island. He is accompanied by his wife and two other guards. It is a very quiet island and soon the men begin looking for constructive things to do. First they paint houses. Then they try raising goats. One of them finds a small stockpile of explosives, so the men begin making bombs. Another of the men can read Greek and so begins translating some of the ancient inscriptions on the castle walls.Read More »

  • Gerd Kroske – Kehraus (1990)

    1981-1990DocumentaryGerd KroskeGermanyShort Film

    Synopsis
    The first in a three-part trilogy from director Gerd Kroske.

    1990, KEHRAUS on the streets of Leipzig at night: street sweepers clean away what nobody needs anymore. Among many other things Müll, also worn election posters. End time mood is spreading. What happened after the GDR, sounds promising, but cannot yet be grasped. The three street cleaners Gabi, Henry and Stefan has always wavered between the poles in her curriculum vitae: children’s home, prison, occasional work in city cleaning. Illusionless, but with a sharp look für their surroundings, the road sweepers only have one certainty: There’ll always be dirt.Read More »

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Martha (1974)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyRainer Werner Fassbinder

    A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Rome when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home to her highly-strung mother and begins to new era of her life taking care of a completely ungrateful and insulting mother (declining an offer of marriage from her boss). After a barrage of verbal abuse and offensive remarks from her mother who see’s her as an ‘ugly old spinster’ she accepts a proposal of marriage from an equally insulting and disrespectful man, Helmuth. They honeymoon in Italy. Read More »

  • Theodoros Angelopoulos – Meres tou ’36 AKA Days of ’36 (1972)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyTheodoros Angelopoulos

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    In 1936, the balance between centrist and right-wing political forces that support the Metaxas regime is undermined by the hostage-taking of lawyer and right-wing MP Kontaxis. In a square, a union member has been murdered. A man named Sofianos, a former police collaborator now fallen from favor, is suspected of being behind the killing. Sofianos tries in vain to prove his innocence and takes Kontaxis hostage. He threatens to kill Kontaxis if they don’t let him go. Sofianos ends up being killed.Read More »

  • Kornél Mundruczó – Evolution (2021)

    Drama2021-2030GermanyKornél Mundruczó

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    Episodes trace three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history.Read More »

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982)

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder1981-1990ArthouseDramaGermany

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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder premiered “Veronika Voss” in February 1982, at the Berlin Film Festival. It was hailed as one of the best of his 40 films. Late on the night of June 9, 1982, he made a telephone call from Munich to Paris to tell his best friend he had flushed all his drugs down the toilet — everything except for one last line of cocaine. The next morning, Fassbinder was found dead in his room, a cold cigarette between his fingers, a videotape machine still playing. The most famous, notorious and prolific modern German filmmaker was 36.Read More »

  • Luise Donschen – Ganze Tage zusammen AKA Entire Days Together (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryGermanyLuise DonschenShort Film

    A young girl is cured of her epilepsy just as summer vacation is about to begin. During her last days with her classmates, she’ll come to experience life in a new way. Arranged as a series of elliptical tableaux, this haunting narrative from Luise Donschen (Casanova Gene) captures a simultaneous sense of discovery and disorientation as it proceeds from the confines of the classroom to a wider world of adolescent anxieties.Read More »

  • Nicole Vögele – Closing Time (2018)

    Nicole Vögele2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalGermany

    Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city’s sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway…

    CLOSING TIME is a cinematographic meditation on in-between moments – a kaleidoscopic journey relying on colours, sensations and the materials of life. An attempt at capturing time, an exercise in just seeing.Read More »

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