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  • Matthias Luthardt – Pingpong (2006)

    2001-2010DramaGermanyMatthias Luthardt

    Quote:
    The German middle class takes another drubbing in novice helmer Matthias Luthardt’s pingpong, a chamber piece with four characters full of unspoken needs that rarely bursts with the kind of tension required to make an impact. Well-crafted with a confidently quiet style, pic trods where others have gone before, entering into the hothouse world of the bourgeoisie where communication is non-existent and manipulation is king. Though strong enough for small fest play, pingpong is unlikely to be bouncing around multi-territory art cinemas.Read More »

  • Arman T. Riahi – Fuchs im Bau AKA Fox in a Hole (2020)

    2011-2020Arman T. RiahiAustriaDrama

    “An intense and unrelenting film with an excellent cast…” ~Cineuropa

    Synopsis:
    When Fuchs starts his new job as a teacher in a prison school, replacing the old and unconventional teacher Berger against her will, he is forced to confront his biggest fear, triggered by the mysterious, withdrawn inmate Samira.Read More »

  • Philip Koch – Play (2019)

    2011-2020DramaGermanyPhilip KochTV

    Seventeen-year-old Jennifer recently moved to a new city with her parents, but finds no connection with her new classmates. The dreamy and in social interaction with others insecure and shy girl thinks that her social environment finds her ugly. She takes refuge in the virtual reality of the online game ‘Avalonia’ and spends more and more time in the artificial world. As a result, she completely neglects her obligations at school and at home. Parental prohibitions and sanctions can not keep her from her passion. The desire to play has long become a menacing addiction.Read More »

  • Peter Nestler – Der offene Blick – Künstlerinnen und Künstler der Sinti und Roma AKA The Open View – Artists of the Sinti and Roma (2022)

    2021-2030DocumentaryGermanyPeter Nestler

    »The Open View – Artists of the Sinti and Roma« presents artists of the Sinti and Roma who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works. They use a wide variety of forms of expression and means, but what they all have in common is an open view.
    Peter Nestler succeeds in making this tangible by meeting them without cultural fixations and at eye level. Gitta Martl and her daughter Nicole Sevik read short texts. They commemorate the Sinti and Roma in the Austrian »gypsy detention camp« Weyer.Read More »

  • Reinhard Hauff – Der Mann auf der Mauer AKA The Man on the Wall (1982)

    1981-1990DramaGermanyReinhard Hauff

    Plot Summary
    Arnulf Kabe and his wife Andrea live in East Berlin. Arnulf has only one ambition in life: to be able to leave the East and live in the West. He hatches a plan to get himself arrested at a border crossing and is eventually bought out by the West Germans. He has reached his aim and is living in West Berlin now, he even has an affair with the attractive Veronika, but he can’t help missing his wife. And he finds a way to be able to return to the East: he will work as a spy for the East German state security. That way he’ll be able to cross the border any time and pay her a visit. Eventually, he even manages to bring his wife to the West on a borrowed passport. However, she finds it difficult adapt to life on the other side of the Wall.Read More »

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Welt am Draht AKA World on a Wire [Second Sight] (1973) (HD)

    1971-1980GermanyRainer Werner FassbinderSci-FiTV

    Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. A good friend, Guenther Lause, disappears in the middle of a conversation and a week later nobody has ever heard of him. And those fits of dizzyness – Stiller cannot believe himself to be fool. There has to be an explanation for all this. Could Simulacron have something to do with it?Read More »

  • Wolfgang Petersen – Die Konsequenz AKA The Consequence (1977)

    Wolfgang Petersen1971-1980DramaGermanyQueer Cinema(s)

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    Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for and seduces inmate Martin. When Martin is released from jail, they try to build a relationship and a life together but no one will let them alone.Read More »

  • Raimund Ruehl – Salinas (1960)

    DocumentaryGermanyRaimund RuehlShort Film

    Spain, salt gathering in a large salt works on the Mediterranean. In this atmosphere, the film makes the impression of an existential allegory in which the workers are damned to an endless, Sisyphean labor in a salt desert.Read More »

  • Michael Haneke – 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls AKA 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)

    1991-2000ArthouseAustriaDramaMichael Haneke

    Quote:
    The simultaneously random and interconnected nature of modern existence comes into harrowing focus in the despairing final installment of Michael Haneke’s trilogy. Seventy-one intricate, puzzlelike scenes survey the routines of a handful of seemingly unrelated people—including an undocumented Romanian boy living on the streets of Vienna, a couple who are desperate to adopt a child, and a college student on the edge—whose stories collide in a devastating encounter at a bank. The omnipresent drone of television news broadcasts in 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance underscores Haneke’s vision of a numb, dehumanizing world in which emotional estrangement can be punctured only by the shock of sudden violence.Read More »

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