Germany

About a group of young nazi terrorists committing crimes after the end of WW II.Read More »

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A film about a connection between love and death, which is different from ‘Till death do us part’: If love for each other is more important than life, then the common, voluntary death is a possibility to preserve this love. And if life dies inexorably, then death is an attempt to preserve life. A film about an amour fou between a young doctor and a former teacher. She, daughter of German Jews who emigrated to France, returns to Germany one day: she escapes from her external reality (life in France) into an internal past (the memory of her childhood). The locations of this ‘love and death film’: the Rhine, where it is not romantic, but productive: dirty banks, chemical factories, nuclear power plants and hopeless sadness. Shabby hotel rooms in crummy dosshouses; the view of industrial suburbs where one can only die, but not live. A film of a desolate beauty.Read More »

John Erdman reprises his role as “Old White Male” from The Lobby, joined by a filmmaker and a robot version of himself, exploring absurdities of human existence through philosophical musings on cinema, technology, apocalypse, and more.
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In the near future where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple’s seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare.Read More »

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Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck’s THE NET explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology – a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution.Read More »

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Arnold Fanck’s Der Berg des Schicksals (Mountain of Destiny) from 1924, It was the first full-length feature film in the mountain film genre pioneered by Fanck, and marked lead actor Luis Trenker’s on-screen debut. The film was shot on original locations in Trenker’s homeland, the Dolomites, and premiered in 1924 at the UFA Pavilion on Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. Restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, with a new composition by Florian C. Reithner. The Metropolis Orchestra Berlin performed under the direction of Burkhard Götze, with composer Reithner himself playing the organ.Read More »

Franz Mooshuber, mayor of a little Bavarian town, receives a letter invitation from the mayor of Cannes, asking him to participate in the annual boat joust tournament. When he and his two buddies return, they don’t just bring back the trophy but also a bus full of sexy girls and ambitious plans to turn their village into a wild tourist resort.Read More »

In 1890’s Canada, everybody was off to the Klondike Gold Rush, and in Thomas Arslan’s Gold, seven German-American immigrants decide to get there the hard way, via hundreds of miles of uncharted wilderness.Read More »

Eight-year-old Matthias dreams that he will someday become a pilot and his divorced parents will get back together. He waits yearningly for his ninth birthday because his father has told him the story of Icarus, and promised to take him on a sightseeing flight. When Matthias’ father doesn’t come home, he is devastated. He runs throughout the city, talks to his friend about the relationships of adults, looks for his father at his desk, and gets himself into conflict with the police. As he sits alone on the roof of a house, he comes to the conclusion that Icarus didn’t plummet to the earth because he didn’t listen to his father, but rather because his father had forgotten him.Read More »