German

Julius, an eloquent young museum attendant loved by the people around him, invites his colleagues on a sailing trip on his aristocratic family’s boat, but something goes wrong. Julius is not who he seems to be.Read More »

He is one of Germany’s most important artists, a man who has spent his life intervening, provoking, polarizing. No other contemporary artist has succeeded in capturing the German psychic landscape on canvas more arrestingly than Düsseldorf painter Jörg Immendorff. He has worked without pause, a driven man, devoting all of his strength to his work and his creative life. Then suddenly, in 1998, everything changed. A fatal illness had crept into his body. Jörg Immendorff’s painting hand, his left, became paralyzed during vacation. His general practitioner sent him to a neurologist, whose diagnosis was devastating: Immendorff had become a victim of the rare Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), which leads to paralysis of the musculature, and finally to an inexorable death by suffocation.Read More »

Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst is secretly witnessed by Moni Dingeldey, a girl of the same age as his. Fascinated by the shaken and devastated strange boy who she hopes to be a soul-mate, she hides Robert in her mother’s apartment. Meanwhile, a crowd of policemen and reporters frantically comb through the building in search a murderer whose identity is known only to Robert’s parents who are searching as well…Read More »

Synopsis:
‘A young doctor exiles himself to a remote Austrian village when he accidentally causes a death. Once at the village, winter sets in and against that harsh and poetic backdrop a rabies epidemic sweeps through the population. The doctor convinces people he is a biologist but then he treats someone bitten and gives his real profession away. As the epidemic raises questions of life and death, the doctor’s mind is brought back to the death that caused his exile and he considers suicide for awhile. The same issues come up again when an enraged villager goes on a killing spree and in turn, is hunted by the citizens. Faced with the prevalence of death all around him, the doctor starts to gain some perspective on the personal experience that brought him here in the first place.’
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Four depressive teenagers withdraw from patriarchal society to start a new life in a mountain hideout. They transform their misery and melancholia into pornography for their website “Sad Girls” – and use the money they earn to fund their survival. For them, sadness is an act of counter-cultural resistance. Just when everything seems to be going fine, the arrival of two gonzo reporters threatens to upset the fragile balance of this feminist micro-utopia. A mockumentary about about sad porn stars, feminism and fragile masculinities.Read More »

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The caretaker of a girls’ school is charged with lewd behavior, and a number of students testify at the trial.Read More »

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Tim is the son of a lighthouse keeper. In his remote home setting, Tim often feels lonely. When Young Pioneers pitch their tents nearby, he is overjoyed. Friendships develop very fast. When Tim is allowed to travel to Sundevit with his new friends he is delighted. Before the journey, however; he has to carry out an assignment – but this takes longer than he hoped it would. On the way, he keeps meeting people in need of his help. And Tim helps them although he becomes increasingly pressed for time.
When he finally returns, the Young Pioneers have al ready left. Tim decides to follow them but, due to carelessless, he exposes himself to danger. Finally, he is picked up in a military exercise area and taken to the police. When he relates his experiences, kind people help him – in the end, he manages to reach his destination Sundevit and to meet up with his friends.Read More »

Synopsis
The Ruhr, a present heavy with anger: the issue of resistance, of fighting against fascism, of the workers’ movement. There is also the question of the overwhelming rage that can surge up when faced with the reality of defeats, with no consolation or reconciliation. (-cinemadureel.org)Read More »

Synopsis:
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. His love-life being as fruitless, he seeks comfort in art. But building fairytale castles and an even grander opera for his musical idol Wagner proves so expensive, his cabinet ends up resorting to formally challenging his mental health, plausible as his beloved brother Otto contracted schizophrenia earlier. Tragedy now lurks in Ludwig’s prison-castle.
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