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- Revolves around the encounters of three protagonists who become entangled in a kind of love triangle.
- Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old girlfriend one last time. However, the locals won't talk about her, due to a WW2 secret.
- CHARLOTTE RAMPLING: THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, revealing the personality and philosophies of one of our most iconic screen stars.
- After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions.
- A filmic reflection about the stereotypes of "the Jew" and " the Arab" through one hundred years of film, linked with the biographies of four extraordinary people: Iraqi-Jewish communists.
- Two women meet by chance and discover they were both raped by the same rapist. Individually and together they must confront the past and finally integrate the long repressed trauma into their lives.
- In 2008, world-famous dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch selected 40 teenagers who had never heard of her to be part of her dance piece "Contact Zone".
- Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
- A short documentary about a hospital ward for children with leukemia in Lithuania.
- In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?
- For Cologne newspaper journalist Michael Heinrich, a year-long posting as Italian correspondent is a dream come true. His lawyer wife Susanne agrees to take her long-postponed sabbatical year there, but janitor Filippo and his hunky cousin Toni still haven't finished the apartment in Principe Ercole's 'palazzo'. Angelic son Tobias and pubescent brat Caroline object being torn away from their world, but soon take to welcoming Romans. Roman utilities and Vatican bureaucracy test Michael's patience as well as Ercole's frisky niece Maria and Susanne's visiting parents. Controversial archaeology professor Neri offers Michael a 'steal' scoop on the missing main Etruscan sanctuary.
- Werner Nekes is a leading contemporary experimental film maker. His work includes numerous avant-garde films that received many awards and distinctions. Closely related to his cinematographic work is his very substantial cinematographic collection, spanning about 40,000 objects ranging from the early days of cinema to phenomena of visual perception - a collection that is truly unique in the world. This film shows a cross-section of Nekes' films and reveals some particularly intriguing treasures from his collection. In conversations with Alexander Kluge, Nekes reveals his profound knowledge of cinematography and his lifelong and abiding interest in exploring the concept of perception. The film also looks at his close collaboration with Helge Schneider and Christoph Schlingensief.
- 13-year-old Becky is not only the eldest sister for her three siblings, but also a surrogate mother, since the actual mother is mainly devoted to alcohol, the constantly running television and changing male acquaintances.
- The tragic story of Isabelle Caro who rose to fame from Oliviero Toscani's NO-Anorexia campaign.
- Pepe Mujica, now a member of the Uruguayan parliament, and others of the Tupamaros recount the history of this urban guerrilla group: their use of armed intervention and illegal acts--even kidnapping and murder, their imprisonment and escapes, and their transition to a legal political party.
- Director Mina Keshavarz recently discovered a family secret about her grandmother's death. Her grandmother, forced to marry at a young age, gave birth to seven children and took her own life at the age of 35 during her eighth pregnancy. Domestic violence against women is an impractical concept under Iranian law that regards daughters and wives as the property of patriarchs. Mina sees her grandmother's suicide as "revenge for all injustice" and goes out onto the streets with five female lawyers who have raised their voices on gender equality and criminalization of domestic violence. The Art of Living in Danger retraces the past and present status of Iranian women with the director's intimate voice-over.
- Kolyma is a long highway that stretches through the deepest Russian North-east. It was the epicentre of the Soviet prison camp system. Millions of people built them and lived there under the most dreadful conditions. And now the time is running short for survivors or their direct descendants to tell their story firsthand.
- Three years after the end of the Second World War, Europe is once again on an historic threshold. Will the continent finally find lasting peace? Will people's hopes for a better future be fulfilled? The allies of yesterday have become the enemies of today. An Iron Curtain separates East and West, communism and capitalism. It looks as if the curtain will remain down for a long time. The first half of 1948 brings decisive turning points: a Communist coup in Prague, the consolidation of Stalin's power in Eastern Europe, in Yugoslavia the break between Tito and Stalin, and a crisis in Berlin that becomes a test of power and takes the world to the brink of a new great war. The Jews of Europe find a new home in Israel. The spring of 48 will continue to have an effect for decades to come. Contemporary witnesses such as the Frenchman Marc Ferro, the German Günter Lamprecht or the Russian Maja Turowskaja tell of their experiences in crisis-ridden post-war France, of the hope for a democratic awakening in Czechoslovakia, of Stalinism in Moscow. There is a phase of euphoria in socialist Yugoslavia and the fear of a new war among the Berliners, who have just cleared away the rubble. Texts by contemporary authors such as Anna Seghers and Simone de Beauvoir lead us into this period of uncertainty and search for orientation. Rarely shown archive material shows a year in which decisive decisions were made for the future of the continent.
- The documentary is about Reykjavik's main bus terminal and revolves around the lives of some destitute men who spend most of their time there.
- The Longing relates a tale of duty, desire, and high crime in a rural German village.
- Born on April 25, 1917 in Virginia, Ella Fitzgerald left an indelible mark on the world of jazz. Endowed with an absolute ear, perfect intonation and an impressive range spanning three octaves, she began her career at 17 and within a few years became one of the most renowned swing singers in America. With the same ease, she rubbed shoulders with bebop and improvised scat, and became known as the "First Lady of jazz".
- Salman Schocken was the King of department stores in Germany. Before WWII, he owned 22 department stores with 6,000 employees. He possessed a unique collection of 60,000 rare books in German and Hebrew and founded a modern, Jewish publishing house. He was the lifelong supporter of Shmuel Yosef Agnon and he owned the Haaretz newspaper which still survives on the border of consensus. He supported secular, Jewish culture and identified with humanist, liberal Judaism, a relic of 19th century Europe. Today, in an age of unscrupulous market economy and militant Judaism, Salman Schocken's ways point to an alternative, perhaps not entirely lost.
- Anne Clark, an icon of music history and a terrific pioneer of spoken word art, has been on stage for more than 30 years. It transforms language into unique music. Since the early 1980s, New Wave classics such as OUR DARKNESS and SLEEPER IN METROPOLIS have provided a thrill of excitement that has inspired generations of musicians. Her analog synthesizer sounds made the gloomy poet a pioneer of techno. After drastic confrontations with her record company, she disappeared from the musical scene and re-invented herself in the quiet solitude of Norway. Director Claus Withopf accompanied Anne Clark for nearly a decade, portraying a socially critical as well as overwhelming exceptional artist - a musical rebel,
- German filmmaker Vincent Dieutre is accompanied by a close friend's teenage son on a trip to Berlin and in the process reminisces about his life as a gay man in his 2003 autobiographical documentary entitled Mon Voyage d'Hiver (My Voyage in Winter). Dieutre and his traveling companion, Itvan, visit numerous friends and landmarks, all holding special meaning to the 40-year-old filmmaker as they make their way to the German capital. As the pair grows closer as friends, Dieutre also takes on a paternalistic relationship with the boy as he details his own journey of self discovery -- partially to assist Itvan with his own adult transformation, but also as a means for Dieutre's own legacy to endure. My Voyage in Winter was selected for inclusion into the Forum Program of the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide
- Two girls and three boys want to travel from the Ruhr area to Siberia with a well-rehearsed trolley and join forces with a grumpy train driver.
- Documentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream.
- A documentary about the legendary Jazz Singer Billie Holiday
- Over the course of four years, the artist let us follow him with a camera and gave us an insight into his world, his work, his art. We are present when he develops a new artwork and puts it together. And we stay put when the pressure of being an artist is mounting and he looses his cool. During quiet moments in conversation, he recounts stories about his family and how experiences in his childhood have influenced his work as an artist. And he is frank about the global art "business" that he sometimes views as a "hyena".
- Hilla grows up in the 1960s, her father is a worker and her mother a charwoman. But she wants a different future for herself, wants to study. After a violent incident she needs a strong shoulder. Who of her life will do?
- The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six features, he disappeared from the scene in a rather mysterious way. The story of an uncompromising film maniac.
- In Poland in Autumn 1942, to save his two daughters from the Holocaust, a Jewish doctor sends them with forged papers as Polish forced laborers into the lion's den itself: Germany. Escaping from the ghetto, Eva and Irene initially use the names of Katarzyna and Elzbieta. They make their way from a forced-labor collection point to a machine factory in the German Ruhr. Forced to move again, they assume new identities, finally arriving at a vineyard in the Rhine Valley and a boat that will take them all the way to the Swiss border. An incredible journey to the limits of humanity, inspired by a true story.
- Since the failed military coup in 2016, Turkey has changed at an unprecedented pace. Just a few years before the centenary of the Turkish Republic, Erdogan's "new Turkey" could not be further removed from Ataturk's vision of a western-oriented, secular democracy. Under AKP rule with Erdogan at its helm, the country is heading towards one-man rule. But such a concentration of power has its price: the economy is showing increasing signs of an existential crisis that could bring the country to the brink of collapse. This would have serious implications for Turkey, but also for Europe and the Middle East. The documentary describes the AKP's rise to all-dominant political force and the radical transformation of Turkey, driven forward with even greater urgency since the attempted coup. The film concentrates in particular on the period after the coup and on the effects of the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2018, although Erdogan is expected to face his first "stress test" in the local government elections at the end of March 2019. Well-known protagonists and witnesses bring to life events and developments in the country.
- Documentary deals with the murder of a housemaid in Morocco and with the social context behind the crime.