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- Adam Szymczyk and curators prepare for documenta 14 over 2 years. They scout locations, select artists, install works, and organize events for the exhibition in Athens and Kassel.
- Document of a 2014 Bering Sea journey following the paths of previous explorers such as Adelbert Von Chamisso. Landscape, flora and fauna are observed, local residents who subsist off the land and sea are encountered along the way.
- Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
- On 25 July the Bayreuth Festival opened with a new production of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg". The Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan was the musical director.
- The new production of the opera "Lohengrin" by Richard Wagner opened the Bayreuth Festival in July 2018.
- Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. Syberberg, who grew up under Nazi tyranny, ruminates on good and evil and the rest of humanity's complicity in the horrors of the holocaust.
- In April 2007 Schlingensief staged Wagner's opera in Manaus. For this he leaves the opera. He goes to the jungle and to the Rio Negro. Only then does he return to the legendary Teatro Amazonas. In the course of his work, he will shoot 18 short films, which will also be included in his installation "Trem Fantasma" in São Paulo at the end of 2007, an operatic ghost train that drives the opera out of the opera to ensure its survival.
- A six hour long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Plato, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Mörike, Richard Wagner, William Shakespeare, Martin Heidegger, Samuel Beckett and chief Seattle.
- Ulrike Ottinger travels through the decaying empires of Southeast Europe
- Based on the idea of Theodor W. Adorno, this film shows Hegel's "The Philosophy of Art" word for word in a musical rhythm.
- Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau, a man who will forever change the history of the world.
- The end of one of the biggest slums in europe.
- The journey of a man who seeks his very beginning as a human and his approaching end in humanity. In this journey his father, mother, brother, daughter and a mysterious voice accompany him. He tries to find the right way in the labyrinth of life, by following the signs of secret stories and prepares to tell his own story to us.
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.
- An epic documentary in two parts about life in the Styrian mountain village of St. Anna.
- This film is part of the long-term documentary Children of Golzow, which was started in 1961 by director Winfried Junge and only ended in 2007. He accompanied several children from a primary school class from the GDR over this period.
- The final part of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' performed by the Dutch National Opera
- Exile Shanghai (Exil Shanghai, Germany/Israel 1997, 275 min), documentary written and directed by Ulrike Ottinger 6 life stories of German, Austrian and Russian Jews intersect in exile in Shanghai. This documentary traces their lives through narratives, photographs, documents and new images of one of Asia's biggest metropolises. With their numerous contradictory conflicting histories and populations, the documentary's episodes converge to shape a startling new account of a historic exile. Frau Ottinger, the grande dame of German avant-garde film and "nomad filmmaker", worked in Asia numerous times in her five-decade career. Combining fact and fiction, Ottinger's films follow her adventurous curiosity and create a unique poetic imagery. This film is the middle of her three films JOHANNA D'ARC OF MONGOLIA (1989), EXILE SHANGHAI (1997) and UNDER SNOW (2011), which follow women in Mongolia, exiles in Shanghai, and Kabuki artists in Japan, respectively.
- Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father.
- Lotte embarks on a bizarre journey across Germany after a divorce. The people she meets are wrapped up in their own worlds.
- Munich in the 1920's. An art-gallery manager puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is unjustly accused of having committed adultery with her, and the authorities decide to intervene.
- The Austrian NGO Volkshilfe is organizing a big concert to show solidarity with refugees on October 3, 2015 which will take place on the Heldenplatz in Vienna, Austria.
- Portugal, the narrow and touristically more and more popular country in southwestern Europe, has much more to offer than 600 kilometres of coastline promising a beach holiday.
- This long form documentary, an East German equivalent of the British Seven Up series, follows a first grade class in the town of Golzow ,from August 1961 (shortly after the Berlin Wall had gone up) through 2o years later.
- Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one of the medieval epic romances of King Arthur and the search for the holy grail (the chalice touched by the lips of Christ at the last supper), it recounts over three long acts how a "wild child" unwittingly invades the sacred precincts of the grail, fulfilling a prophecy that only such a one can save the grail's protectors from a curse fallen upon them. Interpreters of the work have found everything from mystical revelation to proto-fascist propaganda in it. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's production doesn't avoid either aspect, but tries synthesize them by seeking their roots in the divided soul of Wagner himself. The action unfolds on a craggy landscape which turns out to be a gigantic enlargement of the composer's death mask, among deliberately tatty theatrical devices: puppets, scale models, magic-lantern projections. The eponymous hero is sung by the specified tenor voice (Reiner Goldberg) but mimed on screen by a male and a female performer alternately, reflecting what the director takes to be the creator's own sexual conflicts. Syberberg's pacing, dictated by the majestic pace of Wagner's score, is slow, but enlivened by constant subtle shifts in point of view, and memorable performances by actress Edith Clever as the villainess/heroine Kundry (sung by Yvonne Minton), orchestra conductor Armin Jordan as the remorseful knight Amfortas (sung by Wolfgang Schoene), and Robert Lloyd (the faithful retainer Gurnemanz).
- Part 2 of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' performed by the Dutch National Opera
- Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
- During the year 2000 Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to a different destination each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria. Locations include Niger, Finland, Micronesia, Australia, China, Siberia or Greenland.
- Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the end of his life, did Wagner wish to celebrate asceticism, which he himself had never practised? Did he fall upon his knees before the Cross, as claimed by Nietzsche? And what does the secret society of knights based on pure blood signify, desperately waiting for the saviour to regenerate it? What is the true nature of the opposition between the worlds of Klingsor and the Grail? What can Parsifal tell us today? In his artistic will and testament, Wagner condenses his moral idea of the world and returns to the roots of love and religion - to the very heart of art according to him. With the participation of conductor Hartmut Haenchen who is passionated by the score, Italian stage director Romeo Castellucci proposes an original reading of this brilliant work and explores the essence of Wagnerian 'Kunstreligion' in a different light.
- Jakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil.
- Long time documentary accompanying the withdrawal of the Soviet Army from Germany after the unification.
- A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before.