The Captain

The Captain

Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate...

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Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes

Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes

Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against...

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War or Peace

War or Peace

Wünsdorf in Brandenburg was a military base for decades: first for the Prussians, then for the Wehrmacht and finally for the Red Army. At the...

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Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and...

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The Dreamed Path

The Dreamed Path

Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each...

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Protected Men

Protected Men

Ecology, equality, sustainability: Anita and Sarah pursue lofty political goals as they establish a new feminist party. By contrast, the men who...

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Otomo

Otomo

The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and...

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Berlin Stories

Berlin Stories

A movie about Berlin

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Mamani in El Alto

Mamani in El Alto

His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The...

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Tangerine

Tangerine

Amira, an aspiring young dancer, is cast out of her uncle's home in Tangiers when she refuses to either get married or become a housemaid. She...

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Three Stones for Jean Genet

Three Stones for Jean Genet

In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones...

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The Long Summer of Theory

The Long Summer of Theory

"What is to be done?" three women with artistic and creative professions in temporary living conditions are wondering. They are sharing a flat in...

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The Last City

The Last City

An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in...

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The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

In the 21st part of his Photography and beyond series, Heinz Emigholz projects as usual a series of structures into our brains and from there on to...

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Slaughterhouses of Modernity

Slaughterhouses of Modernity

Contemporary cinema’s preeminent chronicler of architecture and its intersection with the ever-present crisis of 20th-century modernity, Heinz...

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Two Museums

Two Museums

The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil...

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The Third Eye

The Third Eye

A documentary about the eventful lives of famous Jewish photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach. The film interweaves artistic, professional...

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D’Annunzio’s Cave

D’Annunzio’s Cave

Heinz Emigholz, the premiere purveyor of architectural oddities (Sullivan’s Bridges, Goff in the Desert), meticulously documents 15 rooms of the...

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Paul Bowles: Half Moon

Paul Bowles: Half Moon

Three short films based on short stories by expatriate American novelist Paul Bowles capture the sense of loss and alienation so common in his...

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Cause I Have the Looks

Cause I Have the Looks

Charo seems like a typical Berlin teenager. She's a student surrounded by good friends and has her eye on the coolest guy in school. But no one...

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