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20 last film entries of German Documentaries
D/USA 2000 | 8:00 min
director: Ingrid Molnar
At the End of May 2000 I've got an eMail from the Faces-Mailinglist with the invitation to be a Guerrilla Girl for one day. Fortunally I was in NYC at that time. So I decided to join them. When I arrived at the St. Patrick's Cathedral that very afternoon the ProArtCheerleaders already had joined the... [more]
GB 2013 | 13:36 min
director: Christof Wolf
Son and Mother, a Secretary, Fink and Omar (two Mobile Phone salesmen) and Scot they all are riding on the Circle-line that is rather special, it has no beginning and no end. Their thoughts and stories come back to one childhood memory: "Scotland's Burning". "Scotland's burning! // Scotland's burning!... [more]
2012 | 16:23 min
director: Christof Wolf
Animatics are a creative way of telling stories. Especially when historical footage does not survive, or when a reenactment would be too costly. Animatics are used for commercials in order to have a cheap way of pre-visualising a scene. They are a combination of animation and splitting an image into... [more]
PL 2008 | 18:00 min
director: Christof Wolf
In November 2006, Marian Kolodziej, Auschwitz prisoner no. 432, met with members of an interfaith retreat group on the grounds of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Marian came back to pray and to speak about the horrors of the camp where he spent 4 ½ years of his life. Afterwards, he gave a tour... [more]
USA 2006 | 15:00 min
director: Christof Wolf
“The Philosophy of Composition” is a title of an essay written by Edgar Allan Poe that elaborates a theory about how good writers write when they write well. Poe illustrates this theory by analyzing his own most famous poem “The Raven”. He contrasts his approach with... [more]
USA 2002 | 29:00 min
director: Christof Wolf
In Mexiko wird Pater Kino wie ein Heiliger verehrt, in Italien hat man ihm ein Museum gewidmet, in Washington steht seine Statue für die Geschichte des Bundesstaates Arizonas im Kapitol, nur in Deutschland ist er fast unbekannt. Der Film zeigt Pater Kinos Leben in vier Teilen. Der erste Teil Werdegang... [more]
2007 | 01:03 min
director: Christof Wolf
Heiligt das fünfzigste Jahr und verkündet Freiheit für alle Bewohner. Ein Erlaßjahr soll es für euch sein. Levitikus 25,10 erlassjahr.de - Entwicklung braucht Entschuldung ist ein breites gesellschaftliches Bündnis. Zu den bis heute über 1000 Mitträgerorganisationen... [more]
2006 | 1:58 min
director: Christof Wolf
Experience the 8th Wonder of the World. In the middle of Germany, in the middle of Saxony, in the middle of Chemnitz, there you will find Europe's heaviest and biggest fossils. Remnants of the petrified forest are already the main attraction of the Tietz cultural center. Because of its geological age,... [more]
D 2012 | 93 min
director: Sobo Swobodnik
They don’t have a steady place to live, they don’t have a work qualification, no bank account, no securities. They are young, they are intelligent, they are hungry: hungry for life, for music, for a future away from the civil conception. Two boys from East Germany stroll from city to city seeking... [more]
D 2007 | 15 min min
director: Corinna Schnitt
In a single shot the film shows different time-periods and creates a fairytaile atmosphere. A stillife is presented in an outside garden in front of a modern architecture, that has a fake- wooden-outside.fasade-.The paradox longing for feeling adventurous and homely is part of the children-song. (Barbara... [more]
D 2007 | 10 min min
director: Corinna Schnitt
In “Von einer Welt” [“FromOne World”], Corinna Schnitt’s latest work, the world is an idyllic Alpine landscape of forests and meadows. A man is striding through it, alone, to stand in the next scene on a meadow with a dozen nude women lying in high grass; each is draped as they would be if... [more]
D 2009 | 7 min
director: Corinna Schnitt
In a single shot the film shows different time-periods and creates a fairytaile atmosphere. A stillife is presented in an outside garden in front of a modern architecture, that has a fake- wooden-outside.fasade-.The paradox longing for feeling adventurous and homely is part of the children-song. [more]
D 2012 | 15 min
director: Corinna Schnitt
Corinna Schnitt's video narratives often begin with everyday scenes that gradually turn into the absurd. In Tee trinken various old people are shown within a modern living environment, sitting silently and without any motion. On different TV sets they all watch the same video of a young girl in a field... [more]
D 2012 | 60 / 90 min
director: Hartmut Jahn
50 years of FLUXUS, of action, event, intermedia and participation. 1962 was the date, when the grand piano was destroyed in Wiesbaden Museum. A film a bout a generation of artists in their eighties who are still witty, lucide and humorous: Ben Patterson, Geoffrey Hendricks, Ben Vautier, Mary Bauermeister,... [more]
D 2012 | 92 min
director: Fatih Akin
The mild moist breeze sweeping in from the Black Sea feeds the evergreen, precipitous land that its inhabitants have transformed into a garden: A carpet of lush green, round tea bushes stretching out between pines and rhododendrons; the livelihood of the 1700 inhabitants of Camburnu. For generations... [more]
D 2012 | 90 min
director:
GOLDRUSH tells the story of the Treuhandanstalt - the most expensive experiment and the greatest white-collar-crime since Worldwar II. It’s a film about greed as the driving force of economic development. The trust agency 'Treuhand' was established to privatise the state owned enterprises of the GDR.... [more]
D 2012 | 52 min
director: Jürgen Ast, Kerstin Mauersberger
It was Hitler's official residence, his office, his bunker; from here he planned the war and here it ended with his death - the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. ''He who enters the Reich Chancellery must feel that he is in the presence of the Lords of the World.'' This was the only condition that Adolf... [more]
D 2012 | 67 min
director: Michael Busch
The reconstruction of this overwhealming emotion of fear, which struck the filmmaker, when his one year old daughter fought for her life in hospital with a bacterial meningitis. While his wife could stay overnight at the hospital he was thrown out in the night, with nothing to do but wasting time until... [more]
D 2013 | 43 / 52 / 74 min
director: Marco Wilms
Jungle child Manop is nine years old and dreams of becoming a star in Thailand’s most popular folk opera LIKAY. He lives among the elephants in the middle of the jungle near the remote border to Burma, and performs in the LIKAY children’s group in his village school. Manop is a Burmese refugee. He... [more]
D 2012 | 93 min
director: Leopold Grün | Dirk Uhlig
A small one-street village in the open landscape of East Germany, marked by the political changes of the past decade and long forgotten by the rest of society. FAR END OF THE MILKY WAY is a trip to the periphery of society. How do people like Maxe the farmer, mother-of-five Gabi or technician Harry,... [more]
 
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