Germany, France 2024, 98 minby Victor Kossakovsky
From filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) comes an epic, intimate and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.Centering on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele de Lucci, Kossakovsky uses the circle to reflect on the rise and fall of civilizations, capturing breathtaking imagery from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to
Architecton
Germany 2023, 92 minby Grit Lemke
What makes us who we are? In search of her own roots, the director explores an indigenous people in Germany: the Sorbs, the smallest Slavic people. Their language and culture are severely threatened by centuries of oppression. But a new generation no longer wants to accept this: They are committed to self-determination, come to terms with the trauma of losing their villages because of lignite mining or redefine being Sorbian as alternative, anti-fascist and feminist. And the German Anna becomes
We call her Hanka
Germany 2022, 108 minby Torsten Striegnitz, Simone Dobmeier
The Joy Of Singing is a music documentary about the beauty of singing together and the longing for community. It follows three choir leaders – star conductor Simon Halsey, vocal coach Judith Kamphues and upcoming Korean conductor Hyunju Kwon – during a time when the need for singing and community becomes their greatest challenge: In their personal lives, in their careers, but also in their tense relationship with the singers. The three take us on an entertaining and encouraging journey between a
The Joy of Singing
Germany 2020, 90 minby Klaus Maeck, Tanja Schwerdorf
In 1981, Wau Holland and other hackers established the Hamburg based Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The idiosyncratic freethinkers were inspired by Californian technology visionaries and committed themselves to hacker ethics. All information must be free. Use public data, protect private data. But not everyone followed the rules. Computer technology was still in its infancy and the emerging Internet became a projection screen for social utopias. What has become of them? The story of the German hacke
ALL IS ONE. EXCEPT 0.
Germany 2020, 89 minby Carmen Losmann
Layer by layer, the episodic documentary OECONOMIA reveals how the rules of the contemporary capitalist game systematically precondition growth, deficits and concentrations of wealth. With particular shrewdness and rigor OECONOMIA articulates the more egregious aspects of capitalist economy rendered invisible by the prevalent media coverage.
OECONOMIA
Germany, Italy 2019, 116 minby Pepe Danquart
3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe Danquart’s documentary. Following the footsteps of the great Italian thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the filmmaker gains a deep insight into the social reality of present-day Italy. The country is massively affected by globalization, migration and the phenomenon of mass tourism, which, more than ever, is characterised by the same hedonistic conformity that Pasolini lamented more than fifty years ago. Ahe
Ahead of me the South
Germany, Denmark, Great Britain 2018, 90 minby Victor Kossakovsky
AQUARELA takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Filmed at a rare 96 frames-per-second for 96 frames-per-second projection, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angels Falls, water is AQUARELA’S main character, with d
Aquarela
Germany 2017, 90 minby Charly Hübner, Sebastian Schultz
“Wildes Herz” is a film about “Feine Sahne Fischfilet”, one of the most successful German punk rock bands, and their lead singer, Jan “Monchi” Gorkow. A young band who are under surveillance by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which gives them the right to call themselves the most dangerous band in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. A film that shows how musicians fight against Nazis and feelings of emptiness and frustration, in a region where home means the beautiful flat cou
Wild Heart
Germany 2017, 90 minby Niels-Christian Bolbrinker, Thomas Tielsch
The film describes the fascinating story of the Bauhaus as statement, failure and renewal of a social utopia. And it tells of artists, scientists and architects today, who, in their examinations of current challenges also relate to the Bauhaus. That way, the story of this unfinished utopian project with its manifold exciting cross-references unfolds before our eyes while always keeping in touch with the questions still topical today: How do we want to live, where do we want to go?
Bauhaus Spirit
Germany 2016, 92 minby Alexander Kleider
You hated school when you were young? Your kids refuse to get up in the morning, because they feel the same?Maybe this documentary shows a solution...Hidden in one of Berlin's backyards is Germany's most ambitious high school.No headmaster, no hierarchy and no pressure. This school is entirely organized by its students without any outside funding. The pupils pay their own teachers and decide what they want to learn. The film tells the moving stories of Alex, Lena, Mimy and Hanil. They all comi
BERLIN REBEL HIGH SCHOOL
Germany 2016, 81 minby Claus Withopf
Anne Clark, English poet and spoken word-artist, has been celebrated worldwide on stage for more than 30 years. Shaped by the punk scene, she achieved fame and success in the early 1980s with her new wave classics 'Sleeper in Metropolis' and 'Our Darkness'. By creating groundbreaking analogue synthesizer sound structures and electronic music she became a forerunner of the techno movement and has influenced an entire generation of musicians. The documentary reflects the distinctive style of Anne
ANNE CLARK – I’ll walk out into tomorrow
2016, 133 minby Jonathan Littell
Uganda, 1989. A young Acholi rebel guided by spirits, Joseph Kony, forms a new rebel movement against the government: the LRA, The Lord’s Resistance Army. An ‘army’ that grew by abducting teenagers– more than 60,000 over 25 years – of which less than half came out of the bush alive.Geofrey, Nighty and Mike, a group of friends, as well as Lapisa, were among these youths, abducted at 12 or 13. Today, in their effort to rebuild their lives and go back to normal, they revisit the places that marked
Wrong Elements
Germany 2015, 90 minby Stefan Eberlein
A Chinese investor buys the regional airport of Parchim in provincial north Germany to turn it into a hub for international cargo and passenger transport. Sheer megalomania or enviable drive and enthusiasm?In 2007 Chinese investor Jonathan Pang bought an old military airport in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. In the small town of Parchim, he wants to create an international hub for air cargo transport between China, Europe and Africa. Mr Pang plans no less than to reroute international
Parchim International
Germany 2015, 87 minby Stephan Bergmann
If life was a Romantic Comedy this is the film that makes us want to celebrate it to the end! The last gigolos have gotten grey. But still they are gentlemen, perfect and suave to the sole. They spend their golden years on cruise ships – as dancers and entertainers for solvent ladies of 60 years and over whoare hungry for amusement. Slowly and with a lot of humour, the film reveals that happiness is mainly down to everybody’s individual skill and luck. Some will try and make their dreams come tr
THE LAST GIGOLOS
Germany, Polen 2012, 85 minby Michal Marczak
Berlin’s Fuck For Forest is one of the world’s most bizarre charities.Based on the idea that sex can save the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling homemade erotic films on the internet. Meet Danny, a troubled soul, as he accidentally discovers this exuberant, neo-hippy world where sexual liberation merges with global altruism, and joins their already colourful operation. From the streets of Berlin to the depths of the Amazon, together they are on a planet-saving m
F*CK FOR FOREST
Germany 2012, 93 minby Dirk Uhlig, Leopold Grün (freier Filmemacher)
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 (aka RANDLAND) is a trip to the periphery of society. How do people like Maxe the farmer, mother-of-five Gabi or technician Harry, who dreams of travelling to Norway’s North Cape in his camper van and experiencing one white night there, actually live?Wealth and jobs are scarce around here, but people want to stay r
FAR END OF THE MILKY WAY
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