Films by Peter Rippl

Germany 2024, 112 min
by Nathaniel Knop

The American photographer Nathan Farb is able to participate in a cultural exchange during the 'thaw' in the Cold War in 1977 and to photograph families in Novosibirsk. The fascinating series that made Farb famous shows proud and open people. Over 40 years later, the artist visits them again with his camera, this time on the eve of a hot war. (41 Kassel Dokfest, Livia Theuer)

Germany 2023, 81 min
by Livia Theuer

DAS KINO SIND WIR tells the story of cinema as social sculpture using the example of the Filmladen Kassel. In the early 1980s ten young film freaks started as a grassroots initiative – to change the world with (political) film art, increasingly by women too, to intervene in the social discussion, to make it more open, more equal and greener. Four decades later commercialisation, the digital revolution and the pandemic have changed cinema. In a collage of film clips, interviews and archive materi

2015, 78 min
by Peter Rippl

A film about hope, death and resurrection. “It is this, the darkest night in the history of Mankind, the night when God gave his life for us.” With these words the Archbishop opens his prayer. It is almost midnight and it starts to rain in the streets in front of the church San Domenico.Thousands are waiting for the great moment when the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows will be brought out of the church and exposed in the square. In the district of Tamburi, close to the steel mill, the situation is

Germany 2008, 96 min
by Peter Rippl

The Story of a Boy-Band Made in Russia. First feature documentary on Russian underground superstars. Packed with rollicking live footage The Man who sings is a feature film documentary on Russian Polkapunkband Leningrad. Playing a weird mix of Polka, Ska, Tango, Punk and traditional popular music these 15 conservatory educated Punks obtained cult status at the end of the nineties in Russia.But the film is more than just the bands onstage magic. It gives you an insight into how people perceived t