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- Documentary presents a comprehensive portrait of an iconic artist of our time.
- Every year, thousands of people vanish without a trace in Japan. Known as the Johatsu, or "the evaporated," they abandon their lives for various reasons, a troublesome relationship, mounting debts or threats from the mafia. Some get support from so-called "night moving" companies, which help people to disappear and start a new life somewhere else. Taking an intimate look at the phenomenon of "evaporating people," the film depicts the inner conflicts and attempts at reconciliation of those who have disappeared and those who have been left behind.
- Zer is a young man's journey into his roots, an exploration of a song originated in a village removed from history.
- When Rafael Correa becomes president of Ecuador in 2007, the West will no longer lend money to the country. Instead, the president turns to China and starts making a flurry of deals and contracts with the Chinese, giving the big Asian country mining, oil and influence over infrastructure in the small South American country, among other things. But not all Ecuadorians are happy. In the lush mountains, villages are setting up guerrilla armies led by eco-activist Paúl Jarrín Mosquera, who, on horseback, wearing a red hat and carrying guns, is trying to sabotage Chinese mining and ensure Ecuador is not re-colonised. And in the capital, Quito, journalist Fernando Villavicencio exposes government corruption to such an extent that he has to flee for his life. 'This Stolen Country of Mine' is an intensely dramatic blockbuster about the consequences of globalisation, and the earthbound nationalism of an outraged population.
- Ten-year-old Lene is going to the Bavarian Forest. She begins her journey somewhat reluctantly, but the forest suddenly turns into a place full of strange creatures: One of them is the "Waldobelix" - half ghost, half national park guard.
- 60-year-old Meredith considers herself happily married to André. So it comes as a shock when she's diagnosed as HIV-positive and her husband is the only one who could have transmitted the disease.
- SILENCE OF THE TIDES is a cinematic portrait for international cinema about the Unesco World Heritage Site, the Wadden Sea, one of the largest wetlands, tidal and coastal systems in the world.
- One of the most intangible yet defining procedures in life is none other than the passage from puberty to adulthood, an experience depicted in countless films and documentaries, though rarely with the emotional intelligence and unpretentious authenticity encompassed in this film. Except from imminent adulthood, the girls from Tell Them About Us also have to deal with another complicated condition; despite their Arab, Kurdish and Roma origins, they are growing up in a provincial town in Germany. Through this film (or, rather, actually through their very existence, their intoxicating energy, their bravery, their smiles, as well as their dreams), they are not just laying claim to their position in life but to a better future, speaking out about the way they live and the future they want to build with a genuinely hopeful outlook. Simple in its conception although an intricate result, Rand Beiruty's documentary is as close to the definition of "slice of life" as it can get; a slice that is rather delicious, flavorful, and juicy.
- Focuses on the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and its 'collective spirit' in cinema. The purpose of film as a cultural tool is examined. Based on celebrated sociologist Siegfried Kracauer's seminal book 'From Caligari to Hitler' (1947).
- Amid Venezuela's economic and political turmoil, two single mothers navigate the challenges of providing for their children, as millions flee the failed state and many are left behind.
- In 1860, a French lawyer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia. And he did just that. Or so it seems.
- This film depicts the uprising and fall of Sebastian Kurz, an ex-chancellor of Austria. This is done by explaining the topics of the document "Projekt Ballhausplatz". This document describes exactly the taking over of power by Team Kurz.
- In 1968 Munich, a high school classroom becomes a film studio directed by Edgar Reitz, chronicling the lives of teenage girls.
- While filming a documentary about the murdered journalist, Daphne Caruana Galicia, investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier are contacted by an informant with information that could bring down a government.
- They meet in »Le Vieux Belleville«: Minelle, the singer, or Robert Bober, the writer, once Truffaut's assistant director. Basque anarchist Lucio is also a regular at the little restaurant, where time seems to have stood still. This place and the memories of the regulars and their songs which tell of love and struggle are the manifestation of the soul of Belleville, but also of old Paris.
- Documentary deals with the murder of a housemaid in Morocco and with the social context behind the crime.
- Rafael - the minister of sports of an unrecognized country, and Natasha - a Russian opera singer, try living together in Abkhazia - a war-torn future-less country. Observing their difficult relations, we see life in a place marked by war and nationalism. The film portrays trapped people dreaming of peace, normality and happiness.
- Far more than just an alternative farming concept - the potato combine between encouraging vision and sobering reality Over a period of nine years, the documentary accompanies the Kartoffelkombinat from Munich on its way to becoming Germany's largest solidarity-based agriculture. With their vegetable cultivation, however, the two founders are pushing ahead with a much bigger idea: to find an alternative to the capitalist mode of production. But the road there is rocky and suddenly the project is on the brink of failure.
- Yaar is a young Jewish Berliner who dreams of becoming a game designer and who considers himself "the most un-Jewish Jew in the world". From his point of view, this documentary asks what the Holocaust still has to do with Jews today.
- This is the story of Marie-Louise Chatelaine, from childhood through marriage and emigration: a twentieth-century saga that takes us from Burgundy to Alsace, from Alsace to Germany, Holland and finally Argentina. What does it mean for a woman to lose her parents and make a family of her own, only to end up alone? What does it mean to move from country to country, from language to language? A Woman is a cinematic essay about identity. A search into the wounds of exile and a reflection on the function of memory. A haunting and intimate portrait of the director's own mother. It is the story of an imitation artist, trying to adapt to the challenges of real life... as a woman.
- Kim has her music. Kim has her dogs. Kim has her faith. Kim struggles, every day: with anxiety, for a bit of normality, to stand on her own two feet. Kim's mother, Lore, was deported to Auschwitz at the age of six. To this day, Lore is a DP, a displaced person. Lore has her index cards. From morning till night, she transcribes articles from the daily newspaper, archiving them in boxes and baskets. All her life, Lore has been silent: about her mother, about the hiding place where she survived, about Tom, her son, Kim's brother, who took his own life. Kim instead wants to talk: about her childhood with Lore, about Tom, about the scarred lives they both lead. There is a lot of anger, a lot of strength, and a love between mother and daughter that was always there but could not be expressed.
- What does 'sound' mean? What does 'silence' mean? An intimate, poetic and contrasting portrait of the life and work of Irmin Schmidt, founder of the German band CAN. CAN, whose individual style shaped generations of musicians, has become one of the most influential bands in the pop and electronic music industry. Schmidt, now 85 years old, reinvented himself and his music time and time again. After CAN, Schmidt released 12 solo albums, wrote 80 film scores and an opera. The film follows his path from being a classical conductor to being a pupil of famous composers Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti, from CAN, his work on film scores and finally his love for electronic club music. The film thrives especially on his cinematic value, embedding footage of a time that now, with its inclination to eccentricity and musical adventures, seems colorful and crazy. The deaths of CAN members Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit in 2017 have been the sad inspiration of this film. Irmin Schmidt, himself suffering from poor health, is the last CAN member to be able to tell us the band's story first hand.
- Two people meet on the bus to Lübeck. You come to the Hanseatic city to work. The Polish Agnieszka as the carer of an elderly gentleman with dementia, Dieudonné from the Ivory Coast as a harvest helper on an organic tomato plantation. Agnieszka, who works on behalf of a Catholic placement agency, soon develops a close connection with Siegfried, whose son Carsten, who is rarely present, has little understanding for him. Dieudonné, trapped in the exploitative structures of modern agriculture, communicates primarily through a mysterious network: the Amitié. An artificial intelligence and virtual reality that anyone can join and whose possibilities seem unlimited. When a crazy police officer suspects a smuggling gang is behind the network and Siegfried is picked up by a mysterious taxi, events take over. Science fiction parable that tells with a lot of humor and artistic imagination about the inequality in our society and the hope for a self-determined life in the future.
- Observational documentary about people as refugees and asylum seekers in many geographical locations such as Germany, Brazil, Western Sahara, Myanmar, Cuba, South Sudan.
- BIRDWATCHER erzählt von Menschen, die sich voller Leidenschaft der Beobachtung von Vögeln widmen und sich für den Erhalt ihrer Lebensräume einsetzen. Die Vogelwelt wird zu einer Metapher für den Zustand der Gesellschaft in einer großen Umbruchsituation.
- The last school has shut its doors, every other house is empty, there are only rapeseed fields as far as the eye can see. The last holdovers in the country are faced with the decision: stay or go is the storyline.
- A film about rural areas as they are used today.
- For the first time ever a documentary feature film is dedicated to Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, who was credited as the first Jewish painter establishing a Jewish self-awareness in art history.
- BEER BROTHERS ist die Geschichte vom Bierbraumeister Helmut, der in Deutschland gegen Windmühlen kämpft, während sein Bruder René in China mit dem gleichen Beruf Erfolge ohne Ende feiert René baut für eine Münchner Brauerei in nahezu jeder chinesischen Metropole neue Brauhäuser auf, in denen der chinesische Gast nicht nur Bier trinken, sondern deutsche Gemütlichkeit als Kulturpaket erleben soll, um für ein paar Stunden der Tristesse einer undurchdringlichen Dunstglocke über der Stadt zu entfliehen. In Deutschland lässt Helmut die Biermarke seiner Vorfahren auferstehen, indem er fremdes Bier mit eigenem Label verkauft und davon träumt, mit seinem Kumpel Otto eine eigene Brauerei in der Heimat zu errichten. Helmut als Don Quichotte gegen die Sparkasse, die Bierkonzerne und die Chinesen, die ihn schon aufkaufen wollen, noch bevor er überhaupt sein Bier brauen kann. Wir erleben Helmut als einen heldenhaften Verlierer in einem Deutschland, in dem es kein Vor und Zurück gibt. Sein einziges Kapital ist ein stures Beharren in seinen Träumen. Als dieses gänzlich aufgebraucht ist, bleibt ihm nur, den Laden zuzumachen und zurückzugehen. "Zurück" heißt für Helmut China. Nur das Reich der Mitte bietet ihm eine Chance, in seinem Beruf zu überleben. Während der erfolgreiche (Bier-) kulturvermittler René seinen Traum im Hinterkopf behält: eines Tages ein Zuhause in Deutschland.
- Leo Wagner was a co-founder of the CSU, the Conservatives, and a member of the German Federal Parliament in Bonn. During the day, the wartime generation of politicians did their duty at the political front of the Cold War, afterwards they relaxed in Cologne's night life with young women and old champagne. The families left at home were often only a façade. For Leo, the extravagant way of life came at a cost. He became involved in dubious affairs and contacts with the Stasi. Now, his grandson, young film maker Benedikt Schwarzer, exposes the political and personal background to one of the greatest political scandals of the German Republic in Bonn.
- A prison is constructed. Brick by brick a world materializes, in which time follows its own rules. Kenny Berger, Samuel Conley and Helmut Poschner have been subjected to such a parallel world for years. They are there to pay their debt. The price to pay for their transgressions is with time. From inside the prison walls, they share a glimpse with us into their hopes and fears through conversations that construct an image of a reality taking place behind high prison walls - totally out of touch with time.