The world is holding its breath. Four days before the end of the Second World War in Germany. A Soviet Captain and his patrol have occupied an orphanage by the sea; a German army unit is camped on the beach; a secret love affair blooms against all odds.More ...
Audre Lorde’s incisive, often-angry, but always brilliant writings and speeches defined and inspired the US-American feminist, lesbian, African-American, and Women-of-Color movements of the 1970s and 1980s.More ...
Veit Helmer’s charming return to the eastern pastoral of his lauded comedy Absurdistan is as delightful as its predecessor with twice as many stars in its eyes.More ...
Set in the East Germany in 1980, Barbara continues Christian Petzold’s engagement with Germanys East and West (Yella and Jerichow). The film follows its eponymous protagonist, played by Petzold regular Nina Hoss, as she is transferred from Berlin to a small-town clinic.More ...
A film from and about rural Europe, capturing a timeless cultural event: a series of head-to-head fights of cows, not bulls, set in a valley in sunny Southern Switzerland.More ...
Austria’s official entry to the 2012 Academy Awards, and the directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics (The Counterfeiters): Nineteen-year-old Roman Kogler has a chance to be released early from his young offenders’ institution.More ...
A German tourist on the Canary Islands discovers a group of African refugees held in detention by the local police. Her concern with their plight leads to her helping one of the refugees and his young son.More ...
Marisa, a 20-year-old German woman, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provocates, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler.More ...
Set in the world of theater, this psychological drama revolves around a novice actress named Fine who, despite the general consensus that she lacks talent, is cast by renowned director Kaspar Friedmann for the main role of his student staging of Camille.More ...
A modern depiction of the classic tale, Alexander Sokurov’s version of Faust puts an eerie and surreal spin on the story of the skeptical doctor who sold his soul to the devil for knowledge.More ...
Marko (Lars Eidinger, Everyone Else), a thirty-something author in Berlin, leaves the city with his son Zowie to visit his parents in their countryside home.More ...
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute (Barbara Sukowa) exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love.More ...
Based on the 1926 novel by B. Traven: After a line of mischief Philip Gale (Horst Buchholz), an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the “Yorikke”, a tramp cargo, by Lawski (Mario Adorf), a stoker from Poland.More ...
FALLEN (Gefallen), FLAMINGO PRIDE, FIVE WAYS TO KILL A MAN, OF DOGS AND HORSES (Von Hunden und Pferden), STEFFI LIKES THIS (Steffi gefällt das), and YOU AND I (Du&Ich).More ...
This mystery thriller’s action centers on the formerly successful painter, David, who has lost control over his life after causing the death of his seven-year-old daughter Leonie.More ...
This uncompromising portrait of the appalling practice of taking poor children from their parents and sending them as “contract children” to live with new families who often abused them, was common in Switzerland until the 1950s.More ...
Danzig, Germany, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects both, and, at his third birthday, refuses to grow older.More ...
Based on the eponymous best-selling novel “Die Wand” by Marlen Haushofer, a contemporary female Robinson Crusoe story starring the celebrated German actress Martina Gedeck.More ...
Commercial filmmaker and lifelong skater Marten Persiel’s documentary is a high intensity bacchanal of Super 8 flashbacks, ultra-short jeans shorts, grainy TV advertisements, naked girls and political upheaval.More ...
Tom Sawyer has nothing but pranks and mischief on his mind—much to the distress of his Aunt Polly, with whom he and his stepbrother Sid live in the little town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi.More ...
Doreen and Isa are 17-year-old twins from a village in East Germany. In the summer of 1988 the two future club rowers are allowed to go on a trip to a foreign socialist country.More ...
