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2008
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte6.30 2008 HD
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.
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2006
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern6.60 2006 HD
The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews and opinions of producers, actors and directors. A nostalgic look at those movies that are still in the taste of many.
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2009
The Invisible Frame
The Invisible Frame6.89 2009 HD
In 1988 Cynthia Beatt and the young Tilda Swinton embarked on a filmic journey along the Berlin Wall into little-known territory. The film CYCLING THE FRAME is now an unusual document. 21 years later, in June 2009, Beatt & Swinton re-traced the line of the Wall that once isolated West Berlin. THE INVISIBLE FRAME depicts this poetic passage through varied landscapes, this time on both sides of the former Wall.
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2012
Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso
Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso7.00 2012 HD
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2013
The Sound We See: A Hanoi City Symphony
The Sound We See: A Hanoi City Symphony1 2013 HD
Facilitated by Echo Park Film Center, Hanoi Doclab and the Goethe Institute, The Sound We See: A Hanoi City Symphony invited a group of young Vietnamese filmmakers to explore their city on film, shooting with Super 8 cameras and processing/editing the images by hand.
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1991
Ynang-Bayan: To Be a Woman Is to Live at a Time of War
Ynang-Bayan: To Be a Woman Is to Live at a Time of War1 1991 HD
A documentary film, which focuses on the subject of women’s movement in the Philippines. Myth and legend overlap with history and politics as the women’s struggle is laid to bear in the individual stories and achievements of those featured in the film. The fragmented mosaic of voices and scenes allow for a plurality of views and opinions to account for the multifaceted and complex nature of Filipinas. From poetry to dance, politics to poetry – women chart their own lives in the auspicious event of change happening with the ascent of a woman to the country’s pinnacle of power.
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2023
Overcoming
Overcoming1 2023 HD
On the 20th anniversary of the opening of crossing points, OVERCOMING tells the inspiring story of Cypriot women, queers, and antimilitarist cismen challenging militarism and gender norms. Through diverse interviews, the film explores how the opening and closing of the checkpoints, as the sole passageways between north and south, have impacted the lives of Cypriots while revealing their struggles against the ongoing division of the island and their efforts towards a more united future.
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1997
Off Season
Off Season1 1997 HD
Summer 1994, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two civil wars in only three years has torn the city apart and destroyed it. The town is split into a Croatian majority in the west and a Muslim majority locked in the east. An invisible wall divides the two areas. The EU appoints German social democrat Hans Koschnick as municipal administrator of the town in the hope of rekindling a sense of community there.
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2016
Letters from Athens
Letters from Athens1 2016 HD
With the German Occupation in Greece (1941-1944) as a background, this film tells the love story between my father, an assistant professor at the mysterious German Scientific Institute of Athens - financed by the occupying power, Germany, but in reality a refuge for resistant students - and Nelly, a young student in Fine Arts. The film also traces the portrait of their friend Rudolf Fahrner, founder of the Institute, comrade of the Stauffenberg Brothers and one of the few conspirators of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, on 20 July 1944, that survived the repression that followed.
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2024
Journey to the Center of the Sound
Journey to the Center of the Sound1 2024 HD
Guided by the Jules Verne novel “Voyage au centre de la Terre”, four friends set out to explore Snaefellsjökul Volcano in Iceland. However, as they journeyed through the country recording sounds, they found themselves having a series of profound and transformative experiences that exceeded their original expectations. The result of their trip is an immersive audio-visual narrative titled “Journey to the Center of the Sound,” which not only guides the audience through diverse Icelandic landscapes, but also invites them to embark on their own sensory journey.
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1970
How Are You?
How Are You?1 1970 HD
Love, anger, despair. All strong emotions. What happens when your love abandons you all of a sudden? Tina and Roy are a married couple. Tina's life turns upside down when one day, out of the blue, she finds herself having to accept the fact that Roy has left her for good. While she struggles with coming to terms with it, she battles her own fears and tries to make sense of things. On the day of her anniversary while she frets and wonders why he left her and how he is doing without her, the answer comes in an unexpected form.
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2018
For Susan
For Susan1 2018 HD
For Susan explores the idea of dignity. Inspired by the director’s grandmother’s notebooks, it finds pleasure in activities hidden or forgotten.
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2007
The Multiplication Table
The Multiplication Table1 2007 HD
A girl and a boy of eight and nine years old live in a lost village in the steppes. The school is four kilometers off-road. The boy's daddy dreams of building a snowmobile, and while the girl's mom drives them sometimes on a horse. So they quarrel, and reconcile for a long journey - like a little peasant with a woman. The reason is any - multiplication table, for example ...
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2018
E se Cale
E se Cale1 2018 HD
The young poet Cristal Rocha, winner of the Slam Brasil 2017 circuit, reflects on what Censorship means for the Brazilian peripheral black population.
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2018
Cut it out - Mischa Leinkauf
Cut it out - Mischa Leinkauf1 2018 HD
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2008
A Human Request
A Human Request1 2008 HD
In 1948, the first Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the UN. Central point: The president’s widow and head of the commission, Eleanor Roosevelt. By using experimental animation and acting, the film re-enacts the discussions.
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2004
Der Maler und Filmemacher Jürgen Böttcher Strawalde
Der Maler und Filmemacher Jürgen Böttcher Strawalde1 2004 HD
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1982
The Luncheon of the Hyena
The Luncheon of the Hyena1 1982 HD
A young woman in New York.
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1986
Lizard, or How to Perform in Front of the Reptile
Lizard, or How to Perform in Front of the Reptile1 1986 HD
A restless lizard and a man move faster and faster to a punk beat.