2001-2010

This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries, Each of the film’s seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.

Kaige Chen … (segment “100 Flowers Hidden Deep”)
Víctor Erice … (segment “Lifeline”)
Werner Herzog … (segment “Ten Thousand Years Older”)
Jim Jarmusch … (segment “Int. Trailer Night”)
Aki Kaurismäki … (segment “Dogs Have No Hell”)
Spike Lee … (segment “We Wuz Robbed”)
Wim Wenders … (segment “Twelve Miles to Trona”)Read More »

A family vacation sets the stage for an often uncomfortable generational battle. Krohmer constructs an unpredictable love triangle between Miriam (Martina Gedeck), a still-radiant forty-something mother and wife, her son’s 12-year-old girlfriend, Livia (Svea Lohde) and Bill (Robert Seeliger), the charming American expat in his twenties to whom both women find themselves drawn.Read More »

From IMDB: Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben returns home to Germany he discovers that Sreyko is sick and he takes on the responsibility to save her. On the way he discovers a world where not everyone is dealt the same cards and where motivations are not always pure.Read More »

Gérard Depardieu has at last returned to his true form in THE SINGER, which was a huge hit in France. Xavier Giannoli has created a genuinely touching love story which displays humour and a sense of compassion for its characters.

Depardieu plays the part of Alain Moreau, a nightclub crooner in Clermont-Ferrand described by one critic as: “much lower in the food chain than Charles Aznavour, but cut from the same cloth.”Read More »

After the Nazis took power, the resistance searched for a solution to end Adolf Hitler’s evil dictatorship. They formulated a plan to bio-engineer super-human assassins, eventually finding their man in one Captain Berlin.Read More »

Palo Alto, CA is a movie starring Aaron Ashmore, Johnny Lewis, and Justin Mentell. On their last night of Thanksgiving break, four old friends, now all college freshmen, realize their small town has more meaning than they ever imagined.Read More »

The New York Times
Shwaas,”the debut feature by Sandeep Sawant, is the teary, slow-moving story of a grandfather (Arun Nalavade) who has brought his young grandson from their rural village to the big city to seek medical attention. The boy, a wide-eyed moppet named Parashuram (Ashwin Chitale), is losing his sight, and tests reveal that he is suffering from a rare cancer. His only hope of survival is an operation that would leave him permanently blind.Read More »

First film by the most prominent Swedish director of today.

Kommer ni ihåg när vi var i Alperna tillsammans? Alla kompisar som en enda stor familj. Det
var ju så man skulle leva, svårare var det inte. Men plötsligt är det som om livet kommer
smygande inpå oss och vi börjar inse att så här kommer det inte vara för alltid. Så lätt
kommer vi inte undan.Read More »

“In this epic-scale saga of life on both sides of the law, Max Riemelt plays Marek Grosky, a Russian Jew who immigrated to Germany in the 1920s. Grosky is one of a large number of Russians who have fled their homeland and settled in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. While Marek has become a police officer in Berlin, his sister Stella (Marie Baumer) is married to a high-ranking crime chieftain, and the cop finds himself caught between two worlds, torn between his devotion to duty and his ties to his family. As a war rages between criminal factions in Charlottenburg, Marek witnesses the death of his brother and falls for a Ukrainian woman who has been brought to Germany to work as a prostitute. Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (aka In Face Of The Crime) was originally created as a ten-part series for German television; it was later re-edited into a pair of feature-length films which were screened as part of the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. “
by Mark DemingRead More »