2011-2020

In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus following a sensationalized tour of “concerts” in Europe in 1962, and continuing in New York for most of the 1960s and ’70s. During this time Maciunas was converting the dying industrial buildings of Soho into a network of artists’ lofts, creating one of the first official real estate co-ops of artist-owned buildings. Maciunas’s life and legacy—as recounted by artists of his generation, including Yoko Ono and Jonas Mekas—ignited debates that remain pivotal to artists working today.Read More »

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Katja, Sascha, Benni, Laila and Schöller. These five young people have more in common than just the fact that they are living in provincial Germany free of parental interference. They have one last winter together before they finish school, then they are supposed to know what they want to do: stay or leave. In between homework and smoking dope, martial arts training and gossiping about deflowering people, they explore their feelings in all kinds of different relationships, searching for each other, hiding, kissing and fighting. They want to live, to conquer the world and find out who they really are. They are young and exude an enviable naturalness when it comes to gender identities and roles, above all Katja, played by Marie Tragousti with a lot of new female power. Melanie Waelde’s feature debut is tremendously intense and vibrant. Going beyond cuteness, she draws these “naked animals” with a raw, sensual and sensitive openness rarely seen in German cinema. On the cusp between the end of childhood and burgeoning maturity, body and soul are still more or less united. Just like loneliness and intimacy. We are vulnerable – and that’s a good thing.Read More »

Toko Suguri is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn’t have any major problems in her life. One day, Toko Suguri meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend’s wedding. They haven’t seen each other in ten years. Toko Suguri indulges in a sexual relationship with Akihiko Kurata.Read More »

Hakan and Nihal seems to have a perfect marriage. The problems of the young architect couple are started to emerge when Nihal suddenly disappears. While looking for his wife with the police, Hakan faces the facts of their relationship.Read More »

Jarle is 24 when a phone call rouses him from his drunken sleep. It is his mother, telling him that his father is dead. Instead of sadness, Jarle is filled with anger and a sense of relief. It forces his mind back to something he’d rather forgotten – his childhood at the orphanage in Stavanger. When “Orheim” was his surname; – set in 1980s Stavanger, this coming-of-age drama tells of Jarle’s conflicts with his alcoholic father Terje, who sees himself as the family’s “company commander”, a position which he simultaneously sabotages with his bouts of violence; and of the consolation that Jarle seeks in pop music and political commitments – and in the girls that cross his path. The Orheim Company” sensitively and compassionately depicts a conflict in generations in the shape of a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption; that many members of the cinema audience can relate to.Read More »

A young man searches for his father after he disappears while working on a highly classified project for the United States government that involves extraterrestrials.

György Pálfi’s multimedia sci-fi stew is loosely inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s philosophical novel, and it’s a richly indecipherable collage.Read More »

The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they don’t know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith’s birth – Iran.Read More »

The story of the investigation to unravel the mysterious death of a beautiful young woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She is not Krystyna Holzer, as stated in her kennkarte (German-issued identity document), but a Jewess kept hidden by a Pole – a polonized Saxon – attorney Karol Karlzer. Before the outbreak of war, the woman was his student as well as the object of his unrequited love. The case is assigned to Detective Chief Inspector Rafal Król, an officer of the so- -called Blue Police under the control of the German occupiers, but also a soldier of the Polish underground, sworn to execute his orders. It is a suspenseful story set in the faithfully-recreated reality of occupied Warsaw and Zakopane.Read More »

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Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet on a summer day in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Bubbly and naïve, Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open tomboy Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving at the end of the summer, she pushes her away. Diane is overwhelmed by her powerful new feelings, and they begin to manifest themselves in terrifying ways, causing unexplainable violent changes to her body. Young love is a monster – can Jack and Diane survive?Read More »