Documentary

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A short film which documents the “April War” or the beginning of World War II with the German’s invasion of Yugoslavia.Read More »

Explores the idea that the oceans, especially salt-marshes, sea-grasses and mangroves, can absorb more carbon than trees.Read More »

Twenty-four contestants compete in an endurance/sleep deprivation contest in order to win a brand new Nissan Hardbody truck. The last person to remain standing with his or her hand on the truck wins. An absurd marketing gimmick at first glance, the contest proves to be much more…Read More »

This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.Read More »

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Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

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Set in an Italian prison, Caesar Must Die tells the story of the production of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar by a group of long-term or life prisoners. While the film is a documentary and the people in the film are actually all prisoners, it is filmed in such a cinematic way that you forget it’s a documentary that you’re watching. The film starts by the very end of the performance, and then skips back in time 6 months to when the staging of the production was announced. We see the most of the play from the audition period, through the many rehearsals around the prison, right to the actual performance in front of a crowd, of who we can assume are friends and family of the men.Read More »

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Once a common medium to record home movies and holiday souvenirs, the memory of Super-8 film is now disappearing fast. Yaël André has recycled a wealth of random Super-8 footage into a fake biography, with cheeky off-screen voiceover.Read More »

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The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berflede. Miss Charlotte survived the Nazi reign and the repression of the Communists as a transvestite and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years.Read More »

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Images of the World and Inscription in War is an essay whose central motif is the aerial photograph of the camp at Auschwitz taken on April 4, 1944 by an American reconnaissance plane. On this photo, analysts identified the surrounding factories but not the concentration and extermination camp. Dialectic montage and a distanced commentary compose this film which analyses the conditions under which an image becomes readable. The gap from “seeing” to “knowing”, interlacing the polysemy of words and photographs.Read More »

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The Wake depicts the events preceding manifestation funeral of Jan Palach who sat himself on fire on Venceslas Square in Prague to wake Czechoslovak nation from slow lapse to apathy after the 1968 invasion of Warsaw Pact armies. In the picture are interviewed many important figures of political, economy and cultural life including Vaclav Havel and actor Rudolf Hrusinsky. Its suggestive report on the shock and sadness which overcome the nations after Palachs selfimmolation. The movie was awarded with special price at 10th Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 1969.Read More »