Documentary

A documentation of the interior of a Singaporean tower block, from bottom to top.Read More »

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With this documentary on the plots and sub-plots of the universe of food, Moullet moves away from comedy to become a pioneer of today’s trend to analyze the forms of globalization by looking at a small cultural field. In his survey going from our everyday menu to the exploitation of Third World workers, the genesis in the title provides the basis for this political essay: by following the history of a meal’s ingredients, an intelligent map of the workings of the global world is charted.Read More »

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An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.Read More »

The first comprehensive study of German artist Otto Dix looks at the life and work of the maligned German artist, blacklisted by the Nazis for his depictions of the horrors of war.Read More »

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A propaganda documentary about North Korea that reveals a few hidden facts because the director continues filming between the scripted scenes.Read More »

A documentary on the work of sex-change specialist Dr.Leo Wollman, including interviews with Dr.Wollman and a few of his patients, with an illustrated lecture on the various aspects of transsexuality plus actual footage of a sex-change operation, which is what gives the film its notoriety.Read More »

Beruf Neonazi is a german documentary from 1993. It follows the daily work oft the young Neonazi Bela Ewald Althans. The movie foregoes comments and let the utterances of Althans alone. But through the sequence of self-exposure and the monoolgue his political opinion becomes clear. One scene shows Althans at the memorial place Auschwitz where he denies the Holocaust.

The movie got under performance ban in some german cities. Some time later i was shown to people above 18 but with some clear words of the presenter and a discussion about it.

In 1996 Althans was sentenced by german court to 3 years and 6 months because of isparagement of the state and sedition inclusive isparagement of the memory of the deceased and insult. The statements in movie became proofs for the action.Read More »

An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.Read More »

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Joachim “Blacky” Fuchsberger provided the starting point for “Overgames”: In 2005, he stated in a talk show that the content of his TV game show “Nur nicht nervös werden”, which first aired in 1960, was originally developed in US-American psychiatric institutions with the aim to re-educate the Germans, a “psychologically disturbed nation”. Director Lutz Dammbeck sets out on a global research that leads to important questions: In which regard may games change the world? Can a person be re-educated? And what is the idea of a permanent revolution?Read More »