Germany

A woman juggling care for her elderly parents and a failing marriage encounters a single mom. Their unexpected bond challenges her to face the cracks in her meticulously planned life.Read More »

The Buddhist priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priestess at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks if he were in Europe that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denounced and has to commit harakiri. She meets Olaf, a European officer, falls in love and marries him, but after a few months he has to return to Europe. She gives birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in Europe. When he comes back to Japan four years later, he is accompanied by his European wife…Read More »

Here is the English dub for Herzog’s Cobra Verde. Read More »

A filmmaker journey through the former East Germany looking into her father’s 1999 suicide.Read More »

A desperate, haggard-looking man puts a message into a bottle, and is able to throw it into the sea just as he is shot by an arrow. Some time later, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a large audience that he has found the message, which tells of a lost civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, plans her own expedition, and she is determined to get the treasure for herself.Read More »

Synopsis: Strange psychedelic movie with excellent soundtrack from Amon Duul II. A tragedy based on Friedrich Schiller’s drama “The Bride From Messina”, adapted to the modern scene and played in present-day Israel.Read More »

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Kreise (Circles), 1933-34 by Oskar Fischinger. One of the first color films in Europe, made with the Gaspar Color process.Read More »

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It seems only natural to exchange labour for reward. But not everyone is satisfied with their work. Had Primitives similar problems as people in modern society? We interviewed five of them, let’s see what they said.Read More »

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Henrik Ibsen’s 1877 play Samfundets Stotter (Pillars of Society) was the source for this German drama. The plot centers upon a flagrant case of municipal corruption, carried out by the town’s “finest” people. The selfishness of the elite results in widespread tragedy, yet still the perpetrators hypocritically blame everyone but themselves. The director of Stutzen der Gesellschaft was Detlef Sierck, who as “Douglas Sirk” would later expose the peccadilloes of the rich and powerful in such American films as Written on the Wind. The Ibsen original was earlier adapted to the screen in 1915, with H. B. Walthall in the lead.Read More »