2000s

A thirty day music marathon by Swiss musicians Koch-Schütz-Studer turns into a cinematic piece of chamber music.Read More »

First her father ends up in one of Stalin’s prison camps, then young Svetlana herself experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev. She is good and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.
—Göteborg International Film FestivalRead More »

Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolongs, more and more aggressions and long repressed behaviors shed their way to the surface.Read More »

Swiss Film Prize: Best Documentary 2001

The odyssey of the fortune teller Daniele von Arb, who as a 16-year-old entered the revolutionary underground with his friends and made headlines as a top Swiss terrorist.

Daniele von Arb was 16 years old in 1970 when he and some friends of the same age from the Altstetten district of Zurich founded a revolutionary cell to rid the world of injustice. Shortly thereafter, the cell was listed by the CIA, the U.S. secret service agency, under the code name «Annebäbi» in chart on international terrorism.Read More »

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A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides.Read More »

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Based on the epic prose poem by Lautreamont detailing the metaphysical adventures of the sinister Maldoror. This episode involves Maldoror’s hallucinatory encounter with an entity in the form of a glowworm that promises him enlightenment in exchange for the murder of a wraith called Prostitution. Maldoror, enraged, slays the hideous worm and makes love to Prostitution sealing his arcane initiation by which he is enlightened and transformed into a demon enemy of humanity.Read More »

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Acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas follows up on the international success of Fin Août, Début Septembre and Irma Vep with this sweeping adaptation of the sprawling three-volume tome by Jacques Chardonne. Set in three chapters spanning from the beginning of the 1900s to after WWI, the first section takes place in the fictional village of Barbazac, located in the Cognac region. Protestant pastor Jean Barnery (Charles Berling) learns of his wife Nathalie’s (Isabelle Huppert) infidelity from the village grapevine and sends his daughter away. At the same time, 20-year-old Pauline (Emmanuelle Beart) returns to the village after the death of her father. Pauline and Jean are almost immediately attracted to each other when they first meet at a ball. Soon Jean installs Nathalie and their daughter in an apartment, files for divorce, and resigns as minister. Read More »

PLOT: Provincial France at the beginning of the summer break. A family is going south for their holidays, from Burgondy to the Landes (South French Atlantic coast). When Mischka, a difficult old Grandpa, is accidentally left behind at a highway rest stop by his family, he manages to take his own journey with a ragtag group of travelers. This alternative off-beat family of wandering gypsy-misfit include a rocker, Joli-cœur, a teenage runaway, Jane and a male nurse, Gégéne, who’s left his days behind. Spending a few days together, while they seem a disparate group, they all bond and become a new sort of family. A few days in which to come to terms with how to navigate between the family they’re born with and that which they choose.Read More »

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During the night of Dec. 22-23, 1989, mere hours after the fall of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, a squad of confused militia men navigates the chaotic streets of Bucharest rife with warring factions in “The Paper Will Be Blue.” Third feature by helmer Radu Muntean (“The Fury”) adeptly blends docudrama realism and wryly observed humor in a manner comparable to fellow Romanian Cristi Puiu’s recent “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” and other local films, while offering yet another intimate-scaled, off-center examination of the impact of 1989. Adventurous distribs may care to sign on “Paper” for niche release and possible TV sales.Read More »