The African-German writer Sebastian Klein is one of the most famous Author of Germany. To promote his latest book, he is on reading-tour through Germany and also visits the little city of Prittwitz. But there, the local Neo-Nazis give him a hit on his head and Sebastian looses his memories. Instead he is parroting everything other people tell him. Sven, the political leader of a modern National Socialist Party, recognizing the opportunity and uses Sebastian as a promotion speaker against integration. When Sebastians highly pregnant girlfriend Nina is seeing him on TV, she is shocked and starts to chase him with the policeman Sascha in order to safe him from the Neo Nazis.Read More »
2010s
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Dietrich Brüggemann – Heil (2015)
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Stephen Elliott – About Cherry (2012)
2011-2020DramaStephen ElliottUSAQuote:
A troubled young woman moves to San Francisco, where she becomes involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.Read More » -
Kogonada – Godard in Fragments (2016)
2011-2020DocumentaryKogonadaShort FilmUSASynopsis
The filmmaking career of Godard is a cinematic record of increasing fragmentation as part philosophy, part resistance, part aesthetic, part madness, part genius – a way of making sense and nonsense of our so-called reality.
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António-Pedro Vasconcelos – Os Gatos não Têm Vertigens (2014)
2011-2020António-Pedro VasconcelosComedyDramaPortugalAn 18 year old boy with a complicated life starts a criminal career but ends up on a rooftop of Lisbon. On the apartment below lives a recently widowed, lonely old lady. Against all odds and her family’s will, they become each others best company.Read More »
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Kogonada – Mirrors of Bergman (2015)
2011-2020DocumentaryKogonadaShort FilmUSASynopsis
Sylvia Plath based her poem “Three Women“ on Ingmar Bergman’s Brink of Life (1958). The idea of Plath watching and engaging the women of Bergman is almost too much to bear. Who would have more to say about these women than Plath?Read More » -
Vivian Qu – Shuiyin jie AKA Trap Street (2013)
2011-2020ChinaDramaVivian Qu

“Shuiyin Jie’s straightforward approach to the harsh reality in 21st century China is as courageous as it is terrifying…” ScreenAnarchyRead More »
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Kana Matsumoto & Kayo Nakamura – Tôkyô Oashisu aka Tokyo Oasis (2011)
2011-2020DramaJapanJapanese Female DirectorsKana Matsumoto and Kayo NakamuraQuote:
The floating clouds between the high buildings, the lines of the taillights under the moonlight, the swirling human waves… Every view in Tokyo looks as if it is alive. Before even she realizes, TOUKO starts to run away from somewhere in the city. As an actress in a fantasy world, Touko seems to have lost her grip on reality. Along her journey, she makes acquaintance with people who carry similar issues. A midnight truck driver NAGANO, who happens to give Touko a ride, is grappling with the discovery of his soul, and his soul is unable to move forward. His escape from reality is to continually move from place to place. Read More » -
Ry Russo-Young – Nobody Walks (2012)
2011-2020DramaMumblecoreRy Russo-YoungUSAQuote:
A Silver Lake family’s relaxed dynamic is tested after they take in a young artist so she can complete her art film.Read More » -
Baldvin Zophoníasson – Vonarstræti AKA Life in a fishbowl (2014)
2011-2020Baldvin ZophoníassonDramaIcelandThree tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and drinks himself to death over a twenty-year period.Read More »







