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Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it’s the wrong side that he takes in this civil war…Read More »
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Alexander Kluge – Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte (1972)
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Alexander Kluge – Raumfahrt als inneres Erlebnis AKA Spaceflight as an Internal Experience (1999)
Alexander Kluge1991-2000ComedyGermanySci-FiNew sci-fi experimentation quite comical about a power failure during the launch of a Soviet rocket.Read More »
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Alexander Kluge – Vermischte Nachrichten AKA Miscellaneous News [+Extras] (1986)
Alexander Kluge1981-1990ArthouseDramaGermany

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Let’s follow the lady announcer and listen to some stories: the one about Max the waiter and the black lady or the one about Nina Petrovna, or others about soldier lost at Stalingrad, about the sick woman, or the European military conventions and Helmut Schmidt’s visit to Erich Honecker.Read More » -
Harun Farocki – Das Silber und das Kreuz aka The Silver and the Cross (2010)
Harun Farocki2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalGermany
The installation THE SILVER AND THE CROSS by media artist Harun Farocki examines the 1758 painting “Depiction of the Cerro Rico and the Imperial City of Potosí” by Gaspar Miguel des Berrío (in the Museo Colonial Charcas de la Universidad San Francisco Xavier, Sucre, Bolivia). Farocki uses the medium of video to dissect the painting and its historical layers. In addition to artistic aspects, Farocki also looks at historical context and colonialism.Read More »
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Christian Berger – Evolution of Reflected Light (2021)
2021-2030AustriaChristian BergerDocumentaryShort FilmChristian Berger invented the Cine Reflect Lighting System which he used on his latest films.
This documentary shows how this technique has evolved.Read More »
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Ann-Kristin Reyels – Formentera (2012)
2011-2020Ann-Kristin ReyelsDramaGermany

Nina and Ben have been together for many years. They have a three-year-old daughter. Their first vacation without their child leads them to the south: to Formentera. Caressed by the sun and the warm Mediterranean winds they enjoy their freedom from the necessities of everyday life. Finally they have some time on their own. But during a wild beach party the paradise turns into hell: Ben is firting with the young and beautiful Mara and at the end of the night Mara und Nina dive into the dark sea. Nina is drifted away and only just manages to get back on land on a different island. Mara, however, has gone missing… Nina and Ben are caught in a deep crisis, questioning everything they once believed in. The sunny island turns into a darkroom, rendering visible what has been concealed: doubts concerning the plans they had for their lives and a quiet grief over a reality that may only be accepted.Read More »
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Filipa César – Spell Reel (2017)
2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalFilipa CésarGermany

Filipa César turns her gaze to Guinea-Bissau, where at the beginning of the 1970s the advocates of a militant cinema captured the freedom struggle and the first years of independence.
The BFI London Film Festival is in full swing and we couldn’t be happier to bring you, direct from its daring Experimenta section, Portuguese artist Felipa César’s debut feature—a fascinating palimpsest of past and present that reflects on the power of images nodding to Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil.Read More »
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Volker Schlöndorff – Der Namenlose Tag AKA The Nameless Day (2017)
Volker Schlöndorff2011-2020CrimeDramaGermany

Der namenlose Tag is Volker Schlöndorff’s first-ever TV crime drama…
Ludwig Winter visits retired crime investigator Jakob Franck and refers to the death of his 17-year-old daughter, Esther, a death filed as a suicide. Winter is convinced that it was murder and asks Franck to reopen the case. In flashbacks we learn that Esther was found hanging from a tree in a park. Forced to bring the bad news to Natalie’s mother, Franck ended up consoling her for the next seven hours. Later, this mother, unable to live with such a tragedy, commits suicide. Several characters bring the plot forward: Sandra (best girlfriend), Jan (boyfriend), Jordan (small boy), Rosie (older lady). Franck habitually solves cases by lying on his comfortable bed and staring at the ceiling until an idea pops into his head.Read More »
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Alexander Kluge – Der Tag ist nah AKA The Days is Nigh (1997)
Alexander Kluge1991-2000ExperimentalGermanySci-Fi



