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20 last film entries of German Documentaries
/// 2010 | 90 min
director: maria mohr
A film dedicated to the brothers and sisters who leave and those who stay – „on earth as in heaven“. BROTHER SISTER is a film about a German nun loving a Spanish saint to-be: Rafael Arnaiz, who died 3 years before Sister Ingrid was born. She only has a piece of his rib as an official relic –... [more]
/ 2009 | 7:20 min
director: Dietmar Post | Lucia Palacios
"Doc Schoko: Oktopus im Pentagramm" is the title of the second film within the "play loud! (live) music series". It features the Berlin-based rock 'n' roll band Doc Schoko. The band performs "Oktopus im Pentagramm" at Volksbühne Berlin in 2007. Filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios captured... [more]
/ 2009 | 43 min
director: Gabriela Hermer und Irene Höfer
Disregarding her age of 80 - she is still a visionary character under the permanent strain to create; a highly sensitive person who is still among the most creative and succesful designers of the world. The film portrays the unique universe at SONIA RYKIELs headquaters on the eve of the winter show 2010. Sonia,... [more]
/ 2009 | 52 min
director: Christoph Dreher
New York and Western Berlin were economically run-down in the early 80ies. Against this backdrop, in both cities emerges an underground culture that radically breaks with the pop cultural tedium which the 70s hat left behind. A wild and uncompromising scene of artists working in film, music, painting... [more]
2009 | 28 min
director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu
In a small church in Halberstadt, in East Germany, a pipe organ plays avant-garde composer John Cage’s "Organ2/ASLSP" – and will do so day and night, without interruption, until the year 2640, resulting in a 639-year long concert. In a humorous but also thoughtful way the film shows different sides... [more]
2010 | 86 min
director: Pamela Meyer-Arndt
Berka, a Thuringian village within the change of centuries. The photographers Ludwig Schirmer and Werner Mahler have documented the change of the Thuringian village Berka over the centuries - from 1949 until 2006. Their poetic photo series shows an idyllic and well functioning village community and is... [more]
2009 | 90 min
director: Jens Schanze
Will man go beyond biology? It's an age-old dream to create intelligent machines that equal their human creators. Computer experts all around the world, like Raymond Kurzweil and Hiroshi Ishiguro, strive to fulfill their bold visions. Meanwhile, of all people one of the pioneers of the computer age,... [more]
2009 | 70 min
director: Martin Jabs
Nora loves wasps and hates piano music. And Nora is going to die soon. This is what the doctors say, but Nora just seems to stay alive - despite her physical and mental disabilities, she now became 30, outliving her loving mother and grandmother. She has never realized their death - her brother, however, makes... [more]
2009 | 90 min
director: Savas Ceviz
Esref Armagan is a Turkish painter who has been blind since birth. Esref has never been able to see. But: His paintings are amazingly realistic, incorporating colour, and great detail. And the most fascinating ability: He uses perspectives! Even a lot of seeing people are not able to do. Prof. Kennedy... [more]
2009 | 15 min
director: Jan Peters, Marie-Catherine Theiler
Being confronted with the finiteness of life in a car accident while carrying their unborn baby, the filmmakers Marie-Catherine Theiler and Jan Peters suddenly realize that their lives have become way too hectic. They spend too much precious time rushing from one appointment to the next, hunting deadline... [more]
2009 | 77 min
director: Juliane Großheim
In the commune of Viennese action-artist Otto Muehl, children should remain 'unspoilt from the nuclear family' and be brought up to become completely new human beings. Common sexuality, common property and the abolition of parents-children relationships were the basic elements of a social experiment... [more]
2007 | 45 min
director: Jean Christophe Blavier
From a trip in the Atacama Desert, where this exceptional 70 year old artist reflects on the past, we discover through her life in Chile and in Germany important stations of her dancer and interpreter career. Her work with the younger dancer generation is connected to her philosophy and lifes’ mantra... [more]
2009 | 52 min
director: Jean Christophe Blavier
A terrible fire destroyed the company´s ballet centre in Tapei, all of the costumes, studios and archives are gone.Lin Hwai-min, the company´s artistic director and choreographer, worldwide acclamed, regards this terrible drama not as a nemesis but as himself and his very young, 35 year old company... [more]
/ 2009 | 56 min
director: Bernard Louargant
Temple of expressionist German cinema, mythical spot haunted by the ghosts of Fritz Lang and Marlène Dietrich, at the forefront of new filming techniques, the Babelsberg studios had a promising future. But the Nazi regime caused talented directors to flee the country and imposed soulless comedies and... [more]
2009 | 80 min
director: Sabine Steyer
Once a year a group of elderly women meets in Fall River, a small village south of Boston, to answer the fairy tale yet still modern age old question: Who is the prettiest in the land? There are many beauty pageants, but just one Ms. Senior Sweetheart competition: this pageant is the only one in the... [more]
2010 | 78 min
director: Malte Rauch
Jon Hendricks, world famous jazz singer and "vocalizer" of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, singing with Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, still sings at 85 in Clubs in New York, London and Paris. He now went back to Europe, where he was fighting against Hitler's racist regime. But when the... [more]
/ 2009 | 65 min
director: Bertram Verhaag
Imagine that a storm blows across your garden - and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for many years. A few days later, representatives of a multi-national corporate... [more]
2009 | 82 min
director: Angela Christlieb
What is Urville? The most modern city in the world, where everyone is equal. Does Urville really exist? The experimental documentary by Angela Christlieb takes the audience via GPS on a journey through a previously unknown country: France! Urville is a series of snapshots, banalities and oddities from... [more]
/ 2009 | 46 min
director: Elisa Iven, Erik Wittbusch
Thesettlers in Israel they are feared and admired. In the eyes of theworld they are fundamental terrorists, the ultimate reason why peacecan not come to the Middle East. Just true or far from it? In Westjordan we met four graceful, witty people driven by the need totranscendent every breath they take... [more]
2009 | 98 min
director: Ralf Jesse, Natascha Breuers
The United Nations estimate the number of children refugees at about 12-13 million worldwide. 3-4 % of these children have either lost their parents or have to live separated from them. The technical term for these children without parents or relatives is “separated children”. About 100,000 of these... [more]
 
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