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20 last film entries of German Documentaries
D/RO 2012 | 106 min
director: Philip Scheffner
On June 29th, 1992 a farmer discovers two bodies in a corn field in the North East of Germany. Police enqiries lead to the fact that the dead men are Romanian citizens. During the attempt to cross the EU border, they have been shot by hunters. The hunters claim that they had mistaken the people for wild... [more]
D 2011 | 103 min
director: Ulrike Ottinger
In the Japanese region Echigo, the locals live with and under the heavy snow fall half of the year. Because of this they have developed their own customs of everyday life, festivals, and religious rituals. In a poetic way Ulrike Ottinger leads us into the reality of the snow landscape with its beauty... [more]
D 2012 | 86 min
director: Brigitte Kramer
The filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has made a name for herself with her unique feature films and documentaries, such as Madame X - Eine absolute Herrscherin (1978), Bildnis einer Trinkerin (1979), Freak Orlando (1981), Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia (1989), Prater (2007) and Unter Schnee (2011). Her unusual... [more]
D 2011 | 60 min
director: Thomas Landenberger
Conny Mittermeier, 48 years old, is a boxing trainer. Although he won the german middleweight championship title in his professional boxing career, he never achieved the biggest goals. Now Conny is a trainer and also experienced a lot of ups and downs of the boxing business. He dicovered new talents... [more]
D 2011 | 56 min
director: Ronen Abas
A group of elderly widows in Haifa, Israel, meet a few times a week to gamble their money in a game of poker. Over the 40 years they have been playing together, none of the women remarried. Now, in their older days, what once was friendship has slowly turned into a love-hate relationship. As the son... [more]
D 2011 | 84 min
director: Dagmar Schultz
Audre Lorde’s incisive, often-angry, but always brilliant writings and speeches defined and inspired the US-American feminist, lesbian, African-American, and women of color movements of the 1970s and 1980s. AUDRE LORDE – THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 to 1992 documents an untold chapter of Lorde's life:... [more]
D 2011 | 55 min
director: Rolf S. Wolkenstein
Every day, millions of poker players meet privately - in back rooms, on the Internet or at live tournaments. They are a part of the worldwide poker boom, and cards, chips, a good poker face and nerves of steel are their weapons. Most different protagonists represent to us the whole gamut of characters... [more]
D 2012 | 85 min
director: Calle Overweg
Three couples in crisis each seek advice at therapy sessions and argue over infidelities, abortion and separate bedrooms. Accusations, fears and traumas all come up, with separation very much on the cards. These case studies reveal areas of conflict, structures and relationship patterns all of a universal... [more]
D 2011 | 90 min
director: Michael Radford
His life would be short – this he knew. So he lived it at double intensity: Jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani. His music was of timeless magic and seemed to come directly from his soul. This is the story of a startling and original man by the nature of both, his physical condition and his outstanding... [more]
D 2011 | 75 min
director: Benjamin Kahlmeyer
Recorded for all eternity: the ecstasy in Steven’s face when South Africa scores the first goal of the 2010 World Cup. In Extension 11, one of the countless districts of the township of Mamelodi, Pretoria, all hell breaks loose. For a brief moment Steven forgets what he calls the most important thing... [more]
D 2010 | 50 min
director: Carolin Schattenkirchner, Jochen ‘erich’ Abel
MAYBE BANGLADESH … these words, spoken by a Nepalese cook in Bavaria, Germany, set the ball rolling. What we get is a trip of imaginative dimensions. Erich, a musician with itchy feet, wants to track an unlabeled cassette back to where it originated. All because of a haunting voice singing of Govinda. A... [more]
D/IND 2012 | 55 min
director: Florian Luxenburger, Holger Reissig, Daniel Kreuter
This documentary is about the traditional musicians and storytellers of Rajasthan, a desert state in northwest India. The musicians have told their stories for over 2,000 years to their communities. The knowledge has never been written down, so it is instead passed down verbally from father to son. The... [more]
D/FIN/GB 2012 | 96 min
director: Katarina Peters
What makes the man a man? This is a question that everyone of us faces. Diane Torr, performance artist and 'Drag King Pioneer', developed tools to transform courageous women into the man of their choice. Maybe gender is just a mere set of gestures that men/women can acquire? [more]
D 2012 | 89 min
director: Dominik Graf
One of the most influential German television directors remembers another TV personality, thus reflecting on German television history and German history in general. The leitmotif for this film portrait is Oliver Storz’s autobiographical novel Die Freibadclique, which tells the story of a group of... [more]
D 2012
director: Arne Hector, Minze Tummescheit
in the works is a documentary series and filmic investigation of the conditions, possibilities and limitations of collective action. The films focus on the communicative process of researching. We have begun a series of interviews in several European countries. Members of various groups are brought together... [more]
D 2012 | 42 min
director: Thomas Adamicka
An actor's performance can be a mystery, but his work never is. We follow Prodromos Antoniadis for a month during his work with stage director Volker Hesse. A documentation of an intense and highly emotional process. with: Prodromos Antoniadis, Volker Hesse, Martin Lindow, Katrin Filzen, Ragna Guderian [more]
D 2011 | 90 min
director: Carolin Schmitz
The full length documentary BEAUTY describes people’s conceptions of life. Having cosmetic surgeries ist the common thing of the protagonists in this film. What is the way of life for people, whose desire for beauty exceeds the physical integrity of their bodies? [more]
D 2011 | 90 min
director: Emine Emel Balci
ICH LIEBE DICH is a story of love … and of waiting. For years the men of southeastern Turkey have gone to Germany for work. Some of them are away for a long time. Others try hard to have their wives and children join them. It takes more than money. There is a new obstacle for women to rejoin their... [more]
D 2012 | 90 min
director: Andreas Dresen
Henryk Wichmann, 33, member of the CDU party has been working as an opposition representative in the Brandenburg state parliament since 2009. The film follows him over the course of one year, observing his work in parliament and his constituency Uckermark/Upper Havel. There he visits schools, senior... [more]
D/BG/CH 2012 | 92 min
director: Stefan Schwietert
The film tells a great love story - the story of Marcel and Catherine Cellier and their lifelong dedication to the music of Eastern Europe. Amidst the cold war the couple transcends all borders to collect and document sounds and harmonies never been heard before in the West. In numerous radio programmes... [more]
 
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