In ‘Gegen die Wand’ Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006) Jasmila Zbanic, Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev
Set against the backdrop of a former Yugoslavia of the nineteen-nineties Read More »
Return to the Land of Wonders (2004) Maysoon Pachachi
Not long after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi returns to her home city of Baghdad after 35 years. Read More »
Peer Gynt (2006) Uwe Janson, Robert Stadlober, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Karoline Herfurth
A complete opposite of a hero is banished from his village for his (in)actions. Read More »
The President AKA Le président (2013) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Gérard Essomba, Valery Ndongo
A president for 42 years in power discretely left the palace on the eve of an important electoral meeting. Read More »
The Inheritors AKA Die Siebtelbauern (1998) Stefan Ruzowitzky, Simon Schwarz, Sophie Rois, Lars Rudolph
Austria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. Read More »
Countdown (1990) Ulrike Ottinger
This documentary focuses on the ten days after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification Read More »
Goodbye Bafana (2007) Bille August, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger
James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth, Bafana, and had even had a photograph taken with him. Read More »
The All-Around Reduced Personality: Outtakes (1978) Helke Sander, Joachim Baumann, Frank Burckner, Eva Gagel
Edda works as a freelance press photographer, usually on commission earning little for uninteresting jobs Read More »
Inventory AKA Stan posiadania (1989) Krzysztof Zanussi, Krystyna Janda, Artur Zmijewski, Maja Komorowska
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Read More »
No Shooting Time for Foxes AKA Schonzeit für Füchse (1966) Peter Schamoni, Helmut Förnbacher, Christian Doermer, Andrea Jonasson
A young man and his friend Viktor are two young men from a middle-class house. Read More »
The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina AKA Le bellissime gambe di Sabrina (1958) Camillo Mastrocinque, Mamie Van Doren, Antonio Cifariello, Rossana Martini
Sabrina is beautiful, Sabrina has beautiful legs, Sabrina has seven moles on her Read More »
Twelve Chairs AKA Zwölf Stühle (2004) Ulrike Ottinger, Georgiy Deliev, Gennadiy Skarga, Svetlana Dyagilyeva
In her glorious adaptation of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov’s 1920s Soviet satirical novel Read More »
Chocolat (1988) Claire Denis, Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet
A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon Read More »
Moor-Monster! (2014) Günther Brandl, Helmut Brandl, Monika Brandl, Thomas Pill, Katharina Buchberger
Because radioactive waste was dumped in the bog Read More »