
A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. Read More »
Tag Archives: Germany
Fertile Memory (1980) Michel Khleifi, Farah Hatoum, Sahar Khalifeh

The first full length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank “Green Line,” Read More »
The Nasty Girl (1990) Michael Verhoeven, Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner

Sonya is a German high school student who decides to write an essay about her town’s history during the Third Reich and its resistance to it. Read More »
The Big Dig (1969) Ephraim Kishon, Bomba Tzur, Nissim Azikri, Shraga Friedman

A madman escapes from the asylum in Tel-Aviv, and starts digging a canal right in the middle of one of the main streets. Read More »
Strike (2006) Volker Schlöndorff, Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra

A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland’s Solidarity union. Read More »
The Ninth Day (2004) Volker Schlöndorff, Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate

In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests Read More »
My Beautiful Country (2012) Michaela Kezele, Zrinka Cvitesic, Misel Maticevic, Andrija Nikcevic

Kosovo, 1999. As the civil war between Serbs and Albanians rages, hatred has replaced tolerance, and towns are brutally divided along ethnic lines. Read More »
Free Radicals (2003) Barbara Albert, Kathrin Resetarits, Ursula Strauss, Georg Friedrich

A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she’s a clerk, a mother, happy. Read More »
Blue Note – A Story of Modern Jazz (1997) Julian Benedikt, Andreas Morell, Freddie Hubbard, Gil Melle, Herbie Hancock

“It must ‘schwing!'” was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records Read More »
The Garden (1990) Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. Read More »