Brudermord (Fratricide)
With actors Xevat Gectan, Erdal Celik, Bulent Buyukasik, Nurettin Celik, Yusuf Gectan, Taies Farzan, Oral Uyan, Xhiljona Ndoja; Available on DVD in Germany Summary: Semo, a Kurdish immigrant and pimp living in Germany, offers to pay for his younger brother Azad to come and join him. Reluctantly, Azad accepts his brother’s offer and makes the long […]
Süperseks
With actors Denis Moschitto and Marie Zielcke Links: IMDB, Film Portal Genre(s): Comedy;
Angst Essen Seele auf (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul)
With actors Brigitte Mira and Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss available with English subtitles on the Criterion Collection DVD of Ali: Fear Eats Soul Links: IMDB, Film Portal
Kleine Freiheit (A Little Bit of Freedom)
Produced by Ralph E. Cotta With actors Cagdas Bozkurt, Necmettin Cobanoglu, Leroy Delmar, Sunay Girisken available on DVD in Germany Denied political asylum after leaving his native Turkey, a Kurdish teen named Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt) lands a job as a kebab delivery boy in Germany while attempting to elude the authorities and striking up a […]
Bend it Like Beckham (Kick it Like Beckham)
With actors Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley available on DVD in the US Set in West London, Hamburg and Hounslow, this comedy addresses multicultural issues in relation to women’s soccer, friendship, family and social norms. Jesminder (Jess) Bhamra (Parminder Nagra), the daughter of Indian parents that immigrated to the UK, loves to play soccer. Her […]
Trdnjava Evropa (Fortress Europe)
With actors Hannah Nortman and Emil Tchouk Artjom and his daughter Katja try to enter Italy illegally to join their wife and mother, Sveta, who emigrated to Italy a while ago, and found a job with the last of Trieste coachmen driving a horse-driven carriage. Artjom, Katja and a group of other refugees are caught, […]
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre: The Wrath of God)
With actors Klaus Kinski A band of ruthless conquistadors venture up a river in sixteenth century South America in search of fortune only to find that the journey rapidly becomes more perilous. Morale and feelings of loyalty to Spain deteriorate thus power struggles ensue amongst the soldiers. Links: IMDB Genre(s): Action or Adventure; Biographical; Drama, […]
Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life)
On Crete, a wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet city of Kos with his wife Nora, a Greek nurse, and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. There’s little to do: Becker, a classicist, translates inscriptions on ancient tablets found in […]
Berlín (Berlin)
With actors Ed Bejarano, Timo Berger, and Clara Masnatta “Berlin” is the portrait of a city quickly sketched on DV tape, a mosaic of everyday life as experienced by two Argentine immigrants. Virtually dispensing with dialog, this one-man pic by Homero Cirelli comes close to the feel of a silent movie, though music and sound […]