Kanak Attack
With actors Luc Piyes and David Scheller available on DVD in Germany Ertan Ongun is a 25-year-old Turk living in Kiel, in Germany. His parents own a snack stand, but his real family has been the local Turkish gangs. His life – like those of his friends – is characterized by the daily fight for […]
Die Ehe der Maria Braun (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
With actors Hanna Schygulla and Klaus Löwitsch available on DVD with English subtitles Hermann and Maria Braun’s marriage lasts only one day and one night before Hermann is called to the front. After the war he is reported missing. Yet Maria believes he is still alive. Maria becomes the mistress of a GI whom she […]
Voll Normaaal
Available on DVD Komiker Tom Gerhardt bringt seine populäre Kunstfigur, einen Kölner Proll mit Bommelmütze und Vorliebe für abmontierte Auspuffe, auf die Leinwand. Tommy hat alle Hände voll zu tun, mit seinem Kumpel Mario in so ziemlich jede Peinlichkeit und Zwickmühle zu geraten, die eine Woche in Köln-Kalk so bereitzuhalten scheint. Trotz der enthusiastischen Sichtung […]
Rhythm is It!
Produced by Uwe Dierks, Andrea Thilo, Thomas Grube With actors Simon Rattle, Royston Maldoom, Susannah Broughton, Marie Theinert, Martin Eisentraut, Olayinka Shitu, Volker Eisenach, Miriam Pech Available on DVD in Germany RHYTHM IS IT! records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. The orchestra ventured out of the […]
The Stoning
With actors Cheyenne Rushing, Özay Fecht Available on DVD in Germany Kathleen Mulligan, eine gebürtige Amerikanerin, studiert in Hannover Islamwissenschaft. Eines Tages verliebt sie sich in den Iraner Hamid. Sie heiratet ihn und zieht mit ihm in den Iran, wo sie zum Islam konvertiert. Dann aber wird Kathleen durch eine Vergewaltigung schwanger. Nachdem sie Schwangerschaft […]
Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)
Produced by Andreas Thiel; with actors Baki Davrak, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Nursel Köse, Hanna Schygulla, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nurguel Yesilcay; available on DVD in Germany and US Review by UC Berkeley undergraduate Ying Ruan: Auf der anderen Seite is a German-Turkish drama directed by Faith Akin in 2007. The movie follows stories of six people from either Germany or […]
Die leere Mitte (The Empty Center)
Steyerl’s film traces the impact of an influx of transnational companies on the city dwellers of Berlin in post-reunification Germany. The effect of the changing economy and politics on the city and its inhabitants is echoed through their physical relocation to its outer edges. In 1990, squatters proclaim a socialist republic on the death strip. […]
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, […]
Langer Gang (Passages)
Yilmaz Arslans Debütfilm erzählt von einer Gruppe junger Menschen, die in einem Reha-Zentrum für behinderte Jugendliche nach Nähe und Liebe suchen. Da gibt es ein an den Rollstuhl gefesseltes türkisches Mädchen, das von den Zwängen ihrer traditionell eingestellten Familie an einem selbstbestimmten Leben gehindert wird. Oder den Spastiker Martin, der sich in ein ebenfalls behindertes […]
Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities)
With actors Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The […]