DEUTSCH KINO: Movies from the German-speaking Countries since 1970

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.

Voulant à tout prix conserver la garde de sa fille, un combattant d'arts martiaux abandonne un match crucial et traverse Berlin pour assister à sa fête d'anniversaire.

Jim and Jeff are two guys who are always looking for great luck and success, going from one fool to the next. Now they believe they have opened a source of oil in Colombia.

Two rival friends guide a young man through the Colombian jungle, hunting for, and finding a tribe of (not so) wild Amazons and a cache of (not so) bright emeralds.

L'artiste allemand Kurt Barnert s'est échappé de l'Allemagne de l'Est et vit actuellement en Allemagne de l'Ouest, mais il est tourmenté par son enfance sous les nazis et le régime de la RDA.

Kuma Cunningham and Jane Lindström are a couple in love. By chance they find a strange stone. Kuma asks Jane to throw away this stone, the stone would be bad luck.

L'ascension et la chute d'Alfred Redl, un jeune officier ambitieux qui gravit les échelons pour devenir chef de la police secrète avant d'être pris au piège de la tromperie politique.

1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west with a special order. However as soon as he's crossed the border, he reports to the police. He claims his order was to kidnap someone, but he doesn't know who yet. He's forced to continue feignedly. However the east agents don't really trust him and play a double game...

Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.

"Open Wounds - A Journey Through German Film" About the extraordinary and unusual German film and TV productions, at films that have emerged apart from the auteur cinema of Fassbinder , Wenders and others - on science fiction films , Exploitation and action movies like "Abwärts" with Götz George. The documentary tries to find out why German cinema rarely produces courageous genre films these days.

An alternative history of the not so well known 1960s and 1970s West German genre cinema.

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Un homme est emprisonné à tort pendant cinq ans. Une fois sorti, il entend parler des aventures supposées de sa femme en dehors de leur mariage et devient de plus en plus jaloux.

L'année 1962. Un congrès de physique dans les Alpes. Un invité iranien. Un pianiste mystérieux. Une formation nuageuse bizarre dans le ciel et un mystère tonitruant sous la montagne.

The lecturer Ingwer Feddersen sets up a sabbatical to take care of his parents and moves back to his North Frisian home village of Brinkebüll for a year. There's nothing here anymore as it once was. The facades are only slowly crumbling, and true motives and events from Ingwer's childhood in the 1970s come to light.

The program director of a German TV station desperately looks for a new talk master for the Late Show.

Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in society through his connections made as an elevator attendant in a luxury hotel.

The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?

Une exploration des sujets de la gentrification et des inégalités sociales à Berlin.

Avez-vous déjà eu l'impression d'être un personnage secondaire dans votre propre vie ? Et si vous en étiez vraiment un ?

Set in a German school, the film centers on a father who, one Friday afternoon, knocks on the door of the staff room in order to convince the six teachers still in the building to allow his son to take the Abitur exams.

In a moment of ordinary madness, three girlfriends decide to shoot a burqa music video.

End of 19th century German ethnologist Hoffmann travels to the former colony "German Southwest Africa" to gather art and skulls for the Berlin Ethnological Museum and slowly begins to lose his moral compass.

Luise grew up with her grandmother Selma in a remote village in the Westerwald. Selma has a special gift, because she can foresee death. Whenever an okapi appears to her in a dream, someone in the village dies the next day.

Lorsqu'un ex-prisonnier de la Grande Guerre rentre chez lui et trouve ses camarades brutalement assassinés, il décide de traduire le tueur en série en justice.