A story about a guy who has been unemployed for a long time, and who has lost his track of time. He lives in his own little world, with only few friends. He lives in a small town, and the film should be about a small-town community. During its preparation the director was looking for places in Berlin where Berlin looked like a small town. The Wall came down during that fall and there was a complete change of atmosphere in the city. It became part of the film itself.
An unhappy photographer who is afraid to die. A woman who is looking for someone to make her pregnant. A girl who is looking for her inner self. A mysterious man who is searching for something but tells everyone a different story. That`s it.
Irina Hoppe’s documentary feature film focuses on four weeks of everyday life of a group of juvenile migrant gang members from the Berlin districts Kreuzberg and Wedding. Their parents are mainly from Turkish or Arabic origin, but they were born in Germany, a fact that causes specific, yet casual identity-strategies of the portrayed. In contrast to the often hyprocitical and speculative attempts to exploit the life of second generation migrants in movies Hoppe’s film concentrates on a nonchalantly observing method.
Two swimmers living on a attic spent years planning a journey throughout the the English Channel, but they don’t get close to action. One morning they take separate decisions. Both projects fail, the hope continues.
A young couple in Berlin’s Mitte district. He, a writer but is now lying on the sofa, reading all day long. She can’t stand it anymore. ln the afternoon the parents corne to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits desperately. When she returns home late at night, she finds that nothing has changed. Except that now all the repressed silence and apathy bursts out and leads to a tragedy.
Three long weeks have passed and the Polish R. Orloff is still hanging around with 1 million German Marks in a suitcase in a hotel somewhere in a German village. The only thing he’s thinking about: How could he leave for South America. One morning he reads an advertisement in the local newspaper: Attractive woman, 26 years, looking for a partner to start a video-correspondence … “
18-year-old, freshly graduated Armin is slowly being suffocated by his mother’s well-meaning, his father’s expectations, the lethal boredom of suburban life. His brothers have long since left home. They are a shining example of how to live: modern biographical variations of their parents’ lives. But Armin feels paralyzed in this family goodwill. Incapable of resistance, he longs for the starkness and subjugation which no-one at home can give him. He starts randomly making anonymous claims of responsibility for accidents he witnesses, crimes he reads about. It starts as a game and quickly becomes an obsession. Soon, pretending to be guilty just isn’t enough…
The starting point for this film was the offer to make a documentary for TV on the topic the worker at the end of the 20th century. Instead, this film was made, that – starting from the rationalization of the service sector in the 1990s – radically questions the common understanding of how to represent workers/work in documentary films.
For 15 years now, the parents have been leading an underground existence, hiding among the anonymous tourists on the beaches of Portugal. They have broken a taboo: they have conceived a daughter. A girl who has never swapped clothes with her friends, never skipped classes in school, camped out at lakes or got drunk. A girl who is alone. The parents are just about to establish some sort of legal identity for themselves in Brazil, when a slight negligence causes everything to fall apart around them. And again they are on the run, which brings them back to Germany. Meanwhile, their daughter has fallen in love. A love which will lead to a tragedy and destroy the family.
Miyako Murakami is an embalmer who discovers a needle in the eye socket of the corpse of a young man named Yoshiki, the son of a prominent politic, believed to be a suicide. The same day, Miyako is threatened by a religious crackpot who believes that embalming is a sin. Meanwhile thieves using knockout gas steal Yoshiki’s head from his body from the hospital in broad daylight…
Set mainly in rural Japan and shot in sepia, Eureka tells the story of a young boy and girl who are on a bus when it is hijacked by a crazed killer. They, along with the bus driver, are the only survivors and flee together. But upon their attempted return to their normal lives, Makoto becomes a suspect in a series of murders and the children become orphaned. These numerous unfortunate events bring the three, along with the orphans’ cousin back together, forming a family and working toward reconciliation from the shared hijacking experience.
A relentless portrait of Japanese youth where the protagonists are bound together in increasingly strange and violent ways over the course of a single day.
Nadine is obsessed by a memory linked to a haunting tune she can no longer sing — until she hears someone else singing and everything falls back into place again. A melancholy observation of two young couples having difficulties trusting one another. They are full of skepticism and searching for a purpose in life.
A young man without money, but with a lot of thoughts in his head about himself and the world meets other people, listens to music, reads – nothing really happens.
Documentary of an early Chris Cutler’s solo concert in Tokyo in June 1998. Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. The first part of the film is equipment set-up and sound-checks, plus interviews with Cutler, while the second part is the improvised concert itself.
Knittelfeld is a small Austrian Town and looks exactly like it. Contrary to other Austrian small towns Knittelfeld had to face a challenge. In 1977 the family Pritz moved into Knittelfeld and confronted the town with an unusual degree of suffering, crime and manslaughter.
Looking for her boyfriend Lucy comes to Berlin, not knowing anyone. But he is nowhere to be found. As Lucy is being harrassed for her dark skin colour a woman comes up to help her, Alma, the last Communist in the Western world. The two young women become friends.Conflict arises when Lucy finds her boyfriend. He is a Yuppie, for Alma the class enemy…
In a coastal cottage with a view of the setting sun, Kaoru, a wealthy woman who is gradually losing her youth, has retired from city and lives a quiet life. She looks after an old, blind and dumb man as if he were an insect or a domestic animal, or a child. As he can do nothing for himself, she feeds him and takes him for walks. Kaoru has something of a superiority complex about her lifestyle – she believes that she has the perfect life, as she is free from restrictive common sense and the dignity of self-devotion. However, in truth this beautiful relationship merely offers Kaoru an escape from society, while affording her the comfort generated through the pair’s strong mutual dependence.