Die neue Wohnung. Version Atelier Richter was made a year after the SWB version, for screenings in Germany that began in January 1932. This version, of similar length, is a complete re-edit, in which there is no mention of SWB, but there are new intertitles and previously unseen shots were added. It emphasizes the social dimension of modern housing, accessible to all workers. S...
The film deals with an imigrant woman from southern Italy, who lives in Frankfurt in the 1970s. Unusual about this film is the way of the storytelling. The original plan was to make a documentary, but none of the female protagonists were willing to be seen in front of the camera. The fear to expose their own family was too big. The law of “omerta” exists in the diaspora as well...
Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In his documentary film Tosca's Kiss, which has developed an underground cult following over the years and is a favorite among opera and music lovers worldwide, director Daniel Schmid has captured a world in which these won...
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
MGM-tycoon Louis B. Mayer called Hedy Lamarr "the most beautiful girl of the century." A psychological portrait of glamour star Hedy Lamarr who became scandalously famous in 1933 as the first nude on the screen with her appearance in the Austrian/Czech film Ecstasy. She then had an extraordinary career in more than 25 Hollywood films. Don't forget her historic patent for a torp...
Shot in the U.S., Germany and Vietnam and using nothing more than archival footage, interviews and facts, B-52 relates the story of America’s bomber, tracing the history of the aircraft from its inception in the Cold War days of 1947 until now where the planes are obsolete, and many are sitting in the Arizona desert. Through his portrait of an American society that invests its ...
Why are some of the world's biggest international companies translating an absurd foreign
book into their own language, trying to hide their aims and avoid discussion about the human
rights and freedom of speech situation in Turkmenistan
Shadow Of The Holy Book investigates the morality of international companies and the dictatorship
of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan. These com...
"It’s a black-and-white record of European cities in the dark (2-5am), from Basle to Belfast. Quiet, and meditative, what emerges most strongly is an eerie sense of city landscapes as deserted film sets, in which the desolate architecture overwhelms any sense of reality. The only reassurance that we are not in some endless machine-Metropolis is the shadow of daytime activity: a...
After four years of the Trump administration, Jonathan Katz, a Jewish activist from New York, travels across the American Midwest to support the presidential candidacy of Bernie Sanders. Committed body and soul to a revolution through the ballot box, his deepest convictions are shaken. While it is the last campaign for him, as it is for Bernie, he meets a new generation of acti...
By cracking the ancient hieroglyphic code, Jean-Franois Champollion gave words to a thousand-year-old, mysterious civilization - but behind his legendary feat was a mysterious brother who made it all possible.
New correspondence discovered between Jean-Franois Champollion and his brother Jacques-Joseph now allows us to fully understand how a young, self-taught genius was able...
