OPENING THE DOORS TO GERMAN FILMS IN THE USA
Ulf, a charming and carefree television host has no interest in settling down and finding a committed relationship. However, when his young nephew moves in with him, Ulf must learn to change his ways and accept responsibility.
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The complicated lives of locals in a small German town are revealed as they search for missing children.
A father takes his estranged son on a rafting trip that suddenly turns into a struggle for survival.
Huckleberry Finn sails down the Mississippi River with Jim, a freedom seeker.
14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family and taken to the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary.
An introverted thirteen-year-old girl searches for connection on the internet.
A male ballet dancer at the top of his craft in Russia seeks asylum in France.
In a dystopian society ruled by violence, a man known as “the Dwarf” rises up to challenge the ruling regime.
After being banished 200 years ago, the helping Elfkins return to help craftsmen in Cologne.
The adventures of two best friends who have nothing but pranks and mischief on their minds.
David, a dedicated pianist, becomes competitive at a conservatory at the expense of stability.
A couple who has lost their son start a campaign of resistance in Nazi Germany.
Where is the center in a universe which is constantly moving?
They survived World War II, now they must survive the cleanup.
Mike barricades himself in his room while his family, faced with growing bewilderment and desperation, wait for him to emerge.
In World War II, African-American GIs liberate Germany from Nazi rule and aid in policies to rid Germany of racist ideologies. However, racism and segregation still strongly prevail in their own army and country. This powerful piece tells the story of the GIs that return to the US to continue fighting in the civil rights movement.
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A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
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A story of healing --- in the most unlikely circumstances.
How will we feed 10 billion people in 2050?
A look into the elite culinary world of El Bulli.
Martha, the head chef at a chic restaurant, must reevaluate her life and priorities when a fateful accident brings her niece to her doorstep.
Ibo must face fatherhood and film at the same time.
Zinos decides to reopen his restaurant with a hotshot chef, possibly alienating his loyal customer base that is used to a family style atmosphere.
An author in his sixties returns to New York, where he met and fell in love with a lawyer seventeen years ago. They journey to Montauk to find out if they can find what has been lost to them for so long.
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A woman joins a group of immigrants on a search for gold, yet find they may not be prepared as they hoped.
Carola's vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai
In post-WWI Germany, 18-year-old Leo Knie begins his adult life.
Narrowly escaping her abusive ex-husband, Yella flees her formerly East German town for a new life in the West.
Two very different half-brothers must navigate their equally complicated relationships with sexuality
An exploration of the life and mysterious death of German poet Kleist.
A mother adopts a traumatized young girl and must work to contain her violent behavior.
A romantic and rebellious poet falls for his employer’s wife in 18th-century Germany.
Freya Deichmann and Helmuth James von Moltke meet and fall in love in the shadow of the Third Reich.
Bite the hand that feeds. Kiss the hand that is fed.
A wife never gives up hope of seeing her revolutionary husband again.
The bond of twin siblings is tested by a diagnosis of leukemia in this poignant Swiss drama.
A gorgeous woman comes for the pizza and leaves with his life.
Described as a psychological film, three couples navigate marriage, fidelity, and sex in a series of games played blindfolded.
Nina Hoss stars as a singer leaving Nazi Germany for a different life in Paris.
This film, based on the life of German poet Friedrich Schiller, explores his long term relationships with two sisters, Caroline and Charlotte. While these sisters are raised to marry, their intellect and talents attract the attention of the young poet. As a love triangle evolves, only one can become his wife.
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Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's secret police listened to your secrets.
In Havana, music isn't a pastime, it's a way of life.
The German Democratic Republic lives on -- in 79 square meters!
The children of the Nazi generation vowed fascism would never rule their world again.
Is history history if no one knows about it?
Every second of every day, you're faced with a decision that can change your life.
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.
One family's tale of a homeland lost --- and a homeland found.
What do you find worth living for?
She built one life on love, the other on deceit.
Don't look away. All that is true is beautiful.
A woman seeks justice for the death of her husband and son.
A savage, sweeping epic of a German society in chaos.
A young lawyer in post-war Germany works to punish Nazis that worked in the camps and uncovers family secrets along the way.
Thomas Riedelsheimer’s landmark Rivers and Tides inventively documented artist Andy Goldsworthy as he created his wondrously ephemeral site-specific sculptures, spun from nature. Fifteen years later, Goldsworthy is still appealingly engaged in his philosophical and tactical exploration of the natural world. Leaning Into the Wind is a collaborative sequel—a visual and aural sensation that takes viewers into the hillsides, terrains, and other outdoor spaces where Goldsworthy feels most at home and inspired.
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A family living in an old swimming pool faces outsiders.
In this family apartment, the mundane is not what it seems.
Keep moving --- you just might find something worth moving for.
Don't look away. All that is true is beautiful.
A thriller on the frontier of Eastern Europe.
Four jewish teenagers in Berlin go to extraordinary lengths to survive in World War II Berlin.
Martin Armstrong uses math to predict economic turning points.
There are angels on the streets of Berlin.
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's secret police listened to your secrets.
Troubling, mysterious events pervade a small, rural German town.
What do you find worth living for?
Pianomania takes the audience on a humorous journey through the secret world of sound and accompanies Stefan Knüpfer in his extraordinary work with the greatest pianists in the world.
Follow the leader
When your life is a lie, who can you trust?
After moving in with his older sister, Lukas must adjust to his new home while battling the onset of paranoid schizophrenia.
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