A Girl Named Yssabeau
2011 | 18 min | Shorts
Sixties legend Lou Castel participates in Rosana Cuellar's German-Mexican short-film fairy tale, about a young woman in a mysterious land.
Sophia Augusta Kennedy
ActorFilms
Recommended for you
Teststand 7
2001 | 110 min | Music, Dance, Theater
On October 3, 1942, the V2 was the first rocket in the history of technology to fly into space from Peenemünde. After the end of the war, its designer Wernher von Braun rose to a leading position in NASA's space programs - despite his involvement in the Nazi regime. Test Stand 7 is a character study of the rocket, which is called Bianca here. In search of her origins, Bianca travels from Peenemünde across Germany. For Test Bed 7, the American writer Thomas Pynchon allowed the filming of excerpts ...
The Dreamed Ones
2016 | 89 min | Documentary
The correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan forms the basis of the text. The story begins in Vienna in 1948, when she is 22 and he 27, and ends with Celan's suicide in 1971 in Paris. Two young actors, Anja Plaschg and Laurence Rupp, meet in a recording studio to read from their correspondence. The dramatically fluctuating feelings of the letters - between intoxication and fear of loss, delight and horror, closeness and strangeness - are passed on to the actors.
Interruption
2015 | 111 min | Drama
INTERRUPTION is the postmodern theatre adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy Orestie by Aeschylus about power, revenge and the concept of law and justice. The film was inspired by real events. In 2002, Chechen separatists took 850 people hostage at the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow. The audience initially thought the hostage-taking was part of the play. "Interruption is one of the most intelligent films I've seen lately and Yorgos Zois is without doubt one of the most original voices in European ...
Faust 1 Superstar
2015 | 51 min | Drama
Silent movie meets musical in this intense and colourful version of the classic piece by Goethe, FAUST. The devil wagers with God that he can lead Berlin-Kreuzberg musician Faust astray. Faust composes a sure-fire hit and falls for the virtuous Gretchen. Fate is set to take its course. Director Mingus Ballhaus is a graduate of the DFFB - German Film and Television Academy Berlin, who lives and works in Berlin as a filmmaker and drummer. Here Ballhaus is supported by cinematographer Jide Tom Akinleminu ...
The Amber Amulet
2013 | 23 min | Kids & Family
Liam knows everything about the positive energy of gemstones and minerals. At night, dressed as a masked avenger, he wanders the streets seeking to do good deeds in secret. He makes anonymous contact with an unhappy lonely woman and gifts her an amber gem which will lift the curse of her misfortune. Unfortunately, the gem has come from his mother’s jewellery box. She soon discovers it is missing and now she's the one who could do with a knight in shining armour. The short film THE AMBER AMULET ...
Elysium
2009 | 5 min | Shorts
Life – a surefire way to die. There is no place they cannot get to, no experience we don't make possible. Whatever brings you to us, you've come to the right place with Elysium... In a world where the impossible becomes reality, Elysium offers access to the farthest reaches of the universe. This avant-garde company promises unattainable experiences and a technology that excludes death. But what does it cost to be part of this surefire business? Behind the scenes, however, a web of ethical dilemmas ...
Engel über Europa - Rilke als Gottsucher
2018 | 82 min | Biography
Throughout his life, Rilke looked to the spiritual and mythological traditions of the world for inspiration in his own search for God. Discouraged by his mother's dogmatic Catholicism, Rilke turned to esotericism and anthroposophy at an early age. In turn-of-the-century Munich, he lived in close proximity to people seeking to understand life, such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Rudolf Steiner, all of whom were on the search for an alternative to Christian forms of belief. His travels through ...
Geheimes Deutschland
2006 | 61 min | Documentary
German early Romanticism was not only an era of great poetry, but also developed a spiritual worldview that anticipated much of what today's people seek in esotericism, shamanism, Far Eastern religion: the connection of thinking and intuition, understanding and feeling, science and religion, as well as a view of nature as a living organism that cannot be understood only through rational dissection. In artistic independence, the early Romantics developed highly individual forms of spirituality that ...
Forest of Echoes
2016 | 30 min | Drama
A young woman runs through a forest racing two men. Then the men disappear, leaving behind a damsel in distress, and the path of the film takes a horrifying turn. At the shore of a river, the young woman discovers the corpses of three children. But suddenly a hard cut alters everything once again: tableaux vivants of three nymphs are seen – not dead but on the contrary most lively, full of macabre, mystical and humorous ideas – and these are not in the least bit childish. Maria Luz Olivares Capelle ...
Bulgaria Of All Places
2007 | 94 min | Biography
BULGARIA OF ALL PLACES by Christo Bakalski portrays the family history of German writer Angelika Schrobsdorff, who fled Berlin for Bulgaria in 1939. The family story closely follows the dramas of the 20th century: the dictatorships and the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and conflicts in the Middle East. This documentary chronicles the escape of writer Angelika Schrobsdorff's family from Berlin and Nazi Germany to Bulgaria in 1939. The dictatorships, the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin ...