Ciao Ciao
By Song Chuan
2017 | 83 min | Comedy
This Chinese comedy sheds light on village life and the social changes that Chinese society is undergoing.
Zhang Yu
ActorFilms
Recommended for you
Zoe - Long Version
1999 | 79 min | Timeless
Maren-Kea Freese's ZOE was her award-winning graduate film as a student at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin that perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium. Just as the Berlin School is low-key and stoic (and Freese does share a similar lean toward the anti-dramatic), ZOE is laconic, yet near hallucinatory. "Fascinating portrait of one of the 'broken characters' that director/author Freese is so fond of." (Moving Pictures). ZOE is the main ...
All About Rita
2019 | 77 min | Independent
Rita drives everyone crazy and everyone drives Rita crazy. Randy lives in Berlin now. Paula and Louise don't live together anymore. Paula is pregnant and nobody knows who the father is. Max is still lovesick over Paula, gets drunk with Rita and at the end they make out. Rita, confused, goes to Berlin to think... This tongue-in-cheek relationship drama, with a soundtrack reminiscent of Django Reinhardt, tells the story of the more or less everyday relationship turmoil of stressed to haphazard city ...
Lebe schon lange hier
2019 | 98 min | Documentary
A year in the life of an ordinary street in Berlin. "Summer from of a balcony in Berlin - but also spring, fall and winter: Sobo Swobodnik spent a year observing life in his neighborhood from his apartment and made a unique film about it - with intimate perspectives and vantage points." Filmportal.de The minimalist work of art unfolds a fascinating image-sound-music collage about the “productivity of waiting”.
Zu ebener Erde
2018 | 91 min | Documentary
They are everywhere and yet often invisible: homeless people are often ignored. Visibility is also a social indicator. Micha always stands at the same place, at the entrance of a Vienna subway station. There he wishes the passers-by a "successful day", at Christmas also "Merry Christmas". His politeness makes him stand out, he once said. This is why the filmmaker trio Birgit Bergmann, Steffi Franz and Oliver Werani make it their top priority to take a longer look. In her documentary film ZU EBENER ...
Masala Chai
2018 | 62 min | Documentary
Although they make their living in the same way, their daily lives are very different. The documentary gives a deep insight into the lives of five tea cooks and at the same time takes a look at the social circumstances, contrasts and traditions of India. For all of them have a story to tell, and as they tell their stories, we learn about India's multifaceted, nuanced and multilayered society. "Hülser is able to not only show these petty self-employed folks in the midst of their poverty and squalor ...
Flood
2019 | 100 min | Drama
Her nerves are already on edge with her final law exams coming up. Every morning he leaves their flat and drifts aimlessly through Hamburg ,riding endlessly on the subway. After meeting his former boss Marc, Jonas starts to observe the young manager. His curiosity gradually turns into obsession, small and bigger everyday lies become a kind of survival strategy for Jonas. While Katharina notices his increasingly odd behavior, Jonas is losing control over events more and more. FLOOD deals with ...
Berlin: Hasenheide
2010 | 72 min | Documentary
Although the Hasenheide, a park in Berlin's district Neukölln, has been sensationalized by the German media as a mecca for drug dealers and as a discount drug store, Director Nana Rebhan (WELCOME GOODBYE) shows local people at home in the park's many secret and not-so-secret places. A documentary about BERLIN: HASENHEIDE in all its funky glory. "The film BERLIN: HASENHEIDE, with its atmosphere of pleasant cheerfulness, could have been a little longer - but maybe that shows just how good it the film ...
Berlin Excelsior
2018 | 87 min | Documentary
The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years. Things are expected to improve and everyone helps .With his "invisible make-up", 49-year-old Michael wants to build on earlier successes as an escort boy. Claudia's time as a dancer is over, but new photos are to pave her way back onto the stage. Norman wants to help other people find happiness with his start-up "ChangeU", and himself to a chic ...
Natasha
2008 | 84 min | Documentary
Citygoers are familiar with the sight of (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets. But who are they? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out. Natasha was begging in Graz when Gladik met her. Many long conversations later, he accompanied her to her hometown in a former industrial site near Sofia. Clichés about beggars from the former Eastern Bloc dissolve image by image. Natasha is sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes in love or depressed - just as any we all are from time to time. "The ...
Aftermath
2016 | 40 min | Drama
Germany 1916. Misery, decay, ruins are everywhere. In this desolation two outsiders start a timid friendship which is abruptly changed when the war reaches the small village. The First World War is in full swing and Marga is fighting for survival. Her husband Otto disappeared in the war, she keeps herself alive by stealing potatoes and selling moonshine. Her determination and assertiveness soon make her an outcast in her own village. But twelve-year-old Hans is fascinated by Marga. A misfortune ...