Beers of Joy is a fascinating, entertaining, and savory journey into our world’s favorite magical elixir. Feast upon stunning visuals of medieval monasteries, historic German villages, and breweries from across the world that serve as the backdrop for four people immersing themselves in their passion…
Al Capone was one of the world’s most notorious gangsters and leader of a vicious crime syndicate that smuggled booze into prohibition-era Chicago. As an icon, Capone represented the collapse of law and order in Chicago during the 1920s. It was a kill or be killed world. Capone was always in…
Jowan Safadi, born as Palestinian in the State of Israel, is a famous musician and a true free spirit. With his band Fish Samak he delivers songs ranging from the political and social to the emotional and philosophical and gathered a huge fan-community in the Arabic world. Jowan is unafraid to speak…
Kinders follows children and teenagers of different origins through their sometimes difficult and confusing, sometimes funny and bitter lives. They all take part in the music education program ((superar)), where these neglected and sometimes invisible children develop from outsiders into confident young…
Seventeen elderly nuns roam the shadowy halls of their convent. Will their charitable and contemplative lifestyle survive after they're gone? A tender film with surprisingly many laughs. One sister is quite grumpy, the other one always smiles. One is a true entrepreneur. And then there’s…
America's most beloved "self-made orphan" was a Victorian lady accused of axing her parents to death in 1892. A media star from the start, Lizzie continues to draw an audience! This sardonic, entertaining, and unusual 1995 short features 28 "Bordenites," who each have their…
A film by Lola Arias Premiere at Berlinale Forum 2018. Best Film Cicae Award, Prix of the Ecumenical Jury. Best Director at BAFICI. In 1982, Argentina and UK fought the Malvinas Falklands War. The war ended with the British military victory and took about 1.000 lives, both British and Argentinean.…
2017 - Manuel Abramovich World Premiere: Berlinale Nominated to the Glashütte Documentary Award A 19-year-old man decides to join the army. From that day on, his life changes: he becomes the drummer in the military band, and his everyday life is now a combination of military training and music.…
In the 1950s Antoinette Giguère wrote 120 letters, documenting every aspect of family life like a continuous film, seen through her eyes. Using her letters, Antoinette’s fifteenth child, director Serge Giguère, explores the joy and heartbreak of rural, Quebecois working life. My Mother’s…
'Only the River Knows' is a fly fishing film shot in New Zealand, Australia, Norway and Sweden. Back in 1988, one of the most iconic fly fishers of our time, Lars Lenth, spent three months exploring the fabled Lethe River and fishing for its abnormally large trout. 25 years later, Rolf Nylinder…
Wenn in Bitterfeld ein neuer Tag erwacht, dann hat die Stadt davor nicht geschlafen. Ein neuer Tag ist hier eine neue Schicht. In Bitterfeld geht es immer weiter und weiter … und das seit 125 Jahren. 24 Stunden Bitterfeld. Der Film zeigt einen beliebigen Tag in Bitterfeld und Umgebung. Er startet…
To really understand China, you have to get to know its people! Winston "SerpentZA" Sterzel travels across China’s first tier cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen – meeting the cities’ most fascinating people, including a racy nude photographer, a mosquito…
