Hanns Zischler

A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic... (imdb)

A colorful and very contemporary road movie that takes its characters around Israel and later to Berlin. This unique movie, is a non traditional attempt to understand the role that is still played by the past in the lives of Israeli and German young people. (IDP Films)

Three young German radicals enjoy breaking into the homes of the wealthy as an act of political rebellion. When they are forced to deal with a businessman who has caught them in the act, the trio makes a rash decision and their futures are quaked. Ideals are tested as generations collide, passions rage, and loyalties shatter. (IFC Films)

Steven Spielberg directs an international cast in Munich, a gripping suspense thriller set in the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munch Olympics. This dramatic exploration inspired by true events follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack -- and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. (Universal Pictures)

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness... (imdb)

Tom Ripley persuades a man to commit a murder for a large sum of money. The situation goes out of control, and that man must escape trouble. (imdb)

A traveling projection-equipment mechanic travels in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out film-theatres. meets up with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together. (imdb)

Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall. (imdb)

From the 2006 French Film Festival, a sexy, highly erotic film about a young girl's affair with her boss. Featurs a moody soundtrack from Portishead's Beth Gibbons. (imdb)

A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles.

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis. (imdb)

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. (imdb)

Ten years ago Wolf and Sabine Palfy got divorced. Since then their daughter Charlie grew up with her father and her twin sister Louise lived with her mother. They never knew anything about one another and thus only met by chance when they join a boarding school in Scotland. Realizing their relationship they plan to bring their parents back together: Thus, Charlie visits her mother and pretends to be Louise, whereas her sister goes to the father pretending to be Charlie. (imdb)

A Greenpeace expedition ship in the arctic anticipates an environmental catastrophe. An arctic glacier as large as France will soon break down into the ocean producing a flood wave one of which will wash away large parts of the northern European coast. However German officials are not willing to take Greenpeace' warnings for serious. Two days later the wave is on its way... (imdb)

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars. (imdb)

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty. He seeks the Pope's blessing, and he endures persecution at the hands of the family of Chiara Offreduccio (1194-1253), who becomes St. Clare. (imdb)

Gudrun Landgrebe plays a housewife who abruptly leaves her husband for a life of prostitution. At first, she retains her staid, middle-class values, but before long she is one of the most sexually adventurous women walking the streets. Soon she has more business than she can manage, forcing her to learn highly advanced bookkeeping skills to keep her business in order. (allmovie.com)

In this French science fiction thriller, nuclear war breaks out over Europe, and a group of visitors to a local chateau take cover in the basement. When they venture outside after the fighting stops, they discover that the chateau has sustained serious damage and the surrounding lands have been laid to waste. (allmovie.com)

Scenes from the Vietnam war are enacted by Asian and white actors, captioned, and juxtaposed with a slow-paced commentary that gives time for reflection on the message conveyed (All Movie Guide)

Thirty years ago, Chris Petit directed Radio On, now considered a road movie cult classic. His latest film, Content, is an ambient 21st-century road movie, an associative film essay inspired by driving's trancelike state rather than any linear unfolding of the road. (MUBI)

A portrait of three women - daughter, mother and grandmother - each attempting to tackle their problems in their own way. The story begins with a funeral. (BFI)

Based on the true story of the Klarsfelds, a Franco-German couple who devoted themselves to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. (imdb)

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work. (imdb)

Prison discharges Hans into a freedom as inhospitable as the winter weather. As a stranger, he strays in familiar streets, bars, flies to a friend in Berlin. (wim-wenders.com)

In his early journals, Franz Kafka wrote frequently about his fascination with the cinema. According to Hanns Zischler, who examined Kafka's diaries and letters in his book and film of the same name, Kafka Goes to the Movies, these accounts stopped suddenly and without explanation in 1913. This film explores the many attempts since that time to adapt Kafka's writing for the screen and chronicle the relationship, imaginary or genuine, between the acclaimed writer and a revolutionary new medium.

The US/German co-production The Rose Garden is based on an actual court case. Cast against type, Maximillian Schell plays a shabby old man who, without warning, attacks well-to-do Kurt Hubner at the Frankfurt airport. Hubner presses charges, and it looks like an open-and-shut case. But public-defender Liv Ullmann, who has witnessed the incident, is urged by her daughter to defend the poverty-stricken Schell in court. (allmovie.com)

This is not just another documentary about German film history, but a film about love for the cinema, a voyage of discovery in over a 100 years of German film. it gives many reasons why to love German cinema and also a few reasons why this may not be easy sometimes. This journey is done together with ten of the most important German filmmakers.

Theo, a drifter and notoric gambler, and his friend Enno try to open their own truckage company. But purchasing money for the plan is more difficult than assumed.

Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany. (imdb)

Sequence of five shots, each one with a particular color treatment, in which a man carrying a machine gun runs. He moves fast in the beginning but, as the end comes closer, he starts to walk in zigzag. Is he hurt? (imdb)

Israeli basketball coach Max Stolle became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team into European winners. (en.wikipedia.org)

Pretty pharmacy student Denise asks co-student Thomas to tutor her, which he does, having a crush on her. She invites tim to her birthday party, where a chain of unfortunate events lead to an intimate situation between the two. This is disrupted by an accident, causing Denise to forget all of the event of that night... (ofdb.de)

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan. (imdb)

"Tracing Battleship Potemkin" goes on to detail the extensive number of shots long lost from constant authorized and unauthorized re-cuts in the last 80 years, and how many of those shots have been returned. Indeed, the film is all the more powerful and lyrical with a number of key scenes (especially the famed "Odessa steps" sequence) filled out and shaded with emotional nuance.

A veteran stage star turns to her assistant for solace as she jousts with an arrogant younger actress. (TIFF)

Following a party in Karsten's flat, everyone goes home - except Anna. Karsten feels drawn towards the mysterious young woman. An unexpected event and a moment of weakness change everything, and Karsten loses control of his well-ordered life in a small town in Germany. Tensions in the family and in his circle of friends follow. Disappointment breeds rage and injustice, calamity takes its course and, just as Karsten thinks he has his life under control again, he has become a different person. (Berlinale 66)

Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their capacity for teamwork via video surveillance. (imdb)

A period in the life of diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, who was the son of Czechoslovakia's founder, served as the country's minister of foreign affairs and is believed by many to have been killed by the Communists in 1948. (imdb)

Sarah has settled into a more or less normal life in Milan after her lover, a much-wanted terrorist, left the scene. Her life becomes complicated indeed when she becomes aware that he is about to return. The difficulty is that not only is she aware of this, but the police and various underworld groups are also. How is she to protect her own life under the circumstances, much less keep her lover from falling prey to the various traps that are being set for him?

Aglaé is a crash test technician obsessed with her work at a French car company. When her factory is closed, she convinces two of her colleagues to take the mandatory offer of relocation to India, and make the trip with her.

An installation presented on 11 screens featuring nude human figures engaged in cathartic performance.

The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down. (TMDB)

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Adam organizes an extended celebration at his country home. In addition to his current wife and their young children, the guests are his previous wives, the few most important of his former lovers, and the son he has not seen in decades with his family. (imdb)

A historical analysis of how groups such as the Nazi's may use language, symbols, and religious connotation in order to come to power. (TMDB)

An architect falls in love with a student who engages actively against urban speculation in her neighborhood, for which he is jointly responsible.

The dark secrets of a seemingly peaceful island threaten to swallow up an orphaned student when he grows close to a mysterious new teacher. (imdb)

An account of the last seven months (March to October, 1944) of the German General Erwin Rommel.

Monika is in her late forties and works as a curator in Frankfurt. When Monika gets caught up in a raid near the train station, she makes the acquaintance of Josef, a Congolese businessman. Josef is a diamond dealer and is looking for people to invest in a mine in Congo; meanwhile he keeps himself afloat with various import/export ventures. Their coincidental encounter leads to a passionate love affair between two people whose lives could hardly be more different. (Komplizen Film)

Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly, mysterious deaths begin to pile up and Johannes tries to uncover the secret under the mountain.