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A Real Life Behind the Balcony, or Romeo and Juliet Make their Getaway
The protagonist Hiltraud Schmidt, a sufferer of a neurological disease, is lovingly called princess by her partner Franz Bittermann. The two of them talk about how they got to know each other and their current…
Atelier de Conversation
This formally minimalist documentary captures the fleeting moments in which grammatical fumblings and the painstaking search for the right word inadvertently open a window into the human soul.
A Tropical House
Following his formally taut 2013 film Tower House, A Tropical House is Karl-Heinz Klopf´s second cinematic meditation on an architect´s own home, in this case, that of the Indonesian architect Andra Matin, completed in…
A White Substance
"A White Substance" deals with sexualized violence in wars. Since the war in the Congo in 1996, where the 'first world' first began to take notice of the phenomenon, rape, abuse and murder have become part of the order…
A World Completely Glued to Itself
“I wanted to show why this country is the way it is.” Hungarian filmmaker Lívia Gyarmathy made this personal intention the challenging leitmotif of her films about socialist Hungary. In 1961, after finishing her studies…
The Bathers
An exhilarating dance of spots of colour and traces of wear and decomposition. The abstract earth-coloured texture is reminiscent of Stan Brakhage`s work.
Behind the Iron Gate
The film portrays everyday life in the communist era housing estate Za Zelazna Brama (‘Behind the Iron Gate’). The housing estate was built by a team of architects between 1965-1972 in the center of Warsaw on the ruins…
Behind the Screen
Seven computers per second are produced worldwide. "Behind the Screen" casts a formidable glance behind the facade of the electronics industry. The starting point is Ghana’s rainforest. There, young gold diggers stand…
Being and Nothingness
Being and Nothingness transforms a piece of music into a visual and examines the role of humans in this performance of sound and light. After a prologue in which composer and conductor Beat Furrer is shown obtaining and…
Beirut Blend
“Blend” is the cut of a type of tobacco that glistens at six places in Beirut under the glowing stone of the water pipe at the film’s center. “Blend” also means “mingling,” to “mix,” resulting in a “mélange.” And this…