Eva Mattes

Humor helps people through hard times. A look at the viral videos, songs and sketches that have filled the Internet worldwide since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and what this lockdown humor says about humans in distress.

Biopic sobre el cineasta alemán Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

While dealing with a burnt-down house, smelly diapers and brutal lack of sleep, a Lower Bavarian police officer faces his worst adversary: cholesterol.

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.

Documentary about artist Ai Weiwei's 2014 exhibition in Berlin.

It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her feverish and mentally ill father, who is rigid and unpredictable. Her father, who regularly delivers halves of pork for the butcher, spent several years in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Algeria and Syria – a period which he partly glorifies but which still also haunts him. Franzi immerses herself in this world by looking at an abundance of beguiling yet disturbing photographs taken at the time by her father. Her own childish fantasy realm of fairy tales and picture books soon intermingle with nightmares as reality merges with imagination, war, horror and beauty.

The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six features, he disappeared from the scene in a rather mysterious way. The story of an uncompromising film maniac.

Ulrike Ottinger is an exceptional filmmaker and artist. Her cinematic universe has influenced entire generations. As a young woman, she brought the international art world to the sleepy town of Konstanz. It all began on the shores of Lake Constance where Ulrike Ottinger was born and where she still often spends time. Filmmaker Brigitte Kramer chose to begin her film at Lake Constance since she too shares Ottinger’s birthplace and a great love of these waters. This is also where the filmmaker’s own artistic development began, not least as a result of her encounter with Ottinger and her work. Other fellow travellers and friends appearing in this film include art historian Katharina Sykora, collector and curator Ingvild Goetz, film historian Ulrich Gregor, philosopher Bernd Scherer and actor Irm Hermann. Using this common ground as a starting point for an exploration of Ottinger’s substantial oeuvre, this documentary provides a keen insight into the artist’s life and work.

In Echigo in Japan the snow often lies several feet deep well into May covering landscape and villages. Over the centuries the inhabitants have organised their lives accordingly. In order to record their very distinctive forms of everyday life, their festivals and religious rituals Ulrike Ottinger journeyed to the mythical snow country – accompanied by two Kabuki performers. Taking the parts of the students Takeo and Mako they follow in the footsteps of Bokushi Suzuki who in the mid-19th century wrote his remarkable book “Snow Country Tales”.

Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.

Compilation of online clips of frustrated videogame players having violent outbursts. The video is run on an old computer ruin (that still works)

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family to come to terms with the inevitable death that it faces. Hopelessness and desperation are confronted through the collaborative effort of remembering and recording, a process that inspires unexpected strength and even solace in the face of death.

A look behind the heroic story of a Guatamalan immigrant who became the first US soldier to die in the American-led war in Iraq.

En esta ocasión, el osito polar Lars viaja a las Islas Galápagos junto a sus amigos de siempre, como Robby y Caruso el pingüino. En este paraíso tropical conocen a muchos exóticos y divertidos animales como pájaros, cangrejos y tortugas. Pero unos científicos intentan atrapar a un nuevo y misterioso amigo de Lars, por lo que nuestro intrépido osito necesitará la ayuda de todos sus amigos para hacer fracasar el plan de los científicos...

Laura encuentra una estrella que ha caído del cielo. Con cariño, le arregla la patita con escayola y comienzan una maravillosa amistad. Sin embargo, Laura se da cuenta de que la estrella se está apagando en la tierra y de que tiene que dejarla volver al cielo con la ayuda del niño de los vecinos.

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the household, which, however, is kidnapped shortly afterwards by the sports teacher because of his special skills.

More of a film essay - of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker - than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Net: The Unabomber, the LSD and the Internet begins with the typical format and structure of a nonfiction film, and a single subject (the life and times of mail bomber Ted Kaczynski). From that thematic springboard, Dammbeck branches out omnidirectionally, segueing into a series of thematic riffs and variants on such marginally-related subjects as: the history of cyberspace, terrorism, utopian ideals, LSD, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.

Mientras los ejércitos de Alemania y la Unión Soviética luchan encarnizadamente y el mundo espera con ansiedad el desenlace de la batalla de Stalingrado, un francotirador ruso, Vassili Zaitsev, persevera en la empresa de eliminar a sus enemigos uno por uno. Modesto y reservado, Vassili es un hombre corriente que simplemente cumple con su deber con una destreza extraordinaria. Danilov -el oficial encargado de la propaganda soviética- se da cuenta del enorme valor de este antiguo campesino, y convierte al sencillo pastor de los Urales en un héroe nacional

The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and his final destiny.

Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline Ebner). But Nazi propaganda has gripped the small community and poisoned it forever. Now, Levi and Lisbeth are targets of hate in this provocative and shocking drama.

En los años 50, Werner Herzog compartía piso con Klaus Kinski, un diabólico ególatra. Kinski padecía repentinos e injustificables arrebatos de ira o locura, durante los cuales podía llegar a destrozar el mobiliario del apartamento. La terrible personalidad de Klaus fascinó a Werner y entre ambos nació una estrecha amistad que se fue al garete durante el rodaje de la película "Aguirre, la cólera de Dios". (FILMAFFINITY)

A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife and mother of three children, Elisabeth is the perfect career woman and Maria uses already in their third marriage sex appeal to get ahead in life. But one day it turns out that the three except their friendship still connects another great thing in common: They are all tired of her life as a wife. And so begins the story of a rabenscharzen comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulties to achieve this. The only question is: How are they merely their husbands going on?

The lives of a Serb family are torn apart by the pressures of the not-too-distant war with the Croats. The film addresses the fundamental question "Can love survive between political enemies?"

The story The Cry of Love is about the love between two men. Lara brings her first boyfriend, the good-looking Yannis, to the barbecue party in the family circle. Yannis, who flirts with his appearance, is a prostitute. When Lara's father Holger discovers Yannis' secret, he is both confused and fascinated. More and more, he feels drawn to Yannis.

A one-hour biographical documentary about Alice Guy-Blaché, one of the first women to direct films.

En el principio del siglo 19 , Johannes Elias Alder nace en un pequeño pueblo en las montañas de Austria . Mientras crecía es considerado extraño por los otros aldeanos y descubre su amor a la música , sobre todo a tocar el órgano en la iglesia local . Después de experimentar una "maravilla acústica " , sus cambios en el color de los ojos y se pueden escuchar hasta los sonidos más sutiles . Elias se enamora platónica con Elsbeth , la hermana de Peter , el hijo de un vecino , quien amar sentimientos hacia Elias desde entonces. Después de Elsbeth se casa con otra , Elias ( 22 años) decide poner fin a su vida por no dormir nunca más..

Berlín Oriental, otoño de 1961. Sophie y Konrad se han propuesto huir juntos al Berlín occidental. Sophie logra burlar la vigilancia, pero Konrad es sorprendido por un coche militar y no puede escapar. A partir de ese momento, la vida de ambos sigue cursos totalmente distintos. En casi 30 años ellos sólo se ven cuatro veces. Sin embargo, durante la larga noche del 9 al 10 de noviembre de 1989 el muro de Berlín es derribado...

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances are changing dramatically these days in Germany, he gets new hope that things will again be going better for him...

Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resulting animated films show episodes of the life of Werner, a plumber apprentice and motorbike enthusiast and his friends. They are interspersed with the live-action portions.

Basada en la autobiografía de Anna Wimschneider. Anna pertenece a una familia de granjeros. A los ocho años, al quedarse huérfana de madre, tiene que hacer su papel y trabajar muy duramente. En 1938, cuando tiene 18 años, se enamora de Albert y, llena de ilusiones y esperanzas, se traslada a vivir a su granja, pero entonces estalla la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). (FILMAFFINITY)

Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On Sylt he meets two nymphomaniac women, in Hamburg he meets Eva, a girl who is even more love sick and later he meets Luci who gives him an indecent proposal. Thus he flees again...

In Friedliche Tage, we enter a totalitarian and inhuman society, in which daily life is a series of nightmares and the protagonists search for a utopia of freedom and love.

A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder, lives in a large house with his cast and crew as he films Dumas' Lady of the Camellias. His accountant informs him he has many unpaid bills and little cash on hand. EVA throws a fit and fires him. He then proceeds to play one person off against another, dismiss with cruelty his recent lover Ali, sleep openly with his leading lady Gudrun, and make a direct and public play for his leading man, Walter. He's mercurial, dictatorial, and manic. Will he finish the film, having drawn great performances from his actors through his manipulations, or will his antics set events in motion that spin out of his control?

By the time director Katja Raganelli arrived in California to make a film about Dorothy Arzner in 1980, Arzner had passed away in a car accident. Nonetheless, Raganelli visited Arzner’s desert home and retraced the pioneering filmmaker’s career in this documentary, using Arzner’s trove of photographs, as well as interviews with her leading lady Esther Ralston, to create this nuanced portrait of a woman who bucked every norm and defied societal expectation.

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

Lene tiene una hija con Hans mientras él llora en el frente al matar civiles a sangre fría durante la Segunda Guerra mundial. Al ser invadida Alemania, Lene es violada por soldados rusos.

Después de haber engendrado un hijo ilegítimo con su amante, Marie, el soldado infeliz Franz Woyzeck toma trabajos ocasionales en su pequeño pueblo para proporcionarles dinero extra. Uno de ellos es voluntario para experimentos realizados por un médico local, que pone a Woyzeck en una dieta de guisantes. Esto sirve para llevarlo a la locura, y el descubrimiento de que Marie está involucrada en un romance con el tambor local mayor exacerba la situación. Empujado demasiado lejos, Woyzeck recurre a la violencia.

Documental biográfico sobre Werner Herzog, donde se explora la conexión entre el director y sus obras.

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several years later, his son David is banned from going to school because he is a Jew. Shortly after, Rabbi Singer and his wife are deported. Now, young David also fears for his life. In constant fear of being detected, he tries to find a way to leave Germany.

Se dice que en el Año de la Luna, que tiene lugar cada siete años, las personas más sensibles sufren fuertes depresiones. Si el Año de la Luna resulta ser a la vez un año con trece lunas nuevas, pueden sufrir incluso grandes catástrofes personales. "Un año con trece lunas" narra los últimos días de la trágica vida de Elvira, un transexual (llamado antes Erwin, casado y con hijos), que se ha transformado en mujer por el amor de un hombre. Cuando su amante la rechaza, incapaz de soportar la soledad, intenta volver al pasado, buscando cariño, comprensión o una razón para seguir viviendo.

The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdresser, the manicurist, the governess, the teacher, the tailor etc. – who work for them. Naturally, the wives themselves do not pursue careers, they depend on their husbands’ money. This is why most of their thoughts revolve around the husband. And because the husband only appears as “the” man, there is no man in this film. All women fight for the same man. Those who have one, want to keep him no matter what. And those who do not have one yet only have one goal: To take away somebody else’s husband.

Cuando Bruno Stroszek sale de prisión, le advierten que debe dejar de beber. Con pocas habilidades y menos expectativas, sobrevive como músico callejero. Precisamente en la calle conoce a Eva, una prostituta, con la que entabla amistad. Después de ser golpeados por el chulo de ella, deciden unirse a Scheitz, un excéntrico vecino de Bruno, que ha decidido emigrar a Wisconsin, en los Estados Unidos.

Inspirado en hechos reales ocurridos en los años sesenta, cuenta la historia de Richard Speck. Un grupo de 8 enfermeras comparten casa cuando entra en sus vidas un veterano del Vietnam que les hace padecer su misoginia. Las tortura y asesina fríamente una a una, evitando la persecución policial.

Un obrero de una planta química, inesperadamente, en un acto de rebelión, asesina al hijo de su jefe, suicidándose a continuación. Este hecho transformará por completo la vida de su mujer (Emma Küsters) quien, con la falta de apoyo que recibe de un hijo (dominado por su mujer) y de una hija (que sólo busca su propia gloria), iniciará una odisea personal en la que tendrá que enfrentarse a manipulaciones mediáticas e ideólogos políticos que buscan utilizarla para sus propios fines, ignorando la única razón que a ella le mueve: defender y devolver la dignidad a la memoria de su marido.

Basada en la novela homónima de Theodor Fontane, trata sobre el estricto código moral de los prusianos durante los tiempos de Bismarck. Effi Briest es una joven que se casa con un hombre mayor que ella, el Baron von Instetten. Tras unos años en los que la pareja vive feliz, la amistad de ella con el Mayor Crampas supondrá un conflicto ético que concluirá con un duelo entre el marido ofendido y el supuesto amante.

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the anger of her father, whose incestuous sexual attentions to her have grown unbearable.

Petra von Kant, una diseñadora de moda que acaba de separarse de su marido, vive con su secretaria-esclava Marlene (personaje simbólicamente mudo). Cuando su amiga y confidente Sidonie le presenta a Karin, una joven de origen humilde, se enamora locamente de ella y le promete que va a convertirla en una famosa modelo. Sin embargo, Karin la abandona poco tiempo después para irse con su marido que, después de un viaje, acaba de volver a Frankfurt. Petra cae entonces en una profunda depresión.

Film based on a play written by Elias Canetti.

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.

Cuatro soldados estadounidenses secuestran, violan y asesinan a una niña vietnamita, y sus actos son vistos por otro soldado.