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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.
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Ucrania, años noventa. El joven Vova, cruel y tenaz, lucha para encontrar su lugar entre los despiadados miembros del hampa de una ciudad donde reinan el crimen y la corrupción.
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A prismatic meditation on pollution in the capital of the World’s biggest free-market democracy and the most polluted and populated city, Delhi – a film about the pollution inside of the human mind.
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Una explicación exhaustiva de cómo ocurre y qué consecuencias provoca la ocupación militar de un territorio invadido, utilizando como ejemplo paradigmático la historia reciente de Israel y de los territorios palestinos, Cisjordania y la Franja de Gaza, desde 1967, cuando tuvo lugar la guerra de los Seis Días, hasta la actualidad; un relato del cineasta Avi Mograbi enriquecido por los testimonios de veteranos del ejército israelí.
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Director Thomas Heise picks up the biographical pieces left by his family, and composes an epic picture of four generations of his family, of a country, of a century.
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From massive waves to melting ice, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky travels around the world to capture stunning images of the beauty and raw power of water.
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En medio del desierto del Sáhara viven las generaciones a las que Marruecos negó el país en 1975. Con vitalidad, humor y situaciones inesperadas, este documental es el retrato de un grupo de amigos que viven en un campamento de refugiados en pleno desierto. Juntos, usan el poder de la creatividad y la diversión para denunciar la realidad que les rodea y expandirse más allá de los límites del campamento.
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The “Film about the Father” is a difficult genre. Andreas Goldstein, son of the GDR cultural functionary Klaus Gysi (1912–1999) has tackled this task with a complete lack of vanity, but with insistence: measured and calm, honest and intellectual, analytical and personal. He uncovers a mosaic that renounces both the teleologies of the self-styled winners of history and the simplifications of (West) German Oscar nominees. This film is not about the lives of others, but about his own life. Not about yesterday, about today, too.
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Croacia, 7 de enero de 1992: En plena guerra, se descubre el cuerpo de un joven periodista vestido con el uniforme de un grupo mercenario internacional. Veinte años después, su prima Anja Kofmel investiga su historia
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Summer 1989, East Germany. Adam works as a tailor, Evelyn as a waitress. They are planning a vacation together when Evelyn finds out that Adam is cheating on her and decides to leave for the holiday on her own.
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En la histórica región de Donbass, en el este de Ucrania, a pesar de la cruel guerra que se viene librando desde 2014 entre las autoproclamadas Repúblicas Populares de Donetsk y Luhansk y el Gobierno ucraniano, la gente trata de sobrevivir en el podrido corazón del caos, donde la violencia se disfraza de paz, la propaganda se convierte en unívoca verdad y el odio reina en nombre del amor.
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Más de 65 millones de personas en todo el mundo han sido obligadas a salir de sus hogares para escapar del hambre, el cambio climático y la guerra en el mayor desplazamiento humano desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un viaje épico de la película conducido por el artista renombrado internacional Ai Weiwei, da una expresión visual de gran alcance a esta migración humana masiva.
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Kos (13) is going through the most bizarre period in his life. His mother died a few years ago and his dad is having a heart attack. While Kos’ father is in the hospital, it looks like the hotel he is running will be a big mess. But Kos and his three sisters do not intend to let that happen. After the siblings find out that father is deep in financial problems, the hotel is threatened with closure. The children however come up with a solution: someone has to win the local beauty pageant, with a hefty cash prize attached.
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Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five decades. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger.
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It is a story about the Soviet worker Pyotr and the German engineer Hans, who came to the USSR before the war on a business trip. At a Soviet plant the German team works in cooperation with Russian specialists. Once Hans makes a mistake which causes the explosion of the furnace and human losses. Hans finds himself at the mercy of Pyotr, the only witness to his actions near the furnace. Pyotr also depends on Hans, because Pyotr’s very presence near the furnace entails accusation of subversive actions and a death sentence. Mutual suspicion gives way to silent sympathy and later friendship. They even look like each other, both have small children. Pyotr secretly leaves the town with his family but Hans feels loss rather that relief at the disappearance of the embarrassing witness.
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Segunda Guerra Mundial, año 1942. En la frontera rusa, los partisanos de la resistencia bielorrusa luchan encarnizadamente contra la ocupación nazi. A través de la historia de dos partisanos cuyos caminos confluyen, el relato denuncia la irracionalidad y la crueldad de la guerra. Adaptación de la novela homónima del prolífico escritor bielorruso Vasiliy Vladimirovich Bykov.
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Narra la vida de un doctor ruso llamado Nicolai, quien después de un tiempo vuelve a un viejo burdel, donde conoció a una cortesana llamada Elise. Nicolai revive su historia de amor y el pasado y el presente encajan.
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This German documentary looks inside a nearly idle restaurant in a dowdy building in the country of Georgia, its listless workers waiting for business to pick up. The mournful atmosphere serves as a metaphor for the uncertain future of Georgia.
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What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down.
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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”.
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Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.
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Grace es una fotógrafa de guerra que decide dejar su trabajo tras un violento accidente en Irak. Max es su marido, un cirujano belga especializado en cataratas que trabaja en una clínica oftalmológica en los Andes peruanos. No muy lejos de allí, los aldeanos de Turubamba enferman gravemente por los vertidos de mercurio de la mina local. La joven Saturnina pierde a su prometido, infectado por las aguas contaminadas. Sin saber las verdaderas causas de la epidemia, los aldeanos centran toda su furia en los médicos extranjeros, y en medio de una riña, Max es asesinado. Entonces, Grace comienza un peregrinaje hasta el lugar de los hechos. Por su parte, Saturnina toma medidas drásticas para protestar contra la interminable violencia que brota de su tierra y sus vecinos. Los destinos de Grace y Saturnina se cruzarán.
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Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.
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Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.
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Documentary by Thomas Heise.
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A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
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Winter. A bus stop in a small village. People are waiting for a bus. They talk. Listening to their conversations, the viewer can imagine the world they live in. United by the movement of the camera, the place and the people blend together.
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Documentary by Thomas Heise.
Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.
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Short comedy from Berlin.
