Thomas Kufus

Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.

Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and challenges ideas of conventional reforestation with his simple yet effective method.

Cuando una estudiante de ciencias Asli conoce al carismático Saeed a mediados de los 90, es amor a primera vista. Los amantes se casan y Asli jura ser fiel a Saeed y nunca revelar sus secretos. Su futuro parece brillante, pero a medida que amanece el siglo XXI, Saeed toma una decisión que no solo hará añicos los sueños de Asli, sino que sacudirá al mundo entero: será uno de los pilotos que perpetró el atentado al World Trade Center.

The consequences of the climate catastrophe are dramatic in 2034. Drought and floods destroy the livelihoods of millions of people. After the third storm tide in a row, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice in The Hague was evacuated. In a provisional interim building in Berlin, the climate catastrophe becomes the subject of legal proceedings. Two lawyers represent 31 countries of the global South, which are doomed to destruction without the support of the international community.

Ulrike Ottinger weaves her personal memories of Parisian bohemianism and the serious social, political and cultural upheavals of the time into a cinematic “figure poem.”

As the Internet finally arrives in tiny Bhutan, documentarian Thomas Balmès is there to witness its transformative impact on a young Buddhist monk whose initial trepidation gives way to profound engagement with the technology.

Tucson, Arizona, septiembre de 1996. A petición de su hijo Martin, George Goldsmith recuerda su pasado en la Alemania nazi como miembro de una familia de músicos judíos y la extraña historia de la Jüdischer Kulturbund, una organización judía patrocinada por el ministro del Reich Joseph Goebbels.

The story of an extraordinary woman, marathon swimmer Beth French, attempting the world’s most extreme swimming challenge. Driven to be a role model for her autistic son, and by her battle with lifelong illness (ME), Beth confronts jellyfish, sharks, wild weather and reluctant skippers. But as her journey unfolds, dangers of the sea prove easier to conquer than upheavals of the heart.

Drawing inspiration from his personal encounter with the Italian refugee child Giovanna during World War II, Markus Imhoof tells how refugees and migrants are treated today: on the Mediterranean Sea, in Lebanon, in Italy, in Germany and in Switzerland.

Drawing inspiration from his personal encounter with the Italian refugee child Giovanna during World War II, Markus Imhoof tells how refugees and migrants are treated today: on the Mediterranean Sea, in Lebanon, in Italy, in Germany and in Switzerland.

Adaptación de Lars Kraume (El caso Fritz Bauer) del relato autobiográfico de Dietrich Garstka, que sigue la historia de un grupo de jóvenes de bachillerato de la Alemania Oriental que, tras una votación unánime, decidieron demostrar su solidaridad con los insurgentes húngaros durante el levantamiento de 1956, contra los invasores soviéticos.

A family drama about a German teenager who leaves home totally unexpectedly to join the ranks of the so-called Islamic State (IS) in its armed struggle. When the boy's father and older brother set off on an adventurous journey to the Syrian border, they manage to find him and bring him back to Germany. However, back home, questions start being asked: did he return of his own free will, has he disassociated himself from the IS ideology, or is he in fact a 'sleeper' agent awaiting orders?

Treinta años después de su muerte, Joseph Beuys sigue siendo un visionario adelantado a su tiempo. Fue el primer artista alemán que expuso en el Guggenheim de Nueva York, mientras en su país natal su obra fue considerada "la basura más cara de todos los tiempos".

In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angry young man and pop star of the literary scene. As soon as he was on the bestseller lists, he turned his back on the hype. For many years, he has lived and worked in his house in a Parisian suburb, more quietly and more hospitably. Peter Handke's precise, free gaze becomes perceptible in his texts, his conversations, the cosmos of his notebooks.

En 1957, doce años después de la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) y del fin del Tercer Reich, el Fiscal General Fritz Bauer se comprome a detener a los criminales nazis. El hecho decisivo es la localización del Adolf Eichmann, miembro clave de las SS.

Empezar de cero, comenzar una vida nueva y dejar el pasado y la tristeza atrás. Eso pretendieron en los años setenta Nelly Senff (Jordis Triebel) y su hijo Alexei (Tristan Globel) cuando escaparon de Berlín Oriental para buscar un futuro en la Alemania del Oeste, supuestamente más hedonista y menos represiva.

Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. This first glimpse inside his studio in decades is exactly that: a thrilling document of the 79-year-old's creative process, juxtaposed with rare archival footage and intimate conversations with his critics and collaborators.

En un apartamento en el tercer piso de un edificio estilo Bauhaus de Tel Aviv era donde vivían los abuelos del cineasta Arnon Goldfinger desde que emigraron a Palestina en 1930 huyendo de la Alemania nazi. Cuando la abuela falleció a los 98 años, la familia acudió a limpiar lo que quedaba en el apartamento; objetos, fotografías, cartas y documentos que no esperaban y que revelaban las huellas de un pasado turbulento y desconocido.La película, que comienza con el vaciado de un piso se convierte en una aventura fascinante, en la que entran en juego inesperados intereses nacionales, una amistad que cruza las líneas enemigas, y las emociones de la familia profundamente reprimidas. Incluso revela algunos secretos que, probablemente, deberían haber permanecido ocultos.

Lullabies are our first connection to the world – a universal experience we all share, yet it remains deeply personal. "Can you recall a song that your mother would sing for you to fall asleep?" is the question Tamara Trampe and Johann Feindt ask people they meet in the streets of Berlin.

In 1982, filmmaker Ekaterina Eremenko was among 26 students accepted into Russia’s elite natural science school. A golden future lay ahead of them, but the birth of perestroika and the collapse of the old order meant that that future was no longer certain. Eremenko sets out to discover what happened to her classmates and how the seismic political changes of the 1980s affected her generation. (Storyville)

Una pequeña familia "un padre y un hijo" vive en el último piso de una casa antigua. El padre se retiró del ejército, cuando era un estudiante en la escuela de vuelo experimentó el primer y el único amor de su vida. Esta chica se convirtió en su esposa y dio a luz a su hijo. Ambos tenían entonces veinte años. La esposa murió cuando era joven. Este amor siguió siendo su secreta felicidad única. El hijo creció, y probablemente será un militar como su padre. Los rasgos del hijo recuerdan constantemente al padre de su esposa. No separa a su hijo de su amor persistente: ésta es su unidad con su mujer amada. El padre no puede imaginar su vida sin su hijo. El hijo ama a su padre con devoción y profundidad, un sentimiento filial intensificado por una responsabilidad moral instintiva que está siendo probada por la vida. Su amor es casi de virtud mitológica y de escala. No puede suceder en la vida real. Esta es una colisión de cuento de hadas.

Black Box BRD steps back into German history, showing the Federal Republic of Germany of the 70s and 80s. The country is polarized due to the power struggle of the German state and the "Red Army Faction". Society is torn, the fronts are irreconcilable. The life stories of both Wolfgang Grams and Alfred Herrhausen are tragically linked to this era. Grams is the one who takes up arms for moral rigor; Herrhausen however seizes power and dies when powerful.

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.

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 man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.

The retired life in Florida rescued, the Epstein brothers do again what they do best and have practiced for a lifetime music. A Tickle in the Heart captures the past, present, and future of the remarkable Epstein brothers - Max, Julie and Willie - Klezmer music legends on a joyous international comeback tour. This is a cinematic party with three of the funniest men in the show business. The Epsteins are natural performers, and their sense of life, music and family as they tour through places they love.

This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.

An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and the humiliated,” including a holy prostitute and a Kafkaesque bureaucrat.

During the Second World War, Leningrad was besieged by German troops. A merciless struggle for survival erupted. People were starving and afraid, yet they did not give up but kept on fighting, refusing to surrender.

Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. "Mein Kreig" alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It's chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. "Home, that was the front," one says.