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.

90년대 중반, 독일. 터키 출신의 학생 아슬리와 전쟁을 피해 독일로 온 레바논 출신의 카리스마 넘치는 사이드는 파티에서 만나 첫눈에 반해 사랑에 빠진다. 두 연인은 아슬리 어머니의 반대를 무릅쓰고 결혼을 한다. 그들의 험난한 사랑은 아름답게 해피엔딩을 맞는 것 같다. 여기까지 영화는 고전적인 사랑 이야기의 형식을 따른다. 하지만 이후, 전개되는 이야기는 완전히 다른 양상을 보인다. 아슬리는 결혼 후 점점 이슬람 극단주의에 경도되는 사이드와 갈등을 빚기 시작하고 사이드는 어느 날 홀연히 사라진다.

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, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister 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.

Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.

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?

A documentary about the 20th century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys.

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.

1957년 독일, 검사장 프리츠 바우어는 수많은 유대인을 수용소로 보내 학살시킨 나치 중령 아돌프 아이히만의 행방에 대한 결정적 증거를 넘겨받는다. 독일의 사법제도를 불신한 그는 이스라엘 정보국 모사드와 접촉한다. 반역죄를 저지른 그를 독일 당국은 주시하는데...

사랑하는 연인 바실리와 아들 알렉시를 키우며 행복한 나날을 보내던 넬리는 바실리가 모스크바에서 교통사고로 사망하면서 커다란 혼란을 겪게 된다. 3년 후, 넬리는 알렉시와 동독 국경을 넘어 서독으로 향한다. 정식 이주를 위해 수용소에서 심사를 받지만, 하나같이 이어지는 바실리에 대한 질문에 넬리는 점점 지쳐간다. 결국, 넬리는 자신에게 호감을 보이는 미국 심사관 존과 정사를 나누고 그를 닦달해 까맣게 몰랐던 사실을 알게 된다. 비밀경찰 정보원으로 활동하던 바실리가 마음을 바꾸고, 서독 비밀 정보국과 공모해서 교통사고와 사망을 위장한 채 어딘가에서 살고 있을 수도 있다는 것이다…

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.

어느 날 텔아비브에서 홀로 말년을 보내시던 할머니의 부음이 들려온다. 먼지가 켜켜이 쌓여 있는 그녀의 유품을 정리하다 감독은 모호하면서도 거대한 역사적 사실과 맞닥뜨린다. 자신의 유대인 할아버지 할머니가 악명 높은 나치 전범 레오폴드 폰 밀덴슈타인 부부와 사이좋게 찍은 사진을 발견한 것이다. 과연 자신의 조부모는 나치의 친구였을까 아니면 적이었을까? (2012년 제9회 EBS 국제다큐영화제)

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)

In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Aleksei's mother has died and consequently the two have a very close relationship. When Aleksei acquires a girlfriend, she refuses to take a back seat to his bond with his dad, and breaks up with him. Aleksei is also experiencing nightmares, dreading separation from his father to be a part of the military as his father was.

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.

19세기 러시아의 숲 속, 불치병으로 고통을 겪고 있는 어머니와 그녀의 아들이 별장에서 살아간다. 어머니는 걷는 것도, 먹는 것도 힘이 들 정도로 허약하지만 아들은 어릴적 어머니가 자신에게 했던 것처럼 어머니를 돌본다.어느 날 밤, 어머니와 아들은 같은 꿈을 꾸게 되고, 아들은 어머니를 모시고 산책길에 나선다. 거기서 아들은 어머니에게 오래 전의 엽서들을 읽어 드리고, 그녀를 우리 아가라고 부르며 어머니가 고통에서 벗어나도록 따스하게 위로한다. 그리고 그들은 예전의 즐거웠던 시간들을 추억한다. 그들이 이미 알고 있는, 곧 다가올 이별의 충격을 완화시켜보려는 듯.

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.

남루한 행색의 청년 라스콜리니코프는 페테르부르크의 뒷골목을 정처 없이 걸어다니며 만나는 사람들마다 최근 사망한 한 여성을 아느냐고 묻는다. 그러는 사이 청년은 자신도 모르는 사이 낯선 세계로 들어간다. 푸시킨, 고골, 도스토예프스키 등 러시아 문학의 모티브가 도드라지는 작품으로 "세컨드 서클"(1990), "돌"(1992)에 이은 “삶과 죽음에 관한 3부작”의 마지막 작품.

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.