Klaus Maeck

In 1981, Wau Holland and other hackers established the Hamburg based Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The idiosyncratic freethinkers were inspired by Californian technology visionaries and committed themselves to hacker ethics. All information must be free. Use public data, protect private data. But not everyone followed the rules. Computer technology was still in its infancy and the emerging Internet became a projection screen for social utopias. What has become of them? The story of the German hackers, told by the protagonists themselves in a montage of found video and audio material.

In 1981, Wau Holland and other hackers established the Hamburg based Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The idiosyncratic freethinkers were inspired by Californian technology visionaries and committed themselves to hacker ethics. All information must be free. Use public data, protect private data. But not everyone followed the rules. Computer technology was still in its infancy and the emerging Internet became a projection screen for social utopias. What has become of them? The story of the German hackers, told by the protagonists themselves in a montage of found video and audio material.

In 1981, Wau Holland and other hackers established the Hamburg based Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The idiosyncratic freethinkers were inspired by Californian technology visionaries and committed themselves to hacker ethics. All information must be free. Use public data, protect private data. But not everyone followed the rules. Computer technology was still in its infancy and the emerging Internet became a projection screen for social utopias. What has become of them? The story of the German hackers, told by the protagonists themselves in a montage of found video and audio material.

A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical career, featuring past live perfomances by himself and cover versions of his songs by contemporary artists.

It's the year 2020. Every day billions of people are victims of the digital, medial, narcissistic, hedonistic, careeristic and consumerist overstimulation and suggestion by the establishment. In a manner that remains unexplained to this day, hundreds of millions of citizens of the first world abruptly and epidemically fall ill with Anhedonia, an inability to feel pleasure and satisfaction. Two exemplary victims of these unspeakable circumstances are the dissimilar, but nevertheless inseparable, aristocrats' sons Franz and Fritz Freudenthal. Wholly bereft of meaning and tormented by their miserable, dull and joyless existence, they slowly waste away; until they become aware of the new and unique lust-stimulus therapy by the world-renowned and very trendy Prof. Dr. Immanuel Young, seeing in it the solution to all their problems.

The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.

The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.

Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump.

Kwok Yun is a simple woman who leads a peasant’s life in the peaceful mountains around remote Three-Headed Bird Village. One day, after a countryside tryst with a married man, she sees a UFO – a giant glowing thing in the shape of a dumpling! The ambitious village leader Chief Chang takes advantage of the sighting, stimulating tourism with UFO tours and getting the local economy roaring with progress. Busy aspiring to strengthen relations with the USA, she is blind to the dangers such radical change can bring.

Zinos Kazantsakis é proprietário do restaurante Soul Kitchen. O negócio não anda bem, pois os clientes não aprovam a comida feita pelo novo chef. Para piorar, sua namorada resolveu se mudar para Xangai e uma terrível dor nas costas o atormenta. Zinos decide ir atrás da amada mas, para isso, precisa deixar o comando do restaurante nas mãos do irmão, que acaba de sair da prisão.

Zinos Kazantsakis é proprietário do restaurante Soul Kitchen. O negócio não anda bem, pois os clientes não aprovam a comida feita pelo novo chef. Para piorar, sua namorada resolveu se mudar para Xangai e uma terrível dor nas costas o atormenta. Zinos decide ir atrás da amada mas, para isso, precisa deixar o comando do restaurante nas mãos do irmão, que acaba de sair da prisão.

This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest cities but every beast has its belly and here, in the very underbelly, Chiko lives in a world where violence, staking and keeping a claim, and drug taking are the norm. Where down is not an option, Chiko is determined to rise to the top, whatever and whomever it costs.

Do outro lado, novo filme do diretor alemão Fathi Akin, nos mostra como os destinos podem mudar dependendo de pequenos momentos, de pequenos acontecimentos. São três famílias, duas turcas e uma alemã. Seus membros estão espalhados entre os dois países. Yeter é uma prostituta quarentona turca que vive na Alemanha. Ela envia dinheiro para sua filha, Ayten, uma ativista política que vive em Istambul, na Turquia. Nejat é um professor numa universidade Alemã, seu pai, Ali, é um turco aposentado que inicia um romance com a prostituta Yeter. Lotte é uma jovem estudante universitária que vive com sua mãe, Susanne, na Alemanha. Os destinos dessas três famílias se cruzam de uma forma dramática e inesperada.

Do outro lado, novo filme do diretor alemão Fathi Akin, nos mostra como os destinos podem mudar dependendo de pequenos momentos, de pequenos acontecimentos. São três famílias, duas turcas e uma alemã. Seus membros estão espalhados entre os dois países. Yeter é uma prostituta quarentona turca que vive na Alemanha. Ela envia dinheiro para sua filha, Ayten, uma ativista política que vive em Istambul, na Turquia. Nejat é um professor numa universidade Alemã, seu pai, Ali, é um turco aposentado que inicia um romance com a prostituta Yeter. Lotte é uma jovem estudante universitária que vive com sua mãe, Susanne, na Alemanha. Os destinos dessas três famílias se cruzam de uma forma dramática e inesperada.

Um espírito simples e fiel é Muharrem. Trabalha incessantemente para o patrão Ali e vai à mesquita sem faltas. Já beira a velhice e vive sozinho de forma casta. Até que o chefe religioso o convoca para cobrar o imenso dinheiro mensal que a mesquita fatura com a comunidade, lhe oferece carro, roupas e acessórios de luxo que Muharrem nunca teve e ainda mais. Ah, tentação! Tradução do título original: Piedade.

Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock and hip-hop.

Sibel (Sibel Kekilli) é uma bela muçulmana de 20 anos. Em uma clínica de recuperação, após uma tentativa de suicídio, ela conhece Cahit (Birol Ünel), um turco quarentão e sua vida sofre uma reviravolta.

An hour-long interview with author William S. Burroughs in which he expounds on American culture, art and morals.

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets entangled in her threatened life ever deeper.

F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.

F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.

F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.