Christopher Buchholz

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

A kid on a bike on a country road. It's Lionel, the Legrands' adopted son. Later the same teenager, helmet and yellow leather jacket on a motorcycle, a gift from his mother Colette. In the meantime, there will have been handball matches, the installation of windmills, visits to the construction site with the German engineer, Colette's madness, the gossip of the workers at the factory, the ardor of the young Lucie. And for all of them, leaning against this lavender countryside as far as the eye can see, the search for an elsewhere that is either appropriate or inaccessible.

1981, Quiberon, uma pequena cidade na costa de Bretanha, na França. Hilde Fritsch chega para visitar a uma velha amiga, que foi morar em um hotel com spa para fugir das pressões diárias da sua vida.

12 anos após o fim da era nazista, tudo o que a maioria dos cidadãos da Alemanha deseja é deixar para trás os horrores vividos. Mas, o procurador geral Fritz Bauer se comprometeu a detectar o paradeiro do criminoso nazista Adolf Eichmann. Bauer tenta trazer o criminoso à justiça, porém é impedido várias vezes, sendo sabotado por pessoas envolvidas na política.

Nantes, França. Em 21 de outubro de 1941, três integrantes do batalhão da juventude do Partido Comunista atiraram no tenente-coronel Karl Hotz no centro da cidade. Como retaliação, Adolf Hitler ordenou a execução de 150 franceses, que eram mantidos prisioneiros. Preocupado com a situação, o comandante von Stülpnagem tenta de todas as formas reduzir o número de mortes exigido. Entre os condenados está o jovem Guy Môquet (Léo-Paul Salmain), que escreveu uma carta de despedida tão impactante que passou a ser estudada nas escolas francesas.

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

Eté 1944. François est un secouriste insouciant de dix-neuf ans, son désir secret est de pouvoir coucher avec son amoureuse. Un soir ils sont sur le point de franchir le pas, mais un résistant vient demander de l’aide. François monte au maquis pour impressionner la jeune fille et rejoint un groupe de quinze garçons immatures. Mais là-haut rien ne se passe comme prévu. La guerre les rattrape, marquant brutalement la fin d’une innocence et François se retrouve pris entre deux feux…

É de manhã em uma grande cidade. Dois adolescentes paqueram com vergonha; uma dona de casa vê a sua novela favorita; enfermeiros em um hospital falam antes de trocar de turno; um casal rico vai para casa na hora do rush; e um homem armado entra em um prédio em busca de vingança. Em um piscar de olhos, aquilo que parecia uma serie de eventos independentes, muda para sempre a vida dessas pessoas. A ideia original para o roteiro foi inspirada por uma atrocidade acontecida em 1986, quando Günther Tschanun matou quatro de seus colegas de trabalho.

Paul Soames (John Cusack) é um americano que retorna para Xangai quatro meses antes do ataque a Pearl Harbor na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ele encontra a cidade tomada pelos japoneses e pela corrupção, e descobre que seu amigo foi assassinado. Enquanto tenta descobrir o motivo da morte, ele se envolve com uma bela mulher e desvenda um segredo muito maior que o governo americano está escondendo.

Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. Attila the fireman can eat glass – but this doesn’t help his love life. His girlfriend, Sabine, breaks up with him. She wants more from life. It’s her dream to be a talk show host – and there’s no place for Attila in her career plan. Despite being a talk show host, Erika is unhappy. She can no longer connect with her husband Ulf, who is reliving his youth and making use of his psychological prowess to conquer female hearts. Their pubescent son Niko avoids both parents as he makes his own way through life, propelled by his sex drive. When the next guest on Erika’s show – a TV junkie and shy bakerwoman called Rosine – cancels at short notice, Erika has to find a new candidate. She discovers Attila in the house next door.

15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lead a criminal investigation into her bloody past.

A documentary directed by Christopher Buchholz and Sandra Hacker.

A documentary directed by Christopher Buchholz and Sandra Hacker.

A documentary directed by Christopher Buchholz and Sandra Hacker.

Três curtas-metragens, dos diretores Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh e Wong Kar Wai, abordam os temas do amor e do sexo.

In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg (Sebastian Koch), goes to a meeting with the Fuhrer in charge of exploding the place. However, Hitler survives and the officers are executed. This unsuccessful operation was called "Valkyrie Operation", and this realistic movie discloses this true event.

Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.

Após quase ser atingido por um raio, Martim Lutero (Joseph Fiennes) acredita ter recebido um chamado. Ele se junta ao monastério, mas logo fica atormentado com as práticas adotadas pela Igreja Católica na época. Após pregar em uma igreja suas 95 teses, Lutero passa a ser perseguido. Pressionado para que se redima publicamente, Lutero se recusa a negar suas teses e desafia a Igreja Católica a provar que elas estejam erradas e contradigam o que prega a Bíblia. Excomungado, Lutero foge e inicia sua batalha para mostrar que seus ideais estão corretos e que eles permitem o acesso de todas as pessoas a Deus.

Damien and his friends are garbage collectors in a small provincial town. One day, Damien finds a decomposing corpse in the dump where he works, but also a knife that turns out to be his. Because of his personal and social environment (an omnipresent mother, humiliating friends, an unenviable situation) and because he arrives at a moment in his life when he realizes that he is nothing to anyone, Damien wants to prove that he is capable of doing something with his life, of becoming someone, by finding the murderer who is prowling around the dump. In the course of his investigation, he meets Julie, a young divorced woman who is a little lost and who moves in across the street from him. But as his investigations progress, Damien wonders if he is not the killer he is looking for.

A moonstruck comedy about lovers and robbers.

Working together with his friend Leo as a waiter in a dining car, Simone discovers that Silvia, a girl with whom he had a casual relationship, is pregnant and wants to keep the baby.

A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.

Sergio has a degree in botanics, but cannot find a job. Then, he gets the announcement that his former girlfriend is getting married.

Colonel Peter Stride is on the trail of a mysterious international criminal known only as Caliph.

Once before, the ravishing lake mermaid Undine has warned her lover Raoul. Their humid-romantic fairy-tale love is in danger because Raoul's brother wants to destroy the pristine mountain lake idyll with an ambitious hotel project. Undine defends her paradise. She is alluring, but also perverse and unpredictable. She can give a lot of love, but she can also kill.

Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.

O beninês Dah e o caribenho Jocelyn ganham dinheiro organizando lutas ilegais de galos. Quando Pierre, o proprietário do restaurante onde decorrem as lutas, os encoraja a torná-las mais violentas, Jocelyn procura uma escapatória desse ambiente sórdido.

Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty