Bettina Böhler

On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.

Писатель Леон пытается закончить рукопись второго романа, но его то и дело отвлекают беззаботные друзья. Мужчину одинаково сильно бесят мысли о незавершённой работе и хорошее настроение окружающих. Однако главную опасность представляет не скверный характер Леона, а лесные пожары, которые подбираются к дому героев.

Анна — актриса с эксцентричным характером и экстравагантной внешностью. Из-за этого страдает репутация, предложений становится все меньше. Однажды Анна соглашается на необычную работу — давать уроки по технике речи юноше из приюта. Она знает, что парень — вор, однако это не мешает их сближению. За встречами, общими разговорами, прогулками и обедами приходит влюбленность. Она кружит голову и заставляет совершать безумные поступки. Так, без гроша в кармане они покидают Западный Берлин и отправляются во Францию к морю…

Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with an unclear past and present. They meet during a police raid at a bar, when the first of many sparks flies between them. An understated love story, a melodrama without pathos, a fragile story about the ambiguous nature of love and the impossibility of overcoming it through reason.

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

Using unpublished and newly digitalised archive footage and film material, Bettina Böhler has brilliantly assembled this film about the life and work of the exceptional artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010.

Ундина — историк-урбанист, завораживающая туристов рассказами об архитектурной истории Берлина. Имя девушки накладывает отпечаток и на её личную жизнь, которая развивается по законам древнего мифа: она должна погубить бросившего её Йоханнеса, а неожиданно вспыхнувшим взаимным чувствам к водолазу Кристофу суждено угаснуть. Сможет ли Ундина вырваться из омута древних преданий и сохранить любовь?

Ундина — историк-урбанист, завораживающая туристов рассказами об архитектурной истории Берлина. Имя девушки накладывает отпечаток и на её личную жизнь, которая развивается по законам древнего мифа: она должна погубить бросившего её Йоханнеса, а неожиданно вспыхнувшим взаимным чувствам к водолазу Кристофу суждено угаснуть. Сможет ли Ундина вырваться из омута древних преданий и сохранить любовь?

Ундина — историк-урбанист, завораживающая туристов рассказами об архитектурной истории Берлина. Имя девушки накладывает отпечаток и на её личную жизнь, которая развивается по законам древнего мифа: она должна погубить бросившего её Йоханнеса, а неожиданно вспыхнувшим взаимным чувствам к водолазу Кристофу суждено угаснуть. Сможет ли Ундина вырваться из омута древних преданий и сохранить любовь?

В 1998 году шестнадцатилетнюю Хатун Сюрючи насильно выдали замуж за кузена и отправили в Турцию. Через год беременная девушка вернулась в Берлин и попросила родителей принять ее обратно. Они согласились, но по строгим мусульманским законам обязали дочь не выходить из дома самостоятельно, помогать матери и, как всегда, беспрекословно подчиняться отцу и братьям. Не выдержав давления, она сбежала в центр помощи малолетним матерям, стала учиться на электрика, впервые сходила на танцы и занялась сексом по любви. Шесть лет спустя младший брат выпустил три пули в голову Хатун, которую она давно перестала покрывать платком.

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.

Мужчина, прибывший во Францию после вторжения нацистов, присваивает себе личность погибшего писателя, чьи документы оказываются у него в руках. Застряв в Марселе, он встречает женщину, разыскивающую своего мужа, личность которого главный герой фильма как раз позаимствовал.

A group of German construction workers set out for a foreign construction site in the Bulgarian province. The strange country awakens adventure feelings among the men. At the same time, they are confronted with their prejudices and mistrust. For two of the men, a nearby village becomes the stage for a competition for the recognition and favor of the village.

Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and aware of the sexual magnetism she gives off with her peculiar appearance, she wanders through the dark path of several bohemian adults with questionable lifestyles.

An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.

Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable weapon exports to Mexiko.

By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger.

German family Schroeder is spending their Christmas holidays on the Thai island, Phuket. Of all the things, deep within the sleazy tourist bars and alleys of Patong, the youngest son Felix falls in love with a gorgeous Thai girl Fai who in return appears to mutually attracted to him.

Нелли Ленц, жертва Холокоста, которой удалось выжить в концлагере. Она ранена, у неё сильно искалечено лицо. Сотрудница Еврейского агентства Лене Винтер помогает Нелли добраться до Берлина, где ей сделали пластическую операцию. Поправившись после операции, Нелли начинает искать своего мужа, Йоханнса. Когда она наконец нашла его, Йоханнес не узнал свою жену, которую считает погибшей. Тем не менее, он признает, что эта незнакомая ему женщина похожа на его «покойную» жену. И тогда Йоханнес делает деловое предложение Нелли — она должна будет изображать его жену, чтобы получить состояние, которое ей досталось от семьи. Нелли соглашается…

Lorenz Meran, a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. But it is not only his mother's battle against being dictated to and losing her dignity that he is struggling with. It's also his own midlife crisis.

Канада, лето 1898 года. Разгар Золотой лихорадки. Группа немецких переселенцев держит путь на далекий север, в сторону Доусона. Там, на Клондайке, на недавно открытых приисках каждый сможет мгновенно разбогатеть, надо пройти «всего лишь» 2000 километров, а затем найти золотую жилу. Но причина отправиться в этот полный опасностей поход не только в жажде наживы. Журналист Густав мечтает прославиться, а ковбой Карл надеется скрыться от преследования убийц. Лишь мотивы холодной красавицы Эмили, с железной невозмутимостью переносящей тяготы путешествия, поначалу неясны. Все эти люди, случайно оказавшиеся в одной группе, и представить себе не могут, что богини судьбы уже начали неумолимый отсчет последних часов жизни для большинства из них…

HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.

Красивая девушка из ГДР подала заявление на выезд из страны и за это сослана в провинцию. В свободном мире ее ждет возлюбленный, который уже разработал для нее план побега на лодке через Балтийское море. А пока Барбара живет под надзором спецслужб и работает в больнице в отделе педиатрической хирургии, где вместе со своим коллегой Андре пытается помочь юной беженке из трудовой колонии — ярой противнице режима.

A biographical study of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with footage from some of Rampling's most famous films, this "self-portrait through others" is a revealing look at one of our most iconic screen stars.

Взлет и падение актера Фердинанда Мариана, который ухватывается за возможность и снимается в антисемитском фильме «Еврей Зюсс».

A few weeks after palliative nurse Hans spends New year's eve completely with new acquaintance Simone, she finds herself pregnant, unplanned. At another surprise meeting, handsome Hannes surprises her by reacting to the news by offering her to move into his fine home. While Hannes devotes himself further to terminal hospital patients, Simone lazily renovates the house, but somehow gets jealous of the neighbors and compromises everything.

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

About sweeping love, rock & roll and getting rid of all that stale air of the fifties. You've got the good guys - that's Lulu and Jimi - and the bad guys: Lulu's mother Gertrud, her secret lover Schultz, the chauffeur, and a wicked old shrink, Von Oppeln, crouching in his gloomy office like a spider waiting to pounce on his prey Lulu. Light and darkness, bright garish colours, hot rock & roll and wild dance numbers mark this road movie about lovers fleeing from the evil powers of a deeply bigoted society. A drama about the relationship between a young black man and a rich German girl.

Томас с позором уволен с военной службы, которую он проходил в Афганистане. В наследство от матери ему дотался дом в Иерихоне, где-то в глуши на северо-востоке Германии. Теперь ему надо осесть и остепениться. Но самое неприятное в том, что он абсолюно на мели. А местная биржа труда предлагает только тяжелую и плохо оплачиваемую работу сборщика огурцов. У Томаса появляется шанс поправить свое материальное положение, когда он знакомится с Али, владельцем 45 закусочных на колесах, которые он сдает в аренду и снабжает продуктами, на чем и зарабатывает свой небольшой капитал. И поскльку его лишили водительских прав на год, Али ищет водителя и экспедитора. Таким образом Томас оправляется, получает хорошую работу и сближается со своим новым шефом. И тут на его горизонте появляется молчаливая, но красивая жена Али — Лаура, и между ними пробегает опасная искра.

В фильме показана история женщины, которая оставляет свой родной город ради многообещающей работы и новой жизни, преодолевая возникающие трудности на пути. Ее брак разрушен, в родном городе нет перспектив. Уехав на Запад Германии, Йелла вовлекается в мир безжалостного и крупного бизнеса. И, казалось бы, все складывается успешно, но в самый неожиданный момент возникает угроза для ее новой жизни — бывший муж Бен…

On Christmas Eve, Francesca sets out for Rotterdam in order to find her little sister, who has run off with her musician boyfriend. On the way, she picks up Gerlinde, a heartbroken older woman at the end of her rope.

A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still inhabits the house with Irene's writer son Konstantin. Konstantin's girl-friend pops in, too, and all of them drift away from each other more and more.

Angelina Maccarone's intense drama deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman. Elsa Seifert successfully works as probation officer, but the relationship to her longtime companion is in trouble since their common daughter moved out. Then she gets to know Jan, a 16-years-old offender, who frankly offers to submit himself sexually to her. Although being shocked in the beginning, Elsa gets more and more attracted by the young man...

Он и она живут в деревне недалеко от Берлина и любят друг друга с детства. Обоим около тридцати. Он слесарь и участник добровольной пожарной команды. Она подрабатывает несколько часов в неделю и поет в хоре. Люди смотрят на них с удивлением и подозрительностью: влюбленные кажутся слишком счастливыми — безгрешными и наивными, словно дети. Однажды он уезжает с пожарной командой в город и наутро просыпается в квартире незнакомой женщины, едва помня, как там оказался. Попытки разобраться в случившемся погружают его в пучину страстного романа. Любовное приключение не влияет на его чувства к жене, но он не в силах отыскать дороги назад, в свою прежнюю жизнь.

A young teenage single mother (Maggi) struggling to raise her baby daughter (Lucy) finds the weight of responsibility bearing down on her shoulders. Maggy was forced to grow up before her time. Thankfully for Maggi, her mother is always willing to help though Maggy still lives at home with her mother, it's obvious that she longs to gain some independendence. Meeting Gordon at a local club, who is a few years older, makes a living and has his own apartment. One night, after a heated argument with her mother, Maggi makes the decision to move in with Gordon. Though the pair subsequently make a sincere attempt to be good parents.and do what's best for Lucy, they soon find that taking on the responsibilities of adulthood aren't so easy when you've barely moved past childhood yourself.

Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens after a few month in which she has tried to come to terms with a situation which is actually an insufferable one for her? How does Fariba live not only in this external state of exile but also in an inner state of exile? The term "in orbit" is officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all.

Три женщины по воле случая встречаются в Берлине. Скрещение этих трех судеб, ощущение глобального одиночества и напряженный поиск внутренней идентичности легли в основу психоделической драмы Кристиана Петцольда.

Marseille describes an interlude in the life of young Berlin photographer Sophie. Wanting a change, Sophie does an apartment swap, so she can go photograph the city of Marseille, and most of all get away from Berlin.

Axel and Karla are an ill-matched couple in a borderline situation. The two meet in the hospital. Axel is keeping watch at his son′s bedside and Karla is waiting for some sign of life from her sister. None of the doctors can tell them whether the young couple will come out of their comas after their serious accident. As the weeks of uncertainty, fear and tedium pass by, a peculiar relationship develops between Axel and Karla, sustaining both of them.

When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henry, who seems to spend his time returning shopping trolleys. Elsi does not know anything about the boy, who has an irritating habit of appearing from out of nowhere, only to disappear again, as if into thin air. Nevertheless, the children become friends.

German film.

Jost roams through the streets of Berlin. He opposes the world enraged, aggressively and furiously in a self-destructive way. He continuously provokes situations proving to himself that everybody hates him. He is convinced he does not need anybody and does not let anyone get close to him. Anna is walled in by her fear and unable to leave her apartment. She manages to keep this situation from all the others in a system of lies. Her reserves draw to a close. She heads for a catastrophe. One day, Jost shows up at her door.

Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a boy on a bike and, instead of helping him, he drives away. As he has feelings of guilt, he tries to find out more about the accident’s victim.

Пришедший к власти в 1979 году генерал Зия-уль-Хак установил в Пакистане военное положение, а через несколько месяцев провел исламизацию законов страны. Аиша, уравновешенная женщина лет сорока, посвятила свою жизнь образованию 18-летнего сына Салима в небольшой деревушке Чахли в Пенджабе. Салим — спокойный мечтатель, но быстро меняющаяся политическая ситуация беспокоит Аишу, так как её сын меняется до неузнаваемости.

Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out on a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees. The next morning Thomas awakes to find Leyla and his laptop, which contains vital case files, missing.

A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in various ways with friends, family, and lovers.

Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened.

With 1970s Germany in the background, this film depicts the story of a family from the “R.A.F. Terrorist” group and their search for a normal life and their inner self.

Mimmi is a very lonely girl, not knowing what to do with her life. On the search for friends and boyfriends, she wanders around alone in different cities.

A 15 year old boy (Beni) falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, he is only willing to follow him where ever Fögi wants to. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into the hell of drug addiction.

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.

Tom is constantly running into problems and gets beaten up time and time again.

In this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have betrayed after his friend tried to escape East Germany. The former East German agent is Otto Skrodt who after many years is about to be promoted in the highest government ranks. He is anxious to maintain a squeaky clean image. His daughter is Isabelle. The young and friendly Kalle returns after spending many years in jail for his escape attempts. He doesn't know exactly who blew the whistle, but his friend Skrodt is definitely under suspicion. Kalle returns to ostensibly renew the friendship and to see Isabelle whom he loves. The duplicitous friendship between the two men becomes the main focus of the story which features interesting plot twists at the end.

A rehabilitation center for physically handicapped children and youth is the focus of this docudrama. Long corridors, offbeat characters and passions.

Germany, right after the re-unification. The people are out of control, blind hatred towards immigrants is common sense. In this time, a social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his girl-friend start to investigate in this matter in Rassau, exploring a world of obsessive sex, mislead lust and an over-whelming irrational love to the German nation, infiltrating anyone's mind. Rascism doesn't start with shaved hair and boots but rather in the middle of society itself...

OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

A man migrates from Poland over Germany into the US.

Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical forms and figures (triumphal procession, dance of death, Baroque tragedy etc.) The triumphal procession of the giant haystack as a symbol of human vanities becomes a military parade of abrupt, functional and arrogant gestures. The most diverse musical fragments and rhythms intone the montage of details in the staged triumphal procession, juxtaposed with documentary images, including marches, ticker-tape parades and military review.

Julia and Romeo are two disenchanted lovers who want to break up but are unwilling to suffer the pain. After a nasty fight, Romeo storms off and unsuccessfully vents his frustration with a black prostitute. While visiting the ramshackle brothel, he sees a strange man, who may be a government official, handing over a huge wad of money. Later, he and Julia reunite and go to an upscale golden anniversary party. There a handsome American flirts with Julia. After yet another row, Romeo and Julia retire to the balcony for a love scene. Unfortunately, their making up is interrupted by a sudden power outage. When the lights go back on, Romeo finds the knifed corpse of the party's hostess at his feet. Naturally, he's accused of the crime, but before the other partygoers can get him, he and Julia flee into the Berlin summer night. Their strange series ensuing adventures comprise the rest of the film.

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride). Each filmmaker had the liberty of choosing a sin to interpret as they wished. The final film reflected this diversity, including traditional narrative fiction, experimental video, a musical, a radical documentary, and was delivered in multiple formats from 16, super 16, video and 35mm.

Dilettantishly cruel scenes from the "scene": A skinhead loves a dance girl and dreams of a petty-bourgeois future. When he is deprived of the wages of a robbery by his landlady, an impoverished princess, he kills her. His girlfriend sinks to being a prostitute and is also killed. It all ends in the prison cell with a dream vision of a white wedding in Berlin's Memorial Church. First film shot on Super-8 and blown up to 16mm by Tabea Blumenschein, who became known as a performer in underground films and as a costume designer.