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.

Asli and Saeed fall in love in the mid-1990s. Although Asli’s mother is against their relationship, they secretly get married. Then he disappears. A sensitive love story that recounts how Saeed changes Asli’s life – before the entire world is shaken.

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.

Молодая художница Ульрике Оттингер в те годы жила в Париже. Сейчас, став режиссёром, она оглядывается назад, сплетая из воспоминаний о парижских днях и бурных событиях того времени кинематографическую поэму, в центре которой оказывается город.

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.

Рассказ о том, как сегодня обращаются с беженцами и мигрантами в Ливане, Италии, Германии и Швейцарии.

Рассказ о том, как сегодня обращаются с беженцами и мигрантами в Ливане, Италии, Германии и Швейцарии.

1956 год. Ученики выпускного класса Тео и Курт живут в Сталинштадте — новом сталелитейном образцовом городке Восточной Германии. Во время вылазки в кинотеатр в Западном Берлине старшеклассники увидели в очередном выпуске кинохроники драматичные кадры венгерского восстания в Будапеште. По возвращении в родной городок парни подбивают весь класс пойти тайком послушать западные новости про Будапешт — на отшибе, у одинокого старичка с радиоприемником. Борьба венгров за независимость и жестокость, с которой их восстание было подавлено советскими войсками, вызывают в душах юных школьников протест.

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.

It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.

ГДР, 1975 год. Нелли провожает на конгресс физиков своего друга Василия – советского учёного, работающего в Берлине, который является отцом ее 6-летнего ребенка. Вскоре Нелли получает известие, что Василий погиб на родине в автокатастрофе. Не в силах пережить душевную боль, Нелли решает эмигрировать в ФРГ, чтобы, попрощавшись со своим прошлым, начать жизнь с чистого листа. Представив пограничникам подкупленного ею таксиста своим мужем и благополучно переехав границу, Нелли вздыхает с облегчением: самое опасное, кажется, осталось позади. Радоваться, однако, слишком рано…

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.

The flat on the third floor of a Bauhaus building in Tel Aviv was where my grandparents lived since they immigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Were it not for the view from the windows, one might have thought that the flat was in Berlin. When my grandmother passed away at the age of 98 we were called to the flat to clear out what was left. Objects, pictures, letters and documents awaited us, revealing traces of a troubled and unknown past. The film begins with the emptying out of a flat and develops into a riveting adventure, involving unexpected national interests, a friendship that crosses enemy lines, and deeply repressed family emotions. And even reveals some secrets that should have probably remained untold...

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)

На верхнем этаже старого дома живет маленькая семья - отец и сын. Отец - военный летчик, уволен в запас. Давно, когда он был курсантом авиационного училища, в его жизни была первая и единственная любовь - девушка, которая стала его женой, родила ему сына. Жена умерла молодой. В чертах сына отец видит постоянное напоминание о жене, он не отделяет сына от своей неизжитой любви: в этом его единение с любимой. Поэтому отец не представляет своей жизни без сына, а сын преданно и глубоко любит отца. Их любовь почти мифологического свойства и масштаба. Так не бывает в реальности,

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.

Действие фильма разворачивается в течение суток в призрачном и неприступном доме, построенном в Альпах для человека власти. Власть, претендующая на покорение всего мира, произвела разрушительную работу прежде всего над теми, кто ее олицетворял: Адольф Гитлер и Ева Браун — несоединимые партнеры любовной драмы.

Эта история рассказывает об идеальном союзе — о любви и глубокой привязанности между матерью и сыном. Кажется, что эти двое одни на всей земле, нет ни быта, ни суеты, нет вообще ничего лишнего, а есть только деревянный дом за городом, в котором тихо живут тяжело больная мать и любящий сын.

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.

Этот небольшой фильм вышел из материала, отредактированного для пятичасового документального фильма Сокурова "духовные голоса".

Экзистенциальная драма по мотивам русской прозы XIX века, в частности, «Преступления и наказания» Ф. М. Достоевского. Режиссер переводит в зрительный ряд атмосферу романа, не касаясь его интриги. Герой в сомнамбулическом состоянии бродит по безмолвному Петербургу…

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.