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- Veteran of World War II takes revenge on three scums who raped his naive granddaughter.
- A noise enthusiast discovers that by changing the background music from pleasantly calming to industrial "noise" music, he can incite riots and a revolution against the looming power of the government.
- Twenty-something lesbian Chinatsu shares a one-bedroom apartment with heterosexual Kyoko. Although they have a passing attraction, Kyoko is mostly interested in men, especially one who work in a pet store.
- Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
- In the 1970s, aliens send a female android diplomat to Earth on a mission of peace. She lands in war-torn Palestine instead of MIT by mistake and meets a friendly UK journalist there. They begin a series of insightful conversations.
- Tabloid life of a physicist; his work, his love life and his quest for the meaning beyond.
- The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
- Everything looks extremely unlikely, everything looks like it's all the same, you don't know what happened. But you know it happened to you.
- The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.
- "Das Kübelkind" is a figure of art: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, grown up from the moment of her birth, always learns something more than was demanded of her without being asked.
- A drug dealer spends his last day alive pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.
- A collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle.
- The film presents the little-known story of the 20,000 European Jews who fled to Shanghai between late 1937 and 1941. After 1939, Shanghai was the last and only resort to find safe haven from the Nazis, though not that safe either, as the film shows. This was due to Shanghai's status as a free port not requiring entry papers, and the relative tolerance of the Japanese occupiers, who, far from being saviors, resisted their Grand Ally's (Germany) demand to exterminate the Jews, and even prevented the actions of the Nazi "Butcher of Warsaw" who was assigned to liquidate the Shanghai Jews. After the Communist takeover of China, all traces of the Jews' existence, including a Jewish cemetery with 2,000 graves, were razed. The Jews passage through Shanghai is revealed, and preserved through four survivors (Fred Fields now of Miami, Ernest and Illo Heppner, and Siegmar Simon), and an incredible collage of rare film footage assembled by Joan Grossman and Paul Rosdy who wrote, edited, directed and produced the documentary.
- A mysterious written message meant for a woman living in Saigon is passed on by a female missionary and a French soldier before they die.
- When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
- In this four and a half hour documentary or filmic travelogue, Ulrike Ottinger tries to impart new ways of seeing a foreign culture.
- A former bank clerk conceived a one-man robbery at the bank he worked. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. further complications ensues when he rejoins his estranged wife.
- This is a rhapsody of Gods, men, and dogs down and out together. A meandering truck full of gods gets mixed up with a cast of outcasts whose lives gradually entwine with each other. Yellow Bull, the owner of the truck, travels around giving shelter to deserted god statues yet can't afford to have his artificial leg fixed. Biung, an alcoholic aboriginal, transports top-class peaches between a remote village and Taipei city yet finds himself less valued than even a peach. Ching, a depressed middle class wife, attempts to redeem her marriage after the death of her newborn. Then there's a fatal car accident caused by a stray dog. Can it change their lives and put an end to the obvious and distinct boundaries between them?
- A voyage from the Ukraine to New York to Israel, portraying the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.
- The story of a newly graduated Leningrad teacher, Yelena Kuzmina. She goes furniture shopping with her fiance, Petya, and in a fantasy sequence she imagines teaching a class of neat, obedient city schoolchildren. Instead, she is assigned to work in the Altai mountains of Siberia.
- The life of Jewish Expressionist poet and performance artist, Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945), told chronologically in vignettes given context by archival footage of turn-of-the-century Germany, World War I, and the ascent of the Third Reich. Her poetry often comprises the soundtrack. We see her in relation to men: her first husband, whom she leaves after her son is born; artists like Chagall and Franz Marc; an older muse and then a second husband; and, Gottfried Benn (1886 - 1956), physician and poet. Benn's life is also chronicled: homosexual encounters, his attraction to Else and the Berlin scene, and his politics. Her poems addressed to him define this cultural moment.
- Ulrike Ottinger travels through the decaying empires of Southeast Europe
- Nele lives with her dog in an old caravan on the edge of Amsterdam. Wherever Nele goes, she feels something is missing, so she moves on in search of it.
- Fictional re-enactments about the early years in Belgium of the director's parents, Jewish immigrants from Poland, and scenes taken in modern Brussels in this elliptical experimental feature.
- An examination of the rise to power, election, overthrow and exile of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
- A humorous PSA made to entertain (esp. young) people and remind them to protect themselves against AIDS.
- On July 10, 1954, ten years to the day after the unsuccessful assassination of Hitler, the president of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Otto John, took part in commemorative ceremonies in Berlin. He disappeared the following night and reported from East Germany, denouncing in the media the rearmament of the Federal Republic as an obstacle to reunification. In 1955 he returned to the West where he was arrested and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Did he betray his country or was he kidnapped and manipulated by agents of the GDR? Otto John explains himself in front of the camera of the great documentary filmmaker and historian of the Second World War, Erwin Leiser.
- Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories about their lives, including their sorrows, griefs, hopes, and dreams, while expressing their longing for home and feelings of being lost in a foreign place.
- Eduard and his wife Charlotte are happily married, decide to move out of their tiny apartment into a space in an abandoned factory building, which they can fix up to their liking.
- Carl Celler (CC) Culture Institute specializes in selling art projects to big companies: Carl Celler, the dynamic boss with an inherent melancholic drift towards failure, feels that his first project proves to be a difficult one. For the project, he invited a young elite group of artists and curators to Berlin to realize a project: videos, photos, campaigns, and art objects about a specific topic, namely brand logos and animals. The invited artists are furnished with a sufficient budget and insight into Berlin's arts milieu. Furthermore there are two male (anti-)models, Kai and Jork, arbitrarily chosen, non-styled, people from the street. Kai is over 30 and he confronts this world with nonchalance. He feels his late juvenile attitude is in anger and the ambition he encounters in CC takes him by surprise. Rena Yazka, one of the invited artists, catches is attention. Their little flirt is the background for Kai's experience to become an object, to be regarded as a body. Is he in love - or only eroticized in this dazzling experience? Is he exploited and abused by the creative industry? The mood of this bizarre, tightened coolness gives way slowly to an existential problem. What kind of life are they working for, or, if they live for their work, what kind of life is that?
- A young lesbian receives a surprising and ambivalent gift.
- A collective of young filmmakers worked on a semi-documentary film about the lives of ordinary people in the late 1960s. The material remained unedited for 28 years until Reinhard Kahn and Michael Leiner compiled it into a bizarre time portrait.
- Robert Bramkamp's unique hybrid of documentary, essay and fiction portrays the Hamburg ticket manufacturer BECKERBILLETT. The company not only manufactures tickets, it also creates a secret currency - each ticket stub promises an event and an experience. In his short film BECKERBILLETT, filmmaker Robert Bramkamp calls attention to a hidden and yet essential process in the cultural economy - how do spectators gain entrance to the places where entertainment and distraction take place? A new and unusual view behind the scenes of the "dream factory".