Film Archive

Letters exchanged between two ill-fated young lovers reveal the ugly face of the ethno-nationalist Hindu regime. In this virtuoso debut feature, the passion for moving images and art goes hand in hand with the fight for political freedom in Narendra Modi’s India.

Summer, sun. Beatrix is looking after a house. The young woman eats, bathes, and lies in the garden, indulging in solitude and everyday idleness. The camera zooms in closer and closer until her lascivious ennui literally becomes tangible. The boundaries between the outside and inside world begin to blur.

A war is never over. From stories told by Dutch UN peacekeepers about the trauma of bloodshed in Korea, Rwanda and the Balkans, from photo albums, letters and musical memories, a haunting manifesto ...

Is it the altitude? After a long journey, the miner Elder arrives in La Paz and develops a strange medical condition. He meets a shaman, encounters a white wolf and the legend of the black panther. Salvation lies hidden in the hypnotic thicket of reality and fiction.

Calorie-counting, doping and a relationship of convenience – for Edina, no sacrifice is too great to win the most prestigious title in bodybuilding. But beneath the shiny, athletic surface of her armored body, a need for tenderness is stirring. Unconventional, naturalistic and powerful.

In the middle of the Atlantic lies a paradise where wild horses gallop over sandy dunes. For over 40 years, Zoe Lucas has lived and worked on Sable Island in complete harmony with nature, interrupted only by the plastic waste that washes ashore. A grainy portrait of a distant place of longing.

Maarten and Vera Klein live in a remote community in Nova Scotia, Canada. The sea is gray, the snow swirls around the house. It has begun. Whole sentences are forgotten, orientation fades. A ...

Young-tae and Jeong-hee are well educated but still can’t find a steady job. When trading stamps and credit cards can no longer bridge the financial abyss and the couple’s integrity erodes, the bone-dry question arises of what comes first: food or morality?

How does a political artist live in an authoritarian regime? Jan Kapr (1914–1988), a highly decorated, progressive composer, was in the good graces of the powerful until his work fell out of favor. Kapr Code orchestrates the turbulent biography of the prominent Czech communist as a cinematic opera.

The father, an artist, shoots a film via the Internet, while the mother, a dancer, teaches via Zoom. Meanwhile, daughter Cleo is determined to fulfill her dream – by selling things online. An ambiguous slapstick comedy about a family coming to terms with the pandemic.

Elena takes the ferry to Kefalonia, just like Antonis. The wintry, yet undiscovered island turns into a landscape of the soul, while the improvised road movie becomes a free journey, as close to life as it is to death. Here, a woman and a man truly meet for the first time.

Peru, early 1990s. Inflation, corruption and the terrorism of the Shining Path are shaking the foundations of the state. Those who can, earn extra money in Lima by offering cab rides in their own ...

“Wanted: men between 16 and 99.” On a pink (casting) couch, Ruth Beckermann (winner of the 2016 Bildrausch Ring of Film Art) confronts men with what is probably the best-known pornographic text of fin-de-siècle Vienna. A sensual contribution to desire in morally charged times.

Rarely has the term Gesamtkunstwerk been more fitting than for this futuristic punk musical from the Burundian mountains, where a hacker collective is up to extremely sensual and highly political mischief – against capitalism with cosmic poetry and a fluorescent lust for life!

Diana El Jeiroudi got her first camera at the age of seven. Since then, she has been constantly filming. In Damascus, she captured how the city of her childhood descended into war; in exile in Berlin, she finds peace. Her perspective is both personal and political – silent, but never mute. Can cinema save lives?

Paris, 1969. Shortly before the end of his European tour, Thelonious Monk appeared on the French television program Jazz Portrait – just him, a grand piano and two cameras. Cut and counter-cut: Using rare original footage, Alain Gomis exposes the mechanisms of the media stereotype factory.

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Nowhere does professional boxer Keiko feel more at ease than in the ring; the sports club is her home. But one day the young, hearing-impaired outsider is pushed close to her limit. A precise and touching character study that is captivating in its emotional warmth, humanity and fighting spirit.

Sixteen-year-old, introvert Masha is about to graduate from high school, but her mind is somewhere else entirely. What’s it like to be in love for the first time? A radical, authentic and sensitive insight into the unsettling feeling of being young, and an homage to Ukrainian youth before the war.

Once again, Andrew drives home through rush-hour traffic. While Melbourne’s suburbs pass by, he talks to his wife on the phone, chats with his passenger, or is lost in thought. We sit in the back seat, taking a break and joining him in his musings.

“A man can love two women, but he can’t have two women,” it says in the film. And, indeed, the amour fou between Laura and the married Jan doesn’t last. But its glow lingers ...

Two friends, a fairly successful Viennese actor and a musician from America, meet again in Vienna after 15 years. From the very first image, Ludwig Wüst touches upon everything that will be ...

Sailor Henrique and his family are separated by the sea but united in thoughts. In a series of magical arrangements that combine documentary and fiction emerges the intimate, intergenerational portrait of a family between now and then. Memory and grief, reality and fantasy. A film composed like a still life.

Soup counter, barracks talks, posing people: Unknown photographs, secretly taken by inmates in concentration camps, reveal dignity in the midst of horror. Christophe Cognets cinematic search for traces manages to achieve the rare balancing act between documentation and meditation, art and analyses.

A woman, a man, a dialogue like a rapid stream of consciousness. Are the 234 islands in the Canadian Hochelaga Archipelaqo a real or an imagined land, a verbal or a political territory? A drawn film poem about Québec’s diversity leads into a political-historical essay of somnambulistic beauty.

Life is a quiet river where old Toichi steers his boat. However, a half-drowned girl throws the very existence of the ferryman off track. Wong Kar-wai’s cinematographer Christopher Doyle captures Joe Odagiris directorial debut in the best Japanese genre tradition and lends a mysterious sense of otherworldliness to the film.

An Austrian road movie – and maybe closest to the photographer Robert Frank in terms of blending landscape and history into one's own biography. "A decluttered story told in equally ...

The images that Bill Morrison gives a second aesthetic life in his works can never be too old. Often, the celluloid strips, which he discovers in the archives with the instinct of an archaeologist, ...

August 1928. Ljowuschka, factory worker, Trotsky-actor and a victim of Stalin’s censorship, is on his way to America. When the refugee meets a modern-thinking young capitalist lady at the dark blue Baltic sea, she soon sucks at his neck. A delightfully mad horror comedy.

Andrej lives in Frankfurt. A phone call brings him back to his childhood home, to the house of his father. Filmed with a hand-held camera in an almost continuous shot, the visit turns into a search ...

Lotfollah loves Sarvar, and always has. Secretly. And with a heavy heart. For Sarvar, who works in a small brick factory where Lotfollah is a supervisor, has to keep her distance. Nonetheless, he ...

«My taste is for blondes, but my experience is against them». Jakob Fabian is the name of the lovestruck city stroller whose perspective Erich Kästner used in 1931 to describe the decline of modern society. Dominik Graf turns the novel into a film that is just as fierce, passionate and unpredictable as the time in which it is set.

Groningen/NL, 2017. Young men get injected with HIV-tainted blood at gay sex parties. Tim Leyendekker deconstructs the sensational attempted murders in seven vignettes. Fictional testimonies and scenes that are played out in seemingly documentary style are deployed to create a provocative effort about truth.

Siegfried A. Fruhauf’s filmic fireworks make use of gleaming mountain panoramas and flickering holiday pictures, oscillating between analogue film grain, sizzling scratches and pure, blazing light. In his personal selection for Basel Fruhauf indulges in abstraction and visual intensity as much as in nature and reduction. Be warned – may lead to hallucinatory side effects!

The volatile story of the thief Ghodrat who, on the run from the police, finds shelter at his heroin-addicted old schoolmate Seyed’s place, is also a story about censorship, revolution and resistance. This classic of Iranian cinema continues to have an effect until today, most recently in Shahram Mokri’s Careless Crime.

Their debuts changed Hollywood forever, and still, the two giants of cinema could not be more different: In November 1970, the European-influenced aesthete Orson Welles meets the hippi-esque cowboy Dennis Hopper. A conversation about film, politics and life; a scintillating portrait of two masters of manipulation.

Hadjithomas and Joreige place their unforgettable story I Want to See in the heart of film art, in this world that on the one hand consists of stars and fictional spectacle, and on the other hand ...

Time is relative in the films of Shahram Mokri. As is linearity. This is good to know before you immerse yourself in Careless Crime, as the Iranian filmmaker here once again proves himself to be a ...

Three women and three men look back at the past and remember the years spent in the Khiam detention and torture centre in southern Lebanon, which was occupied by the Israeli army until the year 2000. ...

For Félix Dufour-Laperrière, short film means different things. First of all, it is an opportunity to work through a single idea, and to discover, evoke and work on its various layers and ...

In 1992, the Cosa Nostra first killed Giovanni Falcone and then Paolo Borsellino. Twenty-five years later, the Italian director Franco Mareso takes the pulse of the nation in his usual ironic and tenderly provocative way. The result is a satire that is as mad as it is artful, including lapsed ideals and persistant illusions.

Japan's Nichibo championship women's volleyball team wrote international sports history the 1960s and is still cult today. But who are the characters behind the superheroines? Julien Faurat combines archive footage, manga comics and interviews in a filmic collage that serves as a thrilling attempt in self-determination.

Everybody knows the overwhelming feeling of falling in love, the happiness of a special encounter or the simple joy of a great idea. Bildrausch's new short film competition invites self-taught ...

Montreal on Christmas Eve, three women in exile. An alleged gift box leads to the discovery of intergenerational truths. Personal letters, Super-8 footage and mobile videos form a portrait of the Lebanese diaspora that is as sensitive as it is fragmented, and the powerful picture of an energetic youth in a state of emergency.

In 1883 Eleanor Marx mourns at the grave of her prominent father and knows that she is taking on a great inheritance. From now on, the female labour leader and feminist fights audaciously in the war against the prevailing class. The biopic of a woman, who could not accept the times she was living in – politically and personally.

Venera wants to be young and free. If she could just live life like her friend Dorina, without a strict father, family closeness and controlled spaces. Gestures and bodies use their own language in this low-keyed, breath-taking debut feature from Kosovo.

When Noah Piugattuk and his tribe are out seal hunting in the artic spring of 1961, they meet a Canadian government representative who wants to get the Inuit settled down. A long palaver with historic consequences takes its course. The intellectual sabotage is perfectly incidental, witty and huge.

After a brief encounter Lisa and Giorgi are literally unrecognisable. This fleet-footed portrait of the Georgian city Kutaissi and its residents relates to a time that knows no hurry. With the help of tender magic, the everyday turns into poetry.

On Sunday, 20 June, the international jury will award the Bildrausch Ring of Film Art of the 10th Bildrausch – Filmfest Basel. The winning feature is screened at 21:30 at ...

On Sunday, 20 June, the international jury will award the Peter Liechti Prize of the 10th Bildrausch – Filmfest Basel. The winning feature is screened at 21:15 in the Stadtkino ...

Billie and Nico manage to just about scrape along in an American small town. Their parents are separated, the father an alcoholic, the mother with no sense of responsibility. All that remains for the siblings is the flight forward: No matter how grey everyday life may be, the fantasy is full of colours!

The space race didn’t spare the Lebanon. A group of researchers and students at the Haigazian university worked frantically on a pan-arabic space-utopia and, in 1963, launched the Cedar IV into orbit. A true sci-fi story.

The world that the Norwegian actress, author and filmmaker Mona Fastvold introduces us to in her second film as a director is not an idyllic one. Through diary entries, we immerse ourselves in the ...

The Kingdom of Lesotho is an enclave within the territory of South Africa: a tiny state, whose most important natural resource is water. One of the country's most important economic resources are ...

Aboard a cargo ship crossing the Atlantic, 3.4281 miles at sea. The gaze rests on the wavy ocean, mesmerised by a black and white, ever-changing surface. In Dufour-Laperrières documentary feature debut sky meets water, reality meets desire and time meets infinity.

Staying together or not? As Joseph and Emma break up, Quebec's independence referendum teeters on the brink. A painted, poetic Raymond Carver adaptation that inextricably links reduced lines with big emotions, deeply expressive spaces and landscapes of memories.

Director Oskar Alegria builds a temporary hermitage on the half-flooded river island of his childhood days. Soon the wooden hut turns into a camera obscura where daydreams and memories are dancing on the wall. A film just like cinema itself.

Accepting adventure, exploring the world and getting a better idea of it: that was the plan with which Jiro Koretzky embarked on a journey around the globe in the 1970s, as a young man aged thirty. ...

A coup d’état is not much use if nobody notices it, which is why an irregular transfer of power is usually announced through the media. The proclamation of a military coup in May 1963 is also ...

“Those who think that these people are living on the margins of society are those who feel responsible for them,” Rosi says in an interview about this portrait of Slab City, a caravan ...

In his debut, Gianfranco Rosi already literally practices the captivating immersion into an environment, inspired by Direct Cinema, which has characterised his work ever since. In Varanasi, a holy ...

The metropolitan girl of today has no easy task; she is expected to be hip and emancipated, cool and well-informed, tough, delicate, have many interests, be present everywhere but not too intrusive ...

In early 2016, Austrian politicians become fearful. They are afraid that the “refugee invasion”, which is on its way via the Balkan route into the European Union, could bury the small ...

Possibly the most enigmatic film by Mertens & Marti, if only because it throws us back on ourselves in a way that drives us crazy. The writer Walter Matthias Diggelmann is given one hour to hold ...

Based on Charles Bowden’s essay “The Sicario”, Rosi ventures into a project that initially seems to carry little cinematic potential. A hotel room on the border between Mexico and ...

What does it actually mean to say that man has subjugated Earth? Nikolaus Geyrhalter, the important Austrian documenter of global phenomena, visits various sites of underground and surface mining in ...

Rosi’s Berlin Film Festival winner dives straight into one of the big topics of our times, and yet seeks out completely different images. Fuocoammare reveals a gaping chasm between two worlds, ...

Mertens & Marti highly condensed, as mentors as well as creators, and thus: as friends of ruthless satire and practitioners of a worldly-wise and concise poetry of sounds, light and colours. In ...

Angela Schanelec’s cinematic opus is defined by unhealed scars. A cinema we are at the mercy of. In I Was at Home, But, which earned the German filmmaker the award for Best Director at the ...

“It’s all about authenticity, about liveliness,” says the young director, who is tasked by the city to direct a patriotic open-air theatre production. And she chooses her topic as ...

The landscape of Mertens & Marti charted through their short films: Jour de pêche could be called an idyll, if only the word didn’t have such a negative connotation today: images of a ...

The work of the Dominican-Mexican directing duo Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas has developed in a rather unpredictable way: from the fleeting, highly neorealistic poetry of Cochochi (2007) ...

Since 1935, inspired by the Catholic writer/lyricist/essayist and victim of World War One, Charles Péguy, students (at first from the Sorbonne) have set off on a pilgrimage towards the cathedral in ...

One of the peculiarities of young Swiss cinema was the interest in critical stocktaking: who are the people living in Switzerland, why are they here, what defines them? Keep this in mind when you see ...

The sun is a dazzling yellow, the sky a crisp blue, and at some point everyone only sees red. Love Me Not is a tragedy of biblical proportions, which doesn’t take place among temples and sacred ...

The three works of this tribute to the Japanese artist and experimental film magician Makino Takashi (born 1978) will be certain to electrify Bildrausch. In his films objects, natural phenomena, ...

Guerrillas, stationed out in the misty nowhere on a Colombian plateau. The eight child soldiers, who go by noms de guerre such as Rambo, Dog and Smurf, are tasked with forming a paramilitary unit in ...

Dead people. Millions and millions of dead people. To be precise: what is left of them, when nature has done its bit, the bodies have become nutrients, dissolved, and are finally allowed to ...

In Sacro GRA, Rosi interacts with people who live by the arterial roads of the Autostrada del Grande Raccordo Anulare motorway. In the process, he meets eccentrics and outsiders, who are fighting to ...

The four latest works of the Bildrausch friends Anya Tsyrlina, Johan Lurf, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Teresa Villaverde seduce us to listen attentively, to look, and to immerse ourselves. ...

“A long time ago, when I was still a teenager, I sneaked into the Oracle of Delphi at night with two friends, to sleep in the open air on the ancient stones. The next morning, my friends found ...

Julie, a film student, comes from a good home and apparently grew up in a protective environment – even punk music is irritatingly innocent when played in her apartment. One day, she meets ...

Basically, They Shall Not Grow Old tells a well-known story: that of the front-line soldier during World War One. Starting with volunteering, via basic training and on to the front, from the first ...

One of the things about miracles is that they are primarily a matter of interpretation. Maybe that is why the title, which the director Syllas Tzoumerkas has chosen for his cleverly nested and ...

The title is like a blow to the head: unworthy life? The title of the breakthrough work by Mertens & Marti refers to a paper published by Karl Binding (a legal scholar) and Alfred Hoche (a ...

The starting point: an artist and an actor confine themselves in a film studio. Their task: they want to explore their actual (above all gender) identity, by confronting the projections and ...

Space, the final frontier. The infinite expanses of outer space have attracted the gaze of the human being since the beginning of time. We have seen the moon as a woman, or as the face of a man. Some ...

Life in the age of the apocalypse: a man embraces his wife tightly as she sleeps, to hear the sound of her heart, while everything around them is falling apart. What remains is their affection for ...

The film starts with the jubilance about the election of the first black president of the United States. But we end with the feeling that what has been achieved is only temporary: at a party in Las ...

Naples breathes a sigh of relief: Don Vincenzo Strozzalone is dead! What nobody knows: the coffin contained a look-alike of the gangster. Nobody? Nobody except Fatima, a nurse who saw the deceased ...

On 22 September 1976, Ferdinand Marcos issued the presidential decree No. 1016, which led to the creation of a paramilitary group named Integrated Civilian Home Defense Forces (CHDF). This terrorist ...

In the mid 1960s life still looked quite bright for Bob Crane: after making a name for himself as a radio DJ and with a few guest appearances on television, he finally managed to make the great ...

Its antlers are stately, its gaze penetrating. There it stands and looks at us, the elk, in the middle of the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, which is its home. It is a world where the ...

Paul Schrader’s directorial debut is a wild affair: in 1970s Detroit the three colleagues Zeke, Jerry and Smokey are only moderately successful as car mechanics. Under the supervision of a ...

15-year-old Cobain does not have an easy life; not just because he has a name that evokes grim associations to drug addiction, depression and suicide, but because his mother, who gave him his name, ...

After 15 years away, Alice returns to the family farm in Yorkshire. Her father has died, and the young woman wants to take over the lease for the land and continue breeding sheep. Her brother Joe, ...

“I am filmated”, says old Herbert Gropper triumphantly in Bukowina, a region belonging to Romania, in a German that betrays its distance to active usage: “This time for immortality. ...

Eleven women are walking along the highway. The pace is fast, and the goal is ambitious: they want to cover 430 kilometres in nine days on their way from Vinhais in northern Portugal to the centrally ...

Writing down to remember. Or to forget? For former military man Toller, the nightly diary entries are a bit of both, but above all a part of his slowly approaching end, which might also be a new ...

Hale County is located in Alabama, in the so-called Black Belt, and thus in the midst of the historic South with all its unfortunate memories. Here, the photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross has ...

Killer of Sheep, one of the most influential and seminal works of the Black Independent Movement, which arose at the UCLA Film School in the 1970s, was filmed in 1977 in black-and-white in the Watts ...

Not every mother is equally happy to see her daughter again. Anabel, in any case, only slowly gets used to the idea – after all, she had consciously banished Chiara from her life over 30 years ...

John LeTour is 40 and stuck: even though he freed himself from addiction a few years ago, he still makes his way through night-time Manhattan as a dealer for the rich on behalf of the enigmatic ...

The programme gives us an insight into the work of the artist and perceptual researcher Johann Lurf. 12 Explosionen (2008) leads us into the night: into a deserted, urban scenery, dimly lit by street ...

After the famous Japanese author Yukio Mishima completed his last book, he occupied the army headquarters in Tokyo with four cadets of his self-proclaimed private army on 25 November 1970, to ...

The Portuguese screenwriter, director and producer Teresa Villaverde visits the Italian avant-garde auteur filmmaker Tonino De Bernardi and his wife Mariella Navale in their house in the countryside, ...

“You don’t kill a million people for no reason”, a Polish official tells the ornithologist Anna. The scientist loses her temper. She screams at the man from the immigration office: ...

Anyone who has met Travis Bickle will never forget the encounter. And Travis himself cannot forget. Driven by the demons of loneliness, the young sleep-deprived Vietnam veteran makes his living in ...

Barnard’s debut, an experimental docu-fiction, is dedicated to the legacy of the alcoholic British playwright Andrea Dunbar, who died at the age of 29 on 20 December 1990. Dunbar left behind ...

They are best friends and suit each other well: the lanky Arbor – on the go, short-tempered, cheeky – and the more docile Swifty, a gentle boy who knows how to handle horses. Arbor, on ...

A man shaves, and waits. Walks around, and waits. Smokes, and waits. The airport he’s in is deserted, even neglected, and yet he seems to be waiting for his departure – patiently, in ...

In 1986, Kurt Waldheim was elected President of Austria. But during his candidacy, a historical-political debate flared up due to his past as a Nazi, which is retraced in The Waldheim Waltz. The ...

The end of the 18th century, Asunción in Paraguay, an outpost of civilisation in the midst of wilderness: Don Diego de Zama, a lowly official in the Spanish colonial administration, wants to get ...

Alex is more keen to be alive than others his age. The reasons for this are to be found in his childhood in Portugal in the early 70s, whose shadows he long found hard to escape from. At the age of ...

Only seven of her almost 1800 poems were published in her lifetime; she avoided most company, lived in a house with her family in Amherst, Massachussets, withdrawn to a room, on her own. Meanwhile, ...

The Woman Who Left is loosely based on a short story by Tolstoy: God Sees the Truth, But Waits (1872). Lav Diaz's parable of mercy and forgiveness takes off where Tolstoy ends, with the release ...

Bill Viola's ambition to translate dreams, experiences and the subconscious into pictorial and aural universes forms the backbone of his work. His associative narratives, which have their ...

For 12 years, Gerald Fox accompanied the American video artist Bill Viola and his wife and artistic accomplice Kira Perron with his 16mm camera; 12 years, during which the couple struggled to ...

Casting is an improvised television film, about the casting process for a television film remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's famous love melodrama The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. The ...

Teresa Villaverde's clearly structured film Colo tells of the deep exhaustion that comes from impoverishment and the loss of perspectives, as well as from life in a (Southern) Europe marked by ...

Two lives in limbo. While everyone around her is venturing into adulthood, Casey is worried about her former drug addict mother and does not dare make any plans for her own future. Jin, on the other ...

... I am jolted from my sleep," as Heinrich Heine wrote in a poem in 1843. Heine was tormented by nostalgia and worries, while Romuald Karmakar, whose latest film bears the title of Heine's poem, ...

It is said that evil people have no songs. This is a statement one might start questioning when faced with the kind of people who incessantly break into song in this film. That is, when they are not ...

During Pinochet's military dictatorship, Adriana Rivas, the Australia-based favourite aunt of the young filmmaker, was said to have worked for the infamous secret police DINA. In 2007, while ...

When Nam Chul-woo leaves the house early one morning, he does not yet know that by the evening things will not be the way they once were. The North Korean fisherman has been casting his net into the ...

A middle-class apartment in Damascus. A day like any other. Outside, war is raging. Inside, the mood is dominated by fear. While her father-in-law gradually loses hope and his will to live, Oum Yazan ...

Ali was recently released from an orphanage and is now looking for the girl whom he believes to be his sister: Zuhal. She, on the other hand, is held prisoner by her foster father, who soon wants to ...

Sometimes you have no choice - both in life and in the cinema. You see and hear what is happening on the screen, you are moved and horrified at the same time, but you still can't escape the ...

How do you best describe a film, where the less you know about it, the better? La región salvaje is such a wonderful example, where any attempt to reproduce it accurately in words must inevitably ...

An image burns itself into the memory: It is the picture of a naked boy, kissing the boots of a soldier, who had beaten him to the ground just moments before. There is no doubt that only the ...

Mr. Long is a master of knife art – and not just in the traditional sense. His special talent has earned the secretive Taiwanese veteran a reputation as a ruthless assassin in the seedy ...

Liverpool makes most people think of the Beatles. A few might also remember that Liverpool used to be one of the global capitals of shipbuilding, a prosperous harbour, even a significant and ...

They only want one thing: to get out! Andreia to find the father of her unborn child, Pedro and Ricardo to have a breath of fresh air and earn a bit of money in the process. The three belong to the ...

Julian Radlmaier's visit to Bildrausch 2014 and his encounter here with the Proust of modern cinema, Nils Malmros, has obviously left a mark: with Self-criticism of a Bourgeois Dog he has turned ...

She really wanted to become a teacher, but life had other plans for her. In fact, it just happens that Chris Guthrie – whose coming-of-age story of becoming a responsible young woman is told in ...

A psychedelic trip for night owls: in the 1960s, Tony Conrad made an important contribution to the American avant-garde with The Flicker (1965). Conrad was drawn into filmmaking by Jack Smith, after ...

Playing cards becomes her downfall. Together with her naivety. And her penchant for all things romantic. And, of course, her pride. Basically, Lily Bart is neither emotionally nor intellectually ...

The aim is to celebrate. The bubbles are ready, and the guests – a small group of close friends – get together: three cheers to Janet, who has been appointed Minister of Health of the ...

A triptych that consists of three medium-length early works in black and white: Children (1976), Madonna and Child (1980) and Death and Transfiguration (1983) provide an insight into the life of a ...

Tony Conrad was a giant, both in the literal and figurative sense. This already becomes evident after taking a brief glance at the outstanding artistic opus of the American avant-garde filmmaker, who ...

The big bang of Minimal Music occurred shortly after the young Harvard mathematician Tony Conrad (1940-2016) moved to New York. Working was not his goal at the time. He would much prefer to spend the ...

Stations of a journey: Russia, Germany, Italy. The places that Sonia travels to in search for a better life can't be identified more accurately than this. And in the end, she might as well be ...

Maria is doing everything to move on in life. She spends her daytime working at a hardware store and her evenings going to school – and yet she strangely just seems to be treading water. As the ...

His 54th 54-year-old Michael Glawogger wanted to venture around the world, and create a work in the process, where he did not know what the result would look like. Unlike his previous ...

In the beginning, we prowl through a cyber-cemetery. A mass of disconnected images from the internet, from cell phones or from a video surveillance system. At the end, we are faced with a mosaic ...

Frank Murnau wants a new life, and he wants it quickly. Part of this new life are great women, a lot of money and a few tough opponents. He can have it all. To get the dough – the basis of ...

France in the winter of 1919, after the Armistice of Compiège but before the Treaty of Versailles. Prescott’s father is part of Woodrow Wilson’s US delegation, which together with their ...

A story about men whose names start with the letter A and who set out on a journey, but who do not necessarily return from it. Old Amir sets out to see his friend and to present something to him ...

Even though she is in her mid-twenties now, it cannot be claimed that Ana has her life under control. After another glorious screw-up on a job as a set driver, she goes to see her grandmother in ...

Mina wants to divorce her husband Morteza – apparently, ten years are enough. The two of them travel to the Caspian Sea to spend a weekend together there, which is apparently necessary in such ...

In order to be able to afford the upcoming weddings, Rouhi works as a cleaning maid for a well-off family of the Iranian bourgeoisie. One day when she reaches their apartment, its inhabitants are ...

Wolf-Eckhart Bühler writes about Thome’s Munich films in 1971: «Might be that one has to be a certain age, live in Munich, enjoy cinema, have a desire to make films, like pretty girls ...

Not with you, but neither without you. They could have been a perfect couple, these two sensitive and important lyricists of the post-war era: Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan. But in spite of their ...

1965: A man with an inscrutable gaze. A heavy, orange-colored and quite obviously American car. The desert around them. In the middle of the desert is a gigantic shipwreck. The man is an Iranian ...

1519: Three conquistadores set off to ascend Popocatepetl by order of Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizzaro. They have to explore the territory. The conquest of Tenochtitlan – and thus the ...

It would be an obvious question to ask in which locations Nikolaus Geyrhalter has taken the pictures for his post-apocalyptic study «Homo sapiens», a series of images he has shot over the ...

Back then, the film poster read: «How girls love men these days». You have to imagine this: «An airplane lands in Munich-Riem and a girl – blond, pale and very stylish – ...

Townspeople in the mountains: Four men return home from a ski trip. In the middle of this inhospitable area they perceive a massive stone. A huge boulder, which should nonetheless be controllable by ...

Vincent finally wants to know! For 15 years he has tormented his single mother Marie with the same question: Who is his father? But as his father suddenly stands before him, the result is far from ...

More by coincidence than by intention, Angela returns to the mansion from which she was taken and brought to an approved school years ago. This happened because she – a minor – had an ...

It is rare enough that one has the chance to say the following sentence: «A film such as this one has never been made before in the history of cinema». You can, and you must, finally say ...

Barra de Tijuca is a district situated in the west of Rio de Janeiro. It is an accumulation of high-rise buildings in the midst of a wasteland that at night becomes dangerous territory. The ...

In the beginning of the 1960s, Tzetan Marrangosoff – an offspring of the Nomenklatura movement – left his Bulgarian homeland in order to do something else. And this something was: cinema. ...

The cinema as a place to search for knowledge, driven by astonishment, and a place of sudden awareness, collective ecstasy and the joys of solitude. A place like a playground, an Agora and a church ...

The old man dances along a magnificent corridor of the St. Petersburg Hermitage. The camera moves closer and becomes the witness of his worship of Catherine the Great, who once founded the building ...

Once again there are townspeople in the mountains: Leyla and Kaveh drive through a mountain landscape with their pretentious SUV. One does not clearly know what their relationship is. As the film ...

The soldiers in a hospital are in deep sleep. The kings of yore are in need of them. The nurse learns this from the two goddesses at the shrine in the park during lunch. She is surprised and ...

A house by a lake in the woods. No electricity, no running water, but instead there are healthy vegetables from the garden. Elena from Rumania, who starts working as a domestic help in the home of ...

On the morning of New Year’s Day. Lenka sets out to avenue Torforezov, the boulevard of peat cutters, where a new job at a kiosk is waiting for her. The man whose shift is getting longer and ...

Kostis – single, about forty years old and a little bit corpulent – starts a new job as a doctor on Antiparos, a Greek island with a social life that is pretty manageable in winter and ...

Christian returns to the place where he grew up when his estranged father marries the long-term housekeeper. He reestablishes contact with his former schoolmate and his family. Soon, old conflicts ...

Four Tamil migrant workers get arrested by the police in the neighboring state of Āndhra Pradēś. They are accused of a crime they have not committed. As they can hardly speak Telugu, the ...

Manoel de Oliveira (1908–2015), titan of world cinema and axiom of a conservatively free-spirited modernity, did quite obviously not expect to live for more than one hundred years. This is why he ...

They called themselves Grazhdanskaya Oborona, or Civil Defense in English, or GrOb in the abbreviated version. They came from Omsk in Siberia. A garage punk band, at home in the underground, ...

One can also start a career the following way: «We shot on leftover material of big film productions and at night went to the film laboratory with a bottle of liquor. The guy in charge, who was ...

Sibirien, in den frühen 1930ern: Polina wird zum Vorposten Kasym gesandt, um den Waldnenzen und Chanten die Vorzüge der kommunistischen Kultur näherzubringen. Mit Polina zieht eine Künstlertruppe ...

Vor einigen Jahren begann 80er-Jahre-TV-Kultautor Franco Maresco mit den Dreharbeiten zu einem Film über die sizilianische Basis des Berlusconi-Imperiums und dessen Verankerung im dortigen ...

Gilderoy ist ein Genie des Filmtons, ein Sensibler, wenns um Geräusche, deren Besonderheiten, Charakteristika geht. Ein Brite obendrein, den es nach Italien verschlagen hat. Gerufen ward er von ...

Björk: Biophilia Live (2014) wirkt auf den ersten Blick wie ein Fremdkörper im Schaffen Stricklands, und das nicht nur, weil er hier mit Nick Fenton einen Koregisseur hat und in Björk eine ...

Das Programm hebt an mit einem Avantgarde-Spektakel: The Zone of Total Eclipse (2006) ist eine 16mm-Doppelprojektion, basierend auf den Materialien eines misslungenen Versuchs, die exakte Distanz ...

Am Strand von Amami-Oshima, einer subtropischen Insel zwischen Kyushu und Okinawa, wird die Leiche eines Mannes angespült. Der 16-jährige Kaito vermeint in dem Toten einen Liebhaber seiner Mutter ...

Rakhshan Banietemad, eine der grössten lebenden Filmschaffenden des Irans, verbrachte die letzten Dekaden in einer Art inneren Exils: Da sie sich mit der herrschenden Regierung nicht gemein machen ...

Als die Mama endlich wieder nach Hause kommt, ist ihr Gesicht mit Bandagen bedeckt – aber warum? Die zehnjährigen Zwillinge zweifeln an der Identität dieser Frau: Das ist nicht ihre Mama; ...

Gunnar Dinesen ist ein dänischer Ingenieur in Diensten der Armee, die Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts an der Küste Patagoniens Krieg gegen die indigene Bevölkerung führt. Dinesen will die äusseren ...

Als Katalins Gatte erfährt, dass Orbán nicht sein leiblicher Sohn ist, schmeisst er die Gattin und ihren Bub aus dem Haus. Auf sich gestellt, macht sie sich mit ihrem Sohn auf in ihren Heimatort ...

Anton Nikkilä war gleich Taanila Mitglied der legendären Helsinkier Low-Fi-Noise-Formation «Swissair». Sein Vater Reijo, einer der berühmtesten Fernsehjournalisten Finnlands, ...

Juhans Mittelstandsexistenz wird durch ein beständiges Hin und Her zwischen drei Frauen bestimmt: Die eine ist seine Gattin, bei ihm daheim und doch von allen die Fernste; die zweite seine ebenfalls ...

Port-au-Prince, dieser Tage: Der Herr und die Dame des Hauses leben nun im Gesindebau – ihre zweistöckige Stadtresidenz, ein Schmuckstück der Moderne, wurde beim Erdbeben 2010 so stark ...

Seit mehr als einer Dekade beschäftigt sich Mika Taanila mit dem Werk von Erkki Kurenniemi: einem Universalgenie, wie es nur die 60er-Jahre hervorbringen konnten. Kurenniemi ist Atomphysiker, ...

Das Sampeln, Sammeln und Appropriieren von Bildern ist die Basis für das Werk des britischen Künstlers Mark Leckey (*1964), der im Jahr 2008 mit dem begehrten Turner Prize ausgezeichnet wurde und ...

Um den Vorfahren keine Schande zu machen, will der Vater, der seinen Tod kommen spürt, die Dinge geordnet hinterlassen. Also muss der Sohn sich eine Frau suchen und einen Erben zeugen, dann erst ...

Als Ōoka Shōhei 1951 seinen gleichnamigen Roman über die Gräueltaten der kaiserlich-japanischen Streitkräfte auf den Philippinen veröffentlichte, thematisierte man in der Öffentlichkeit ...

Den letzten Tag seines irdischen Lebens verbrachte Pier Paolo Pasolini auf eigentlich sehr angenehme Weise: Er arbeitete an der Fertigstellung seines neuen Films, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom ...

Eine Parforce-Tour durch die Wunderwelt des Kinos von Peter Strickland. Zu sehen ist u.a.: Rising Within the Realms of Sleep (1992), Stricklands erster, von der somnambulen Poesie Jean Cocteaus ...

Zu seinem 12. Geburtstag schenkten seine Eltern ihm eine Filmkamera, und Sam Klemke begann sein Leben filmisch zu begleiten. Immer in der Hoffnung, die Zukunft hielte Grosses für ihn bereit und ...

Über ein Jahr begleiteten Saeed Taji Farouky und Michael McEvoy – Dokumentarfilmer, Fotograf und Autor der eine, Verbindungsoffizier und Dolmetscher der britischen Armee der andere – ...

Cynthia ist die Herrin des Hauses, Evelyn ihre Zofe. Wie das beim Personal so üblich ist: Immer macht sie etwas falsch. Dafür muss Evelyn von Cynthia gezüchtigt werden, zum Beispiel mit einer gut ...

Guy Maddin hat wieder zugeschlagen! Im aktuellen, in Kollaboration mit Evan Johnson entstandenen Werk des 1956 im kanadischen Winnipeg geborenen Installationskünstlers und Filmavantgardisten heisst ...

«Mika Taanila hochverdichtet» fasst das Programm vielleicht am besten, decken die hier zu sehenden Werke doch das gesamte Spektrum seines Schaffens ab: Kanerva (1995), Kyberia (1994) und ...

The Thoughts That Once We Had entstand aus Thom Andersen Lehrtätigkeit: einem Kurs, in dem er seinen Studenten die Kinokernwerke Gilles Deleuzes näher brachte. Aber diese Beschreibung weckt völlig ...

Eines Abends im Jahre 1917, auf dem Altopiano, an der Nordostfront, deren italienische Seite. In einem verschneiten Gefechtsstand harrt eine Truppe Soldaten aus. Einer von ihnen singt so schön und ...

Ein Mädchen treibt in einem Nachen einen Strom hinab. Dabei beobachtet das Kind, was sich bald auf der Wasseroberfläche, bald am Ufer abspielt: nicht weniger als das ganze Leben eines prächtigen ...

Deutschland in den 1930ern: Zwei Männer und eine Frau wandern durch den ewigen Wald, hin zu einer Hütte, um einen Freund zu besuchen. Der Komponist Otto Schiffmann hat sich in die Einsamkeit ...

Eine Erforschung der Möglichkeiten des plastischen Films in sechs kurzen Werken.   1. Mīler Deutschland 2006. 17 Min. Farbe. HD Stereo 3D. Ohne Dialog. Regie: Björn ...

Was fällt Vertretern des Arthouse-Kinos zu einem technischen Mittel ein, das primär vom Kommerzkino genutzt wird? Was fangen Filmemacher wie Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway und Edgar Pêra mit dem ...

Arhus by Night ist so etwas wie ein Wendepunkt in Malmros’ Filmografie: Es ist sein erstes Werk, das nicht nur durch seine eigenen Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen inspiriert, sondern tatsächlich ...

Frederick Wiseman, der John Ford des modernen Kinos, arbeitet primär an einem Grossthema: der US-Gesellschaft, deren Entwicklung, wie sich diese in den unterschiedlichsten Formen und Strukturen des ...

Malmros’ Vater Richard war ein weltberühmter Neurochirurg (u.a. erfand er eine Methode, mit der sich Gehirn-Aneurysmen entfernen lassen). Als bekannt wurde, dass er während der deutschen ...

Die 1994 in Südfrankreich entdeckte Chauvet-Höhle enthält über 400 Wandbilder, von denen einige auf ein Alter von bis zu 32 000 Jahren geschätzt werden. Damit zählen die Malereien, die zu den ...

Ein Ventilator surrt, Vögel zwitschern in den vom Wind bewegten Palmen, Wasser schwappt über den Rand des kleinen Hotelpools. Nebensaison: Paloma (35) und ihr fünfzehnjähriger Sohn Hector ...

Das Kunsthistorische Museum Wien nennt nicht nur eine Schatzkammer sein eigen, sondern ist eine. Bedeutende Zeugnisse künstlerischen Schaffens werden in dem imposanten Bau gegenüber der Hofburg ...

Seit über 30 Jahren hat Edgar Reitz keine Kinospielfilme mehr gemacht – seine fiktionalen Werke der letzten Dekaden, welche alle um die Bewohner des Hunsrückdorfes Schabbach kreisen, ...

«Zynisch und gewaltverherrlichend», lautet der wohlfeile Vorwurf, dem sich bereits die Comicvorlage ausgesetzt sah. Kein Wunder, vereint die von Dirty Harry inspirierte Figur des Judge ...

Drei Georgier auf Arbeitssuche werden in einem preussisch protzenden Stadtschlösschen fündig: Sie sollen es herrichten für eine dieser Berliner Republiks-Abendveranstaltungen, bei denen Menschen ...

D. und H. sind Künstler, seit nunmehr rund zwei Dekaden miteinander verheiratet, mittlerweile einander sorgsam entfremdet. Sie leben in einem gläsernen Schmuckstück moderner Architektur, bei dem ...

Schwerelos schwebend im All – Freiheitsvorstellung oder Horrorszenario? Romantisch verklärte Sorglosigkeit oder bodenlos gähnender Abgrund? Als sie während einer Reparatur an einem ...

Hugo beruht auf Brian Selznicks 2007 erschienenem «The Invention of Hugo Cabret», einer «Mischung aus Roman, Bilderbuch, Graphic Novel, Daumenkino und Film». Angesiedelt in ...

Asta lebt in einer Berliner Republik, wo alle irgendwie Kuratoren sind – zumindest hat man den Eindruck, dass die Leute mit dem öffentlichen Raum, den Anforderungen der pólis umgehen, als ...

Kurz nach ihrer ersten Begegnung bei einer Fete sitzen Jonas und Agnete allein in einem Zimmer und kommen einander körperlich näher – bis ein Getöse die intime Stimmung zerstört: Toke hat ...

Szenen aus dem Leben von Kirsten, von ihrer Kindheit über die Jugend bis ins frühe Erwachsenenalter: Wie sie die Männer entdeckt, einer nach dem anderen sich als Enttäuschung entpuppt, ihr Leben ...

Århus in den späten 50er-Jahren: Elin ist ihren Mitschülern ein Rätsel. Als sie Helge eines Abends handfest abkanzelt, startet er eine Kampagne gegen sie ... Tree of Knowledge (Kundskabens Træ) ...

Über zwei Jahrzehnte währte die Leinwandabstinenz. Nun legt Alejandro Jodorowsky – Filmemacher, Theaterregisseur, Schauspieler, Schriftsteller, Musiker, Comicbuchautor, Psychomagier, Tarologe ...

Sebastian verliebt sich in Andreas; der erwidert die Zuneigung. Das wäre an sich nicht ungewöhnlich, wäre Sebastian nicht transgender. Denn schon geht es los mit den Schwierigkeiten, jenen der ...

Verliert die Kunst vor Entsetzen ihre Sprache angesichts des Schreckens, den sie erblickt? Wie eine Symphonie aus Grautönen, spektakulär, so seien die Leichenberge anzusehen gewesen. Das sagt einer ...

Mette ist 16, ihr Vater geht langsam auf die 40 zu. Sie verwirrt ihn mit ihrer verspielt-neckischen, unbewusst – weil ihn wohl überhaupt nicht als Mann wahrnehmenden – (auf-)reizenden ...

Als der Filmemacher Johannes am Abend nach einer Vortragsreise zurück nach Hause kommt, ist aus seinem Heim ein Tatort, seiner Verwandtschaft eine schreckstarre Trauergemeinde geworden: Am ...

Kurz und glücklos war die Regierung des Amadeus Ferdinand Maria von Savoyen, Herzog von Aosta, der als König Amadeo I. von 1870 bis 1873 Ordnung in die chaotischen Zustände in Spanien bringen ...

Als Haushälterin Nadja (unversicherte Gastarbeiterin aus Georgien) krank wird, wird die Beziehung zu ihren Arbeitgebern (Angehörigen der griechischen Oberschicht) auf den Prüfstand gestellt. ...

Stratos ist zwar ein Auftragsmörder, letztlich aber der einzige Erwachsene hier, von dem man behaupten kann, dass er so etwas wie ein gutes Herz hat. Stratos ist effizient in der Ausübung seines ...

Seit den späten 1990ern hörte man schon von Lenfilm-Titan Aleksej Jurevič Germans Plan, Arkadiy & Boris Strugackiys 1964 veröffentlichten Roman «Trudno byt’ bogom» fürs ...

The OpenEndedGroup – Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar und Paul Kaiser – versteht sich als Digital-Kunst-Kollektiv, das die bestimmende Technologie der Gegenwart für die Kunstproduktion nutzt. ...

Am Anfang stehen die Bilder von Überwachungs­kameras, die beiläufig einen Mord in einer Shopping Mall aufzeichnen, eine Gewalttat, die eben einfach so passiert: Ein Jugend­licher ersticht ...

Wanda ist der einzige Film der Schauspielerin, Drehbuchautorin und Regisseurin Barbara Loden (1932–1980), eines der bedeutendsten Werke des New Hollywood Cinema und lange Jahre fast vergessen: ...