Movies: Filmtank

  • 2011
    The Singing City

    The Singing City (2011)

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    Portrait about the planning and rehearsal of Richard Wagner's Parsifal directed by Calixto Bieito at the opera house in Stuttgart....

    The Singing City
  • 2023
    Total Trust

    Total Trust (2023)

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    By exploring the relationship between the watched and the watching, our film uncovers the trauma and hope engendered by the Chinese all-surveilling state and lends a voice to those that stand in resilient defiance of such blatant abuse of power....

    Total Trust
  • 2014
    Ice Girls

    Ice Girls (2014)

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    Unfulfilled dreams, expectations and competition in the closely interwoven relationships between a mother and her two daughters. Observations of a fragile triangular relationship in an icy microcosm....

    Ice Girls
  • 2005
    Darkness

    Darkness (2005)

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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline described the period he spent in Sigmaringen in his delirious and infernal novel, Castle to Castle, published in 1957. The last months before the German “moment of truth”, as they’ve never been portrayed before: Documented in d...

    Darkness
  • 2014
    Love & Engineering

    Love & Engineering (2014)

    Love & Engineering

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    Love & Engineering is for everyone who has experienced uncertainty, had a crush on someone or been on a date. The film asks what are our so-called “feelings” and can we can control them or not. Challenges of the dating world are approached throug...

    Love & Engineering
  • 2014
    Aftermath – The second flood

    Aftermath – The second flood (2014)

    Aftermath – The second flood

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    After the destructions that where caused by the tsunami, the insulars of an Indian archipelago are rolled over by another surge of ruination: the flood of international aid organizations, which pluck this premodern civilisation into the 21st century....

    Aftermath – The second flood
  • 2009
    Flys and Angels

    Flys and Angels (2009)

    Flys and Angels

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    Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and Gorbatschow he left the country in the 80s. In his Installations and his numerous paintings Kabakov c...

    Flys and Angels
  • 2010
    Nothing Is Better Than Nothing At All

    Nothing Is Better Than Nothing At All (2010)

    Nothing Is Better Than Nothing At All

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    When Jan Peters' girlfriend accidentally takes his wallet on a trip to foreign climes, she leaves the filmmaker standing in Frankfurt Airport without a penny to his name. The only capital he possesses is a group ticket for the public transport system...

    Nothing Is Better Than Nothing At All
  • 2013
    Cesar's Grill

    Cesar's Grill (2013)

    Cesar's Grill

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    In order to rescue his father's ramshackle grill restaurant, filmmaker and vegetarian Dario Aguirre is traveling back to his homeland Ecuador. What starts out as a strange debate about opening times, chips and Excel spread sheets, develops into a mov...

    Cesar's Grill
  • 2018
    At the Fringes of the World

    At the Fringes of the World (2018)

    At the Fringes of the World

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    They live on the edge of the known world - far from civilization but affected by its consequences nonetheless. The photographer Markus Mauthe visited these last indigenous peoples to capture the inherent beauty of their cultures, before they too fal...

    At the Fringes of the World
  • 2015
    The Dark Gene

    The Dark Gene (2015)

    The Dark Gene

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    The film tells a very personal story from two perspectives: our protagonist is both doctor and patient. As a patient, he has struggled with recurring depression for years, and as a doctor he wants to find out why. The search for the origins of his i...

    The Dark Gene
  • 2010
    The Woman with the 5 Elephants

    The Woman with the 5 Elephants (2010)

    The Woman with the 5 Elephants

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    Documentary about Svetlana Geier, a Ukranian who has translated the great works of Dostoyevsky into German. First her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps, then young Svetlana herself experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she...

    The Woman with the 5 Elephants
  • 2015
    Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge

    Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge (2015)

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    Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge
  • 2004
    Seda: People of the Marsh

    Seda: People of the Marsh (2004)

    Seda: People of the Marsh

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    In Seda, a remote peat miners' town in Latvia, time seems to be frozen in the Soviet era. Built in 1952 and inhabited by a multi-ethnic workforce from different parts of the former USSR, it still preserves intact the inflated style of a Stalinist "sh...

    Seda: People of the Marsh
  • 2018
    Palace for the People

    Palace for the People (2018)

    Palace for the People

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    The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters....

    Palace for the People
  • 2014
    Parrot at the Milk Bar

    Parrot at the Milk Bar (2014)

    Parrot at the Milk Bar

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    A humorous observation in Barcelona’s immigrant neighbourhood El Raval. Four barber shops, four places of remembrance, strange time and space capsules inhabited by people who left their home to find a better one, while the Spaniards are about to leav...

    Parrot at the Milk Bar
  • 2010
    Polen für Anfänger

    Polen für Anfänger (2010)

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    Polen für Anfänger
  • 2019
    Master of Disaster

    Master of Disaster (2019)

    Master of Disaster

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    The sirens blare out; a catastrophe is rehearsed. Hyperreal practice-runs, planning exercises and simulations give rise to the disturbing dystopia of emergency. The film of the hour: thrilling, complex and alarming....

    Master of Disaster