Memories of a loved one: The camera explores the dark confines of a flat. Light is still burning in the kitchen; objects are scattered haphazardly on the living room tables. The eyes follow into the labyrinthine self, now turned into space, of a once familiar and now absent person. The narrator’s voice begins by asserting that everything in this place is true. It “shows” the places where the remembered person learned to crochet and where she shelled peas.
Picture postcards, travel brochures and holiday photos are all this merrily caustic collage needs to portray moods and desires between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. In spring 1990, the first Interflug plane carrying GDR citizens touched down on Majorca. About the mediterranean colours of the island, the first-person narrator remarks in the voiceover: “We knew them from the postcards sent by our West German relatives. This was the West, this was West-West.” Ostensibly naïve, her recollections nonetheless develop an ironic undertone. However blue the sea shines in the photos, however loud the castanets play, the travel group with their East German money are never more than onlookers in this half-board paradise. Everything seems like an empty promise: the bursting oranges on the trees, the sumptuous breakfast buffet and the giant hotel pools.
In Dream Machine Ballet, the rhythmic impulses of the soundtrack create moving patterns, shapes and symbols which emerge from the unconscious according to different musical phases.
A great city inhabited by great people is celebrating yet another great year. Cries of joy mix with the distant rumble of fireworks and wailing of police sirens. Someone’s eyes look staringly at the passers-by. Someone’s voice addresses them quietly. But it is not heard. ‘Have you seen this one person?’
At dusk, drag queen Sasha is attacked on her way to work by a burglar and when facing him, she discovers that all the decisions she makes always take her to the limit of life and death.
Duke has always wondered about his purpose in life. Who he was, what he was meant to do. He just found out that he's a father. At the same time, those who created Duke years ago have found him. Now Duke has to deal with fatherhood AND dark magic wielding Nazis.
The story revolves around the life of Raja, a food delivery man who faces various difficulties in life. With his mother paralyzed and suffering from cancer, Raja tried hard to earn a living to support both of them. However, luck is not always in his favor. When the house rent debt was getting tighter, Raja had to mortgage his beloved motorbike for survival. In desperation, Raja is helped by two of his friends, Ali and Bell, who help him buy a used motorcycle. What they don't know is that the used motorcycle holds a big secret. After experiencing a strange incident, the spirit of the original biker appears to give the King supernatural powers. This power not only helps the King protect himself but also gives him the extraordinary ability to fight crime in the community. From a food delivery man who is just making a living, Raja is now a mysterious street hero who fights for justice.
Can school be exciting and even fun? The integrative pre-vocational August Sander school in Berlin-Friedrichshain at least seems the perfect place for this. The noise of the cars of the big city can be heard from the distance, birds are singing on the lush green grounds. Lessons here include horticulture, agriculture and animal care. And when you watch the students weed garden plots and feed rabbits, things look extremely enviable at first glance. But of course, even in this paradisiacal place there are conflicts, annoying teachers and the anxious question: What comes after graduation?
Every day the shoes from the shoe rack have new adventures. Today, the rubber boots Buddel and Torf tell the other shoes about their experience on a rainy day with a huge dark puddle in the playground, and what trick the unicorn rubber boots Chunk and Tuva used to take away their fear of getting thoroughly dirty … Episode three of the popular KiKA series.
There are documentary heroes of such strength and vitality that you fall in love with their charm from the very first moments. As a viewer, you are ready to follow them through fire and water. Naima is exactly such a case – undoubtedly enhanced by the directorial talent and masterful dramatic work of Anna Thommen. Both fire and water will be present.
Pregnancy, birthing and parental care are strongly charged social roles. The partly absurd public discourse about them – reinforced by hyper-positive media images and stereotypes – makes natural concerns feel less and less natural. Evolutionary necessities have been turned into ciphers whose collective emotional over-forming leaves next to no space for personal experience. In this phase of life, self-awareness and external perception often diverge substantially. There is usually little room, neither for fears and doubts nor for any other emotion, outside the generally prescribed bliss. Prenatal stages of development seem pre-defined, standardised, tried and tested. Little can be done “right”, much “wrong”. Every decision for or against a pre-natal optimisation measure counts. Nothing is left to chance.
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