Charles Pathé and Léon Gaumont: The First Giants of Cinema

Film-Salabim

Children are introduced to the magical world of cinema in a cheerful and fantastic way; embedded in a turbulent story, they learn about the film professions. A young author, Alice, has written a story and travels to the

The Soviet Revolution Told Through its Cinema

The two decades following the Russian revolution are marked by a gang of young people who profoundly influenced Russian Cinema. This artistic revolution was led by directors, actors, technicians and poets. They are the c

Zwei Kinogesichter

Klaus and Carla, two young people whose personalities are as different as night and day, are hired for a week-long trial period as salespersons for Telematic International, a computer company. They must conclude ten cont

Deniskin's Stories

Moscow 1950s, June. City residents, having loaded all their scrub from mattresses to pots, into commuter trains, go to dachas and villages. Among them is the family of the boy Denis Korablev. Denis's parents don't really

Friends Forever

The unsuccessful actor and vagabond Johnny Mauser needs a change from all the trouble that he has experienced while living in the city. The perfect place to take a little break seems to be in Mullewapp, a little village

At the Cinema Show

A cinema becomes the site of sexual intrigue when a man looking for romance in the dark follows a woman into the movies and finds himself molesting her husband instead.

Manyunya: Childhood of the Ba. In Cinema

To transform her home village of Berd into a town, Roza and her father resort to a ruse. But this new status brings major changes to the settlement, along with disgruntled residents and a stern leader. When a childhood p

Petr Vail. Movie about me

The tape is dedicated to writer, publicist, long-term employee and editor-in-chief of the Russian service of Radio Liberty Peter Vail. Filming took place in New York, Prague and Venice. The film uses rare archive photo,

Manyunya In Cinema

Armenia, 1979. Mountains, sun, beautiful green meadows and a holiday feeling. After a funny episode at school, the girls Narine and Manyunya become best friends. Very quickly, funny relatives of the main characters appea

100 Years of Polish Cinema

The Polish entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

ФиксиКИНО. Вселенная приключений

Fixies tell where books come from and how headphones help to write a dictation. Riki and Tyra hatch their dreams and have a carnivorous flower at home. Smeshariki will learn the secret of strong friendship and teach Pin

The Cinema on the Road

A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship.

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative ha

Twenty Years of African Cinema

This documentary that recounts 20 years in the history of African cinema through interviews and excerpts from 18 films.

Film for Carlos

Carlos has been just born. He is the sweetest of the babies, but his grandmother is very sorry that he’s was born dark skin. Grandfather Sergey Mikhailovich wants to drink to the health of his grandson and celebrate this

Kinokinokino

What was cinema in the past? What is cinema today? Hamburg filmmaker Dennis Albrecht asked himself these questions as he sifted through material he had been collecting since a project idea in 2008. Since then, he has rep

Krass Klassenfahrt - Der Kinofilm

Croatia is calling! The 12th grade of a Berlin high school is going on a graduation trip. Together with the stressed teacher Mrs. Gruber and the over-committed teacher Georg, the trip doesn't start as planned: In the so-

Germany from Above

This fly-over features Germany filmed from helicopters and small airplanes. Footage was released as a multi-episode tv series over several years and this feature-length movie.

The Return of the Projectionist

There may be a 50-year age difference between Samid and Ayaz, but they share a passion for film. Both are brimming with ideas to revive the cinema in their village in the hills of Azerbaijan. Once the long-awaited Holy G