Westdeutscher Rundfunk
1) Amour
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Français
Description
"Georges and Anne are a couple of retired music teachers enjoying life in their eighties. However, Anne suddenly has a stroke at breakfast and their lives are never the same. That incident begins Anne's harrowingly steep physical and mental decline as Georges attempts to care for her at home as she wishes"--IMDb.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
April 18th, 1506, saw the beginning of the end for the 1200-year-old St. Peter's Basilica on the Vatican Hill in Rome. On this day, under the supervision of chief architect Donato Bramante, the foundation stone was laid for a new St. Peter's Cathedral.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
After their teenage daughter Sarah confesses to the killing of her best friend Charlie, the recently separated Paul and Christine decide to hide the crime. Their collective guilt forces the family back together, creating a web of lies and deadly intentions with no way out.
4) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret perfromer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that's as richly metaphorical as it...
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Follows Andy Goldsworthy's bohemian free spirit all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his creative process. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multi-colored pools of flowers. Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature - who threatens and often succeeds in destroying his art, sometime before it is even finished.
Publisher
Yes! Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
CD: Keynote address by Jeffrey M. Smith.
DVD: Monsanto Company is the world's leader in agricultural chemicals, seed and genetically modified crops, as well as being one of the most controversial companies in industrial history. This film uses hitherto unpublished documents and testimonies of victims, scientists and politicians to expose Monsanto's lack of care in protecting the environment and the health of those exposed to their products. Shows...
Series
Blue planet volume 2
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This bold cinematic experience takes viewers on a magical adventure across the greatest, yet least known parts of our planet - our oceans. Since Blue Planet aired in 2001, our understanding of life beneath the waves has completely changed. Travelling from the icy polar seas to the vibrant blues of the coral atolls, Blue Planet II shares these astonishing new discoveries. Meet the strange octopuses lurking in the depths of the Antarctic ocean. Watch...
Publisher
distributed by Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Follows Gerhard Richter both in and outside of his studio in the spring and summer of 2009 as he works on a series of large abstract paintings. Provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the very personal, tension-filled process of artistic creation.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After a long journey with new brown bear friend Lea, Lars finds his parents have become ill. While fetching medicine, Lars crosses the snow line for the first time and learns about the forest. When his parents are cured, Lars helps Puffin learn to fly.
Series
Criterion collection volume 598
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The noir-spiked tale of a reluctant action hero, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy substituting simulations for reality.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin 'free of Jews' in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Rafle's gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight, mixing reenactments of their stories with interviews in which they discuss their experiences.
14) STYX
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering. Carrying...
Publisher
Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows the Hans Christian Anderson story about the ugly little duckling that changed into a swan. What most people don't know is the story that happened in between, when a weird looking little duckling named "Ugly" was adopted by a city rat named Ratso. Big laughs along with life's lessons are guaranteed as Ugly struggles to find his place in the world in this animated series."--Container.
17) Personal shopper
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A stirring depiction of grief in the form of a psychological thriller, and a chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way we mourn those we love.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Lorna is a young Albanian women who dreams of opening up a snack bar with her boyfriend. Without the money, she finds herself entwined in a vicious plan devised by mobster Fabio. A false marriage between Lorna and Claudy will allow her to get her Belgian citizenship. She is then expected to marry a Russian Mafioso who is anxious to get his hands on the Belgian identity papers, after Fabio kills Claudy to speed up the second marriage. But can Lorna...
Series
Criterion collection volume 793
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young picture framer thinks that he has terminal disease and is set up to become a hired assassin in West Germany because of the lure of quick money.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Season 3 opens in the fall of 1929 in Berlin, during the tumultuous weeks before Black Friday's stock market crash. Inspector Gereon Rath ... and Charlotte Ritter ... are assigned to investigate the death of an actress, only to realize that the film industry is as rotten as the underworld. In the meantime, the fascist Black Reichswehr are regathering their forces for their next attempt to bring down democracy and provoke more clashes with the Communists."--...