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FLYING CLIPPER, directed by Hermann Leitner and featuring narration from Burl Ives, follows the untold adventures of a Swedish sailing ship and its young crew as they navigate the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1960s. This documentary is a stunning travelogue that takes you to the dreamiest destinations of the old world. Under the stewardship of Captain Skoglund, a group of 20 Merchant Marine cadets venture through historical landmarks, such as Tutankhamen's...
2) Bagdad Cafe
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A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
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For the 1977 intermedia exhibition Tangenten I (Tangents I), Dammbeck and co-organizer, sculptor and painter Frieder Heinze had planned to collaborate on a film that would combine non-camera animation with 35mm footage of a train ride between the two Dresden districts of Radebeul and Pieschen. When Tangents I was banned, Heinze turned to other projects, but Dammbeck continued working on the film by himself. METAMORPHOSES I—the first experimental...
5) Birdstrike
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If an airplane encounters birds, the birds are normally on the losing end. But what if the airplane is smaller than the bird?
6) A6/A9
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Concrete reptiles are chasing you and it's 100 metres until the last exit...
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The distinguished German writer Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside. His publisher, Harcourt Brace, had hired him as a textbook editor for their German-language school book editions, which allowed him to stay in New York and also tend to his own writing. In his spare time he got to know his neighborhood very well, observing the goings on in the streets, cafeterias, and parks. In 1968 German...
8) Re-Animator
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A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
9) Dissonance
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A genius musician lives a lonely life in a surreal, floating world, high above the ground. He plays the piano every day in a gigantic concert hall, but there is nobody to listen. One day his surreal animated world collapses. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
10) Three Peaks
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Fatherhood, suspicion and resentment are a combustible formula in this elegant, unnerving domestic thriller. Aaron (Alexander Fehling) has found the woman of his life in his girlfriend Lea (Bérénice Bejo) but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, while Lea wrestles with...
11) Styx
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ER doctor Rike 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 practically the...
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Lola manages her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to succeed in the business world. She keeps her relationship with her boss Elise a secret, as well as the existence of her older sister Conny, who has a long history of mental illness. But when she receives the news that Conny has attempted suicide, Lola’s secrets begin to unravel into the workplace. As she tries to do what’s best for her sister without jeopardizing all...
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An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by undergoing an intense audio-visual trip. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
14) Zing
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Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people's lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the door bell. It's a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she's the next life on Mr. Grimm's list... **Sitges Film Festival** nominee for Best Animated Short Film.
15) Piglets
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Two guys, a grandmother and two piglets in a surrealistic atmosphere. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Outfest Film Festival.**
18) Stroszek
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Bruno STROSZEK is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In that winter bound, barren prairie,...
19) Däwit
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A wolf child, a cat, an angel. Animated in woodcut style, the film tells the story of Daewit who is rescued from his violent father and grows up far away from his family among wolves. Embarking on a mysterious journey to find his own identity, he encounters great hardship but ultimately finds peace in forgiveness. Nominated for Best Short Film at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
20) Kimono
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Looking for something to eat, a homeless woman sneaks into a man’s apartment. When she is almost caught, she hides in his closet. But instead of leaving the apartment, she gets interested in the man and starts to secretly live there and observe him. What she doesn’t realize, however, is that the man has already noticed her presence. Youth Jury Award winner and Best Short Fiction Film nominee at the **Dresden Film Festival**.
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