Movies

Filmmaker Utz Kastenholz has accompanied Edgar Reitz during the filming of the third part of the legendary family chronicle "Heimat". The fictitious...

Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. She delves into the past and is...

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

In July 1945, US troops are leaving Saxony and Thuringia while the Red Army takes control of the territories. In a small village near Leipzig, the...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

The story of a gold smith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers.

In 1968, the young Edgar Reitz teaches filmmaking at a girls’ school – a ground-breaking educational experiment. Fifty-five years later,...

A short montage about rhythm, movement, and speed.

A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his...

Elizabeth is a young woman who seeks happiness excessively burning out all those around her.

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.

Anna Hepp meets with renowned German director Edgar Reitz in one of Germany’s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. Reitz talks about...

Eleven-year old Jason and his companions, including Hercules and Orpheus, go with the ship "Argo" in the search for the Golden Fleece. With wit and...

Poetic documentary about the vanished culture of the Maya.