English as it is spoken

Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon

Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.

La sauteuse (de l'ange)

East German Schlager is dead. Long live the East German Schlager!

Siegfried "Siggi" Trzoß, a radio moderator from East Berlin, is working tirelessly leading up to his anniversary and 900th show. The music his heart burns for is East German Schlager, a genre politically ignored at first

Nakasakdal sa Langit

Lolita Rodriguez plays multiple characters in this Sampaguita production.

Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika

Hanum, a reporter from Vienna, who was assigned to create an article entitled "Is the world better without Islam?" To answer this, Hanum had tomeet the victims of the 9/11 tragedy in New York, Azima Hussein.

Life, Lust & Longing

Kristin visits her gynecologist for a check-up. With two failed IVF attempts behind her, she longs for a child more than ever. Life, Lust & Longing tells Kristins story through a series of flashbacks. Starting at the age

OKTAGON 71: Poppeck vs. Langer

Sinopsis Kanang Anak Langkau The Iban Warrior

The film revolves around Kanang, an Iban, an ethnic warrior people who live in the remote interior highlands of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. In accordance with the Iban belief that their children are raised to become

Die Mutigen 56 - Deutschlands längster Streik

Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages? The war has scarred this generation, but now things are supposed to be lo

Roland Barthes, 1915-1980: Le théâtre du langage

Most of the time, Roland Barthes is classified in the category of the 1970s intellectuals, where all his fascinating singularity fades. Our movie holds exactly to the desire of making perceptible his singularity. In this

Does all this make any sense? And if so - why does it take so long?

For a quarter of a century, Frank Castorf has created a microcosm in the Volksbühne that many considered to be an identity-forming fortress and a renegade island in the increasingly chic and monotonous centre of the capi

Another Language

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.

Far from Jordbro

Forty years ago, the first film about the Jordbro families was released. The latest one came out in 2006. When Rainer Hartleb once more trains his camera on the families, the children of the Jordbro children have grown u

Otto Klemperer's Long Journey Through His Times

Relying on a bounty of archival footage and interviews with prominent musicians and intimates, Philo Bregstein's film traces the life and career of the conductor and composer Otto Klemperer, one of the foremost musicians

Common Language

The director, who has always been viewed as the black sheep in her family, sets out to the Belarusian town of Vitebsk to talk with her parents about previous grievances and topics that were considered taboo. The effort t

The Day the Sky Roared

A single Chinese-Indonesian mother have to save her daughter as the anti-Chinese riot rose near their neighborhood.

Ledas längtan : En svanfilm

This is a movie dedicated to our long-necked citizens who mostly live in water. One day Leda gets enough and moves from the countryside to Stockholm.

The long aftermath of a short announcement

A short – apparently innocent – announcement turns the lives of a couple of employees at a wellness centre down. An absurd tragicomedy.

The Angst and the Bliss

One summer’s evening in 1933, the writer Raymond Roussel closes the door of his hotel room in Palermo. He swallows pills, drags the mattress to the centre of the room and lies down on it. The next morning his companion f