Heimatfilm
The compilation movie "Heimatfilm“ presents the essence of the German genre of Heimatfilm. Sentimental films set in idealized country surroundings. The scheme of the films is simple: it is a love story that eventually ar
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The compilation movie "Heimatfilm“ presents the essence of the German genre of Heimatfilm. Sentimental films set in idealized country surroundings. The scheme of the films is simple: it is a love story that eventually ar
Roxana is a young Romanian nanny looking after 8-year-old Georges, the son of David and Elizabeth. David's a financier at the European Bank of Strasbourg. Working on a project for a motorway across Romania, David asks Ro
On his travels, Paul, a journeyman from northern Germany, runs into a childhood friend, Lisei, a puppeteer's daughter. They fall in love and get married. Together with Lisei's father, the young couple moves to Paul's hom
A special performance at Heimathafen Neukölln in 2019, German rock band Kadavar joined forces with a group of friends and fellow musicians calling themselves The Cosmic Riders Of The Black Sun, and performed a full set o
Documentary about Transylvanian Saxons.
One usually exchanges goods not people. The "population exchange" between Greece and Turkey 100 years ago affected more than 2 Mill. people. Until today only few know about this time. In the massacres and expulsions lie
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through his innocent implication in a robbery.
After the death of his parents, Beat Matter grows up with the Escher family. Their son Dominik is his best friend. As a young man, Beat enlists for two years of service with the Papal Swiss Guard in Rome. Shortly before
On Christmas Eve in 1818, parish assistant Joseph Mohr is on the road. Despite the freezing cold, he has just blessed a poor farming family and is now on his way back to Oberndorf near Salzburg. Once home, the assistant
Amy is a novelist who returns to her hometown to look after her stubborn grandfather, Tom, and his pumpkin-themed store. While there, she crosses paths with a man from her past.
Uli has been the tenant of the "Glunggen-farm" for two years. His wife Vreneli gave him two children and the couple is happy. But this year, the harvest looks bad and his landlord calls in the rent, as the old man urgent