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MS and Me (Das Blaue Wunder)
Uschi Bökesch has multiple sclerosis. This autobiographical documentary is her "video book". In spite of serious illness it is possible to carve out a full and creative life. A film about living with MS and disability in Berlin.
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Es geht nicht nur um unsere Haut
Germany, 81 min.
D: Holger Wegemann*NEW*Es geht nicht nur um unsere Haut
This documentary by Holger Wegeman traces the story of the 2006 labor dispute at Bosch Siemens Home Appliances. The staff go on strike to fight against a factory closure in Berlin, Germany.
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Nico - In Memoriam
Rare footage of the legendary Nico of Velvet Underground fame. In 1986 Nico returns to Berlin for one of her last live performances ever. This film also includes vintage clips from the 1960s.
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After Effect
A romantic comedy set in Berlin's arts and advertising milieu. Artist Rena Yazka (Sabine Timoteo) becomes romantically involved with an everyday Berlin slacker type/model (Aljoscha Weskott) during a corporate-funded art project.
ACHTUNG BERLIN 2009
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Ein Leben mit der Duldung
A family which has been living in Berlin for 18 years, still struggles to attain permanent residence and a work permit. The imminent danger of deportation to Angola lies like a dark cloud over their lives.
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Lifetimeshort
Theater director Gesine Danckwart's feature debut is an ironic comedy about Berlin big city girls and how they cope with life and love in a late capitalist urban setting. ACHTUNG BERLIN 2009
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Berlin Beasts
These days, fox and wild boar are no longer rare visitors in the city landscape. Humans and wildlife inhabiting the same space - is this possible? For two years, Schadler Reinhard and Hans-Jürgen Büsch observed a family of wild boar in Berlin.
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Damla =Tropfen | Derya = Ozean
Director Elisabeth Pricken focuses on 17 year old student Damla to find out what life is like for young women and girls of Turkish origin living in Germany.
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Zone
Jakobine Engel's 1983 experimental film of the West Berlin subway system. Berlin was divided and the West's subway cars passed through many East Berlin 'ghost town' subway stations without stopping.
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Guitar Men – The Darkest Secret of Rock'n Roll
Wickedness and Guitars – a true indie thriller
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My Life Part 2
Filmmaker Angelika Levi explores her German Christian-Jewish family heritage through the archives of photographs, audio tapes and films collected by her mother, who, after surviving Nazi Germany, emigrated to Chile in 1947, only to return to Germany ten years later.
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The Eagle Is Gone
Germany, 21 min.
D: Mario Mentrup, Volker SattelThe Eagle Is Gone
February, 2009, a bitter cold night at Berlin's Alexanderplatz. A cinematic melange of poetic agitprop, shades of Expressionism, and inner-city longing and insomnia. Orchestrated with a soundtrack by Tarwater .ACHTUNG BERLIN 2010
