Odyssee-Film

A documentary on the making of Tchao Pantin (1983), featuring interviews with writer-director Claude Berri, novelist Alain Page, stars Richard Anconina, Mahmoud Zemmouri, Agnès Soral, cinematographer Bruno Nuytten and others.

Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today. The film retells Frisch’s story as a witness of the unfolding 20th century, wondering if such “voices” are needed at all, or if we could do without them.

Accidents occur time and again on German highways. The culprits are speeders who do not adapt their driving style or speed to the traffic and harass and endanger other drivers. For months, the two authors Thomas Schadt and Reiner Holzemer observed and interviewed a large number of drivers and accompanied the highway police on their missions.

Photographer and documentary film director Schadt follows in the footsteps of his role model Robert Frank. The important photographer and director traveled through the United States in the mid-1950s and recorded his photographic impressions of this trip in the photo book "The Americans". Schadt visits some of the places where Frank had photographed 30 years earlier, talks to the people living there and interviews Frank himself.

Documentary focusing on the thrash metal band Kreator but also exploring the economic and social situation of Essen at the time.

The documentary film describes a day in the big city of Berlin and is based on Walter Ruttmann's 1927 black-and-white silent film Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt, which also depicts a day in the big city of Berlin with musical accompaniment. As with Ruttmann, Schadt's film is also based on the tension curve of a symphony, although it is much flatter here. The spirit of optimism and hectic pace of the 1920s, which dominate the rhythm of its predecessor, have largely given way to a certain melancholy. The film reinterprets Ruttman's approach and shows the ruptures and wounds that Berlin suffered both socially and in the cityscape as a result of the war and the years that followed.

Documentary that follows seven friends in New York city in their everyday activities.

Four young people searching for their place in life and in society. Over ten years, the director observes how the protagonists, between success and failure, pursue their dreams, how they mature as individuals and gradually become who they are.