The devastation of World War One left Germany's budding film industry, like much of Europe, in tatters. But necessity being the mother of invention, German Expressionism was born. Relying heavily on symbolism and shadow rather than elaborate and costly sets, films like 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' are still studied by film students the world over. By the mid-1920s, the industry was getting back on its feet and great directors like Fritz Lang and FW Murnau were making their early masterpieces. However the onset of Nazism and the impending war led many of Germany's artists, including filmmakers, to flee to the U.S. Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Karl Freund and many more all continued their careers in America while the German film industry virtually disappeared. It was not unitl the '60s and '70s that new talents emerged. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Viktor Schlondorff and Wim Wenders revitalised German cinema and today international hits such as 'Run Lola Run' and 'Goodbye Lenin!' assure us it is here to stay. Right: 'Run Lola Run'
German filmmaker Florian Gallenberger makes her feature debut with this epic Indian love story spanning 60 years. In the early 1940s Riva and Masha a... Read more
Crash is a paramedic orphaned at the age of seven after his parents were killed in a car accident; he's a loner with a fear of close relationships bu... Read more
Jan (Daniel Bruhl) and Peter (Stipe Erceg) are young left-wing idealists making their anti-capitalist statement by breaking into rich people's homes a... Read more
Two more films from Wim Wenders' digital cinema project. 'Summer Moon' (AKA 'Juminond') features a young couple who, only though they've just met, wi... Read more
Filmmaker and former professional footballer Sonke Wortmann directs this family sports drama, using the backdrop of the 1954 World Cup game between Ge... Read more
Drawing on the true events of Spring 1943 when hundreds of German women protested the incarceration of their Jewish husbands in the Jewish Welfare Off... Read more
Schultze is a middle-aged accordionist whose lust for life is re-invigorated when he hears a Cajun zydeco riff on the radio. He becomes obsessed with... Read more
Wim Wenders' Radical Digital Cinema project aims to support young filmmakers in exploring new avenues in filmmaking. Volume 1 includes: 'Egoshooter' -... Read more
Germany 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a young East German dissident is arrested during a protest. His pro-Communist mother, up... Read more
Captured while fighting in World War II, German soldier Clemens Forell (Bernhard Bettermann) escapes the hell of his confinement in a Siberian labor c... Read more