Im streng islamischen Königreich Saudi-Arabien war es Frauen bis 2013 respektive 2018 verboten Fahrrad oder Auto zu fahren. Der Film entstand noch bevor Fahrradfahren für Frauen legalisiert wurde: A...
Im letzten Teil der "Intrigo"-Trilogie trauert eine junge Frau um ihren gerade verstorbenen, deutlich älteren Ehemann und gerät mit dessen erwachsenen Kindern in Streit um das Haus. Bei der Bestattu...
Der junge Wirtschaftsstudent Johan Westlund - genannt JW - liebt den luxuriösen Lifestyle und gibt sich trotz einfacher Herkunft als Diplomatensohn aus, hat jedoch ständig mit Geldproblemen zu kämp...
Das Musikstück "You’ll Never Walk Alone" von Richard Rodgers und Oscar Hammerstein II wurde ursprünglich für das Finale des 1945 uraufgeführten Broadway-Musicals "Carousel" komponiert. Ab 1960 w...
Basierend auf den Kinderbüchern von Isabel Abedi erzählt der Film von der kleinen Lola, einem Mädchen mit einer unbändigen Fantasie. In ihrer Traumwelt hat sie einen Vater aus dem fernen Brasilien...
In der Reihe WAS TUT SICH – IM DEUTSCHEN FILM? präsentiert das Kino des DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Zusammenarbeit mit epd film einmal im Monat ein aktuelles Werk. Am 13. Oktober 2...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
An unidentified news report about various aspects of the First World War. Great emphasis is being placed on the British Army and the recruitment of soldiers.
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...