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Perfect Days 2023 Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself

Anselm 2023 Anselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artists work and reveals his life path

Beyond the Bolex 2017 When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920s, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day Nearly a century later, Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost ar

Tokyo Ga 1985 Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in the films of Yasujiro Ozu Ozus own Tokyo monogatari 1953 is a helpful but not mandatory pre requisite to seeing Tokyo Ga 1985

Lightning Over Water 1980 Director Nicholas Ray is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett 1982 in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish Rays original intent is to make a fiction film about a dy

Palermo Shooting 2008 Finn Campino is a successful shutterbug who leads a hectic life, gets precious little sleep, and doesnt go anywhere without his trusty headphones One day, when Finns life begins to unravel, he leaves Dusseldorf behind to find peace in Palermo Just as the seeds for a new life ar

High Maintenance 2020 As he approaches 90, Dani Karavan embarks on an emotional, political journey En route, the complex and fascinating character of one of the greatest artists of our time is revealed

Robby Müller: Living the Light (2018) DoP Robby Müller has inspired generations with his ground-breaking camerawork. Director Claire Pijman had access to his personal archive to create an extraordinary film essay that intertwines archival material with excerpts of his oeuvre.

Beyond the Clouds (1995) Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that abs

The dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of director Wim Wenderss favorite blues artists

Lisbon Story (1994) The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent b&w movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend, the sound engineer Phillip Winter, for help. As Winter arrives Lisbon weeks later, Monroe is disappeared but has left the unfinished film. Winter decides to stay, be

The State of Things (1982) On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's Day the World Ended (1955). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Friedrich Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Wings of Desire (1987) Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before humankind. Along with several other angels, they currently wander around West Berlin, generally on their own, observing and preserving life, sometimes trying

Dont Come Knocking (2005) Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howa

Until the End of the World (1991) Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the bank money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law (Hurt), an American who is being chased by the CIA. The charges are fals

Hammett (1982) The novel writer Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco.

The End of Violence (1997) Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At t

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018) Pope Francis travels the world speaking to those in need and delivering a message of hope.

Paris, Texas (1984) A man wanders out of the desert after a four year absence. His brother finds him, and together they return to L.A. to reunite the man with his young son. Soon after, he and the boy set out to locate the mother of the child, who left shortly after the man disappeared.

Faraway, So Close! (1993) A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.

Submergence (2017) In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James Moore, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back t

The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) The Million Dollar Hotel follows the supposed murder of Izzy Goldkiss. FBI Agent Skinner is sent into investigate the crime, and to weed out the killer. When he reaches the 'hotel', he comes across many of the forgotten types of people living in the city. You have Ger

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2012) Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. Stunningly lensed in color an

The American Friend (1977) Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has

In modern dance since the 1970s, few choreographers have had more influence in the medium than the late Pina Bausch. This film explores the life and work of this artist of movement while we see her company perform her most notable creations where basic things like water, dirt and even gravity take o

One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?

For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major ...