Berlin, April 1945. Während um ihn herum sein Hirngespinst Großdeutschland in Schutt und Asche liegt, deutsche Truppen quasi nur noch auf dem Papier existieren und die Alliierten die Macht übernehmen, hält Adolf Hitler in seinem Bunker Hof. Spielt sich und seinen Vasallen eine Mär vom unaufhörlichen Triumph der arischen Rasse vor, stachelt seine Untergebenen zu weiteren irrwitzigen Feldzügen an und präsentiert einen galoppierenden Realitätsverlust ungeahnten Ausmaßes. Bis auch im Bunker das große Sterben beginnt.
Stockholm 1975: Elisabeth hat genug von ihrem Mann. Sie packt ihre Koffer, nimmt die Kinder und zieht zu ihrem Bruder Göran. Elisabeth ist eine ganz normale Hausfrau. Göran ist allerdings nicht ganz so durchschnittlich: Er lebt in einer Kommune zusammen mit Langhaarigen, wo man über Politik diskutiert, freien Sex praktiziert, Gemüse anpflanzt und eine Menge Rotwein trinkt. In das Chaos dieses Haushalts begibt sich Elisabeth mit ihren Kindern. Das Aufeinanderprallen der zwei verschiedenen Welten löst eine Ereigniskette aus, die alle verändern wird.
A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.
Die Kriegerin Marisa ist Anfang 20, Neonazi und rast durch ihre Welt wie ein offenes Rasiermesser. Sie ist aggressiv und schlägt zu, wenn ihr jemand dumm kommt. Sie hasst Ausländer, Politiker, den Kapitalismus, die Polizei und alle anderen, denen sie die Schuld daran gibt, dass ihr Freund Sandro im Knast sitzt und dass alles um sie herum den Bach runter geht: Ihr Leben, ihre Stadt, das Land und die ganze Welt. Dieser Sommer hält noch mehr Ärger für Marisa parat: Die bürgerliche Svenja drängt in Marisas Clique und der afghanische Flüchtling, Rasul sucht sich ausgerechnet ihren Badesee zum Schwimmen aus. Als die Welten der Drei aufeinander prallen, setzt sich eine Kette von Ereignissen in Gang, die ihr Leben auf den Kopf stellt.
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko Ćopić and set during World War II, the film tells the story of a Serbian village in the mountains of Bosnia and its villagers who found themselves divided along two opposing ideological lines, represented by the Chetniks and the Partisans. These two opposing sides are personified in the Partisan commander Španac and a former Royal Army officer Radekić. Španac sees Radekić as the cause of villagers' resistance to the new, Communist, ideology and so the main plot axis is the conflict between them. At the 1990 Pula Film Festival, the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović). The film was also shown at the 1991 Moscow International Film Festival, where both Branislav Lečić and Mustafa Nadarević won the Silver St. George Award for their performances.
Als engagierter Mediziner plant Oberarzt Dr. Schmith ein Forschungsprojekt zur Senkung der Frühgeburtensterblichkeit. Seine Idee stößt jedoch an höherer Stelle auf Ablehnung. Um sie dennoch verwirklichen zu können, entscheidet er sich zur Zusammenarbeit mit einer westlichen Forschungsorganisation. Diese soll ihm die Flucht in den Westen ermöglichen und ihm dort zu einer Anstellung als Arzt verhelfen. Er ist nun vertraglich dazu verpflichtet, sein bisheriges Leben in der DDR aufzugeben. Wenig später findet sein Forschungsprojekt doch noch die ursprünglich gewünschte Unterstützung und Schmith steigt in eine Leitungsfunktion auf. Auch sein Privatleben erfährt eine glückliche Wendung, denn er verliebt sich in seine Kollegin Katharina. Beide träumen vom gemeinsamen Glück. Schmiths Fluchtpläne lösen sich über Nacht in Wohlgefallen auf. Den vereinbarten Fluchttermin ignoriert er. Allerdings hat er nicht mit dem skrupellosen Verhalten seiner Fluchthelfer gerechnet.
Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university scholarship, an apartment, and a job as a spokesperson. But her bright political future falters when she befriends a group of liberal journalists who are critical of the government, including blogger Oleg Kashin, who calls Nashi a "group of hooligans," and she's forced to confront the group's dirty – even violent – tactics.
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.
"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a country where the difference between rich and poor could hardly be greater. Namibia does not give that impression of it. If you look at its surface it seems like Africa in its most innocent and civilized form. It is a country that is so inviting to dream by its spectacular landscape, stunning scenery and fascinating wildlife. It has a very strong tourism structure and the government gets a lot of money with its magical attraction. But despite its grandiose splendor it is an endless gray zone as well. It oscillates between tradition and modernity, between the cattle in the country and the slums in the city. It shuttles from colonial times, land property reform to minimum wage for everyone. It fluctuates between socialism and cold calculated market economy.
Two businessmen pose as film-makers in order to get away with the murder of a young girl.
In true 1950's educational film style we watch as high school boy Johnny wrestles with a terrible secret. Johnny is a closeted-heterosexual. What will his dads do when they discover he's only pretending to be like everyone else.
The Masters of Terror details the execution of the September 11th attacks and the ensuing whitewash, the cashless society control-grid, implanted microchips, mind-control, militarization of police, concentration camps, foreign troops massing on US soil, the USA Patriot Act, and Homeland Security taking over the states.
A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobleman becomes involved with her the intrigue begins.
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.
Die eindringliche Doku "Der Ost-Komplex" porträtiert den früheren DDR-Bürger Mario Röllig, der die Willkür des diktatorischen Staates nach seiner missglückten Flucht, am eigenen Leib erfuhr.
INFORMATION VIOLENCE is an ironic show of today's mass media and their dealing with (the power of) information.
Angi Vera, as a promising young woman, gets invited to a Communist training center to undergo the next level of indoctrination into Party life. She begins to realize how people get ahead in the Party: by saying things they don't mean but think are politically correct; by becoming friends with Party dignitaries, even if you don't like them; by being seen as a dedicated worker (as opposed to actually being a dedicated worker).
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, as philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed?