Movies: Goethe Institut

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear....

The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews and opinions of producers, actors and directors. A nostalgic look at those movies that are still in the taste of many....

In 1988 Cynthia Beatt and the young Tilda Swinton embarked on a filmic journey along the Berlin Wall into little-known territory. The film CYCLING THE FRAME is now an unusual document. 21 years later, in June 2009, Beatt & Swinton re-traced the ...

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Facilitated by Echo Park Film Center, Hanoi Doclab and the Goethe Institute, The Sound We See: A Hanoi City Symphony invited a group of young Vietnamese filmmakers to explore their city on film, shooting with Super 8 cameras and processing/editing th...

A documentary film, which focuses on the subject of women’s movement in the Philippines. Myth and legend overlap with history and politics as the women’s struggle is laid to bear in the individual stories and achievements of those featured in the fil...

On the 20th anniversary of the opening of crossing points, OVERCOMING tells the inspiring story of Cypriot women, queers, and antimilitarist cismen challenging militarism and gender norms. Through diverse interviews, the film explores how the opening...

Summer 1994, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two civil wars in only three years has torn the city apart and destroyed it. The town is split into a Croatian majority in the west and a Muslim majority locked in the east. An invisible wall divides the t...

With the German Occupation in Greece (1941-1944) as a background, this film tells the love story between my father, an assistant professor at the mysterious German Scientific Institute of Athens - financed by the occupying power, Germany, but in real...

Guided by the Jules Verne novel “Voyage au centre de la Terre”, four friends set out to explore Snaefellsjökul Volcano in Iceland. However, as they journeyed through the country recording sounds, they found themselves having a series of profound and ...

Love, anger, despair. All strong emotions. What happens when your love abandons you all of a sudden? Tina and Roy are a married couple. Tina's life turns upside down when one day, out of the blue, she finds herself having to accept the fact that Roy ...

For Susan explores the idea of dignity. Inspired by the director’s grandmother’s notebooks, it finds pleasure in activities hidden or forgotten....

A girl and a boy of eight and nine years old live in a lost village in the steppes. The school is four kilometers off-road. The boy's daddy dreams of building a snowmobile, and while the girl's mom drives them sometimes on a horse. So they quarrel, a...

The young poet Cristal Rocha, winner of the Slam Brasil 2017 circuit, reflects on what Censorship means for the Brazilian peripheral black population....

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In 1948, the first Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed by the UN. Central point: The president’s widow and head of the commission, Eleanor Roosevelt. By using experimental animation and acting, the film re-enacts the discussions....

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A young woman in New York....

A restless lizard and a man move faster and faster to a punk beat....