The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountaineer.

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.

A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.

Connue des spectateurs français pour son rôle dans la série policière Commissaire Léa Sommer, la comédienne allemande Hannelore Elsner, décédée en avril 2019 à l’âge de 76 ans, fut une figure incontournable du cinéma d’outre-Rhin, très appréciée du public pour sa chaleur, son humour et sa liberté. Sabine Lidl lui consacre un émouvant portrait, passant en revue un demi-siècle de carrière. Elle convoque les témoignages de celles et ceux qui ont côtoyé la comédienne et travaillé avec elle : l’acteur germano-suisse Mario Adorf (auquel ARTE a également consacré un portrait) et les réalisateurs Doris Dörrie (Cherry Blossoms et merveilleux démons), Edgar Reitz ou encore Oskar Roehler, qui lui offrit en 2000 l’un de ses plus beaux rôles dans L’insaisissable, le bouleversant portrait d’une écrivaine déchue, très remarqué dans les festivals internationaux.

Winner of the Tromadance/Kodak Independent Soul Award, Giuseppe Andrews’ Dribble is a short film set in the director's trailer park.

TV-Dokumentarfilm über die Produktion von Peter Fleischmanns "Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein"

After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.

The documentary tells the life story of the boxer Norbert Grupe, who was known by his fighting name Prince of Homburg.

Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.

A reconstruction, the replica of a complex emotional world made of desire and aggression: a teen film. Florian Pochlatko explores the agonies of adolescence and the rage and frustration caused by being dissatisfied with oneself.

Documentary about Hans Zimmer.

Cannes is the town in France where Bergman meets bikinis, and the art of filmmaking meets the art of the deal. In 1975, a group of expat Kiwis managed to score interviews with some of the festival's emerging talents, indulging their own cinematic dreams in the process. Werner Herzog waxes lyrical on the trials and scars of directing; a boyish Steven Spielberg recalls the challenges of framing shots during Jaws; Martin Scorsese and Dustin Hoffman talk a gallon.

A strongly visual look at the life, work and obsessions od the writer Bruce Chatwin, who died of AIDS in 1989. Chatwin was hailed as the greatest novelist since Hemmingway, and the foremost travel writer of modern times.

A comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece. Starting from the time of Stavrakos in 1950, the documentary reaches up to the present day, exploring this issue through a dialogue between the people who dealt and are dealing. Among them Theodoros Angelopoulos, Pantelis Voulgaris, Dinos Katsouridis, Nikos Koundouros, Manos Zacharias, Werner Herzog, Emir Kustouritsa, Fatih Akin.

Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he wits for a life saving liver transplant.

Two celebrities (Gaspar Noe and Harmony Korine) meet for the first time to spend an evening in each others and the camera’s company.

A history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave vent to a new kind of art. They became active in the underground communist party KPD and showed a heart-felt interest in the colour red, the aesthetics of the revolution. Soon, though, the twins quit their experiments in Germany. They left their husbands and went to Rome, where they met the fabulously wealthy Paul Getty III, and soon things got really out of hand.

Celebrating the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel, Channel4 counts down their list of the fop 50 films to see before you die, as compiled by film critics and personalities.