Short. A bodybuilder is confronted with the deeds of the mythic Heracles.
Short. Never released.
Short. The absurd defense of a fortress against a nonexistent enemy.
Short. The last inhabitant of a lepers’ colony is forcibly returned to civilization. He refuses to speak.
Feature. A German soldier wounded in the Second World War becomes deranged and bombards friend and foe with fireworks.
Short. A pensioner feels compelled to protect racehorses against fanatics.
Documentary. Doctors bring medical assistance to remote places in East Africa.
Feature. A rebellion of little people causes devastation in a penal colony.
Uncategorizable. Poetic requiem for a planet that dissolves into mirages.
Documentary. The dreams of severely handicapped children.
Documentary. The world of the deaf and blind Fini Straubinger, who looks after other deaf and blind people.
Feature. Lope de Aguirre leads a band of Spanish conquistadors who disappear without a trace in the Amazon jungle while looking for the fabled El Dorado. A story of power and madness.
Documentary. The young woodcarver Walter Steiner is such an outstanding ski jumper that he all but flies to his death at the world championships in Planica. A film about ecstasy and death.
Feature. The foundling Kaspar Hauser is put out in Nuremberg. He has no knowledge of the world, language, other human beings. The tragic murder of a unique historical figure.
Feature. The eighteenth-century shepherd Mühlhiasl sees visions of the end of the world. Villagers sleepwalk to their foretold doom. All the characters acted under hypnosis.
Short. A lonely boy and his speaking raven.
Documentary. The world championship of livestock auctioneers in Pennsylvania. On the limits of language, the last poetry of capitalism.
Feature. On his release from prison, Stroszek dreams of a new life in America. He sets off for Wisconsin with the prostitute Eva and an old man. A ballad.
Documentary. The wait for the coming volcanic eruption. Only one poor peasant refuses to be evacuated.
Feature. Count Dracula is on his way to Wismar with ten thousand rats. The love of a woman is enough to destroy him.
Feature. After Büchner’s play. In a fit of madness, the poor maltreated Woyzeck murders his beloved.
Documentary. The TV evangelist Dr. Gene Scott threatens to take his station off the air unless he receives a certain sum of money from his flock in minutes.
Documentary. In front of his congregation, Bishop Huie Rogers preaches and rocks himself into a religious frenzy.
Feature. Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald dreams of grand opera in the jungle. To exploit an otherwise inaccessible rubber-growing area, he has hundreds of Indigenous people haul a large steamship over a mountain.
Feature. Australian Aboriginal peoples try to save the sacred place of the green ants from the bulldozers of a mining company.
Documentary. With child soldiers in the war zone between Honduras and Nicaragua.
Documentary. The mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander scale Gasherbrum I and II, two eight-thousand-meter peaks in the Karakoram Range.
Feature. The Brazilian outlaw Manoel da Silva becomes the viceroy of Dahomey in West Africa. Based on the novel by Bruce Chatwin.
Short. France, as seen by various directors. Part of the series Les Français Vus Par. . . .
Documentary. Tribal meeting of the Wodaabe nomads in the southern Sahara. Women make their choice of the most beautiful young man.
Documentary. General Jean-Bédel Bokassa has himself crowned emperor of the Central African Republic in a ceremony aping Napoleon’s coronation.
Feature. Two mountaineers drive each other to death in a race to climb the most difficult peak in the world, Cerro Torre in Patagonia.
Documentary. The Austrian artist André Heller brings together the best magicians, dancers, and snake charmers of India for one great performance.
Four documentaries. Filmed during the Viennale in Vienna in a variety tent with guests.
Documentary. An apocalyptic vision of our planet after Iraqi forces set fire to all the oil wells of Kuwait.
Documentary. Faith and superstition in Russia. The lost city of Kitezh, where the drowned faithful ring the bells.
Documentary. Filmed behind the scenes at the Wagner festival in Bayreuth.
Documentary. Ahead of his time, Carlo Gesualdo, the Prince of Venosa, composes music four centuries ago that deeply influenced Stravinsky.
Documentary. All Dieter Dengler wants to do is fly, but this lands him in the Vietnam War. He is the only American who successfully escaped Pathet Lao captivity in Laos.
Documentary. Years after Klaus Kinski’s death, the author makes a film about their explosive collaboration over five films.
Documentary. In Guatemala, the Mayas venerate a divinity clad like a wealthy ranchero.
Documentary. Juliane Koepcke is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian jungle, which the author himself avoided only by a series of coincidences.
Documentary. Believers in agony and ecstasy before the Holy Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico.
Feature. A Polish-Jewish blacksmith’s apprentice is celebrated as the strongest man in the world in Berlin variety shows—to the displeasure of the Nazis. His family refuses to listen to his warnings of the impending danger.
Documentary. Within the space of a few minutes, the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau tribe is thrust ten thousand years into the future with their first encounter with civilization.
Documentary. The Dalai Lama calls the Buddhist faithful to a ceremony in India. Half a million pilgrims follow his summons.
Documentary. Following a tragic accident with the maiden flight of his first airship, Graham Dorrington tests out a new prototype over the Guyana jungle.
Documentary. Timothy Treadwell tries to protect Alaska’s bears from poachers. A tragic misunderstanding of savage nature costs him and his girlfriend their lives. Both are killed by grizzlies.
Feature. A stranded extraterrestrial being winds up on Earth as a failure. He pines for his home planet.
Feature. Growing up in postwar Germany, Dieter Dengler experiences a freakish fate as a prisoner of the Pathet Lao. He barely escapes through the jungle alive.
Documentary. Dreamers and scientists meet in the Antarctic. An ode to a continent and its brief inhabitants.
Feature. New Orleans, ravaged by corruption, drugs, and a hurricane, is the ideal setting for a homicide detective. A story on the bliss of evil.
Short. Made in Africa for the opening of the London opera season with La Bohème.
Feature. A gifted young actor goes mad during rehearsals for Orestes. He can no longer distinguish between play and reality, and murders his own mother with a stage prop, a Turkish saber.
Documentary. Filmed in the recently discovered Chauvet Cave. The wall paintings there, made some thirty thousand years ago, are extremely well-preserved and fascinatingly modern.
Documentary. A newly created film from Dmitry Vasyukov’s four-hour epic on fur hunters in the Siberian taiga.
Short. The Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger enters another world as he plays.
Documentary. Michael Perry on death row in Texas a week before his execution. On a crime of stupefying nihilism.
Eight documentaries on human abysses. Filmed in death row prisons in Florida and Texas.
Documentary. Tragedies when drivers text while driving.
Feature. The writer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell is largely responsible for the political shape of the Near East following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Documentary. The internet from its early beginnings to its current excesses.
Feature. A female biologist is kidnapped and left alone in a salt flat with two blind boys.
Documentary. Around the world with the volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer. Spectacular footage of erupting volcanoes and their effect on human civilization.
Documentary. With André Singer. The life and politics of the last Soviet president in conversation with the author.
Feature. In Japanese. An agency actor plays the part of the father to an eleven-year-old girl who has been seeking one.
Documentary. Encounters with the great British writer from the point of view of the author.
Documentary. Around the world with Clive Oppenheimer to see great meteor impacts. Their effect on life and civilization.
Documentary. Scientists work to solve the deepest riddles of the brain, human thought, and illusions.
Resists classification. Requiem for the French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft. Their apocalyptic visions and early deaths while filming a volcanic eruption in Japan.