AFIFest: The Universal Theory – Sci-fi Noir
Timm Kröger’s The Universal Theory (Die Theorie von Allem) opens with a brief segment of a 1974 TV...
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AFIFest: The Teachers’ Lounge – World within the world.
When we visit a school in İlker Çatek’s The Teachers’ Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer), we discover a...
A Handful of Water – Finding Sanctuary
“Entropy in on the rise.” Jakob Zapf’s A Handful of Water is a story of sanctuary. Sanctuary is...
Wood and Water – Connecting in an empty world
In Jonas Bak?s Wood and Water, we are plunged into a woman?s solitude and loneliness?even in one...
Slamdance 2022 – More shorts (including some award winners)
Yes, there are more films to cover from Slamdance, especially short films, so let?s catch up on...
Thursday at AFIFest 2020
As AFIFest 2020 Presented by Audi comes to an end, I want to thank the festival for allowing me to...
The Keeper -Finding Forgiveness
Based on a true story, The Keeper, from director Marcus H Rosenm?ller, is the story of a German...
Back to the Fatherland – The Burden of the Past
How can young Israelis decide to move to Germany or Austria, given the historical issues Jews...
The Last Suit – Road Trip to Grace
Watching the film, I constantly wondered why these people would respond to Abraham with kindness when he was always so mean-spirited. But then that is what makes it grace.
Day 5 at NBFF
I began Tuesday by watching Cardinals, a film directed by Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley that was...
Bye Bye Germany – Moving to Life
the opening shot of Bye Bye Germany, we watch a three-legged dog happily trotting through a street that turns out to be in a post-war displaced persons camp in Frankfort. While that dog has next to nothing to do with the plot of this light-hearted (yet not quite comic) tale, it makes for an interesting way to understand the characters we meet.
In the Fade – Justice? Revenge?
Justice. Revenge. Are they the same? Are they even related? In the Fade from Fatih Akin is the story of a search for justice, and what happens when that justice is denied.
Frantz – Is It Ever Right to Lie?
The foundation of the story is the devastation that war brings. Everyone in this story suffers from the war. Anna and Frantz?s parents (and many of the townspeople) grieve the loss of the young men killed in the war.