german film

Mill Valley 15 – NENA – World Cinema

First Festival Screening – October 16, 2015 @ 8:30 PM at The Rafael Second Festival Screening – October 17, 2015 @ 2:00 PM at The Sequoia Last Festival Screening – October 18, 2015 @ 5:30 PM at The Throckmorton Theatre Nena (rivetingly rendered by luminous Abbey Hoes), is just another introverted, 16-year-old Goethe-quoting, Goth-styled punker […]

TIFF 15 – A HEAVY HEART – World Premiere

First Festival Screening – September 12, 2015 @ 10:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 3:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Also known as Herbert. A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when […]

FMX 2011 – 16th Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Interactive Media

FMX 2011 – 16th Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Interactive Media

from FMX FMX 2011 – Europe’s largest conference devoted to Animation, Effects, Games and Interactive Media celebrates its 16th Conference this year with another fantastic 4-days of networking, presentations, technical demonstrations, conference papers and recurring events. FMX Program Chair, Jean-Michel Blottière comments: “This year we would like to harness the extraordinary creativity from the digital […]

The Lives of Others

by Anthony Lane – This first feature from the young German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck starts in 1984, in East Berlin. A successful playwright (Sebastian Koch) and his girlfriend (Martina Gedeck), hitherto trusted by the state, are placed under Stasi surveillance. Their investigator, a lonely ascetic by the name of Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), is […]