Original title: Geliebtes Leben
AKA: –
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
Country: South Africa | Germany
Language: Sotho (Sepedi) | Sotho
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Oliver Schmitz

Cast:

Khomotso Manyaka … Chanda
Keaobaka Makanyane … Esther
Lerato Mvelase … Lillian
Harriet Lenabe … Mrs. Tafa (as Harriet Manamela)
Aubrey Poolo … Jonah

Plot/Synopsis:

A child tries to hold her family together against prejudice, disease, and ignorance in this drama from South Africa. Chanda is only 12 years old, but she’s already been forced to take on many of the responsibilities of an adult in her household. Chanda’s father is gone, her stepfather, Jonah, is an irresponsible alcoholic, and her mother, Lillian, has been physically and emotionally devastated by AIDS and the death of her youngest child. Despite Chanda’s dire circumstances, most of her neighbors offer little sympathy, believing her mother’s illness is the result of divine judgment against her, and her reputation isn’t helped by the fact that one of her few loyal friends is Esther, a sharp-tongued prostitute. Mrs. Tafa, an elderly member of the village, believes she can help Chandra by moving her mother out of the community, but the girl knows she needs her mother no matter how ill she may be, and sets out to find her and bring her back home. Adapted from a novel by Allan Stratton, Life, Above All was an official selection at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Allrovi

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Life, Above All (2010) Geliebtes Leben
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Original title: Die Reise nach Kafiristan
AKA: –
Year: 2001
Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Country: Germany | Switzerland | Netherlands
Language: German
Subtitles: English (hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama

Director: Donatello Dubini | Fosco Dubini

Cast:

Jeanette Hain … Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Nina Petri … Ella Maillart
Monika Arnó … Dame auf dem Schiff
Vassilios Avgouteas … Barkeeper
Jochen Baumert … Deutscher 1

Plot/Synopsis:

It’s 1939, and with Europe on the brink of war, writer and Swiss socialite Annemarie Schwarzenbach and ethnologist Ella Maillart embark on a car trip from Geneva to Kabul, Afghanistan, each fleeing their past and each in pursuit of different goals. Annemarie, a restless soul with a drug addiction, is searching for meaning in her life; Ella is seeking a mythic tribe of nomads who live in the caves of the Kafiristan Valley. The emptiness of the dusty landscape and the danger of the journey brings the two close together sparking the simmering desire the two feel for each other.

Based on the actual diary kept by the real-life Schwarzenbach, the film is erotically charged and breathtakingly photographed. The two women’s love fills every ravishing vista they traverse. With her short hair and men’s clothing, Annemarie, (played by the magnetic Jeanette Hain) makes for a mesmerizing androgynous force, driving through the desert with a cigarette dangling from her lips, swimming nude across a lake, and seducing a Turkish ambassador’s wife. As the region braces for war, personal tensions grow between the two. An absorbing portrait of two women who push hard to defy the conventions that constrain them and to discover their full potential.

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The Journey to Kafiristan (2001) Die Reise nach Kafiristan
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Original title: Die Himmelsleiter
AKA: –
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 28 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: German | English | Turkish
Subtitles: German (hard-subbed) (other language parts only) | Slovenian (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Burhan Qurbani

Cast:

Carlo Ljubek … Ismail
Jeremias Acheampong … Sammi
Maryam Zaree … Maryam
Marija Skaricic … Leyla
Sergej Moya … Daniel
Vedat Erincin … Vedat
Anne Ratte-Polle … Sarah

Plot/Synopsis:

Three stories cross paths within a European Muslim community in this drama. Vedat is an open-minded imam at a mosque in Berlin. While Vedat believes in a modern and compassionate interpretation of his faith, he worries about his daughter Maryam, who has embraced a Western lifestyle and isn’t much interested in the tenants of Islam. As it happens, Vedat’s concerns are well-founded; Maryam finds herself pregnant and has an illegal abortion, only to suffer grim side effects and anxieties that she’s being punished for immoral behavior. Sammi is a Muslim from Senegal who studies the Koran with Vedat. Sammi is close friends with one of his co-workers, Daniel, who is gay; Daniel confesses to Sammi that he’s attracted to him, and Sammi is not certain what to do when he realizes he shares these feelings. And Ismail is a policeman who is examining the work papers of a handful of Bosnian immigrants when he realizes one of them, Leyla, is a woman he accidentally shot during an altercation three years ago. Ismail has long carried a burden of guilt over his actions, but now that he’s face to face with Leyla, what is he to do? ~ Mark Deming, Allrovi

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Shahada (2010) Die Himmelsleiter
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Original title: Die Frau und der Fremde
AKA: The Woman and the Stranger
Year: 1985
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Country: East Germany
Language: German
Subtitles: English (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Drama

Director:

Rainer Simon

Cast:

Joachim Lätsch … Karl
Peter Zimmermann… Richard
Kathrin Waligura… Anna
Christine Schorn… Trude
Siegfried Höchst… Horst

Plot/Synopsis:

Karl and Richard, two German soldiers captured by the Russians in World War I, become very close friends-so close that Richard shares intimate stories about his wife, Anna. Through these stories, Karl falls in love with her in his thoughts. When Karl escapes and goes to Richard’s home, Anna knows he is not her husband. But although she tries to resist Karl’s love, she feels a growing response to him. Then, one day, Richard returns… This beautifully shot work was the only East German film ever to win the Golden Bear at the West German Berlin International Film Festival. Shortly after this success, however, the film’s distribution was suspended due to problems with the literary rights. After over 20 years, the film is now finally available again.

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The Woman and the Stranger (1985) Die Frau und der Fremde
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Original title: Allein
AKA: –
Year: 2004
Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: German
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Thomas Durchschlag

Cast:

Lavinia Wilson … Maria
Maximilian Brückner … Jan
Richy Müller … Wolfgang
Victoria Mayer … Sarah
Tobias van Dieken … Nico
Holger Kunkel … Rasmus

Plot/Synopsis:

Maria’s life as a student is marked by her craving for closeness and excesses with sex, tablets and alcohol. Her greatest enemy is loneliness which she tries to combat with an affair and one-night stands. Maria is “borderline”, she has problems defining boundaries. Then one day she meets Jan. They grow closer and Maria realizes that for the first time ever, a close and honest relationship might be possible. She tries to break with her former life, but being afraid of failure, she doesn’t know how. She does her best to keep her past secret from Jan, but by doing so unwittingly heads for a catastrophe.

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Alone (2004) Allein
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Original title: Bungalow
AKA: –
Year: 2002
Runtime: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: German | English | Danish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Ulrich Köhler

Cast:

Lennie Burmeister … Paul
Devid Striesow … Max
Trine Dyrholm … Lene
Nicole Gläser … Kerstin
Jörg Malchow … Stefan
Maria Hagewald … Dunja
Frank Breitenreiter … Frank
Steffen Münster … Lehrer

Plot/Synopsis:

German director Ulrich Köhler made his feature debut with Bungalow. Pro skateboarder Lennie Burmeister stars in his first film role as Paul, a disaffected teen who lets his ennui carry him out of the army. He goes AWOL out of boredom, it seems, and goes to his family’s bungalow in the country. There, he runs into an old girlfriend, Kersten, who eventually grows tired of his fecklessness. That’s okay with Paul, because his brother, Max, soon arrives with his sexy Danish girlfriend, Lene, an actress gunning for a role as an android in a German science fiction film. Between dalliances with Kersten and attempts to avoid the military police who are looking for him, Paul, who has a fairly hostile relationship with Max, decides that he’s fallen in love with Lene. He exerts what, for him, seems a great effort to get a few moments alone with her, and tries to persuade her to run off with him. ~ Josh Ralske, Allrovi

Bungalow definetely is one of the best German films I’ve ever seen, maybe even the best. But it is also a love-or-hate movie. I loved it for personal reasons and if you can’t identify with one of the characters, you’ll probably ask yourself what the director intended to show the audience or you’ll simply find ‘Bungalow’ boring. For me, it wasn’t. It felt like a longer version of Marcus Weiler’s short ‘Always crashing in the same car’, a German version of Larry Clark’s study of aimlessness and loneliless in ‘Ken Park’ or even a German version of Richard Kelly’s masterpiece ‘Donnie Darko’ reduced to that feeling of being somehow lost, without a direction to follow that seems right. The acting is brilliant and the (non-)dialogues are brilliant. ~ IMDb

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Bungalow (2002)
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Original title: Restless
AKA:
Year: 2008
Runtime: 1 hour, 39 minutes
Country: Israel | Germany | France | Canada | Belgium
Language: English | Hebrew
Subtitles: English | Hebrew | Russian (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director:

Cast:

Moshe Ivgy … Moshe
Ran Danker … Tzach
Karen Young … Yolanda
Phyllis Somerville… Sheila
Michael Moshonov… Michael
Tzahi Grad … Shimon
Arnon Zadok … Mossayof
Ethan Gould … Spencer

Plot/Synopsis:

Moshe Amar left Israel for New York some twenty-odd years ago, and never looked back. What he would have seen was the woman he left behind with their little boy, Tzach. But in addition to being a big-hearted ladiesґ man, Moshe is an artist who loves his freedom, and broken hearts are part of the bargain. New York hasnґt been very kind to him yet, but the tide is turning. He reads his poetry in a bar that caters to New Yorkґs large Israeli community: biting, sarcastic, tender odes of love and hate to Israel and its people, and to the tough and resilient expats. And thereґs another positive development: Yolanda, the barґs sassy, tough-talking bartender, whom he falls in love with and who gives him warmth and affection. Then his son shows up. Tzach, discharged from the Israeli army. A young man he doesnґt know and who doesnґt know him. A son full of anger towards a father full of guilt. Two strangers on a collision course with one another. Two human beings who somehow belong together, but have to start from scratch. Two restless individuals who might finally find peace and more…

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Restless (2008)
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