Rainald Grebe: Der Tod im Leben. Unheilbar krank zum größten Auftritt

Illuminating the challenges often unseen beyond the toys, trees and tinsel, people in a small Irish village reflect on their difficult relationships with Christmas. "So This Is Christmas" is a heartwarming and charming portrait from award-winning director Ken Wardrop, which perfectly exemplies his innate ability to tell the stories of ordinary people, depicting their thoughts, feelings and experiences in an empathetic way. Beautifully rendered in 35mm, the film is authentic and compassionate, and a valuable addition to the Irish documentary canon.

The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to create a new kind of musical theater based on the theories of two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill and poet-playwright Bert Brecht. The show opens with a mock-Baroque overture, a nod to Threepenny's source, The Beggar's Opera, a brilliantly successful parody of Handel's operas written by John Gay in 1728. In a brief prologue following the overture, a shabby figure comes onstage with a barrel organ and launches into a song chronicling the crimes of the notorious bandit and womanizer Macheath, "Mack the Knife." The setting is a fair in Soho (London), just before Queen Victoria's coronation. In this production, Weill champion HK Gruber led the Ensemble Modern in a performance of Weill's complete original score, the first time it had been heard in Germany in many years. This production was broadcast on German television (3sat).

Through four nights of musical magic at Ullevi, Gothenburg, Håkan Hellström cemented himself as one of Sweden's greats last year. Edited together, this is a concert film of epic proportions and a musical euphoria.

Merci Udo Jürgens

Aus dem Takt

Providencia March of the Crabs

Udo Jürgens Forever

The K.I.Z concert at Splash! 2014.

Urvertrauen - das Band zwischen Mensch und Hund

Ottobiography

It explores a behind the scenes look at the Making of the Record.

A serial of short instructional films using footage of Babe Ruth to explain the fundamentals of playing baseball.

Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.

Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one. Not an instant product, but an experimental feature in which diary material is brought together to form an intriguing puzzle.

Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.

The tale of an activist’s journey during the turbulent years of Martial Law, until his capture in the mountains and the dark, nine years of imprisonment that followed, leading to his birth as a poet.

The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng.

Rock opera on the rise and fall of Estonian prog rock band "Ruja"

Amelia was a lonely 10-year-old girl. Ratna, her mother, was too busy working. Amelia, who feels neglected, befriended her cousin, Ambar. When the holidays arrived, Amelia decided to visit Ambar in her village.