Grandmas Project – Marillenknödel

Shrek

2001 · ★ 7.8

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.

The Wheat Industry

Tells the life story of a grain of wheat In Casselton, North Dakota.

Annaluise & Anton

1999 · ★ 7.2

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.

Good Game

2014 · ★ 7

Creative and competitive, members of the Evil Geniuses Starcraft 2 team must prove themselves to make the cut in professional video gaming. Good Game follows the team as they discover that one wrong move could end their dreams.

Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom

2002 · ★ 6.3

Naomi Kawase's documentary about Nishii Kazuo, a photo critic. He is the last chief editor for the Camera Mainichi magazine, rushing through his time with Araki Nobuyoshi and Moriyama Daido as provocative artists in the photograph world.

You Can't Do Everything at Once, But You Can Leave Everything at Once

2013 · ★ 5.8

It all began on a couch. He watched her undress and they made love for the first time.

The Purse Snatcher

1995 · ★ 6.5

Alex is very close to his elderly grandmother partly because his busy parents seem to have little or no time for him. One day he surprises two boys from his school leaving her house and is shocked to find her tied up inside – they have robbed her! Alex is sworn to secrecy as his gran is worried that her daughter will think her incompetent. This secret leads Alex into trouble as the two boys accost him in the street and bully him into becoming a pickpocket ("tasjesdief") for them, mugging old ladies. Alex learns how to deal with this situation in the end.

Osé

2023 · ★ 10

What can be harder than "conquering the world" for an Italian woman of the XX century? Creating the perfect family.

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

1979 · ★ 6.7

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.

Profilers: Gaze Into the Abyss

2014 · ★ 6.5

Documentary about the work of 6 criminal profilers around the world.

School of Babel

2014 · ★ 6.6

They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks, conflicts and joys of this group of students aged 11 to 15 years, together in the same class to learn French.

The Acorn People

1981 · ★ 3.7

An unemployed teacher becomes a counselor at a summer camp for severely disabled children.