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| At just 15 years old, young Robbie Williams becomes a part of Take That and catapults himself from humble beginnings directly into pop Olympus. However, his unique world career turns into an emotional roller coaster ride between success, self-doubt, personal crises, and the fight against drug addiction. At his commercial peak and just before the final downfall, Robbie faces the decision whether to destroy himself or confront his demons... From the insecure boy from Stoke-on-Trent to the celebrated pop star: Robbie Williams' story is well known worldwide, but has never been told for the cinema or in such an exuberantly original way as in Michael Gracey's biopic BETTER MAN - THE ROBBIE WILLIAMS STORY. In his acclaimed debut GREATEST SHOWMAN (2018), the exceptional director skillfully interwove musical elements, choreographies, visual effects and an emotional story into a rousing spectacle. In BETTER MAN, he lets Robbie himself tell the story of his life in the spotlight. Refreshingly different, extraordinarily intimate and, as befits one of the most successful artists on this planet, with a special twist: Gracey directs Robbie's story as he himself sees it – through the eyes of a monkey. Brought to the screen masterfully by the Oscar®-winning effects forge Wētā FX, the director succeeds in nothing less than a reinterpretation of the entire biopic genre. |
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| Rick's Cafe in Casablanca is a meeting place for many people from Europe who want to flee to America during World War II. Rick Blaine, the owner of the cafe, reunites with Ilsa here, with whom he had an affair in Paris. But a revival of their old feelings is doomed to fail, as Ilsa's husband Victor must be saved from the Nazis. |
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| Katharina, Ricky, Victoria, and Malou live together in a supervised residential group – and have created their own system there. Without hierarchies, without rules, as a conscious demarcation from the structures they wanted to leave behind. Social worker Ballack keeps only a loose eye on the group, which initially makes their self-imposed order possible. But when individual needs, conflicts, and boundaries clash, the fragile balance begins to falter. |
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| The Hero of Friedrichstrasse Station tells the story of Micha Hartung (Charly Hübner), a Berlin video store owner on the verge of bankruptcy who unwittingly becomes a hero for all of Germany: When, on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a journalist casts him as the mastermind behind the largest mass escape from the GDR, his life is suddenly turned upside down. As an unwilling impostor, Micha becomes entangled in a web of half-truths and blatant lies. |
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| Two angels watch over Berlin. Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are silent observers, accompanying people through the city's rooftops and streets. They hear their thoughts and feelings, without being able to feel them themselves. Ever since Damiel fell in love with the trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), he struggles with his fate. He would love to become human. To do this, he would have to become mortal, with all the consequences. A former angel (Peter Falk) advises him to take the plunge into life. |
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| For 40 years, the Mitte district was at the center of Berlin, followed by 40 years of separation by a wall. The western part was a wound of the Soviet empire. In the early 90s, after the fall of the wall, a habitable space for people from the former western foreign countries emerged in the Spandauer Vorstadt. International young artists found vacant, affordable apartments in the formerly strictly guarded border area near Friedrichstraße and experienced a freedom that had disappeared in their home countries. The film GESTERN MITTE MORGEN tells the story of these people, their places of life, longings, their everyday life and their art. |
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| Forget everything you think you know about storytelling. And get ready for a very surreal trip. Narges Kalhor plunges us in a funny and deconstructed joyful apocalypse of a web of stories while following four characters who moved to Germany in order to escape the dire and dangerous political situation of their countries. |
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| Parvin and Rasoul, a young couple, left their small town for the big city to find work and a better life. Parvin's younger brother, Amir Ali, is also living with them as a guest. This family, all three struggling with addiction and forced into scavenging, recounts their story. We witness their daily struggle for survival and their attempts to escape the swamp in which they've become trapped. |
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| A routine Kerala Police inquiry in the quiet village of Kottayikonam takes an unexpected turn when a trail of seemingly minor clues unravels into a string of disturbing cases. The investigation soon reveals some unsolved mysteries that have lingered many cases. The strange story unfolds through the investigation against some brilliant strategies of obstructions against their pathways. |
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| Riots break out in the bleak social housing estates of the Paris suburbs after a 16-year-old Arab boy was nearly beaten to death by the police. After a night full of violence between adolescents and the police, a state of emergency prevails. Driven by hatred against the system, the friends Hubert, Said, and Vinz stand at the forefront, on a day that will change their lives. |
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| Édouard Manet praised Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) as the "painter of painters," Salvador Dalí called him the "glory of Spain," and Pablo Picasso dedicated an entire series of paintings to him. Velázquez, the court painter to the Spanish king, created with "Las Meninas" one of the most influential paintings and painted portraits of the royal family, the pope, as well as ordinary people. His life's work comprises over 200 paintings. Despite his prominence, much about Velázquez remains obscure. Where did his mastery of light and shadow, which gives his Baroque portraits subtle tones and a vivid atmosphere, come from, and how did he achieve this unparalleled realism? |
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| Aidai the baksy, or witch doctor, lives in the mountains and helps people. She uses mysterious actions to cure the sick and to give infertile couples children. As capitalist forces begin to encroach on tradition, the first casualty is any culture's most fundamental inheritance - land. The healer has to leave her land because the mob thinks the location is suitable for a filling station. A harsh battle between supernatural good and earthly evil ensues. Native Dancer evokes the mysticism of fantasy and the thrills of a gangster film. Featuring Neisipkul Omarbekova, a real-life Kazakh witch doctor, in the title role. |
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| Franz Josef Ruf, known as Seb, was one of the most important architects of the 20th century. Known for his open, light-flooded buildings, he succeeded in harmonizing architecture and nature. Filmmaker Johann Betz dedicates a film portrait to the artist, in which he presents his most important buildings, including the German Pavilion, the Chancellor's Bungalow in Bonn and the Neue Maxburg in Munich. |
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| With "Blood & Sinners," Ryan Coogler, director of "Black Panther" and "Creed: Rocky's Legacy," and lead actor Michael B. Jordan, present a new vision of horror. In an attempt to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start anew. However, they soon realize that an even greater evil awaits them upon their return. "If you constantly dance with the devil, one day he will follow you home." |
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| Solidarity is an irresistible feeling we celebrate, but in fact, it is mostly contradictory. This documentary delves into the phenomenon itself and uncovers the universal power of human rights. Five protagonists and the three crises in Belarus, Ukraine, and Gaza/Israel reveal to us both the bright and dark sides of solidarity. |
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| In the southern Chinese forgery town of Dafen, millions of masterpieces are created every day: thousands of painters copy the icons of art history — from van Gogh to Monet — while families live, sleep and dream amid the paintings. A Richter for 30 euros, a small van Gogh for 45, Monet's Water Lilies for 120, Rembrandt's self-portraits for 150 — even the smile of the Mona Lisa is available. Every year more than 10 million paintings leave the studios — in bulk orders to Europe and America. But who are the people who create these artful copies? Uniquely and humorously told by Stanislaw Mucha. |
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| Albrecht Schuch plays the leading role of James Larkin White, an American who, on a train journey through Switzerland, is mistaken for Anatol Stiller, a sculptor who disappeared seven years earlier and is wanted for his involvement in a dubious political affair. "I am not Stiller", White declares at the beginning of Frisch's novel - and again and again from then on. In order to convict him, the public prosecutor played by Max Simonischek asks Stiller's wife Julika (Paula Beer) to identify her husband, but she is unable to do so conclusively. Memories reveal more and more about the couple's relationship - and it turns out that the prosecutor has a surprising connection to the missing man. |
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| Testament is a humorous yet deeply layered Bosnian comedy set in the early 1990s, just before the outbreak of war. The film demystifies the idea of the "will" (testament)-a common source of family conflict and tragic outcomes in Bosnian rural life. The story follows Asad, a young man who is stunned to discover that he did not inherit any property after his father's death. In his attempt to find purpose and stability, he becomes entangled in the world of industrial Zenica and its infamous steel factory, Zeljezara, navigating the harsh reality of working-class life while clinging to his dreams of education and dignity-without ever fully leaving the village. Alongside him is his best friend Dzevad, a crafty and witty trickster whose small-time scams offer sharp, comedic insight into the mindset of a community caught between tradition and transition. Through DZevad's antics, the film playfully exposes the contradictions, hypocrisy, and vulnerability of people in that era. Using humor to explore serious themes-such as workers' rights, the collapse of values, family ties, and the illusion of social mobility-Testament paints a poignant yet funny portrait of ordinary Bosnian life on the edge of a historical rupture. |
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| Sailors working on the trawlers of the German shipowner Bredel go on a strike. A revolutionary trade union sends the sailor-communist of Hull in a fishing settlement, to heave up fishermen on a pathetic strike. Trying to prevent to the association of sailors and fishermen, Bredel promises to the fishermen to increase paying for a catch. But it turns out soon, that the promised raise is deception. |
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