St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get together to build bonfires, drink and have a good time. According to a legend, on this night lovers and those who wish to fall in love can search the woods for the "magic fern".
A travelogue about India. But it is more than a video about a foreign place. We follow the director's itinerary and witness his chance encounters with people and also public events, some of which continue to shape India's politics today.
Jackies' quiet life as a housewife and English teacher ends abruptly when her husband informs her that he is leaving her for a younger woman. In a quest for revenge, Jackie makes arrangements with a plastic surgeon for a general overhaul with the goal of landing a younger husband. A newspaper leads...
A parody of Soviet action films about an author from Brooklyn following in the footsteps of his ancestors, who played a key role in the Bolshevik coup.
1976: In order to leave the Soviet Union, the Mishkins undergo a "marriage of convenience" with their Jewish neighbors. But the trick only works at the beginning.
A black comedy about the possibilities of donating life. Some donate their kidneys, others donate sperm. Ultimately, everyone wants to die with a clear conscience, for no one wants to live with it.
Dominik has been terrified by dentists since his childhood. So Helga, his fiance, rents a flat which was formerly a dental surgery. Their new landlord, Barbara, is a dentist and she runs her surgery next door. Helga persuades Dominik to move into the flat. For her a dream comes true but for Dominik...
In this short film directed in the style of Andrei Tarkovsky, eternity and the downfall of the Soviet empire are explored in a deeply symbolic and poetic way. The film follows a protagonist as they traverse a desolate landscape, reflecting on the transient nature of life and the inevitability of...
Iwan Rabcynski, born in St. Petersburg (Florida), writes Russian melodramas under the pseudonym "John F. Romanoff. He gets his inspiration in Brooklyn, his chosen home. His new novel, which is meant to be autobiographical, begins with his Russian great grandfather in St. Petersburg in 1882 and...
Excerpts from and insights into the world of the Austrian cabaret artist Otto Grünmandl. His work, his life and memories of his childhood in Tirol, which was overshadowed by the Nazi regime's persecution from 1938 - 1945.
A city, a man, a woman. This time it's glittering Zurich. The protagonists: Karl and Lisa. They fall in love. The usual. But Karl is a so-called 'loser'. Does drugs, borrows money and is in debt everywhere. Responsibility is alien to him. He lives day to day, detests relationships and he's heading...
Varying characters in historical and local transformations recount cheerful mystical stories of the city where death found its home. It is about primal human fears and the desire for love, security and loneliness.
Toni, the former theology student from former Yugoslavia, lives in Germany now, he loves the Dutch and Amsterdam and he is a big fan of the mayor of Venice, "because he likes Nitsche." He is not gay but he supports homosexuals "because Wittgenstein was gay." Toni is waiting for a German passport in...
Summer 1999, in the center of Vienna: two very distinct parades took place simultaneously on the same street. One was a policemen's parade; the other a celebration of gay pride. Because the policemen didn't want to march hand in hand with the Gay Movement, a typical Austrain solution was found:...
