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- A queen who lost three kingdoms. A wife who lost three husbands. A woman who lost her head.
- Roger is a young, dashing banker full of boyish self-confidence. He has a highly successful business, smuggling black money across the border for reinvestment. But then a split second reaction changes his entire life.
- Petra Kelly, the 1980s 'green queen' and peace activist, is shot in her sleep by her lover and political ally, former West German army general Gert Bastian. He kills himself shortly afterwards. Was it murder, or did she want that shot? What happens to Petra, from the time Gert's bullet enters her skull to the moment it lodges in her brain and she dies? She experiences a flash-forward to the present time and wakes up in the glassy transit zone of an international airport. On her trip through this modern purgatory, Petra struggles to unravel the meaning of the shot together with Gert and other figures from her life. In the explosive moment between life and death, she recognizes the force of her most absolute desires.
- Bedlam in a classroom: a foot on a desk, someone making a face, a voice-obviously the teacher's-trying to get things under control, two kids fighting in the corner. In a word: Ghetto. We accompany a handful of teenagers from "The worst ****ing ghetto room in the entire school."
- Crowds in a festive mood, patriotic swaggering, the masses dancing with abandon pass in front of our eyes, placed in context with excerpts from war films and play-acted scenes showing a group of soldiers ordered to attend the celebrations commemorating the Battle of Sempach. The 'found' footage is combined in an imaginative collage, not exactly a 'hymn to the fatherland', but a work that rouses the viewer by sanctioning criticism of myths and heroes, armies and motorways.
- Anne, Nina and Max are three individuals constantly shown on train journeys - independently of one another - in the "golden triangle" between Zurich, Berne and Basle. Their existence is a sort of permanent limbo between these cities, always on the move without ever arriving. Arrival at their destination merely signals the start of the next trip. Cities are reduced to stations, places of restlessness and constant motion, whose raison d'etre is to justify the sense of going somewhere and being nowhere. Three lives lived somewhere between three cities.
- The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchner's novel fragment Lenz. But he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more emotional territory: a reunion with his estranged wife Natalie and their son Noah in the Swiss Alps. Like his literary counterpart, the modern-day Lenz follows the Romantic motto: Genius writes its own rules. Against a background of kitsch global tourism - provided by the authentic Zermatt locations - Thomas Imbach's Lenz portrays an unconventional family and a man struggling between euphoria and desperation.
- Science-Fiction essay on babies from high-tech researchers.
- The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a heart deep inside, a computer heart pulsating with an endless stream of data, while hundreds of beings in its labyrinthine veins are busy or trying to keep the coursing data under control...
- A raw, honest look at the relationship between film-makers, actors, and the characters they create together. Sometimes comical, sometimes infuriating, always fascinating. happy two takes us behind the scenes of the tour-de-force performances of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". While the first film focused on the stormy, ultimately fatal relationship between Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian, "happy too" looks at the dangers of a different kind of shooting: independent fiction filmmaking. "happy too" is not a "making-of" documentary in the conventional sense. Its focus is the flip side of the world portrayed in "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". With the same penetrating gaze, irony and courage that Thomas Imbach used to probe the fantasy of activist romance, this time he takes aim at the myth of glamorous film acting. "happy too" parallels the Kelly-Bastian relationship with the struggles of actors Linda Olsansky and Herbert Fritsch. How to merge with the characters they play, without falling into the same patterns of self-destruction?