Natasha Lawrence and Kylene Anderson are two indigenous women who have a dream to make it to the Arnolds – an amateur bodybuilding competition being held in Australia for the first time.
The determined women struggle with diets, exercises and …
LIFE’S NO PIECE OF CAKE is a very funny German film. It is also an insightful and moving drama that blends the tragic and the absurd. Director André Erkau deftly handles Gernot Gricksch’s wonderful script which explores how a husband …
The 2014 Audi Festival of German Films began last night with Christian Alvart’s intriguing BANKLADY about Germany’s first female bank robber, Gisela Werl (1934-2003).
This was a seriously bizarre story. No wonder, that her story caught the attention of a …
Is a pact a promise? And can a pact made in youth be binding in adulthood? This is the premise of A PACT (Zum Geburtstag).
Before the fall of the wall, a trio of tertiary students in East Germany, Georg, …
If the past is a foreign country, then a river runs through it, all the way to the sea of the present.
SOURCES OF LIFE (Quellen Des Lebens) begins four years after the end of WWII. It has taken this …
Chekhov was on to something when he conceived the ‘ Three Sisters’. Female sibling relationships are endlessly fascinating. Just think of Woody Allen’s ‘Interiors’ or ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’. One of the highlights of this year’s Audi Festival of German …
Although sixteen-year-old Ben leads a privileged life he is failing to engage with it. EXIT MARRAKECH opens with his luxurious private school in Germany breaking up for the summer holidays and the principal calling him in for a little chat …