Michael Palm

Michael Palm at IFFR

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  Einst süße Heimat

  Documentary portrait of two elderly Saxons who were left after the Second World War in the area now annexed by Romania. The humiliating human face of

  • Cinema of the World: Time & Tide
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  Electro Moscow

  In spite of their notorious poor quality, collectors nowadays are hunting for old Soviet synthesisers. This film sketches a portrait of the experiment

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  • Scopitone
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  Cinema Futures

   In the digital era, what chance does ‘real’ celluloid film have of surviving? Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Tacita Dean: a sma

  • Nuts & Bolts
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  Ich seh, Ich seh

  A (head) trip with a mother and her twin sons into an abyss of humiliation and torture, where it’s never clear who’s actually (still) living and who’s

  • Signals: Really? Really.
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  Edgar G. Ulmer – The Man Off-Screen

  A homage to the King of the B Movie: Edgar G. Ulmer. In the 1920s he was a set designer, production designer and/or co-director for people like Max Re

  • Cinema Regained
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  Sea Concrete Human

  Experimental sf-docu about the question of what is to be seen and told when people have disappeared from the earth.

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  Low Definition Control – Malfunctions #0

  In the name of safety, the most banal movements in public spaces are being watched. Before a wide screen of strikingly captivating black-and-white ima

  • Bright Future
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  Herna

  A man goes for a ‘quick’ gamble. His wife and child wait for him. But the soundtrack tells a different story. Image and sound interlock ingeniously.

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• Die totale Therapie

  A tragi-comic psycho-thriller. With Blixa Bargeld as demonic therapist.

  • Tiger Competition

• Sisi auf Schloß Gödölö

  The mythical Empress Sissi loves bizarre spectacles. Shown as colourful surrealist drama by young film-maker.

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