The Esso buildings, including the eponymous petrol station and strip mall, are exemplary of a displacement process that is not only taking place in St. Pauli. In 2009, a large real estate company bought the ensemble of buildings typical of post-war modernism, whose previous owner had failed to meet the maintenance obligations. An initiative of residents and neighbours formed against the investor's new construction plans, and artistic actions such as the »Echohäuser« song and its accompanying music video made the protest widely known. The houses were demolished in 2014, and despite a self-organized planning process, they left behind nothing but a gaping hole.
May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters.
Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal.
What does it take to say a word of love? How long and how much strength does it take for the heart to speak? How many streets at night? How fast? How many faces in how many bars? What tenderness? What pain? What music? What images in the mind? And where does it come from? Is it in the darkness of a closed park at night? In the back room of a Chinese bar? In the bottom of a beer? In a collective dance? In a sister's laughter? When does it finally happen? For the soul to let go.
James Franco's Sal chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.
Len van Jaarsveld used to be on the top of his game. As one of the country’s leading music producers he had it all: the stars, the hits, the connections and the.
Natan tells the remarkable story of Bernard Natan, a Romanian immigrant who came to Paris in 1905 and was involved almost immediately with French cinema.
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