Videoteca

May 8 2013 star_border 5
A documentary about the demonstration of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) at Berlin's Alexanderplatz on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II on May 8, 2005.

Democracy Under Attack - An Intervention 2012
A completely black background and, before it, a microphone; during this film a total of ten women and men will step up to this microphone. In December 2011, Berlin venue Haus der Kulturen der Welt held a symposium on the topic of the current state of our democracy. The speakers’ appraisal is shocking: the Euro crisis and so-called best alternative to ‘save the markets’ means that the poker game over our common currency has taken precedence over visionary politics and institutions and parliamentarians are reduced to playing extras in a hectic race against time. Professing themselves to being at the mercy of practical constraints, politicians are at the same time using this line of argument to legitimise the dismantling of justice, freedom and solidarity.

The Flock of the Lord 2011
A cinematic retreat about The Lord’s flock in the year 2005. With encounters from Marktl am Inn, the new pope’s birthplace, on the weekend of his inauguration, including scenes from Rome, eleven days earlier, where hundreds of thousands huddled towards St. Peter’s Square, to bid the deceased pope farewell with applause.

Villalobos 2009 star_border 10
Ricardo Villalobos is a major figure on the European electronic music scene. As a recording artist, he's released dozens of singles, seven albums and four mix collections. As a producer, he's remixed tracks for artists such as Beck, Depeche Mode, Plastikman, Senor Coconut and the KLF. And as a DJ, he's manned the decks at some of the world's leading electronic music festivals and is known for his intelligent, broadly eclectic style. Filmmaker Romuald Karmakar, who had directed two feature-length documentaries on the history and culture of electronic music, offers a profile of one of the genre's leading artists with Villalobos. Rather than just creating a biographical sketch or a performance film, Karmakar attempts to give viewers an insight into Villalobos's creative process, his philosophy towards his music and his work, how his background has informed his art, and how his interaction with the audience informs his selections during a DJ set in unexpected ways.

Hamburger Lektionen 2006 star_border 5
The German actor Manfred Zapatka broadcasts in full, in an unusual reading form, the two sermons of the imam of the Hamburg mosque Mohammed Fazazi delivered in January 2000.

Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea 2005 star_border 10
Documentary on the techno music scene. A journey through the world of electronic music. This film is a compilation of different live sets and concert-parts of some electronic music artists.

Land der Vernichtung 2004
Documentary about a former concentration camp and its surrounding.

Nightsongs 2004 star_border 4.9
A young couple in Berlin's 'Mitte' district. He, a writer, is lying on the sofa, reading. She can't stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents come to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits. She comes back - but not alone.

Die Nacht von Yokohama 2003
On 30 June 2002, three-time World Cup winners Germany played four-time world champions Brazil in the football World Cup final. That night in Yokohama, Brazil defeated Germany 2:0, making the Germans vice-champions of the World Cup.

196 bpm 2002 star_border 7.5
In 196 BPM Romuald Karmakar documents the 2002 Berlin Love Parade. Using a single take each and wihtout dialogue or commentary, he shows three sites of the techno jamboree that has rocked the German capital one summer weekend every year since 1989.

Manila 2000 star_border 5
Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolongs, more and more aggressions and long repressed behaviors shed their way to the surface.

Das Himmler Projekt 2000 star_border 8.9
Romuald Karmakar directs the actor Manfred Zapatka in performing the three-and-a-half hour speech originally declaimed before ninety-two SS generals by Heinrich Himmler on the 4th of October, 1943 in the Golden Hall of the Posen Palace.

The Deathmaker 1995 star_border 6.7
Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this interrogation Haarmann reveals his motives and his killing methods.

Infight 1994
Film by Karmakar.

Der Tyrann von Turin 1994
Documentary short by Romuald Karmakar.

The Last Draw of Jack of Hearts Release date not available
Shot in the back and left for dead, Jack, former top dog of a mercenary unit, returns to his old base in Odessa to right past wrongs and reunite with the woman he loves. But this second coming spirals ever more violently.