Einer uralten Tradition folgend, muss der 13-jährige Finne Oskari eine Nacht alleine in der Wildnis der finnischen Berge verbringen und dabei mit seinem Bogen ein Tier erlegen. Als jedoch das Flugzeu...
Onkel Boonmee kehrt nach einem akuten Nierenversagen zurück aufs Land und in den Kreis seiner Familie, um dort die Zeit zu verbringen, die ihm noch bleibt. Seine Schwester, ein junger Verwandter und ...
Es läuft nicht gut für den armen Rodolfo: In seiner Wohnung fühlt er sich so unwohl und so wenig zuhause, dass nicht einmal mehr seine Freundin ihn dort besucht; und seine Freunde von der Fußballm...
In mehreren miteinander verwobenen Episoden erzählt die Komödie von den Irrungen, Wirrungen und Absurditäten der Liebe. Was darüber hinaus sämtliche Geschichten eint, sind die Darsteller: Katja R...
Der Film erzählt, inspiriert von den Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht, eine Vielzahl alltäglicher Situationen, die immer wieder mit historischen Ereignissen verwoben werden. Da bindet ein Vater seiner Toc...
Am 21. April 2013 präsentierte die Regisseurin Caroline Link ihre Oscar®-prämierte Verfilmung des Afrika-Epos "Nirgendwo in Afrika" (DE 2001) und sprach mit Urs Spoerri vom Deutschen Filmmuseum.
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
SPCA inspects farm and transport of livestock, and shows the care of both working animals and pets. Also outlines SPCA's role in rehoming animals, and in educating children about pet care.
Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
A tour through various exhibitions in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Made for screening at the 1925 World Educational Congress Edinburgh, the film gives a survey of the educational opportunities offered in Edinburgh from infants up to senior pupils.
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.