Films: Human interest
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Inside the Potter´s garden
Whoever enters the garden of Loesche, the potter, feels as if time has been turned back. Passing by Loesche´s 18th century house, you reach a garden of vegetables and herbs, in which ceramic manufactures sprout like exotic plants: spheres in various forms, colours and glazes, which are balanced on sticks like the trophies of a hunter; black-annealed jugs and bowls, hung on laces and dangling in the wind; small masterpieces besides miscarried items, which are broken in two. Collectively, they form a fascinating open-air museum in which now and then an amazed visitor gets looses his way. Loesche doesn´t mind.… 2007, BR, 45 min
La vida es así – That's life
We've all been in a taxi at some point or another, but how often do we give the driver the time of day. If we were to listen to taxi drivers we would hear some incredible, hilarious and touching stories. In "That's Life", filmmaker German Kral sets off to find such stories, as told by taxi drivers in Buenos Aires, Berlin and Tokyo. They don't only drive us through their cities, but through their lives. A taxi driver from Buenos Aires explains how he is in love with his neighbour and how they were lovers until his wife found out… 2002, BR, 75 min
Lonely Country Hearts
All over Bavaria, farming folk are looking for a life partner. But who wants to marry a farmer? There's never much choice of partner in the village and even if there were, the idea of marrying into life on a farm is not entirely attractive. Who wants to get up at five in the morning to muck out the stables and work seven days a week to be rewarded with a couple of days' holiday once in a blue moon? Who has the passion required for life as a farmer? Who is prepared to risk losing a whole heard to… 2002, BR, 45 min