German Movies 10's

The number of cinema-goers in Germany is certainly declining. We read complaints about the principles of film funding and about the fact that only comedies find their audience. Here, in our video store, however, everything looks a little different. The archaeologists will come to us one day. These are customers who are interested in the film of the Weimar Republic. Psychological landscapes that follow Munch's famous scream. Or those that all Fassbinder and Herzog rent films from the great era of New German Cinema. Meanwhile there is also a canon for the late 90s and early 00s; for example Fatih Akin, Hans Christian Schmidt, Andreas Dresen, Oskar Roehler and Christian Petzold. Who still remembers the Berlin school with authors like Angela Schanelec or Thomas Arslan? It is becoming increasingly difficult to come to terms with the present. The Berlin Mumblecore Gang (Jacob Lass, Tom Lass, Axel Ranisch, Philipp Eichholtz) was important for us here in the neighborhood. Of course, also because the protagonists sometimes shoot something or borrow something from us. Or filmmakers like Dietrich Brüggemann, who shook Berlin off beat comedies up their sleeves. And of course Sebastian Schipper, who proved so brilliantly with Victoria that German films can also be stylistic masterpieces. The debutantes are particularly important to us: Above all Nora Fingscheidt (Systemsprenger), Susanne Heinrich (Das melancholische Mädchen), Jan-Ole Gerster (Oh Boy), Katrin Gebbe (Tore tanzt), Carmen Losmann (Work Hard - Play Hard). From this we create our very own decade, far away from Matthias Schweighöfer. From this we put together our canon and your canon of the 10's and some of you will certainly be interested in what is happening around us NOW!