Film List Arthaus Deutschland incl. FREE STREAMS 

The third generation of German film begins at the end of the 90s, when the desire to discover, the view of reality and the past become apparent again in the cinema. The chroniclers of social dismantling and general paralysis during the turn of the millennium follow the adapted West German films of the bad Kohl-era. People begin again to see themselves as a group and to reject common things: Film is not television production, film is not Hollywood copy. Hartz 4 and the reconquest of the political in Black Box BRD or Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei show a society that is not horrible. The German film also discovers an equally disturbing province for itself. Oskar Roehler's prefab housing estate in Die Unberührbare is the epitome of a cold homeland. Fassbinder's shadow floats over new German productions, not just Roehler's; love becomes a crisis in films like Sehnsucht or the drastic Der freie Wille. Alle andere sizziert two couples like Goethe once did in Die Wahlverwandtschaften. The GDR as a lost country and reunification have finally become a big cinema theme. The lives of the others show the mixture of political and private, Berlin is in Germany functions as a satire of a foreign world: the FRG. The Wende turns family films into tragic role reversals as in Netto. In the new German films, the family is a haven of loneliness; false confessions or ping-pong are oppressive testimonies. In Christian Petzold's Die innere Sicherheit the family is on the run from a dark political past of the 70s. Fatih Akin and Thomas Arslan have mastered a form of cinema that is most likely to be mastered in the future: films by Turks about Turks in Germany are against the wall or dealers. The tension of the culture clash as the topic of the future in a country that has so little to do with it and still doesn't want to be a "country of immigration".