Kairos Film Movies

At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde. He remains active and...

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that...

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film...

Alexander Kluge follows his father, a doctor, in his daily activity.

Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...

Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.

The Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge...

Alexander Kluge reflects on the medieval Staufer dynasty and draws a line from Emperor Barbarossa to Operation Barbarossa.

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter...

Thanks to technological developments, film has been through many transformations. Now, with the development of Artificial Intelligence another...

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A...

The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during...