Sabine Timoteo

biography:
Sabine Timoteo, born Sabine Hagenbüchle on 25 March 1975 in Bern, is a Swiss actress and former dancer. She fluently speaks German, French, English, Italian and Spanish.

She studied dance and won the Prix de Lausanne for "best young dancer".

Her film debut was in Philip Gröning's L'Amour, l'Argent, l'Amour, which was shot in 1996 but released in 2000. For this role, she won the Swiss Film Award for Best Actress. Between 1997 and 2000, before fully embarking on her acting career, she trained as a professional cook in Bern. After marrying a man, she took the name Sabine Timoteo, under which she built the majority of her film career.

She continued to gain acclaim with major roles in films such as Ghosts (2005), The Free Will (2006), Color of the Ocean (2012), Cyanide (2013), Futuro Beach (2014), The Wonders (2014) and Center of My World (2016).

In more recent years she has worked in several notable projects, including Meanwhile on Earth (2024), Chaos & Silence (2025) and Transamazonia (2025).

Echos

overview: The three rich bigwigs Nellie, Max and Janosch visit an illegal luxury underground party under Munich Central Station in search of the next kick. But the party escalates when a fire breaks out. After a mass panic, Max is considered to have disappeared. Nellie and Janosch go in search of their boyfriend and come across a second society, the so-called invisible ones, who live underground.

character: Magdalena Kaltbrunner

original_name: Katakomben

original_language: de

Scene of the Crime

overview: Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

character: Teresa Weinberger

original_name: Tatort

origin_country: AT CH DE

The Gryphon

overview: The Gryphon, a dark power from another world, is a threat to Mark and all he loves. Mark must accept his heavy family legacy and go into battle to save our world from the Gryphon’s clutches.

character: Petra

original_name: Der Greif

Scene of the Crime

character: Gabi Kunz

character: Manon

Riesending - Jede Stunde zählt

character: Raffaela Pardeller

original_name: Riesending - Jede Stunde zählt

origin_country: DE AT CH

Grimme Award

overview: Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

character: Self

original_name: Grimme-Preis

German Film Award

original_name: Deutscher Filmpreis

Bodkin

overview: A ragtag crew of podcasters sets out to investigate mysterious disappearances from decades earlier in a charming Irish town with dark, dreadful secrets.

character: Annika

original_name: Bodkin

G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten

original_name: G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten

Scene of the Crime

character: Sabine Timoteo

character: Béatrice Radek

Schimanski

character: Niki

original_name: Schimanski

English

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english_name: English

Deutsch

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

Français

biography:
Sabine Timoteo, née Sabine Hagenbüchle le 25 mars 1975 à Berne en Suisse, est une actrice et ancienne danseuse suisse.

Après des études de danse au Schweizerische Ballettberufsschule de 1991 à 1993, Sabine Hagenbüchle remporte le prix de Lausanne de la « meilleure jeune danseuse » et commence sa carrière artistique en réussissant à intégrer le corps de ballet du Deutsche Oper am Rhein, qu'elle quitte cependant rapidement. Elle travaille alors dans la troupe de danse contemporaine de Carlotta Ikeda.

Elle débute au cinéma dans L'Amour, l'Argent, l'Amour, tourné en 1996 mais sorti seulement en 2000 — ce qui fait que durant l'intervalle elle arrête sa carrière d'actrice et pratique la cuisine à Berne —, de Philip Gröning, rôle pour lequel elle remporte le prix du cinéma suisse de la meilleure interprétation féminine, prix qu'elle obtiendra une seconde fois en 2008.

Après son mariage avec un Péruvien, elle prend le nom de Sabine Timoteo sous lequel elle fait l'essentiel de sa carrière cinématographique.

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

Deutsch

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Latviešu

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english_name: Latvian

title: Ghosts

overview: Nina, a mentally ill teenage orphan, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. Meanwhile, Francoise is picked up at a Berlin psychiatric hospital by her husband, Pierre. After spotting Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but no one believes her.

character: Toni

original_title: Gespenster

title: A Friend of Mine

overview: An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.

character: Stelle

original_title: Ein Freund von mir

title: Nebenwirkungen

overview: Dr. Claudia Keller works in the research department of the global chemical company Beyler. The company has pinned all its hopes on the development of a revolutionary lifestyle drug called Defaminol. The slimming pill promises consumers easy weight loss. Shortly before the launch of the new miracle pill, Claudia begins to have doubts about possible side effects. She tries to convince management to hold back the drug, but no one listens to her. A nightmare of lies and loss of trust unfolds, and Claudia Keller must decide how far she is willing to go.

character: Claudia Keller

original_title: Nebenwirkungen

title: Love, Money, Love

overview: David, a recently fired scrapyard worker and Marie, a prostitute, both about 20 years old, meet on New Year's Eve in Berlin and decide to run away together. As David's arm is plastered from an accident Marie continues to prostitute herself to finance their restless journey through the Ruhr area. Their love and their will to survive guide them though all problems.

character: Marie

original_title: L’amour, l’argent, l’amour

title: The Free Will

overview: After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.

character: Nettie

original_title: Der freie Wille

title: The Days Between

overview: Lynn is a cheerful 22-year-old who works at a cafe and lives with her brother. Though she has no real direction in life, she is happy. Conversely, her boyfriend, David, is a career-driven swimmer who seems to care only about his training. Then Lynn meets Japanese exchange student Koji, and, though they speak different languages and spend most of their time together in silence, the two soon become closer than she and David had ever been.

character: Lynn

original_title: In den Tag hinein

title: Electric Fields

overview: People go through life with forgotten dreams. They bravely contend another day when something goes off the rails. A man disappears into the woods. A season is lost. Lovers overcome time. Hardly noticeably, the rules of the world shift. And suddenly new paths open up in people's minds.

original_title: Electric Fields

title: Brownian Movement

overview: A psychiatrist's adulterous past continues to haunt her and her husband after they move to India.

character: Psychiatrist

original_title: Brownian Movement

title: Friends of Friends

overview: Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.

character: Billie

original_title: Die Freunde der Freunde

title: Last Dance

overview: Germain, an introspective retiree, abruptly becomes a widower at 75. He barely has the time to realize what has happened to him before his family forces their way into his daily life: non-stop phone calls and visits, meals and activities organized in advance – all meant to make his life as regular as clockwork. But Germain’s mind is elsewhere. Honoring a promise he made to his dear departed wife, he suddenly finds himself at the heart of a contemporary dance company’s newest work.

character: Carole

original_title: Last Dance

original_language: fr

title: Breakaway

overview: After running away to try to find her father, Manon manages to free herself from this family bond and to rebuild herself in an unexpected way in order to reconnect with her dream: becoming a professional ice hockey player.

character: Mère de Karine

original_title: Rivière

title: Anxiety

overview: A story about two sisters - Małgorzata, who is single by choice, and her younger sister, Łucja, a mother of two and an assistant in Małgorzata's law firm. The women embark on their first first trip in many years. It quickly turns out that one of them is terminally ill and her destination is Switzerland, where euthanasia is possible.

character: Sofia

original_title: Lęk

original_language: pl

title: Color of the Ocean

overview: After years working as a border patrolman, José has developed a salty crust of cynicism about his work, which places him in a position to decide the fates of many. José's weary attitude is put to the test when he encounters Nathalie, a German tourist assisting a boatload of refugees she discovered landing on the Canary shores. One of those people, a Congolese man named Zola, is placed in an internment camp. Much to the objections of her husband Paul, Nathalie tries to help him escape. Yet Zola and his son Mamadou eventually find themselves in yet another precarious situation, in which they are dependent on nefarious smugglers.

character: Nathalie

original_title: Die Farbe des Ozeans

title: Formentera

overview: Nina and Ben go on a vacation without their daughter to the Mediterranean. Their vacation is going well until Ben goes swimming with a young woman during a wild beach party and she does not come back.

character: Nina

title: Cyanide

overview: Achille, 13, awaits, full of hope, the release from prison of his father, unknown and fantasized. His dream of living as a threesome, like a real family, will be seriously undermined by a mother exhausted from waiting and this father who is unsuitable and made irresponsible by so many years of incarceration. Will this vulnerable person with a flamboyant past be able to keep the promise he made to his son to never live apart from him again?

title: Transamazonia

overview: Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a “miracle” after she survived a plane crash as a child, deep in the Amazon Forest. Years later, Rebecca, who became a famous healer in the region, and her father find themselves embroiled in an escalating conflict when illegal loggers invade the land belonging to the indigenous people they are evangelizing.

title: Futuro Beach

overview: Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.

title: Pepperminta

overview: Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's best friends and strawberries are her pets. She knows the most amazing remedies to free people of their fears. Pepperminta's wish is for everyone to see the world in her favorite colors. Werwen, a young plump and shy man yet whose sex appeal Pepperminta finds highly attractive, and the beautiful Edna, who talks to tulips, join her on her passionate mission. These three musketeers of a different kind set out to fight for a more humane world. Wherever the gang appears, everything is turned upside down and people's lives are transformed in the most miraculous and wondrous of ways.

title: The Wonders

overview: In the Tuscan countryside, a family of traditional honey farmers struggles to make ends meet. The household consists of only daughters—four of them—led by the eldest, Gelsomina, who takes on the responsibilities of the family. When a small boy is sent to stay with them for rehabilitation, their routine is disrupted. As financial troubles threaten their home, Gelsomina sees an opportunity in a reality TV contest searching for 'Italy’s Most Traditional Family.' Willing to expose their secluded life for the prize money, she clashes with her father’s rigid ways in a bid to secure their future.

title: Sugar Orange

overview: Lukas is Sugar, Clemens is Orange. Together, they are two ten-year-old boys who are inseparable. More than just playmates, they share a unique bond which seems predestined to last a lifetime. Until, that is, powerful emotions come to the fore and a misunderstanding leads to a rift which tears both them and their world apart. Twenty years later, Lukas is still terrified of being abandoned. He survives by forming loose relationships which don't threaten him. Then one day he meets Lena who turns his feelings upside down and awakens his inner child, the one still searching for unconditional friendship. While there is never a guarantee of security, there is a bond of trust, and through Lena, Lukas again makes contact with Clemens. After years of silence, they are finally able to exorcise their ghosts in an explosion of emotion.

title: Thunder

overview:
Summer 1900, Switzerland.
 Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village, walking in her sister’s step to uncover the mystery of her death, Elisabeth is slowly driven to rebel against the local order and for her right to live her life.

title: Those Who Work

overview: Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he’s on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he’s managed to maintain with his youngest daughter, Mathilde.

title: Mutants

overview: Thirteen-year-old Paula lives with her mother on a well-kept estate in a small town surrounded by nice neighbours. But Paula's view of normality has been sharpened by her extensive and consistent diet of horror movies.

title: Irgendwas ist immer

overview: On her 23rd birthday, Julia is dumped by her boyfriend Patrick, her hoped-for career as a pop journalist vanishes into thin air and she finds out that she is pregnant by Patrick, who is already seeing someone else. Although she is also being courted by a new acquaintance, she decides to win Patrick back without telling him about her pregnancy. She accidentally finds out who his new girlfriend is and begins a hidden vendetta. But then there's always Frank, her new acquaintance, around whom Julia feels that strange tingling in her stomach.

title: A Forgotten Man

overview: Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years of service in the capital of the Reich. This is the end of a terrible mandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and security of his country. He went through the war, but will he survive the peace?

title: Meanwhile on Earth

overview: Siblings Elsa and Franck used to be close, but everything changed when Franck’s space mission went awry. Three years have passed since his mysterious disappearance, and 23-year-old Elsa is having trouble moving on with her life. One day, an unidentified life form makes contact, offering to bring her big brother back to Earth. But there's a price to pay...

title: St. Francis Birds Tour

overview: A daft road movie about two aging thesps in search of Klopfenstein himself.

original_title: Die Vogelpredigt oder Das Schreien der Mönche

title: The Drift

overview: Robert, a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown Dietikon after a long period of absence. He is determined to put his past behind him and starts an apprenticeship in a repair shop. When he meets teacher Alice, his life starts to unravel.

title: After Effect

overview: Berlin in the 3rd millenium. Rather by chance Kai Starel gets into the newly founded CC Institute "Carl Celler Culture", where hip creative minds buzz around in bleak spaces and think about company logos with animals. This brings up art, campaigns or something inbetween - and a liaison between the designer queen Rena Yazka (Sabine Timoteo) and Kai, who becomes her model.

title: Chaos and Silence

overview: As young musicians Jean and Helena brace for parenthood amidst job insecurities, their lives collide with landlord Klara's enigmatic breakdown. Accepting her offer of rent-free living, they embark on a surreal journey, encountering societal judgments and forming unexpected connections that shape their intertwined destinies.

title: Flanke ins All

overview: Dani's heart beats for soccer. And sometimes for Claudia. Unfortunately, it's usually in that order, which is why Claudia has given him the boot. With such a die-hard FCZ fan and eternal student, she sees no future for herself and her nine-year-old son Nino. Dani is convinced that his girlfriend wants him back. Until he sees her with another man. In growing desperation, he turns to esotericism and a sinfully expensive love spell to win Claudia back. But he didn't count on what cosmic forces can set in motion.

title: Center of My World

overview: A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.

title: Karigula - Monster der Liebe

overview: Charly was a clown before he lost his talent for making people laugh. When Charly loses his last engagement, he decides to take his own life. He jumps off a bridge under which Karla, a notorious merrymaker, is disposing of her latest victim. His suicide attempt fails, so Charly blackmails Karla: either she kills him or he betrays her to the police. Karla is a lust murderer, she only kills who she loves - and Karla simply can't feel anything for the world-weary clown. When all attempts to kill her fail miserably, Charly has a plan: laughter is the best aphrodisiac. Charly wants to make Karla laugh, make her fall madly in love with him and then finally be able to kill him.

title: 180°

overview: Early evening - a big city. Two teenagers shyly flirt with each other, a housewife sits down to watch her daily soap, nurses in a hospital gossip before the nightshift starts, a trendy couple drives through rush hour, so excited they can hardly wait to get home - a man with a rifle enters a building seeking revenge. In the blink of an eye seemingly unrelated events turn upside down what were once secure, happy, 'normal' lives. Behind fear, beyond the unexpected, there is love and hope.

original_title: 180° - Wenn deine Welt plötzlich Kopf steht

title: Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen

overview: Air traffic controller Johann Lenders has just taken over the night shift in the tower at Zurich Airport when he notices an irregularity on the radar screen: two planes on a collision course. His efforts to avert the impending collision fail. A Russian passenger plane and a German cargo plane collide, killing 71 people. Meanwhile, Yuri Balkayev waits at Barcelona airport for his wife and two children to arrive - in vain. His family are among the victims of the Überlingen accident. Unable to comprehend the news of his loss, he sets off in search of those responsible. Johann Lenders is also completely distraught, he can hardly believe the disaster. He feels compelled to apologize to the relatives of the victims - but Katharina Rohl, a lawyer at air traffic control, forbids him to do so on behalf of the company boss.

original_title: Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen

title: Zen for Nothing

overview: Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself through autumn, winter and spring in the adventures of monastic life. The young woman is Sabine Timoteo from Switzerland. The abbot of the monastery is Muho Noelke, born in Berlin. An interplay between the philosophy of the Japanese Zen master Kodo Sawaki and the surprises brought forth by everyday life.

title: The Investigation

overview: Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, in its intensity and graphically described detail.

title: The Chronicles of Melanie

overview: The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia. Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Alexander, and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia. In her fight against cold, famine and cruelty, she only gains new strength through the letters she writes to Alexander, full of hope for a free Latvia and a better tomorrow.

title: 7 Minutes

overview: Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.

title: Kill Daddy Good Night

overview: The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to America and keeps grotesque family cohesion; the family of Ratz, a social democratic family, dissolving itself miserably in today's Vienna. The condemnation of the last century bundled in these three families showing clearly that one could never escape from its own past. Written by themoth-1

title: Analysis Paralysis

overview: A man’s head is bursting with thoughts and decisions. A gardener is about to explode – somebody has trampled on her flowerbeds. The man is looking for somebody who is better at playing chess than his dachshund. The gardener is looking for a mysterious vandal who is missing a yellow boot. In the end, they might just be looking for the same thing.

title: Sarah Plays a Werewolf

overview: 17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost in a trance, and her performances at home or elsewhere verge on excess. A cold, intellectual father, a timid mother, a younger sister and an older brother who has left home complete the picture: a silent time bomb.

title: Deadly Leaks

overview: Journalist Rommy Kirchhoff wants to interview a whistle-blower. Paul Holthaus, lobbyist on behalf of the agricultural company Norgreen Life Inc., is ready to report on the background negotiations on TTIP. But as soon as the explosive interview begins, Rommy is overwhelmed. When she regains consciousness, there is no trace of the informant. Rommy realizes she has entered a story of unprecedented proportions.

title: Sicilian Ghost Story

overview: In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.

title: The New End

overview: In a post-apocalyptic world, only the men seem to have survived. The law of the jungle rules. Among them is a doctor who has retired to an abandoned sanatorium. When a self-proclaimed healer and his son set out to seize power, things take a fatal turn for the worse. Is there any hope? A man of small stature wanders among the lost and is the only one who knows that on a small island in the river, deep in the woods there, a woman lives in secret and protects her child.

title: Wildcats

overview: Orphan, Oskar lives with Elvis and Fanny Egger, his guardians. Oskar is waiting for one thing, the majority, to finally be able to go to Zimbabwe and start a new life. While Oskar strives to raise money to get there, Elvis takes Oskar's success and makes it cost him to graduate. The balance of power is becoming more and more tense, swinging into a violence that will push Oskar to definitively abandon childhood, and Elvis, to fall the mask of his ambition and his madness.

title: Homevideo

overview: Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him. Jakob focuses on class dream-girl Hannah, without much luck. His secret recording of himself masturbating gets into class bullies Henry and Erik's hands through the mother's thoughtlessness. The rascals blackmail Jakob and post the video on the Internet. After a raging lecture phase, dad stands up for Jakob, but his life is already wrecked more than anyone realizes.

title: Cloud Whispers

overview: On an impulse, 60 year old Charlotte leaves her husband stranded at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. A deep and driven instinct has her setting off, away from her old mundane life as a grandmother, a mother, a wife, and towards a new and different life. Little does she know that her granddaughter, Jo, a wonderfully whimsical child, is hiding in the back of the car. Charlotte’s spontaneous escape triggers off a journey, not only for her and her granddaughter, but also for her husband Paul and daughter Alex. As Paul and Alex pursue Charlotte and Jo across the countryside, they stumble into their own mishaps, self discoveries and emotional confrontations.

title: Small Fish

overview: Three respectable citizens of a Swiss winter sports resort find themselves in financial trouble due to a lack of snow. When Paul, René, and Werner find the plan for the perfect bank robbery at the home of their deceased curling friend Heinz, they are willing to take the risk after some initial hesitation. Preparations are in full swing. They didn't expect their love lives to be completely turned upside down in the process. Finally, the three men manage to break into the bank... The surprise is great when the vault door opens!

title: Matti and Sami and the Three Biggest Mistakes in the Universe

overview: Matti is 11 years old and dreams of a family vacation in his father’s native country, Finland. He manages to get what he wants by telling a whopping lie. But once they get there, Matti, his younger brother Sami and his parents find themselves without a place to stay, no money and no car in the middle of Finnish wilderness. Only a miracle can save them – or Uncle Jussi, who has been struggling to compete with Matti’s father his whole life. This movie based on Salah Naoura’s award-winning children book offers entertainment for people of all ages.

original_title: Matti & Sami und die drei grössten Fehler des Universums

title: Das Ächzen der Asche

overview: An experimental conclusion to Klopfensteins trilogy of walk-and-talk philosophical films, presented mostly in negative black-and-white pictures

title: Bis ans Ende der Träume

overview: Both aspire to remain true to themselves and to build their lives freely. This bold vision in the 1950s is that of Katharina von Arx and Freddy Drilhon, when they meet during a trip to Polynesia. A passionate love unites them; she becomes famous as a reporter and illustrator, and he as a photographer. When the couple settled with their daughter in Romainmôtier to turn the ruined priory into their new home, their relationship was put to the test. While Katharina put all her energy into restoring the impressive building, Freddy began to feel depressed in this remote village in the canton of Vaud. A serious crisis erupted between the two and they broke up. Freddy left Katharina to start a new life on the south coast of England—but the love that united them did not fade.

title: Cronofobia

overview: A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.

title: The Black Brothers

overview: Up until the middle of the 19Th century, poverty stricken mountain farmers from the Ticino area of Switzerland frequently sold their children to Milan as chimney sweeps or spazzacamini. That is also young Giorgios fate. He is forced to climb through pitch black chimneys, flinging down the soot with his bare hands. But he does not lose heart. Together with his buddies sharing in the same misery, he establishes the association of Black Brothers. They stick together, struggling against their penury and getting involved in fights with the street gangs of Milan. The film tells of the gripping adventures of the chimney sweep boys and their spectacular escape back to their native land.

title: How I Taught Myself to Be a Child

overview: Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor - and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities.  Based on the motives of the short story with the same name by André Heller.

original_title: Wie ich lernte, bei mir selbst Kind zu sein

title: The Tears Thing

overview: Florence is an actress. The preparations for her next film will put her through an unexpected ordeal: an initiation with real bullets.

title: Little Paradise

overview: Annegret, is a mentally handicapped woman in her mid-thirties who falls in love with Res, an oldish slightly peculiar rocker. Annegret's family however is not happy with the relationship and they want to stop her seeing her lover. Annegreth fights back.

title: Roll the Drum!

overview: In the spring of 1970 a small village in Valais experienced unusual turbulence. Is it because of the federal vote on women's suffrage? Or in the upcoming foreign infiltration initiative? No, it's worse: the brass band is falling apart! Half of the village blames Aloys, the other half blames Pierre. What begins as a musical conflict soon leads to a political conflict and even extends to love.

title: Sunburned

overview: Feeling neglected by her mother and sister on their holiday in Spain, 13-year-old Claire tries to help a young Senegalese beach vendor to escape his misery.

title: Exit Oerlikon

overview: When Hans looks back, he must say: That was a good life! He saw the world, loved his wife Martha and yes, two, three things went wrong. But that doesn't need to be talked about. And now? Two years ago Martha died, Hans can barely manage his daily routine anymore, and after a visit to the vet his beloved dog Miller doesn't return home. Hans is tired. Basically he can't be bothered anymore. He wants to die. But one doesn't talk about this. At best maybe with Willi, his friend. He trusts in him, he considers him as his ally, who should help him implement his plan...

title: Human Factors

overview: To escape mounting tensions at the advertising agency they co-own, French-German couple Nina and Jan whisk their kids, Max and Emma, away to their seaside vacation home. The couple has signed a new politically charged client, forcing them to confront their clashing priorities. But what’s meant to be an idyllic off-season retreat turns sinister when burglars tear through the house, unseen by anyone except Nina. Though at first the aftermath brings the family closer, it’s short-lived once Max reveals he glimpsed his father hiding during the break-in. As the police investigate and the evidence doesn’t add up, the account of what took place begins to unravel alongside the couple’s faith in each other.

title: The Collini Case

overview: A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

title: The Girl and the Spider

overview: Lisa is moving. Upheaval all around: Her mother flirts with a handyman. An eccentric woman seems to be preparing for a glamorous event, a family next door returns from vacation, and a girl documents the adventurous day. As boxes are transported, walls painted white, and furniture is assembled, underlying problems in need of fixing are revealed, a to-do list expands, and desires and needs flair up.

title: Robber Girls

overview: Emily is sent to work and live in the Sovereign's castle. She manages to escape into the woods, where she meets some lively hookers. Together they become «Robber Girls» taking a stand and fighting the patriarchy.

title: Zahorí

overview: The Patagonian steppe is battered by a grey wind... Mora is 13 years old and intends to become a "gaucho". She questions the school and asserts her individuality towards her parents, two environmentalists from Italian-speaking Switzerland whose dream of autonomy turns into a nightmare. Mora goes deep into the steppe to help the only friend she has, Nazareno, an old Mapuche who has lost his horse, Zahorí.

title: Violet

overview: After an argument with his mother, 12-year-old Dan, who suffers from scoliosis, seeks love and intimacy from 17-year-old Anna, who is supposed to look after him. While his mother, who works for a security company, is on the night shift, Dan and Anna cross set boundaries.

title: The Courageous

overview: In a small town on the edge of wild country, an eccentric and delinquent mother has had enough of the rules. Crushed by her mistakes and by a society that doesn't give a damn – or a second chance – to people like her, she'll do anything to prove to her children, and to herself, that she still is a good person.

title: Dinosaures

overview: For years, Antonio, a bricklayer, has fudged the books and paid his employee Victor under the table, but Covid causes his system to collapse. While at first he still wants to blame the system for his misery, he finally has to realise that he can only save his friendship with Victor and his relationship with his wife if he finally takes responsibility for his actions.

title: Ailleurs

overview: Isabelle is a young woman suffering from cystic fibrosis, a genetic and degenerative disease that drastically reduces her life expectancy. At the age of 19, she tries to leave her family environment, which she shares with her mother and sister, to become independent through a solitary trip to Asia. But her family is not ready to let Isabelle take such risks…

title: Borowski und der gute Mensch

title: My Brother’s Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot

overview: For teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a blissful cornfield near a remote gas station. They are in their own little world, a twin world of twin games and twin love. A confined world where emotions rise, where pressure mounts into rage… The turmoil of adolescence.

original_title: Mein Bruder heisst Robert und ist ein Idiot

title: Zen for Nothing

title: Don't Tell Me You Can't Sing

overview: One day, Claire has to overcome her fears. She leaves her everyday life behind, to find Carla her second half, who desperatly needs her help. It’s the story of a death and of a rebirth.

title: Don't Tell Me You Can't Sing

title: Karigula - Monster der Liebe

title: Ghosts

title: A Friend of Mine

title: Nebenwirkungen

title: Love, Money, Love

title: The Free Will

title: The Days Between

title: Electric Fields

title: Brownian Movement

title: Friends of Friends

title: Last Dance

title: Breakaway

title: Anxiety

title: Color of the Ocean

title: Formentera

title: Cyanide

title: Transamazonia

title: Futuro Beach

title: Pepperminta

title: The Wonders

title: Sugar Orange

title: Thunder

title: Those Who Work

title: Mutants

title: Irgendwas ist immer

title: A Forgotten Man

title: Meanwhile on Earth

title: St. Francis Birds Tour

title: The Drift

title: After Effect

title: Chaos and Silence

title: Flanke ins All

title: Center of My World

title: Karigula - Monster der Liebe

title: 180°

title: Zen for Nothing

title: The Investigation

title: The Chronicles of Melanie

title: 7 Minutes

title: Kill Daddy Good Night

title: Analysis Paralysis

title: Sarah Plays a Werewolf

title: Deadly Leaks

title: Sicilian Ghost Story

title: The New End

title: Wildcats

title: Homevideo

title: Cloud Whispers

title: Small Fish

title: Das Ächzen der Asche

title: Bis ans Ende der Träume

title: Cronofobia

title: The Black Brothers

title: How I Taught Myself to Be a Child

title: The Tears Thing

title: Little Paradise

title: Roll the Drum!

title: Sunburned

title: Exit Oerlikon

title: Human Factors

title: The Collini Case

title: The Girl and the Spider

title: Robber Girls

title: Zahorí

title: Violet

title: The Courageous

title: Dinosaures

title: Ailleurs

title: Borowski und der gute Mensch

title: Zen for Nothing

title: Don't Tell Me You Can't Sing

title: Don't Tell Me You Can't Sing


Ken Loach

biography:
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936; Nuneaton) is a retired British film director, screenwriter and producer. His humanist values and socialist political views are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001).

Kenneth Charles Loach was born on 17 June 1936 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Vivien (née Hamlin) and John Loach. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and at the age of 19 went to serve in the Royal Air Force. He read law at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated with a third-class degree. As a member of the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club he directed an open-air production of Bartholomew Fair for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford, in 1959 (when he also took the role of the shady horse-dealer Dan Jordan Knockem). After Oxford, he began a career in the dramatic arts.

Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice.

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

overview: A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.

character: Self

original_name: The Story of Film: An Odyssey

original_language: en

Reel Britannia

overview: Comedian Nick Helm narrates this bold new documentary series exploring the dramatic history of British cinema. Discover how cinema held a mirror up to society from 1960 through to the 00s.

original_name: Reel Britannia

John Bishop: In Conversation with...

overview: A three series talk show. With the host in conversation with people whom he admires.

original_name: John Bishop: In Conversation with...

Square

original_name: Square

origin_country: DE FR

Question Time

overview: This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.

character: Self - Panellist

original_name: Question Time

Carry On Ken

overview: A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing actors a wide range of freedom.

original_name: Carry On Ken

Victoria Wood: The Secret List

overview: Back in 2009, Victoria wrote a list of her favourite moments from her seminal 80s series, intending to use it as a compilation show of self-selected best bits. The list remained locked away in her personal office until now. It features familiar favourites and often overlooked gems, but as these two programmes explore, the chosen sketches serve as a prediction of what was to come in an unparalleled career that crossed just about every genre of stage and screen.

original_name: Victoria Wood: The Secret List

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma

Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius

overview: An immersive look at how a young woman from a small village in 18th-century England became one of the UK's best-loved novelists.

original_name: Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius

British Film Forever

overview: Running for seven weeks from July 2007, each week focused on a different genre, examining British film by genre. Presented by Jessica Stevenson the series featured over 200 exclusive interviews with leading actors and directors including Sir Michael Caine, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Kate Winslet.

original_name: British Film Forever

Television

overview: Exhaustive 13-part survey of the television medium from its hesitant beginnings in the 1920s to the multi-million dollar extravaganzas of today and the cable and satellite technologies of the future [relative to 1985]. Tackling the medium as a worldwide phenomenon, the series examines each of the principal areas of programming - news, drama, documentaries, and light entertainment - and the unique impact of "live" coverage.

original_name: Television

The Wednesday Play

job: Director

overview: An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

department: Directing

original_name: The Wednesday Play

Z-Cars

overview: Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.

original_name: Z-Cars

Play for Today

overview: Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

original_name: Play for Today

Days of Hope

overview: Days of Hope is a BBC television drama serial produced in 1975. The series dealt with the lives of a working-class family from the turmoils of the First World War in 1916 to the General Strike in 1926. It was written by Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach.

original_name: Days of Hope

Diary of a Young Man

overview: A six-part BBC drama series following two young men from northern England as they move to London in search of work and opportunity, encountering relationships, social challenges, and the realities of urban life in 1960s Britain.

original_name: Diary of a Young Man

Teletale

overview: TV Show Details

original_name: Teletale

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

overview: Anthology series of dramatic works.

original_name: ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Full House

overview: Full House was a live entertainment for Saturday, presenting a mixture of music, plays, poetry, prose, comedy, films, the visual arts - and a few surprises.

original_name: Full House

job: Writer

department: Writing

Split Screen

overview: Two partisan views of a controversial issue.

original_name: Split Screen

Dispatches

overview: Long-running Channel 4 documentary series covering issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment. Known for featuring a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.

original_name: Dispatches

Modern Times

overview: Documentaries showing faces and places that make up the way we live today.

original_name: Modern Times

twitter_id: KenLoachSixteen

Español

biography: Director de cine británico que ha abordado con franqueza los problemas sociales y políticos de su época. En sus películas ha introducido personajes pertenecientes a la clase obrera en un momento en el que el cine europeo se interesaba principalmente por la clase media. Nacido en Nuneaton (condado de Warwick, Inglaterra), Loach fue director de teatro antes de comenzar a trabajar en televisión. En 1967 realizó su primer largometraje para el cine, Poor Cow. Las películas Kes (1969) y Vida familiar (1972) le valieron el reconocimiento internacional y gracias a ellas pasó a ser considerado uno de los continuadores más dotados de la gran tradición realista del cine británico. En 1979 dirigió Black Jack, película histórica que denuncia la represión en el entorno escolar, familiar y médico. A ésta siguieron varios largometrajes sobre la situación contemporánea del Reino Unido. En ellos trataba temas de gran actualidad, como el paro en Looks and Smiles (1981), el problema irlandés en Agenda oculta (1990) y la precariedad en Riff-Raff (1991). Después de dirigir Lloviendo piedras (1993) y Ladybird, ladybird (1994) dedicó su atención a otras cuestiones, como la actuación de las Brigadas Internacionales durante la Guerra Civil española (Tierra y libertad, 1995) o la situación de Nicaragua en una emotiva historia de amor con trasfondo de lucha implacable entre contras y sandinistas (La canción de Carla, 1996). Volvió a sus temas originarios en Mi nombre es Joe (1997), Pan y rosas (2000), La cuadrilla (2001), sobre las condiciones de trabajo de los ferroviarios de la British Rail, y Sweet Sixteen (2002), que ganó la Espiga de Oro de la Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid.

iso_639_1: es

iso_3166_1: ES

english_name: Spanish

한국어/조선말

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iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

Deutsch

biography:
Kenneth Charles Loach ist ein britischer Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor und Produzent. Sein sozialkritischer Regiestil zeigt sich in seinen Filmen, die sich mit sozialen Problemen wie Armut (Poor Cow, 1967), Obdachlosigkeit (Cathy Come Home, 1966) und Arbeitnehmerrechten (Riff-Raff, 1991; The Navigators, 2001) auseinandersetzen.

Loach wurde als Sohn von Vivien (geb. Hamlin) und John Loach geboren. Als Mitglied des Experimental Theatre Club der Universität Oxford inszenierte er 1959 eine Freilichtaufführung von „Bartholomew Fair“ für das Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford (wo er auch die Rolle des zwielichtigen Pferdehändlers Dan Jordan Knockem übernahm). Nach seinem Studium in Oxford begann er eine Karriere in den darstellenden Künsten.

Loachs Film „Kes“ (1969) wurde in einer Umfrage des British Film Institute zum siebtbesten britischen Film des 20. Jahrhunderts gewählt. Zwei seiner Filme, „The Wind That Shakes the Barley“ (2006) und „Ich, Daniel Blake“ (2016), wurden mit der Goldenen Palme in Cannes ausgezeichnet. Damit gehört er zu den nur neun Filmemachern, die diese Auszeichnung zweimal erhielten.

普通话

肯·洛奇

biography: 肯·洛奇（英语：Ken Loach），英国独立电影与电视导演编剧，影视作品以写实自然的技法与社会性题材，关注低下阶层生活，劳工权益，以及宣扬社会主义理念而广为人识。电影作品屡次获得国际影展多个奖项，包括戛纳电影节金棕榈奖及威尼斯电影节的终身成就奖。

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iso_3166_1: CN

Português

biography: Kenneth "Ken" Loach (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, 17 de junho de 1936) é um cineasta britânico. Embora trabalhasse com muito mais frequência na televisão - vinte curtas e longa-metragem - do que no cinema, nos anos 1980-1990, quando surge a onda de renovação do cinema britânico, com Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears, Larry Clarke, David Leland e outros, Loach parece ter pavimentado o caminho para esses cineastas, mantendo-se fiel a um posicionamento político marxista. Em 2006, recebeu a Palme d'or do 59º Festival de Cannes por "Ventos da Liberdade". Em 2016, recebeu sua segunda Palme d'or, por "Eu, Daniel Blake".

普通话

堅盧治

biography: 堅盧治（英語：Ken Loach），英國獨立電影與電視導演編劇，影視作品以寫實自然的技法與社會性題材，關注低下階層生活，勞工權益，以及宣揚社會主義理念而廣為人識。電影作品屢次獲得國際影展多個獎項，包括戛納電影節金棕櫚獎及威尼斯電影節的終身成就獎。

also_known_as:
Kenneth Charles Loach
켄 로치
Kenneth Loach
肯·洛奇
Кен Лоуч
堅盧治
کن لوچ

title: Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

overview: Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a sure and obvious fact. However, much of cinema and our filmed history has been lost forever. Archivists, technicians and filmmakers from different parts of the world explain what audiovisual preservation is and why it is necessary. The documentary is a tribute to all these professionals and their important work.

title: Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie

overview: In 2017, with the support of an extraordinary grassroots movement, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn came close to becoming prime minister. The establishment trembled. Britain stood on the threshold of huge political change. But within three years all, it seemed, was lost.  What happened and why?

title: Cannes Uncut

overview: Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that have been part of the Cannes Film Festival over eight decades, as well as looking to the future.

title: Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte

title: Catastroika

overview: The creators of Debtocracy, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization and search for clues on the day after Greece's massive privatization program.

title: Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent

overview: This documentary looks at the life of Jordi Dauder through an interview with the actor a few weeks before his death. From her interventions and people who knew him, the play explores the experiences of actor, from his artistic side as from his political convictions and life.

title: I Get Knocked Down

overview: Part music documentary, part unflinching character study, part a punk version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - I Get Knocked Down is the funny, surreal, and deeply human untold story of Chumbawamba and its ex-front man Dunstan Bruce.

title: Thatcher's Not Dead

overview: This film sketches a very personal and decidedly political portrait of the Iron Lady who left the greatest mark on the UK, alongside Queen Elizabeth II. Archives and interviews are enriched by songs from this period that really help to understand the social atmosphere of that time.

title: We Are Many

overview: The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq.

title: 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

overview: A history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

original_title: 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight

title: The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

overview: Documentary looking at the making-of and real-life stories behind the award-winning conspiracy thriller starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and Brian Cox

title: C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando

original_title: C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando

title: A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema

overview: Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s Lynn on the making of Hugh Hudson’s Revolution, starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski.

original_title: A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema

title: About Cinema

overview: An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.

title: Uomini in Marcia

title: Ken and Rosa

overview: Documentary about Ken Loach and Rosa Ayala, a janitor who worked as an extra in the picture 'Bread and Roses'

title: Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

overview: A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepares to release his final major film I, Daniel Blake.

title: Il était une fois... « Rosetta »

overview: Thirty-eighth documentary in the "Un film et son époque" series. It retraces the genesis, shooting and unexpected success of "Rosetta", a film by Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Palme d'Or winner in 1999, "Rosetta" recounts the daily struggle of a young girl, played by Emilie Dequenne, who lives in a caravan with her alcoholic and depressive mother, struggling from one odd job to the next. All she wants is a normal life.

title: Great Directors

overview: Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera.

title: Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

overview: An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moments of cinema, from Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen.

original_title: Acqua e zucchero – Carlo Di Palma: i colori della vita

title: Vittorio D.

overview: A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

title: Right to Work March

overview: They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.

title: The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema

original_title: The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema

title: A Special Day

overview: At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

title: Who Killed British Cinema?

overview: A feature length documentary about the real state of the British film industry in relation to UK structures past, present and currently for the future. This film exposes the shocking truths about the UK Governments' will to grow an indigenous British film industry, the legacy and testament of the now closed UK Film Council (UKFC), the current British Film Institute and the new Creative England.

title: Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra

overview: July, 1936. The terrible Spanish Civil War begins. When the streets are taken by the working class, the social revolution begins as well. The public shows are socialized, a model of production and exhibition of films, never seen before in the history of cinema, is created, where the workers are the owners and managers of the industry, through the unions.

title: Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman

overview: A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in television and film. Featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Bill Paterson, Ken Loach, Neil Jordan, and Jeremy Isaacs.

original_title: Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman

title: Greg Davies: Looking for Kes

overview: Comedian, actor and ex-English teacher Greg Davies is a lifelong fan of Barry Hines's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the story of Billy Casper training a kestrel as an escape from his troubled home and school life. In this documentary, Greg goes in search of the book's enduring appeal, travelling to Barnsley, where the book was set and where Ken Loach's famous adaptation, Kes, was filmed.

title: The Great NHS Heist

overview: A documentary film in which Dr Bob Gill, a General Practitioner and NHS campaigner, takes us through the story of the NHS and exposes the plans to privatise and sell it off for profit.

title: CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

overview: An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.

title: Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

overview: Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies.  Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with many who created the series, including producers Kenith Trodd, Margaret Matheson and Richard Eyre, and directors Mike Leigh, David Hare and Ken Loach.

original_title: Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

title: To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

overview: Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others.

title: Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"

overview: The documentary, filmed in England in autumn 2020, sheds light on the genesis and background of the social drama.

original_title: Il était une fois... « Moi, Daniel Blake »

title: Carry On Ken

title: What Do You Know About Me

overview: Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.

original_title: Di me cosa ne sai - Inchiesta su un grande mistero italiano

title: Making Kes

overview: A documentary on the making of Kes, produced by the Criterion Collection.

title: A Bolsa ou a Vida

overview: In the post-pandemic future of covid-19, will the centrality be the financial casino and the accumulation of wealth by an elite or a quality life for all, with less inequality? Did the minimal state show itself capable of serving the collective? How to guarantee life without social and labor rights? What model of society do we want to live in? The film addresses the dismantling of the concept of social welfare and makes us reflect on the incompatibility of neoliberalism with a humanist project of society.

title: Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots

overview: Anti-British, spineless, out-of-touch, terrorist-sympathisers, communists, and a threat to national security. The media bestowed unsavoury accolades on Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn. They now step forward in order to change the narrative.

title: Citizen Ken Loach

overview: A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Karim Dridi, originally aired 2 July 1997.

title: Censoring Palestine

overview: Produced by award-winning Platform Films, this documentary examines how the truth is being censored in the mainstream and social media, in education and education and entertainment and how terrorism law is being used to silence dissent. With contributions from Ken Loach, Peter Oborne and Sarah Wilkinson.

title: How to Make a Ken Loach Film

overview: Originally released as an Interactive viewing experience (like the Black Mirror episode "Bandersnatch") where viewers could choose different parts to watch. It was later featured on the Criterion Collection DVD and blu-ray disc release for I, Daniel Blake (2016) in a 38 minute edited version.

title: The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues

overview: Ten years after the first documentary, the legend of the Palme d’Or… continues. Some new laureates of the Cannes trophy relive, for us, the very special moments surrounding the awarding of the Palme d’Or.

title: The Bad Patriots

overview: Anti-British, cowardly, out of touch with reality, terrorist sympathizers, communists and a threat to national security. These were some of the titles that the mainstream media attributed to filmmaker Ken Loach and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Now, they are destroying some of these old myths to change the narrative. The documentary addresses media bias, defamation and censorship, and exposes the mechanisms of the establishment and the British mainstream press, revealing how they exploit fear and discrimination to defame individuals, their ideas and the project they represent. But these tactics are not limited to the UK: the film draws parallels with other parts of the world, including the United States, Brazil and other European countries.

title: The Wind That Shakes the Barley

overview: In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

title: Sweet Sixteen

overview: Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

title: Ae Fond Kiss...

overview: A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

title: September 11

overview: An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.

title: Carla's Song

overview: A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.

title: The Flickering Flame

overview: Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive support from around the world and seek solidarity at the TUC conference.

title: The Flickering Flame

title: My Name Is Joe

overview: Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.

title: It's a Free World...

overview: Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.

title: Kes

overview: Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

title: To Each His Own Cinema

overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

original_title: Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence

title: The Navigators

overview: In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland Infrastructure, it is clear that there will be the inevitable winners and losers as downsizing and efficiency become the new buzzwords.

title: Land and Freedom

overview: David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

title: Bread and Roses

overview: Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

title: Raining Stones

overview: Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

title: Hidden Agenda

overview: In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.

title: Looking for Eric

overview: A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor -- the ex-footballer Eric Cantona.

title: Ladybird Ladybird

overview: Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.

title: Black Jack

overview: When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and mishap are never far away. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums, and traveling fairs they find friendship in the most unlikely places.

title: Looks and Smiles

overview: Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom. Karen misses her dad. She offers Mick emotional stability and a route to adulthood; Alan pitches the army. Does Mick have a future?

title: Family Life

overview: A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.

title: Poor Cow

overview: A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.

title: Tickets

overview: A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.

title: The Angels' Share

overview: Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.

title: Riff-Raff

overview: Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

title: Route Irish

overview: A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.

title: The Gamekeeper

overview: George Purse is the gamekeeper for the duke's estate, a role he takes seriously. His position gives him a certain status, but he has an uneasy relationship with some of the locals, not least those who turn to poaching

title: The Old Oak

overview: A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.

title: Fatherland

overview: Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who - just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...

title: The Spirit of '45

overview: How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.

title: Which Side Are You On?

overview: The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.

title: Jimmy's Hall

overview: Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

title: Cathy Come Home

overview: Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, Cathy Come Home remains a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with social issues, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children.

title: The End of Arthur's Marriage

overview: In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.

title: In Two Minds

overview: Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?

title: The Golden Vision

overview: The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations.

title: The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People

overview: The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles.

original_title: The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People

title: The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality

overview: A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.

original_title: The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality

title: The Gamekeeper

title: Auditions

title: A Question of Leadership

overview: Shortly after Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister, Ken Loach returned to documentary, convinced that the long gestation of feature films made them useless as instruments of topical social comment. But his trade union documentary A Question of Leadership, intended for national ITV broadcast, was criticised by the Independent Broadcasting Authority for its explicitly anti-government stance. It was eventually screened a year later, exclusively in the Midlands (tx. 13/8/1981). Believing that the then-new Channel 4 would be more amenable to politicised documentaries, Loach proposed the four-part Questions of Leadership (1983), a wider-ranging study of the trade union movement - but on viewing the completed programmes' strong criticism of leading trade unionists, an anxious Channel 4 shortened the series to two parts and proposed screening a 'balancing' documentary by a different filmmaker, before scrapping the broadcast altogether.

title: McLibel

overview: McLibel is a documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong for Spanner Films about the McLibel case. The film was first completed, as a 52 minute television version, in 1997, after the conclusion of the original McLibel trial. It was then re-edited to 85 minute feature length in 2005, after the McLibel defendants took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

title: The Big Flame

overview: After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.

title: Black Jack

title: I, Daniel Blake

overview: A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

title: A Tap on the Shoulder

overview: Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?

title: Three Clear Sundays

overview: Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.

title: Up the Junction

overview: The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.

title: The Coming Out Party

overview: When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.

title: The Rank and File

overview: Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.

title: The Save the Children Fund Film

overview: Director Ken Loach explores the politics of race, class and charity in a capitalist society in this documentary funded by the Save the Children foundation.

title: Talk About Work

overview: Ken Loach's censored production for the Central Office of Information.

title: The View from the Woodpile

overview: Ken Loach documentary; made for Central Television in 1988, but rejected, and not shown until the following year, when it was taken up by Channel 4. It tells the story of the West Midlands-based Young Foundry theatre group members Stephen Page,Paul Harper, Jimmy Dunn,Chris Dunn, Caroline White and Roy Stokes who act out a series of scenes reflecting their past, unemployment, homelessness and drug abuse that is rife in the local area.

title: The Red and the Blue

overview: Ken Loach documentary, contrasting the 1982 Labour and Conservative Party conferences.

title: Time to Go

overview: Ken Loach documentary, pushing for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland.

title: The Arthur Legend

overview: Ken Loach documentary for Channel 4's Dispatches, investigating false claims of fraud and corruption during the miners' strike of '84/'85 that reared their head against Arthur Scargill in 1990.

title: Auditions

title: A Question of Leadership

title: End of the Battle... Not the End of the War

overview: Ken Loach documentary on the end of the 1984 - '85 miners' strike.

original_title: End of the Battle... Not the End of the War

title: Another City: A Week in the Life of Bath's Football Club

overview: Ken Loach documentary on Bath Football Club.

original_title: Another City: A Week in the Life of Bath's Football Club

title: Cathy Come Home

title: In Conversation With Jeremy Corbyn

overview: Ken Loach spent two days on the Jeremy Corbyn Labour leadership campaign trail in the summer of 2016. He documented people sharing their personal stories and discussing their reasons for supporting our agenda. These stories show why Labour must transform and rebuild Britain so that no one and no community is left behind.

title: Kes

title: Wear a Very Big Hat

overview: A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.

title: A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership

original_title: A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership

title: The Spirit of '45

title: In Conversation With Jeremy Corbyn

title: Idyll

overview: Fewer families were born, lived, and died in the same place. People, especially young ones, were ready for a new life, as far removed from the old one as possible. Living space was much smaller and there were few, if any, servants. Many wives were working outside the home and leisure was not to be spent doing housework, but in being out of doors as much as possible. Emphasis was on informal living and informal entertaining.

title: Which Side Are You On?

title: The View from the Woodpile

title: In Conversation With Jeremy Corbyn

title: Sorry We Missed You

overview: Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

title: It's a Free World...

title: Poor Cow

title: September 11

title: The Limey

overview: The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.

title: Palestine 36

overview: Year 1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe and some arriving with nefarious Zionist-colonial ambitions, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain’s 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.

title: Forgotten Spaceman

overview: Abdul Ahad Momand traveled to the Mir space station in 1988 as Afghanistan neared collapse – a moment of brief national hope that has since been largely scrubbed from public memory. Filmmaker Elham Ehsas weaves archival footage with personal history to trace that legacy and surface his own connection to Momand’s journey.

title: Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

title: Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie

title: Cannes Uncut

title: Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte

title: Catastroika

title: Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent

title: I Get Knocked Down

title: Thatcher's Not Dead

title: We Are Many

title: The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

title: About Cinema

title: Uomini in Marcia

title: Ken and Rosa

title: Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

title: Il était une fois... « Rosetta »

title: Great Directors

title: Vittorio D.

title: Right to Work March

title: A Special Day

title: Who Killed British Cinema?

title: Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra

title: Greg Davies: Looking for Kes

title: The Great NHS Heist

title: CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

title: To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

title: Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"

title: Carry On Ken

title: What Do You Know About Me

title: Making Kes

title: A Bolsa ou a Vida

title: Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots

title: Citizen Ken Loach

title: Censoring Palestine

title: How to Make a Ken Loach Film

title: The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues

title: The Bad Patriots

title: The Wind That Shakes the Barley

title: Sweet Sixteen

title: Ae Fond Kiss...

title: September 11

title: Carla's Song

title: The Flickering Flame

title: The Flickering Flame

title: My Name Is Joe

title: It's a Free World...

title: Kes

title: To Each His Own Cinema

title: The Navigators

title: Land and Freedom

title: Bread and Roses

title: Raining Stones

title: Hidden Agenda

title: Looking for Eric

title: Ladybird Ladybird

title: Black Jack

title: Looks and Smiles

title: Family Life

title: Poor Cow

title: Tickets

title: The Angels' Share

title: Riff-Raff

title: Route Irish

title: The Gamekeeper

title: The Old Oak

title: Fatherland

title: The Spirit of '45

title: Which Side Are You On?

title: Jimmy's Hall

title: Cathy Come Home

title: The End of Arthur's Marriage

title: In Two Minds

title: The Golden Vision

title: The Gamekeeper

title: Auditions

title: A Question of Leadership

title: McLibel

title: The Big Flame

title: Black Jack

title: I, Daniel Blake

title: A Tap on the Shoulder

title: Three Clear Sundays

title: Up the Junction

title: The Coming Out Party

title: The Rank and File

title: The Save the Children Fund Film

title: Talk About Work

title: The View from the Woodpile

title: The Red and the Blue

title: Time to Go

title: The Arthur Legend

title: Auditions

title: A Question of Leadership

title: Cathy Come Home

title: In Conversation With Jeremy Corbyn

title: Kes

title: Wear a Very Big Hat

title: The Spirit of '45

title: In Conversation With Jeremy Corbyn

title: Idyll

title: Which Side Are You On?

title: The View from the Woodpile

title: In Conversation With Jeremy Corbyn

title: Sorry We Missed You

title: It's a Free World...

title: Poor Cow

title: September 11

title: The Limey

title: Palestine 36

title: Forgotten Spaceman