Thomas Kufus Filmes

Essay film about German family life in the postwar decades, refracted through TV quiz shows and their hosts' biographies.

As the Internet finally arrives in tiny Bhutan, documentarian Thomas Balmès is there to witness its transformative impact on a young Buddhist...

Gerhard Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass...

The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s...

Black Box BRD steps back into German history, showing the Federal Republic of Germany of the 70s and 80s. The country is polarized due to the power...

A year that changed a city - and the world - forever. Hitler's rise to power, told through the letters and diaries of those who lived through a...

With the search for her roots her constant companion, actress Adriana Altaras goes on a journey to find a country which no longer exists - and along...

Lullabies are our first connection to the world – a universal experience we all share, yet it remains deeply personal. "Can you recall a song...

Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and...

This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.

Berlin 1945 time-travels into the city’s most fateful year through the eyes of those, who experienced it: German people and Allied soldiers. A...

After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a...

The retired life in Florida rescued, the Epstein brothers do again what they do best and have practiced for a lifetime music. A Tickle in the Heart...

A look at the work of Israel's controversial former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the...