Like no one else, your siblings know the real you. They’ve seen you at your worst, maybe at your best, and in any case, at your smallest. It’s a relationship with a closeness and a candor all its own, ...

Bad Fever, David Fetzer, David Lowery, Dustin Guy Defa, Eleonore Hendricks, Kentucker Audley, Kickstarter, Little Miss Sunshine, SXSW Film Festival 2011 Screening Times: Friday March 11th, 8:45pm ...

With this year’s selection, the Berlinale seems to be creating space in the festival calendar, between Sundance and SXSW, for a particular type of American indie: the melancholy, slight, intensely ...

“Traumfabrik” marks the return of one of Germany’s most successful producers back onto the film stage in more ways than one. A period-piece love letter to East Germany’s famed DEFA film studios, now ...

Any filmmaker who has been around the block knows something about reactions to films — when you’re first praised for the cinematography, something has gone wrong. And when a critic spends more time on ...

The filmmaker spent a decade making off-kilter comedies that became one of the festival circuit's best-kept secrets. It wasn't an easy ride. Dustin Guy Defa makes his Sundance Film Festival feature ...

A newly restored version of the weimar-era film "Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World?" has just been released on DVD by the campus-based DEFA Film Library. Banned by the Nazis, the film is notable for ...

East Germany's state film company film studio, DEFA, was founded on May 17, 1946. A look back at the GDR's film industry and what is left of it. May 17, 1946 was the founding date of Deutsche Film AG ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on September 23, 1993, Prof. Barton Byg ...

Abstract: Destinies of Women (Frauenschicksale), a 1952 DEFA film, incited intense debates on the role of women in East Germany. Created by director Slatan Dudow, composer Hanns Eisler, and author ...