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Basel Tattoo 2016

"Busch singt" consists of 6 films "About the first part of our century" and does not present Ernst Busch only as a singer but is a film with and about Busch as a chronicler and fighter for communist ideals of his time. Konrad Wolf died during the production, he directed part 3 "1935 oder Das Faß der Pandora" and part 5 "Ein Toter auf Urlaub".

Teenagers talk about the butterflies in one’s stomach, their curiosity or their disillusionment after the “first time”.

Illegal care for the elderly is a major grievance that has long been tolerated by the state - it's the only way the system works. The work is hard, self-sacrificing and unnoticed by the public. Seemingly invisible. An affected person reports.

Documentary about the social microcosm of Hasenheide, a 50 hectar green area in Berlin, located between Kreuzberg and Neukölln. In this park, you'll find old women with their dogs, young football players, Turks at the barbecue, as well as nudists. For the residents, Hasenheide is sports area, living room, pub and runway all at once. A refutation of the media panic surrounding the park as a place of drug dealing and violence.

The Vatican opened once-secret records on Pope Pius XII on March 2020. This gave researchers a brand new insight into the Catholic Church during the Nazi era. What did the Pope know about the Holocaust?

Documentary about the German city of Boppard

In 2020, the contraceptive pill will be 60 and has revolutionized the relationship between the sexes. The Pill brought freedom, but today more and more women are seeking freedom from the Pill. And they ask: Why is there no pill for men? Scientists all over the world are doing research on the Pill for Men - and in the end there is a surprising discovery: hormonal and non-hormonal contraception for men has been around for a long time. And it has been used successfully for 50 years.

A documentary about Masuria, a province in the northeast of Poland, which is probably the most renowned part of former East-Prussia. Albeit a recent boom in tourism, the sparsely populated region still remains one of the poorest regions in Europe. The impressively photographed film reflects upon the eventful history of this land: It portrays farmers, who struggle to work the barren land; fishermen, who fight for their existence, and Ukrainians, who were once forced to relocate and now return to their old home in the East.

A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

Award-winning director Langjahr returns to his beloved Alps to document a group of people continuing the legacy of their forefathers. Every year on Swiss National day, August 1, the Wildheuer climb up the steep mountain of the «Hinteren Heubrig», fitted out with scythes and wearing wooden shoes with spikes, just as their ancestors did before them. They are part of a generation who have lived with the challenges of nature and survived it. In his film, Langjahr's poetic realism gives an insight into these people's experience of the simple life, the very foundation of human existence.

A tracking shot along the objects on the shelves of a film prop warehouse will trigger stories in our minds. The orange-coloured telephone takes us to the futuristic 1970s, plastic salmon canapés on artificial lemon slices invite us to a party, cut and thrust weapons herald mortal danger.

Asta Nielsen: pioneer of cinema and first European film star, tragedienne and comedienne, writer and artist. As a working-class child and single parent, she works her way up from the bottom - and consciously stages herself as the first role model for independent women and queers. We retell the story of this singular phenomenon with her own words and film clips.

Bridges are built to connect people, unless it is forbidden to cross them. The towns of Sighet in Romania and Ukrainian Slatina are separated by the river Tisza. A recently rebuilt bridge is supposed to not only reunite the two towns but also bring back together friends and relatives who have been divided throughout history by various political decisions. The former bridge was destroyed by German troops in 1944. After WWII, the border was closed. For 50 years there was nothing but silence between the inhabitants of Romanian Sighet and the city of Slatina, which then belonged to the Soviet Union. The film documents the long, often absurd and eventually vain struggle of the local inhabitants and politicians to reconnect the two communities.

The unique music documentary about the legendary thrash metal band Destruction.

Short film about regenerative energy sources

In 1991, the Schwarze Pumpe energy centre in Lusatia is phased out. Tens of thousands lose their jobs, hoping for better times. Today, the dirt and feelings of the past keep coming up.

Short by Thomas Schamoni.

The lives of Ruth, Philipp, and Anja are directly linked to coal. And so they are also directly affected by the debate surrounding the coal phase-out. They are concerned about their future, but from different perspectives and in different ways. The days of coal are numbered. A coal commission is currently working on a concept for phasing out coal that includes an end date for lignite mining and power generation while ensuring that the climate protection target for 2030 is achieved. Germany already generates almost 40 percent of its electricity needs from renewable energies.

Pedro and Flavio live a simple and beautiful life together, filled to the brim with love, away from the distractions of the outside world. For the past 30 years, they have poured their heart and soul into their scenic property situated in the rolling hills of Bologna.

A portrait of the nearly 90-year-old dance pioneer who cared little about bourgeois conformity and devoted herself all the more to dismantling stereotypical images of people: "These citizens are all basically going backwards."

While making a film about Berlin's housing crisis, Rory Ryder stumbles upon a forgotten East German building that just might be a groundbreaking solution for emergency housing worldwide.

The documentary shows how young women belong to the Sorbian community, while at the same time the tensions between the generations are clearly perceptible.

A man’s voice from offscreen. He lists individual words, has problems of articulation. At first these are abstract terms, the screen stays black. Sky, street, village and house, however, are accompanied by suitable images. They take us into the speaker’s life. It is his house. These are his automatic shutters. We look into the kitchen where his wife is preparing something. He exercises in a specially equipped room. Later he sits in front of the microphone again, obviously recording his voice to preserve it. Another dimension opens between the recorded words and sentences and beyond the images. There is an inevitability in the room – and a great love. The robot vacuum makes its rounds. Who will put the words stored on the computer into a meaningful context later?

The only AIDS prevention film made in East Germany forefronts discussions with young people and some erotic scenes, while downplaying homosexuality.

Three boys are growing up in Israel and the Palestinian territories, right next to each other, in completely different worlds. We follow them over the course of a year, through adolescence. We watch as they experience life in promiscuous Tel Aviv, in the religious ideology of a Jewish settlement and in the occupied city of Hebron, where Israeli soldiers are in control. One year of trials and tribulations of three sixteen year old boys. They try to fulfill their teenage dreams in an environment of violence and sometimes war.

The film deals with the decades-long development of the legal prosecution of the crimes committed in Auschwitz, using the last trials as a mirror of the first Auschwitz trials in the 1960s.

Experience the transportive landscape paintings of artist Ulrike Arnold, made from earth and other natural materials collected from around the world.

New movie by Gabriel Tempea

After their graduation, Anne, Efy, Elisabeth, Johannes, and Kaupo get their motorcycle licenses and set off on four old rusty Ural 650 sidecar motorcycles, travelling eastward from Germany to New York City. When plans collapse things start to get interesting. Roads dissolve into deserts, swamps, and rivers until they reach the 80 kilometres of open sea separating Russia from Alaska, the Bering Strait. Their unreliable motorcycles suffer ongoing breakdowns and the raw and rugged terrain throws them the most unrelenting difficult challenges. Equipped with no more than naivety and persistence they somehow make their way through the most isolated corners of the world. After 20,000 km of breakdowns, all roads end and the only way to get closer to the Bering Strait is by The Kolyma, a remote 1,600 km long river. To cross it, the group build an amphibious motorcycle rig that will lead them closer to Bering Strait.

Sachamama is a retreat lodge in Peruvian Amazonia. There, Francisco Montes leads ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists seeking insight and healing.

Filmed in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and West Germany, 'Spanien!' investigates ideas of internationalism and solidarity, using personal testimonies from former members of the International Brigades who joined the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War and from members of the Workers’ Commissions ('Comisiones Obreras').

The film shows a convent in Alto Adige run by just two nuns, bilogical sisters. To make sure that "those out there don´t think two nuns no longer make a convent", they try to keep up a full range of activities. The women´s headstrong character and their stubborn insistence on autonomy and self-dependency creates situations that are both touching and funny, and entirely unexpected in a place like this.

Documentary nature film. Two boys roam the pre-Alpine mountain forest. The camera accompanies them and observes birds, insects, foxes, weasels, and marmots. A local history excursion.

Beyond the forest is the city of tomorrow, before the forest are the villages of yesterday.

The small Italian volcanic island of Linosa, south of Sicily, is home to one of the largest colonies of cuttlefish shearwaters in the Mediterranean. According to legend, the birds, with their distinctive song, provided the inspiration for Homer's epic poem: Odysseus had himself tied to the mast of his ship so he could safely listen to the song of the Sirens.

The Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve in Belarus is an undisturbed realm in the southern taiga. Extensive swamps, a complex river system, and numerous lakes bear witness to the glaciers that once covered the area. It is unique because it contains so many different types of natural swamps. The "Big Five" of European wildlife live here in one place: bear, wolf, lynx, bison, and elk. And the black grouse, which has become extremely rare in Europe, gathers here every April for mating season. It is an extraordinary spectacle when the imposing blue-black black grouses make their courtship calls in the swamps. Those who immerse themselves in the world of the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve gain an incomparable insight into the vast mosaic of floodplain forests, lakes, and acidic peat bogs.