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The film documents coming of age rituals in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Girls are married with the fruit of the wood apple tree and boys are covered with waistcloths. Beside the wedding of seven year old Lipisa to the Bel fruit, scenes of initiations of boys of butcher, Buddhist painter and farmer families are shown. The shooting took place in January / February 2007.

A guy tries to escape the basement of a cannibal.

This is composition reacting to a whinging zeitgeist, threatened with the possibility of war. A still-life in time, a means of having hope. The Allam house is in Esfahan was being renovated when we were there. It had been damaged during the Iran-Iraq war.

An elephant enclosure changing over several years, silently and steadily.

Dentist Jantzen went bankrupt. The few selected objects in his apartment are charged with cryptic meaning. The protagonist leads through his apartment, a self-staging in the ritual of loneliness.

In impoverished southern Italy, a father teaches his son how to build a dry stone wall. But the father's skill alone is not sufficient to provide for the needs of his family.

In a mischievous media remix, Erik Bünger cross-wires vastly disparate cultural responses to the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, jamming the smooth road by which history becomes popular myth. The music video for Céline Dion’s chartbuster My Heart Will Go On (1997) is manipulated and scored to Blind Willie Johnson’s gospel song God Moves on the Water (1929). Instead of an ode to eternal love, Dion now sings praise of God’s implacable wrath.

His seemingly hopeless situation and abysmal hatred turns the nameless nobody into a human time bomb.

The film portrays a middle-class Köpcke family. Father Nils Köpcke is a singer and funeral orator, mother Ulli Köpcke is a former dancer in Bayreuth and now a housewife. At the start of filming, the Köpcke children were still small, but now they are gradually growing up and going their own way. The two daughters Maria and Antonia are also embarking on successful singing careers, while son Moritz is a high-flyer starting a career as an engineer in a Swedish company.

The film tells the story of four generations of single mothers from the Storbeck family: grandma, mother, daughters and a granddaughter. All of them live on social welfare and cannot escape the spiral of financial hardship. The children's fathers don't pay alimony and the fear of an empty fridge is great.

For this film, director Marc Thümmler visited some of the places that Hauswald photographed in the 1980s with Harald Hauswald. There, the photographer talks about his life in the DDR.

A film about sex and sexual identity. Interviews are used in the film to lead a discourse on day-to-day dealings with sex and identity and explore how these are construed out on the street, in film/on television and in personal relationships. How can insinuations and overtones be counteracted? Who or what decides a person’s sex? An active queer community exists in Berlin. Queering is perceived as an exercise in re-examining experiences, perceptions, knowledge, constraints and desires.

Experimental short film by Kai Kinnert.

ROSA ROT gives two frameworks and two points of view: the abstract one, of a free inner thought as manifested by the visual immersion in a piece of landscape subject to constant change, striated by gales mingled with the incessant fall of thick snowflakes - and that, concrete, wider and distanced but in the same axis of this landscape crossed by the fixed frame of a window, which brings us back to a state of physical confinement while reading Rosa Luxemburg's letter from prison gives further evidence. As proof that no prison hinders freedom of thought.

In this film everything is in constant motion: the water, the light, waves and wind. The elements cross and confront each other here, and as this happens, the colours and sounds are set in motion too. This project started as an idea for a 'simple' film: frame, material and sound were designed as simply as possible.

Documentary about German region Brandenburg.

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Highway World - living, changing, growing, is a visual concept, a nonverbal documentary film. The spectator sets out on a trip throughout giant highway construction sites throughout the world

Chercher la Vie ("Looking tor Life") introduces the viewer to two women, Anne-Rose and Rosemène, who each have their own particular way of battling through life. The former makes lunches in a factory yard in Port-au-Prince and sells her meals to the factory workers; the latter is employed in the same factory as a production worker making pullovers and T-shirts. Every day she buys her midday meal on credit from Anne-Rose. Through the connection between these two women the film reveals part of their daily work and the constant battle for survival that they lead together with other women in Haiti.

Documentary about a small town in Yemen.

A short by Alexander Kluge.

When the unemployed old man Ziggy goes for a walk with his dog Netto and after an altercation with the bully 'Bad Ziggy' just wants to have his peace, he gets a visit from his grandchildren. But instead of spending the afternoon idyllically, the unbelievable happens: zombies attack the village and the only one who somehow has an idea of how to get rid of them is Netto! Who will survive this night?

While lust for flesh sets the stage for romance, dreams, pain and love – knowledge of the real origins of sausage - meat and pork - is generally suppressed. A pig does not turn into a sausage but into this film.

Tannhäuser. Festspielhaus Baden-Baden 2008. Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Philippe Jordan. Nikolaus Lehnhoff (Director). With Robert Gambill, Camilla Nylund, Waltraud Meier, Stephen Milling, Roman Trekel.

At first, all that is visible is the image of a woman’s torso, overexposed; on the sound track a rustle, crash, and voices. Ultimately, the picture of a woman – the artist herself – takes shape, a voice begins, but the woman does not move her lips, gazing steadfastly into the camera.