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Unearthed

Unearthed is a campaigning, yet whimsical, stop frame animation using natural clay, itself from the earth, to celebrate and explore the theme of healthy soil, teeming with life. We zoom down and focus in on ever-more tiny beings that inhabit this largely unknown biome beneath our feet. Choreographed to Strauss’s Blue Danube waltz, the film’s characters dance out of Pearl’s imagination, inspired by wiggling earthworms, fungal mycelium, bugs, and soil bacteria. Healthy soil is key to life on earth. In a germophobic world, where soil is mostly considered ‘dirt’, a location that disgusts because insects thrive and pathogens possibly lurk, Unearthed encourages us instead to fall in love with the tiny beings living there, and whispers an SOS - to ‘Save Our Soil’.

Unearthed

NR 2023
Time Travel – From Bonn to Speia

Stefan Koch, a man from the city of Bonn, discovers in the drawer of his deceased mother a letter from his grandfather to his father and some official documents attesting to the death of his grandfather in the Second World War, in Moldova, a few miles north the village of Speia. Following this discovery, Stefan decides to leave, in search for his grandfather’s grave. Initially, he has great difficulty in his searches, because of language barriers. Later, he meets some freehearted and generous people who make him understand that there are actually no boundaries between the East and the West.

Time Travel – From Bonn to Speia

NR 2023
Finding fireflies

In the innner Sicily, where the highways cut the hills, where the skeletons of the buildings emerge from the wheat fields and where the airplanes get into the soundspace, it is summer. Giorgio, a ten years old child, has decided to explore this territory after he heard a fairytale about fireflies. At the same time an old 87 years old sheperd lives his routine. The night and the morning he lives in a small old fashioned home made of only one room, meanwhile during the day he takes the cow to pasture. Both will have to deal with a rural territory, that despite having been and being affected from the signifying landscape of the human being, follows its unchanged cyclical nature.

Finding fireflies

NR 2023
Fiaker – A echts Weana Kind

The hackney carriage, once the fastest means of transportation for aristocrats and commoners, is now a cliché-ridden Viennese cultural asset, a popular tourist attraction and an object of hate for animal rights activists. Like the beggars, the hackney carriages are "children of the street". Their stand is their village square. They know the locals, they are hated or loved. The rhythm of the horses determines their pace and they are dependent on tourism. Ulli Gladik and her team portray five horse-drawn carriage drivers: we are with them in the stables, see them on their tours, experience them at their stables in St. Stephen's Cathedral, handling their horses and in discussions with animal rights activists. A film about passion, cliché and tradition, the relationship between animals, humans and the big city and a Viennese cultural asset threatened with extinction.

Fiaker – A echts Weana Kind

NR 2023
Santiano – Keiner geht verloren – Die Doku

With albums such as "Bis ans Ende der Welt" and their unmistakable sailor sound, the band Santiano regularly achieves top positions in the charts and inspires an audience of millions. The documentary "Santiano - Keiner geht verloren" presents the successful shanty rock band from Schleswig-Holstein in all its facets. It looks back on the last ten years since the band was founded and sheds light on the musicians' careers - their triumphs and strokes of fate.

Santiano – Keiner geht verloren – Die Doku

NR 2023
Made in Europe

For more than 30 years, my father has been travelling from Georgia to Germany or the Netherlands to buy second-hand cars, preferably Mercedes Sprinter vans. He packs them full of bicycles and furniture such as used leather sofas, chairs and tables. For some years now, he has also been buying scrap cars. He dismantles them into their components, which he sends to Georgia by container, often on behalf of Georgian wholesalers. Then my father drives 4,800 kilometres back to Georgia in a Sprinter alone. Spare parts and second-hand goods from Europe are valuable enough in Georgia to sell them for a small profit, despite the high cost of travel. This is how my father earns his living in the international flow of goods—under difficult conditions: hard physical work, health hazards, separation from his family and poor accommodations.

Made in Europe

NR 2023