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After the end of the GDR, thrashings, threats and hunts were part of everyday life. In the years after the reunification of the early 1990s, hatred, racism and violence against foreigners and supporters of leftist ideology broken out in Eastern Germany. Most of those involved was young people. In many cities and towns, the streets and squares belonged to the right-wing scene, organized in neo-Nazi comradeships. Bomber jackets, combat boots and the Hitler salute showed the intimidated rest where they were. The baseball bat was a popular weapon. There were riots, attacks on asylum seekers' homes, mass brawls and hunt downs to those who look or think differently. It doesn't took long and the first deaths were to be mourned. The majority of the Eastern German population looked the other way or even applauded the deeds. A bad omen for the political development of later years. In six film segments, a team of authors take a look at the time reflected in interviews with contemporary witnesses.

Kevin Magee investigates the true story behind rumours of a Nazi spy in Donegal in 1937. Investigative journalist Kevin Magee uncovers the work of Nazi party member and Irish scholar Dr Ludwig Mühlhausen. Mühlhausen spent six weeks in the Gaeltacht hamlet of Teileann in South Donegal in 1937, collecting folklore and improving his Ulster Irish, but that was not the only work he carried out while he was there. As Kevin reveals, in reality he was working as a Nazi spy, gathering information and passing it on to the Third Reich.

Thirty years after the Oka Crisis, a fragile peace remains in place between the Mohawks of Kanesatake and the other residents of the region. Rappers Biz and Samian do a double take on the history of this longstanding territorial conflict.

A special one-off programme going behind the scenes of preparations for Christmas at the palace. Shows what it takes to bring the magnificent palace to life over the festive season, from cooking traditional Tudor recipes to harvesting mistletoe from the gardens. Joint Chief Curator Tracy Borman also explores royal Christmas traditions through the ages, including gifts from the past.

This experimental autobiographical film, in which features the filmmaker's family, questions the emotion of the faded moment through audiovisual memory. The artist reappropriates on Super8 film the last moments of Hélène Lamoureux, his recently deceased grandmother. The memory image crystallizes a chaos frozen around the inanimate body.

During the 1950s, a Greek concert pianist meets the love of her life in Trieste, Italy. After they marry, she follows him to the United States -- where a cruel fate awaits her.

Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate.

A feminist sci-fi adventure documentary following an experimental physicist on her quest to have a baby.

an online gamer encounters an NPC in real life from having skipped a youtube advert

Animated documentary about a man who recalls a near-death experience involving drowning.

Punctuated by 8mm footage filmed in the '60s by Richard Brickell, the East Sussex farmer of 90 reflects on a way of farming that's deeply connected with the land, smaller and more community focused and how we could all benefit from a return to that way.

Ana is a brilliant professor of forensic medicine who is preparing the next Chilean generation of doctors. She lives with her daughter Ursula, who has autism. One day, Ana’s name appears on TV, on a list of former agents of the dictatorship. Faced with harassment from her former colleagues and the police, Ana must protect what is most precious to her.

A lady in distress, a man with a helper complex - together they have to survive the contact ban and the snake man in the bathtub anyway!

Koki makes a living in Guatemala City by winning the trust of people while arranging the theft of their possessions. By day he is a guide to tourists who get mugged at gunpoint, by night he seduces men only to lead them back to Carlos’s hotel, where they will be robbed. Koki and Carlos function as two sides of the same coin, justifying these violent activities through the need to survive. When Koki becomes the target of one of his victims and, as a result, is swiftly replaced by Carlos with another young good looking boy, he can observe what had up to then been his life in what feels like a disembodied experience.

Liverpool's most beloved cops reunite in order to take down the city's most notorious toilet roll dealer.

Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes: “What’s driving there, on a cart and stretches out his long trunk?/ It is a mammoth! It is a mammoth! It is a mammoth which wants to go home.”

What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, stage director Árpád Schilling tries to answer this mythological, political and existential question, lying at the core of Richard Wagners Lohengrin. A wonder! A miracle!, the men and women of Brabant agreed when, against all expectations, someone stood up for Elsa and invalidated the allegations made by the plaintiff Telramund. And yet he does the most normal thing in the world: to help a person in distress. So why is there a need for this savior, surrounded by the aura of mystery, whose name and origin even his new wife Elsa cannot ask? Why does the collective body abdicates its moral and political responsibilities and surrenders them to a single individual? And when does the providential man stops being a savior and becomes a threat?

The world is thirsty because we are hungry; stop wasting water.

A group of renters take a look at why housing is hostile, and how we can use social action to make a change.

The Pharmacist's house, the New System of Squares and the Pirrello house: three projects made for the town of Gibellina Nuova (Trapani, Sicily) by architects Franco Purini and Laura Thermes. A dialogue between three architectural projects: on fragmentation and accuracy.

Italo lives in Saviore dell'Adamello, in Valcamonica. His life changed after meeting some groups of Native Americans, whom he had the opportunity to host: coming from afar, along different but deeply connected paths, their gazes will come together in a new spiritual journey. The anticipation of this encounter makes the passing of time a journey in which Italo slowly experiences the changing seasons, savoring every moment of the cold winter, awaiting the arrival of summer and an Indian chief.

Strong Hans and Princess Sarah wants to find out why the source that is vital for their village has dried up.

Nanda Devi, meaning the goddess of happiness, is the patron mountain of the Indian Himalayas. During the cold war in 1965, the CIA collaborated with the Indian Intelligence Bureau to site a nuclear-powered surveillance device on the mountain to intercept Chinese nuclear missile data. The mountain goddess, a temperamental revolutionary, whipped up an immense tempest, and the expedition turned around. The plutonium powered device was stashed on the mountain with the intention of recovering it the following season, however it has yet to be found, and "could still be ticking somewhere". Since 1965, the plutonium-powered generator has potentially been leaking radioactivity into the mountain. Mysterious cases of cancer abound in the surrounding villages, and the mountain has since been closed to subsequent expeditions.

The director Félix Lamarche questions our relationship with the St. Lawrence River during the winter. Aboard the Amundsen, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker, we follow passionate scientists who explore the mysteries of an inaccessible nature. Combining the landscapes of the ice floe and the invisible movements of underwater life, the film takes us on a documentary journey to the heart of this still little known river.

A making-of documentary of Total Life Forever, the 2010 album by British rock band, Foals. The short film, directed by Dave Ma, marks the 10th anniversary of the album.

Freud described the sinister (unheimlich) as a contradictory experience where the strange is presented to us as known and the known becomes strange. A granddaughter discovers that her grandmother's past was very different from what she had been told. Could it be that in times of war, morality is subordinated to survival?

Wilchaan and Marie-Lou have just started their studies as professional dancers at the strict Codarts School in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Away from their home and family for the first time in their lives, they are confronted with absence and loneliness, stretching the limits of their bodies day after day. Prologue is an intimate and singular journey along their side, as they both find their own way to adulthood through dancing and friendship.

Four friends decide to make a robbery.

"collage25" is an audiovisual intervention, in the form of divertimento, based on the film in the public domain "Carnival of Souls" by Herk Harvey (1962) that is part of a large experimental audiovisual research project that tries to explore, from the point of view of artistic-expressive activities, formal, structural, narrative and aesthetic issues. For this we intervene and construct variations, spatial and temporal of mythical scenes of the cinema that have passed through public domain. We modify its previous meanings, amplifying or varying its narrative value and its audiovisual aspect, tries to transfer, with moving images, expressive and emotional concepts to the screen. Repetitions reinforce the formal, narrative and structural aspects. Altering any resemblance to reality.

Disabled artist and film-maker Richard Butchins investigates whether good vision equals great art and looks at modern and historical artists through the lens of their impaired vision.

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a documentary film by Michael Oswald about Colin Wallace, a former Senior Information Officer at the Ministry of Defence, UK. As part of his work Colin Wallace engaged in PsyOps and spread fake news, he and his colleagues created a witchcraft scare, smeared politicians and attempted to divide and create conflict amongst communities, organisations and individuals. Colin Wallace fell out with sections of the British intelligence community, he was framed for a murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison. 15 years after his conviction the sentence was quashed on appeal after the Home Office coroner admitted his report had been influenced by a member of the intelligence community. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a unique and in-depth look at the smoke and mirrors world of intelligence, psychological warfare and fake news through the eyes of a man who stood proudly at the centre of that world.

The inhabitants of Madrid have always been called «cats», but what we did not know is that with confinement we were going to understand the true meaning of being a cat.

A contrada retraced at a distance of years finds its vanishing point in the image of Castel del Monte. The building, characterized by the recurrence of the number eight, loses its firmitas to shine in the form of fireworks.

How much can one imagine, feel, and how many times can one gain trust and lose trust, within only 4 minutes and 33 seconds? Using as a starting point her desire to represent a certain kind of silence, the director plays with the spectator's need for reliability. The film is never what one believes it is - until the last revelation. "The Last Name of John Cage" acts as still dialogue between a loud inner tension and the silent one all around.

Ana returns to Earth and recovers memories from before her departure.

Carla, a young girl 25 years old, is a waitress at a restaurant. While Giulia, the same age as her and with the same economic difficulties, gets paid to get undressed on the internet, in a pornographic video-chatroom. One night, they will need each other.

When she discovers that Diana cheated on her, Caterina decides to end their relationship. Saying goodbye will be harder than expected.

In early 2020, the lockdown has brought the world to a halt. Homes become space stations, hermetically sealed off from the outside world. Nobody goes out, only the thoughts go wandering. Students of seven international universities exchange personal impressions of and reflections on this forced isolation online and get to know each other through this joint project.

In Isère, in the mountainous region of Trièves, is the Tournesol farm, an experiential farm totally autonomous in energy, a veritable laboratory for renewable energies. Jean-Philippe and his family live there from sheep farming and organic market gardening. But in September 2017, a violent fire destroyed the farm and its facilities. While the family has lost everything, a surge of solidarity is taking place so that the Tournesol farm is reborn from its ashes.

Jim Marshall was a maverick with a camera. An outsider who captured the heights of Rock’N’Roll music and the seismic changes of an era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the 60’s.

A documentary about a long lost N64 game.

Patrice is an inmate in the french prison Bois d’Arcy. As an actor and at the same time a silent spectator he hides his drama through a routine of daily gestures and ambiguous postures.