Bad Weather
Bad Weather tells the story of Banishanta Island. It is made up of a community of sex workers. Living on a tiny sliver of land 100 meters long and only ten meters wide in the Bay of Bengal, south Bangladesh, this…
Bakhmaro
A journey into a lively, yet desolate building in a provincial Georgian town. It once used to be a hotel called ‘Bakhmaro’. At the center of the building there is a restaurant with its walls covered in bright green and…
The Block
"The Block". One year, 2005. A small town, somewhere in Germany - Gräfenhainichen. A street in the town - Poetenweg. 85 identical one-room flats. Four doors open to us. Inside, two women and two men. Four generations;…
Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons
1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year – which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?
Children. As Time Flies
What became of bus driver Jeanette's dream? How are her children Tommy and Paul? Is life under control now?
What does Jeanette's little brother Tino mean by "mixing everything"? The snowman has no mouth. Life as it…
Close to Heaven
Dumitru Stanciu is one of the last mountain shepherds of Europe. As his forefathers did for thousands of years, in summer as in winter he and his herd of sheep roam the far reaches of the Transylvanian Carpathian…
Dancing with Time
Ballet dancers normally end their careers in their mid-thirties. But four former professionals, two women and two men, nearing their eighties have taken up the challenge to return to the stage and dance again. "Dancing…
Gagarin's Pioneers
What is home? And what is more important - life or home? Director Vitalij Manskij searches for an answer to this question among his former class-mates with whom he was admitted to the pioneer organisation 'Vladimir…
Inheritance, A Fisherman`s Story
In the year of 2000, the Hungarian river Tisza suffered the worst ecological disaster since Chernobyl. Fishermen like Balazs Meszaros struggled to survive. In an effort to save his people and their way of life Balazs…
Lucky (Niggers)
A film from Berlin, 1999 to 2005. These are children that have just come of age. Vulnerable. Sven, Lena, Thomas, Stephan and Daniela. This is about their lives. The closeness is as intense as the loneliness. We see…
MS Völkerfreundschaft
This documentary film voyages along the Baltic coast to the Soviet Union on the GDR maiden cruise ship, the "MS Völkerfreundschaft" (MS International Friendship). Ulrike Knorr offers us an imaginary stay aboard the MS…
The Queen of Silence
The film tells the story of a 10 years old deaf gypsy girl, living at an illegal settlement in Poland. As the whole community faces the threat of eviction, brutal attacks from the neighbours and extreme poverty – Denisa…
Revue
Revue is based on archive propaganda newsreels produced in the USSR in the 50's and 60's. The film shows the almost forgotten side of the Soviet times and the way of thinking at that period. It explores the life of…
Robinsons of Mantsinsaari
Up to 1940-s the island Mantsinsari belonged to Finland, in 1944 it joined Karelia. At that time all the Finns and Karelians went to Finland. And the island was settled by special people who didn‘t fulfil their work…
Wolli in Paradise
The place: the outskirts of Hamburg, a flat, 2 rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom. The time: one day and the passing night. Wolfgang "Wolli" Köhler, former porn-cinema and brothel founder turned poet and illustrator, lives…