Mira Film GmbH

Argentinia, Germany, Switzerland 2024, 90 min
by Lola Arias

Who are the cis women and trans people that go through the prison system? How did they end up there? How do they transform their time there into something creative, where they can rewrite their own lives and invent a future?Reas is a musical film starring cis women and trans people who were detained in different prisons in Argentina. In what was once Caseros Prison, now abandoned and in ruins, they reconstruct scenes from their past lives and imagine their future, singing, dancing and performing.With: Noelia Pérez, Estefanía Hardcastle, Paula Asturayme, Yoceli Arias, Nacho Rodriguez, Carla Canteros, Cintia Aguirre, Jade de la Cruz Romero, Julieta Fernandez, Pato Aguirre Santangelo, Laura Amato, Silvana Gomez y Daniela BordaSUPPORTED BY INCAA, Idfa Bertha Fund, Sundance documentary Fund, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW P2, Bundesamt für Kultur - BAK, BKM Produktion, Film- und Medienkunst Basel

2024, 103 min
by Gabriela Schild, Gerald Igor Hauzenberger

The city of Agadez in Niger lies at the entrance to the Sahara. Until 2023, it was the European Union's security anchor in West Africa. It was from here that migration flows were monitored and police and border guards were trained. A virtual border ensured that only a few migrants were allowed to cross from Agadez to the Mediterranean. In return, the city's citizens were promised that youth unemployment, crime and corruption would be tackled. Over a period of five years, the film follows the daily struggles of three townspeople against social and political injustice. A sensitive portrait of the city of Tuarag at the crossroads of cultures, revealing the failure of the pact with Europe. [Mira Film]2024 37 IDFA

2023, 96 min

As a daughter, director Miriam Pucitta was given to a foreign family in Switzerland so that her Italian mother could continue working there as a guest worker. Was she a 'forbidden child'?Today, together with her own daughter, she sets out to find traces and injuries of her family in Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

Switzerland, Germany, Georgia 2021, 91 min
by Salomé Jashi

The opening shot of filmmaker Salomé Jashi’s striking environmental tale captures a tree as tall as a 15-story building floating on a barge across the vast Black Sea. Its destination lies within a garden countless miles away, privately owned by a wealthy and anonymous man whose passion resides in the removal, and subsequent replanting, of foreign trees into his own man-made Eden.With astonishing cinematic style,Taming the Garden tracks the surreal uprooting of ancient trees from their Georgian locales. With each removal, tensions flare between workers and villagers. Some see financial incentives—new roads, handsome fees—while others angrily mourn the loss of what was assumed an immovable monolith of their town’s collective history and memory. With a steady and shrewdly observant eye, Jashi documents a single man’s power over Earth’s natural gardens: how majestic living artifacts of a country’s identity can so effortlessly become uprooted by individuals with no connection to the nature they now claim as their own.

Germany 2019, 83 min
by Sebastian Heinzel

How much soldier is still alive in me?, Sebastian Heinzel asks himself when he learns from the Wehrmacht archives that his grandfather fought in Russia during the Second World War. Grandpa Hans had never told his family about the mission.Inspired by these discoveries, the filmmaker travels to the places where his grandfather was stationed as a soldier. He encounters unexpected connections to his own life and to his war dreams, which have been haunting him for decades. As Sebastian gets deeper into the search, he gets his father involved, which breaks a silence that has blanketed his father and brings the two closer together. The film shows how knots in one's own family history can be loosened and how changes can be made.New research from epigenetics indicates that enormous stress experiences change the genetic make-up. These groundbreaking insights offer a window onto inheritance the descendants carry on their shoulders - often without being aware of it. With the help of scientists, therapists and authors, the director explores how far-reaching collective events such as flight, expulsion and genocide reach into the second and third generations.Against the background of the global refugee crisis and international tensions, the film explores the long-term consequences of war and the work we must do in ourselves in order to make healing and reconciliation possible.

Switzerland, Germany 2018, 79 min
by Jürgen Brügger, Jörg Haaßengier

MASTER OF DISASTER focuses on the world of disaster management presenting a bizarre picture of contingency planning and bureaucratic control experiments. On an almost weekly basis in Europe, a range of both minor and major disasters are rehearsed: power cuts, widespread flooding, nuclear meltdowns. They range from training exercises for the local fire brigade to large-scale enactments across several states and involving 10,000 volunteers or more. In the company of the main protagonists, we delve into the most Kafka-esque aspects of these fantastic, fictional worst-case scenarios.