polyeides medienkontor münchen berlin

Germany 2009, 92 min
by Matthias Zuber, Martin Farkas

Ruediger was a child, Aki two months old and Kurt the deputy of the pedophile leader of the sect. In 1961 they came to chile together with 500 other German sect members and for over 40 years they lived secluded from the rest of the world. The film tells about the attempt to survive as a collective after decades of crimes such as torture and murder. This film depicts the effort to survive as a community after an extreme human tragedy - showing different ways in which the individual copes with the history of the community. These are german stories of displacement, desire, romantic enthusiasm and despair. It is a film about guilt, victimisation and coming to terms with them.

Germany 2009, 82 min
by Philip Vogt

Zef Sokoli is the Bajraktar of the Dukagjin - "he who holds the flag", who calls his men together with a rifle shot and leads them to war when someone threatens his mountain villages in Northern Albania. He still receives members of various tribes in the house of his ancestors, mediating between them when there are arguments - or another blood feud. But his kingdom is falling apart. More and more mountain people feel the call of the valleys. Even the Bajraktar's heirs, his three sons, are down in the city looking for work and a future. But one of them must inherit his father’s legacy - it’s tradition. Documentary about a once powerful clan-leader and reconciler in blood-feuds in the Dukagjin, northern Albania, and his family, and their search for a future between migration and tradition. original Albanian version with German or English subtitles available