Germany 2023, 50 minby Christian Zipfel
Far away, in the middle of the Namibian wasteland, on former German-colonial soil. Due to a lack of prospects, some Namibians dig for gemstones in illegal, dangerous mines. The transmedia series THE SOIL OF THE NAMIB tells their story in four documentary parts: A short film DREAMS, which follows three workers on their search, and three complementary 360° episodes. LAND deals with the issue of land theft and the identity of the local people. WRAITHS recounts the start of the diamond rush in Namib
The Soil of the Namib
Germany 2013, 63 minby Diana Groó
Diana Groós’s poetic documentary REGINA tells the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944), a woman who made history by becoming the first properly ordained woman rabbi in the world. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish peddler, Jonas was ordained in 1935. During the Nazi era and the war, her sermons and her unparalleled dedication brought encouragement to the persecuted German Jews. Regina Jonas was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. The only surviving photo of Jonas serves as a leitmotif for the film, show
REGINA
Germany 2011, 57 minby Ronen Abas
A group of elderly widows in Haifa, Israel, meet a few times a week to gamble their money in a game of poker. Over the 40 years they have been playing together, none of the women remarried. Now, in their older days, what once was friendship has slowly turned into a love-hate relationship. As the son of one of the players, filmmaker Ronen Abas has known the women since his childhood. In the film, he looks into the history of the group, their relationship with each other and their individual life
THE POKER WIDOWS
Germany 2011by Milan Miletic
It was meant to be a holiday trip to Belgrade for Brice Taton and his friends to support their football team Toulouse playing against Partizan, but it ended with his murder. Unaware of the climate of lynch 72 hours prior the Belgrade Gay Pride 2009, Brice and his friends were enjoying the afternoon in a public cafe when they were attacked by a gang of hooligans. Brice was thrown of a 10 meter high staircase and died two weeks later. Shortly after this violent act the Pride Parade was cancelled.
A MURDER REVISITED
Germany 2010, 52 minby Sönke el Bitar, Gorch Pieken
German Military in World War II used drugs on a lage scale to enhance the performance of the troops. It was Speed – than called Pervitin – that made the Blitz possible. The film reveals a military secret and gives a voice to veterans that tell us the story of drugs in the Wehrmacht.
THE BLITZ ON SPEED
Germany 2009by Kersting Nickig
A film on the effects European refugee policies have on four refugees of the conflict in Chechnya and their families: "As- Salamu Alaykum, Europe" is how the diary of the journalist, Ali (39), begins as he waits in Poland for a decision to be made on his asylum request. In his smoke-filled room at the refugee home he has more than enough time to record his observations and thoughts on both Europe and his own crisis of identity in exile. Wacha (50) has been granted asylum as a political activist
NOWHERE IN EUROPE
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