Walker+Worm Film GmbH & Co. KG

Germany 2012, 75 min
by August Pflugfelder

A quiet, essay-like journey into the expansive world of the winter sport industry. What happens behind the lifts, the snow cannons and the heated outdoor pools? What happens beyond the pistes during the summer and wintertime? This is a calm observational piece that raises questions without making evaluations. Instead of finger wagging, the film leaves it up to us to contemplate the natural mountain resources that we have appropriated and our responsibility towards them. Impressive, with bold images, silent and inquiring.

Germany 2010
by Frauke Finsterwalder

In 2007, a group of young men began planning the largest building in the world - a gigantic pyramid. They envisioned a tomb, 800 meters tall, for the ashes of one billion dead people. People of all nations and faiths, to be built on a field in East Germany. The documentary "The Great Pyramid" features a group of eccentrics who woke up one morning with a huge pyramid-shaped idea, but instead of getting on with their lives they actually decided to see it through. This is the story of their dream, of how they thought they could singlehandedly save the German economy, of people who helped them and people who hated them.

Germany 2009
by Jens Junker

“He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone” - an Apostle of the New Apostolic Church lays a young married couple’s conflict to rest with this quotation from the Bible. Afterwards, nothing is ever said about the woman’s adultery. And so a young boy grows up in a deceptive idyll together with his family and his brothers and sisters in faith, firmly anchored in the ideologies of a petit-bourgeois, religious environment. He never really registers the fact that his appearance is unusual for a German. In his early twenties, he argues fiercely with his father, who reveals the supposed truth of his son’s origins in a rage. The family emerges as a structure of hypocrisy, its members as silent guardians of shared knowledge - not only that of his identity. Roaming his childhood haunts in Castrop-Rauxel, a small industrial town, and on subsequent travels to Lebanon he encounters strange familiars, and finally a familiar stranger. original German/English/Arabic version with English subtitles available