Films by Ayhan Salar

Germany 2010, 43 min
by Gerhard Widmer, Michael Wolff (fact+film)

The modern digitalized world is tied together through glass fibre cables. Although overall stable, damages to sea cables in certain regions can still arrest whole economies. Billions of dollars depend on new technological developments in glass fibre cable technology. Science has come a long way since the “Great Eastern”, the largest ship of its era, installed the first sea cable in 1866. In this documentary, current visions and developments in glass fibre technology are interwoven with a re-tell

Germany 2002
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Up to now the fishery agreement between the EU and Morocco has made it possible for the Spanish fleet to fish Moroccan waters dry, a region which still had one of the highest fish populations in the world in the 1980s. In the meantime Morocco has undertaken great efforts to build up its own fishing industry. Now, for example, the state is setting up new fishing villages with training centres. Exemplary cooperation is already being developed between Bremen and the fishery centre in Dakhla. The do