Films by Daniel Harrich

Germany 2022, 135 min
by Daniel Harrich

An investigative series that looks at water scarcity from all angles and shows it in all its complexity – leaving us in no doubt that the eleventh hour here really is upon us.The most important resource on the planet is in ever shorter supply: water. Temperatures worldwide are rising faster than we feared. What happens when we finally run out of water? This question, which no one would have asked a few years ago, is now becoming vital for survival. In many countries, people are threatened by increasing drought, forced to change their lives or even flee because regions are no longer habitable due to a lack of drinking water. The film explores the consequences for biodiversity: vertebrates are dying of thirst, fish are suffocating and entire forests are withering away. And it’s happening right in the heart of Europe! The drought makes it easy for fungi with dangerous spores to grow, and increases forest decay. Disputes already rage over the distribution of precious water resources. We show how the struggle for this scarce resource is intensifying: drinking water, irrigation in agriculture, industrial water – we all want to help ourselves, but can it go on like this? Do we let riverbeds or an entire region dry up so that industry, for instance a beverage producer, can get enough water? Who owns the drinking water? An exciting series that looks at water scarcity from all angles and shows it in all its complexity – leaving us in no doubt that the eleventh hour here really is upon us.

Germany 2022, 45 min
by Daniel Harrich

Scientific data proves that the American west is increasingly threatened by water scarcity. Massive conflicts are emerging – defined by the struggle for our most precious resource.An investigative journey with renowned NASA scientist Jay Famiglietti on the trail of America’s biggest climate change-induced threat: the megadrought. We have the exclusive opportunity to accompany one of the world’s most respected hydrologists on his journey through the western states of the US. Famiglietti has spent the past 20 years analysing satellite data for NASA's GRACE mission, which prove this region has lost water at an alarming rate. He shows us what this means for communities, the environment and the economy. The reservoirs that supply major cities in the western states have reached record low levels, and some towns and cities already rely on supplies from water tanks. The people there are struggling to survive, while elsewhere private agricultural enterprises or industrial sites in the middle of the desert still treat water resources unsparingly. Conflicts of biblical proportions are emerging, with devastating consequences for flora and fauna – and prospects of a future that will be shaped by the struggle for our most precious resource unless we learn to use it sustainably.

2020, 60 min
by Daniel Harrich

An investigative documentary that exposes the links between Western intelligence services and Pakistan's ISI in the war on Islamist terrorism. A perfidious business with terrorism is revealed. The film aims to find out who is behind Islamist terrorists, the allegedly single perpetrators or autonomous cells that attack targets all over the world. The terrorist attacks can be traced back to Paris, Brussels, Madrid, London and an organisation less well known than IS or Al Qaeda: It calls itself Lashkar-e-Taiba, or Army of the Righteous. It was founded by and is closely linked with the Pakistani intelligence service ISI. Research shows that the masterminds behind numerous attacks work for the Pakistani intelligence service, a partner service of German, French and US intelligence services. In other words, intelligence services in the West train the people who are behind the attacks. They give money to the ISI to infiltrate terrorist groups and monitor terrorists. But in reality, the money goes to the Army of the Righteous and other groups. This means they bring terrorism to Europe. And when fear of new attacks grows, the Europeans give Pakistan even more money. We regard Pakistan as an ally in the war on terror when in fact the state is the main sponsor and supporter of numerous terrorist organisations, financed, armed and trained by its Western partners. The more money they have, the more terrorist attacks are carried out. The more terrorist attacks that occur, the more money there is. Are our intelligence services responsible for making terrorism possible in the first place? Where do we draw the line when it comes to cooperating with partner services? An investigation uncovers for the first time the perfidious business with terrorism.