Germany 2024, 91 minby Daniel Abma
When parents can no longer fulfil their duty of care, the children’s world often falls apart. Nothing stays as it was. Suddenly it is no longer mum or dad who are in charge but the youth welfare system. Daniel Abma followed a youth housing group in a rural area over several years, showing professional educators who want to give five boys between the ages of seven and fourteen what they need most urgently, day by day: security, orientation, a home.The documentary focus is not on the children but
The Family Approach
Germany 2022, 85 minby Maksym Melnyk
Somewhere in the Carpathians between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland lies the village of Stuzhytsia. In Ukrainian the name of the village means „cold place". The film tells the stories of three women: the farmer Hanna, the post woman Maria and the biologist Nelya. Surrounded by mountains they cope with social reality and loneliness. The colder the Carpathian winter gets, the more human warmth the film team finds. The film portrays an unknown place in the middle of Europe, where people have to decid
Three Women
Germany 2022, 83 minby Sönje Storm
Birds, bugs and butterflies: The collection of northern German farmer and photographer Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt (1882 -1940) is odd and a little bit uncanny. The documentary Dead Birds Flying High explores the quiet eccentric’s life and work. In 1919 he began to photograph the local flora and fauna and started to observe the extinction of species. In a northern German attic: boxes of pinned butterflies, carefully hand-coloured photographs of the local flora and fauna, hundreds of stuffed and dusty
Dead Birds Flying High
2020, 63 minby Max Benyo
The young woman Silvia Sempeyu belongs to the Maasai tribe and lives in southern Kenya, near the Amboseli National Park. With her five children, she lives in a small wooden house near the border town of Loitokitok, right on the border with Tanzania. Silvia lives in the heart of the „Maasailand", which extends across the borders of East Africa via the Amboseli National Park. She takes a motorcycle taxi to the more remote places in her home country to talk to young women who have become pregnant,
Silvia is my Name
Germany 2020, 63 minby Maxim Melnyk
Two villages with the same name: Schönborn. One located in Transcarpathia in Ukraine, the other one in Brandenburg in Germany. They are both struggling to find their identity, almost 30 years after the fall of communism in Germany and the founding of independent Ukraine. The film accompanies some of the inhabitants for two years and tells the story of getting to know each other: the two Schönborns get closer - first in letters, then in reality.
SCHOENBORN
Germany 2018, 90 minby Lilian Nix
KINDSEIN - Unadulterated is a visually stunning invitation to enter the lives of KURUMI (8), JORGITO (8), SEAN (6) and REKHA (6). These four kids from different countries around the globe inspire to see life through the eyes of a child again. Despite being confronted with touching personal highs and lows, with their point of view they manage to see magic in everyday life, and let solutions to humankind's big issues seem quite obvious. This film is a visually stunning invitation to see life thro
KINDSEIN - Unadultreted
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