Germany, Italy 2019, 116 minby Pepe Danquart
3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe Danquart’s documentary. Following the footsteps of the great Italian thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the filmmaker gains a deep insight into the social reality of present-day Italy. The country is massively affected by globalization, migration and the phenomenon of mass tourism, which, more than ever, is characterised by the same hedonistic conformity that Pasolini lamented more than fifty years ago. Ahe
Ahead of me the South
2019, 82 minby Hubertus Siegert
CHILDREN OF UTOPIA takes us into the Berlin lives of six young people on the cusp of adulthood, as they look back at their time at an inclusive school – a radical concept back then. Some would be described as disabled, but they reject that label. As they discover the new lives they’ve made in the 12 years that have passed, their focus is on the ups and downs of life: love, careers, doubt and determination. This sweet and entertaining coming-of-age movie shows how the respect fostered in Class 5D
Children of Utopia
Germany, Switzerland 2017, 100 minby Milo Rau
The war in Congo has caused more than six million deaths over the last twenty years. The population is suffering, but the offenders stay with impunity. Many people see this conflict as one of globalisation's crucial econimic distribution battles because the country has major deposits of many high-tech raw materials.Milo Rau, one of Europe's most acclaimed theatre directors, succeeds in gathering victims, perpetrators, observes and analysts of the conflict for a unique civil tribunal in eastern C
The Congo Tribunal
Germany 2016, 82 minby Sung-Hyung Cho
While Bang Gye Yong starts singing the song "Beloved Leader and his endless love of his people" at a socialist concert hall in Pjöngjang, 200 kilometres south, in a dingy basement in Seoul, a loud "Grrrrrhhh" is resounding simultaneously. Hu Sun-Gyung is screaming into the microphone: "Dad, it's your fault that I have become slut!"One with the collar of her white blouse buttoned up, a badge with the face of the North Korean Leader Kim Jong II pinned onto it, her hair cut short and neatly, wearin
Two Voices from Korea
Germany 2016, 90 minby Sung-Hyung Cho
Who really knows anything about North Korea beyond its borders? Whatever we see or hear about this isolated land is always the same: Military parades with tanks and rockets, male and female soldiers marching like robots, threats of war, famine, obedient children and not least of all, three generations of dictators and their hysterically adoring followers. Award-winning filmmaker Sung-Hyung Cho pursues this question from right within its midst – in North Korea.MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE NORTH
My Brothers and Sisters in the North
2013, 93 minby Sung-Hyung Cho
In 1952, in the midst of the Korean War, North Korea sent selected students to socialist sister countries with the intention that they should be trained there and then at some point return with their newly accrued knowledge in order to rebuild their ruined homeland. The GDR received a large number of these Korean students.In addition to the German language, these polite young men soon mastered all the local dance moves. It was during this time that they were to have such fateful encounters with
FAR EAST LOVE - My Beloved from North-Korea
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