Films by Zoltan Ravasz

2022, 101 min
by Bertram Verhaag

Yes we can! A change in agriculture! NOW!How blind does a society still have to become before it turns against the Agricultural Industry and its fatal consequences? A different kind of agriculture is more than overdue - a CHANGE in agriculture! NOW! An ecological lighthouse project in Hohenlohe (BW) has been showing for 35 years how things can be done differently. Founder of the BÄUERLICHEN ERZEUGERGEMEINSCHAFT SCHWÄBISCH-HALL (BESH) is Rudolf Bühler, a Hohenlohe farmer rebel in the 14th generat

Germany 2020, 87 min
by Wolfgang Ettlich (MGS Filmproduktion)

Deutschlandreise (Germany Journey) is a road movie through East Germany and at the same time a journey through time, because the documentary filmmaker Wolfgang Ettlich made the same journey for the first time after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 and then several times at long intervals and met the same people again. The original material from the first trip gives unspectacular insights into people's everyday lives and the major changes become visible in contrast to the new images. Have peop

Germany 2014, 52 min
by Bertram Verhaag

“Is this what paradise looks like? With lush poetic images, Bertram Verhaag takes us on a trip to southern England, to Prince Charles’ organic farm. Be prepared to dismiss a many preconceptions after seeing this film; preconceptions against Prince Charles and against organic agriculture.” (ehp June 2013) This film depicts a Prince, who has the vision to feed the world with organic agriculture and heal damaged nature. Alongside his charismatic farm manager David Wilson, he has been pursuing

Germany 2009, 65 min
by Bertram Verhaag

Imagine that a storm blows across your garden – and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for many years. A few days later, representatives of a multi-national corporate group pay you a visit at home, demand that you surrender your vegetables - and simultaneously file a criminal complaint against you, resulting in a fine of USD 20.000,00 – for the illegal use of pate

Germany 2008, 52 min
by Bertram Verhaag

The average age of employees at the Vita Needle Company, a needle and tubing factory near Boston, is an amazing 74 years. Anyone who can make it up the front steps gets hired. In their previous lives, Mary, Marion, Paul, Tom, Ann and Rosa were engineers, nurses, bakers and waiters. Now, they’ve decided against spending their sunset years bored, lonely and inactive. At Vita Needle, they’ve come together and found a new home – and the security of a job for life. Not only that, but they’re busy con

Germany 2008, 30 min
by Bertram Verhaag

Visitors to SEKEM come away full of enthusiasm for the things they have seen, heard and experienced. 28 years after SEKEM’s founding, what was once an uninhabited expanse of desert 60 kilometres northeast of Cairo has been transformed into a fertile, organically-cultivated landscape. SEKEM is the brainchild of Egyptian entrepreneur Ibrahim Abouleish, a remarkable visionary but also a realist. Through his project, he has pioneered a system of biodynamic farming according to stringent Demeter sta

Germany 2008
by Bertram Verhaag

The fascination with and enthusiasm for plastic is just as great as the list of problems, risks and studies associated with its use is long. Most types of plastic that we use every day are nearly non-degradable - and as time goes by, they release many of their often hormonally efficacious additives into the environment. Then, spread by wind, water or illegal waste disposal in the ocean, they are found throughout our entire planet – even in oceanic regions far removed from civilisation. Even toda

Germany 2006
by Bertram Verhaag

You can find it in buffets, with pasta, on bread, steamed in dill sauce or cooked on the grill. Salmon has become big business. It’s 2004, and Canadian company AQUA BOUNTY is about to obtain market approval for its sterile, genetically manipulated giant salmon. The fish grows to six times the size of its wild relatives – and in only half the time. What's more, it's almost inevitable that individual fish will escape from Aqua Bounty's farm - with devastating consequences for the world's wild sal

Germany 2004
by Bertram Verhaag

In the mid-eighties, science, with the help of genetic technology, finds the key to mastering the Earth and its creatures. Suddenly, everything seems possible! Twenty years later, we embark on a global journey to explore the progressive genetic manipulation of plants, animals and human beings: In India, a disastrous crop of genetically modified cotton leaves many farmers facing ruin. They resort to selling a kidney - or committing suicide. In Canada, genetically modified canola seeds blow onto

Germany 2004, 60 min
by Bertram Verhaag

In the mid-eighties science, with the help of genetic technology, finds the key to mastering the earth and especially its creatures. Suddenly, everything seems possible! Years later we embark on a global journey to explore the progressive and continual genetic manipulation of plants and animals: Due to a disastrous crop with genetically modified cotton many Indian farmers face ruin, have to sell one of their kidneys or resort to committing suicide. In Canada genetically modified canola seeds bl

Germany 2003
by Bertram Verhaag

Where’s Winona? This question chases after Winona LaDuke almost everywhere she goes, because this dynamic woman is constantly in motion. Winona is an Anishinaabe from the Mississippi Band of the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. Her mother was a Jewish artist; her father, a Native American who was a stuntman in numerous Hollywood Westerns before he became famous in New Age circles as the visionary Sun Bear. Aged just seventeen, Winona travelled to Geneva to speak out about indigeno

Germany 2002
by Bertram Verhaag

A film about business and money. About searching for the meaning of life. About racism and social and ecological responsibility. A film about the love of life and about spirituality. A film about people doing whatever they do with their whole heart and entire strength. A film about AL BARNUM. AL BARNUM has made it. An Afro-American by birth and brought up in a working-class neighbourhood of Philadelphia, he first worked as a teacher first before switching to a more lucrative job, as a chauffeu