Animals coming from Eastern Europe for the Italian meat industry used to be transported to the towns in Northeast Italy, and only one animal managed to come in and out alive.
Animals coming from Eastern Europe for the Italian food/meat industry used to be transported to the towns along the state border in Northeast Italy. In those conveyor-belt spaces of death, only one animal managed to come in and out alive.
The competition between the two brothers begins at the seaside. As brothers, they know each other best and become each other's most prominent opponents. The younger brother admires his older brother's natural talents. However, the older brother secretly has a “fatal” weakness. In the three rounds of the competition, lasting two minutes each, they express their secrets to each other.
A woman lives alone with her cat in the city. The small miracles of life can be found in all kinds of everyday moments, and loneliness turns into a happy melody.
A property of chaos is the emergence of pattern. Independent of scale. Paradeigma is the sample of the pattern. We witness a grounded figure which, due to the fear of free fall and discomfort from the rain, closed itself in an enchanted square and can no longer leave. Protagonist manifestation is a repeating sample of a self-similar pattern.
…“ - Well, Adeimantus, has our state now grown to its full size? - Perhaps. - Then, where in it shall we find justice or injustice? If they have come in with one of the elements we have been considering, can you say which one? - I have no idea, Socrates; unless it be somewhere in people's dealings with one another.”
Will the Skateboarding God descend upon a twelve-year-old child? If possible, please let the wind carry its message. Yang has prayed countless times in his heart, but reality doesn't quite match his imagination. “No risk, no reward”. Perhaps a life of skateboarding is destined to be an adventurous journey.
Little Stone, the boy from the mountain, left his grandmother - they depended on each other for life. In his lonely waiting, he counted the days that passed by. Unfortunately, there was no time for them to say goodbye.
Will time really wash everything away? Little Stone believes that time will eventually make them meet again.
There is Portugal, there is the Portuguese language and there is a Ukrainian filmmaker who learns the language and approaches the role of the potential migrant. There is also a play of words: zangar and o zangāo. How is it possible to express such an empowering emotion like anger in the fragile attempts of a beginner? The video essay is woven from the filmmaker's narration, language classes, personal videos and archival images from Kyiv – revealing the split reality of anyone who is finding a safe place abroad while longing for home, which is under the constant danger of war.
Snajka is a participative-observational documentary about a just-married Croatian-Roma couple, Tea and Mirsad, their daughter Frida, and their attempt at a life together, suspended between expectations from families and communities from culturally irreconcilable backgrounds that do not accept diversity.
Cleaning up after a forest fire in the mountains of Portugal: New trees are planted, nature begins to sprout again. But will the fire devour everything one day?
In Portugal, in the mountainous region of Serra da Estrela, guards posted in small towers keep watch over the forest. The cyclical danger of fire hangs over the pine and granite landscape like a ghost. Some inhabitants rely on legends to explain the devastating events, while others show their resilience by rebuilding the recently burnt land with their bare hands. In the heart of this post-apocalyptic landscape, the relationship between man and nature is gradually revealed, oscillating between magic, exploitation and cohabitation.
Women look after a grave on an island cemetery. Observing this process triggers an experimental, visually inventive reflection on female bonding and vanished men.
This hybrid film takes us on a journey into a world without men, where women choose the image that will represent them after they are gone. The author silently questions: how does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women? And what do our ancestors whisper from their silent portraits?
Željko is the head of the union at the Gredelj railway car factory. His deputy, Mladen, committed suicide after a large public protests and clashes within the union. Željko is torn between the guilt he feels because of Mladen's death and the expectation of the workers to lead a strike.
Heydi returns to the old hunting grounds with her nephew to retrace the path and inspect the new hunting trails. She leads Ibaw step by step into her hunting world.
This film is about Heydi Mijung, the only female hunter in the Truku tribe, who follows the ancestral tradition of Gaya, practices the traditional hunting skills of the Truku, and maintains the balance of the entire forest with her hunting methods. The Woman Carrying the Prey expresses women's perseverance and strength by extension – “carrying” is not only about the physical weight but also about the continuation of the hunter's traditional hunting culture.
The relationship between human, ecology and animal interdependence is gradually built up through the daily life of a female hunter in the mountains.
An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition as the voice of the narrator-protagonist reminisces about her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend.
DOK Industry is realised with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a Decision of the German Bundestag.