A bicycle accident causes a crack in the protective shell Alice has grown to be able to bear the oppressive confinement of her daily life. Can she finally dance her way out?
Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to dwell on her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?
In a desert landscape, some children play hide-and-seek. The remains of dry stone walls and a few abandoned objects seem to bear witness to a long-evaporated civilisation.
In a desert landscape, among the ruins, children play hide-and-seek. The remains of walls and a few abandoned objects seem to bear witness to a civilisation that has long since evaporated. Francesca, the youngest of the group, is marked by the discovery of a dead fish which becomes the object of the other children's games. The next day, back at the site, the little girl discovers that other people have been attracted to the remains that the disappearance of this huge artificial lake has revealed.
When puffins leave their nest on Vestmannaeyjar, they often get lost. Birta and Selma have made it their mission to bring the fledglings back to the cliff.
On a remote Icelandic island, teens Birta and Selma rescue pufflings (young puffins) from imminent danger; as pufflings leave their nests for the first time, they often get lost in town, mistaking the harbour lights for the moon. Over the course of one night, we follow Birta and Selma as they take it upon themselves to counteract humanity's damaging impact on nature; exchanging night-time parties for puffin rescues. A coming-of-age documentary about growing up and making choices, Puffling explores the delicate interplay between wildlife, the environment, and human life.
Every summer, Paul’s family has a picnic on a small island that can be reached via a causeway at low tide. This year the tide takes them by surprise and they are forced to spend the night.
The eternal “August 15 Picnic” on Callot Island. But this year, Paul, his family and their friends find themselves trapped by the tide. Paul, upset and stuck between the world of adults and that of children, becomes aware of his individuality.
The Zimmerwald Conference – mired in legend in the Soviet Union and erased from history in Zimmerwald itself. A labyrinth of forgetting and remembering from which history is made.
When Lenin and Trotsky met in the small village of Zimmerwald, it was not to watch birds, contrary to what they claimed. The conference was a call to the workers of the world to unite against the war that was raging in Europe. This page of Switzerland's history has long been forgotten, but new generations, such as the ones portrayed in this film, are willing to recover it.
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.