Eleven-year-old Jésùs lives in Mexico City and has a very special way to school: Every morning he and his little sister row a boat through a network of canals.
Koolee’s path to school takes her over the dust-dry roads of Australia. Koolee is an Aborigine, but their language is not on the timetable at school.
In this documentary we are introduced to Rania. She looks forward to school every day, because not all the children in her home are allowed to study.
El Alto, Bolivia, is growing fast – wild, but not shapeless.
Life is no picnic, especially not for Kurdish bachelors in Istanbul. Seven seasonal workers live in an unusual flat share in a dilapidated house.
Markus is the Honorary Mayor of Tröglitz. Together with his wife, he campaigns for taking in forty refugees in 2015. That’s when “his” commune suddenly shows a strange and ugly face.
A filmed reading, the past evoked. A historical-political essay about how to deal with German guilt, based on texts by the French resistance fighter Robert Antelme.
“Gloria Kosmetika” – radiant and confident, two women promote cosmetic products on their video channel, along the lines of: You’re naturally beautiful, but there’s room for improvement.
Confidentially but resolutely, a young woman leans toward us and begins the personality optimisation treatment.
On the Swedish coast, the farmer Sven Axel lives with his mother, a few animals and a lot of imagination. He dreams of filmmaking and acting. Now he tries out both.
A portrait of the World Economic Forum, a controversial institution whose founder, Klaus Schwab, considers himself a philanthropist. Masterfully balanced between hagiography and deconstruction.
The master sorcerer is hardly out of the house when his apprentice tries his luck with a spell: Let water flow in the colourful animated world.
The war is over and the soldiers turn into nimble gnomes in pointed hats who begin to remove the rubble. Very soon new wealth ensures a new social conformity. Urchs mordant comment on the pot-bellied republic of the economic miracle.
Half a century of the Grimme Television Prize as an occasion for some critical and polemical reflections on two times twenty-five years of Federal German (television) history.
