The Maidan as a battlefield: protest turns into violence and loss of control – on both sides. A breathless, unstoppable movement, driven by the energy of the masses, towards the inferno.
Deported from Paris, city girl Koumba finds herself in a village in Senegal. A rebellious heroine’s odyssey between desperate resistance and acquiescence.
A visually powerful epic about the conquest of the American West. The desert is alive – eccentrics, ghost towns, nuclear tests, cowboys and Indians: a documentary western.
Jochen is banned from the brothel, Sven pays men and women, both are waiting for love. Sexuality beyond the boundaries of terms like healthy, handicapped, documentary or fiction.
Picturesque Hallstatt in the Salzkammergut is cloned in China. A fast-paced essay about original and duplicate, globalisation, identity and yodelling Chinese girls in dirndls.
In your early twenties and no hopes of ever doing anything than stacking backbreaking loads of hay on trucks – being young in Tunisia. A film bursting with anger: rough, in your face, like a fist.
A central post office where letters are gathering dust, a railway line without trains, a fire station without equipment: Kinshasa, Congo. Stagnation and dreams of the future, with a surreal touch.
An artist’s memories of a country that strove for freedom. Apocalyptic motifs, associative reflections and conversations – a snapshot of the Syrian opposition.
Musicians in the busses of Jakarta. The daily struggle for survival in a megacity – bursting with life, colourful, unsentimental, with charismatic characters and driven by the music.
If you can’t pay your tuition fees in the Congo you’re relegated. A group of adolescents organise their own school, up to the final exams … An African High School film with a wild finale.
Suez after the Arab Spring: a personal review of a disillusioned generation in Egypt. Rich in filmic expression, bitter and melancholy.
