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.
An American on a beer expedition into the heart of German identity: Oktoberfest, breweries, beer queens, corner pubs, carnival and shooting clubs. A road movie full of fun and wisdom.
Three handcuffs, one nurse and 900 prisoners. Chief superintendent Walkiu and his Alpha-Team want to professionalise the prison – but end up running against walls.
This is where the family used to live: a house filled with objects and memories is cleared. A finely spun examination of the process of remembrance in delicate watercolours and sparingly animated.
Media production in Egypt before and after the revolution: interior views of power structures in a sophisticated audiovisual composition, a look at the origins and goals of an apparatus.
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.
A boy from the streets of Edinburgh becomes a director and embarks on a journey into his past to pull himself out of a quagmire of drugs. Painfully authentic and unique.
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.
The ancient Indian tribe of the Bhil in the age of decline, the mythical Kalyug – caused by HIV. Legends and contemporary reality interwoven in archaic images.
Peter Kern, Fassbinder actor and trash filmmaker, aging diva, openly gay, and huge: a touching portrait and multilayered puzzle between artifice and reality.
