8,500 kilometres lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, Diego Quinderé de Carvalho only looks at the inaccessible and menacing forest from the outside. Its Belgian counter piece, however, is easy to explore. Here, everything is laid out by people, neatly ordered and reduced to the essentials. A geologist, a gold miner and an astronomer provide insights for a philosophical exploration of the origin of existence and the future of our planet.
Lizzy has some very special pets. Alba the striped owl is her favourite among the four birds of prey and occasionally gets to ride on the handlebars of Lizzy’s bicycle.
Kasper has taken in a young blackbird and nursed it until it was able to fly.
Geertje knows how to box and occasionally teaches boys who make trouble a lesson.
Victor has discovered that he can watch a squirrel from his window.
In 1984, the “First Leipzig Autumn Salon” took place. Bypassing every state institution, six painters, sculptors and filmmakers organised an art exhibition.
Cinema turned 100. With his homage Heinrich Sabl went one short step further back into the prehistory of cinematography for a run-up. Individual images are set in motion in a praxinoscope, invented by Émile Reynaud in 1877. A pedestrian seizes this illusion as an occasion to walk out of the magic cylinder through scenes from international film history.
Poetic reflection on cave paintings and petroglyphs. Transformed by magic, the pictures begin to speak, dancing through the present age like shamans.
Three film lovers work for the 800th anniversary celebrations of their hometown.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1978 Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, this is one of the finest examples of ethnographic film from this region.
A film portrait of Eugeniusz Rudnik. He wrote musical history with magnetic tape cassettes and a pair of scissors, changing our idea of the nature of music fundamentally.
A personal summer travelogue through non-personal memories, collective personal ideals, and personal collective collectives. An old, once-upon-a-time country, reborn and undone in the blink of an eye.
The Leipzig Battle of the Nations as animated by Schwarwel.
