In the name of Dignity (90′ - 2011)
90'
90' / Current Affairs / Documentaries / Ecology / HD / Today's world
John O’Brien is a fisherman from the island of Inis Bó Finne, off the coast of Donegal in Ireland. John’s people
have been fishing salmon for generations and they would like to be able to pass their traditions and culture on
to the future generation.
90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film / Awards / Documentaries / HD / History
Swetlana Geier is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German. Her new translations of Dostoyevsky’s five great novels, known as the “five elephants”, are her life’s work and literary mile-stones.
“The concept of transportation is not an adequate metaphor for translation. It is not transportation, since the luggage never arrives. I’ve always been interested in the losses. By what always has to be left outside that which has been newly created, the translation.”
90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries / HD
JazzMix est un film de 90’ qui retrace huit concerts de huit groupes actuels de New-York filmés dans huit différents clubs de Jazz de Manhattan. JazzMix est aussi et surtout une ballade dans le New-York d’aujourd’hui puisque pendant ces huit concerts, le film se promène dans les quartiers des différents clubs de jazz avec une touche de poésie propre à New-York, c’est-à-dire métissée, urbaine, et résolument touchante.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film
SIGNERS KOFFER is a kind of road movie across Europa. From the Siviss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the scenery’s magically charged contours. Immersing yourself, letting yourself be infected, then travelling on. Roman Signer determines the route that we are moving on and the film improvises along the way.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries / HD
In growth centres like the Pearl River Delta in Southern China, one hundred million people have already set out from rural, underdeveloped provinces to earn their living there.
52' / 90' / Current Affairs / Documentaries / Ecology / HD / Investigation / Today's world
Mirage of El Dorado leads us far into the Andes of northen Chile, where a pitched battles takes place between a farming community and Canadian mining giants like Barrick Gold and its Pascua Lama project.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries
The documentary shows the aftermath and desperation of war as well as the hope of its survivor’s society. Together, the moving and still images work to give the viewer a more complete view of the current state of affairs in Sierra Leone during the last five years.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Awards / Documentaries / HD
Markus Raetz’s works - drawings, paintings and sculptures - astound us like magic tricks. Poetic, ironic or erotic, they call into question our visual habits.
52' / 90' / Documentaries / History / Project
¡Salud y República! is a documentary based on the extraordinary life of Juan Negrín López, Head of the republican spanish government of the 2nd republic from 1937 to 1945.
52' / 90' / Awards / Documentaries / HD / Investigation / Today's world
On October 7, 2006, Vladimir Putin’s 54th birthday, the journalist Anna Politkovskaja is shot in the lift of her Moscow home. Anna’s death is a personal tragedy: she has just learnt that she is to become a grandmother. But the murder is also a political act, for Politkovskaja was the President’s fiercest critic.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Documentaries / HD
The film is a traditional portrait of an artist, the outlines of a time where will emerge questions about the future of Art and the tensions of our time.
90' / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries / Fiction / HD / Spiritual Living / Today's world
Bill Coller, a humorous and down-to-earth Scot has been working as a medium for 15 years; six times a day he receives clients from all over the world and communicates for them with the hereafter: “Mourning affects everybody” he says. Hope, curiosity, the wish for certainty and the search for comfort draw people who are longing for a sign of life from the deceased to Bill.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Documentaries / HD / History
All over the planet, hundreds of very small theaters and art-houses disappear, huge multiplexes are being born and the struggle for survival is sometimes very tough. Hitting the road to seek THE oldest theater of the WORLD can be viewed as a nice pretext to make a panorama of this situation.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Documentaries
‘Beijing 798′ is a feature length documentary on the history of the Factory 798 in the north of Beijng, which has become the center and the symbol of the Chinese contemporary art scene.
52' / 90' / Art & Culture / Awards / Documentaries / HD / History
Breaking The Rules is a cineastic journey through time across 50 years of American counterculture, from the Beat Generation in New York and San Francisco all the way to the beginnings of Hip Hop in the Bronx .
90' / Auteur Documentary Film / Documentaries / Today's world
One day Eduardo Lamora decided to go into exile. This film relates his return to his home town thirty years later. His clandestine camera goes at the bottom of the Cuban society.
90' / Auteur Documentary Film / Investigation / Today's world
“No London today” is a descent into the depths between wandering and expectation in Calais where Chafic, Aron, Abraham, Henok and Ermias, all young refugees, try to get to England illegaly.
90' / Art & Essai / Fiction
Any resemblance of the holders to the actual power existing here or somewhere else (thirty years ago or even now) – is naturally fortuitous, unimportant and even full of a charming premonitory flavor.
90' / Art & Essai / Awards / Fiction
Winner of the Camera Award, Notorious Nobodies, wrote filmmaker Costa-Gavras, “attempts to describe for us the struggle of men and women around the world to save what is most precious to them: their dignity…neither a plea nor a denunciation but rather an original cinema of exceptional quality, a tragedy about human destiny.”
90' / Art & Essai / Fiction / TV Movie