The director's mother is 90 years old—and is beginning to forget herself. Not only herself, but everything else as well. She has dementia. Only her faith and her tireless knitting of exclusively blue socks keep her alive. The director, whose relationship with his mother has been very tense throughout his life, approaches the dissolution of his mother's ego in this experimental and essayistic film with the support of Didier Eribon, Simone de Beauvoir, Norbert Elias, Jean Améry, and others. In addition to this very personal story, he also tells a universal story about the process of aging, about repression, but also about rebellion in dealing with and interacting with aging people.
This first year, from suffering to freedom, bears witness to the rebirth of a liberated country. Surreal Syria, through the eyes of survivors of Sednaya, Adra, Mezze, and other Syrian prisons, tells the story of the dark cells, the lost years, and the endless wait of the faces hanging on the walls. It brings to life the voices that oppression could not silence, reviving in the streets on the first anniversary of freedom.
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Bolivia, A Christmas Miracle in La Paz tells a magical story of love, faith, and second chances. On Christmas Eve, two souls marked by loss and pride cross paths through the unexpected intervention of an angel. What begins as a chance encounter transforms into a journey of healing, where they discover that the true miracle is not destiny, but life's purpose... and the courage to believe in love again.
At the center of this social absurdist comedy, filmed like a performance, are beautiful and bold women. They meet men and introduce them to their way of life. The men like where they've ended up and become part of the unique world of their chosen women. "Freedom" is a leftist pamphlet on the immodest charm of the bourgeoisie, made with a love of irony and the excessively free spirit of humanity. This is an auteur film, if only because the author himself periodically appears on screen throughout the story, narrating it to the viewer.
Fascinatingly, moors are both water and land. They are home to rare plants, special animals, and enormous amounts of carbon. However, these unique ecosystems are now rarely found in Germany. For economic reasons, 95 percent of them have been drained, posing a massive threat to our climate. Drainage turns climate protectors into climate killers, emitting huge amounts of carbon dioxide every year. In this film, researchers, farmers, and politicians have their say. How can these areas be successfully renaturalized? It won't be easy.
The Atlantic migration route is one of the most dangerous escape routes in the world. It leads from the West African coast—from countries such as Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania—across the open Atlantic to the Spanish Canary Islands. Despite the great risks, thousands of people venture across the sea every year in simple, often overloaded wooden boats. Many of them disappear without a trace at sea.
Instead of the typical image of the suffering trans man, this experimental documentary focuses on the joy and euphoria that trans men experience in their everyday lives. The short film shows excerpts from the lives of four trans men as they describe and demonstrate their hobbies, personal projects, and gender experiences.
A documentary film about Laura Halding-Hoppenheit, an LGBTIQ* and AIDS activist who became an icon in Stuttgart through her tireless commitment. The film crew accompanies her in her everyday life and provides insights into the places that have shaped her work and her life. These include the town hall and the currently closed 'Kings Club' – an internationally renowned meeting place in the scene for many decades. The team also accompanies Laura to the studio of her husband Peter Jacobi, which adds another dimension to her everyday life alongside her political work.