In a cactus nursery in Palermo, a strange human community lives in a weird symbiosis with insects and plants, sheltered from the violence of the world. This fragile ecosystem is threatened by the arrival of disinfection agents looking for an ant that is considered a pest.
Oil extraction in the Amazon region is contaminating the land and water of a natural paradise. A slow process that threatens the health and traditional culture of local communities. Thirteen women raise their voices against the destruction of their land. Through protests and silent resistance, they confront an opaque global power structure.
A troubled young woman, an artist and a painter, gives birth to a deformed infant, following an unwanted pregnancy forced upon her. She now has to come in terms with herself, living in two parallel realities.
At 16, Max left with dreams and a GoPro slung over his shoulder for an exchange program at a high school in Oklahoma. Since then, Donald Trump has become president, the Capitol has been stormed, and abortion bans have gained ground. On the eve of Trump’s second term, Max goes back to see his friends to understand what their journeys reveal about the evolution of American society
A shy eighth-grader comes across an older girl who is posing naked in an abandoned building. A new friendship offers her a glimpse of the intriguing world of adulthood.
Tartu, Estonia's second-largest city, is widely considered to be the intellectual centre of the country and was the European Capital of Culture in 2024. Reason enough to accompany writer-in-residence Katrin Groth at work. She offers in-depth insights into the history of both the city and Estonia, as well as German-Estonian relations.
Over 10,000 years ago, humans settled down. Is there still something like a nomadic gene in us? After numerous expeditions to parts of the world far from Europe, this question arises for the artist group Mangan25. Among other places, they followed in the footsteps of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Australia and North America. Their encounters with indigenous peoples in these regions also reveal traumatic events and colonial upheavals.
In postwar Königsberg, displaced East Prussians and arriving Soviet settlers were forced to live side by side, bound by loss and survival. Through interviews, archives, and stage fragments, this documentary explores the fragile encounters across enemy lines.
Underscore is a meditative two-hander following grandfather Aodhán and granddaughter Laoise as they face the end of the world. Instead of hellfire and brimstone, it seems that their environment is collapsing on a micro-level. The very fabric of reality is mutating into something new.
All cyclists are beautiful: Can is actually doing everything right, he's straightforward and honest – until he suddenly finds himself caught in the crossfire on the streets of Neukölln. The charge: theft.
Rage against the machine: In a neighbourhood overtaken by gentrification, old contrasts with new. When a yuppie man can't unlock his electric bike, something snaps. Can he let go of his carefully crafted image?
A teenage girl holds the first ever vigil for pigs in front of a slaughterhouse – in a country that kills 53 million pigs on a yearly basis. Her view changes drastically.
In the barren Argentinian province of Salta, Alejandro Soriano's existence is a tale of ancestors, land and family. In everyday life and poetry, he searches for ways to connect tradition and future.
The sea ice in the Arctic could potentially disappear by 2050. The traditions of Greenland's Inuits are already changing. We are witnesses to Sikoqqinngisaannassooq – a future without sea ice.
In the village of Anhovo on the Soča River, there lies an old asbestos factory that has managed to outlive wars, regimes and borders. It provided employment and stole life. Even today it continues to exhale smoke.
Gaïa is a planet conceived as a body with a growing population. As resources become scarce, the inhabitants attempt to fertilise its egg cell – in search of new life.