Rebecca Hirneise’s film centers around the uncles and aunts of her Protestant family engaging in a conversation about their faith for the first time. This reveals an unexpectedly intense and personal world of Christianity. A dialogue unfolds, revealing a broad spectrum of absolute devotion to the Bible, charismatic ecstasy, and a deep-seated fear of God.
Witches or sirens, free women are regarded as dangerous beings in the collective imagination. A female director travels to Mexico, to the Veracruz region, in search of the legend of the Petenera, the legendary figure of the femme fatale who became a siren for defying the law and bathing on Good Friday.
In the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the documentary The Strength of Silence follows the life of Letebirhan, a 17-year-old girl whose life was fractured by war. Kidnapped, a victim of sexual violence, and left to raise a child born from trauma, she faces rejection from her community and family. Her survival relies not only on the bread she bakes to sustain herself but also on an ancestral ritual: the coffee ceremony, where women like her transform silence into a powerful act of resistance and sisterhood.
A former Walt Disney World executive chef now passionately crafts and serves top-notch, yet affordable dishes to students at his small restaurant in the Philippines.
A lawyer probes a Nazi scientist who fled to Canada with Holocaust victims' gold. As his daughter joins the investigation, she discovers inconsistencies in his story and questions his true role.
A nature photographer, noticing the decline of life in Doñana, follows several birds in search of their new oasis and discovers the story of those who created the rice fields of Seville.
Six friends reunite under the full moon to eat steak, drink beer, and smoke, an ongoing tradition captured on a camcorder. A raw, unfiltered look at friendship, ritual, and time passing.
Lammert Koonstra, a proud dairy farmer getting close to retirement, reflects on 25 years of organic farming, the effects it’s had on his family, the consequences of corporate greed, and a shrinking Canadian farming industry.
“La Señal de la Libertad” narrates a little-known episode of Panamanian history in the late 1980s. It tells the story of Kurt Muse, a U.S. citizen who, along with a group of six Panamanians, formed a clandestine radio broadcasting network during Manuel Noriega’s dictatorship. Their mission was to intercept and sabotage the communications of Panama’s National Guard to spark an uprising against the regime. 35 years after these events, they decide to step out of anonymity and share their story. The documentary explores the risks and sacrifices of those involved, highlighting the fine line between heroism and danger. More than just a historical chronicle, it delves into the psychology of its protagonists, the silent decisions that shaped their destiny, and the personal and collective impact of living in the shadows.
The story follows the teachings of Korean Master Oh, exploring the intersection of science and spirituality. It delves into the mysteries of the universe, revealing the balance between what is visible and what lies beyond human understanding. Across six countries, it uncovers profound connections between physics and metaphysics.
Joel Salatin is a visionary farmer driven by faith, family, and a passion for God’s creations. When state regulators and inspectors threaten to shut down his farm for refusing industrial norms, he fights back with truth, courage, and a deep belief in God’s design for nature. At Polyface Farm, Joel’s innovative methods mimic natural processes to restore the land and raise healthier animals. With a belief that we’re called to steward the Earth, Joel shares his vision for the future of agriculture.
The woods, the forest, the plantation. Wood, charcoal, palm oil. Where trees are cleared, the way people meet, farm and live together changes, locally and universally. Together with the Congolese women's rights activist Olande Byamungu, the Indonesian instrument maker and musician Ikbal Lubys and the German carpenter and performer Wolfram Sander, the documentary filmmaker and theatre director Daniel Kötter is developing a film parcours and theatre forest in Roden / Kukata Mi/ / Pembalakan, taking the audience to the Bergisches Land near Cologne, to the Indonesian palm oil plantations in Kalimantan and to the charcoal kilns in South Kivu, DR Congo.
The delicate structures of our soils have been damaged by the extractive practices of industrial farming in ways that affect our food, our health and that of the planet. Humans have the ability to heal our soils by practising regenerative techniques that produce nutrient-dense food, sequester carbon in the ground and nurture essential biodiversity. We have the power to be part of this story by choosing to support those who care for the soil whether producing food or fibre. Healthy soil, healthy people, healthy planet.
Photographer, filmmaker and biodynamic gardener Howard Sooley began visiting Great Dixter in the late 1980s and developed a deep connection with the 15t century house and its renowned gardens in East Sussex. Great Dixter was home to gardener and garden writer Christopher Lloyd, who devoted himself to the garden from childhood until his. death in 2006 in a symbiotic relationship that defined both man and garden. Sooley's film celebrates the exceptional biodiversity and beauty of the garden with a tenderness that reflects the activities of its gardeners.