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- People's associations with flora goes back a long way, taking us back to our own roots as well as to new ways of life and creative potential that reveal themselves as we deal with plants. 'Wild Plants' is a film that follows these clues and takes us to urban gardens in Detroit, to Native American philosopher Milo Yellow Hair in Wounded Knee, to the wild plantations of Zurich's legendary 'Guerilla Gardener' Maurice Maggi, and to the innovative horticulture cooperative 'Les Jardins de Cocagne' in Geneva.
- A year in the life of four big-city-children: Emine, Marie, Christian and Arthur are all ten-years-olds living in Berlin. Scenes drawn from everyday life document the growing pre-teens in all their insecurity and incorrigible audacity.
- Documentary about the East German Autobahn and what they tell about the history of the once divided country.
- What connects a photograph, the Second World War and a young couple? Set in the town of Kozienice, which was divided between the Polish and the Germans, the film follows Jewish photographer, Chaim Berman, through his family history, political persecution and work.
- Peter managed to sell rich executives tickets for a trip to the moon. Torsten passed himself off as diplomatic ambassador for a lark. In four hours Marc sold a holiday home he didn't own. In this riveting documentary, Alexander Adolph has four lifelong con men describe how they con and what drives them to do it. To listen to these men tell, with some pride, how they have swindled scores of "greedy" people out of their savings, you might think that they are some kind of modern-day Robin Hood. To listen to the devastated victims and ashamed family members is another matter. Not surprisingly, behind the heartlessness of these crimes are men with very messed up childhoods. A chilling, absolutely engrossing insight into the type of person we hope we only ever come across on a movie screen.
- A documentary about the life of a German citizen abducted by the CIA in 2003.
- In Germany and Russia people drink the same amount: more than 10 liters of pure alcohol per capita and year. Two Germans and two Russians are "functioning" young alcoholics. All four are trying to quit drinking. Drinking has become so fused with our everyday life that we have become blind to it: As long as we function, we drink. As long as we drink, we function. How can we break this mechanism?
- 37 'idealists' are aboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. They voyage to the southernmost regions of the globe in an attempt to locate the Japanese whaling fleet off Antarctica. Japan plans to kill more than 1,000 peaceful marine mammals in a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. They assert it's for scientific purposes, but in reality, the deceased whales end up in Japanese restaurants. As events take an unexpected turn, one question becomes increasingly pertinent: Is it truly worth fighting for one's ideals?
- A birdcall-imitation-seminar, an animal-telepathy-hotline, a beauty contest for pedigree dogs. Wherever the film goes: animals are sorted, studied, and processed; and yet they remain enigmatic and absent. What's inside the animals? The closer they are examined, the less certainty remains. And as the animals increasingly disappoint, a melancholic perplexity sets in. The idea was to find an answer within the animal, but instead people lost a sense of themselves. Encounters in faux fur costumes offer a last hope for warmth and dissolution. A film that acts like a shimmering mirror, in which we painfully recognise ourselves.