UN FILM SUR CE QUE LE FÉMINISME A FAIT AUX HOMMES, OU PAS... Documentaire de création en 3 parties : "hier", "aujourd'hui" et "demain".
White-tiled rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the german Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in WW2. Against this background former soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare. An uncompromising…
A film about truth and lies or “alternative facts”. About individual and collective consciousness. “Waldheim no, Waldheim no” shouts a crowd in the center of Vienna in 1986. Ruth Beckermann was one of the activists trying to prevent the election of Kurt Waldheim and documented…
What became of the dream of a jewish homeland? On the road from the west towards Jerusalem. A documentary road movie: trucks, gas stations, construction workers, soldiers, Russian refugees, taxi drivers, security guards... Encounters on a mere 40 miles with divers landscapes and individual stories.
The correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan forms the textual basis of this hybrid of feature film and documentary. Two young actors, Anja Plaschg and Laurence Rupp, meet in a recording studio to read from it. The feelings of intoxication and fear of loss, delight and fright, closeness…
At the Wailing Wall or in the spotlight of a stage, wearing a Zorro costume or a designer dress, solemn or rollicking: crossing the threshold to the adult world can take place in very different ways. This film accompanies four 12-year-olds – Sharon, Tom, Moishy and Sophie – as they prepare…
Marc Aurel-Strasse, Vienna: The last surviving Jewish textile merchant in what in former days was the textile district, the Iranian hotel proprietor and the Café Salzgries with its regulars. From summer 1999 until spring 2000, Ruth Beckermann undertook a series of small journeys on and around…
Ruth Beckermann's essay film about her own family history simultaneously tells the story of Central European Jews and the story of a region. The journey leads from Vienna, where the grandmother survived the war as a submarine by pretending to be mute, to the landscape of Eastern Europe, which bears…
Pred vojnou žilo v Komárne 2743 Židov, Holokaust prežilo 248 z nich. Židovská náboženská obec v Komárne má dnes 58 registrovaných členov. Vyrovnalo sa Komárno vôbec s touto stratou? Ako vníma Komárňan žijúci v zahraničí,…
At the beginning of the 1940s there were 2743 Jews living in Komárno; only 248 survived the Holocaust, and today the community has just 58 registered members. Has Komárno managed to work through this deep incision in its history? And how does a Komárner living abroad, rarely returning…
The history of the island of Cyprus reflects a regular flow of cultures and empires, each leaving its mark. Some individual visitors, such as Lazarus, started a new life on Cyprus, literally! At the crossroads of the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus shifted hands regularly between regional and European…
Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob’s illuminating documentary chronicles the work of the great American artists, Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, who since the 1950's have both played a vital role in the world of American dance; on Broadway, in television & film, and in the studios of…
