Was ist Tradition? Wie wandelt sich Brauchtum im Laufe der Zeit? Und welche Rolle spielt dabei der Alkohol? Alle sieben Jahre befindet sich der Markt Dinkelscherben im Ausnahmezustand, wenn die sogenannten Schäffler-Tänzer durch die Straßen ziehen und ein für Außenstehender…
In dem kleinen Ort Buchendorf bei München liegt das einzige orthodoxe Frauenkloster Deutschlands. Unter der Leitung von Äbtissin Maria leben dort 13 Schwestern internationaler Herkunft, die einer strengen hierarchischen Ordnung folgen. Als Dienerinnen Gottes entschwinden die Nonnen immer mehr…
Acht Jahrzehnte nach der Befreiung der KZs stellt sich die Frage der Erinnerung an den NS Terror so drängend wie nie zuvor! Wie halten die letzten Überlebenden die Erinnerung aufrecht? Was können sie und die Gedenkstätte gegen die zunehmende Relativierung des Holocausts und gegen…
Die Brüder Günther und Heinz Barisch sind sich oft nicht einer Meinung. Doch wenn es um ihre Heimat geht, leuchten beider Augen gleichermaßen. Das kleine Städtchen Zülz heißt heute Biała und gehört seit Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges zu Polen. Für Heinz und Günther…
Andy Warhol's aluminum foil-covered Silver Factory becomes the hot bed of avant-garde creativity in Sixties New York City. Pop Art, provocative movies, sex, drugs, and The Velvet Underground. Recalled by those who were there and lived to talk about it.
Long Lonesome Highway is the story of the greatest performer that you've likely never heard of. Once called "the world's greatest living actor" by Quentin Tarantino, Michael spent the majority of his life being blacklisted by the Hollywood system. This documentary is designed to show…
A luta pelo sonho da casa própria e da regularização de serviços como água e luz tornou-se realidade para mais da metade dos moradores da Vila Dique. Entretanto, esta realização do sonho significa a remoção dos moradores para casas novas…
A poetic journey through post-war Novi Sad, where memory, trauma, and resilience shape the everyday lives of those left behind. SYNOPSIS Five years after the NATO air raids during the Kosovo War, filmmaker Michal Kosakowski accompanied a friend back to his hometown of Novi Sad, Serbia. Once Yugoslavia’s…
The film tells the story of French philosopher, activist, and mystic, Simone Weil (1909-1943)-- a woman Albert Camus described as "the only great spirit of our time." On her quest to understand Simone Weil, filmmaker Julia Haslett confronts profound questions of moral responsibility both within…
For Michal Kosakowski, the images of end-of-year celebrations, with all their rituals, are overlaid by the hidden realities of war that no one wants to see. As festivities unfold and the relentless consumer machine runs at full speed, elsewhere bombs explode and lives are lost. The sparkle of New Year’s…
In 1973, the eleven-year-old Miguelito was discovered singing in San Juan airport by the legendary New York record producer Harvey Averne. Within a year, he went from the slums of Manuel A Perez to recording an album with the finest salsa musicians of the time, to finally performing with Eddie Palmieri…
Inner Borderlines follows Alejandro Morales around Southern California as he explores a variety of topics that concern the Chicano/Latino community, including history, immigration, race relations, ethnicity, family, labor, education, religion, memory, gender, power, border, borderlands, and the fantastic. Recognized…
