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"I always say that film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth or at the service of the attempt to find the truth..." Michael Haneke
Director: Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor
Production: Mobilefilm in co-production with ORF
"3 cm less" probes into the phenomenon of an "invisible hunger" for love and security and the effect thereof on family life and the psyche.
Director: Azza El-Hassan
Production: Yamama Creative House
The documentary film "The 3 Rooms of Melancholia" depicts the vulnerability of a child's mind. The main characters of the film are the 9 to 14-year-old boys at Kronstadt Cadet Academy, a woman called Hadizhat Gataeva who saves children from the ruins of Chechnya, and the children living across the border in the Ingushetia refugee camp.
The setting is the everlasting Chechen war.Director: Pirjo Honkasalo
Production:
Millennium Film in co-production with Lisbet Gabrielsson Film, Magic Hour Films, ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion in association with YLE TV2, ZDF/ARTE, SVT
A documentary film about the Košice swimming pool where history came to bathe. Seen through several stories which unfolded between the years 1936 and 2002, the film captures 66 seasons at the popular swimming pool, and the same number of years in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.
Director: Peter Kerekes
Production: Peter Kerekes in co-production with Slovenská televízia and Ceská televize
This is Anna Politkovskaya’s life story, told in documentary scenes and in the words of friends and colleagues.
Director: Masha Novikova Production: NovDoc
"Esto es el Uruguay, lo que ves es lo que hay"
Director: Mario Handler Production: Mario Handler
Holiday at the datcha as last big challenge of civilization. With hammer, pliers and slapstick.
Director: Thierry Paladino Production: The Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
The film portrays life and work of the most influential German photographer August Sander.
Director: Reiner Holzemer
Production: Reiner Holzemer Film in co-production with ARTE and BR
This is the story of a boy who gets a job in the worlds largest circus, but pays for it with his life.
Production: Motlys AS Directors: Sverre Galgum & Jan Frode Johannessen
The search for a lost friend - a Woodabe in Niger - raises the question: how to find a nomad?
Production: ma.ja.de. / Cauri Film Director: Bettina Haasen
Three ways to survive in the mental landscape of a Russian prison for for-life convicts.
Director: Jouni Hiltunen Production: Illume Oy
Four people living in THE BLOCK in German town Gräfenhainichen, four generations, four different states of loss and loneliness.
Director: Chris Wright and Stefan Kolbe
Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion and Stefan Kolbe in collaboration with ARTE France and ZDF / 3sat
Impressive visual material of the siege of Leningrad as a breathtaking reanimation of reality.
Director: Sergei Loznitsa Production: St. Petersburg Film Studio
For 20 years now, the legendary Jane Elliott has committed herself fighting against prejudice, ignorance and racism.
Director: Bertram Verhaag Production: Denkmal Film
Karlmann, Albert and Herbert have shared a life-long passion for a life outside conventions - as Europe´s leading tattoo artists. But now something happened which challenges their friendship.A moving, funny, tongue-in-cheek portrait of three ninety-year-old friends.
Directors: Andrea Schuler and Oliver Ruts Production: Egoli Tossell Film AG in co-production with Cobra Film, ZDF/ Kleines Fernsehspiel and SFDRS
It is forbidden to cross the bridge between Slatina, Ukraine and Sighet, Romania. Families and neighbors are separated by political actions that seem senseless to the communities that have been divided for decades.
Director: Iliana Stanculescu Production: Ileana Stanculescu in co-production with Art Doc
Broadway - the boulevard where everything is possible and all dreams can come true.
Not only in New York, but also in a holiday resort by the Black Sea.Director: Vitalij Manskij Production: ma.ja.de. Film
The intimate tale of a family can encapsulate the evolution and the state of the society in which it lives. A privileged insight into the family album may enable the audience to relive important chapters in history and sense the mood of the times. The family in this story is that of writer Angelika Schrobsdorff.
Director: Christo Bakalski Production: produced by Filmcontact Berlin in co-production with ma.ja.de filmproduktion, Borough Film and MDR
Filmmakers follow the Indian alternative globalist Vandana Shiva for two years in her worldwide fight against neo-liberal globalization.
Director: PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian
Production: HB PeÅ Holmquist Film, Medieoperatørene Aps, Illume Oy, ADR productions, in co-production with SVT, NRK, YLE, DR TV, France 2
Women and children who survived the Allied bombing and the Russian invasion tell of the horror
of the last days of WWII in Berlin's bunker labyrinth.Director: Martina Reuter and Gavin Hodge
Production: Twenty Twenty Vision and ME & Company in co-production with Fama Film, DFFB, SFB/ARTE/SWR, SF DRS/SRG SSR idée suisse
Chavez
- Inside the Coup
The documentary is the story of the overthrow of Venezuelan president
Hugo Chavez in 2002 and his return to power 48 hours later.
Director: Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain
Production: Power Pictures 2002 Limited in association with The Irish Film Board, BBC, ZDF, Arte, NPS, CoBo, RTE, YLE
Child of the Commune / Communekind
Documentary film of Maroesja Perizonius about her personal experiences as a child in the movement of the Indian guru Bhagwan.
Director: Maroesja Perizonius Production: Lemming Film commissioned by the NCRV and co-produced by YLE Teema
Children. As Time Flies / Kinder. Wie die Zeit vergeht.
What became of bus driver Jeanette’s dream? How are her children Tommy and
Paul? Is life under control now? What does Jeanette’s little brother Tino mean
by “mixing everything”? The snowman has no mouth.
Life as it flows. Agitating.
Director: Thomas Heise Production: Lemming Film commissioned by the NCRV and co-produced by YLE Teema
Citizen Havel / Obcan Havel
The long-term reportage Citizen Havel follows the term of office of former Czech President Václav Havel in an unprecedented intimacy with the private side of political activity.
Director: Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek Production: Film & Sociologie, Negativ, Michael Wolkowitz, Studio KF, FTV
Mongolia after the fall of communism and before the arrival of capitalism.
Production: Inti Films Director: Peter Brosens
Civil Status / Grajdanskoe sostoyanie
The most important events in human life, like marriage and divorce, birth and death, are everyday concerns for the employees of the registry office.
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya Production: St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio
Dancers over the age of sixty in a project of the Opera Leipzig, their lives, their dancing - the grace of age, beauty and power. Pas de deux instead of anti-aging cream!
Directors: Trevor Peters Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with ZDF in collaboration with ARTE
Based on Antony Beevor's best-selling book 'Berlin, the Downfall, 1945', Sven Ihden probes the mental state of the German and Soviet armies in last days of World War II.
Production: Heino Deckert (Majade Filmproduktions GmbH) and Joachim Schröder (Preview Production GbR). Commissioned by MDR, BR.
Director: Sven Ihden
A diamond ship called "The Spirit of Namibia" that makes millions of dollars and a crew which is underpaid and oppressed reveal a reality that is constantly on the edge.
Directors: Adi Barash & Ruthie Shatz Production: Face It Group Film
This is about sex.
About sex in Germany and the question as to who, on which side of the Iron Curtain, was better at it. This film shows a up to now unknown and curious Chapter of political and entertaining erotic-history.Director: André Meier
Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with MDR/ARTE
Dress for Success! Victoire Castellane, once Karl Lagerfeld's muse and now a chief designer in her own right at Dior; Piero Tosi, Visconti's legendary costume designer; and many others take us on a tour through the secret world of dress-codes.
Director: Caterina Klusemann
Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with ZDF/ARTE and YLE
A moving film about the encounter with a mysterious corner of the earth called Estonia, about the search for a meaning in life, about taking farewell – and the smile of a new beginning.
Director: Sibylle Tiedemann
Production: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion und Sibylle Tiedemann Film in co-production with MDR / ARTE and SWR / ARD
A film by Thomas Heise, taking a village, its past and surroundings, those who die and those still living there as a centre for reflections on culture, history and fate.
Director: Thomas Heise
Production: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion
First Kill is a provocative documentary about war and the thin line between good and evil.
Director: Coco Schrijber Production: Lemming Film
This film is a surprising tragi-comic portrait of a unique place.
How would you like to have 'Place of Birth: Dachau' stamped in your passport?
One way or the other, in Dachau history sticks like chewing gum to a shoe.
In a way, this is the most German City of all.Director: Bernd Fischer
Production: Egoli Tossell Film AG
A film about Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the south pole.
Production: Motlys Directors: Kenny Sanders , Stig Andersen
What is home? And what is more important - life or home? Director Vitalij Manskij searches for an answer to this question among his former class-mates with whom he was admitted to the pioneer organisation 'Vladimir Ilyitsh Lenin' as group 'Yuri Gagarin' in 1973.
Director: Vitalij Manskij
Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with ZDF, in association with ARTE, YLE TV2, and Vertov Studio
A journey into the complex lives of two adolescent male prostitutes, working in downtown Tel Aviv, whose search for a home and an identity results in true friendship.
Director: Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash
Production: Fig Films in co-production with Channel 8/ Noga Communications, the Sundance Documentary Fund, TVO, the Makor Fund, The Alter Cine Fund, YLE, TV2
"Georg" is a quest to understand the father I lost. It is a story of loss, idylls, illusions and longing: a love that unites two worlds, an idyll to make up for what the war had destroyed, a struggle for an uncompromising art. And it is the story of a tragic shipwreck of those ideals in the face of reality and a haunting past, a story of alcohol and death. In the end all that remains is the longing for the idyll my father created, even if it was just an illusion... Caterina Klusemann
Director: Caterina Klusemann
Production: Caterina Klusemann in co-production with ma.ja.de. filmproduktion for ZDF in cooperation with ARTE
The heroine of the documentary, her name is Gora (mountain), is a weakly, not young woman who works as a yard-keeper in a sleeping district of the city Rostov-on-Done. Gora stays with her girl-friend in a barrack for 500 roubles (16$), such a way she can spare some money. Gora expects a baby whom she wants to bring up in good conditions, cleanness and peace. But there are some questions which are still without answer: where and how will she give birth to her baby, is it enough just one wish to change the life in a better way? But any way Gora is sure that she'll begin a new life with the birth of her baby.
Director: Alexandr Rastorguyev Production: Studio "Vertov & Ko"
Four young students of a private business-school want to start a career as consultants.
Director: Marc Bauder Production: Studio Bauderfilm in co-production with ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Headwind Hall /
Vastutuulesaal
A documentary film about the conductor Tõnu Kaljuste and his crazy idea of
building an opera house on Naissaar; an island, which till now has no
regular ferry line, no electricity and only one permanent resident.
Director: Priit Valkna Production: Ruut in co-production with ETV and YLE
Harbours - Gateways to the World / Tore zur Welt New York - Shanghai - Hamburg - Dubai - Vladivostok
A five-part series on itchy feet and untold dreams, high-tech cranes
and homesick nights, tedium and sailor's brides.
This series is a portrait of the legendary and extraordinary ports of
the world, such as New York, Vladivostok or Shanghai.
Directors: Ilka Franzmann, Sophie Kill, Katja Esson, Elke Windisch
Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with RBB, NDR, MDR in association with ARTE and YLE Teema
Herbert
List / Photographer of the Magical Silence
Portrait of the surrealistic photographer who became world-famous with the Santurini goldfish.
Production: Reiner Holzemer Film Director: Reiner Holzemer
Director: Gerlinde Böhm Production: Gerlinde Böhm Filmproduktion
Human Capital
The Employment Trade
Kapital:
Mensch – Das Geschäft mit der Arbeit
"Human Capital - The Employment Trade" portrays the fate of three people
and their struggle through the global world of work.
Directors: Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis
Production: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion and OVAL Filmemacher in co-production with ZDF and ARTE
Human Remains
Jay Rosenblatt's acclaimed film about the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco and Mao.
Production / Director: Jay Rosenblatt
Director: Jaakko Iikka Virtane Production: Jaakko Iikka Productions OY
'I'm Charlie Chaplin' is a documentary comedy, the third in a series featuring the filmmaker's daughter, Ella. In this short film, Jay Rosenblatt humorously documents how a small girl develops a will of her own.
Director: Jay Rosenblatt Production: Locomotion Films
The film follows three children suffering from Down's syndrome over two years, documenting a phase of their learning process and the joy they have in life.
Director: Heide Breitel
Production: Heide Breitel Filmproduktion in co-production with Matthias-Film GmbH, commissioned by ZDF, in cooperation with Arte
Garbis is a very energetic 99-year-old man
who has just met his new love, Seta. They live in Paris close to the Arc de
Triomphe. Garbis is an Armenian and one of the very last survivors from the
1915 genocide. He has a deep secret, a secret that has made him hate dogs.
A film about the art of survival.
Director: PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian Production: HB PeÅ Holmquist Film in co-production with SVT and YLE
A film about fatherhood and the bond between a father and his infant daughter.
Director: Jay Rosenblatt Production: Locomotion Films
THE IDLE ONES is a touching and revealing, but nonetheless, funny documentary about three young men, Lötkö, Hapa and Bodi, living in an empty area in Northern Finland.
Directors:Susanna Helke & Virpi Suutari Production: Kinotar Oy
An intense personal documentary that explores how a grandmother's secrets of identity have had repercussions on two subsequent generations of women. In the film, Klusemann investigates her family's cultural and historical roots, which wind through Italy, Venezuela, the United States and Poland.
Director: Caterina Klusemann
Production: Caterina Klusemann in cooperation with ZDF / ARTE
Harun Farocki's most important film essay
Director: Harun Farocki Production: Harun Farocki
A moving film that looks behind the curtains of a home for the elderly.
Director: Margreth Olin Production: Speranza Films AS
The documentary describes the dramatic emotional, religious and lifestyle re-orientation of an entire generation within a society that has been changing from its core, in Albania's capital Tirana.
Director: Marko Doringer Production: Filmfabrik in co-production with ORF
A fisherman travels to Australia to confront the company responsible for destroying his livelihood.
Director: Peter Hegedus
Production: Soul Vision Films Production developed with the assistance of Pacific Film and Television Commission
in co-production with Lichtpunt and RTBF TV produced in association with SBS Independent financed with assistance of the Film Finance Corporation Australia
1 out of 1000 newborns is intersexual. Their stories criticize the plastic surgery for babies to sex bodies male OR female.
Director: Ilka Franzmann Production: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion
In 1945, Ireland launched a unique aid campaign which saved over 1000 children in war-torn areas of Europe from starvation. The film tells the unknown, touching story of "Operation Shamrock", which was destined to have an unforeseen impact on the futures of the children it rescued. Five of them look back.
Director: Anna Schmidt
Production: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion / Paradox Pictures
The Filmmaker follows her father whom she hadn't seen for 23 years - since her mother's suicide.
Director: Karin Jurschick Production Karin Jurschick
A documentary film about general Jaruzelski, the former communist leader of Poland, one of the key figures during the political change in Eastern Europe. In exclusive interviews he tells his stand on the political change, defending himself in front of the history.
Director: Martti Puukko Production: Illume Oy in co-production with YLE TV2, RTBF, ETV, HRT, LTR, LTV
She called herself the 'Devil's little sister'. He knew nothing of the pact she had made.
Director: Hannes Schönemann Production: ma.ja.de. / Magic Hour Films / Epidem
"Justice" follows Sisto Turra, the father of a young man murdered by police in Colombia, and his groundbreaking struggle to bring the Colombian government to justice.
Director: Fabrizio Lazzaretti
Production: DocLab in association with BBC Storyville, ZDF/Arte, ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion, TV Ontario
Lukashenko is great, the people of the province love him, and opposition doesn’t exist. A biting cynical analysis of a totalitarian regime in its entirely bitter absurdity.
Director:Yury Khashchavatski Production: Baltic Film Production
The life of Homo Sapiens from a bird's point of view. Exquisite!
Director: Mikael Kristersson Production: Picafilm
Two actors in a darkened room were enough for German director Andres Veiel to tell a story of a famous "Skinhead murder" which stressed Germany in 2002.
Director: Andres Veiel Production: nachtaktivfilm in co-production with Journal Film Volkenborn and ZDFtheaterkanal
The everyday life of fascism - its banalities, shabbiness and meanness.
Production: TIBA-Film Director: Sybille Tiedemann
A search for the lost PLO film archive which was supposed to show a self-determined image of Palestinian reality, ends in various dead ends. As she searches, the director finds herself confronted with a new image and so she starts to construct her own story.
Production: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion in co-production with Yamama, WDR/ARTE and BBC in association with YLE TV2 and 03 productions.
Director: Azza El Hassan
Labendig
The daily life of mentally and handicapped people living in a rather free and scenic environment.
Production / Director: Hannes Schönemann
Lakshmi and
Me
"Lakshmi and Me" is intimate and lovely, a universal film about modern
womanhood.
Director: Nishtha Jain
Production: Steps India Media, Raintree Films in co-production with ITVS International, Danish Film Institute, TV2, Tju-Bang Film, Millennium Film and YLE
Landscape / Landschaft
Space and people, their way of thinking and behaving merge within a single
camera movement.
Production: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion in co-production with MDR/ Arte
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Last Phantoms, The / Maria teatri
fantoomid
Five ballet fans are under the hypnotic influence of the Mariinsky (Kirov)
Opera and Ballet Theatre of St. Petersburg.
Director: Marianna Kaat Production: Baltic Film Production in co-production with Illume, Oazis and NPS in association with YLE Teema, ETV, LTV, LRT
Director Sigve Endresen follows three young cancer patients during 18 months through life and... death.
Production: Motlys Director: Sigve Endresen
Lucky (Niggers)
A film from Berlin about coming of age. 1999 to 2005.
Director: Thomas Heise Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with MDR in association with ARTE
Luxor
Las Vegas
A look behind the scenes of this extraordinary pyramid-shaped casino-hotel.
Production: Reiner Holzemer Film Director: Reiner Holzemer
Magnum Photos
History and daily challenges of the Magnum photographers. With co-founder Henri
Cartier-Bresson.
Production: Reiner Holzemer Film Director: Reiner Holzemer
A marriage between a Cuban woman and a German man - a film about departure and arrival,
the battle of the sexes and the clash of two cultures.Director: Uli Gaulke und Jeannette Eggert
Production: Flying Moon Filmproduktion in cooperation with ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel and Arte
A Massacre Foretold is a powerful story of drama and intimacy, that takes us into a world of masked Mayan rebels,
clandestine government death squads and an inspiring indigenous village.Director: Nick Higgins Production: Lansdowne Productions
A close-up and up-front record of the relationship between doctor and patients.
Shot in Finland's leading impotency clinic.Production: Jaakko Ilkka productions Ltd Director: Jaakko Ilkka Virtanen
Filmmaker Thomas Heise pays a short visit to his brother, who now lives in France under the same roof as Micha, their Stasi informer. .
Director: Thomas Heise
Production: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion in co-production with ZDF, in association with ARTE and YLE Teema
A film full of pathos and humour, about an outstanding bond between men and birds, exploring Russian society and a passionate confrontation of genders.
Director: Ekaterina Eremenko
Production: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion in co-production with ZDF and in association with Arte and YLE Teema
A sensual ride through the history of triads, real life experiences, surprising footage and probing reflections on the nature of our desire for more than two...
Director: Caterina Klusemann
Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion for ZDF in association with ARTE
A group of musicians plays on the street in a crowded area of Sofia, Bulgaria. This would not be so strange, but the members are all blind.
Production: Cineaste Maudit production Bulgaria, National Film Center-Bulgaria and bTV Director: Svetoslav Draganov
Mirabella Sindelfingen is a film about Sicilian families who have been work migrants for three generations but still have neither left Sicily nor have they quite arrived in Germany yet.
Director: Andreas Pichler Production: filmtank hamburg
The portrait of a woman who was born in Poland, brought up in Germany and currently living in Los Angeles.
Director: Torsten Schulz Production: ma.ja.de.
The documentary film voyages along the Baltic coast to the Soviet Union on the GDR maiden cruise ship the "MS Völkerfreundschaft" (MS International Friendship).
Director: Ulrike Knorr
Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with Cobra Films and MDR/ARTE
A funny and tragic portrait of Russian history is reflected in a life story of Julia, the main character of the film, and her family as in a drop of water.
The story of an adrift family, living in a barrack, between brangles poverty and alcoholism. In this difficult context, a child will be born..Director: Alexander Rastorguyev
Production: Studio Vertov, Natalia Manskaia & Anna Kornilova
A documentary about the illicit trade of Greek antiquities.
Director: Andreas Apostolidis Production: Ioannis Kaspiris in co-production with Anemon Production, ERT, Greek Film Centre.
The life and emotions of a New York taxi driver.
Production: Millennium Film Director: Georg Grotenfelt
In a Palestinian neighbourhood at a time of war and conflict the making of a documentary film becomes the only mean of entertainment.
Director: Azza El-Hassan Production: Yamama Creative House
"Virgins are considered angels. We all try to become angels."
Director: Jerzy Sladkowski
Production: Magic Path Entertainment / Antti Väisänen
Documentary on the indoctrination and propaganda that have done their work on the family of Hong Sun Hui, a lady that works in a textile factory.
Director: Pieter Fleury
Production: Golden Monkey Enterprises
A documentary about Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland (1994-2000) and UN diplomat and mediator,
noted for his international peace work.Director: Jenny Nyroos Production: Nordisk Film & TV
Women aged 8-84 and from diverse cultural backgrounds tell their first menstruation stories with candor and humor.
Production: Jay Rosenblatt & Jennifer Frame
La Fabbrichetta, Alberto Vendemmiati, Zaroff FilmCandid and deftly edited portrait of an Italian transsexual as she undergoes a sex change that is subsidised by the state.
Director: Alberto Vendemmiati Production:
After 9-11, Muslim immigrants were subject to arbitrary arrest, secret detention, and solitary confinement by the U.S. Government. Through interviews, family photographs, and letters from prison, victims tell their own stories.
Directors: Alison Maclean and Tobias Perse Production: The Documentary Campaign
The death of a child triggers this collection of personal reflections on grief and loss. (Phantom Limb is the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated).
Director: Jay Rosenblatt Production: Locomotion Films
A sentimental biography of the generation that has been brought up during the three decades of Pinochet´s dictatorship in Chile.
Director: Paula Rodríguez Production: dffb & ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion
From coal to electricity, from song to poetry: Mongolians coping with harsh reality.
Production: Inti Films Directors: Peter Krüger , Sakhya Byamba , Peter Brosens
Static cinematographic portraits of common Russian people revealing time and its passing obscurity
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Production: St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studios
The inhabitants of the Russian town of Prirechnyy have received a letter from the county of Murmansk telling them that their town no longer exists. Still, a handful of retired persons refuse to leave this once-proud mining community. We meet four of them in their absurd, small universe in northern Russia.
Director: Tone Grøttjord Production: Motlys AS in co-production with SVT, NRK and YLE
The fictional, yet very true biography of a whole Russian generation. By Vitalij Manskij.
Production: MV-studio , REN-TV , YLE-TV 2 Director: Vitalij Manskij
A tale of three heroines of everyday life, this is a moving and very funny film about three cleaning ladies in Berlin and
their search for happiness. They are in their 40s and 50s and it is them who give Berlin its shine.Director: Antje Kruska & Judith Keil Production: Egoli Tossell Film AG
Rasheda Trust, The
'The Rasheda Trust' shows the stages of development and the daily
routine of the Bangladeshi entrepreneur Rasheda Begum, who rose from nothing
and holds her ground in a male dominated world.
Director: Jürg Neuenschwander Production: Container TV in co-production with Dharitri Media and Communication and Schweizer Fernsehen SF
Recipes for
Disaster
What happens when a determined young family gives up all oil-based products
for a year?
Director: John Webster Production: Millennium Film and JW Documentaries in co-production with Magic Hour Films, YLE TV2, Channel 4, Canal+ and CBC Newsworld
Red Tsars /
Presidents of Russia
Michael Gorbatchev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin during the course of a year.
Production: Studio Vertov Director: Vitalij Manski
Directors: Joseph Hillel and Patrick Demers
Production: Quatre par Quatre Films Inc. in association with TV Ontario, Bravo!, IFC (The Independent Film Channel - Canada), Télé-Québec
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio and Inspiration Films
Rooms of Shadow and Light
The prostitutes of Bombay live a nightmare life, yet there are some people who try to bring a little light into the darkness of the brothels.
Production: Millennium Film Director: John Webster
Selfportrait is a documentary about the controversial photographer Roger Ballen.
Director: Saskia Vredeveld
Production: A Springbok in co-production with NPS Television
The film shows one day in a very strange Russian settlement.
One day is like an entire life.Director: Sergej Loznitsa Production: St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studios
Smell of Burning Ants , The
Jay Rosenblatt's haunting account of the pains and trauma of growing up male.
Production/ Director: Jay Rosenblatt Director: Jay Rosenblatt
Smoking Room , The
/ Tupakkahuone
The documentary The Smoking Room is about Finland and Finnish people at the
beginning of the 21st century, viewed through different smoking rooms
throughout the country. The people sitting in the smoking rooms, their life
situations and stories, reflect life as a citizen in present day Finland.
The film is a still of the present day.
Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen Production: Oktober in co-production with Hysteria Film and YLE TV 2
Sons
/ Söhne
A story about five sons and their lives.
A German-Polish family story stretching from the post-war period to the
present day.
Director: Volker Koepp Production: produced by Thomas Geyer Filmproduktion and Vineta Film in co-production with SWR, WDR and Koppfilm
Without them our world would look different. We would not be able to build machines, to move, to transmit dates. They are hidden deep under the earth. It is hard to get them out and it needs a long treatment until they are the way people need it: Metals - copper, nickel, iron - The Splendour of the Earth.
Director:
Holger Preuße (Nickel from New Caledonia)
Kristian Kähler (Copper from Chile)
Claus Wischmann (Iron in China)
Production: Fernsehbüro in co-production with RBB and Arte
Spree – Symphony of a River, The
/ Die Spree – Sinfonie eines Flusses
Gerd Conradt’s new film will enchant you as it takes you on a unique journey
along the river Spree to the backdrop of a specially composed symphony
performed by the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra.
Director: Gerd Conradt Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with Koppfilm and RBB
Acclaimed film about a Mongolian stray who didn't want to become a man. "This unusual film's timeless beauty and the poetry and richness of its ideas make it compulsive viewing." (Variety)
Production: Inti Films Directors: Peter Brosens & Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh
Staub (Dust)
Precise cinematic analysis of the smallest visible particles. From the
cleaning crew to the dust collector and the scientist. Beyond the grey is a
whole universe.
Director: Hartmut Bitomsky
Production: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Big Sky Film and WDR in association with ARTE and Schweizer Fernsehen
Many parts of rural Greece are faced with a serious problem. The lure of city life is generating a disproportionate number of bachelors looking for love. Filmmaker Kimon Tsakiris follows three of these men who are determined to change their lives for a period of two years.
www.anemon.grDirector: Kimon Tsakiris
Production: Bioptic and Anemon Productions in co-production with ma.ja.de. filmproduktion
in association with ZDF/ARTE, ERT and YLE
Sweep It Up, Again / Kehraus, wieder
Last part of the trilogy about street sweepers in Leipzig. A slow quest for traces in the life of people who slid down deeper and deeper.
Director: Gerd Kroske
Production: Realistfilm in co-production with MDR
ma.ja.de. filmproduktion in co-production with ZDF in association with ARTE, YLE TV2, France 5, DR, TV Ontario, VRT and RTBFBollywood goes Europe - im Maßanzug!
Director: Marco Wilms
Production:
cineworx filmproduktion in co-production with Schweizer Fernsehen (SF)Forty-four-year-old Giuseppe Tommasi lives in the Lighthouse hospice in Zurich. Faced with death, this AIDS victim suffering from cancer questions his dependency, his acquaintances, and his own identity. The touching images illustrate conflict of a man with his life while he takes advantage of these last months to find peace with himself and with those around him.
Director: Mehdi Sahebi Production:
The "Three Smiths Square" is located in the center of Helsinki. It is said that three out of four crimes are commited in this district, but Pekka Uotila can not recall ever to have experienced any fesr in this neighbourhood. Quite the opposite: for him it is the center of the world.
Director: Pekka Uotila Production: ma.ja.de. & Millenium Film
Production: Studio Okno Director: Sergej Loznitsa
With a rare film that only a literate filmmaker could create, Heather Rae demonstrates sophisticated craft and builds an Indigenous aesthetic essential to the intellectual exploration of the power and fragility of an Indigenous icon, John Trudell.
Director: Heather Rae Production: Appaloosa Pictures
Studija 2 in co-production with ARTE, YLE and LRT"The world is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. But passion is associated with sadness. Sadness does not only arise from death which makes us face the Eternity, but also from life which causes us to confront the Time."
Nikolaj Berdiajev
Director: Audrius Stonys Production:
A young Moroccan woman defies all taboos and embarks on an extraordinary quest in search of answers to urgent questions about sex, virginity and Islam.
Production: The Ice House Director: Jessica Woodworth
"The Virgin Vision" explores 12 strategies to achieve ecstasy.
Director: Friederike Anders
Production: Heino Deckert (ma.ja.de.)
The documentarist Sigve Endresen portrays the singer Kari Iverland's recording process and journey towards a finished album. Through her lyrics, we get an insight into the existential unrest she has felt throughout her life.
Director: Sigve Endresen
Production: Motlys - Alligator Film
Aida went to war for Armenia, she came back as a hero, but what happened to her world?
Director: PeÅ Holmquist & Suzanne Khardalian
Production: HB PeÅ Holmquist Film
"…A brave, unflinching and willingly unpopular and unsavory film showing the most brutal face, and the muscle, of Putin-era Russia, cavorting on a summer beach. …"
VPRO Joris Ivens jury, IDFA 2006Directors: Alexander Rastorguev, Vitaly Mansky and Susanna Baranzhieva
Production: Studio Vertov, ma.ja.de. filmproduktion and WDR in association with YLE TV2
From Wismut to St. Pauli, Wolli: professional fugitive, artist, pimp (retired). Wild and wonderful. This way, documentary film is fun.
Director: Gerd Kroske
Production: realistfilm
‘Women as Booty’ documents the fate of women who were abducted and abused by the German Wehrmacht during World War II.
Director: Martin Hilbert
Production: Aquinofilm in co-production with ARD/WDR
In this twenty-one part series, working families from all over the world reveal their most treasured material possessions. As they speak, they provide an insight into their reality and their aspirations.
Director: Gerlinde Böhm
Production: Gerlinde Böhm Filmproduktion
The annual journey of the nomadic Nenets family Yaptik, their reindeers and their spirit Hasse. Sensationally filmed, powerful like the tundra.
Director: Edgar Bartenev
Production: St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio
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