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- Antonia Singla, a 17-year-old flamenco dancer, made an impact on the international music scene in 1965 and was considered "the best flamenco dancer in the world" in Germany. Meanwhile, in Spain she was practically unknown.
- Several decades in the future, an astronaut on Mars contacts his father on Earth and ask him about how things were in the past, in Vietnam. Several of the Vietnamese ethnic minorities, Ruc, Kor and Hmong are explored.
- Dariko, the only local television journalist in a small town in Georgia, strives from one report to the next to provide a pseudo-ethnographical portrait of a community and its traditions. Like Virgil with Dante, she leads director Salome Jashi through the Georgian "circles of hell" in a microscopic tragi-comedy that reveals a country in perpetual transition.
- Away from preying eyes, a young unmarried couple retreat to the depth of a desolate run-down Egyptian seaside resort, to make love. The power dynamic between them is tested, when the girl reveals she wants their relationship to end.
- The children of acclaimed alpinists who lost their lives on K2, are taken on an expedition to the Himalayan mountains to face their parents' fatal destiny.
- Is it cake? Boys pull a carriage filled with tween girls to a chateau where they engorge themselves on cakes shaped like boys. When the girls are sated on marzipan boys, a mysterious woman in black surveys the situation.
- Ten years after fleeing the regime in Serbia, Marko finds himself defending some of the very people that he fought against while he lived there, including the notorious Radovan Karadzic.
- Director Kyoko Miyake remembered Namie, a fishing village ravaged by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, as her childhood paradise. Revisiting her family's hometown after 10 years abroad, Miayke's multi-layered documentary examines the disaster's profound personal, social and environmental impact.
- In her first feature length documentary as a director, author and curator Grit Lemke turns her attention to the life of the cult rock poet and coal excavator driver Gerhard Gundermann who was initially called "the Bob Dylan of the opencast mine" before becoming the "voice of the East Germans". The film biography is told against the background of a region where global issues of our time are focused as if in a concave mirror. They permeate the artist's oeuvre: home and devastation, the end of industry and work, utopia and individual responsibility. Observations and conversations, images of a post-mining landscape, and a first-person narrator from the coal region enter into a dialogue with Gundermann through his songs, texts and largely unknown archive footage.
- For 18 years, the Syrian Orthodox nun Dayrayto lives on the grounds of a church in Zaz, a dilapidated and abandoned Assyrian village in southeastern Turkey. Together with the monk Abuna she cared for the church for fourteen years. Ever since the monk died four years ago Dayrayto lives alone with her two dogs, a cow, chicken, and three cats. She is vulnerable to multiple threats. Her presence in the region is a thorn in the side of many local actors. There has always been hostilities from the Muslim side and little support from her own community. Lately, the situation is getting worse and Dayrayto fears for her dog's life, which she believes has been deliberately poisoned. The camera follows Dayray to through her everyday life and observes her struggle for survival, her worries and hardships as fear and loneliness are her constant companions.
- Shall I stay or shall I go? This question makes young people in Western Pomerania sway between departure and attachment to their homeland, pragmatism and diffuse longings. They live in a region that is disintegrating into a booming, touristy coastal strip with shiny facades and a desolate, slowly bleeding hinterland. Max, Maria, Long and Jakob are trainees in the hotel business on the island of Usedom. Just as their place of work, the hotel, is a transitory place, so the young people are in a transitory phase of life. MID SEASON accompanies the protagonists through their three years of apprenticeship, in the middle of which the Corona crisis intrudes and confronts the young people with additional challenges in their fragile search for their own path. In a visually staged form, the film relates the protagonists to their living environment and poses the question: where to set off into life when place and time bring with them all kinds of constraints and restrictions.
- 'Juan y Medio' is a restaurant on the Panamericana Highway, south of Santiago de Chile, named after its founder, a man "as tall as one and a half." It became famous in the whole country in the 1950s for its great, cheap food. Juan had five children and when he retired in the early 1970s the family broke apart because of the fight over inheritance, but also for political reasons after Pinochet came to power. The five brothers and sisters couldn't talk about what happened until the director of this movie, the great-granddaughter of "Juan y Medio," returned to Chile to bring them together again after more than 30 years.
- SYNOPSIS November 9th, 1989 : The Berlin Wall falls. We all remember the images : the thousands of euphoric faces destroying the bricks of the forced border which, for almost thirty years, divided the German population. The films director, born herself in East Berlin but having then witnessed the events from her « exile » home in Sweden, proposes a very personal quest of the memories she had been « spared » from by questioning a young former East Berlinian who belongs to her same generation : Rico Schûtz, who was 14 years old at the moment of the Berlin Walls fall, has personally witnessed every single one of the events. They have both shared the same city, the same fragment of history and the same political upheaval during their teenage years. How did they perceive the former RDA during their childhood? In what way have they, during their teen years, lived through the effects of the Berlin Walls fall? What is their actual cultural identity, their political and historical overview of todays Europe? Through the use of several Super8 family archive films, and in addition to the interviews and the images of todays Berlin, the film tells the story of the young generation which identifies itself as the last one from the former RDA and the first one from todays reunited new Germany.
- The directors delve into their Korean-German family's past and want to find out why moving to far-off Europe didn't bring their parents the happiness they had hoped for. Why they instead went through painful experiences which they kept silent about and which still cast shadows on their families.