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- War and Justice a true-life thriller about the International Criminal Court (ICC) with unprecedented access to Ben Ferencz (prosecutor, Nuremberg Trials), Luis Moreno-Ocampo (ICC's first prosecutor), and Karim Khan ( current prosecutor).
- The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, and the murder conviction of their daughter Elizabeth and her German boyfriend Jens Soering sent shock waves through the rural community of Bedford County. Elizabeth and Jens had met in a university program for high achieving students. She was a product of European boarding schools, he was the son of a diplomat. After being arrested in London, England, for passing bad checks in 1986, they were both extradited to the United States and have now spent over 30 years behind bars. This beautifully crafted film reveals a mismanaged, or perhaps completely corrupted, judicial process. This was the first criminal trial held in front of TV cameras - the first high-profile, international case tried in a small town. Investigations over the past 3 years have turned up stunning evidence that was previously suppressed or deemed inadmissible. New forensic techniques have disproven evidence that was key to Soering's original conviction. Denied parole 12 times, his next hearing in 2017 may have a different outcome, at the same time the film is in release. Unidentified fingerprints, photographic evidence that points to sexual abuse, the presiding judge's friendship with the victims, a missing FBI profile, a bloody car with a knife under the seat - all point to a very different story, one that is revealed in the film.
- Martin Armstrong, once a Wall Street-based financial advisor, was arrested on charges of orchestrating a 3 billion dollar Ponzi scheme, which he still disputes to this day. After 11 years in prison, he's ready to set the record straight.
- Shot in the style of a legal thriller, the documentary "The International Criminal Court" relates how the first internationally legitimated criminal court was founded in 2002, and how it investigates appalling crimes committed by some of the world's most ruthless war criminals.
- August 1961: The GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin, the city is divided. A year later, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape through a 135 meter long tunnel to the west. For more than four months, 41 students from West Berlin dug this tunnel. They put their lives on the line - for friends, relatives, lovers and political ideals. They sell the film rights to the US television station NBC .: In 1999 the award-winning documentary "The Tunnel" tells the spectacular story of this escape. Today, over 20 years later, the film has been remake in HD and in Cinescope format. The story and the spectacular NBC material that was recovered from the attic of one of the tunnel builders have lost none of their topicality, explosiveness and uniqueness in the face of global refugee crises, isolation and walls. The two Italians Mimmo and Gigi, who dug the tunnel for their friend Peter Schmidt and later concluded the deal with NBC, have already died. But some of the tunnel builders, now in their eighties, are still alive. They tell their stories, including Inge and Klaus Stürmer. The joint attempt to escape in 1961 failed: only Klaus Stürmer managed to escape to the West. Inge Stürmer, mother of a toddler and pregnant, was arrested and sentenced to prison. Klaus Stürmer worked on the tunnel to bring his family to him. The images of the tunnel construction and the successful escape went around the world when the film was broadcast by NBC to an audience of millions on December 10, 1962. "Tunnel of Freedom" tells of the daring young people, of trust and solidarity, of the search for freedom and overcoming walls. The film combines emotionally charged biographies into a unique political drama of the Iron Curtain.
- A Fellini-Esq documentary that takes place in the West Bank city of Jenin and follows a local initiative to re-open the old and only cinema in the city. Cinema Jenin, founded in the 1960s, was once the largest cinema in the Palestinian territories. Today it stands as a hollow echo of its society. It is crumbling and seems just about to collapse; taking all the old stories it once contained crashing down with it. And yet, there are still hints of its glamor days for anyone to see. An extraordinary group of Palestinians hope to restore glory to the city and perhaps to themselves, embarking on an almost impossible mission to re-open the cinema.
- Er war Pazifist und Humanist, kämpfte für Verständigung und glaubte an den Dialog zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern am 31. März 2002 kommt der Israeli Dov Chernobroda bei einem Selbstmordattentat in Haifa ums Leben. Der 24-jährige Palästinenser Shadi Tobassi aus dem Westjordanland sprengt sich in dem arabischen Restaurant in die Luft, in dem Dov gerade zu Mittag isst. Warum geht ein junger Mann morgens aus dem Haus wie an jedem anderen Tag, sagt, er käme nicht so spät zurück von der Arbeit und zündet ein paar Stunden später den Sprengstoffgürtel unter seinem Shirt? Acht Jahre nach dem Attentat versuchen die zwei jungen Regisseurinnen Stephanie Bürger und Jule Ott zu verstehen, was unvorstellbar scheint. Wie leben die Menschen in diesem Konflikt? Was weiß der eine von den Tragödien des anderen? Die beiden Filmemacherinnen treffen die Israelin Yaël Chernobroda, Dovs Witwe. Dov hat an die Möglichkeit der Versöhnung zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern geglaubt. Wofür er Zeit seines Lebens eingestanden ist, das möchte Yaël acht Jahre nach seinem Tod fortsetzen: Sie bringt den Mut auf, die Familie des Attentäters in den besetzten Gebieten zu besuchen. Die Familie Tobassi traut sich, die Israelin in ihr Wohnzimmer nach Jenin einzuladen. Der Film erzählt die schrittweise Annäherung beider Familien, die getrennt durch eine Mauer und zahlreiche Checkpoints das gleiche Schicksal teilen: Sie müssen ein Leben nach dem 31. März 2002 führen, nach dem Tod, nach dem Schock, nach der Stille. Nach der Stille wurde durch das Projekt Cinema Jenin ermöglicht.