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Jean was adopted in Paraguay in 1987 when he was a few months old. He’s been living in the North of France since then. He’s been thinking since his adolescence to go back to his native country in order to look for his biological mother. After numerous doubts due to his fear that his mother might refuse to see him, Jean finally decided to look...

Barricade is a documentary on the occupation of the Dannenrod Forest in Hessen, which was evicted in Dec 2020. It shows the live of the activists in the forest and the treehouses, they´ve build up to 30 meter high in the branches, but mainly their fight for a better climate in the future. With their hearts and guts.

Filmmaker Deng Wei’s grandfather Zuogui lives a life of bitter discontent toward his son Donggu, who is set on earning the respect not afforded him as a child. Donggu works as a property developer to provide his family with a good life, but when a job-site accident forces him into financial hardship, it prompts a re-examination of his priorit...

Στα «Παιδιά του Δάσους» ο εξάχρονος Andreas αφηγείται την ιδιαίτερη και ενδιαφέρουσα παιδική του ηλικία σε ένα αυστριακό δάσος-παιδικό σταθμό. Αυτή η ειδυλλιακή εμπειρία αρχίζει να καταστρέφεται παρέα με το δάσος.

Hector Mavridis is a ceramist. Dedicated in recent years to his ongoing work "Clods", he explores the imprint of the primordial form in public space. The clods he collects from the plowed fields are his raw material. Their shape, the smell of wet soil are evoking memories. He observes them, touches them. Wants to transform them. He works with...

Berta Zenefels (84) has barely ever left her beloved farm the «Zollhaus» in Bavaria, where she fried thousands of Schnitzel’s in the kitchen for her guests. During her lifetime she had to bury her firstborn son, her husband, her grand-son and her youngest son. But without a successor the heavily indebted farm is threatened with bankruptcy.&nb...

The film follows six people with Down syndrome in Bosnia and Herzegovina who, overcoming numerous obstacles, are among the first in Southeast Europe to become students in a professional acting school, thus breaking down prejudices and barriers about the possibilities and abilities of people with Down syndrome. An amazing film story about the...

A personal cinematic journey to four indigenous peoples and their shamans unexpectedly turns into an exciting testimony to the struggle for survival of these unique nomad cultures, whose physical and cultural survival is existentially threatened by climate change.

Dani Karavan has created nearly 100 environmental installations all across the world and won the most prestigious international art awards. Yet Karavan is far from satisfied. His monumental structures are deteriorating, his advanced age is starting to catch up with him, the political climate in Israel is driving him mad and he becomes embroil...