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- Natural disasters, accidents, terrorist threats - today you can simulate just about any disaster scenario. The question of how different institutions, crisis centers, research institutes and insurance companies play it through is factually drilled down in MASTER OF DISASTER. In staged firefighting operations, in smoking train interiors, and a bomb attack in a residential area, it is ultimately only about the question: Can the potential disaster with so much planning be prevented?
- The rock group from Cologne around front man Jürgen Zeltinger has now been touring around Germany for 40 years. He has lived an anarchic and excessive life. From prison to alcohol poisoning up to a neurological emergency, "Plaat" has survived and seen it all. He was never politically correct. But now the 69-year-old rides his e-scooter to the café to meet his friends. Learning new lyrics is becoming more and more difficult for him, but his songs have never lost their power to ignite. All the more so since he is nowadays accompanied by a young guitar player who takes the role of a surrogate son for him. The film is a tribute to a Cologne original that has remained true to himself and will now rock his autumn years full of relish.
- STRESS follows five young war veterans from Pittsburgh who were serving in the US military in Afghanistan or Iraq after 9/11. Joe, Torrie, Mike, James and Justin tell stories of their war experiences and the process of adjusting to civilian life afterwards, back home. The film combines audio interviews with visually unique observations of everyday life in the US to make the complex tension between war and civilian life and the stress of dealing with it emotionally and visually tangible for those who have not had to experience it.
- Eleven reviews read by the author Uwe Johnson and broadcasted by GDR Television. The film introduces a precise picture of the early sixties in Berlin. It also questions the history of the television media, allows insight into the work of the famous author, and tells the story of the division of East and West Germany.
- In this intimate portrait, we join the documenta artist Alfredo Jaar as he finds his artistic voice and develops the socially critical perspective of his photography-based work. Pictures from his past and the observation of his creative process are related to his work that deals with the desensitization to the flood of images showing social and political violence in the media through the connection of architecture, photography and performance art. This film allows us to take part in the questions and motivations that drive the artist's work.
- SHE IS THE OTHER GAZE is a dialog with five female artists - all born between 1936 and 1943 - who were active in the Viennese art scene in the 1970s and were involved in the women's movement. It connects the struggle for their journeys as female artists and their resistance to the patriarchal structures of the art world. In the filmmaker's studio, a blank canvas becomes the projection screen for their stories and the works from that period. The camera, as an interposing apparatus, explores subtle shapes, transforming the art works into cinematic pictures.
- Without money, job or perspective, the musician Diego returns to his Sicilian homeland of Augusta after 20 years. When he has a dream of a visionary picture of a jaw harp, he buys the instrument spontaneously in a tourist shop and take it on a journey to find happiness. On his journey he meets the master of "Karate Kid" and hears from the jaw harp, which flies to space one night to be played by a Russian cosmonaut.
- Manfred and his 89-year-old father do not spare any punches. Since his stroke, the former chef of a service station is constantly close to tears, while his son is finally free to undertake the great renovation. Early on, old Lenz laments: "This is the end." But dying is out of the question. Nobody will be left in the lurch. Pig's head, liver dumpling soup and pale ale from the bottle hold body, mind and the shop together. With his portrait of the service station "B12" between Munich and Passau and its elderly regulars, Christian Lerch has made a slightly different documentary film. He shows Bavaria as if from a sketch of Karl Valentin: rough, anarchic, with a beer-infused depth.
- On the basis of cross-section of Tehran youth and the personal portraits of two young protagonists, the film provides an intimate look into a culture which is other-wise quite closed for Europeans. In confined circumstances, the young people look for a way to combine the growing influences of liberal Western culture with the strict religion of their native land.
- 1,726 female fighters of the Polish underground and female warriors who survived the Warsaw Uprising formed an unusual self-government in a Nazi camp between 1944 until their release in 1945. A film about brave and creative women in dangerous times.