Autlook

THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI is a biography about an emerging sports superhero choosing faith and conscience over fame and fortune. At each stage, the challenges Ali faces go far beyond the boxing ring and ultimately encompass issues of power, race, faith and identity that confront us all.

Their job is to investigate the dark minds of serial killers, terrorists and rapists. While fictional stories of criminal profilers fascinate mass audiences, their professional reality entails an enormous psychological burden. The film portraits top profilers from the USA, Finland, South Africa, Germany at their daily routine and when it comes to the challenge of living a "normal" life.

There are currently about 7 billion people in the world and that number continues to rise. Are there too many people living on planet Earth? Werner Boote takes on the overpopulation myth and takes us on a light-hearted global investigation. A cinematic journey with the masses between myth, facts and politics.

“The oldest jazz band in the world” states the Guinness Book of Records, and they still play at a Shanghai hotel every week. Most members are over 80 giving us their historical insight from the Japanese occupation over the Cultural Revolution to the economic worldpower China is today.

The film director Niko von Glasow undertakes a journey to athletes, who compete at the Paralympic Games in London 2012. He himself is a short-armed avowed hater of sport who cannot understand how anyone could take on such an odeal voluntarily. Even more since everyday life for people with a disability is most often challenging enough.