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Set in the astonishing world of child matadors, this documentary follows three children who fight in the bullrings of Mexico. Little Matador describes the intense rite of passage these children make – an emotional and yet unnatural test of children’s courage. Filmed over an eighteen-month period. 

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.

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.

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. 

The Slow Food Story is the essential one-stop critical guide to the history, ideas, structure, and membership of the Slow Food movement. The concept of Slow Food is not just a practical necessity for survival but offers a glimpse of a transformative change for the better in the way we live our lives.

Almost fifty years ago, Mercedes Sosa drafted together with other young artists, the so-called “Manifesto del Nuevo Cancionero” (The New songbook Manifesto). This film is a deep intimate journey into Mercedes Sosa´s world, not only as an artist but as a human being.

During Richard Nixon’s presidency, three top White House advisors obsessively filmed all events with Super 8 cameras, not knowing they would all be in prison for Watergate a few years later. OUR NIXON creates an intimate portrait of the presidency through Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Chapin as never seen before.

Once a year schools of European bluefin tuna migrate from the Atlantic to spawning grounds in the Mediterranean. It is a well-established fact that tuna stocks now face imminent collapse. Yet they are still being fished during spawning season, interrupting the natural cycle of replenishment.