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“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.

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.

The film combines personal narratives from actors and directors – including Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Glenn Close, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and John Travolta – with archival material, to reconstruct the untold tale of Hollywood’s most invisible and unheralded profession.

50 % of the world’s population lives in urban areas, by 2050 it will be 80%. Life in a mega city is both enchanting and problematic. Today we face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe health issues. Danish architect Jan Gehl plans cities that take human behavior into account.

The Mexican Suitcase tells the incredible story of the recovery of 4,500 negatives taken by famed war photographers, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish Civil War.

A tribute to the greatest erotic filmmaker in the US: A.C. Stephen. 
Having fled from communistic Bulgaria, Stephen shot to stardom in the Hollywood of the 60ies with innocent soft porns. Together with his close friend Ed Wood, he became the father of sexploitation cinema - erotic entertainment before the liberalization of pornography. An American dream come true, directed by Hollywood itself.

The starred chef Ferran Adrià is known as the best, most innovative and craziest cook in the world. Every year, the restaurant closes for six months. During this time, Adrià and his creative team retire to their cooking laboratory in Barcelona, to create a new menu for the following season. Everything is allowed – except of copying themselves.

Spend an exclusive year with the world's most famous art publisher and be part of the fragile processes when creativity is captured in a book.
Featuring Robert Frank, Karl Lagerfeld, Joel Sternfeld, Günther Grass a.m.m.

The US has operated military bases in Japan for six decades, rubbing salt into unhealed wounds from the war. ANPO depicts the resistance to U.S. military bases through an electrifying collage of paintings, photographs and animated, narrative and documentary films by Japan's foremost contemporary artists.