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Reunion – ten years after the war

KOS, NO 2011 | human interest , politics | 72',72/58 | Jon Haukeland
Awards: Amanda for „Best documentary“, The Norwegian Filmfestival in Haugesund 2011

10 years in the making ... 1999, Kosovo, Pristina: two enemy groups of Serbs and Albanians meet at a dialogue conference, a few days later the ...

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Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

SE 2012 | investigative | 87' | Fredrik Gertten

What is a big corporation capable of in order to protect its brand? Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten's experienced this recently. His previous film BANANAS ...

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Peace vs. Justice

NL 2011 | human interest , politics | 55' | Klaartje Quirijns

For almost 20 years, the government of President Museveni in Uganda has been battling the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in northern Uganda. The ...

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Meet The Fokkens

NL 2011 | sex | 52', 70' | Gabriëlle Provaas, Rob Schröder

A portrait of two remarkable women and a history of the Red Light District in Amsterdam over the past fifty years.

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Hot Spot

AT 2011 | social | 80' | Sabine Derflinger

The job market is only for those who fit the system, so what about the misfits in our society?
Michl’s Restaurant hires exactly these ...

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Off The Grid

NL 2011 | environmental , social | 52' | Alexander Oey

While America is ravaged by a severe recession and the global economic system wavers, some Americans are taking command of the situation by creating an ...

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Off The Grid

They Call It Myanmar - Lifting The Curtain

US 2011 | human interest , politics, social, politics | 58', 90' | Robert H. Lieberman

 

Shot clandestinely over a two-year period by bestseller author Robert H. Lieberman, THEY CALL IT MYANMAR is an impressionistic journey across the world`s most ...

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They Call It Myanmar - Lifting The Curtain

Landscapes of Memory – The Life of Ruth Kluger

AT 2011 | biography | 83' | Renata Schmidtkunz

First Biography of Bestseller Author Ruth Kluger.

It is one thing to survive the Holocaust, but quite another to deal with the lasting impact of ...

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Little Matador

IE , UK 2011 | human interest , social | 52', 90' | Sandra Jordan
Awards: Golden Palm, Mexico International Film Festival 2011

Set in the astonishing world of child matadors, this documentary follows three children who fight in the bullrings of Mexico.

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The Mexican Suitcase

ES , MX 2011 | arts&culture , recent history | 58', 89' | Trish Ziff
Awards: Best Historical Documentary, Doc Miami Film Festival

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 ...

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The Mexican Suitcase
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Harbour of Hope

SE 2011 | recent history | 58', 76'

In Spring 1945 Red Cross liberated over 30.000 of concentration camp survivors and rescued them to peaceful Sweden.

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Harbour of Hope
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The Boy Who was a King

BG , DE 2011 | biography, politics | 52', 90' | Andrey Paounov

Royalty meets Reality: the biography of SIMEON SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA, the exile boy-KING who gloriously returned as a republican politician to fall from grace in one of ...

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Women's Lust

AT 2011 | sex | 61' | Gabi Schweiger

About the sexual desires of women of a certain age and their daily struggle to preserve these new-won freedoms. The protagonists are five women from ...

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The Substance - Albert Hofmann's LSD

CH , DE 2011 | human interest , science, recent history | 58', 89' | Martin Witz

By coincidence rather then by design the swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. 

he realizes that he is ...
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The Substance - Albert Hofmann's LSD
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In the Bazaar of Sexes

AT 2009 | human interest , sex, social | 52', 85' | Sudabeh Mortezai

A lonesome middle-aged bachelor, a divorced single mother, and a jovial young mullah are the protagonists of this intimate account of gender relations in Iran.

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At Night, They Dance

CA 2010 | human interest | 60', 80' | Isabelle Lavigne
Awards: Special Jury Prize, Hot Docs 2011 | Honorable Mention - NFB Colin Low Award , DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2011

Seldom has Egypt's capital been so evocatively captured.
A fly-on-the-wall doc exploring the mysterious and hard-knock reality of
a typical Egyptian belly dancer clan ...

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EL Bulli - Cooking in Progress

DE 2010 | human interest , arts&culture , science | 108' | Gereon Wetzel
Awards: Deutscher Kamerapreis - Dokumentarfilm/Dokumentation, Deutscher Kamerapreis 2011 | FFF Förderpreis, Dokfests München 2011

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 ...

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Arab Attraction

AT 2010 | human interest , religion | 118',60 | Andreas Horvath

Arab Attraction explores the unusual paradigm shift of a woman known for her pronounced feminist views.
She falls in love with a 20 years younger ...

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The Pipe

IE 2010 | human interest , environmental | 83',60 | Risteard O Dohmnaill
Awards: Best Documentary Feature, Arizona International Film Festival 2011 | Best Documentary, Prix Circom 2011 | Best Feature Film, Green Film Festival in Seoul 2011 | Environmental Film Award, Reykjavik International Film Festival 2011 | The Golden Olive in the category of Documentary programme on ecology and tourism, XVI International TV Festival Bar Montenegro 2011

A village on the magnificent coast of Ireland is attacked by oil company Shell, they want to build a gaspipe through their community.
The village ...

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The Pipe
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Family Instinct

LV 2010 | human interest , social | 58' | Andris Gauja
Awards: AWARD "MASLAČAK" - International Competition, UnderhillFest 2011 | Sterling Award for Best World Feature, Silverdocs 2011

Alcohol, violence and extreme poverty make the remote Latvian countryside a living hell. When Zandas (28) incestuous brother is sent to jail for abusing their ...

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Maids & Bosses

PA 2010 | human interest , social | 64',58' | Abner Benaim

The fight between social classes is a global phenomenon,
but the gap between lower and upper class is never more evident than when they live ...

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Maids & Bosses
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Allentsteig

AT 2010 | human interest , history | 78' | Nikolaus Geyrhalter

This portrait of Allentsteig, a military training area and nature reserve, presents various aspects of life. Without comment but with a keen eye for humorous ...

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Allentsteig

Impunity

CH , CO , FR 2010 | current affairs, politics | 60', 85' | Juan José Lozano, Hollman Morris
Awards: Special Mention, FIFDH Genève 2011 | Best Documentary, Association Rencontres Cinémas d'amérique Latine de Toulouse 2011 | Camera Justitia, Movies That Matter 2011

Colombia today: the biggest trial against Paramilitary, accused of killing thousands of Colombians, is designed to create "peace and justice". Instead the process comes to ...

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Impunity
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Enjoy Your Meal - How Food Changes the World

BE, NL 2010 | environmental , investigative | 58', 90' | Walther Grotenhuis
Awards: Special Mention, Ourense Film Festival

Throughout the year a world of food is lying on our plate and changes the world. Has our food degenerated to a matter of conscience ...

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Women Without A Pause

FR 2010 | human interest , science | 54' | Paula Palacios

Women without A Pause compares the most significant transition in all women´s life throughout different cultures: the menopause.
Women from France, Brazil, Japan, Tanzania ...

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Women Without A Pause
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How To Make A Book With Steidl

DE 2010 | human interest , arts&culture , biography | 60',90' | Jörg Adolph, Gereon Wetzel
Awards: Golden Dove, Dok Leipzig 2010 | Goethe Documentary Film Award | Preis des Hauses des Dokumentarfilms, Deutschen Dokumentarfilmpreis 2011 | Prize of the German Documentary House.

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 ...

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How To Make A Book With Steidl
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ANPO: Art X War

JP , US 2010 | arts&culture , politics | 60',89' | Linda Hoaglund

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 ...

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Berlin Beasts

DE 2010 | 52' | Reinhard Schädler

Wild animals are returning to this major metropolis.
A true clash between urbanization and nature – will humans and beasts be able to
share the same ...

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The Erectionman

NL 2009 | human interest , sex, science, sex | 52' | Michael Schaap
Awards: Audience Award, Academia Film Olomouc IFF 2009

Did VIAGRA change our sexuality?
A controversial and funny investigation of the big players manipulating our sex life.

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The Edge Of Dreaming

GB 2009 | human interest , science | 59', 73' | Amy Hardie

If you dream your own death, can it come true? Amy - 48 and happy mother of 3 dreamt her horse was dying. She woke to ...

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On The Other Side Of Life

DE 2009 | social | 58',86 | Stephanie Brockhaus, Andy Wolff
Awards: Award in Open Window section , Ronda Int. Film Festival 2010

Two poor brothers living in Cape Town are charged with murder . “Making not one wrong move, this jaw-dropping film is marked by an earthy, hard-earned ...

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Oil Rocks - City above the Sea

CH 2009 | human interest , recent history , environmental , recent history | 52' | Marc Wolfensberger

 
‘Oil Rocks’ - behind the enigmatic name lies the first and  largest offshore oil-platform ever built. 
A vast city in the middle of the Caspian Sea ...

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Cash & Marry

AT, HR, MK, US 2009 | human interest | 74',56/76 | Atanas Georgiev
Awards: Regards Neufs Prize 2009, Visions Du Réel Nyon 2009

A "provocumentary" with a fresh perspective on immigration, the cheeky, ultra-low-budget  "Cash & Marry," from Macedonian helmer Atanas Georgiev, explores the motives of cosmopolitan young Eastern ...

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BHUTAN - Birth of a Democracy

FR 2008 | social | 52' | Frédéric Campain

 The King of Bhutan announced that in 2008 the country would become a parliamentary democracy. Observing the birth of this new democracy will give us ...

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A Mountain Musical

AT 2008 | 52' | Eva Eckert
Awards: Diagonale Graz 2008 | Jury Price, Abenteuer Filmfestival Graz 2008

The Austrian mountains hide much more then 'The Sound Of Music'! A fascinating diversity of people; miners, charcoal burners, farmers, illegal hunters and steelfactory workers ...

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Nazis & Blondes

EE 2008 | arts&culture | 67',58/67 | Arbo Tammiksaar

What was the role of the Baltic film actors in creating the figure of the German enemy in Soviet cinema?
Most Nazi villains in Soviet ...

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Nobody's Perfect

DE 2008 | human interest | 84',84/58 | Niko von Glasow
Awards: German Movie Award 2009 - Best Documentary

Eleven people are preparing to pose naked for a book of photos. They were born disabled, like the director himself, due to the disastrous side ...

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Not Quite The Taliban

BE 2008 | human interest , politics, history, politics | 70',52/70 | Fadi Hindash

The story of one man’s frustration with his generation of ‘modern’ Arabs who appear Western but are more conservative than the traditional Arabs. While ...

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So Help Me God

UK 2008 | human interest | 52'

The English "advertising Guru" Simon Cole loves his job, his beautiful car and wife. But he is missing a connection to God. He starts a ...

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Persona Non Grata

BE 2008 | 90',90/58 | Fabio Wuytack
Awards: Une étoile de la SCAM Award 2009

Prosecuted as a revolutionary, banned as a priest, arrested as a rebel, celebrated as an artist.
This is Frans Wuytack's truly inspiring and overwhelming ...

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The Pier of Apolonovka

DE 2008 | 86',86/58 | Andrei Schwartz

Sevastopol – Ukraines biggest port harbours the 'mighty' Russian fleet. During one hot summer we get to know the local population from crazy teenagers to frustrated ...

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A Road To Mecca - The Journey Of Muhammad Asad

AT, DE , NL 2008 | human interest , religion | 58' / 90' | Georg Misch

Leopold Weiss was born Jewish, converted to Islam and named Muhammad Asad - to become one of the most important Muslims of the 20th century. Following ...

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Vienna's Lost Daughters

AT 2007 | 60' / 83' | Mirjam Unger

A film filled with life and profound optimistic women. As jewish children they grew up in Vienna and were part of the
'Children's Transport ...

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Every Seventh Person

AT, LU 2007 | human interest | 52' / 71' | Elke Groen, Ina Ivanceanu

 Every seventh person in the world is a Chinese farmer. An exceptional documentary film that provides insight into life in China away from the urban ...

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Every Seventh Person

Luntano

FR, IT 2006 | human interest | 56',56' | Alessandra Celesia

Once a month, a lorry travels across Italy, from the southern extremities to the foothills of the Alps, carrying a curious collection of parcels. Pots ...

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Luntano

Notes On Resistance

AT 2006 | history | 52' | Martin Krenn

combines animations with non-fictional narration to portray a generation of resistance fighters. It investigates forms of resistance against fascism during the 1930’s and 1940 ...

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Notes On Resistance

The Green Green Gras Beneath

AT 2005 | social | 52' | Karin Berger

Ceija Stojka survived. As a child she was an inmate in Nazi death camps. Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen - where she and her mother were ...

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The Arrangement

AT, FR 2004 | 51' | Nathalie Borgers

Generally getting married is a decision based on love. In Turkey, on the contrary, marriage is quite often still an arrangementthat parents make for their ...

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The Arrangement

Pessac - Living in a Laboratory

AT 2004 | human interest , social | 52' | Claudia Trinker, Julia Zöller

Pessac is a housing complex as well as an aesthetic object: plannedand built in the 1920s by architect Le Corbusier and still inhabitedtoday, with differing ...

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Kanegra

AT 2004 | human interest , social | 52' | Katharina Copony

An unlikely tourist group on a seaside vacation. A holiday spot in the low season as a backdrop for the stories, the protagonists' inner journeys ...

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Kanegra

This Ain't No Heartland

AT 2004 | 58' / 84' | Andreas Horvath

In April 2003, while the war with Iraq was at its peak, locals of the "heart" of America were engaged in conversations. The friendly Heartland ...

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This Ain't No Heartland

In the Beginning was the Eye

AT, LU 2003 | human interest | 45' | Bady Minck
Awards: Special Mention of the Jury, International Film Festival Of Fine Arts Szolnok, Hungary 2004 | Special Mention of the Jury, Trento International Film Festival Of Mountains & Exploration 2005 | Top Ten Best Films 2002/2003 in Australia, Melbourne International Film Festival 2003 | Top Ten Best Films from Central and East Europe 2002/2003, International Art Film Festival Trencianske Teplice 2003 | Top Twenty: Best Documentaries in 2002/2003, Warsaw Doc Review, Best Of Documentary Opening Film 2004

Imagine a portrait of Austria created by Jan Svankmajer and David Lynch and inspired by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: This will give you an ...

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Dad Made Dirty Movies

2011 | biography, sex | 58' | Jordan Todorov
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Festivals and Markets


BERLINALE - 2012
Latin Side of the Doc / Ventana Sur - 2011

Astrid and Andrea are in Buenos Aires from 01/12 - 08/12!!

IDFA - 2011

We're happy to present 9 films at IDFA and see you all there between 17/11 - 24/11.

Awards


Producer Of The Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures for 'Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest'
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Award for Best International Documentary for 'Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest'
35th São Paulo International Film Festival 2011
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Special Mention for 'Enjoy Your Meal - How Food Changes the World'
Ourense Film Festival

Throughout the year a world of food is lying on our plate and changes the ...

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