Afghan Cycles
What lengths would you go to in order to ride your bike? Following a new generation of young Afghan women cyclists, filmmaker Sarah Menzies uses the bicycle to tell a story of women’s rights and liberation. The power and freedom that ... - [more]
But Beautiful
Frauen ohne Schulbildung, die Solaranlagen für Dörfer auf der ganzen Welt bauen. Permakultur-Visionär*innen auf La Palma, die Ödland in neues Grün verwandeln. Ein geistliches Oberhaupt mit Schalk und seine tibetische Schwester mit ... - [more]
Commander Arian
On the front line of the Syrian war, 30-year-old YPJ Commander Arian guides a female battalion towards the city of Kobane to release its people from the grip of ISIS, in Alba Sotorra's empowering tale of emancipation and freedom ... - [more]
Der zweite Anschlag
„Das Boot ist voll!“, „Ausländer raus!“ Die Parolen der Rechtsextremen sind mittlerweile unüberhörbar geworden. Genauso die Gewalt, die sich gegen jene Menschen richtet, die als „fremd“ wahrgenommen werden. Die Kontinuität mit der ... - [more]
Die Rote Linie
Die Rote Linie erzählt den Protest gegen die Vernichtung des Hambacher Forstes und den Widerstand gegen den Braunkohleabbau aus Sicht verschiedener Gruppen, die sich erst alleine, dann gemeinsam gegen den Energieriesen RWE ... - [more]
Empty Cages
Teresia Fant´s impressive film takes a close look at activist group Empty Cages, which tries to affect positive change by liberating animals from factory farms and putting them in loving homes. How far must activists and social movements ... - [more]
Ende Gelände
Oliver Ressler´s film on Ende Gelände focuses on a massive climate justice action at the Lusatia coal pits (near Berlin) in 2016. 4.000 activists entered an open-cast mine, blocking the loading station and the rail connection to a coal-fired power ... - [more]
Limity jsme my
Limity jsme my leads us directly into the blockade of Bílina coal mine in the Czech Republic. 280 of approximately 400 activists taking part were detained. The camera follows a group of activists awaiting deportation inside a ... - [more]
On Her Shoulders
Twenty-three-year-old Yazidi genocide and rape survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad is determined to tell the world her story. Her life is a dizzying array of exhausting undertaking - from giving testimony before the U.N. to ... - [more]
Queen without Land
Multi-award winning Queen without Land is an epic and sensitive story about the meeting of Frost, a beautiful polar bear mum, and Asgeir Helgestad, a Norwegian wildlife filmmaker. During a four-year journey since their first in Frost´s ... - [more]
Right to Harm
Through the riveting stories of five rural communities, Right to Harm exposes the devastating public health impact factory farming has on many disadvantaged citizens. When pushed to the limit, they turn into activists and fight for ... - [more]
Spears from All Sides
We follow young, charismatic Waorani activist Opi as he tells the dramatic story of a vehement resistance against the invasion of oil industry in the most bio diverse rainforest of the planet in the Ecuadorean Amazon. Only one small tribe have ... - [more]
System Error
Es ist verrückt: Wir sehen die schwindenden Regenwälder und Gletscher, wissen um die Endlichkeit der Natur und sind dennoch wie besessen vom Wirtschaftswachstum. Warum treiben wir das Wachstum immer ... - [more]
The Corporate Coup d’État
Naomi Klein described the Trump administration as a “corporate coup d’état”. Chris Hedges and John Ralston Saul argue that the real coup took place long before. Fred Peabody´s new film is a shocking pamphlet about the loss of ... - [more]
To the Four Winds
A peasant by the name of Cédric Herrou helps refugees cross the Italian-French border and offers them shelter at his farm. Together with a group of modern day heroes he wants to show that Europe is more than its strict immigration ... - [more]
