Economy

  • Apology of an Economic Hit Man

    Greece | 2008 | 58/90min

    In front of an angry audience somewhere in Latin America, a North American discloses the secret network that used the World Bank, payoffs, extortion and sex, military coups and political assassinations to create the American empire. Read More

     
  • Bullshit

    Sweden | 2005 | 58/73min

    Filmmakers follow the Indian alternative globalist Vandana Shiva for two years in her worldwide fight against neo-liberal globalization. Read More

     
  • Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas

    Sweden, Germany, Finland | 2017 | 80min

    A documentary thriller by Joakim Demmer about the murky concept of 'land grabbing' in Ethiopia - a modern form of colonisation where foreign investors buy or lease large farmland areas in developing countries without benefiting the local population. Read More

     
  • God Bless Iceland

    Iceland, Germany, Sweden | 2009 | 58/70/95min

    GOD BLESS ICELAND tells the story of the financial crisis in Iceland, diving into the very real and daily confrontations of the calamity, which undermined not only the economy of Iceland but the very identity of the small island nation as well. Read More

     
  • Hotel Sahara

    Germany | 2008 | 52/85min

    Mauritanian Nouhadibou, where thousands are stranded on their way to Europe, lies between the desert and the sea. Stories of waiting, of hopes and unfulfilled dreams. Read More

     
  • I Want to See the Manager

    Germany, Italy | 2014 | 89min

    In the light of the current transformations within the global power structure, the documentary by Hannes Lang traces the linkage of economic ascent and decline. Read More

     
  • Inheritance: A Fisherman’s Story

    Australia / Belgium | 2003 | 52/75min

    The film follows the life of the fisherman Balazs Meszaros who struggles to survive after the ecological disaster in the year 2000, when the Hungarian river Tisza was flooded with tons of cyanide from an Australian-Romanian gold mine. Read More

     
  • Miners Shot Down

    South Africa | 2014 | 52/86min

    MINERS SHOT DOWN by Rehad Desai is a haunting glimpse into the days leading up to the massacre of 34 miners in Marikana in August 2012. Read More

  • Money in Minutes

    Germany | 2014 | 52/90min

    The film tells of a lesser-acknowledged aspect of globalization: international work-related migration as the business foundation of financial service providers worldwide. Read More