Human Interest/Society

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  Exit

  Norway, Germany, Sweden | 2018 | 52/80min

  What makes a person join an extremist movement - and what exactly makes a person leave it again? Director Karen Winther puts on a personal journey, reflecting on her very own extremist past and the stories of the people she meets along her travels in Norway, Germany, France, Denmark and the USA. Read More

   
   
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  SPK Complex

  Germany | 2018 | 111min

  Gerd Kroske tells the story of the anti-psychiatric “Socialist Patient’s Collective” (SPK) in Heidelberg. The allegation of having supported the RAF, and thus of being complicit in their terrorism, still clings to the SPK and overlies what the movement was originally about: the rights of psychiatric patients, resistance, and self-empowerment. Read More

   
   
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  The Ugliest Car

  Poland | 2017 | 47min

  Join Bogdan, his mother Kazimiera and Wartburg, the "ugliest car", on a road trip from the concentration camp of Majdanek in Poland to a former Nazi labor factory in Germany. A portrayal of a unique relationship between mother and son by Grzegorz Szczepaniak. Read More

   
   

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  The Strange Sound Of Happiness

  Italy, Germany | 2017 | 90min

  Diego Pascal Panarello’s personal journey from the torrid coasts of Sicily to the frozen flatlands of Yakutia in Siberia reveals the use, myths and legends of the mouth harp, spread throughout the world as a symbolic key that can open our mind and soul. Read More

   
   
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  The Red Soul

  The Netherlands | 2017 | 58/90min

  Why is it that still so many Russians defend Stalin as a great leader and a hero? The film by Jessica Gorter lays bare the Russian psyche of today and shows a world full of contradictions. Read More

   
   
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  Happy Winter

  Italy | 2017 | 52/91min

  An insight into the crisis of recent years, seen from Palermo’s Mondello beach where many families spend their summer holidays, hiding behind the memory of a status the crisis has inevitably compromised. Read More

   
   

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  Wonderful Losers: A Different World

  Lithuania, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Latvia, UK, Ireland, Spain | 2017 | 71min

  Arunas Matelis followed the Sancho Panzas of professional cycling for 7 years during the prestigious „Giro d’Italia“ and reveals the unseen world of these wonderful losers running at the back of the race. Read More

   
   
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  Yves’ Promise

  Germany | 2017 | 52/79min

  Yves leaves his home in Cameroon to try his fortune in Europe. The trip takes eight years. A film by Melanie Gaertner about family, the dream of Europe and about not giving up. Read More

   
   
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  Tarzan’s Testicles

  Romania, France | 2017 | 107min

  The film by Alexandru Solomon looks at a monkey research institute in Sukhumi, the capital of the de facto Republic of Abkhazia. Men and monkeys are caged in a territory ravaged by war and decades of cruelty, both victims of a failed series of experiments. Read More