Nature/Environment
The Bubble
Switzerland, Austria | 2021 | 52/93minTHE BUBBLE by Valerie Blankenbyl examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America’s largest retirement community. Leisurely retired life beneath the year-round Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as viewers may imagine. Read More
Cabbage, Potatoes and other Demons
Romania, Germany | 2016 | 60min1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year - which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out? Read More
Samuel in the Clouds
Belgium, Netherlands | 2016 | 55/70minHigh in the Bolivian Andes, the old ski lift operator Samuel remains hopeful that the snow will return, even though climate change has caused the glacier to vanish for good. Read More
Song from the Forest
Germany | 2013 | 52/97minThe US citizen Louis Sarno has been living with the Bayaka pygmies in the Central African jungle for 25 years. Now he’s taking his pygmy son to see the United States for the first time. Read More
Rabbit à la Berlin
Poland / Germany | 2009 | 39/50minWhen Death Zone was the safest home - the untold story of wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls for 28 years and which had to learn to live in the free world again after the Wall came down. Read More
Bad Weather
Germany / UK | 2011 | 58/82minThe film by Giovanni Giommi tells the story of a community of female sex workers living on Banishanta Island and their struggle to survive at the frontline of climate change. Read More
Canned Dreams
Finland | 2012 | 52/78 (81)minA film by Katja Gauriloff about workers and their dreams on the journey of a canned food product. Read More
Robinsons of Mantsinsaari
Germany / Finland / Poland | 2008 | 57minThe film tells the story of two elderly men who are the last and sole residents of a now-Russian-controlled island on Lake Ladoga – and who don’t speak to each other. Read More