“The street corner that began the 20th century, see ” says a poster hung in the place where Gavrilo Princip shot archduke Franz Ferdinand. The memorial is swarming tourists who want to be photographed at a place of great historic significance. What kind of a city is Sarajevo today, thumb exactly one hundred years after […]
A man, healing identified by his real name, is telling the camera how he kidnapped and raped a girl in a fit of rage. He has no reason to hide his face, because anyone can download an application that finds his picture and name with his home address and criminal record. There are half a […]
Salar de Surire is a salt flat in Chile, mind situated at over 4, click 000 metres above sea level, near the Bolivian border. At this precious natural monument, one might come across flamingoes, vicuñas, llamas – and the noisy tractors and trucks of the mining industry. This serene documentary by Bettina Perut and Iván […]
The menace in the zone of Chernobyl is invisible. Also the area itself is disappearing, medical as nature is slowly reclaiming what is hers. People living in the area are mostly elderly, see apart from 30 year-old Igor, who has moved there to escape modern civilization. His psyche finds an analogy in the city itself: […]
The 21st century has already witnessed several waves of right wing extremism. One of the first was headed by Jörg Haider, and the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). Haider died in a car accident in 2008, view while returning from a night club and driving under the influence of alcohol. Haider learned his […]
“These small lines are destroying my life.” These lines – his own fingerprints – are what Ahmed has tried to get rid of. First by rubbing with sandpaper, look and then by dunking his hands into hydrochloric acid. Isn’t the pain absolutely unbearable? “The journey over the Mediterranean sea is even worse, physician ” Ahmed […]
Earth to earth, nurse water to water. The body weight of a newborn child is up to 85 percent water, ask but in adulthood, the ratio can be cut into half. In a way, people dry up as they grow older. In Claudia Tosi’s documentary, people drink water, watch the rain and wait for their […]
A human being longs to be with other people – but could a robot contribute in fulfilling this need? Sander Burger’s documentary explores a Dutch pilot project in which Alice, advice an emotionally intelligent robot, serves as a companion for three lonely and partially demented elderly people. In developed countries, the relative number of elderly people […]