Aracà is a hamlet in flux. Its ageing inhabitants must cope with rural flight, a changing agricultural industry and increasing numbers of foreigners buying up their village. Some members of the next generation are exploring ways to remain in their community, but the outcome is far from certain.
agriculture
Hinterm Deich wird alles gut
Higher and higher, faster and faster, further and further – capitalism is destroying our livelihoods. 89% of Germans wish for a different economic system. In North Friesland, people are not content with wishing; they’ve taken action!
The Farmer and His Prince
The film “The Farmer and his Prince” – about Prince Charles’ eco-farm – shows a prince who has the vision to feed the world ecologically and to heal a diminished nature.
Percy Schmeiser – David vs. Monsanto
DAVID Percy Schmeiser brings the chemical and agricultural multinational MONSANTO to its knees after almost a decade of struggle. The film tells the story of the courageous Canadian farmer who stood up to the billion-dollar company.
For the Love of Survival
A journey to eight courageous people who have turned away from conventions, from agricultural poisons, from inhumane working methods and have turned to an agriculture that manages the land without poisons and without destroying soil fertility.
In Free Fall
Boris and Marina belong to a formerly proud family of shepherds from the Altai Mountains who lost their livelihood after the collapse of the Soviet Union. When radioactive space debris hits the ground next to their hut one night the clever couple demand compensation from the Russian space agency, Roskosmos, and their story goes around the world. The film starts here, but doesn’t become sensationalist; rather it delves deep into the lives of people who were simply forgotten after distant political changes upended their lives.