On 14.9.2012 at 2:56 p.m., the cruise ship “Adventure of the Seas” reported the sighting of a damaged rubber dinghy with 13 people on board to the Spanish sea rescue service. A YouTube clip combined with biographical scenes create a choreography that reflects the past, present and future of the travellers on the Mediterranean Sea.
Conflicts
The freedom last but one
The blue sky arching above the young boy in Auschwitz-Birkenau is his refuge. And so it remains. In his diaries, survivor Otto Dov Kulka crafts landscapes. The film mirrors them.
Yves’ Promise
Frustrated with the corruption in his homeland, Cameroon, Yves decides to try his luck in Europe only to find out that the future will be more difficult than he anticipated.
Ink of Yam
A bang. Silence. Sirens. Window panes shake, but the needle continues to stab ink under the skin. Ink of Yam tells stories from one of the oldest tattoo studios in Jerusalem.
Learning to Milk a Cow
To Bavaria and back in search of heritage lost.
The Bomb Hunters
A bomb victim, a small-town mayor and an intrepid bomb squad race against time to liberate their city from over 300 undetonated World War II bombs before they go off.
GE8EN
GE8EN is a fragmented portrait of a protest culture between the police and party. Filmed during the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, it questions the representation of reality in the chaotic high-pressure zone between power and protest.
Hamburger Gitter
170 investigators are working on hundreds of cases against militants and people involved in rioting and looting. Severe punishments have been demanded and imposed in over 40 cases so far. The state lost control in Hamburg in summer 2017 and is now trying ensure that it doesn’t happen again.
My Two Polish Loves
The ghosts of the past are the stories of the future.
Depth of field
With its image axis repeatedly tilting and tipping out of frame, DEPTH OF FIELD examines three places in the German city of Nuremberg haunted by and struggling against the memory of racist murders committed there by a far-right terrorist group between 2000 and 2005.