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- Rublyovka Road is the traffic artery connecting the powerhouse Moscow with the Russian outback. At all times, the region bordering on Rublyovka has had a magnetic attraction for the ruling elite classes: Tsars, dictators, presidents. Of course, also present-day head of state Putin resides here. In Putin's Russia, Rublyovka has become synonymous with wealth, social ascent and decadent lifestyles. Tell-tale signs of the past and gross excesses of Russian cutthroat Capitalism have created a bizarre microcosm that does not have a parallel elsewhere in this giant empire. Nouveau riche upstarts have caused prices of properties on the Rublyovka to rocket sky-high. Now the fight for the last remaining pieces of land has broken out. The last remaining huts of the poor are swept aside to make way for the palaces of the wealthy by means that could not be any more unfair or brutal. The Russian State, celebrating an imperial comeback bolstered by petro-billions, has declared open season on the weak and poor. Rublyovka is a strictly guarded maximum security area, where many things are hushed up and kept under wraps. In spite of grudgingly granted filming permits, the film team was constantly harassed and threatened by the Russian security service FSB, traffic police and each and every security company.
- With admiration for the beauty of the old 'wrinkled' voices, the composer Bernhard Koenig imparts to seniors the meditative, mournful, affectionate, enlightening, protesting, marvelous and joyful experience of music. In Cologne, he founded the choir of 'Old Voices' over 70. In Stuttgart Koenig conducts biographical interviews with the elderly so as to uncover their buried dreams and aspirations. 'Favorite and life songs' are the integral aspect here: songs that are anchored within the individual biography and represent a very special story or memory.
- It is known all over the world - "Lili Marleen", one of the most famous songs of the last century. Its triumphal procession begins in World WarII thanks to its first interpreter, the German singer Lale Andersen (1905-1972. Every evening at ten o'clock her voice resounds over the soldiers' radio station Radio Belgrade and moves the soldiers of all nations to tears. The previously unknown artist became a world star. A legend and a human drama begin: the boundaries between the song and the singer disappear. Lale Andersen becomes Lili Marleen for millions, and the song becomes her lucky charm and curse.
- "Carola Neher - Cause of Death Unknown" - Brecht wrote the role Polly Peachum for her. When Hitler seized power she fled to the Soviet Union. The film accompanies her son Georg Becker in search of traces of his mother.
- In Africa, the European aids are overwhelming 3 countries Kenya, Mali and Tanzania. Africans always in need for the help of the white man and their desperate lives were supported by European agencies since decades.
- A lonesome middle-aged bachelor, a divorced single mother, and a jovial young mullah are the protagonists of this intimate account of gender relations in Iran. Their stories revolve around the institution of temporary marriage, also called lust-marriage, a Shia practice that allows a man and a woman to legally marry for a fixed period of time ranging from one hour to 99 years. Religiously sanctified prostitution or a loophole for couples to have a relationship within the rigid Islamic laws? Religious dogma meets macho sentimentality meets female realities. A relentlessly honest, eye-opening, and sometimes funny account of Islamic sexual and gender politics.
- The story of "No Man's Love" lures us into the interior world of protagonist Akim, his suffering and alienation. Akim is a young scuba diver who lives together with his older, more austere, brother Issa in an isolated lighthouse on the Tunisian coastline. Tormented by his sister's recent suicide and frustrated by Issa's strictly regimented lifestyle, Akim leaves to accept an offer by a local Mafia boss to dive into a Roman water tank deep in the Tunisian desert for crates containing gold. Haunting images of his sister plunging into the depths of the Mediterranean Sea trespass throughout Akim's experience of coming to terms with his great loss. In search of freedom and wary of destiny, between the glistening heat of the desert and the enveloping depths of the sea, Akim arrives elsewhere...
- The Putin era in Russian politics began on 31 December 1999, after Yeltsin's resignation and shortly before the millennium celebrations. In his first New Year's address, the new Head of State assured the Russian people that "freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press and property rights, all the fundamental elements of a civilized society will be consistently protected by the State". Today, these promises remain largely unfulfilled. The children born in this huge country on that day and at the turn of the millennium have now come of age. They have only ever known ex-KGB man Vladimir Putin at the pinnacle of power. What do the Putin generation think and feel? We meet Taya and Egor, Andrey, Kamilla and Polina. They could not have more opposing points of views - some are ardent Putin opponents, for others he is an idol. Some want to leave the country if nothing changes, others want to fight for change. From the perspective of these millennium children, torn between private dreams and political aspirations, a nuanced portrait of the 'Putin generation' emerges. This is a political film with spellbinding imagery.
- Documentary about Brazilian pianist João Carlos Martins.
- In the early history of the Soviet Union horrific experiments took place; cross-fertilization between man and ape, blood regeneration via blood transfusion, women who were artificially inseminated with sperm from declared geniuses.
- Berlin-Hohenschönhausen was no ordinary place of detention. This former STASI preventive prison did not appear on the maps of East Berlin and had the sinister particularity of having as many interrogation rooms as cells. Symbol of the repressive system of the former GDR, its real function was psychological "decomposition". Three testimonies today echo this topology of terror, in the absence of the torturers. "There are always people who say: you cannot change men by force. They say: it's not so sure, we know our job and have a lot of time.
- Pjotr Pawlenski was arrested after various artistic demonstrations against the russian regime. It's a movie about his scandalous protest for example pinning his genatiles on the Red Place in Moskow and his motivation and inspiration fighting to be seen and heard.
- Non-lethal weapons were promoted and used to humanize social and political conflicts: in other words, to make sure no one dies during demonstrations and arrests.