"The Ties That Bind" is a powerful meditation on political responsibility and personal loss as seen through the story of the filmmaker’s mother, who grew up in Nazi Germany. Using rare archival footage, extensive interviews and critical commentary, Friedrich constructs a fearless dialogue…
In Ecuador, the Yasuni National Park is one of the sites with the greatest biodiversity on our planet – and it also holds a big part of Ecuador´s oil reserves. Ecuador´s president Rafael Correa has made an extraordinary proposal: If the world will pay for protection of it‘s…
Michael Jacobs conducts an initial counselling session. Jane, a fictitious client, comes to see the counsellor because she is feeling confused. Six months ago her husband left her for another woman. Jane is angry and wants someone to take away all the pain. She puts the counsellor under some pressure…
There have been many documentaries exploring hunger issues but none quite like this. A Peace of Bread: Faith, Food and the Future is a compelling and heart-felt look at how young, and not so young, faith leaders are trying to finally make a dent in this country’s 49 million people (17 million of…
Diva Communications presents DIVINE PRESCRIPTION: Stories of Faith, Health, and Community, an hour-long interfaith documentary that shares the stories of people of faith who are taking extraordinary action to address the needs of the sick. The program demonstrates the commonalities among people of diverse…
We hear and see four Austrian singers/songwriters: Gustav, Clara Luzia, Teresa Rotschopf and Luise Pop (in order of appearance in the documentary by Miriam Unger) with their respective bands in a fascinating cinematic reportage exploring their creative processes and performances. We see how they work,…
Es war das gewaltigste, kühnste, abenteuerlichste und verlustreichste Landungsunternehmen in der Geschichte: Am 6. Juni 1944 traten rund 200.000 Mann – Amerikaner, Briten und ihre Verbündeten – zum Sturm auf die "Festung Europa" an, um die Niederlage des Dritten Reichs…
No other opinion maker before or since has divided Germans like the Hamburg publisher Axel Springer. To mark the 100th anniversary of his birth on 2nd May 2012 three award-winning writers - Sebastian Dehnhardt, Manfred Oldenburg and Jobst Knigge - look back at one of the most controversial and at the…
Leipzig im Herbst 1989: Tausende DDR-Bürger gehen auf die Straße. Sie demonstrieren für mehr Freiheit, für Bürgerrechte, für die Demokratie! Das Volk begehrt auf gegen einen Staat, der seine Bürger unterdrückt, bespitzelt und überwacht. Auf den Straßen…
Er war der schillerndste Politiker der bundesdeutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte. Für die einen war er der "Heilige Franz Josef", für die anderen ein gefährlicher und korrupter Brachialpolitiker. Wenn ein Politiker polarisierte, so war es Franz Josef Strauß. Die Autoren Sebastian…
Er war der schillerndste Politiker der bundesdeutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte. Für die einen war er der "Heilige Franz Josef", für die anderen ein gefährlicher und korrupter Brachialpolitiker. Wenn ein Politiker polarisierte, so war es Franz Josef Strauß. Die Autoren Sebastian…
1913 is the last peaceful year before the outbreak of the First World War. But the artists of the time forecast the dark era. Authors write desperate stories, painters destroy perspectives and Igor Stravinsky conducts „Le Sacre du Printemps“ – an aggressive soundtrack for the cultural…
