A look behind the scenes of modern banking: from Bolivia to Pakistan, Benin to Switzerland, we focus on 15 confidential meetings between bank customers and consultants. Filmed entirely from the bank’s side of the consultation table, the film highlights the conflicting interests of both parties.
In Europe the information technology of every state administration and its institutions – military, police, fiscal authorities etc. – is based on Microsoft programmes. This dependence exposes us to a high technical and political security risk. Is our digital sovereignty at stake? An investigative study.
Nowadays, the desire to optimise ourselves affects almost all spheres of our life: from education to diet, from career to how we handle relationships. Becoming better is our goal, developing our individual potential in the best possible way rather than living according to predefined patterns. We meet people who dedicate themselves to self-optimisation, the ideology of achievement and enhancement utopia, and we interview scientists and intellectuals who have spent years studying this social transformation and its consequences.
Equal opportunities and the distribution of power – what is the reality in European boardrooms today? In in-depth interviews, we look at the careers of three top female managers from companies in Germany, France and Spain and report on current changes taking place in personal attitudes and European boardrooms.
For Eric Brossier, his wife and two daughters, the research ship “Vagabond” is home. Scientists from all over the world charter the boat together with the family for their research projects. We accompany them on an adventurous journey across the Arctic Ocean. Also on board: climate researcher Jochen Halfar and his team. Will their mission succeed?ΩΩ
The next presidential elections in Russia will take place in March 2018. We will follow Alexei Navalny and his team during his presidential campaign over the period of one year, offering audiences an exclusive look behind the scenes of contemporary Russian politics.
Today, almost in real time, victims of war and crimes use mobiles to film and photograph their experiences. International investigators collect this evidence for criminal prosecution. We document their research into the war in Ukraine, the destruction of Mali’s cultural heritage, the search for mass graves in Colombia and the “Black Friday” bomb attacks in Gaza.
When, almost 10 years ago, a kohl-eyed androgynous kid from East Germany and his teenage band TOKIO HOTEL cast a spell on German adolescents, no-one ever imagined this would be the start of a unique world career. A close-up portrait of a band that has grown up and follows its own, highly individual path.
So far, no one has been brought to justice for the atrocities committed during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) or Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975). In 2013, an Argentinean initiative launched a new attempt to prosecute Franco officials. Will the so-called Argentinean trials become the Spanish Nuremberg?
We hitchhike along Europe’s waterways, from the canals of Holland to the Black Sea. Aboard river barges and pleasure boats, on a river fisherman’s rowing boat, police boat, catamaran or historical clipper: a road movie on water, 2500 km of adventure in the middle of Europe!
In Germany, staff of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees decides on asylum applications. Applicants and case officers meet on only one occasion – at the personal interview when a decision is made about who can stay and who has to leave. An exclusive look behind the doors of an authority that decides on individual destinies.
World War Two from the Soviet perspective: What became of the war after war? How did it define the Soviet Union? Three million Red Army soldiers died in German prisoner-of-war camps. A crime that is rarely talked about, but one that was documented from the beginning on photos and film. Above all by the perpetrators themselves.
