In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, women are calling for change. Despite all kinds of resistance, some are achieving professional and political success. This film portrays pioneers who want to reshape society: an editor-in-chief, a lawyer and a politician.
29-year-old Mahmud used to be a rebel who fought against president Assad’s regime but also the terrorists of the Islamic State. We follow him from the trenches near Azaz to the treacherous boat journey from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Samos. From there, the family travels through the Balkans and Austria to a refugee centre in Switzerland.
A film about the unimaginable violence against women in the the DR Congo and a political and social system that turns a blind eye to these atrocities. Women are systematically exposed to the practice of rape as a weapon of war. Director Claudia Schmid gives women a voice and reveals the structures underlying the violence.
They write crime novels about an era that until now has rarely been the subject of crime fiction: the Third Reich, itself the cause of inconceivable crimes and atrocities. The film shows the three writers Dominique Manotti, Philip Kerr and Volker Kutscher at work in Berlin, New York, Paris, London and Cologne.
Two Iranians set off on a unique journey to their home country. The two women from Berlin and Paris spend five weeks travelling across the Islamic republic, with its magnificent palaces, mosques and parks. They offer us a unique and personal view of the country, avoiding the usual clichés and prejudices.
Drones, remote-controlled weapons and war robots are the war technology of the future. Controlling them via a screen is like playing a computer game. Does this new remote-controlled war technology provide us with reconnaissance information and security or is it paving the way for a surveillance state? New perspectives on a complex, fascinating subject.
Thousands of businesses, hundreds of thousands of homes, millions of hectares of forest and land – all this was declared public property by the GDR. After the fall of the Wall, the big question was: Who actually owns what in the East? In 1990, an entire country was up for sale. Gold rush fever broke out, and international investors smelled big business.
Heinrich Böll’s Ireland, Hans Christian Andersen’s Orient, Erika and Klaus Mann’s French Riviera and Uwe Johnson’s New York – great authors on tour. We go time-travelling with four of the most fascinating authors in literary history and revisit the countries they wrote about – intertwining both past and present.
Every day we see pictures of war and conflict. But who decides which pictures we see and how do they reach an international audience from the world’s conflict zones? We follow photographer Benjamin Hiller to Iraq, Syria and Rwanda and the journey his pictures take. This documentary offers a unique insight into the daily realities of his business.
Sun Village is the name of a refuge for Chinese children whose parents are serving time in prison. With no one to look after or feed them, Sun Village is a home until their parents are released. A unique project that aims to achieve a better future for China.
One route – one continent: the world’s longest direct bus service runs on the Transocéanica between Rio de Janeiro and Lima. This road movie allows us to delve deep into South American soul. Along the wayside and in the bus itself, we immerse ourselves in fascinating stories that demonstrate the continent in all its ambivalence.
Over 2000 years ago, the Ifugao mountain people created a unique natural landscape: the rice terraces in the Philippine Cordilleras. But nowadays the arduous work in the rice fields brings little financial reward and a third of the terraces has fallen into disrepair. Can this world heritage site be preserved for generations to come?
