Ethnographic film about meal-time rituals.
Before the revolution, it served as a regular prison for Batista's political adversaries. The patients confined there lived a life in incredible misery. We visited the hospital on a hot day in July 19...
In the film an attempt is made (with the help of Karin the hairdresser) to recreate the original research done by the American photographer Andrew Daneman in trying to uncover all he can about the Dan...
Klara looks back on her 53 years long life in the woods of Siberia, the Taiga. She belongs to the Evenk people, who originally lived a nomad life in the Tiga as hunter-gathers. Today most Evenks live ...
It's a video installation; it's a long journey into a broom shrub. It's a trudging about in a broom shrub; the camera looks for the correct route. The edge lay on the camera's lens. Bees grow immensel...
Drozdov talk of his understanding of 'freedom'. He compares present freedom as it used to be in the Ukraine; he describes how close friendships, earlier as now, create a space in which a feeling of fr...
A successful young woman lives a seemingly perfect life. She has an ideal husband, an exciting job as a fashion photographer, but something is not quite right. In her dreams, she is confronted by an u...
Greenlanders in Denmark... many prejudices exist about them. Always with a bottle? The director has wanted to meet a number of Greenlanders on their own terms, to listen to the story they could tell. ...
Still with Olaf Fönss
Gudrun Bruun, Olaf Fönss
Gudrun Bruun, Olaf Fönss
Olaf Fönss
Volker Michalowski (in the middle), Gael García Bernal (on the right) in "Salt and Fire" (2015/16)
Irja von Bernstorff (second from the right), Sangay Rinchen (on the right) in "The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
Presentation of Brussels by the puppets Toone and Woltje.
It is unclear who shot this film on 16mm reverse film: It documents the visit of a relative of a Jewish family in Frankfurt from his arrival to his departure and shows the various stops on a sightseei...
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.