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- Although they were risking their lives by doing so, prisoners in concentration and extermination camps took photographs and even managed to smuggle canisters of film beyond the camp gates.
- An investigative documentary to understand the corona crisis.
- Pianomania follows Stefan Knüpfer, a piano tuner from Steinway and his famous clients Lang Lang, Brendel, Buchbinder and Pierre-Laurent Aimard as they search for the perfect pitch. Truly an unusual and entertaining peek behind the curtain at the world's great concert halls.
- A damning investigation into the World Health Organisation's hidden practices.
- Anna is living the dream. Having rocketed from obscurity to internet stardom as electro-rap iconoclast 'Uffie' following the release of her breakout hit 'Pop the Glock', she is ready to take her place as socialite royalty, adored by indie boys and girls everywhere. Yet such a meteoric rise can never be without its associated pressures. Trapped between drug-fuelled hedonism, music industry bureaucracy and Myspace mania, Anna starts to wonder whether 'Uffie' is a character she can continue to play.
- What would you do if your income were taken care of?
- An intimate journey into the world and mind of a young woman, striving to love and find her own identity.
- They are about 30 years old and make films. Films with a big crew, big images, big intentions. But this time everything is different. This time they take the cameras themselves and film what they have never dared to film before: Christmas with their parents. A documentary trip through and on Christmas eve. Drawn alarmingly from real life.
- In 1960 the first contraceptive pill appeared on the US market. Suddenly, centuries of sexual mores defined by Christianity were put to a test - not to mention the perpetuation of humanity itself. Today, the birth control pill is the world's most widely taken drug. Over a hundred million women ingest the pill daily. Manufacturing this product is a lucrative and profitable business. New variations enter the world market at a rapid pace. While the pill has many supporters, it also has many opponents. The so-called "third generation" contraceptive pill advertises weight loss and other benefits to attract women. Some criticize its manufacturers for not clarifying that taking this drug exposes one to higher risks of embolism and thrombosis. Even though this product has already caused several deaths, it remains on the market. Hormones from the pills are entering global water systems with potentially detrimental effects. "The Pill: Atom Bomb of Contraception" follows the development of the birth control pill as well as its consequences. From the moral rigidness of 1950s America to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, the film highlights one of the most significant inventions of our century while asking provocative questions about the future of contraception.
- "Human Capital - The Employment Trade" portrays the fate of three people and their struggle through the global world of work: Chamila Alvis moves from Sri Lanka to Cyprus. She struggles with her separation from her children and her homeland and tries to deal with the foreign world she has entered... Dirk Wagner and Volker Nebelung try to escape from the construction recession in East Germany. They prepare themselves for a trip to Europe's largest construction site, in London... Jay Gaines, a headhunter in New York, searches desperately on Wall Street for candidates for the position of head executive of a gigantic corporation. If he doesn't find 'Mr Perfect' soon, he will risk not only hundreds of thousands of dollars, but also his good reputation...
- TV Series
- Kids on Pills tells us that the future of the human brain is at stake. This documentary investigates the following question: What is the sense and non-sense of psychoactive medication for children? Kids on Pills emphasizes the emotional narrative with the help of the patients' stories through observation of children in their families and school environments, and also recreates the most crucial moments in their life.
- The film deals with the global antibiotics crisis. Following the touching case of a patient whose condition seems incurable, we observe the limits and possibilities of phage therapy, an alternative naturopathic treatment from Georgia that is making quite an impression on Western doctors. The documentary tells the fateful story of Henri Lemaitre, an electrician who survives a tragic fall from the fifth floor of a building and becomes infected with perilous resistant bacteria during his hospital stay. After various unsuccessful antibiotic treatments, his leg could require amputation. But Henri is desperately seeking an alternative cure. He thereby comes upon the Parisian Dr. Dublanchet, who has been experimenting with a naturopathic treatment: bacteriophages - viruses which attack and destroy certain bacteria but have no further affect on the human body. This cure is much older than the use of antibiotics, but was forgotten during the proliferation of antibiotic usage in the 1950s - at least in Europe. In the Soviet Bloc, during the Cold War, antibiotics were difficult to obtain. As a result, the doctors used bacteriophages. The georgian Eliava Institute was responsible for the development of the production and medication of phages in the whole Eastern Bloc. Until the fall of the Soviet Union, the institute was prospering; today it is nearly broke. While the method is still used in Georgia, it is not authorized in Europe, and due to the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry, is difficult to market. To learn more about this therapy and find a remedy against the resistant germ infecting his patient, Dr. Dublanchet travels to Georgia to undertake his research.
- Friday evening, Frankfurt, Omen night club. Sven Väth, Frank Lorber and thousands of people on the dance floor. Lust for life ! The Film is not an attempt at explaining or describing tekkno - it is tekkno.
- "Preying on Patients" illuminates on many levels the web that doctors, pharmaceutical concerns, politicians and investors spin around the ill and sick. in a multi billion business, the patient becomes the pawn, the expense, the prey. In the struggle about the pricing of a new medication in ophthalmology, the industry's long arm reaches far into the highest political circles. Why is it, that a moderately priced drug with a proven record of effectiveness should be replaced by a more expensive one? After getting her third shot of a new vaccine, a young girl develops a dangerous paralysis. Only later does she learn about the vaccines disputed effectiveness. Why was she not properly informed about the drug's potential risks and benefits before the injection? And why did even official bodies in the health care system overstate the effectiveness of the medication? After the privatization of a hospital a sudden rise in medical malpractice and fatalities occurs. As investigation ensues the public prosecutor rises serious allegations: Did the the new owner and chief physician administer erroneous and unnecessary treatment out of financial motives? Why and to whom are local authorities in Germany and France selling their clinics? And what are the consequences? In the struggle over distribution of the health care billions, the liberal doctors compete directly with the pharmaceutical companies and the owners of hospitals. Physicians have been complaining about stagnating fees for years. From their point of view, medical care cannot be maintained with the low remuneration paid by the statutory health insurers. To keep up their incomes, especially German doctors have come to treat more and more patients per day. But how can a reliable diagnosis be made in an average treatment time of eight minutes? "Preying on Patients" attempts to unravel some knots of the enormous health care web. Carefully researched case stories uncover long term strategies and motives of the health system's different players - and how they carry out their struggle at the cost of those who can not fight back: the patients.
- The two-part documentation focuses on biotherapy with leeches and maggots.
- Scott Rourk, a 33 year old pastor of the Southern Baptist faith, has recently moved with his family from Atlanta to New York in order to set up the four one one, his new church located in Times Square and aimed at convincing the artist community of New York of the validity of the Bible's messages in their daily lives.
- Evangelical groups from the U.S.A. are on the increase worldwide. These "born-again" Christians stand for conservative beliefs like the abolition of abortion and the issue of abstinence from premarital sex. They also believe in the imminent return of Jesus Christ and the forthcoming decisive battle of Armageddon. Through the dynamic of the political events after the attacks on September 11th they recognize the signs of their promise. Beginning in the U.S.A., these missionaries are carrying their literally understood message of the bible into the far reaches. Increasingly in central Europe.