United States 2023 – Director: Aviva Kempner – Berlin-born filmmaker Aviva Kempner chronicles her mother’s and uncle’s lives before, during and after World War II, from their idyllic Jewish upbringing in Poland to their reunion after surviving the Holocaust.
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Germany 2024 – Director: Günter Atteln – ​​Joana Mallwitz finds crowds unsettling but still she leads large orchestras as a principal conductor.
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China, United States 2014 – Director: J.P. Sniadecki – Journeys, carriages and protagonists that come and go – the train is a microcosm and a location for trade, exchange and mobility. We witness everyday occurrences, listen to intimate exchanges, both loud and quiet and follow people’s discussions. In this way the film presents us with a potpourri of impressions of China.
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Germany 2021 – Director: Laurentia Genske, Robin Humboldt – Is there such a thing as a “proper” girl? Two charismatic trans*gender sisters fight for their existence to be considered normal.
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France 2017 – Director: Hendrick Dusollier – In the shadows of a Chinese metropolis lies the old quarter of Shibati, which is due to be demolished. The remaining inhabitants are astonished that a European filmmaker is taking interest in their disappearing world.
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Denmark 2024 – Director: Max Kestner – What separates man from other life forms? An examination of the question of consciousness.
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China, Germany 2017 – Director: Tian Dong – Kung Fu Football – the “Chinese dream.” In a Deng Feng Shaolin boarding school some of the 10,000 pupils learn to play football alongside the traditional martial arts – to complete exhaustion. China’s next generation captured in insightful sequences.
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Switzerland 2017 – Director: Luc Schaedler – Based on their own family history, five Chinese artists explore the upheavals of Chinese history – they are part of a fragile yet courageous counterculture.
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