Gilda Brasileiro is an Afro-Brazil­ian woman who only recent­ly moved to a vil­lage in the Atlantic rain forest. She is all the more out­raged that no one seems inter­est­ed in … read more

She cooks bunch­es of sting­ing nettle, blows her nose loudly, can breathe fire when she talks, and was ugly even as a child, Lule says. But then Lule, who is a shep­herd, braids her hair and care­ful­ly puts on her tra­di­tion­al cloth­ing for her trip into town. Lule is a proud Bur­rne­sha, a woman who takes an oath not to marry or have chil­dren. As the youngest daugh­ter of an Alban­ian family of shep­herds, she was expect­ed to marry a much older man, but cir­cum­stances caused her to decide at an early age to live as a man and take over the role of the head of the family. She says it fit her character.
WILD FLOWER is an homage to a dying way of life: not only the tra­di­tion of the sworn virgin, but also of sheep farm­ing. Both are pro­found­ly con­nect­ed in this film. When a lamb Lule has raised her­self fol­lows her around, we see a glimpse of anoth­er world.

Best doc­u­men­tary, Tirana Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val 2016

For cen­turies, the Berbers in the Middle and High Atlas Moun­tains have been sub­sist­ing on farm­ing and rais­ing cattle. How­ev­er, they are no longer able to make a living from … read more

Brahim Nad­hour, a Tunisian who has been living in France since he and his wife sep­a­rat­ed, returns to Tunis to bury his son, Marouane, who died in a motor­cy­cle acci­dent. … read more

The small town of Tori­ta­ma in the barren land­scape of north-east­ern Brazil has declared itself the “cap­i­tal do jeans.” Mil­lions of pairs of jeans are made there every year, most … read more

Sur­vival Strate­gies for Cold Countries There have always been large waves of migra­tion into and out of Europe caused by eco­nom­ic devel­op­ments. Nonethe­less, the arrival of refugees in Ger­many in … read more

The Arhua­co live in the high­est moun­tains of Colom­bia. They wear their tra­di­tion­al white clothes as they have for many cen­turies and main­tain their cul­ture and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, which is tight­ly … read more