Current Films

»I trav­elled to South Africa to find a white family on a des­o­late farm and film how they faced the new days of equal­i­ty after Apartheid, but I soon lost … read more

In the Taurus Moun­tains of south­west Turkey, peas­ants recall having been shep­herds in their child­hood. Their ances­tors, who had come from cen­tral Asia long ago, even­tu­al­ly set­tled in their summer … read more

A por­trait of the Zapotec women of Juchitán in Oaxaca, Mexico. The films shows them in all their bright­ly coloured, opin­ion­at­ed glory as they run their own busi­ness­es, embroi­der their … read more

Three cat­tle­men from Mali and Burk­i­na Faso travel across Switzer­land and meet three dairy farm­ers and cheese-makers living in See­land and Berner Ober­land. Back in their own coun­tries, they relate … read more

In 1972 an earth­quake destroyed Man­agua, the cap­i­tal of Nicaragua. Many people died and even more lost their homes. The Cathe­dral of Man­agua only sur­vived as ruins; there was no … read more

Every year, thirty thou­sand Moroc­cans cross the Straits of Gibral­tar in small makeshift boats. Four­teen thou­sand of them are sent back. One thou­sand drown. About fif­teen thou­sand of them make … read more

The film begins with an angu­lar shot of the city at night lit by a thou­sand stars. A voice is heard singing incred­i­bly fast. We come back on earth at … read more

The Hadhra­maut region in the south­east of Yemen is well known for its mud brick archi­tec­ture. Through­out the cen­turies, the pop­u­la­tion has devel­oped very sophis­ti­cat­ed build­ing tech­niques and cre­at­ed a … read more

This film focus­es on the songs and dances of migrant Zulu work­ers in South Africa today. The film also fea­tures Beth­wel Mhlon­go, musi­cian and Zulu labor­er togeth­er with three mem­bers … read more

On the defor­est­ed plains of Cen­tral Brazil where once euca­lyp­tus trees grew, the prim­i­tive, round, char­coal ovens look like igloos. But instead of pro­tect­ing people from the cold, their heat … read more

Off the coast of Mada­gas­car, the Nosy-Lava Island prison which was built in 1911 still func­tions as an archa­ic pen­i­ten­tiary. The model system from the French colo­nial period has been … read more

THE INNER TOUR is an Israeli/Palestinian copro­duc­tion por­tray­ing a jour­ney by an organ­ised tour-group of Pales­tini­ans from the West Bank and Gaza, The tour-group travel through Israel, which for them … read more

In 1999, Alca­tel laid South­east Asia’s first opti­cal fibre cable. It cross­es Cam­bo­dia and links up with the cable coming from Europe. The instal­la­tion of this cable run­ning through their … read more

Ghini is the respect­ed leader of the Hulis, one of the seven hun­dred tribes living in Papua New Guinea. He is the oldest member of the tribe and vivid­ly remem­bers how the whites came down in their out­landish flying machines. A short time ago, his life and that of the tribes went through a sweep­ing change: in imi­ta­tion of their leader, the entire tribe had them­selves bap­tised. An impor­tant reason for this shift was the announce­ment by the mis­sion­ar­ies that Jesus will return to earth in the year 2000 and that the Last Judge­ment will be passed. The year 2000 did not bring with it the apoc­a­lypse announced, but vil­lage life had changed. The mis­sion­ar­ies’ pres­ence had already con­sid­er­ably eroded the power of the tra­di­tion­al lead­ers, and now the latter are forced to deal with the chal­lenge of demo­c­ra­t­ic power in the guise of a local­ly elect­ed woman town counsellor.