THE BIG BANANA Banned in Cameroon,The Big Banana illustrates the poor working conditions in banana plantations and exposes the adverse impact on the people of a corporatocracy government that affords super profits for corporations at the expense of the local population. The Big Banana outlines…
CONGO: WHITE KING, RED RUBBER, BLACK DEATH DIRECTED BY PETER BATE CONGO AND BELGIUM / 2003 / ENGLISH / 84 MIN SYNOPSIS This true, astonishing story of what King Leopold II did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. “ Congo:White King, Red Rubber, Black Death” describes how King…
THE FIRST RASTA DIRECTED BY HELENE LEE JAMAICA AND FRANCE / 2010 / ENGLISH / 85 MIN SYNOPSIS Thirty years after Bob Marley's death, it is time to pay tribute to Leonard Percival Howell, The First Rasta At the beginning of the last century, the young Leonard Percival Howell (1893- 1981) left…
In the documentary Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work (Algeria/France, 2001, 52 mins., in French and Arabic with English subtitles), director Cheikh Djemai uncovers and interviews scores of former associates of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, philosopher and political leader. He became a spokesman…
Der Dresdner Maler Eberhard von der Erde setzt sich seit Beginn der 1970er Jahre in seinen Arbeiten mit verschiedenen Themen der Gesellschaft auseinander. Er engagierte sich für die polnische Gewerkschafts-bewegung und wurde deswegen in der DDR inhaftiert. Welche Bedeutung haben diese Einschnitte…
Wilder than Wild: Fire, Forests, and the Future reveals how fire suppression and climate change have exposed our forests and wildland-urban landscapes to large, high severity wildfires, while greenhouse gases released from these fires contribute to global warming. In this one-hour award-winning documentary,…
Ein filmischer Hybrid als Stimmungsbild unseres Alltags vor dem aktuellen Hintergrund Dresdens mit überlieferten sorbischen Klängen. An verschiedenen Stellen der Stadt DRESDEN erscheint immer wiederkehrend ein kleiner, gezeichneter Film, eine Animation über Krieg und Frieden, Streit und…
*This film may be purchased by individuals for personal home viewing with family and friends only. It is strictly prohibited to screen, loan or broadcast for any group for either educational or commercial purposes. A film by Suzanne Wasserman Guyana/US | 2003 | 50 minutes | Color/BW -- THUNDER…
Prague 1989, September 30th. The West-German Embassy in Prague finds itself the center of the world's political stage. For weeks refugees from East-Germany have been streamed on the premises of the Palais Lobkowitz and the surrounding streets. Within days the fenced embassy compound transformed…
When two friends collect money for the so-called “suffering in America” in the streets of Accra, is it for fun, political provocation, or a prophecy? Two Swiss filmmakers will answer these questions with the help of seven musicians from Ghana—M3NSA, Wanlov The Kubolor, Adomaa, Worlasi,…
In 2005 Sami reindeer herders made an alliance with Greenpeace and established a Forest Rescue Station in the wilderness of Inari. The international pressure from Greenpeace made Finnish forest company Stora Enso stop buying the wood from conflict areas. Kalevi Paadar, a Sami reindeer herder, lodged…
SPARK opens by the side of a road in Lanzhou City, northwestern China, as trucks rumble through a blasted hillside. An elderly man walks along the dusty road and pauses to point to a nearby spot—the former execution grounds. “They executed many,” the man says. “Then fewer and…
