Insa Sparrer and Matthias Varga von Kibéd in a seminar at Cartagena de Indias, Columbia march 1st - 5th, 2017
Trailer in English, full movie in Ukrainian http://www.ava-scheiner.ch Trails of a Jewish European in the 20th century Jerzy Czarnecki, the protagonist of the film, could have contented himself with a quiet retirement after many years of work as a nuclear technologist for the Swiss Federal Office…
Naive dreams – A Jewish community lives on A documentary film by Susanne and Peter Scheiner Length: 30 min Spoken Languages: German, Slovak, Hungarian Subtitles: Hungarian http://www.ava-scheiner.ch Synopsis The Jewish community in Komárno (Slovakia) celebrates 220 years –…
MARIA MUSS PACKEN ist ein Film über ein altes polnisches Ehepaar und ihren Kampf gegen den drohenden Verlust ihrer Wohnung. Ein Film über Gerechtigkeit und die Bewältigung von Schicksalsschlägen – mit positiver Lebenseinstellung. Eine Parabel über das Altwerden und Jungbleiben. Auf…
ART IN SMOG offers an intimate, philosophical glimpse of contemporary China, experienced through the work and lives of four artists and a curator. Footage from 1991 and 2016 documents a changing world. SU XINPING and XIA XIAOWAN were young graduates of the Central Academy of Fine Arts who dreamed of…
Fifty years ago, a 22-year-old landscape architecture student named Don Bartoletti signed a $250-a-month lease at 111 ½ E. Beaver Ave. for a bar he had wanted to create since arriving in State College four years earlier. This bar would be a welcoming place where businessmen, students, Viet Nam…
Good practice when working with people with learning difficulties This hilarious but thought provoking programme was produced using the experiences people with learning difficulties had of visiting their GP surgeries. Designed for use in training sessions for staff, e.g. doctors, practice nurses,…
Present day Quakers explain their beliefs. Quakers was a derogatory nickname given to members of ‘The Religious Society of Friends’ by a judge at a time in the 1670s when they were persecuted for their beliefs which placed duty to God above their obligations to the state. In this film…
Covers 1901 to 1999 about the activities of Yorkshire women The century is the 1900s. At the start of the century women did not have the vote and they had no property rights if they were married. In effect they were the ‘property’ of their husbands. But Yorkshire women were particularly…
Roma Golpe Capitale è il film cha racconta l’avvento del populismo in una delle principali capitali mondiali e, nel contempo, la fine del sogno del Partito Democratico in Italia. Golpe è stato decidere di mandare via un sindaco, democraticamente eletto, non nell’aula del Consiglio…
An introduction to the complex author of Invisible Man including the first-ever dramatized scenes from that book.
A cross-section of gender-bending pioneers describe in their own words their lives as homosexual Africans in Abijan. [In French with English subtitles]
