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ADALIL THE MISTRESS OF TENTS
A Film by Sylvie Banuls & Peter HellerTo Europeans, the veiled men looking down proudly from the backs of their camels have always embodied the noble knights of the desert. Up until now we have heard little about the mothers, the...
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AFRICAN LADY
A Film by Peter HellerThis film is the story of two black teenage sisters in a traditional African polygamous family, sharing a father and having different mothers. A in-depth view of distant everyday lives; two...
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ASIKEL - THE JURNEY
A Film by Peter Heller - Mitarbeit Sylvie Banuls"The gazelle stays in her country - during drought and during fullness." The Tuareg Aha Agh Hama is one of the many veiled men in his country living on the edge of the Sahara in Mali, who during...
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CLEAN CROP
A Film by Peter Hellerhe fate of two villages in East Africa, for generations both dependent on the cultivation of cotton, the most important natural resource for our clothing industry. One village cultivated its...
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COTTONMONEY
A Film by Peter HellerThe fate of two villages in East Africa, for generations both dependent on the cultivation of cotton, the most important natural resource for our clothing industry. One village cultivated its...
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ELSE; THE MULATTO
A Film by Peter HellerThis film shows the conflict of Elsa who is of German / African origin, born 80 years ago as the unacknowledged fruit of the harem of the German colonial elite. Her father, vice-governor Jesco...
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HOTEL RADIUM
A Film by Peter HellerAn idyllic resort town in the Bohemian mountains – this film tells a different tale and shows the other, horrible face of Jachymov (Joachimstal). During the middle ages Joachimstal, with...
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JUNGLEBURGERS
A Film by Peter HellerThe hamburger patty industry daily provides over 25 million people world-wide with industrialized ground beef and is expanding rapidly with aggressive marketing campaings bit(e) by bit(e) around...
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LIBERTY; EQUALITY; MATERNITY
A Film by Sylvie Banuls und Peter HellerA film about the life of women in Mali from the advent of independence up until the present day. A "histoire au feminin" placed between dictatorship and democracy. The rebellious Ramata Dia, a...
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LOVE ME YOU
A Film by Sylvie Banuls und Sabina EngelLove Me You is a film about very special actors in an extraordinary theater and about the unusual love between two of them: Moritz and Nele. They both have Down´s syndrome and both act in...
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LOVE OF EMPIRE
A Film by Peter HellerThis film is about an adventurous petty bourgeois entrepeneur who went to Africa in the 19th century to exploit natural resorces, establish new markets and gain new territories for his...
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MANDU YENU
A Film by Peter HellerThis film tells the story of the origin of the Bamun king´s throne - now at home in the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin - which was presented one hundred years ago to the German Kaiser as a...
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MANGA BELLS - DAMNED GERMAN
A Film by Peter Heller und Sylvie BanulsThe film documents the history of a black African royal family in Cameroon from the times of German colonization until the present day. In 1884, when Europe split up Africa , the German Reichs...
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Mbogos Harvest
A Film by Peter HellerA film about two worlds and their different relationship to one raw material; about markets, working conditions, human beings and interdependence. A case study about cotton farmers in a...
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MOTHER OF LIFE
A Film by Peter Heller und Sylvie BanulsThe film „Mother for Life“ is a documentary about an extended family of three generations, followed for three decades. The social climb of a homeless family beginning in the...
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MUZZLED CRICKET
A Film by Peter Heller und Sylvie BanulsA film about the media south of the Sahara – of the Tam Tam and the Griots, of courtiers and minstrels, of bootlickers and censors, but also of Africans, who fight for freedom of speech...
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RAJTER THE REBEL
A Film by Peter Heller"Rajter the Rebel" tells the true story of a gutsy Czech farmer who has been fighting for decades against whatever system. Under socialism defending his private farm alongside a petrochemical...
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SCHADEBERG BLACK AND WHITE
A Film by Peter HellerThe artistic career of photographer Jürgen Schadeberg covers more than half a century of documentary photography. The film “Schadeberg black – white” examines this master...
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SHOESLAPPING IN AFRICA
A Film by Peter Hellerhe 90 minute Documtentary follows the Biermösl Blosn, a Bavarian folklore band, to Africa. Meeting musicians and artists of South Africa’s and Namibia’s old and new folklore and...
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SMOKE SACRIFICE
A Film by Peter HellerA film about the world of smoke and ecological deserts; about the cultivation of tobacco and its disastrous effects on Africa’s farmers and youth. Smoking has become less of a threat to...
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THE AUTUMM OF TYRANNY
A Film by Peter Heller und Sylvie BanulsA film about the change of power at an African court during the times of democratic "Perestroika" in Africa. The sultan's family had ruled over its people, the Bamoun, in the grasslands of...
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THE BUISNESS WITH THE PARTY
A Film by Peter HellerThis ethnographic film is about wholesalers selling strategies in simple households. The house women are afflicted with a psychologically created need to buy useless Tupperware in order to...
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THE DEATH OF ARES
A Film by Peter HellerThe essayistic documentary reflects upon war in the director’s own personal history: Peter Heller, who spent his childhood on both sides of the Iron Curtain, presents 50 years of...
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THE FORGOTTEN FUEHRER
A Film by Peter HellerA portrait of Alfred Hugenberg, the csar of a media empire during the 3rd Reich in Germany, and the story of the interdependent relationship between the Nazi regime and a powerful press....
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THE PORNHUNTER
A Film by Peter HellerWhen Martin Humer roams through the nightlife of the cities, owners of porn bars, peep shows, and sex shops begin trembling since the "porn hunter" not only reports to the police, but also...
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THE SAME AS ALL OTHER NEGROES
A Film by Peter HellerDiscoveries of an African researcher about an European tribe called the Germans. A black ethnologist studies aspects of the German way of life from an objective point of view. Under the...
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THE THING ABOUT DANIELLE
A Film by Sylvie BanulsPeyrache is a tiny village in the foothills of the French Alps and is the home of Danielle, a wine-grower, her husband, Elie, their three children, Christele, Clarisse, and Christophe and three...
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THIS ONE´S DEAD AND THST ONE´S ABOUT TO DIE
A Film by Peter HellerThis film follows the changes in a remote, thousand-year-old Italian village caused by increasingly intrusive tourism. While portraying the artificially created idyll, now populated with the...
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VICTORY IN THE EAST
A Film by Peter HellerThe National People’s Army of the East Germany did not survive the unification of the former enemies. The Party Army was liquidated on October 3, 1990 and was swallowed up the (West)...
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Winner’s Bread
A Film by Peter HellerThe film is a documentary satire about the industrialization of food: You are what you eat! There is a war raging under the neo-sun, competing for the stomachs of the world within the hamburger...
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WOVEN EARTH
A Film by Peter HellerA film about the skin of the earth and how the forgotten people of the Dogon in Mali desperately try to fulfil their cosmological world view by courageously and tediously reclaiming every last...
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