With 34 long documentaries, we look at the world around us and at currently relevant topics. Films from countries such as Italy, Spain, Serbia, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom confront us with serious topics such as environmental destruction, wars and their consequences, climate change, human rights and the shift to the right in society.
The colorful side and the punk of life
But they also show the colorful side and the punk of life. These are insights into living communities or portraits of unconventional artists (-communities) such as the group from Atelier23 in our opening film ZEPPELIN OBEN RECHTS. It also includes artistic personalities and individualists such as the 90-year-old sculptor Flavio Paolucci, the actress Barbara Sukowa and the author, lawyer and film critic Dietrich Kuhlbrodt.
With his 4-hour film OCCUPIED CITY, made during the pandemic, Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen travels to Amsterdam and connects the past ten years with the occupation of the city by the German army during the Second World War. The film is a meditation on remembrance and a warning against the rise of right-wing extremism, and not just in the microcosm of Amsterdam. Also represented is Swiss director Samir (Retrospective 2019 in Hof) with his documentary DIE WUNDERSAME VERWANDLUNG DER ARBEITERKLASSE IN AUSLÄNDER, Katrin Schloesser presents Men´s worlds in her second directorial work BESUCH IM BUBENLAND / WHEN I WENT TO VISIT THE BOYS and Paul Poet shows his controversial DER SOLDAT MONIKA / SOLDIER MONIKA.
