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- Vice Lieutenant Eismayer is the most feared trainer and model macho in the Austrian Military and lives as a gay man in secret. When he falls in love with a young, openly gay soldier, his world gets turned upside down. Based on real events.
- A policewoman wants a divorce and city job promotion but after hitting her drunk husband with her car in an accidental collision, she flees the scene, committing a hit-and-run.
- The Bubble examines often-surreal senior citizen life within The Villages, America's largest retirement community. Retired life beneath the Floridian sunshine however, is not perhaps as idyllic, or as welcomed, as one may imagine.
- Chris trains with a special police unit, a daily life of action, and peer pressure. When he shoots a man during an operation, allegedly in self-defense, his colleagues celebrate him as a hero, but the outside world reacts with criticism.
- When Fuchs starts his new job as a teacher in a prison school, replacing the old and unconventional teacher Berger against her will, he is forced to confront his biggest fear, triggered by the mysterious, withdrawn inmate Samira.
- Julian, a 14-year old, dies surrounded by the colorful products of a huge supermarket. The film is inspired by a true story and shows the rebellion of the local youth against the bleak life of suburbia.
- Janette is terminally ill and wants to die in a dignified way but British laws do not allow it. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Muscular dystrophy, the illness that Janette suffers from, has affected her family for generations. Janette's mother was wheelchair bound for decades, becoming a prisoner in her own body. Janette refuses to wait for death in unbearable pain so she opts for physician-assisted suicide. Before leaving on her last journey from England to Switzerland, she has to explain her intention to her family members and close friends. Her son Simon has also inherited this illness and, therefore, has much more sympathy regarding her decision than his sister Bridget. If no cure for this illness is found, he will face the same decision process as his mother. Both children try to convince Janette to postpone her death. Do we own our life or does it own us?
- Going to the local market when we visit a foreign city is something we all love to do. More people visit them in one day than all the city's art museums put together. Markets attract us for their colours, smells, people, sounds and taste.
- Villagers in the Venezuelan community of Lake Maracaibo fight against pollution, corruption and neglect to keep homes and way of life.
- When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.
- To achieve her lifelong dream, an 80 year old actress takes on the male-dominated Indian film industry, and unwillingly becomes a leading advocate for women's rights.
- Albert grew up on an isolated mountain farm. His mother wants to protect his son from the poor and lonesome existence, still pulling the strings in his life. He is a diligent hand at a nearby marble quarry, but life remains difficult when it comes to catch up with real people. When his father Rudl dies accidentally, Marianne fears, that Albert will take over and returns to the farm. Instead, she decides to hide the death from Albert and the outside world and buries his corpse on the mountain.
- Seven different episodes about families' encounters on 24th of December. Not related to each other, telling comprehensible problems, from funny to absurd, on Christmas Eve.
- They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
- The writer Stefanie Sargnagel polarizes in the whole society. When her life and work are to be filmed, she pushes all systems to the brink of collapse. A documedy based on the work of the radical cult-author Stefanie Sargnagel.
- 'School of Seduction' follows the three Russian women, Diana, Lida and Vica, who are on the same mission. They're searching for security, a higher social status, and plain, simple happiness. This isn't an easy task in post-communistic Russia, where an extremely patriarchal culture is ruling, the general perception of being happy equals a life with a successful man and where women outnumber the male population in outright numbers. Our three heroines take matters into hand and start at a course called "The School of Seduction", where they learn how to live, think, and behave in order to be loved. But is this really what they dream about and want? Director Alina Rudnitskaya, herself a Russian woman, followed her protagonists for seven years and has remarkable footage of their development, struggling in a country which always put the man before the woman. In a time where political and cultural reactionary movements are fast-growing all over the world, this is a more relevant story than ever to tell.
- Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
- For a TV documentary, the two unemployed friends Benny and Marko pretend to be petty criminals with immigrant background until the coin flips and reality turns against them.
- Filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, and her quest to find out the circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
- In the 1980s, a single mother who fled communist Czechoslovakia has to return to her homeland in order to pay an old debt. The risky trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
- A documentary about modern and creative forms of non-violent protest and civil disobedience.
- Our children grow up in a world ruled by extremes: the fight for freedom and democracy on one side and the call for national isolation on the other side. LITTLE GERMANS combines animation and documentary film to tell the stories of children that are born into extreme right-wing families. From a young age on they are conditioned to hate everything that seems "foreign". How does it feel to grow up in a world, where empathy is subsidiary and "the nation" stands above everything? And who do those "little Germans" become once they grow up?
- Nazar's promising career as a hip-hop artist transcends the borders of his native Austria. His socially engaged and controversial lyrics excite young people. He defends himself and all other second-generation immigrants who grow up in a new country far from their parents' culture, finding that they don't completely fit into this society. Darkhead watches Nazar's comeback on the music scene after his release from jail, the recording of his new album, and the aura that surrounds him. Born to Iranian parents, this rapper becomes the role model that the younger generation often misses out on in their daily lives. This is a documentary about rap, about having an opinion of your own, about outsiders, and about the conflict between cultures in modern day Vienna.
- An Iranian family living in political exile in Europe and America decides to organize a secret meeting with the rest of the family still living in Iran whom they haven't seen for nearly two decades. Despite all the dangers, the long-awaited, tearful reunion takes place after 20 years of separation in Saudi Arabia and proves to be a huge culture clash between the Muslim and western worlds.
- An examination of Venice, Italy, its rise as a tourist attraction and its linked decline as a functioning city.
- Eva-Maria, who has been in a wheelchair since childhood, likes to let her optimism guide her, also in her wish for a child. An unusually intimate insight into a life beyond conventional family planning.
- What would you do if your income were taken care of?
- 'Koridas' are battles between two bulls in an arena. Several times a year they are being held in Bosnia and Herzegovina and thereby attract a few hundred to a few thousand spectators. Supposedly, there are no denominational and ethnic conflicts.
- He has achieved all you can in football: he led France when they became European and World Champions; he was at the helm when Barcelona topped the Champions League and won the UEFA Super Cup. Every child knows Thierry Henry, a player in a Paris suburb who became the best center forward in the 21st century. Who is the personality hidden in this dream career? We discover Thierry Henry's world and his new life as captain of the New York Red Bulls. What are his ideals? What goals does he want to reach? We accompany Thierry on his flight to London for the Emirates Cup: his side have to play against Arsenal, the very team that made him who he is and whose torch he still carries. Thierry Henry is a world star torn between past and present...
- Explores how global warming affects everyday life, focusing on the effects of heat, drought, expanding deserts and floods.
- Martín is a young Argentinian piano virtuoso and composer, who since his breakdown four years ago is a patient of El Borda, the largest psychiatric hospital in Latin America. While working on a new composition, the former child prodigy and most promising talent of his generation, Martín is now trying to to overcome his mental illness (schizophrenia) and return to life outside the walls of the asylum and back on the concert stages. SOLO tells unique, yet universal story about the obsession with perfection and creation, narrating the evolution of a human being who draws his strength from his own fragility.
- An auteur's personal narrative interwoven with those of other Syrian characters highlighting years of silence, fear and terror. A representation of stories which were behind the eruption of the Syrian society and the start of its revolution.
- Final destination shopping spree: Global Shopping Village shows shopping center developers at work. We get to know their strategies and follow them into the intricate networks of international assets and corrupt politics. But their actions are not without consequences. At three representative locations in Austria, Germany and Croatia critics and industry insiders guide us through the multiple effects: we visit a city that has lost its function, see the blossoming of boom and bubble, and experience how resistance gradually begins to form. This Austrian documentary shows that the real estate industry does not only have an impact on the global financial system, but that it also dramatically changes our cities and our living environment.
- The cinema documentary Kinders follows children and teenagers of different origins through their sometimes difficult and confusing, sometimes funny and bitter lives. They all take part in the music education program ((superar)), where these neglected and sometimes invisible children develop from outsiders into confident young people who learn about their hidden potentials through the power of music.
- It is only the second time that Indonesians can vote for their own president. Can the power of a small elite really be overthrown by the power of many, or is real democracy just an ideal?
- The story of my Vietnamese father who was able to build up a new life in a small Austrian village, but there is still an open chapter in the past: the search for the man who once helped him and who he never could thank for that.
- The Nicobars are a small archipegalo in the Indian Ocean, where one of the last indigenous people lived almost like in a time capsule for 900 years. When the Tsunami struck them in 2004 not only a third of their population died but they were also thrown into a modern world through the wave of aid and relief organisations that arrived on their shores. This aftermath proved to be a bigger catastrophe for their culture than the Tsunami. Today the organisations are leaving and the money is spent. But the Nicobaris embark on the search for a new identity.
- This community shows a society in transition, a microcosm reflecting Europe's zeitgeist.
- Another day at the United Nations Offices in Vienna. The Austrian Foreign Affairs Ministry invited members of the European Protocol Service, the UN Strategic Command Center for Central Europe, the United States Air Forces and a regional politician from Lower Austria to talk about the future of Soviet Unter-WHAT?!
- Europe, the Dream' a documentary about three adolescents who are/were living in Patras, Greece: Andreas, a young Greek, Ali Reza, a refugee from Afghanistan and Abdulla, a refugee from Syria; they are each dreaming of a great journey to Europe, and, with all their hopes and fears, they are struggling to make this happen as they see it as the only solution for their lives.They don't consider Greece as Europe! The two refugees have in fact managed to reach their destinations: Ali Reza in Sweden and Abdulla in Austria.Andreas is still in Greece. He wants to study and work but his family has day to day problems which have been heightened by the Greek financial crisis. Will these three young men be able to realize their dreams or these dreams will be thwarted by the difficulties and complexities that exist in today's Europe.