Este drama revive un capítulo olvidado de la historia de Alemania: el genocidio llevado a cabo por las tropas imperiales alemanas en el "África Sudoccidental Alemana", hoy Namibia, entre 1904 y 1908. "La ambición de los hombres" aborda este crimen colonial a través de Hoffmann, un hombre que aspira a convertirse en etnólogo para estudiar a los "salvajes" en una época dominada por corrientes de pensamiento racistas e inmorales. Sin embargo, su percepción cambia al conocer a una mujer de la etnia herero. Dirigida por Lars Kraume, la cinta muestra los horrores y el sufrimiento infligido a etnias africanas, como los herero, durante el reparto colonial de África por las potencias europeas.
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
A black ethnologist explores aspects of German life in West Germany in the early 1980s with a foreign eye - and meets with rejection because she dares to look at Europeans with the same tools as they have used for centuries in Africa.
Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.
Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.
Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
A Sherpa family breaks a taboo and climbs the most holy of mountains to earn money for their son’s education. They accompany a western expedition on East Wall of the Khumbakarna Mountain, a wall that has never been climbed before. ‘The Wall of Shadows’ tells the story of an encounter between a young Sherpa boy and an experienced western mountaineer at the foot of the sacred mountain. Will they face the wrath of mountain Gods?
Acompañado por las canciones del cantautor José Antonio Labordeta, un poético viaje a través de la inhóspita comarca de los Monegros, situada en la región de Aragón, en España, en busca de paz y aislamiento.
In today's climate debate, there is only one factor that cannot be calculated in climate models - humans. How can we nevertheless understand our role in the climate system and manage the crisis? Climate change is a complex global problem. Increasingly extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and more difficult living conditions - including for us humans - are already the order of the day. Global society has never faced such a complex challenge. For young people in particular, the frightening climate scenarios will be a reality in the future. For the global south, it is already today. To overcome this crisis, different perspectives are needed. "THE UNPREDICTABLE FACTOR" goes back to the origins of the German environmental movement, accompanies today's activists in the Rhineland in their fight against the coal industry and gives a voice to scientists from climate research, ethnology and psychology.
A film on a charming, 'unofficial' subject - authentic ethnographic record or exotica for western eyes?
En el horno de Argel, la cámara sigue y acompaña a Ibrahim, Adam e Ismael, originarios del África subsahariana, en situación irregular, que viven en este hotel de nombre predestinado. Viven de trabajos ocasionales. Uno es ascensorista en un edificio, el segundo es zapatero y el tercero trabaja en el sector de la construcción. La otra cara de la inmigración procedente del África subsahariana. Detrás de las estadísticas se esconden personas, cuerpos que esperan poder empezar otra vida en otro lugar. Un hotel se convierte así en un punto de tránsito en el que se mezclan historias y esperanzas, un lugar que parece suspendido en el tiempo y el espacio. Un viaje estático esperando que comience otro.
Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...
Featuring Paul Robeson, this is the first documentary film to take a serious look at social conditions and race relations in South Africa.