Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.
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.
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.
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.
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
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?
Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.
Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...
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.
A film on a charming, 'unofficial' subject - authentic ethnographic record or exotica for western eyes?
Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.