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Battery Man

Battery Man
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Meet the man whose life was changed by electricity. An extraordinary person, who can fry a hot dog with bare hands, in an attempt to become the first human laser! Slavisa Pajkic, aka Biba Struja (Electric Biba) is capable of conducting electricity and he can consciously control its power while discharging it. The central story of the movie is inner and outer journey of a rural superhero in his attempt to discover what exactly happens in his body, but also to enter Guinness Book of Records before he loses his power. Is he an illusionist or real superhero?

Donauspital

Donauspital
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A portrait of one of Europe’s largest hospitals shows the daily routines and work processes at a powerful and highly complex institution. By depicting a modern healthcare facility, Danube Hospital holds a mirror to our society to show how it deals with health and illness, life and death. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes what goes on in a variety of zones, in conference areas, ORs, patients’ rooms, the disinfection and pathology departments, and the kitchen. As the film visits all these areas, it follows an ingenious principle of a puzzle whose pieces produce an effect only when fully assembled. A portrait of an institution in which the relationships between processes that are invisible to patients and visitors are shown in all their precision.

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The first thing to stand out about this film is its remarkable formal decency. Although even the title makes one expect mathematical approach, the fact is that Cynthia Madansky and Angelika Brudniak’s documentary feature debut follows elaborate dramatic structure. While on tour along Turkish borders, the two filmmakers not only visit border cities adjacent to all the eight country’s neighbors, they also take a look at each one’s counterpart on the other side of the border. These seemingly unimportant towns and mountain villages in the Balkans, Anatolia, or on the Black Sea coast are separated by boarderlines of demarcation with utterly important and direct influence on people’s lives. They divide people while, at the same time, making them seem to belong together.

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Film about the consequences of cluster bombing of Nis and the refusal of Serbia to sign the Convention on the prohibition of cluster bombs. Serbia was the target of cluster bombs during the conflict with NATO in 1999. At that time, Nis was bombed with cluster bombs twice. 15 people were killed on the 7th of May in 1999. After the NATO bombing, the cluster bombs scattered across Serbia killed six people and wounded another 12. Serbian government has not signed the Convention on the prohibition of cluster bombs yet. As a victim state and former leader of the movement to ban cluster munitions, Serbia still keeps silent about the convention and does not express any opinion on this issue. In the movie the victims of cluster bombs in Nis tell the touching story of those days, the story of life after wounding and suffering.

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The part of Israel and Syria where apple is the people’s bomb. Apples of the Golan is an epic story of a village turned prison full of rappers, rockers and regimes, salsa dancers, holy men and dead fish, traitors, lovers, freedom fighters and their heartbroken mothers, all set against the backdrop of the revolution raging in their homeland Syria, creeping through the orchards toward their homes in Israel. In 1967 Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria. Before the occupation there were 139 Arab villages in the region. Only five remain today. 130,000 Syrian Arabs were permanently forced out of their homes. This film tells a story of one of these villages, Majdal Shams, and its inhabitants' struggle for survival. They are too few to fight. The apples are the bombs with which they fight the occupation. Their trees root them to the land; they will not be moved. Israel is their home, Syria their homeland. Neither is paradise.

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Seven computers per second are produced worldwide. "Behind the Screen" casts a formidable glance behind the facade of the electronics industry. The starting point is Ghana’s rainforest. There, young gold diggers stand up to their knees in mud. They slave away in the tropical heat with shovels and pickaxes. Gold has become a curse for them, as large mining companies have long been taking the valuable land away from them and the rivers have been poisoned by the quicksilver and cyanide used for extraction. The collected gold finds its way to computers’ circuit boards. The price of electronics has been falling for years. In the Czech Republic, workers put together computers; they bear the brunt of global competition in the sector. In a dark alley in Pardubice, Janko explains that he works on the assembly line for a pittance of two to three euros per hour, twelve hours a day, six days a week.

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Elzbieta has been taking care of her mother for years. When the mother passes away, Elzbieta's only child Marta flies in to help with the cleaning out of her grandmother's apartment in Lodz, Poland. Marta has been living in Amsterdam for the last 10 years and has eventually made it her home. While going through the aged objects in the grandmother's house, Elzbieta and Marta start thinking about the future. It becomes apparent that the issue of care-taking is shifting towards the following generation. Is Marta going to be able to take care of her mother when the time comes and does Elzbieta expect that of her?

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A unique Polish couple in their 80s. After living for 66 years in their flat they are forced to move out. While Maria is an extraordinary spirit full of undominable optimism and vitality - Tadeusz is a silent scientist and a fatalist. Now they have to fight their existential disaster that unveils the touching stories of their life and casts a shadow over their present. It's a film about justice and equality - the crisis of morality in past and present modern society, as well as about getting old - staying young.

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Five Lives by Silence observes the daily workings of silence and stillness, paralleling poetic and physical journey through the Finnish Archipelago.

 

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