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Der große Ausverkauf (The Big Sellout)
Portraits of privatization from around the world show how the daily lives of people using what were once considered public resources are affected.
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Losers and Winners
This film chronicles the arrival of around four hundred Chinese workers in Dortmund’s postindustrial landscape in 2003. Their task: to work alongside the remaining 30-strong German workforce, dismantling what was formerly Europe’s most modern coking plant.
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Was wird bleiben? [What will remain?]
Reflects upon the short period of geological time during which humans have inhabited the Earth, raising questions as to how much time the human race may have left on the planet, and what might happen after the human race—and even Earth itself—disappears.
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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, oil imports in Cuba were halved and food imports reduced by up to 80 percent. This film suggests that, given the perceived immanence of peak oil, there is much to be learned from the Cuban experience.
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Birdwatchers: Das Land der roten Menschen [Birdwatchers: The Land of the Red People]
This dramatised film portrays the fate of the Guarani-Kaiowá people, dispossessed of their land in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul to make way for cultivation of genetically modified crops.
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Schick aber Schädlich [Chic but dangerous]
This film investigates the hidden costs of smart and affordable clothes.
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Die Biosprit-Lüge [The Biofuel Myth]
A sobering contribution to the food versus fuel debate and an equally poignant exposé of the human and environmental impacts of European policy on biofuels.
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Das Gift kommt zurück [The toxins return]
The film looks at how toxic substances, banned in Europe, pass through ports such as Hamburg in containers shipped from Asia, and how these toxins can be traced in the clothing and children’s toys transported.
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Eisenfresser [Ironeaters]
An on-the-ground view of working conditions in one of Chittagong’s shipbreaking yards provides insight into what happens to large ships at the end of their lives, and the people who dismantle them.
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Septemberweizen [September Wheat]
This film shows how farming, state, and business and finance interrelate, such that various forms of malnutrition continue to pose a risk that is often life threatening, even in times of overproduction.