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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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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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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.
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SEKEM: Aus der Kraft der Sonne [SEKEM: Born of the Sun]
The film discusses how biodynamic agricultural methods transformed an area of desert 60 kilometers northeast of Cairo, and a leading agro-industrial corporation was founded.
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YELLOW CAKE: Die Lüge von der sauberen Energie [YELLOW CAKE: The Dirt Behind Uranium]
An in-depth examination of how uranium, the natural resource on which the nuclear power industry depends, is extracted.
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No Impact Man
Colin Beavan’s year-long attempt to live ‘off the grid’ in the heart of New York City brings the environment, and his relationships, to the forefront.
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Der Bauer, der das Gras wachsen hört [The farmer who hears the grass growing]
A portrait of Michael Simml, a pioneering organic farmer based in the Bavarian Forest, and his methods of yielding the highest returns from the most challenging of soils.