Dokumente zur Lebensweise: Wohnungsprobleme 1982/83 - Dokument I

Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond spent three months in 1976 riding along with patrol officers in the 44th Precinct of the South Bronx, which had the highest crime rate in New York City at that time.

This black-and-white archival film outlines the importance of Canada's forests in the national war effort during the Second World War.

A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

Here's a strange one. First, a song on a blackboard: a Polish translation of “I love my little rooster” by American folk writer Almeda Riddle. Then, two men roll around trash bins and lift them to the garbage truck. They do it several times. A woman shouts in the distance. At the end, the picture stops, and the woman sings the song. An early short by Piotr Szulkin.

Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé

The documentary tells the story of Uschi, a farmer living free and recluded in the bavarian alps. Shot in epic black and white pictures, Still follows Uschi's life over a ten year period. From an untroubled summer of making cheese through pregnancy and the uncertain future of the parental farm, Matti Bauer portrays Uschi's struggle to keep alive the dream of a way of life that has become rather untypical in this day and age.

L'album de famille de Jean Renoir

Les voyages de L'Atalante

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera, also responsible for Gaucho Nobility (1915), the biggest blockbuster of Argentinean silent cinema. De la Pera was a talented photographer, always willing to try new gadgets and techniques. This film experiments with microphotography in the style of Jean Comandon's films for Pathé and it is part of a series which included a film about mosquitoes and paludism and another one about cancer, which are considered lost. Flies were a popular subject of silent films and there are more than a dozen titles featuring them in the teens and early twenties.

Images and numbers illustrate the domestic political measures taken after the Nazis came to power to eliminate unemployment.

Short documentary about social and economic situation in Galicia (Spain) in 1936

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

Presos del silencio

An overview of the ruins of Angkor, the former capital of the Khmer Empire.

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

Leonardo da Vinci

Hans Schilling, who emigrated to Chile shortly before World War 1, comes from Valparaiso to visit his old hometown of Stuttgart after an absence of almost 22 years. His brother Georg Schilling, who stayed in Stuttgart, picks him up at the train station. He proudly shows the homecomer the prospering, Swabian metropolis, followed by impressions of the city's architecture, economy and culture.

A discussion of the economic and political ideas presented in the book "The Incredible Bread Machine".

Bajo el signo libertario is a propaganda documentary, with the script and direction of Les (known for his articles in Solidaridad Obrera and the magazine Espectáculo) whose central theme is the reconstruction of the development of life in a libertarian community in the Aragonese town of Pina de Ebro.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.