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THE FUTURE OF DEEP SEA SCIENCE
by Annette Scheurich, Klaus Scheurich NATURE | ENVIRONMENT | SCIENCE
This documentary reveals the latest developments in deep sea science, exploring the still, largely
unknown abysses of the ocean and its essential impact on our environment and climate. By presenting
exciting new projects worldwide, this film offers insight into recent deep sea research. It shows that
there is still a lot to be discovered on planet earth: what kind of creatures can survive the enormous
pressure and find food in total darkness? What are the chances and dangers of exploiting potentially
enormous energy reserves on the sea floor? In what way is our climate influenced by the deep sea and
how can we use such information for long term weather forecasts? In a world of dwindling resources
and a changing climate, we need to know more about the depths of the element that makes this planet
a blue one.
German title: OPERATION TIEFSEE – Dunkle Welten im Licht der Forschung
43min15sec | HDCam | 1080 | 50i | DigiBeta | PAL | German, English or French version
GAMEZONE
In the wake of the cyberspace
by Heide Breitel CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY | CULTURE | YOUTH | EDUCATION
Playing in virtual cyberspaces has become ordinary for many
families. Those are permanently available havens of any kinds
of common problems, only one click away from reality.
The cyberspace is clearly structured, excitingly designed and
always new in another way.
This documentary tries to find answers with the help of neuroscientist
Prof. Dr. Gerland Huether and child and youth therapist
Wolfgang Bergmann about the consequences of this development
for mental, psychological and social evolution of children and what they are missing in the real
world.
German title: SPIELZONE – Im Sog virtueller Welten
68min or 72 min others on request | DigiBeta | 16:9 | German or French version
GENERATION UNDECIDED is a portrait of today’s thirties generation.
When the director Elmar Szücs became a father, he suddenly realized that he hadn’t really achieved
anything in his life. Essentially the same applied to almost all his friends: Everyone was about 30
and still right in the middle of their studies - or they were just starting to major in another subject.
Together with three of his closest school friends, the director embarks on a search for the unifying
generational feeling of today’s thirty-year-olds. How did they grow up? How were they raised? What
were their parents’ and teachers’ attitudes? What did they themselves expect of life? And why has
everything changed so much? During a trip to Amrum, the island of their youth, they try to answer
that question. In doing so, they discover things about themselves, and a mutual generational feeling
begins to develop.
They belong to the “generation undecided” that tries to keep every chance alive and refuses to make
any convictions, so as not to miss any alternatives. That’s why they wait for the moment for real life to
begin. And still, in the end, they begin to understand: They are right in the middle of it.
Contact:
Arnold Film GmbH
Urspringerstr. 2
82064 Strasslach, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 89-203 441 77
fax: +49 (0) 3212-527 665 3
kontakt@arnoldfilm.biz
www.arnoldfilm.biz
GENERATION UNDECIDED
by Elmar Szücs CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY | HUMAN INTEREST
German title: WIR SIND SCHON MITTENDRIN
Festivals: Ludwigsburg, BERLINALE / Perspective
61min | DigiBeta | original German version with English subtitles available
Contact:
MARCO POLO FILM AG
Annette Scheurich, Klaus Scheurich
Handschuhsheimer Landstr.73
69121 Heidelberg, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 6221-400780
fax: +49 (0) 6221-400884
klaus@marco-polo-film.de
www.marco-polo-film.de
Contact:
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
Mathildenstr. 20
71638 Ludwigsburg, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 7141-969-0
elmar.szuecs@filmakademie.de
Producer:
Sofia Rosa Schwert
raketenfilm
Klenzestr. 75
80469 Munich, Germany
supersword@web.de
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