german documentaries 2011

UXO – unexploded ordnance
by Julia Weingarten WAR&PEACE | ENVIRONMENT | NATURE | SOCIAL | HUMAN-INTEREST
In the province of Quang Tri – the once bitterly embattled front of the Vietnam War – the young soldier
Bay and 40 of his fellow recruits search for mines and bombs which caused devastation more
than 30 years ago and do their damage to this day. On the harsh threshold between the youthful lust
for adventure and the responsibilities of a soldier, friends have been made inside the military camp,
where they share their anxieties, dreams and longings.
Awards: nominated for Golden Key / Kassel, Germany
71min | HDCam | original Vietnamese version with English or German subtitles available
VANDANA SHIVA – Seeds and Seed Multinationals
by Bertram Verhaag SUSTAINABILITY | AGRICULTURE | ECOLOGY | ENVIRONMENT | FOOD | NATURE | SCIENCE
Many Indian farmers face ruin because the genetically modified
BT cotton from Monsanto, first approved in 2002, rendered
them a disastrous crop. Hoping for higher crop yields and fewer
chemicals, the farmers were persuaded to purchase the genetically
modified seeds at quadruple the price.
Yet the anticipated bumper crop failed to materialize. Disease
and insect-ridden plants forced the farmers to use even more of
the expensive chemicals, driving their bank debts higher.
For many farmers the only escape from these accumulated debts is suicide. In all of India over 2000
farmers committed suicide in the last few years. For more than twenty years
Vandana Shiva, author and environmental advocate with a Ph.D. in particle physics, has dedicated herself
to ensuring the rights of India's small farmers and maintaining bio-diversity.
‘Monsanto get out of India’ is the mantra she uses to challenge the agro-chemical multis.
German title: VANDANA SHIVA – Von Saatgut und Saatgutmultis
60min | DigiBeta | DVD | original English version with German voice over and narrator available
Once with the Stasi, always with the Stasi? Once you were in the agent controller's grasp you could
never escape – that's what they say, anyway. Writer Paul Gratzik was an unofficial informer for the
GDR State Security Service for twenty years, broke with them in the 80's and exposed his identity.
VATERLANDSVERRAETER (Traitors to the Fatherland) is a portrait of an exceptional man. On one hand
it is a psychological profile of one of an extraordinarily paradoxical figure, a ‘man of extremes’: satyr,
seducer, radical and hermit. On the other hand it tells a story about the GDR, its critics and the Stasi
of the kind that has never been told before in all the 20 years since the end of East Germany.
German title: VATERLANDSVERRÄTER
Festival: Berlinale / PERSPECTIVE
97min | HDV | 35mm | HDCam | DVD | original German version with English subtitles
Contact:
HFF "Konrad Wolf"
University of Film and Television
Cristina Marx, Festivals & Distribution
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 331-6202564
distribution@hff-potsdam.de
www.hff-potsdam.de
jul.weingarten@googlemail.com
Production:
DENKmal-Film GmbH
Bertram Verhaag
Herzogstr. 97
80796 Munich, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 89-526601
fax: +49 (0) 89-5234742
mail@denkmal-film.com
www.denkmal-film.com
www.facebook.com/denkmalfilm
VATERLANDSVERRAETER
by Annekatrin Hendel HUMAN-INTEREST | SOCIETY | POLITICS | GERMAN REUNIFICATION | GDR
Production:
It Works! Medien
Gneiststr. 19
10439 Berlin, Germany
tel.: +49 (0) 30-44676703
cell +49 (0) 160-97951716
fax: +49 (0) 30-446 76 706
office@itworksmedien.de
Distribution:
Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH
tel.: +49 (0) 30-28529090
fax: +49 (0) 30-28529099
info@salzgeber.de
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