Label: docfilm42

Somewhere in the Monchique mountains of Portugal, the Fridayhappiness Associação balances sustainable living with their economic lifeline.

A funeral director who aspired to be an entertainer is now the last escort of people in Berlin who have died in solitude.

Globalization, and rural exodus: despite a gloomy outlook, the people still living in Aracà , a small Italian village, are bravely facing the future.

Gay left-wing activist and disaster relief volunteer Ortwin Passon navigates between a military-like bourgeois world and wild sex parties.

At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.

Filmmaker Erik Lemke (BERLIN EXCELSIOR) portrays his great-aunt Evelin: she was born a man, in a country that no longer exists.

To prevent the ecological collapse of our planet, these 8 courageous people envision a new kind of agriculture.

In northern Syria, an anti-hierarchical, multi-ethnic model of democracy was launched in the Rojava region under the leadership of the Kurds.

Iris P. was an undercover investigator who maintained close friendships and had intimate relationships with the people she spied on.

During the cold war, West Germany hid its institutionalized human rights abuse in residential care facilities.

The anonymous Berlin concrete building "Excelsior" is only a temporary stop for its residents, yet some have been living there for more than 50 years.

While growing up, filmmaker Michael Stock was sexually abused by his own father. Two decades later he confronts his family.

In one of Jerusalems oldest tattoo studio Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists get their tattoos done.

Three young new-Berliners dream of the good life in the form of art studies, a rap career or simply a work permit.

As a child, Veronika Raila was certified with an IQ of zero. Today she studies literature and theology and publishes poetry and prose.

All Creatures Welcome explores the world of hackers and nerds and sketches a utopian image of society in the digital era.

The moving life story of Mario Röllig, who fell in love with a gay West German politician in the mid-80s and was imprisoned for it.

Award-winning investigative documentary combines live action and animation to show the struggle against unscrupulous realtors.

Filmmaker Melanie Gärtner looks closely at the fate of one family to illuminate the social structures that lead to flight and migration.

An experimental account of the protest culture at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.

The stories of two women, who could only through acts of violence, claim visibility.

An historian who survived the concentration camps, Otto Dov Kulka grants insights into his long-hidden world of thoughts.

One of Europe's strangest borders lies between the Republic of Moldova and the de facto autonomous region of Transnistria.

Berlin-based Israeli filmmaker Tali Tiller embarks on an emotional search for traces of her grandmother in Lodz, Poland.