Economy

A new start to a better life? Forty Germans on welfare fly to Mallorca to do internships.

Before the war, one of Kyiv's hottest subject was one of Trump’s cronies turning a masterpiece concert hall into a shopping mall.

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

In a former German coal region, a mine gives way to a ghost train, including undead miners.

This thought-provoking documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by worker-owned factories in a capitalist, post-socialist, economy.

An exploration of the eerie interplay of reality and fiction in contemporary China, where cities are built on speculation and capitalist fictions.

The voyage of a tree from Europe to the Amazon is a silent wittness to global interdependencies and economic absurdities.

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina.

Whether in Delhi, Pune, Mumbai or Kolkata, street vendors from very different backgrounds sell the country's most popular drink, masala chai.

Unemployment... Helmut and Sieglinde are over fifty and already considered unemployable. What about young people trying to find work?

The second largest film industry in the world is called Nollywood and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Who are the (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out.

How can our society develop in the face of current social, economic and cultural challenges?

Many people want to break out of the hamster wheel of capitalism. This documentary visits three people who have taken the plunge.

I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER is an episodic documentary about the geopolitical upheavals in the global power structure.

This film accompanies the last days of the traditional Hotel Maritim in Halle before it becomes a refugee accommodation.

After the bloody genocide 20 years ago, Rwanda made a remarkable turnaround, which was primarily made possible by the country's women.

The walk through the financially battered city of Athens, destination unknown, is a bittersweet confrontation with the Greek economic crisis.

Currently, Berlin is experiencing the highest growth rate of tourism in the world, a situation not everyone is happy about.

CHINA BLUE by Micha X. Peled is a prizewinning documentary that documents conditions at a blue-jeans factory in China.

In elegant CinemaScope images, this film tells the story of the housekeeper Nadja in times of economic crisis as a tender melodrama.

The 12 Commandments of music business brought together in one film.