Directed by Djafar Damardji.

When her husband died Soumicha, mother of three, had to earn a living. She became the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria. This film accompanies Soumicha around a city where religious and political violence rages, and records her experiences in a job normally reserved for men.

Thirty-year-old Mia, going through a divorce, shifts into a small studio apartment in a public housing project. A former swimming champion, she finds herself giving swimming lessons to the building's inhabitants. Without a pool.

Join sociologists Monique and Michel Pinçon-Charlot on their “investigation” of the French aristocracy and gentry. An entertaining and instructive movie on an exclusive and highly secretive world.

Fernab aller Integrationsromantik, schildert dieser Film das Leben von jungen Erwachsenen in Altenessen, einem Arbeiterviertel nördlich von Essen. Zentrum des Films ist die Band "Kreator". Kreator spielen Thrashmetal: Ein Mix aus Punk, Rock, und Metal. Thrashmetal ist der Rock'n Roll der achtziger und rebellischer Ausdruck, einer zutiefst frustrierten Generation. Kreator’s Musik, Freunde und Nachbarn bilden den Hintergrund dieser Dokumentation. In Interviews, wird der Niedergang einer Region, die vom Bergbau abhängig war, geschildert. Konzertmitschnitte sowie Kamerabilder aus dem Bezirk Altenessen, lassen Bilder eines deutschen Arbeiterviertels der achtziger Jahre und seiner Bewohner entstehen. Momentaufnahmen, die in der Dekade der „Reaganomics“ wie Schablonen wirken. Als Blaupause aufgelegt, wirken diese Gesichts gebend auf Städte wie Detroit oder Liverpool, ohne einen direkten Kontext zu benennen.

Der gutmütige Außerirdische PK kommt aus einer entfernten Galaxis und landet eines Tages auf der Erde, um den blauen Planeten und seine Bewohner zu studieren. Als ihm die Möglichkeit zur Rückreise vorerst verwehrt bleibt, scheinen sich seine Untersuchungen auf unbestimmte Zeit zu verlängern. Ein Großteil der Leute, die ihm auf seinem Weg begegnen, ist der Meinung, dass nur Gott bei der Lösung seiner Probleme helfen kann. Das nimmt PK zum Anlass, die verschiedenen Religionen und Lebensweisen der Menschen genauer unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Mit seiner naiven Weltsicht und seiner kindlichen Art stellt er das Leben vieler auf den Kopf. Denn seine Fragen mögen einfach sein, doch die Antworten darauf sind komplex und lassen die Leute ihr eigenes Dasein hinterfragen. Damit schafft sich PK loyale Freunde, aber auch mächtige Feinde. Doch auf seiner spirituellen Reise lässt sich der sonderbare Mann von einem anderen Stern nicht beirren und inspiriert Millionen von Menschen...

What’s it like to dedicate your life to work that won’t be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question.

An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter wonderful stories. But as the little girl grows bigger, they start running out of space inside the house.

Fabrizio, Dante and Roberto have 14 years old and they live in Palermo in the ZEN. How is their life, their universe?

Steve, a 25-year-old Black man from the Paris suburbs, seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France’s most prestigious drama schools. But soon he discovers that the theater world is only interested in having him inhabit “Black” roles.

As we wait to see whether Rupert Murdoch will fall from power and lose control of News International, Every Day is Like Sunday tells the forgotten story of the dramatic downfall of Cecil King—the newspaper mogul who used to dominate British media in the 1960s, before Rupert Murdoch arrived.

After losing his son in a traffic accident and his wife to mental illness, Harry moves to a gloomy Stockholm suburb. A local youth gang is harassing the neighborhood and Harry comes up with the idea of hiring the gang to kill the bureaucrats who are responsible for the construction of the suburb. The film is a fierce critique of the political project of building suburbs designed only for workers to sleep in and also wants to have a say in the debate over nature vs nurture.

Hotel Coolgardie is a portrait of outback Australia, as experienced by two backpackers who find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” to work as barmaids in a remote mining town.

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the breakthrough work of the late sociologist Erving Goffman, whose 1959 book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life prefigured the growing field of performance studies. Jhally applies Goffman's analysis of the body in print advertising to hundreds of print ads today, uncovering an astonishing pattern of regressive and destructive gender codes. By looking beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that tend to focus on either biology or objectification, The Codes of Gender offers important insights into the social construction of masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.

What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.

Der junge Soziologe Stanislas verfällt bei seiner Dissertation über kriminelle Frauen dem inhaftierten Flittchen Camille. Mit seiner Sekretärin Hélène will Stanislas die Unschuld Camilles an einigen Morden beweisen. Doch die erweist sich als undankbar.

Unlike anything else you will see in this year or any other, 'The Decline of the West' is a groundbreaking social allegory that challenges its audience to explore the effects of contemporary conditioning; of the stereotypes, and counter-stereotypes surrounding race and ethnicity. By employing a unique blend of absurdist humor and dry, dark comedy, both the insularity and the inertia of progressive society are put on trial and hanged in this bold film that goes places few have ever gone. The film maintains its extended, detailed allegory, in which the physical layout of Manhattan comes to life as its symbols of Progress slowly turn it into a comic liberal dystopia. Anything that "isn't allowed" is used to confront the audience with hypocrisy. Make-up plays a crucial role throughout the film, as a hinge that simultaneously showcases characters and the existential reality of the players behind them.