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Der große Ausverkauf (The Big Sellout)
Portraits of privatization from around the world show how the daily lives of people using what were once considered public resources are affected.
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Losers and Winners
This film chronicles the arrival of around four hundred Chinese workers in Dortmund’s postindustrial landscape in 2003. Their task: to work alongside the remaining 30-strong German workforce, dismantling what was formerly Europe’s most modern coking plant.
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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, oil imports in Cuba were halved and food imports reduced by up to 80 percent. This film suggests that, given the perceived immanence of peak oil, there is much to be learned from the Cuban experience.
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Das Gift kommt zurück [The toxins return]
The film looks at how toxic substances, banned in Europe, pass through ports such as Hamburg in containers shipped from Asia, and how these toxins can be traced in the clothing and children’s toys transported.
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Narradores de Javé [The Storytellers]
This drama captures how the inhabitants of Javé, a small village somewhere in Brazil, set out to secure a future for themselves in the face of plans for a hydropower dam that threaten to submerge their village.
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Detroit Wild City
The film depicts the rise, fall, and rebirth of the postindustrial city Detroit.
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Manufactured Landscapes
This film is a photographic journey showing the effects of human activity on a variety of landscapes.
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Black Out
This film follows the obstacles which Guinea’s schoolchildren must overcome simply to find light at night to study by, in a country where only one fifth of the population has access to electricity.
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Die 4. Revolution: Energie Autonomie [The 4th Revolution: Energy Autonomy]
This film envisions a restructuring of global power relations and calls for individual action in order to create a 100 percent renewable energy economy.
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Unfinished Italy
This film investigates how people in Italy respond to the permanently unfinished infrastructure surrounding them.