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1. More than honey
• Country/ year : Switzerland, Germany, Austria, 2012
• Running time: 95 min
• Director: Martin Imhoof
MORE THAN HONEY, a new documentary by the Swiss
filmmaker Marcus Imhoof, is looking into the fascinating world
of bees, showing small family beekeepers (including the
beekeeper of ERSTE Foundation beehive, Heidrun Singer) and
industrialized honey farms. MORE THAN HONEY is a film on
the relationship between mankind and honeybees, about nature
and about our future. Honeybees show us that stability is just as
unhealthy as unlimited growth, that crises and disasters are
triggering evolution and that salvation sometimes comes from a
completely unexpected direction.
2. Brussels business
• Country/ year : Belgium, Austria, USA,
France, 2012
• Running time: 85 min
• Director: Matthieu Lietaert
THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that
dives into the grey zone underneath European
democracy. An expedition into the world of the
15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-
conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing
networks of power and their close ties to the
political elites.
3. The human scale
•Country/ year : Denmark, Bangladesh 2012
•Running time: 83 min
•Director: Andres Dalsgaard
50 % of the world's population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase
to 80%. Life in a mega city is both enchanting and problematic. Today we
face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe health issues due to our
way of life. But why? The Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has
studied human behavior in cities through 40 years. He has documented how
modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in
a way, which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account.
THE HUMAN SCALE meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across
the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what
happens when we put people into the center of our planning.
4. The age of Aluminum
• Country/ year : Germany,
Austria Bangladesh 2012
• Running time: 83 min
• Director: Bert Ehgartner
Aluminum is booming and found its way into
every facet of our lives: deodorants, sun lotions,
vaccines or filtered drinking water. But what do
we actually know about the side effects of our
daily companions? The light metal comes with
heavy consequences. Latest research links it to
the increase in Alzheimer's, breast cancer and
food allergies. The complicated mining of
aluminum is also an ecological issue.
5. Connected: about love, death & technology
• Country/ year : USA 2012
• Running time: 82 min
• Director: Tiffany Shlain
Filmmaker and Founder of the Webby Awards, Tiffany Shlain, investigates the
interconnections between the major issues of the 21st century and her own
experience of these issues during a family crisis.
6. Terms and conditions may apply
•Country/ year : USA 2012
•Running time: 74 min
•Director: Cullen Hoback
Terms And Conditions May Apply
examines the cost of so-called 'free'
services and the continuing
disappearance of online privacy.
People may think they know what
they give up when they click 'I Agree'
on companies like Facebook and
Google. They're wrong.
7. The Green Planet
• Country/ year : Germany 2012
• Running time: 82 min
• Director: Tiffany Shlain
Леса покрывают 30% планеты. Человеку сложно
понять, что происходит внутри леса. Авторы
фильма «Зеленая планета» следят за лесными
обитателями: грациозным красным оленем,
лисой, диким кабаном. Изучив жизнь и
повадки этих животных, авторы фильма
углубляются дальше в лес, и мы можем
наблюдать более редких и удивительных
лесных обитателей - ивовую переливницу,
жука - рогача и многих других.
Фильм создан студией - обладателем множества
наград, в том числе за лучшую операторскую
работу и лучший монтаж.
8. Google and the world brain
•Country/ year : Spain 2013
•Running time: 76 min
•Director: Ben Lewis
The most ambitious project ever conceived on the
Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in
the world and the people trying to stop them. Google
say they are building a library for mankind, but they
also have other intentions.
9. The Lebanese Rocket Society
• Country/ year : Lebanon, France
• Running time: 76 min
• Director: Joana Hadjithomas
From 1960 to 1966, a space project was undertaken in
Lebanon. Several rockets, which became larger and more
powerful with time, were launched from the hills
surrounding Beirut by a group of scientists, university
students and army experts. This group, led by Manoug
Manougian, was called: The Lebanese Rocket Society.
10. Free your mind
• Country/ year : USA, Sweden
• Running time: 80 min
• Director: Phie Ambo
In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading
neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him
to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study
depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and
kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan meditation
practice. The results of Davidson's studies at the Center
for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, are portrayed in Free the Mind as
they are applied to treating PTSD in returning Iraqi vets
and children with ADHD. The film poses two fundamental
questions: What really is consciousness, and how does it
manifest in the brain and body? And is it possible to
physically change the brain solely through mental practices
11. The Unbelievers
•Country/ year : USA 2013
•Running time: 74 min
•Director: Gus Holweda
Renowned scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss
cross the globe as they speak publicly about the importance of
science and reason in the modern world.
12. Expedition To The End Of The World
• Country/ year : Denmark, Sweden
2013
• Running time: 80 min
• Director: Daniel Dencik
A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas
of the world map. But no matter how far we go and how hard
we try to find answers, we ultimately meet ourselves and our
own transience.
13. Coast Line
• Страна/ год: Дания, Швеция 2013
• Хронометраж: 80 мин
• Режиссёр: Дэниэл Дэнсик
Береговая линия – результат борьбы морской стихии
развитием человеческого общества. Несмотря на
то, что эта борьба отнимает много сил у обеих
сторон, море сохраняет жизнь и невероятную
красоту.
Обитатели береговой линии – удивительные,
невероятные существа. Морские котики,
невероятные редкие виды птиц и рыб, хищники,
млекопитающие – береговая линия живет своей
жизнью и не перестает удивлять
14. The End of Time
• Country/ year: Switzerland 2012
• Running time: 80 min
• Director: Peter Mettler
Explores our perception of time.
15. Jabbed: love fear and vaccines
• Country/ year: Australia 2013
• Running time: 80 min
• Director: Sonya Pemberton
Diseases that were largely eradicated forty years
ago are returning. Across the world children are
dying from preventable conditions, because
nervous parents are skipping their children’s
vaccinations. Yet the stories of vaccine injury are
frightening, with rare cases of people being
seriously hurt by vaccines. This documentary
looks at the growing trend of vaccine hesitancy
around the world, exploring the reasons for
complacency and concerns, and highlighting the
impact of delaying or refusing immunisation.
16. Trashed / Мусор
•Country/ year: USA 2012
•Running time: 98 min
•Director: Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the
global waste problem, as he travels around the world to
beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous,
brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from
skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.
18. Fruit hunters
•Country/ year: Canada 2012
•Running time: 90 min
•Director: Young Chang
Adventurers, exotic fruits fanatics and even movie
star Bill Pullman, are the subjects of The Fruit
Hunters, the new film from acclaimed director Yung
Chang. A thrilling journey through nature, commerce
and adventure, The Fruit Hunters is a cinematic
odyssey that takes viewers from the dawn of humanity
to the cutting of edge of modern agriculture - a film
that will change not just the way we look at we eat,
but what it means to be human.
19. Lunarcy/Лунатики
•Country/ year: Canada 2012
•Running time: 81 min
•Director: Simon Ennis
With wry humor and affection, Simon Ennis'
"Lunarcy!" follows a disparate group of dreamers
and schemers who all have one thing in common:
they've devoted their lives to the Moon. From the
young man who's resolved to depart for Luna
(permanently) to the ex-ventriloquist who's made
millions selling Moon lots.
20. Paul, the physic octopus/ Пауль,
осьминог – экстрасенс
• Country/ year : USA
• Running time : 98 min
• Director : Alexandre O’Philipp e
Alexandre O. Philippe, the director of the
brilliant Star Wars fan culture study The People
Vs George Lucas, returns with another buoyant
and irreverent foray into the weirder verges of
pop culture. Back in the summer of 2010, World
Cup fever settled upon an octopus in a marine
centre in Germany who appeared to have the
power of foresight.
22. KOYANISQATCY
A movie with no conventional plot: merely a collection of expertly
photographed scenes. Subject matter has a highly environmental
theme.
23. POWAQQATSI
An exploration of technologically developing nations
and the effect the transition to Western-style
modernization has had on them.
24. NAQOYQATSY
• A visual montage portrait of our
contemporary world dominated by
globalized technology and violence.
25. SHORT FILMS BIG IDEAS
Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute Short
Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories
about innovators—people who are reshaping the world through act or
invention—directed by the world's most celebrated documentary
filmmakers. The films have been viewed in 150 countries and screened to
audiences on all seven continents.
26. Fire with fire
Who would dare to pit
one fatal disease against
another… inside the body
of a six-year-old patient?
The results will shatter all
expectations.
27. Music man
MUSIC MAN tells the story of professor
and inventor Ge Wang who teaches
computer music at Stanford University
where he began the innovative Stanford
Laptop Orchestra. Wang believes
everyone who loves music should be able
to play it. To that end, Wang was the first
to turn the IPhone into a musical
instrument when he created the
“Ocarina” phone app which became one
of the most popular in the world when it
was launched in 2009.