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Two courageous women fight in the slums of the tropical megacity Jakarta for the participation of the impoverished masses in the newly won freedom of their country. The building frenzy of globalized capital in the booming city leads to displacement and destruction. A battle "David against Goliath" begins, ushering in groundbreaking political upheavals in the largest Muslim country on earth...
Five views of Viennese life: snow clearers, people in stone, the small shopkeeper, the telephonist, the radio announcer, the famel designer, the film maker, dance sessions and pork chops, masters of ceremony and DJ's. An episodic film about Vienna. Seven theses by Viennese philosopher GĂĽnther Anders on the increasing lack of feeling and awareness in the modern cycle of life, set against the contradictory nature and multiplicity of individual existence.
Bodies blend in with geological processes enduring millennia, characters anchored in between fashion and local mythology defy the harsh nature of the high Alps, humans and archaic lichens are hybridized.
The filmmaker Ascan Breuer searches for the spirit of a tiger said to have haunted the house of his ancestors on Java. This search combines an autobiographical narrative thread involving the history of the filmmaker's family and a historical narrative about migration that spans the globe.
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On 27th September 1992, 11 yards in front of a Viennese supermarket and 12 minutes before closing time, Helga, 30, is confronted with a fleeting moment of pleasure. She shrugs off the incident. The customer-friendly opening hours are more reliable.
In Garcia Lorca's mother tongue, death is a woman: "la muerte". Daniel slips into the role of "death as a female" and speaks before a video camera on the life and death of the famous Spanish poet. Then the story begins.
