142 Years

In front of an angry audience somewhere in Latin America, a North American discloses the secret network that used the World Bank, payoffs, extortion and sex, military coups and political assassinations to create the American empire. The definitive answer to President Bush's question: "why do they hate us?"

Fani and Gina, an illicit couple, are drawn into a strange and poorly planned kidnapping by Miltiadis, Gina's official fiancé. Their plan to kidnap the corrupt lawyer Giotis Mathiopoulos fails miserably, as they end up kidnapping his aunt, Elenitsa, instead.

Journalist, writer, and unionist in Germany during Greece’s darkest period, 92-year-old Vangelis Sakkatos fights for social justice. In Koln he meets the old comrades, in Brussels, he spreads the message to the European Parliament. He still feels young, like when he participated as a child in the anti-nazi resistance. Life is beautiful when it is full of ideals.

At 11, Simon Gronowski jumped from his mother’s arms on a Nazi train bound for Auschwitz. Eighty years later, he plays jazz, speaks in schools, and befriends the son of a Nazi. A film about survival, memory, and forgiveness—told with intimacy, music, and the force of one man’s refusal to hate. His story is a warning, and a gift.

Α few years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, an unknown physicist from Eastern Germany, who was not interested in politics, is the most powerful woman in the world. Her teacher in the small town where she grew up remembers that she was the smartest student he ever had. Those who have worked with her claim that “Merkiavelli” exercises power without moral barriers, just as Machiavelli taught. A journalist, who knows her well, claims that she uses the methods of a Mafia godmother. In 2008, the German Chancellor was asked to handle the international financial crisis. The countries of the South were placed in the test tube. “If I had to write a book on the Shock Doctrine at this moment,” says Naomi Klein, “it would be on Greece.” How did Merkel manage to impose German hegemony in Europe?