Lahemaa

An illustration of Nils Frahm’s lauded ability as a composer and passionate live artist as well as the enchanting atmosphere of his already legendary Funkhaus shows.

Basile, 17 years old, activist, wants to change the world. Malik, 19 years old, a security guard at a multinational company's warehouse site, makes do with the world as it is. These two were not really meant to meet. However, a combination of circumstances will embark them in a common adventure.

A beautifully styled portrait of the Yukon in Canada’s far northwest. Once, people came here to find freedom and fortune and to live in a vast and breathtaking mountain landscape, but years of intensive mining have inflicted immeasurable damage on the landscape. North tells the story of this Canadian territory in a poetic but nonetheless confronting way. We hear the memories and stories of the former mine workers, and of the original and current inhabitants of the area.

Siberia, 2011: the crossing of a territory as in an awakened dream. As the journey progresses, nature reveals itself to be magnificent and brutal, human presence rare and uncertain.

The director lost her three uncles. She returns to the cemetery where they are buried. Mixing super-8 home movies and 16mm travelling shots in the alleys of the cemetery, "We came back to chesnut tree avenue " is a tribute to their invisible presence.

An undefined territory and time. An unspoken war is fought against men who were trying to run away from it. Mehdi lost his father there. He inherited a debt. He became a smuggler.