Bittere Früchte - Ausbeutung in der Landwirtschaft (2024)

My No Place

A boy migrates from Guerrero to Colima in Mexico, guided by the illusion of his parents, who want him to study high school. Nevertheless, the inequality barriers force him to work as a sugarcane harvester.

Bertrand's Farm

1972 in Haute-Savoie (France) : the Bertrand's farm, with a hundred dairy cows owned by three bachelor brothers, is filmed for the first time. In 1997, they were the subject of Gilles Perret's first movie, as they let their farm to their nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène. Nowadays, 25 years later, Gilles Perret take another look at this farm, managed by Hélène who will step down. Through their words, an intimate, social and economic history of the rural world.

Cows With No Name

Cows With No Name is almost a diary, filmed one day at a time, of each stage of this process, documenting the operation of the farm with critical and incisive humour. But it is also an intimate documentary. By filming scenes of daily life on the family farm, around the kitchen table during meals, or in front of the TV in the evening while everyone falls asleep on the sofa, more personal questions are raised: the farmer’s connection to his herd, or even the handover that Hubert has chosen not to ensure.

Profound Desires of the Gods

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

Kadaisi Vivasayi

Maayandi, the only farmer in a village that has abandoned farming, is charged with a petty case that leads to his imprisonment.

Laabam

The president of a farmers' association wants to set up a community farming initiative and takes on a big shot, who wants to destroy his plans so that he can start a bio-diesel project on the land.

Vellai Yaanai

Vellai is a farmer from an economically self-sufficient village. But when he and the villagers take a bank's crop loan, they get caught in debt due to drought and low prices for crops. So few desperate farmers migrate to the city in search of a job. Can they pay off their debt? Or will they give up farming?

Dumula ng Isa, Dalawa, Tatlo...

A theater group begins their rehearsal on a play about a witness' account of a massacre eventually leading to a confrontation and inner conflicts of the actors portraying their roles.

Chronique Des Années Tristes

Here is a film that is, to say the least, singular. A fiction filmed under Giscard, in two farming families, one in Brittany and the other in Languedoc. One sees the Catholic mass and the mass of the television news, one hears the Benedicite and the Internationale, a rural class struggle is played out, daily peasants against the aristos in the middle of a hunt...Chronicle of the Sad Years tells the story of the new forms of subjection suffered by the workers of the land, discovering the perverse effects of the CAP and the growing influence of agribusiness. A film in which the director, Alain Aubert-Dechartre, stages a historical turning point, the forced conversion of peasants into technicians of farms of which they will be the first to be exploited

The Making of Resident Evil

A behind the scenes look into the making of resident evil where the cast and crew breaks down the process.

It's Just Better

In a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, children's pockets are usually empty and their lives well filled.

Still Stares

Miguel is a renowned taxidermist and an expert hunter. He is always visited by clients seeking to naturalize pets and exotic animals. Through his work, Miguel will make us reflect on how we relate to other species.

God Sees It

God Sees It is a journey into the creative universe of Oscar Tusquets, one of the most fascinating figures of the last sixty years as well as one-of-a-kind character of the gauche divine, in whose mind art, irony, and rebellion coexist. The film traces an inimitable career, from his beginnings in Barcelona, quietly rebelling against the backdrop of the dictatorship, and his collaborations with Salvador Dalí, to his interventions in the Palau de la Musica Catalana or the unique Toledo metro station in Naples. If this is not enough, the film is filled with reflections and conversations on art with friends like Miquel Barceló, Albert Serra, Mario Vargas Llosa or Julia de Castro.

Sunflower

In 2014, the University of Florida women's softball team was the best it's ever been - and it's all thanks to one young woman, Heather Braswell. Though not an official member of the team, Braswell, a cancer patient and huge Gator fan, was their heart and soul. Find out why the ladies still wear sunflowers on game day in their hair to this day.

Green Day: Live at Coachella 2025

Green Day’s headlining performance at Coachella 2025 on April 12, 2025 was a high-energy spectacle that blended their punk rock roots with bold political statements. The band delivered an 18-song set featuring classics like “American Idiot,” “Jesus of Suburbia,” and “Holiday,” while also incorporating new material and unexpected covers. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong used the opportunity to modify lyrics, expressing criticism of current American President Donald Trump, voicing support for Palestinian rights, and referencing the suffering in Gaza.

Reading Again Graúna

The documentary reconstructs the history of Graúna, one of the most famous comic characters in Brazil during the '70s. Analyzing creator Henfil's usage of this poor, little, female blackbird to criticize the social inequities and censorship in Brazil of the time, testimonies from family and fellow cartoonists shed light into why "Reading Again Graúna" is still relevant today.

Around Snowdonia

A timeless landscape steeped in history that is little changed today, but was surely made to be filmed!

Explore Mont Blanc

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Happiness

Sleeping disorders are omnipresent in this day and age. In this desktop diary, a resident of Amsterdam cannot sleep, absorbed by the genocides and atrocities being broadcast in real time.

Bios: Gustavo Cerati

Hosted by Chilean singer Javiera Mena, the episode reviews the career of the former Soda Stereo frontman.

Creation Theory

Nature’s raw elements converge in the Westfjords of Iceland, taking us on a journey from the interstellar birth of gravity and rhythm, to their ultimate human creative expression: surfer on wave, snowboarder on peak, and musician on stage.

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.

Blériot, l'impossible traversée

A look back at an incredible challenge that combines human adventure and historic exploit. In 1909, Louis Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel, propelling aviation into the modern era. 110 years on, a team of enthusiasts attempt a mad-cap gamble, to fly a replica Blériot XI.

Ecstasy

Racked with anxiety in the chaotic political landscape of 1990s Brazil, Clara finds solace in starving herself, experiencing both rapture and torture. In this elliptical non-fiction film, anorexia becomes a way for Clara to challenge womanhood and find a place in an uncertain, surreal, and brutal world.

Long Live Love

Young, cancer-stricken and with a will to fight for her life. A raw and touching film about a highly unusual teenage girl in today's Copenhagen.

Mon amour

Mourning his boyfriend Frédéric's death from an overdose, the French filmmaker David Teboul goes to Siberia on a ritual journey. Out here, under the enormous dome of the skies, he finds the free space to disentangle his thoughts again. And in the villages, both young and old people unexpectedly turn out to be prepared to respond to his invitation to talk about an event that changed their lives. Life, death, love and existence.

Songs of Repression

At the foot of the Andes Mountains in Chile lies an idyllic German colony called Villa Baviera. However, the beauty of the place – formerly known as Colonia Dignidad – hides a grim past. Systematic child-abuse, medical experiments, torture chambers and mass graves are part of its history. Today, 120 inhabitants still live their lives in the colony which has since changed its name to Villa Baviera and where a disturbing blend of religious fanaticism and extreme conservatism still holds sway.

Elton John: Uncensored

Elton John opens up about his childhood, stardom and battles with addiction in an exclusive interview with Graham Norton.

La poudre aux yeux

With its 33,000 kilometers of marked trails and its tens of thousands of kilometers of off-trail circuits, Québec is a snowmobile paradise. In this documentary, a dozen French tourists, accompanied by their flamboyant guide, live an incredible adventure in Quebec's wilderness.

Flint

In 2014, the authorities in Flint, Michigan chose to cut costs and change the city’s domestic water supply from the great Lakes to the Flint River. Soon tap water was running brown, people were falling ill and it was clear that something was seriously wrong. Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) has followed the situation over six years of denial, evasion, betrayal and hypocrisy in which the city’s poorest residents have suffered the most. The result is shocking and sad as it illuminates the inequalities of the modern world and celebrates the solidarity of ordinary people.

Boston, Commercial Street

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Course de matelots

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Guerrero sin batalla

An experiment, a filmed diary, a photo album, a self-portrait with the tribe. What does an actor do when he has no work? He invents fictions as an act of survival, here I am! I film myself, I film them, my sacred children, so that there is a record, a we were here too.

El Titán

Elkin Ramírez, the most important figure in Colombian rock, led Kraken for 32 years. The band's final album was recorded while Elkin was fighting a brain tumor. You live once to be eternally free!

San Pugliese

Osvaldo Pugliese transcended the world, created his own style in tango and became a saint against bad luck for musicians. In the film, his daughter, granddaughter, musicians and fans retrace his steps to unveil this mystery.

Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

Have You Seen Andy?

Have You Seen Andy? is a personal story of a childhood friendship abruptly ended by the tragic abduction of a young boy, Andy Puglisi. With special access and a unique perspective, Melanie Perkins, Andy's childhood friend, re-examines the day of his disappearance 30 years ago, reviews the police investigation and uncovers new and startling information, prompting the long-'cold' case to be reactivated.

Cowboy in Sweden

Lee Hazlewood's album “Cowboy in Sweden” presented as a series of dreams. The movie alternates between absurdist skits and songs, given totally incongruous visual settings.

The Marines

François Reichenbach follows a group of young men from the day they enlist in the US Marine Corps, all the way through basic training.

Crimea

On February 25, 2022, Antonina Romana and her partner joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Before the full-scale Russian invasion to Ukraine, she lived a life as a director, performer and actress. The film follows her personal journey of resistance to Russian occupation policies.

A Day on the Broads

With their gramophone perched on the back of their launch, the family set off for a day of rest and relaxation on the Broads and Suffolk coast.

Tunis: Le Bey et son escorte

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13 Moments That Made Freddie Mercury and Queen

This documentary examines the extraordinary story of Freddie Mercury and how he went from being a refugee to one of Britain's favourite rock stars, as well as his tragic early death and why he has proved such an enduring musical icon.

The Rescue

The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.

Les Alphas

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