They leave their home country with the intention of working in Germany for a year or two, hoping that this time will be enough to bring them the prosperity they long for. Then they realize that the time was not enough and they set a new deadline. This is how most ‘guest workers’ begin to experience the rupture of a life whose planning overwhelms them. One of them: Mehmet Turan.
Tenants of one old building in the centre of Münich are featured in this film: most of them are fore...
Cem Kaya’s dense documentary essay celebrates 60 years of Turkish music in Germany. An alternative p...
The rut of Dalmatian hinterland changes with the arrival of returning guest workers, and things they...
Turkish migrant Husseyin spends his days in hypnotic routine as a “guest worker” in ‘70s West Berlin...
A Croatian guest worker who worked in Germany for many years, builds a house and a workshop for his ...
Follows the life of a Turkish woman living and working in Germany.
The story of two workers who returned from abroad. One of them wants to find a good job, Adam, and t...
When it comes to self-promotion, no one can beat Blackout Problems: On their website and social medi...
The turn of the twenty-first century was a golden age in Swedish urban planning. Hammarby Sjöstad in...
Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. T...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolli...
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...
In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is ...
Alone, Eva Fahidi returned home to Hungary after WWII. At 20 years of age, she had survived Auschwit...
People who hear voices talk about their daily inner and social struggles. The film deals with “madne...