Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland. Icebreakers from both countries with experienced skippers join forces to make the international waterway between Frankfurt and Szczecin navigable again. Everyone works hard as a team and even a broken-down ship cannot stop them from achieving their goal. A look back at the winter of 1947 with its flooding shows what the freezing of the river and the subsequent thaw can do if the ice floes are not drained into the Baltic Sea via Lake Dammsch in good time. The skippers from both countries have known each other for years and trust each other; the camaraderie that has developed on the Oder unites the people, they control the river in winter for the common benefit of all.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
The documentary takes the viewer to the Polish countryside of the mid-1970s. Andrzej, Leszek, Eugeni...

This film tries to blow the whistle on what it calls the biggest swindle in modern history: 'Man Mad...

ATUEL is the story of a community and its river; of a river and its community. Everyone in the provi...

Push-ups to the rhythm of a metronome, a meter counting backward from 100; three words are shouted t...

The documentary follows the story of two brothers who were sexually abused by the same priest of Pol...

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on n...

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restor...

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers...

Six fearless surfers travel to the north coast of Iceland to ride waves unlike anything they've ever...

Born in Germany in 2002, Noa Blanche Beschorner evokes the memory of those who, a generation before ...

Legendary kayaker Scott Lindgren attempts to complete an extreme, unprecedented whitewater expeditio...

One who doesn't have roots won't be able to grow wings-a documentary project about a man tracking hi...

The beauty of the Arctic is breathtaking. For as long as we can remember, the Arctic has been associ...

It was a foundational myth of the GDR that it was anti-fascist and free of Nazis. But was that reall...

Portraits six lesbian protagonists from rural and metropolitan parts of the formerly socialist Repub...

What do Daniel Webster, Dr. Seuss, C. Everett Koop, Robert Frost and 100+ Winter Olympians have in c...

Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm and laws...

Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under h...