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- In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
- Mohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.
- A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
- Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
- A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
- On a beach, a group of sailors have sex with a depressed young woman. Madam of a nearby brothel takes her in but she leaves with an artist who lives close by. Meanwhile, her old rich husband and his sinister chauffeur are looking for her.
- Young army officer of peasant origin becomes a war hero battling in the Sahara while seducing a young woman from the aristocratic class.
- Three men attempt to become the first humans to run coast to coast across the Sahara Desert.
- Take a birds-eye-view journey into the world of the migratory shorebird. The world's greatest endurance athletes fly up to 9 days non-stop, and they need your help. Come along and hear the message from the birds
- The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
- "I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one's own curiosity and intuition." (Michael Glawogger) More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.
- An anthropological expedition of 22 months in the African continent. Two brothers travel in an old 1985 military ambulance from Spain to South Africa.
- Follow a formerly imprisoned and officially exonerated alleged al-Qaeda terrorist on his search for his torturers. He wants to take revenge - by forgiving.
- When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ever get there. Two totally different characters, jammed together in two square meters of space for almost two years, they experience what it really means to travel: leaving your comfort zone for good. Starting in Morocco, they quickly dive into the life of locals they meet on the road: Jamal, a Moroccan Berber who lives with his dromedaries in the Sahara, Ziza, a Mauritanian musician who fights against suppression from the government, Mame Sy, a mother who set up a private school for the poorest of the poor in Mauritania - and many more. Their journey leads them through the vibrant green canyons of Guinea, the scorching heat of Mali, and the amazing surf of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Everywhere they are, the two Germans make contact with the locals and demonstrate that real travelling is about more than plain sightseeing. But their long journey doesn't spare them the dark side of travelling: they are also confronted by corruption, sickness and even death. Setting out to discover a continent, their trip leads them down a very different road. One they did not expect: the journey to their true inner selves.
- We don't know much about our girl. We don't even know her name. She is involved in an accident that is not confirmed by witnesses, therefore her parents, especially the father, deal with the situation in a more flexible way than the girl expects. The relationship between the girl and her father is what awaits us in this movie. There is no tension nor attraction between the two sides. No conversations, just the wait for both sides to clarify things .
- Salvage cars in Berlin are fixed up specifically for a cross continent run though Africa. They face breakdowns, extreme terrain and even robbery.
- In Mauritania, a country seemingly bound by tradition and male dominance, three women speak freely about sex, love and money.
- A former Guantánamo detainee and his American guard form an unlikely friendship that changes both of their lives forever.
- Filmmaker crosses Sahara following African migrants. Filmmaker's accused of espionage and sent to prison.
- A look at how colonization of the Western Sahara has left nearly 200,000 people living in refugee camps.
- Documentary DREAMING OF EL DORADO will show refugees (main character: Lamine Sarr) trying to go from Senegal across the Sahara and Morocco illegal to Spain. We want to get their motives and reason why they think a life in Spain will be better as a life in Senegal and we want to show how expensive and hard it is to get into Europe and also that Europe is not only anymore welcoming to Migrants. We will interview right corner parties and will show also the day to day life from Migrants going thru the Asylum process in various countries. It will be the documentary what first time shows what is happening from A to Z. TV News and Articles focus always on political daily new or disasters but we want to dig deeper and show what are the reasons of Migrants to leave their countries, what are they actually doing to get into the EU and how they get treated on their way and in the process. We will observe independently and learn during the shoot and adjust to the facts. That is not a documentary against the Migrants or Migration but is also not a documentary denying that massive migration from Africa into Europe is a big problem for the Migrants and for Europe. In showing what actually happens we can develop better plans how to solve the problems in Africa and Europe.
- Explores the rhythm and ritual life in the rural environment of six West African countries: Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and Senegal.
- An invitation from Timbuktu director Abderrahmane Sissako to visit and film his homeland, Mauritania, results in an epic yet ultimately intimate journey that retraces the threads of a relationship interrupted all too soon.
- The ancient holy and rich islamic city, Chinguetti, has been threatened by the Sahara for millenniums. It is in danger of becoming a ghost town, buried beneath the sand which has already begun to cover the old town... Maybe it is not too late to rescue it...
- Leaving Europe and heading to the Southern tip of South Africa, two Argentinian brothers explore the cultural diversity of the African continent while searching for epic waves.
- This four part series follows 200 amateur rally drivers with a lust for adventure as they race from the heart of Europe to West Africa pushing the limits of overland travel to the maximum.
- "I Sing the Desert Electric" is a collection of video shorts taken in four locations and representing four distinct and highly regional music scenes. From fuzzy electric guitars of Mauritania to raucous electro street parties of Bamako, the short survey is a window into contemporary performance in the Western Sahel.
- A group of Malian refugees trained themselves to battle relentless bushfires, protecting their camp, their livelihood, and Mauritanian locals in a short documentary by David Alexander.
- As three ultra-athletes attempt to run across the Sahara desert, 4500 miles, two marathons a day, for more than 111 days, they will face the most extreme conditions on earth. To support this history-making journey, a 30-person expedition begin with the runners on the west coast of Africa, with the goal of hauling vehicles, food, water, supplies, and equipment across six diverse countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya, and Egypt. Striking images of modern Africa are seen as the expedition battles extreme temperatures, millions of mosquitoes, sand storms, dehydration, fatigue, and injury. Vehicles get stuck, equipment confiscated by military, and team members get lost. Their efforts are a test of the human spirit.
- Luc Hoffmann was a passionate ornithologist and scientist. He was the first to launch studies in the 50's to demonstrate the importance of wetlands. These rich habitats for biodiversity are also vital for the survival of humans on our planet.
- TV Mini Series
- Adventurers Loek and Jim have been traveling Africa for over 50 years. During a journey through the Sahara of Mauritania, we travel with them and learn the origin of their passion for the desert. A story of mischief, adventure and charity.
- On the deserted highway Nouakchott-to-Nouadhibou, a young self-centered taxi driver meets a woman whose story becomes a stimulating experience on morality and responsibility towards women's rights.
- This documentary describes a society and the traditions of one of the most important Islamic cities in the Muslim world that is under a permanent threat of disappearing due to the encroaching sand dunes. It illustrates the respect and tolerance of its people towards other religions and their thirst of knowledge and enlightment.
- About Bilal, sixteen years old. When he was only two, his mother ran away and left him with the master. Now he has run away himself and found his mother in the slums of the capital Nouakchott. Bilal, his mother Shaba and his aunt M'Barka tell of their lives as mistreated and humiliated unpaid workers. "Your Paradise lies under our feet" say the masters who use religion to frighten their slaves into submission.
- This short French documentary filmed in Chinguetti, Mauritania and aboard the Concorde supersonic aircraft explores the international effort to study and photograph the 1973 solar eclipse, the longest solar eclipse of the century. Scientists on the ground prepare their equipment and battle a Saharan sandstorm in the moments leading up to totality, while in the air pilots and crew attempt to stay in the eclipse's shadow across most of the the continent of Africa.
- Graham Hoskins and Danny John-Jules undertake another motorcycle travel adventure in just two weeks, this time exploring the iconic Dakar rally route through west Africa.
- In Mauritania, truck driver Sid Ahmed and his helper Mohammed start a journey across the Sahara Desert hauling food and supplies to small towns and villages several hundred miles away. Their task is a difficult one as they must drive straight through the desert with its windstorms, sandstorms, heat and shifting sand dunes, all making for a trip that could last three days or more.