Welcome to the New World / Jerry Suen / Germany / 2018 / 00:11:03
Staged during the actual events of the G20 summit 2017 in Hamburg,
Lenina is led in documentary way through a dystopian world. In an
enduring state of emergency, where repression gains the upper hand,
society increasingly loses trust in the elite and Lenina must decide
where she stands.
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Happy / Carolin Genreith / Germany / 2016 / 1:25:00
It’s probably every daughter’s worst nightmare: a postcard from
Thailand that reads: “My darling, I’m doing great here, eating Pad
Thai and drinking Chang Beer. And I met a woman who is your age. Love,
Dad. ”My father Dieter has changed a lot in the past couple of years.
After separating from my mother, he exchanged his hiking boots for
flip-flops and travels to Thailand every year for a couple of weeks.
Sometimes he travels alone, sometimes with friends – all of whom are
divorced and over 60. My father says that he is having the time of his
life in Thailand. I think to myself: Oh my God, is my father a sex
tourist? What does he want from a Thai woman, 30 years younger than
him? And what the hell does she want from him? My father and I travel
to Thailand together, where I meet my almost stepmother and her
family. Slowly but surely I begin to realize that there are no
definite answers to my various indignant questions. Happy’ is an
affectionate, ruthless, cheerful and very personal documentary about a
father and his daughter, the search for happiness in the autumn years
of life and the question of what love actually is when you are over 60
and afraid of growing old alone.
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