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- A documentary about the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the prolific and unclassifiable thinker, political theorist, moral philosopher and polemicist, and with her encounter with the trial of Eichmann a high-ranking Nazi.
- Five athletes compete against the legendary champions of yesterday in the conditions of the time. Canadian world champion and world record holder Adam van Koeverden swaps his carbon kayak for a wooden paddle boat from the 1950s. Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse runs the 100 meters on a track similar to the one in 1936, wearing vintage shoes. How does German swimmer Paul Biedermann manage without his state-of-the-art wet-suit or American track cycling champion Sarah Hammer without her carbon bike? German javelin thrower Christina Obergföll is trying to emulate the performance of her elder sister, Britain's Fatima Whitbread, who broke the world record in 1987.
- Yaltsovka, a small Ukrainian village some 90 kilometers to the west of Kiev. A remote place where time apparently stands still. Every evening, the local women congregate by the garden fences and sit together until the cows and geese are led back from pasture. Hanna, Olga, Nadya and the others exchange gossip about major and minor goings-on in the village and the surrounding communities, talk about the butter prices, the foibles of their husbands, sometimes about politics. And, of course, about everyday problems and possible solutions. Their husbands refer to these sessions as "babske radio"- the wives' radio. This reliable source of interesting gossip is an excellent way of passing the time and also an important market for information. "I hear one thing, you hear another, and that way everybody knows what's going on." The German director Elke Sasse's quiet, restrained observation of this village and its rituals conveys a picture far removed from hectic city life. But idyllic and quaint though Yaltskova may seem, it would be wrong to think that history has passed by unnoticed. The village was visited by war on several occasions; the women's faces still bear the traces of suffering and hunger. Nor is life is simple at present; prosperity has yet to reach this part of the country. The villagers accept the situation with good humor and wit: "The shops are full of food and sweet things - the lot. All we need now is money to buy them with ..."
- The documentaries portray the diverse forms of life along the coastlines of the various North Sea states and the changes that these are subject to, whether it be the effects of climate change on the quality of seawater, the animal kingdom and coastal formations, the consequence of young people migrating from the coast to cities, the increase in tourism accompanied by new hotel complexes, or even the effects of unemployment. Each film marks a stage of a journey along the different coastlines and dwells on central questions such as: have the changes that have occurred in coastal regions over recent decades completely altered people's attitudes towards life? Is there perhaps such a thing as a convectional North Sea identity? Or do the inhabitants of the individual North Sea states prefer to dissociate themselves from one another?