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			Yellow Cake the dirt behind Uranium
This stockpile is high and pointed like an Egyptian pyramid and the dozer weighs in at over a hundred tons. This is not firm ground, just gravel with an incline of 37 degrees. It is June 5th, 2004, the first day of shooting at the Reuster stockpile in the Wismut-Region of Thuringia, in the eastern part of Germany. The Film accompanied the biggest clean-up operation in the history of uranium mining for 5 years and it takes the viewers to the big mines in Namibia, Australia and Canada. Uranium mining, the first link in the chain of nuclear development, has managed again and again to keep itself out of the public eye. Uranium oxide, known to the German miners as the INTERIM PRODUCT is known worldwide as: YELLOW CAKE. A web of propaganda, disinformation and lies covers its sixty-year history. The third largest uranium mine in the world was located in the East German provinces of Saxony and Thuringia. Operating until the Reunification, it had the code name WISMUT though it supplied the Soviet Union exclusively with the much sought-after strategic resource YELLOW CAKE. Until 1990 WISMUT supplied the Soviet Union with 220 000 tons of uranium. In absolute terms this quantity was enough for the production of 32 000 Hiroshima bombs. For the last 20 years WISMUT has been making a huge material and financial effort to come to terms with their past, which still is an alarming present and future on other continents. During this time the world market for uranium has changed in a dramatic way. More than thirty new nuclear power plants are being planned worldwide. Uranium has advanced to become one of the most sought after resources in the world. While shooting this film, the price for uranium on the world market has increased twenty times… A film by Joachim Tschirner (120 min. / 90 min.) Production: Um Welt Film in cooperation with ARD/MDR,MDM ,Medienboard BB
				The Poetry of Sound
	Touch the sound of the Baschet instruments during manufacturing and performance. It all began when Franςois Beschet invented the inflatable guitar when his guitar was too big for taking it on a long trip by airplane. Since then Bertrand and Franςois Baschet have been amongst the most famous pioneers in the construction of music instruments and sound sculptures. Samples of their work from over 50 years can be seen in all major museums of the world such as The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), the Barbican-Center (London) and the Cité de la Musique la Villette (Paris). Metal and glass are their preferred materials in the construction of their instruments with their fascinating shapes and uncomparable sound. Their credo hasn’t changed since 1952 - to create a synthesis of sculpture and sound without any electronic device. So plunge into the sound experience at unique locations such as a cave and have a look at the manufacturing of the instruments - undisturbed by any narrative. A Film by Ingo Rudloff Produced by irrlicht-film Length: 22 min. Filmed in HD
				Agenda Science and Technology
	Can a biological virus operate a battery? This series and technology magazine has the answer. From household robot to skysails, from bacteria to the newest car technology – here is the entertaining info. Magazine series by Holger Douglas Produced by Douglas Film Length: 100 x 30 min. Magazines or ca. 500 Single Films x 4-7 min.
				Trumpets and Drums
				The Children Musicians of San José
	Eight music making Venezuelan street kids on tour in Germany. Thanks to Venezuelan musician Eduardo Villegas, who has been living in Germany for over 30 years, the children in his home village San José get the chance of a lifetime. When a flooding catastrophy hit his home a few years ago and only misery remained, he founded his organization “Künstler für Kinder jetzt” (Artists for children now). He wanted to give especially the young a perspective by giving them a musical education independent from their social status. He founded a music school in San José, the beginnings of which were not easy, since amongst other hindrances he had to convince the sceptical village inhabitants of the use of such an institution. However the school became a growing success with the kids and within a short range of time 8 of them were advanced enough to perform as a band. Then the big surprise came: an invitation to a tour in Germany which grouped them with other international artists amongst them the Berliner Symphoniker. The applause they got on their tour will stick in their memory and give enthusiasm to learn for their future.  A Film by Etienne Boussac and Christine Boock Produced by Fuego-Film, Germany Length: 29 min. and 1 hr. versions
						The Guatemalan Handshake
						Feature Film 96 min.
	…is a feast for the senses, a challenge to the brain. More a collection of character sketches than any kind of sustained narrative, The Guatemalan Handshake begins with a mysterious power outage in a Pennsylvania town near Three Mile Island and the subsequent disappearance of Donald Turnupseed (played by musician and Old Joy star Will Oldham). The rest of the film explores how Donald's vanishing affects (or doesn't affect) the lives of the town's other memorably eccentric characters. A »Hitchhiker's guide to the American hinterland«. “Convention-defying filmmaking that suggests what Jacques Tati may have done with rural America. “ (Robert Kohler, Variety)  - Winner Best Feature at Arizona Film Festival 2006 - Winner Special Jury Prize at, Slamdance Film Festival 2006 - Winner Best Director, Best Screenplay, Special Jury Prize, Torino Film Festival 2006 A film by Todd Rohal Produced by The Universal Artificial  Limb Co. /Brainbox Productions
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		Mohammed Essad Bey In the name of the Lion A film by Ralf Marschalleck
	A visionary who wanted to offer a bridge of understanding and respect between the Orient and the Occident , but who himself is hard to visualize. Who was Mohammed Essad Bey or Kurban Said? An analyst of the religious/historical situation nearly hundered years ago, whose conclusions are as actual and precise as they were then. He was born in Caucasus and grew up as Lew Abramowitsch Nussimboum in a Jewish family. His first of many homes was in Baku, Aserbeidjan, where his father supposedly was an oil magnate. Under his pseudonyms he became a writer. His books were about rulers, dictators and religious leaders such as the Russian Czar, the Shah of Persia, Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini as well as about the Prophet Muhammed. In the 1920ies he converted to the Islam. In the 1930s in Berlin he was a "shooting star" in the literature salons and became world-famous, only to be nearly forgotten after the Second World War. His most famous novel is an Oriental Romeo and Juliet theme called "Ali & Nino", which was translated by now into 27 languages. Always “on the run” first from the Russian Bolshevists and then from the German Fascists he lived in many places amongst them Berlin, Vienna, Rome. He died  in Positano, Italy at the age of only 37. October 2005 marked his 100th birthday and the film is an adventureous search for the man who was called the LION.  (read more) A Film by Ralf Marschalleck, © by Um Welt Film GmbH. Production: Um Welt Film, Germany, in coop. with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Length: 1 hr. and 90 min. versions
					The Adventure of Emigration
	They were from the German province and looked for happiness and economical success in the New World. Their ideas changed the world. Today everyone knows their products. Their life stories tell the adventure of emigration which for them ended in success and fame: Levi Strauss and his "pants form the goldmine" Claus Spreckels "the king of sugar" Emile Berliner "the magician of music". A film by Marvin Entholt and Jürgen Hobrecht ( 3 x 45/52 min.) Production and Copyright: Polis Film GmbH, Berlin