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- São Tomé, a tropical island, the head of a pin off the west coast of Africa and right on the equator, the middle of nowhere. There lies an old woman, dying, who calls to her distant son. Her cry becomes concrete as a breadfruit of gigantic proportions, a huge thing, falls to the ground in front of the son's hut. 'Ma is calling me!' He names the monster Little Fruit, this vegetable meteorite, and begins his journey. Little Fruit treks across the island and into the city to Ma, through much danger and many challenges, spells and counter-spells. A turbulent tour. 'Little Fruit' is a burlesque, an African fairy tale, documentary and road movie, the description of a wondrous island world. Its residents are the actors in the 'song of Ma'.
- El Dorado, the myth and mirage of the golden man, still attracts desperadoes and starvelings into the Amazonian jungle--wild men who go about their search for the golden treasure as if in a dream, ecstatically, and with brute force. This is a story of likeable crackpots and underhanded cutthroats, of miserable drudgery, desperate lust for life, and a game that others always win in the end. An Indio who loves Campari and India, a former circus princess, become friends and eke out a living together. They make the dangerous journey from the gold fields deep in the jungle to the concrete jungle of São Paulo. 'Goldland' mixes fact and fiction, the authenticity of the characters and places, and a made-up story. This comes together in a unified whole of reality and poetry.
- In the Brazilian megacity São Paulo athletes from around the world run the traditional New Year's marathon. At the same time in an Amazonian jungle backwater 19-year-old Jô is running like a world champion. He has skipped town with the generous New Year's collection from the church and is being followed by the out-of-breath town sheriff Rui, a fan of the marathon. By pure luck he manages to capture Jô. Rui may have missed the race on TV, but not talented runner Jô. In the cell sit Jô and a dream. He trains Jô for a year until he is at his peak performance. They then make the long journey to São Paulo. Sheriff Rui sends his prisoner and marathon man Jô into the big race, the legendary New Year's marathon of 1999, the race into the year 2000. Surprises await.
- Black South African Djadje wants to return to Cape Town for her father's funeral after 12 years of European exile. In Zimbabwe she interrupts her journey: 'I cannot go back so quickly.' The nearness of her homeland, the people, the light, and her own history become confusingly present. Her thoughts and memories combine with the familiar smells of Africa, which overpower her and disturb her equilibrium. She has come home to Africa but is unsure about her return to South Africa. 'Djadje' is a film that straddles the line between reality and contemplation, a journey through the South of Africa and into the feelings of an expatriate, her inner conflicts and doubts that, in the end, prevent her from crossing the border into her homeland.
- Amazonia, 1903. German explorer Theodor Koch-Grünberg travels from Manaus up the Rio Negro, a formidable river and biggest tributary of the Amazon, to its headwaters on the equator. He enters an Indio region as large as Germany, a world of water an forest called Dog's Head. For three years he lives among the natives, seeks out encounters, passionately writes down myths and legends and takes photographs. Ninety years later the same journey. Five Indios return from Manaus to their villages in the immense forest. They travel for four weeks, by ship, motorboat and canoe. Days are spent under the equatorial sun and nights under the Southern Cross. 'Jaguar and Rain' takes a journey into innermost Amazonia, switching from past to present. In the Amazonian cosmos 'the jaguar speaks with the rain'.
- From the 16th to the 19th century millions of black Africans were sold into slavery and forcibly taken to Brazil. The Orishás, their gods, crossed the Atlantic with them. Life depends upon them. In a trance the Orishás become incarnate. Black Brazilians Geralda, Tanja and Roseli, initiates of Candomblé, the cult of Orishás, travel from Brazil to Benin, Africa, to a meeting with their most distant relatives and their shared gods. A journey to the source of their identity and their religion. Back to the roots. 'Trance-Atlantic' follows an arc between continents and links the two ends of the umbilical cord accompanied by the sound of drums and the circle dance of the Orishás, who are visible in the trance.
- The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar eclipse, Pia is murdered. Her death plunges Gil into a world of shadows. He leaves the town by the river and does not return to the house he shared with Pia until two years later. There, Pia is present in the flood of memories that keep coming back to him, and also lives on deep in his heart. This love, the comfort it brings him, and the girl Elsa lead him out of the darkness and back into the light, back to life. And he will meet Pia's murderer. 'Eclipse' is a love story set against the background of a crime: compelling, poetic, and delicately told.
- Weary of his life in Victorian England, teacher Robert James Fletcher went looking for Stevenson's trail and beauty in the South Seas in 1912. Until 1920 he wrote his friend Bohun Lynch in Oxford from the New Hebrides, called Vanuatu after independence in 1980. Letters and diary entries reminiscent of the traveling Rimbaud are pitiless, personal, poetic, ethnographic and have a grim humor. Lynch published the letters after Fletcher was declared missing. No one knows when or where he died. In 'Isles of Illusion' actor Ulrich Wildgruber takes time off from the theatre and lands on Vanuatu 75 years after Fletcher. He is under the spell of the letters from the South Seas, and the book acts as a treasure map on his search for Fletcher's world. In the end he makes an astounding discovery about Fletcher's fate.
- His paintings are always personal, pieces from his soul. Painting that is focused on the inside, that pulls inward. It sets itself off from the outside and becomes increasingly free on its way inward. These paintings have an artistic quality that is and will remain classic. His nervousness and psychological constitution, mobility, emotions, all of this comes together and this is Rainer. Arnulf Rainer. Painter. Arnulf Rainer talks about his art in 'Star Seeker', a film essay and very personal portrait of this world-class painter, snapshots of an artist's life with flashbacks and looks forward.