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An indigenous Mexican village is turning into a ghost town as many of its inhabitants emigrate. To survive this, they start simulating an experience they all know: crossing the border to the US illegally. The residents of the village slip into the roles of border guards and human traffickers to reenact the crossing for paying tourists so they can put themselves into the position of a migrant for one night. A story of empowerment or a village stuck in the loop of their traumatic experiences?

The Russian war in Ukraine turns houses into dust and the dead into numbers. In the midst of the ongoing invasion, new structures of care are emerging to protect those who are alive and recover those who aren't.

Agnes travels from luxury kitchen to luxury kitchen. We follow the young woman on a culinary journey that lets us experience the craft of cooking from up close.

20 years after the escape from his hometown Foca, Erwin returns to remember what traumatized him.

Kevin, Dominik and David live between the idyllic hills of Romania's Transylvania. The boys are three out of hundreds of German teenagers, who were sent here to come back on the right track in so-called 'foreign pedagogical projects'. Families and youth welfare facilities in Germany were all close to despair about them, but now, thousands of miles from home, they do not seem very troublesome at all. Isolated from their original surroundings, their past as well as their future appear almost abstract. The boys work in the fields, in barns and in the houses of the local farming families. Their development is constantly monitored by a team of German pedagogues, day after day. For years. The simplicity and daily routine are supposed to adapt them for a future life as socially compatible grown ups in Germany. But is this really what these boys need? There is something they could not leave behind: their need for closeness, for personal freedom and for a family.