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The forceful feature-length documentary Journey to Jah by Noel Dernesch and Moritz Springer catches the global phenomenon of crossing borders by documenting the experiences of integration in a foreign culture. The film follows the internationally acclaimed European musicians Gentleman and Alborosie, which found a new spiritual home within the reggae culture while Jamaican singer Terry Lynn takes the other direction integrating European styles into her music.

The 'Ultra' fans of Istanbul's three biggest football clubs, known for their violent rivalries begin fighting side-by-side to protect civilians from police, as 'Istanbul United'.

Feature length documentary film about graphic designer, photographer and visual artist Herbert Matter.

Illustrates the life and career of Charlie Haden, featuring interviews with the artist himself, as well as close friends, family, and fellow musicians.

Over the course of four years, the artist let us follow him with a camera and gave us an insight into his world, his work, his art. We are present when he develops a new artwork and puts it together. And we stay put when the pressure of being an artist is mounting and he looses his cool. During quiet moments in conversation, he recounts stories about his family and how experiences in his childhood have influenced his work as an artist. And he is frank about the global art "business" that he sometimes views as a "hyena".

"Stayer" bicycle races were big events up to the eighties. The cyclists and their pacesetters on heavy motorcycles were popular stars. Today only half a dozen teams remain. They regularly compete on the banked curves of the century-old racetrack in Zurich-Oerlikon. They are perhaps the last of their kinds.

A summer of the past decades has been so strongly remembered as the hot summer of 1968. A change of mentality began that has influenced the way of life, especially in industrialized countries, even today. The whole world was seething, in the United States there were numerous demonstrations against the Vietnam War, in Paris the students fought together with the workers against the authorities, in Germany the students protested against the visit of the Shah of Persia.