Tales of departures and partings intersect at Steubenhöft quay – the forgotten port of European emigration. A film by Brigitte Krause 80 min. The quay is almost not of this earth, a final terminus and a starting point for the transit voyages to the United States and Canada. The film-maker…
Farewell to Adventure follows Reverend Captain Bob Shepton’s emotional journey, giving up his adventurous life of sailing, not because he is 85, but in order to support his wife’s battle with Alzheimer’s which forces him to repay the presence she gave the family in his absence during…
To know more about the movie https://princefilm.ch/en/film/farewell-to-africa-2017/ The filmmaker Pierre-Alain Meier puts his own story into perspective, with humility and affection, allowing us access to a very intimate terrain. Farewell to Africa tells the story of a final journey and sets out…
Archive film showing threats to the welfare state in the 1980s We tend to assume that the reduction of the welfare state started just a few years ago, yet this film says otherwise! Made almost 30 years ago, it examines the history of the Welfare State, starting with the poverty of the 30s, focusing…
Synopsis Nitesh' far har taget en beslutning. Den vil forandrer ikke blot resten af hans eget liv, men også hans børns for altid. Efter 39 år i Danmark vil han opgive sin danske opholdstilladelse og flytte tilbage til Indien for at starte et nyt liv. Og når det…
Synopsis UK Nitesh’s father has made a decision that will change his and his children’s lives forever. After 39 years in Denmark, he wants to give up his Danish residence permit and move back to India to start a new life. And…
A film diary of a trip between Kathmandu, Nepal, and the Thar desert, India, near the border with Pakistan. A sensitive and impressionist adventure crossed by a civil war, religion and thousands of years of history that can still be sensed today. Um diário cinematográfico de uma viagem…
Réalisation Silva Khnkanosian | France, Armenia 2023 | 77 min L'Arménie et l'Azerbaïdjan sont engagés dans un conflit multiséculaire. Une guerre éclate à nouveau. A Stepanakert, capitale du Haut-Karabakh, les hommes sont au front, les femmes…
Directed by Silva Khnkanosian | France, Armenia 2022 | 77 min Armenia and Azerbaijan are engaged in a multi-secular conflict. A war breaks out again. In Stepanakert, capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, men are at the front, women hide in the cellars, director Silva Khnkanosian sets out to find them and keeps…
April 2006. 13 000 members of the Dajo ethnic group have taken refuge on the plain of Gouroukoun in eastern Chad. They are all survivors of the Darfur conflict. Secluded in the camp they have constructed, they create their own way of life and means of survival. The filmmaker joins the refugees in this…
Initiated and edited by Chris Marker, FAR FROM VIETNAM is an epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch and Alain Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam--made, per Marker's narration, "to affirm, by the exercise…
Michka Saäl's first film (1989). Remastered in 2018 with support of Michel Giroux and ACIC (National Film Board of Canada). French with English subtitles. An attempt to represent feelings of exile through cinema, the gap between images of cold and snow in a frozen landscape and the sounds…
