Grandma Haya decides to stop eating, stop taking her medication, and begins organizing her farewell party from life. Her friends and family try to dissuade her, but Haya is adamant about her decision. Miri, Haya’s daughter, finds herself caught between her desire to help her mother organize the farewell party, and her fear that she will soon become an orphan. This is also Miri’s last chance to find out from her mother the origins of her father, whom Miri has never met.
Categorie: Documentary 2023
2020: LIFE AND DEATH OF A VIRUS
A visual and aural “Frankenstein” of images and news from around the world, gathered over two years of research, about that strange and absurd year that we are unlikely to forget…
DAY OF THE DEAD: A CELEBRATION OF LIFE
High in the mountains of Michoacán, Mexico, the Purépecha people have enjoyed the same way of life for hundreds of years Filmed in several small towns, each with a unique twist on the custom, Day of the Dead: a Celebration of Life, presents an introduction to an ancient culture by focusing on one of their most colorful traditions.
HOW I DIE (DIE FAEHRE)
The journey of a remarkable young Berlin woman facing her imminent death. Halina has gracefully accepted that she is dying of cancer. But a burning desire to return to her family studio over two hours away, in Lübbow, and to relive the spring festival, becomes her last wish. Surrounding herself in beauty, she shares her thoughts about her life and dying, spends moments with her family and little daughter, and prepares for the last journey. An intimate story of embracing the unknown.
DEATH IN THE CITY
A film in three movements: Spiritual, metaphysical, experiential. With legendary funeral pyres burning non-stop for over three millennia, situated on the holy Ganga, ‘the river of life’, the sacred city of Varanasi is, for Hindus, the dream destination for death. It has been the revered death destination for Hindus since time immemorial, founded on the belief that dying in Varanasi, breaks the repeated cycle of rebirth, with the creator, taking the departed soul directly to heaven as he whispers the Tarak Mantra into their ear. The geography of this sacred Hindu seat is likened to that of Lord Shiva himself, outstretched along the Ganga, where only in Varanasi, the river flows northward. Shot across four years, 2018 – 2021, Death in the City is an intimate portrayal of ‘The City of Life and Death’, its myriad communities who live and work in its ancient streets; including those waiting to die or those working with the dead, along with rare access to the death worshipping Aghori Saints. The most pressured crematorium in the world, Varanasi’s relationship with death is at the same time auspicious, spiritual, and industrial.