Brard & Jekel: VetGelukkig?!

Bugarach. Nothing ever really happens in this bucolic village in Southern France at the base of the mountain that gives it its name. But the villagers' peace and quiet vanishes when the news story circulates around the globe like a viral video that this close-knit community of 194 inhabitants will be the only place on the planet to survive the December 21st apocalypse foretold by the Mayans. 'Bugarach' dives deep into the subject of the apocalypse to reflect on the fears and coping strategies of humankind in times of deep material and spiritual crisis in the Western world.

Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together.

Maria Mandl, a charwoman in Münzkirchen, a small Austrian town, wanted to make a career, was assigned to the Auschwitz II Birkenau camp in Poland as the SS-Lagerführerin during the peak of the Holocaust from August 1943, and stayed there till November 1944. She was executed after the Krakow Trial as a direct complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 female prisoners. The film shows how heavy the amount of memory lies on Mandls relatives, friends - and on her victims, the former camp inmates.

Portrays the marine element as a catalyst between myth and historical experience via the evocation of the major events that shaped modern Greece in the course of its past decades.