S2.E6 ∙ Teller statt Tonne - Der Wert des Essens

Joan is a committed, warm-hearted social worker and psychotherapist who works with derailed teenagers. In the documentary 'Joan's Boys' we see her efforts to help two of these kids -15 year old Alaa and Adil from a Moroccan family- to get back on track. The twins drop out from school, play violent video games all day and fight among each other about who can hold the PlayStation controller. In the midst of the heat they incidentally hit their mother, who goes knock-out on the floor. The boys are placed in custody. Can Joan save her boys by playing on their conscience? Or is her 'soft' approach deemed to fail? And what about Joan herself? Does her work with these kids replace her own unfulfilled child-wish?

Orthodox Jew Gedalia left the United States 20 years ago and went to Israel in search of his own place on earth. He and his family settled in a small village in the areas occupied by the Palestinians. Even though Gedalia doesn't care much about politics, a crisis brings to light the uncertainty that comes with living in such a place. Audience Award - Festival dei Popoli 2018.

'Debutante' is a documentary film that explores why young women still bow to society. Debbing is a rite of passage, designed to bring a young woman into adulthood. The film follows the experience of high school senior, Cassidy Cloninger who joins a debutante class in her home town of Cary, North Carolina. She participates in a six months regime leading up to the Cary Debutante Ball Society's gala. Cassidy's an athlete, a star on her school's swim team, and at first is dubious about being a debutante. It's going to cost several thousand dollars and plenty of time and effort. It involves exhaustive shopping for the perfect dress, formal photograph sessions, throwing and attending formal parties and learning the ropes of proper attire, manners and decorum. There will be many hours of dancing lessons for her, her dad, her date and the 16 other Cary Debutantes who she doesn't always get along with. All of this is to prepare for the big 'Cinderella' night of the Cary Debutante Ball in December, 2007.

A history of muscular women from Henry II's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to the present, suggests the passionate intertwining of personal fantasy and history characteristics.

The story of six children growing up in the Tijuana garbage dump and the hope of their school.

We Are Not Like Them connects four different locations in Europe and invites a quiet contemplation of these places as they are now in 2013. Using tropes of the early 20th Century documenatry film and the mid century espionage film to contextualise these sites (the former Wallsend and Walker shipyards in Newcatle Upon Tyne; Eisenhüttenstadt, a city on the eastern border of Germany, Nowa Huta, a city on the outskirts of Kraków in Poland, and the Groupe Scolaire L'Octobre).