The Academy

Fashion and design affect everybody, every day of their life. Most people are clueless about how these things work - how trends emerge to make their creators a lot of money. Trend Beacons look into the hidden world of Trend forecasting, explaining how things really work.

Based on three different places, the film portrays the infractions to which people living in modern day China are subjected due to rapid developments.

The film takes us on a journey through the periphery, which, despite being right on our doorstep, is entirely unfamiliar territory for most of us. Think of the late afternoon drive to IKEA. A trip through a characterless landscape that appears to express nothing whatsoever. It is as if we had parked the car on the hard shoulder, climbed over the barrier and fought our way through the brambles to the white areas on our mental map. The alleged no-man's land between dual carriageways and wastelands is inhabited by people who have claimed this territory for themselves, in order to create their own dominion-archipelagos in an almost incomprehensible void on the borders of the city, liberated spaces full of passion and extraordinary plans.

Life on the Edge follows three-time world figure skating champion Kurt Browning in his pursuit of excellence - from the Calgary Winter Olympics to the Albertville Winter Olympics and beyond. This talented superstar has continued to develop unusual and untried combinations of jumps and has come of age artistically, setting the pace for those who would follow. Scenes from practice sessions, excerpts from his competitive performances, discussions with his coach about changing his style, and interviews with Kurt, his parents, his coach and others combine to create a portrait of what makes a world-class athlete.

The Orangerie: a unit in Luxembourg's neuropsychiatric hospital, its nursing staff, doctors and patients.