Doc & Film International (Firm)

Facebook, Amazon and Google provide us with around the clock access to the convenience of the digital world. Surveillance cameras on the streets take care of our security. But who actually collects our fingerprints, iris scans, online shopping preferences, and social media posting? Don´t we care about our privacy anymore? In his unique, charming, and curious way, filmmaker Werner Boote travels around the world (USA, UK, China, Hong Kong, Austria,...

For nearly two years, an extraordinary effective terrorist propaganda has been flooding the Internet. Through an unfailing control over social networks and the mass production of ultra-violent footage enhanced by special effects and edited like rap music videos, the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) terrorists have been hammering their hateful message.. How did the Internet become, and in such a short time, some kind of travel agency promoting...

Six different stories tell us why genes alone cannot predict our fate. With the help of epigenetics, scientists explain how DNA profiles change in the course of a lifetime. Environmental factors, diet and stress all influence human cell factories decisively. Heart and brain rejuvenation experiments, organ reconstruction and delaying of the ageing process no longer belong to the world of science fiction - they are already being tested in modern molecular...

A documentary about love and relationships in the world of the extremely popular 'favela funk': pornographic music from Rio de Janeiro's deprived neighborhoods. The film shows the perspective of the favela youth and aims to find the relation between the favela funk lyrics and their personal, daily (love) lives, dominated by a lawless subculture of drug gangs, violence and sex.. INSIDE THE MIND OF FAVELA FUNK gives an insight in the current Brazilian...

Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend's life - his house, his job and his ex-wife...

Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company's downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.

Dorante, a penniless young man, takes on the position of steward at the house of Araminte, an attractive widow whom he secretly loves. Dorante's former valet Dubois also works there and is planning a scheme to make Araminte fall in love with Dorante. Based on his own critically acclaimed production of Marivaux's comedy, Luc Bondy takes the play and its characters behind the stage, through the corridors and rooms of the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris,...