Film Archive

Jahr

Land (Film Archive)

Time to Act! 2022
Filmstill Dead Sea Dying
Dead Sea Dying
Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl
A visually powerful dystopian parable about a society that seems to be paralysed with shock as it faces the imminent destruction of its natural resources.
Filmstill Dead Sea Dying

Dead Sea Dying

Dead Sea Dying
Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl
Time to Act! 2022
Documentary Film
Germany
2019
30 minutes
English,
Hebrew
Subtitles: 
English

A cinematic journey to the lowest point on earth, in the course of which the universal story of creation, responsibility and doom unfolds. The film was shot at the shores of the Dead Sea, where God once destroyed Sodom and Gomorra to punish the sins of humanity. The waters of the lake have been receding for decades. What’s left are salty crusts, deserted spas and dangerous sinkholes. The ambiguous but never obtrusive montage interweaves the biblical tale of Lot’s wife, who turned into a pillar of salt, with the disconcerting question of why we, as allegedly rational beings, react to the current crises by going into a state of shock instead of taking action.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl
Script
Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl
Cinematographer
Manuel Lübbers
Editor
Melanie Jilg
Producer
Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl
Narrator
Mona Vojacek Koper
Filmstill Delikado

Delikado

Delikado
Karl Malakunas
Time to Act! 2022
Documentary Film
USA,
UK,
Philippines,
China,
Australia
2022
94 minutes
English,
Filipino
Subtitles: 
English

On the island of Palawan in the Philippine archipelago, more and more rainforest is falling victim to the saws. The clearances have long been illegal but are protected and even initiated by President Duterte’s corrupt regime. Local resistance is forming. A group of courageous men around a determined human rights lawyer decide to react. They sneak into the forests to take away the logging teams’ chainsaws, cars and boats. This exciting film, constructed like a thriller, follows them on their dangerous missions, which they call “meta-legal”. But the price is high: Some of the activists pay for their resistance with their lives.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Karl Malakunas
Cinematographer
Tom Bannigan
Editor
Michael Collins, Eric Daniel Metzgar
Producer
Marty Syjuco, Michael Collins, Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala
Score
Nainita Desai
World Sales
Jenny Bohnhoff