Body & Health
My body, my temple? Who defines how we should look and feel? On our BODY & HEALTH channel, people share insights on health and body-image issues. Here you'll find films that celebrate diverse forms of physical beauty and explore modern-day challenges to health and well-being. From carnival strongmen and plastic surgeons to fashion victims and virtual couples, people everywhere are challenging society's ideas of what constitutes “able bodies”. Indeed, we are all challenged to create and maintain a healthy lifestyle - where is the line between health and illness? Let our films inspire and inform you.
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*NEW* Into the World
Austria 2008, Length 88 min
D: Constantin Wulff
User RatingFor some, the act of giving birth is a miracle. For others, it's simple routine. A Viennese women's clinic is the stage upon which the drama from INTO THE WORLD plays out. A place where life begins.
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*NEW* Aufnahme
Germany 2001, Length 91 min
D: Stefan Landorf
User RatingAn unconventional story about everyday life in a Berlin hospital. Hospitals are institutions that function as autonomous organisms. In Stefan Landorf's debut the tables are turned and the filmmaker gives the hospital a diagnosis.
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*NEW* One out of Eight
Austria 2008, Length 86 min
D: Sabine Derflinger
Featuring: Marijana Gavric, Frederike von Stechow
User RatingOne out of eight women will fall ill with breast cancer at some point in her life. During a chemotherapy session, actress Frederike befriends tram driver Marijana. They share their fears, hopes and longings.
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*NEW* For One More Hour With You
Italy 2002, Length 55 min
D: Alina Marazzi
Featuring: Liseli Marazzi Hoepli
Suitable for all ages
User RatingThe director doesn't have many memories of her mother. She was only seven when her mother, who had been tormented by depression, took her own life. Through family photographs and films, dairy entries, letters and medical reports, Alina Marazzi's film explores the life and death of her mother.
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*NEW* SoulShadows
Switzerland 2002, Length 85 min
D: Dieter Gränicher
Suitable for all ages
User RatingFour inspiring true-life stories about people coping with depression
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Rolling
USA, 70 min.
D: G. Berland, G. Buckwalter, V. Elman, E. Wallengren*NEW* Rolling
USA 2004, Length 70 min
D: G. Berland, G. Buckwalter, V. Elman, E. Wallengren
User RatingWould you like to know what it's like to live in a wheelchair? ROLLING gives viewers an idea of what life is like for people who rely on this type of mobility aid. Dr. Gretchen Berland and three co-directors, who each live very different lives, documented more than 200 hours of daily life shot from the wheelchair-user perspective.
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*NEW* Recovery
Switzerland 2007, Length 70 min
D: Dieter Gränicher
Suitable for 6 years and older
User RatingRECOVERY documents the treatment of four people suffering from depression. They are subsequently trained to help others on the road to recovery.
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*NEW* Spiegelgrund
Austria 2000, Length 71 min
D: A. Schuster, T. Sindelgruber
User RatingSPIEGELGRUND is the name of the children's hospital in Vienna where hundreds of children were murdered by National Socialist Party doctors. This documentary reconstructs these atrocities and shows how decades later, in 'modern' Austria, the criminally responsible doctors continued to be protected and held in high esteem.
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Weightless
Norway 2002, Length 75 min
D: Sigve Endresen
Featuring: Kari Iveland, Hilde Heltberg
Suitable for all ages
User RatingNorwegian singer-songwriter Kari Iveland recounts how she overcame anorexia and found her unique voice.
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*NEW* Hair World
USA 2003, Length 80 min
D: Cindy Adra, Marjorie Madura
Featuring: Dmitry Brodkin, Robert Cromeans, Michael Della Penna, Ronnie Hawkes, Trang Kim, Gordon Miller, ...
User RatingThis film takes a look at the unique world of competitive hairstylists and their high powered coiffures at Hair World, the hairdresser's Olympics.
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Good Bye Alltag
Germany, 50 min.
D: Jan Hymmen, Nina Rudolf, Neele Herweg–Steffens, Helen Lisa Knevels, Kai Uwe Herfeld, Rick Ramon Schneider, Tanja Isenberg, Muriel Ollefs, Hannah Lückenhaus, Julia Pembaur, Julius Zielenzinksi, Catalina Cabermeinvo, Fiona Liedke, Nina KocikowskiGood Bye Alltag
Germany 2007, Length 50 min
D: Jan Hymmen, Nina Rudolf, Neele Herweg–Steffens, Helen Lisa Knevels, Kai Uwe Herfeld, Rick Ramon Schneider, Tanja Isenberg, Muriel Ollefs, Hannah Lückenhaus, Julia Pembaur, Julius Zielenzinksi, Catalina Cabermeinvo, Fiona Liedke, Nina Kocikowski
Suitable for 12 years and older
User RatingThe documentary film GOOD BYE ALLTAG (2007) was produced by the media education collective «Medienprojekt Wuppertal». It takes place in the German city of Wuppertal and is about alcohol consumption among youngsters in today's society. This film will be particularly interesting for parents as it will give them insight into the way teenagers think and their habits.
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It Should Have Been Nice After That
Germany, 73 min.
D: Karin Jurschick*NEW* It Should Have Been Nice After That
Germany 2000, Length 73 min
D: Karin Jurschick
User RatingThe film tells the story of a woman who committed suicide when she was 41 years old. 23 years after the suicide, the woman's daughter (director Karin Jurschick) visits people who knew her mother. “Personal biography becomes part of national history, and visa versa. Jurschick's film is awkward, courageous and electrifying” writes the Frankfurter Rundschau daily newspaper (October 24, 2001).
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