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The German post-war “economic miracle” required a large and low-pay labour force from abroad. They were called “Gastarbeiter (guest workers)”, a derogatory general term.

Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s seizure of power; the metropolis is lurching towards its doom. Fabian, a melancholy yet humorous observer, wanders through this juggernaut of a city that seems to be amusing itself into oblivion.

Damascus in 2011: a vibrant city with lively shopping streets, gentrified residential neighbourhoods and a pulsating cultural scene and night-life. And residents who are organising peaceful demonstrations for reforms.

From April 2019 to February 2020, the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe considered a long-simmering, unresolved debate: medically assisted suicide.

On 15 January 1974, a bed goes up in flames at the East Berlin hospital Charité. The patient who dies in this fire, caused by a burning cigarette is Ruth Berlau, Danish communist and Bertolt Brecht’s lover.

If the ancient theatre was able to create complex and independent female characters two and a half thousand years ago – what has gone wrong between then and now?

This feminist double project explores images of present-day femininity, emancipation and female self-assertion.

In Die Verdammten, Visconti wanted to create a modern-day Macbeth. What emerged was the disturbing analysis of a corrupted industrialist family that tied its destiny inseparably to the success of their company and to politics.