Autentic Distribution GmbH.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This documentary explores China's rapid urbanization through architecture and design. Within two decades, villages have exploded into mega cities and urban planners can't keep up with the rate of migration as rural people seek better economic and educational opportunities for their children. Prominent architects, including Jane Zhang, Pei Zhu, Ma Yansong, and Wang Shu, discuss their innovative museum projects and photographer Peter Bialobrzeski draws...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Where populists and autocrats rule, civil liberties, government critics and non-governmental organizations are under pressure. Even worse: activists are not only attacked or arrested; laws also criminalize them and deprive them of funding. Not only committed individuals, but also NGOs operating worldwide have become targets of those in power. Are we living in times of a global frontal attack on civil society? And what happens when this important pillar...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Digitization, e-mobility and the energy change are hardly conceivable today without this technology. From smartphones to e-cars - the lithium-ion battery is found in almost every battery-powered device. The technology is particularly established and in demand in one very specific place: the warehouse. We introduce the hidden champion of e-mobility: intralogistics. For more than a decade, lithium-ion powered trucks have been driving behind the warehouse...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
If we compare ourselves with our genetically closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, we have few physical advantages. We are far weaker, cannot move nearly as fast, and do not have the same climbing capabilities. Instead, humans excel in areas such as architecture, religion, science, language, writing, art, culture, and ideas. These achievements are due to our larger brain that contain billions of neurons. It was the rapid growth of our brain,...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
24-hour reception to identify sources of danger, to communicate and to orientate ourselves. In addition, our hearing often suffers from sensory overload and stress. According to the WHO, more than 400 million people worldwide are affected by hearing loss, and more than a billion young people are considered at risk. The film shows current scientific developments and illustrates how powerful, but also vulnerable, the ear is.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Many cannot imagine life without vision and base their actions mainly on perception with this sense. As life expectancy increases, the power of sight is dwindling and diseases that threaten blindness are becoming more and more likely for everyone. With modern knowledge, research is fighting against vision loss and is finding enhancements for future vision. With red light glasses, contact lenses for presbyopia or bionic chip implants, the research...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This film features Europe during her Vertigo Years, from 1900 - 1914. This pulsating era of creativity and contradictions manifested itself in different ways across Europe. This first part of a three-part series highlights the scientific marvels and technological achievements in Paris and Germany, the cultural and social upheavals in Great Britain and Vienna, and the political revolution sparking in Russia.