“I, Soldier” is the first part of Köken Ergun's video series in which he deals with the state-controlled ceremonies for the national days of the Turkish Republic. The nationalistic attributes attached to these largescale ceremonies are underlined in a non-descriptive and almost voyeuristic point of view. “I, Soldier” was shot at the National Day for Youth and Sports, the day that marks the start of the independence war of the Turkish republic under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk against the Allied Forces back in 1919.

The protagonist of this film is a building. On the perimeter of Rome like a monolith in the open countryside stands a municipal housing complex from the seventies: Corviale. This ravaged concrete structure, which stretches for over a kilometre, has become the embodiment of a failed utopia from an urban planner's drawing board. Designed as a self-sufficient city, for decades this “palazzo” has largely been left to the devices of its eight thousand residents.

In 1925 William Faulkner lived in New Orleans for a few months writing short sketches in which he called the city to life. Inspired by Faulkner's impressions, Dutch Filmmaker Marjoleine Boonstra drifts through the devastated streets of New Orleans, at any hour of the day, looking for the fears and dreams of people whose lives have gone adrift as a result of hurricane Katrina.

Le Malentendu Colonial is a courageous voyage into Africa's “German past,” looking at European attempts to colonise Africa through religion and trade. Filmmaker Jean Marie Tenor revisits the role of missionaries in laying the foundations for colonialism in countries like Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and South Africa. The genocidal wars waged by the Germans against the Herrero in Namibia (1904-1907), in which thousands of people were locked up in concentration camps or driven into the desert and forced to scatter in order to survive the genocide, was a practice ground for the later crimes perpetrated by the Nazi army. Through interviews with experts from Germany and Africa, Teno paints a picture of a deeply unsettling period of history that was relatively short but nevertheless horrific.

With modern tourism, where is that “lake”, called the Mediterranean?

An intimate conversation between two young women in a public library about power and being in contemporary society.