Brenner Pass, Alpine border, spring 2016: the Austrian government announces the construction of a border fence, expecting a shift of the refugee routes to Italy after the Balkan route is closed. The residents fear the fence just as much as the supposedly threatening influx of foreigners to their homeland.

Two years later, the fence is still rolled up in a container, as the inrush of refugees never occurred.

In concentric circles starting from the driveable border of the Brenner, THE BORDER FENCE measures the surroundings that were the scene of a shift in inner-European policy. At the same time, the space describes itself through Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s typical extremely precise long shots, and in extended talks with police officers, locals, hikers, farmers, innkeepers, and toll collectors. What arises in an extremely small space is the full diversity of voices expressing individual political attitudes on a topic that affects Europe, and is visible on the Brenner.
(Alejandro Bachmann, Diagonale)

1.59GB | 1h 52m | 1332×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1F6998B21EC10A0/The_Border_Fence_-_Die_Bauliche_Massnahme_-_English_Subtitles_HD.mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English (Harcoded)h

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Synopsis
A motor-sports spectacle that kicks up plenty of dust. On the trail of the 2007 Dakar Rallye ‘7915 KM’ undertakes a search, along the way encountering the variety to be found in Africa’s present in Morocco, Sahrawi Republic, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. ‘7915 KM’ demonstrates the extent of this distance, which is the result of political and economic conditions, and also the ideas and prejudices to be found in both Europe and Africa. It also makes the closeness tangible, which becomes clear in the stories of everyday life, work, hopes and worries. Keeping the sobering reality in mind, it creates an homage to humanity and slowness which questions deep-seated perceptions and the role of Europeans in numerous, presumably African, problems

3.50GB | 1h 45mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/EC769FC1CC8187F/7915.Km.2008.1080p.FLI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-Cinefeel.mkv

Language:French, Arabic, English, Wolof, Bambara
Subtitles:German [Hard]

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In 2000, the final year of the twentieth century, Nikolaus Geyrhalter and his crew set out with a video camera to film twelve, self-contained ethnographic episodes, each encapsulating a month-long document of the lives of people who perform their quotidian rituals in a figurative Elsewhere, as follow:

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Opening in January : Ekeschi, Ayr at the heart of the Sahara desert in Niger, chronicling life among the nomadic Tuareg.
A portrait of the Moso tribe, a matriarchal, ethnic minority community of farmers and ranchers living in the Yunnan province in China.
A discussion of polygamy by Himba tribespeople in Kaokoland, Namibia.
A headless carcass of an errant reindeer that had been killed by a wolf in Samiland, Finland near the Norwegian border.
Among the Korowai people of Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
The remote Aboriginal Reserve in Arnhem Land, Australia.
A Ladhaki rancher and sheepherder reflects on her life of grace and blessing In Umla, Ladakh, India.
Inuit sea hunters in Thule, Greenland.
The few remaining Khanty herdsmen in the village of Kantek Ko Jawun in Siberia, Russia.
In search of fish like pagello, gilthead, and grouper, in the village of Thárros in Sardinia, Italy.
The Nisga’a tribe’s ceremonial dedication of a totem pole In New Aiyansh, British Columbia in Canada.
The Red Cross’ biennial Christmas package drops to the Falalap, Woleai Atoll in Micronesia.

Elsewhere.2001.1080p.FLI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-Cinefeel.mkv

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Runtime: 	3 h 59 min
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Language(s):German, English, Faliasch, Greenlandic, Khanty, Korowai, Gunwinggu, Ladakhi, Naxi, Nisga’a, Ojihimba, Saami, Sardinian, Tamashek
Subtitles:English, German [Hard]

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Synopsis:
Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we’re gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it so long ago. Homo Sapiens is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario. It intends to sharpen our eyes for the here and now, and our consciousness of the present.

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The latest film from the meticulous, provocative Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter could be described as an environmental documentary. Its form is as simple as death. A stationary camera takes in, one after the other, a single image of a space constructed (or simply scarred) by humankind, and subsequently abandoned. In the first minutes of “Homo Sapiens,” we see railroad tracks, a bicycle rack and the rudiments of a train station.

No image repeats or magnifies; while a series of shots may be clustered in the same general area, each image is discrete and none are subject to further examination. Although the film’s credits include a foley artist and a rerecording technician, its soundtrack comes across as entirely vérité; the wind whispers, birds chirp and the people who built the settings we’re seeing are far, far away, if they’re even around at all. The first section of the movie has vending machines with Japanese characters on them. While Mr. Geyrhalter did not, as it happens, bring cameras to the vicinity of Fukushima, where an earthquake and tsunami led to a nuclear disaster that precipitated mass evacuations in 2011, it’s probable he wishes the viewer to make a connection. Next stop is an abandoned shopping mall in Ohio.

In a way, the images are reminiscent of the empty, haunted spaces associated with the art cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky and Bela Tarr. But Mr. Geyrhalter’s method is more austere, and the effect produced is subtly different. Each individual shot creates a frisson of desolation that resonates far beyond the facile irony suggested by the movie’s title.

http://nitroflare.com/view/AB2F97F4CD62BE1/Homo_sapiens_%28Nikolaus_Geyrhalter%2C_2016%29.mkv

Language(s):None
Subtitles:None

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