An unflinching portrait of physical work in the 21st century. We take a glimpse inside the bloody and frenetic activity of the Port Harcourt meat market in Nigeria. Here cows and goats are brought to the slaughter – then cut, roasted and cleaned for sale. The slaughter yard offers a hellish vision of noise, blood and smoke.
Born in Graz, Austria, in 1959, Michael Glawogger is a traveling filmmaker. Not only does he literally journey around the world for his documentaries, he also moves back and forth [...]
Tells several stories of prostitution around the world. The documentary revolves around the lives and individual hopes, needs and experiences of the women. This film triptych deals with prostitutes in [...]
Heroes looks at freelance miners in Ukraine who spend long days crawling through cramped shafts of exhausted coal mines to dig out a living for themselves.
We visit east Java in Indonesia – where men climb steep paths amid pungent vapours carrying a heavy load of sulphur rock from the mouth of a volcano.
An unflinching portrait of physical work in the 21st century. We visit the ship-breaking yard of Gadani in Pakistan where derelict vessels are beached and then dismantled for scrap metal – with a bare minimum of mechanical assistance.