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Por Mis Hijos / For Them

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What is a woman willing to do to make a better life for her children? Norma, a Latin American immigrant in Barcelona combats the solitude and the barriers for the livelihood of a family that long for her kilometers away.
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Cataclysm in New Orleans
‚Cataclysm in New Orleans‘ is a documentary feature, that was filmed six months after the catastrophy of hurricane Katrina (August 2005). Its orientation follows the perspective of victims and helpers. Musicians, artists, civil rights activist and medics tell about their experiences during and after the flood. Moreover, European directors Ralph Klein and Elias Scheideler manage to sketch out the historical context of the event by way of montage, selection and form. Unadulterated by the filters and mechanisms of the global media machinery, the film shows the breadth of the catastrophy and the conditions it uncovered for the people in this place of such great significance to U.S. American cultural history. The selection of interviewees from various social points of reference, who express their experiences and sentiments each in their very own way, ensues a more intimate notion about the contiguities of the New Orleanean society, but as well provides an interior view on U.S. American reality after the first bigger steps into the third millennium. This is a 50 min edit of the full 59 minute film.
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