Mother Land

The 13-year-old Ursula Scheuner grows up as the only child of a petty-bourgeois family in the Adenauer era. Increasingly, puberty leads the girl into conflict with her parents and their surroundings. Ursula is confronted with the political indecision and private lies of her father, the iron will to consume and the fearful sexual hostility of her mother. Especially the relationship with her burdened Ursula increasingly. "In close successive situations, Ursel's wings are trimmed before she realizes she has them - victims of a long tradition."

Filmed over two years by cinematographer Kim Wolhuter (Nature: The Cheetah Children), Dogs in the Land of Lions takes viewers into the heart of an African wild dog family. When lions kill her mate, a wild dog mother called Puzzles suddenly must raise two generations of pups all on her own without the help of a pack. Witness the loyalty and selflessness that sets wild dogs apart from other large, social carnivores in this deeply intimate portrayal of motherhood. But in this unforgiving Zimbabwe wilderness, it turns out the top dogs are the big cats. Lions are the wild dogs' ultimate enemies.