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We introduce Delivery June 2021 EU-wide scientific, agricultural and forestry projects as well as independent initiatives in Germany, France, Spain and Romania that aim to combat drought. In the last four years, large parts of Europe have experienced a drought that has had drastic consequences for forests and agriculture. Which measures could counteract the drought? NEW DOCS Dasselstrasse 75 - 77 50674 Cologne, Germany Phone +49 221 - 168 197 43 [email protected] DROUGHT IN EUROPE – 03 THE BUSINESSWOMEN WITH OF TERRORISM ISLAM – OUR INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND THE JIHAD CanThe filmfeminism aims beto findIslamic? out whoThe roleis behind of women Islamist in Islamterrorists, is a theconstant allegedly subject single of SocietyCurrent /Affairs Human Interest / controversy.perpetrators Isor the autonomous headscarf cells really that a symbol attack oftargets oppression? all over theDoes world. the Qur'anThe terrorist allow CurrentFilm by DanielAffairs Harrich menattacks to cantell womenbe traced what back to to do, Paris, to beat Brussels, them? Madrid, Does ourLondon modern and viewan organisation of women FilmLength by 59’Nadja HD Frenz Society / Human Interest Current Affairs conflictless well with known the textsthan ISof orthe Al Qur'an? 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An investigativeAre Islam and documentary our modern that view exposes of women the mutually links between Westernexclusive? intelligence We talk services to female and scholars Pakistan's of Islam, ISI in the war on Islamist THE BUSINESS WITH TERRORISM – terrorism.authors A andperfdious artists aboutbusiness Islamic with feminism.terrorism is revealed. OUR INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND THE JIHAD –– 05 5 SUPERPOWERS IN TRADE WARS THE US-CHINA CONFLICT AND EUROPE Joe Biden is inheriting a troubled US-China relationship. It's quite possible he will Current Affairs be unable to turn back the clocks set by Donald Trump. Is this the new Cold War – Film by Jens Niehuss fought this time with the weapons of tariffs and counter-tariffs? The US-China Length 52’ HD trade conflict is an unprecedented economic battle between two superpowers. Co-Production TVNTV with ZDF / ARTE It goes back to the trade policy credo of US President Donald Trump: "America Original Title Supermächte im first!", which led to the US imposing 25% tariffs on numerous Chinese imports Handelskrieg – Der USA-China Konflikt in 2018. China retaliated with counter-tariffs. Eight-hundred billion dollars' worth und Europa / La guerre commerciale of trade is affected. The trade war is also becoming a crucial test for Europe. des superpuissances – Les USA, la Chine Germany is being drawn more and more into the Americans' line of fire with threats et l’Europe of punitive tariffs being imposed on German car exports to the US. To avert this, the Year 2020 Current Affairs EU is allowing genetically modified soybeans to be imported into the EU – to the anger of the French agricultural sector and European consumer protection groups. European companies with subsidiaries in China also face pressure with exports to the US stagnating as a result of the punitive tariffs. There is no end in sight for the trade war, and even the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is unlikely to change this. Is this the new Cold War – this time fought with the weapons of tarifs and counter-tarifs? The US-China trade confict is an unprecedented economic battle between two superpowers. There is no end in sight. SUPERPOWERS IN TRADE WARS – 06 THE US-CHINA CONFLICT AND EUROPE BEHIND THE HEADLINES The part they played in exposing the Panama Papers brought the investigative Current Affairs / Feature Documentary editorial department at Süddeutsche Zeitung international fame and won its Length 88’ / 52’ HD journalists the Pulitzer Prize. Two years later, they faced new challenges: the political Film by Daniel Andreas Sager Current Affairs / Feature Documentary murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia and a mysterious arms Co-Production bauderfilm Produktion with dealer linked to Iran's nuclear missile programme. But when the secret „Ibiza“ video ZDF / Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, with the heavily incriminating Austrian vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache was leaked support of Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg to them in the spring of 2019, a truly dramatic story unfolded. For the first time and Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für ever, Germany's biggest daily newspaper offers us an insight into the otherwise Kultur und Medien (BKM) top-secret methods of its world-famous investigative department. We find out first- Original Title Hinter den Schlagzeilen hand about the serious practical, ethical and legal decisions the journalists have to Year 2021 make. Is the material authentic? Or are they being instrumentalised in a political Festivals and awards CPH:DOX, Denmark power struggle? How can they protect their informants? The day the results of 2021 / Hot Docs, Canada 2021 / Millennium their investigations are due to be published approaches, and the tension rises. Each Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Poland word comes under careful scrutiny because the story has the explosive power to 2021 destroy political careers or even bring down a government. The Ibiza afair made international headlines in 2019 and plunged the Austrian government into a crisis. The journalists involved in the exposure ofer us an intimate insight into their highly sensitive work. BEHIND THE HEADLINES – 09 THE EL MASRI CASE In 2004, while on a bus trip close to the Macedonien border, German citizen Khaled Current Affairs / Feature Documentary El Masri disappeared. He was kidnapped by the CIA and taken to a secret prison Film by Stefan Eberlein near Kabul. Five months later, he was released in a forest in Albania. El Masri was Length 80’ / 52’ HD an innocent man. His case was the main reason why the CIA’s worldwide “rendition Co-Production Leykauf Film with Current Affairs / Feature Documentary programme” came to light. Its agents were forcibly taking suspected terrorists to ZDF / ARTE and ORF, with the support of secret locations and torturing them in order to extract confessions and obtain FFF Bayern and MFG Baden-Württemberg information. It then became clear that ever since the attacks on September 11, Original Title Der Fall Khaled el Masri moral categories within the US intelligence services had shifted and that the extent of violence used during the CIA operations was out of control. With the support of IN PRODUCTION human rights lawyers in Europe and the United States, El Masri spent the years Delivery June 2021 after his abduction trying to restore his moral and legal integrity and to obtain a formal apology – so far in vain. In September 2020, he made a statement in the extradition procedure against Julian Assange, regarding the question how wikileaks contributed to revealing US war crimes in Afghanistan. In this political thriller, we tell the story of a man who fell victim to a government intervention and was caught up in geopolitical power interests that eventually destroyed his and his family’s life. In 2004, Khaled El Masri was illegally abducted by the CIA. His case brought the CIA’s worldwide so called “rendition programme” to light. We tell his story for the frst time.