CHRIST MEDIA FILMPRODUCTION

Christ Media Film Production has been making documentaries, news features and reports for public television since 1997 – programming that is exciting, informative and entertaining. We scour the world for extraordinary stories and take a look at familiar topics through new eyes. Along the way, we encounter people from all over the globe who amaze us and move us deeply time and time again. Christ Media also develops and produces corporate videos for industry and organizations.

CHRIST MEDIA FILMPRODUCTION

Christ Media Film Production has been making documentaries, news features and reports for public television since 1997 – programming that is exciting, informative and entertaining. We scour the world for extraordinary stories and take a look at familiar topics through new eyes. Along the way, we encounter people from all over the globe who amaze us and move us deeply time and time again. Christ Media also develops and produces corporate videos for industry and organizations.

Overview

Donor Children


Photo @ Ulrike Brincker

Private sperm donation is often the only way to a desired child for many couples and single women. Numerous websites bring women and donors together ...

read more

Trailer

The Future of Travel


Photo © Pond5

Deciding between exotic destinations and holidays at home – Will we ever be able to fly again without feeling guilty? We examine the tourism business today and ask how it envisages the future ...

read more

Trailer

Healing Hands – Osteopathy

Osteopathy

Photo © Martin Christ

Osteopathic physicians feel tensions, gently release blockages, treat the musculoskeletal system and the internal organs - only with their hands ...

read more

Trailer

Tourist go home!

Europe’s dream Destination at Risk

Photo © Antje Christ

In Europe, city tourism is booming like never before, can Europe’s most popular destinations be saved from collapse?

Trailer

Small Glasses

A pair of glasses changed lives

Photo © Antje Christ

A pair of glasses for only one dollar - they exist! Martin Aufmuth from Erlangen invented it.

read more

Trailer

New clothes

Dark history | Herero in Namibia

Photo © Marcel Lepel

At the beginning of the 20th century, the German colonial power attempted to wipe out the Namibian Herero tribe.

Trailer

Glasses for the world

Photo © Martin Aufmuth

Hard to believe, but you can now buy a pair of glasses for just a dollar, invented by Martin Aufmuth.

read more

Trailer

The C-Section

Controversy

Photo © Christ Media

The number of C-section births performed worldwide has nearly doubled. A lifesaving alternative or an unnecessary medical procedure?

Trailer

Close to Heaven

The Rice Terraces of the Philippines

Photo © Christ Media

Two thousand years old, the rice terraces in the Philippine Cordilleras are now an endangered world heritage site.

Trailer

An Early Fight for Life

Photo © Christ Media

This science documentary focuses on extremely premature births from Germany, France and Japan.

Trailer

Raped!

Women's Fear in India

Photo © Dorothe Dörholt

Why do brutal rapes occur again and again in India?

Trailer

Life At Any Price

Chances for extremely premature babies

Photo © Christ Media

Doctors are increasingly successful in saving extremely premature babies using state-of-the-art medical technology. But what does that mean for the parents and for the children themselves?

Trailer

China

The World of Fighting Crickets

Photo © Christ Media

Cricket fighting: an unusual popular sport in China with a long tradition.

Trailer

A Handful of Life

Extremely Premature Babies and their Chances

Photo © Christ Media

This science documentary presents neonatology studies and zones in on the international discussion of when exactly life begins.

Trailer

Jewels in the Pond

The Wondrous World of Japanese Koi

Photo © Martin Kammerer

The story of an unusual journey: a koi carp worth €60,000 is transported from Japan to Switzerland.

Trailer

Forbidden Dream

Nomads in Iran

Photo © Enno Grabenhorst

With kith, kin and hundreds of goats and sheep, the Bakhtiari nomads move through the Zagros Mountains in southwest Iran.

Trailer

Indian Weddings

A Big Fat Business

Photo © Christ Media

Private investigators specialising in prospective spouses make good money in India, where parents want to make sure that their children are marrying the “right” person.

Trailer

Premature

Too young for this World

Photo © Christ Media

Treating premature babies is a delicate and contentious topic in Europe, as doctors do not agree on when exactly life begins.

Trailer

A Cemetery full of Life

Cebu's Graveyard Children

Photo © Christ Media

Hundreds of families with children live on the graveyards of the large Philippine city of Cebu.

Trailer

Botox

A Poison on its Way to the Top

Photo © Christ Media

Botox – a miracle product that heals people and makes them young? This science documentary shows how the poison works in the body.

Trailer

Gulabi Gang

The Pink Revolution

Photo © Dorothe Dörholt

They are India’s answer to Robin Hood: the Gulabi Gang – women in pink saris fighting against male violence.

Trailer

Always Food!

India´s Mobile Kitchens

Photo © Christ Media

Indian people’s passion for their highly traditional cuisine and their struggle for affordable food for millions of people.

Trailer

The Kangaroo

Australia´s Passion

Photo © Christ Media

Pampered by some, hunted by others: Australians have differing attitudes towards the kangaroo.

Trailer

Dabbawala

The Lunchbox Miracle

Photo © Christ Media

In the metropolis of Mumbai, 5,000 dabbawalas deliver 200,000 lunches every day – a system that works almost perfectly.

Trailer

High-tech on Humps

Camel Stories from Qatar

Photo © Christ Media

Camel racing – a sport with a long tradition in Qatar, with child jockeys being replaced by robot riders.

read more

Trailer

Of Shy Machos

and Matrimonially Minded Senoras

Photo © Christ Media

Hundreds of single women from Madrid travel to the village of Cabezuela to meet a man to spend their life with.

read more

Trailer

Of Sad Songs

and Happy Finns

Photo © Martti Haapamäki

Finland and the tango: a strange pairing? Nowhere in Europe is the tango as important as it is here.

read more

Trailer

Ami Scabar

and the Magic of the White Root

Photo © Ami Scabar

Insight into the work of a top Italian female chef.

read more

Trailer

A Breath of Himalaya

in the Swiss Alps

Photo © Sonja Mathis

Yaks in Switzerland: they are found high above the town of Emd in the Matter Valley in the Swiss canton of Valais.

read more

Trailer

The River Lady of Rotterdam

Photo © Silke Gondolf

The story of an exceptional woman who sailed through Europe on one of the smallest barges.

read more

Trailer

In the Devil’s Snare

Photo © Christ Media

A modern take on traditional crocheting: string thongs from Poland conquer the market – and cause trouble in the village.

mehr Infos

Trailer

Savile Row Shake-up

Photo © Dorothe Dörholt

Savile Row is more than a street. It is a byword for the perfectly attired English gentleman.

read more

Trailer

Cape Verde

Islands of Hope

Photo © Christ Media

One of the last natural paradises in the Atlantic is struggling for survival.

read more

Trailer

Iceland

Under the Spell of Nature's Force

Photo © Christ Media

A journey to the origins of the earth.

read more

Trailer

Toskana

Italian's Realm of the Senses

Photo © Christ Media

Stories from the romantic landscape.

read more

Trailer

Jamaika

Good Vibrations in Reggae Land

Photo © Christ Media

Staying clear of the tourists on the trail of Bob Marley.

read more

Trailer

Sri Lanka

On Buddha's Footsteps through Paradise

Photo © Christ Media

On the trail of Buddha, leading us to ancient royal cities, tea-growing highlands and a holy mountain.

read more

Trailer

Barcelona

Dance of Temperaments in the Heat of Catalonia

Photo © Christ Media

Unusual stories from the “capital on the Mediterranean”.

read more

Trailer

New York

at Second Sight

Photo © Christ Media

Another view of the city of cities.

read more

Trailer

North-Vietnam

Ha Long Bay

Photo © Christ Media

Ha Long Bucht: one of Vietnam’s greatest natural attractions.

read more

Trailer

South-Vietnam

The Mekong Delta on Bike

Photo © Christ Media

An unusual way to get to know a country and its people.

read more

Trailer

California

San Diego and Surrounding Area

Photo © Christ Media

Portrait of the southernmost city in California.

read more

Trailer

Berlin

on Inline-Skates

Foto © Christ Media

A new way to discover Berlin.

read more

Trailer

The Caribbean

Guadeloupe and St. Barthélemy

Photo © Christ Media

Beauty contests in Guadeloupe and the beauty of the Caribbean islands.

read more

Trailer

Austria

Styria

Photo © Christ Media

Culinary highpoints, absurd stories and breathtaking landscape.

read more

Trailer

New York on bike

Photo © Christ Media

Brooklyn – Harlem – Manhattan: a three-part series on a cycling tour through New York.

 

read more

Trailer