Empire Me: New Worlds Are Happening!

In the 21st century, more than 500 self-declared countries are fighting for the right to their own territory and their own rules of life. They are kings, pirates, dreamers. This is the story of six such counterworlds. In the search for an ideal culture of life, hundreds of do-it-yourself countries are building their own little worlds. Micronations, eco-villages and secessionists take alternative ways of living together with real territories and communities. More than 500 have formed since the late nineties, some of them hardly bigger than a sheep farm, a sea platform or a laptop. Thousands of free thinkers are thus declaring war on the new world order.

Keywords

  • alternative lifestyle
  • civil society
  • community
  • current
  • Diagonale – Festival des österreichischen Films
  • future
  • globalization
  • Kinoherz
  • lifestyle

Director

  • Paul Poet

Documentary


1h 40min


12 FSK

EN

Austria
Germany
Luxembourg
2011
In the 21st century, more than 500 self-declared countries are fighting for the right to their own territory and their own rules of life. They are kings, pirates, dreamers.

In the 21st century, more than 500 self-declared countries are fighting for the right to their own territory and their own rules of life. They are kings, pirates, dreamers.


This is the story of six such counterworlds. In the search for an ideal culture of life, hundreds of do-it-yourself countries are building their own little worlds.


Micronations, eco-villages and secessionists take alternative ways of living together with real territories and communities. More than 500 have formed since the late nineties, some of them hardly bigger than a sheep farm, a sea platform or a laptop. Thousands of free thinkers are thus declaring war on the new world order.

Festivals

Cast & Crew