Matthias has spent five months in solitary confinement, sentenced by the GDR authorities for illegal border crossing. Deprived of sleep and social contact, cut off from the outside world, he lived on his mere daydreams, yearning to catch a glimpse of the sky or to smell the scent of the ocean... Even after 23 years, Matthias can`t escape from his former cell.
Festivals: "Coup de coeur - Le court metrage allemand" at the Intl. Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand 2012, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Prague 2012
It happens 795.000 times each year: Countless dreams of countless people are ripped apart. Being struck down by a stroke signifies a major burden for a human being, but also shakes the life of his or her loved ones to the core. In times of jet lag and burn out syndrome, the risk increases with every blink of an eye. About 6,500,000 stroke survivors are alive today. I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT fuses documentary and fiction into a kaleidoscope of memory and status quo. It sheds a light on this crucial stroke of fate for a love relationship. How can you lead an active life when your significant other is trapped in his or her body? What if recovery stagnates? Will anything ever be the same again? A documentation of a state of mind, a tale of a goodbye in stages, a farewell to yesterday.
Festivals: Ca'Foscari Short Film Festival Venice 2011 (AWARD WINNER OF THE 1ST PRIZE), Un Mare Di Cinema Film Festival Lipari 2011, Festival International du Court Metrage Lille 2011
I'm going on a trip. By means of an old children's game the film is searching for the value of memories: Five completely different personalities disclose splinters of thought, report on crucial moments of their lives. But where is their connection? The own memory is replaced by evidence of previous generations, whereas the life behind the pictures remains concealed. We all carry our lives in a widely travelled suitcase: a suitcase full of memories, which are passed on to us but are never really our own.
Festivals: DOK Leipzig 2009, HONORABLE MENTION at kurz.film.spiele Konstanz 2009, Bunter Hund Munich 2009, Filmgipfel Oberstdorf 2009, Kurzfilmnacht Memmingen 2010, Festival de Curtmetratges de Manlleu 2010, OpenEyes Filmfest Marburg 2010, Le Master International du Film Documentaire / Docencourts Lyon 2010, AWARD WINNER at the Alternative Film/Video Festival Belgrade 2010, Independent Days Karlsruhe 2011, KratkofilPlus International Film Festival Banja Luka / Bosnia Herzegovina 2011, Open Cinema Art Festival St. Petersburg 2011
Callgirls, high class escorts and whores – time and time again prostitutes have to serve as an example for the favourite toy of patriarchal structures. But prostitution per se doesn’t exist. The post-feminist victimization doesn’t do justice to the many faces of sex work. However the truth is neither black nor white, but multi-layered: every woman lives her own interpretation of the milieu’s reality: be it a self-experiment, a downward spiral or even a sexual revolution. Three voices rise, step out of the crowd and merge into a mosaic, an up-to-date inventory of Berlin’s red light scene.
Festivals: Shortmoves Halle/Saale