In the film “After the Silence,” Matilda-Luna Perotti talks to her grandmother on the phone for the first time in many years. Back then, she broke off contact with her family out of fear of the truth. After years of silence, shame, and fear, she overcomes her reluctance to continue repressing the abuse and decides to confront her trauma.
In her film “Sedimente “, director Laura Coppens combines autobiographical elements with a historical analysis of Germany’s past in a cinematic and reflective manner. The dialogue between granddaughter and grandfather creates a multidimensional narrative that closely links individual memory and collective memory.
Claire Simon has made a film about the writings of French author Annie Ernaux, using her camera to accompany young people in private conversations and, above all, in classroom discussions. In classrooms and schoolyards, students discuss Ernaux’s books. Simon manages to engage with the students on an equal footing.
What is it like to be invisible? This is what the movie “The Other One” shows us, which deals with a problem that is almost as invisible as the protagonist Johanna. She is eighteen years old, has just finished school and dreams of studying psychology – and she has an autistic little sister. So she […]
The short film “Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen” takes us on a special journey through time in ten intense minutes: the story of the first GDR travel group that was headed for the coveted destination ‘West-West’, namely Mallorca, after reunification. We are immersed in the personal memories of an East German who takes us on […]
The film “An Octopus Destroyed the Moon” begins with the image of an idyllic garden in the heart of Berlin. As the film progresses, we get to know some of the pupils at the August Sander School, an integrative pre-vocational school, who work in this very garden, an outdoor area of the school in Berlin-Friedrichshain. […]
“Where are you from? Do you have a home?” Sofia Brockenshire, the director of “The Dependents”, deals with this question in her film. Together with her family, she moved to a new country every few years until adulthood.
Lilian from Guatemala hopes for a better life in the USA. Thus, the caravan with Lilian, her 4 children, her grandmother and the camera team begins the 4000 km long journey through Central America.
In her feature film debut “May God Be With You”, Cléo Cohen embarks on a personal search for traces of her own identity and roots. The young Frenchwoman has an identity crisis: Is she Jewish? Arab? Even her grandparents seem unclear about this. Cléo struggles for clarity: intensely, playfully.
Martha & Niki on their trip to the hip hop street dance heaven and the musical life of a subway station in New York: Two special films from the hip hip special programme of DOK Leipzig.