Irina Heckmann

Director

Irina Heckmann is an independent filmmaker and art teacher whose works critically and reflectively address contemporary social issues. Her most recent documentary is *Between the Frontlines* (2023, 145 min.). Her earlier films include the widely acclaimed *Family Life* (2017, 82 min.), *The Most Brilliant System Ever* (2014, 43 min.), and *At the End of All Days* (2012, 32 min.). She is a member of Filmbüro NW, AG DOK, and Dokomotive. Born in 1980 in the Omsk region of Russia, Heckmann trained as a painter at the Art Lyceum in Omsk in 1999. In 2001, she emigrated to Germany, where she first studied painting and printmaking in Münster, followed by film studies in Dortmund.

Films on Sooner

Am Ende aller Tage

2012

32 mins

Documentary, Independent

The camera is a silent observer, following people and their sleeping rituals routines deep at night - all the way to their dreams.

Family Life

2017

82 mins

Documentary

A home in the German countryside, clean and proper. Against this bucolic setting a grandmother talks about the Siberian labor camps and starts to cry.