Amal
2014 | 55 min | Documentary
Ghadir, Mohamad and their five children never wanted to leave their homeland Syria. Now they are in Germany. The new beginning is not easy.
Caroline Reucker
DirectorCaroline Reucker is a German actress known for her work in both film and television. She has appeared in various German productions, including the films "Tatort: Das Böse" and "Alles Liebe, Annette." While there is limited information available about specific awards or nominations she may have received, Reucker continues to make a name for herself in the German entertainment industry with her versatile performances.
Films
Le Ciel, la Terre et L'Homme
2018 | 70 min | Documentary
The Aït Seghrouchen, a nomadic people from the windswept Moroccan desert, brave sandstorms, watch livestock and the cell phone towers.
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Le Ciel, la Terre et L'Homme
2018 | 70 min | Documentary
Ahmed, Yussef, Lahcen and Idir live in the tension between a traditional, nomadic way of life and modern conveniences and problems. Caroline Reucker's film approaches these people, their stories of city and country, their everyday life, their longings and their sense of home and belonging.
Si-o-se Pol - The Last Days of Parvis K.
2015 | 82 min | Drama
There he meets two European migrants who are also in distress. "THE LAST DAYS OF PARVIS K. is an emotional and moving story about three different fates." (filmaffe.de) Henrik Peschel's internationally acclaimed drama THE LAST DAYS OF PARVIS K. is at the same time a very private and a very political story. Parvis flees to Europe after a long prison term which involved torture. Together with his new companions, Fabrizio, a failed pianist from Italy who keeps his head above water with occasional jobs, ...
Kommen und Gehen
2017 | 57 min | Documentary
In autumn 2015, a long-established hotel in Halle closed its doors to guests and was converted into a refugee shelter. In this documentary, filmmaker Uwe Mann observes the last days of the hotel, the dismissal of the staff, the departure of the last hotel guests and the arrival of the new residents. For the staff, the closing came as a surprise, as it did for Uwe Mann, who had already retraced the history of the hotel in his previous film "Im Dreieck". Two weeks before the hotel was to close, the ...
Wada
2015 | 28 min | Drama
A war raging in one part of the world can affect people thousands of miles away. Ibrahim, a musical instrument maker, came to Berlin in the 1980's as a refugee. As a family man, he struggles with the grueling sense of responsibility towards his family. The war is thousands of miles away, yet it destroys everything. Film director Khaled Mzher, a student at the DFFB - the German Film and Television Academy Berlin saw his documentary short win the Short Film Corner Award of the San Sebastian Film ...
The Invisibles
2014 | 77 min | Documentary
In THE INVISIBLES, Benjamin Kahlmeyer accompanies three men who make their way through the the wheels bureaucracy in the official process of seeking asylum. How does it feel to place one's own fate in the hands of the strictly choreographed German bureaucracy? A story about the grind of examination and verifying. Those who identify themselves as asylum seekers in Brandenburg first come to the "Central Initial Admission Office" in Eisenhüttenstadt. Wasim from Syria, Mathew from Kenya and Gedeon ...
If I Was A Tree
2014 | 26 min | Documentary
Having a jewish father who is denying to be a jew and a mother who always has suffered from being not enough accepted as a jew she´s questioning herself where she actually belongs to.
Heimatweh
2023 | 85 min | Documentary
HEIMATWEH turns the Greek-Turkish population exchange into a human story of uprooting, grief and homesickness. Starting from the simple idea that people were traded as if they were goods, the documentary follows the pain left behind by forced migration and the longing for a homeland that cannot be returned to. More than two million people were affected when Greeks from Anatolia and Turks from Greece had to leave their homes. HEIMATWEH traces the shock of separation, the break in family continuity ...
Café Waldluft
2015 | 79 min | Documentary
CAFÉ WALDLUFT is not what it used to be. Once a tourist hot spot nestling in the picturesque mountains of Bavaria, it now offers shelter to refugees from all across the globe. For each one of them it carries the hope of a new beginning, the aspiration of a new home – waiting somewhere behind a multitude of obstacles. So what does it take for them to arrive for good? What does it really take for a place to become home? With only a few remaining guests in their late sixties, they brainstorm together ...
The Dream
1987 | 45 min | Documentary
Interviews with Palestinians living in Lebanese refugee camps, some of it shot in Sabra and Shatila before the massacre. Compiled from interviews with Palestinian refugees from the camps in Sabra, Shatila, Bourj el-Barajneh, Ain al-Hilweh and Rashidieh in Lebanon. While at the camps, Mohamad Malas asks people about their nightly dreams, which always refer to Palestine: a woman recounts her dream of winning the war; a Feda'i resistance fighter dreams of bombings and martyrdom; an old man describes ...
Yves' Promise
2019 | 79 min | Documentary
Eight years ago, Yves left Cameroon for Europe to give his family a better life. Since then, he twice has crossed the Mediterranean in an inflatable boat, but he lives in squats and under bridges and yet cannot return out of shame. "The film shows that there is no single refugee fate, but that there are still others, people who hope and fear and love and demand. That is the deeply humane essence of this film." (epd-film.com)