The Queen's Courtyard
2006 | 80 min | Documentary
A personal documentary and biography about the history of a royal family in the unusual African country of Botswana.
Eva C. Heldmann
DirectorEva C. Heldmann is a German filmmaker known for her work in directing and producing. She has directed several short films and documentaries, including "The Angelmaker" and "Gates of Stone." Heldmann has received critical acclaim for her unique storytelling style and visual aesthetic. While specific awards information may not be readily available, she has made a significant impact in the independent film scene with her thought-provoking projects.
Films
Stepping Out
1999 | 61 min | Documentary
This documentary accompanies a woman on her erotic expeditions through clubs and barracks of the US Army in Frankfurt am Main.
Five Sex Rooms and One Kitchen
2007 | 79 min | Love & Sex
This documentary is a down to earth look into the everyday life of a female-run brothel.
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The Impossible Picture
2016 | 70 min | Drama
A childhood as it could have been. Fragments of a family history and family secrets. We experience a household full of women around grandmother Maria Steinwendner, who organizes weekly cooking clubs. Only there is never any cooking. Grandma Maria performs abortions at her home, covered by the noise of cooking classes.
You will never understand
2003 | 52 min | Documentary
Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge. They were on different sides and belong to different memory collectives: Hanka Jassy, her great-aunt, survived Auschwitz. Gertrude Rogenhofer, her nanny, was a socialist and supported her uncle in the resistance. Margit Kohlhauser, her grandmother, lived in Graz during the war. She did there what most did: nothing. "The film succeeds in providing undisguised and intimate ...
Moments of Resistance
2019 | 99 min | Documentary
Politically engaged women of today respond to the voices of historical resistance to National Socialism and make connections to current events. This film weaves together current and historical portraits of women to create a multi-voiced collage of resistance spanning several decades. "In my family there were active Nazis and those who remained silent, as well as a resistance fighter and a concentration camp survivor. When I started this film in 2014, I wanted to make something about resistance ...
Silentium - From life in the monastery
2015 | 84 min | Documentary
Four Benedictine nuns, a priest, and thirty sheep live in the Habsthal convent in southern Germany. Director Sobo Swobodnik delves into the devout daily lives of the convent sisters. The daily spiritual life consists of choir prayers, meditations, Eucharist celebrations, mesmerism and the night prayer, in addition to the care of house and garden. But it hasn't been quiet for a long time, because the Habsthal convent, which looks back on a history of more than 700 years, is visited by more and more ...
Those Who Go Those Who Stay
2013 | 75 min | Documentary
Nonetheless, the analysis closes without conclusion: it is like an offer to her viewers to draw their own associations, their own connections. Beckermann's great strength becomes clear: the free, spontaneous leap from individuality to universality. "A grim ode to Europe" (indiewire) "Ein Film wie eine musikalische Komposition" (Jan Tabor) This film offers an intentionally unintentional gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories and memories that lead Ruth Beckermann across Europe and ...
Becoming Outline
2024 | 70 min | Documentary
Without allowing the most personal aspects to devolve into narcissistic introspection, Becoming Outline develops a cinematic form that reflects on class, nation and gender as fundamental dimensions of lived experience, socialization and self-constitution. Starting from an autobiographical art project, Miriam Bajtala reconstructs her life through the floor plans of the eighteen apartments she has lived in. These spaces become a kind of spatial biography — a “curriculum vitae” shaped by migration, ...
Lord of the Toys
2018 | 96 min | Documentary
Max "Adlersson" Herzberg from Dresden, 20 years old, has decided not to spend his life working. On YouTube, he reviews knives and gangsta rap special editions. More than 300,000 active fans follow Adlersson and his "Pfandangels" posse, who excel at boozing, trash-talking, humiliating those weaker than themselves, and testing limits. Is Max a violence-glorifying influencer with right-wing tendencies or maybe just an ordinary adolescent in search of stability and identity in a time when the lines ...
The Net
2003 | 121 min | Documentary
Between 1978 and 1995, a series of bombings convulse the United States. The targets of the letter and pipe bombs are managers of major airlines, scientists from various elite universities and technology companies. The trail of attacks finally leads to Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but reclusive former math professor who, under the pseudonym Unabomber, formulates a radical critique of technological development. Why does a scientist become a terrorist? The search for an answer leads into the past: from ...
Dil Leyla
2016 | 71 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Aslı Özarslan, who is the same age as Leyla, accompanies the ambitious candidate to a region that was de facto ruled by the Kurdish PKK in the 1990s and is still suffering from the consequences of the civil war. The documentary DIL LEYLA was nominated for the First Step Award and the Max Ophüls Prize.
A Fleeting Passage To The Orient
1999 | 82 min | Biography
Rigorous and engrossing, Ruth Beckermann's documentary retraces the steps of Austria's restless "sad empress" Elizabeth during trips to Egypt in both 1885 and 1891. When the camera gazes from the deck of the ship towards the endless horizon of the Mediterranean, the image of a woman who travelled the globe without pause takes shape. Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, also gradually disappears from view, as it were: from the age of 30 she refused to be photographed.