Feldarbeit
2012 | 39 min | Documentary
FELDARBEIT tells of an encounter between a young woman and her father which takes place on his asparagus farm to the west of Berlin.
Henrike Meyer
DirectorHenrike Meyer is a talented German actress known for her versatile roles in both film and television. She has appeared in several critically acclaimed projects such as "The Lives of Others" and "Run Lola Run." Meyer has garnered praise for her nuanced performances and has received several awards for her contributions to the film industry.
Films
visitation
2015 | 53 min | Documentary
Grandma Lulu has died. Her things are distributed, the bedroom is painted. A survey of family closeness and distance.
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visitation
2015 | 53 min | Documentary
Berlin based film maker Henrike Meyer visits the house of her family after her grandmother past away. A survey of the proximity and distance between the author and her family. The old farmhouse lies in North Germany. Surrounded by fields and sheep. A place, that appears intimate and mysterious at the same time. Children are running through the house. A dinner service on the table. Grandmother Lulu has died. Her belongings are given out, the bed room is being painted. A barking dog. The nightingale ...
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 ...
Alimamy
2020 | 40 min | Documentary
Alimamy and his family have lived for generations in a small village with about 150 inhabitants that has also had its own school for a few years. Like most people in Sierra Leone, he lives from agriculture. He grows cassava which he processes and sells as so-called Garie flour. He is very proud of his "Kasseh Garie." "With this film, we have tried to break with the usual images of Africa and offer personal insights into the lives of the generation doing the hard work of social and political change ...
Adventure Anthroposophy - Rudolf Steiner and his influence
2008 | 110 min | Biography
What was the thinking of this man, who, in the past century, gave significant impulses to pedagogy, agriculture, medicine, economics, natural science, art and architecture? What is anthroposophy and how does it affect the world today? How justified are the accusations of anti-Semitism and racism? We visit important stations in Steiner's biography (Lower Austria, Vienna, Weimar, the Goetheanum in Dornach), Waldorf schools in Germany and Africa, and the anthroposophically oriented Sekem Farm in Egypt. Followers ...
Soldatin
2024 | 23 min | Documentary
A young woman commutes between two worlds: while serving in the German Armed Forces, she is preparing for a six-month deployment to Mali – with machine gun training, marching orders, and military drill. At the same time, she lives a different life: in an aesthetic clinic, she treats the faces of a modern affluent society with Botox. A fascinating contrast emerges between the barracks and the beauty salon – between preparations for war and beauty routines, obedience and self-realization, harshness ...
Points of Light
2024 | 27 min | Documentary
Not long ago, countless fireflies swarmed through fields and backyards on summer nights. Today in Iowa, a place known for its uniform landscape and monocultures of corn, fireflies are increasingly rare to find: points of light that blink off just as quickly as they light up in the dark. In POINTS OF LIGHT, filmmaker Annika Juliane Schilling sets out to search for these magical-seeming insects and the reasons for their disappearance. She takes a look at farm work and front lawns, as patterns of ...
Red Earth White Snow
2018 | 71 min | Documentary
"There is nothing stranger in a strange land than the strangers who come to visit," we hear the voice of the director say off-screen in Nkwumeatu, located in southeastern Nigeria. Christine Moderbacher´s literally "unbelieving gaze" emulates Chinua Achebe´s book, All Things Fall Apart, first published in 1958, as she comprehends the "real" relationships and reference points to red earth and white snow in their presence. The tractor is a symbol of technical progress and simultaneously a crucial link ...
Nur das Beste
2013 | 80 min | Documentary
Obsessive perfectionism? Two dog breeders, two tomato growers, a ballerina, and a quality manager talk about their self-optimization processes. The quality manager attempts to further optimize the already nearly perfect workflow. The ballerina fights with iron discipline against the deterioration of her own body. The tomato growers constantly try to set themselves apart from the competition. The two dog breeders use blood and hearing tests to approach their dream of breeding the perfect Dalmatian. NUR ...
For the love of survival
2019 | 86 min | Documentary
Meet eight courageous people who renounce agricultural conventions and farm without poisons and without destroying the environment. Listen to their stories of having to wear protective suits in the fields, of the importance of earthworms and cow horns, of silence, of wallowing pigs and of reverence for life... Experience the outstanding courage of these farmers to trust their own instincts and create a new form of agricultural. The resistance they bump up against just makes them stronger.
Der lange Weg ans Licht
2008 | 100 min | Documentary
"With a sense of the bizarre, renowned filmmaker Douglas Wolfsperger describes the everyday miracle of childbirth using the example of an East German midwife." (kino.de) Edeltraut Hertel brings children into the world. For nearly 20 years, the midwife has worked in her birthplace of Meerane, a sleepy little town near Chemnitz. In this Saxon province, removed from the focus of world publicity, a proxy war of various health policy representatives is raging. The film illuminates the problems of today's ...