I spy with my little eye
By Kim Münster
2010 | 20 min | Kids & Family
Micky and her grandfather. Two generations. Two worlds collide until Micky shows what she's made of when it really matters.
Kim Münster
DirectorKim Münster is a creative producer, director, and managing director of Treibsand Film. Her films deal with social, psychological, and political topics, ranging from cinema documentaries to short films. She studied camera (FH Dortmund and CECC Barcelona) and is an alumna of the Mediengründerzentrum NRW, the ifs non-fiction masterclass, the Akademie für Kindermedien 2022/23, and the CoPro Rotterdam Lab 2025. She has been producing documentary formats for cinema, VOD, and in the field of youth education and awareness for 20 years. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, she has been leading film workshops with children (aged 10-14) and youth projects through the “Film Education and Cinema” program for 10 years. She is a member of the Förderverein Deutscher Kinderfilm (German Children's Film Association) and is involved in film policy on the board of the filmbüro NW and the AG DokWest.
She is currently writing a non-fiction book about people in agriculture for Hanser Verlag and is working on another cinema documentary.
Her short film “Federding” has been screened at numerous film festivals, including a nomination for Best Live Action Short at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan, and won the Award of Pioneering at the FIRST Film Festival in China, the Audience Award at the Nowness Festival in Shanghai, the Weitblick Prize at the blicke Film Festival in Bochum, and Best Film in the Chinese Category at the Beijing Intern. Short Film Festival and was screened at the Indie Shorts Awards Cannes. In 2020, she was nominated for the VFF Production Award at the DokFest Munich with the film “Spaßmacher.” The feature-length documentary film “Coming and Going,” which she produced, was nominated for the First Steps Award 2015 and won 7 awards at international festivals worldwide, including “Best Documentary Director” at the Olympia Film Festival for Children & Young People and Best Cinematography in Mexico at the Oaxaca FilmFest. The film was included in the documentary pr
Films
Forward
By Kim Münster
2011 | 15 min | Shorts
Fleeing the breakdown of his family, Chris meets a woman who, like him, is stranded—and finds new perspectives.
Ella
By Kim Münster
2014 | 15 min | Shorts
Ella works hard in Germany to give her daughter a better life—until illness, pressure, and a risky plan change everything.
Da geht was
By Kim Münster
2014 | 47 min | Documentary
An entertaining and humorous documentary about the hurdles young people must overcome to survive in the political landscape.
Nur das Beste
By Kim Münster
2013 | 80 min | Documentary
Four different people on a quest for perfectionism: How much improvement can a person tolerate? When does optimization become an obsession?
Breakthrough Stage
By Sebastian Bergfeldt, Kim Münster
2023 | 80 min | Documentary
An inspiring film about courage, talent and the vision of a theater world that recognizes and promotes all talents equally.
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