
A Black Jesus
2020 | 92 min | Documentary
When a refugee from Ghana requests to participate in a traditional Christian procession, differing opinions divide a small Italian town.


2020 | 92 min | Documentary
When a refugee from Ghana requests to participate in a traditional Christian procession, differing opinions divide a small Italian town.

2009 | 87 min | Documentary
In all its intensity and diversity, the everyday miracle of birth is shown with the means of direct cinema, without commentary, interviews or explanation, and connected to the cycle of standardized processes in the Viennese hospital. A chronicle of the beginning of life and its organization. "Sober and at the same time of physical force, intimate, yet not voyeuristic, distanced, but never apathetic." (Jury statement Duisburger Filmwoche) "The balance of the design draws us into the spell of the ...

2018 | 101 min | Documentary
A semi-documentary that follows a group of young migrants in Vienna as they negotiate the maze of administrative procedures. In this clash of two worlds, real refugees who live in Austria, such as the young Afghan Bagher, play themselves. Bagher arrived in Vienna in 2015. Local residents defend the status quo against escalating immigration. The refugees have lost their homes and are refugees for a reason. Forced to flee their own countries, they are trying to adapt to the strange new environment. ...

2018 | 94 min | Independent
The neighbors welcome him with open arms, a lot of curiosity and a fair amount of skepticism. The phone book-thick set of rules is his smallest challenge. Especially Gregor, a neighbor with a penchant for neatly trimmed hedges and nationalist ideas, casts his eagle eye on the American. Also hiding in what was once the "most beautiful garden" in the entire colony is Adam, a refugee from Ethiopia, who faces deportation if he is discovered. The two young men become friends and make a pact not to tell ...

2019 | 82 min | Documentary
Rugby coach Hans-Herbert Wiegandt has created a rugby team in Braunschweig in which girls and boys, refugees, migrants and locals play together. In the tradition of educator Konrad Koch, who brought the sport to Braunschweig in 1871, Wiegandt has brought the game back to the Martino-Katharineum Gymnasium. However, the real challenge remains finding enough young players, and coach Wiegandt is finding special ways to do that, too.

2011 | 22 min | Comedy
Today is Tatjana's birthday but no one cares. Disappointed, Tatjana falls asleep but is woken by her Russian family who turns Anne's house upside down. As the saying goes: The best thing about a family, you're never alone. The worst thing is, you're never alone! An upstanding German household goes nuts. Far from her Russian homeland, Tatjana cares for Inge, an old and fragile German woman. But today is Tatjana's birthday but no one cares. Disappointed, Tatjana falls asleep but is woken by her Russian ...

2022 | 20 min | Independent
The life of an Iranian-Afghan family in Germany is shown solely through their hands. Iranian doctor Maryam came to Germany two years ago with her family as asylum seekers. After the birth of her baby daughter Yara, she sticks to a strict daily study routine in the hope of returning to her medical profession, while her husband Hossain looks after the baby at home. On this particular day, Hossain has a job interview at a photo studio, and Maryam has to change her daily routine. The film is based on ...

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 ...

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 ...

2014 | 55 min | Documentary
Memories of the war influence their everyday life. Especially the violent death of their three-year-old daughter Amal (Arabic: hope) keeps the parents stuck in the past. She died during an attack when a shell hit the family home. Their two sons were seriously injured. Ghadir and Mohamad then came to Germany to have the injured children treated here. Then they want to go back. Arriving in Germany is easier for the children than for their parents. They are slowly getting used to their new home - each ...

2015 | 3 min | Shorts
Look away or intervene? When a man is victim of unfounded abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who doesn't ignore the situation like everyone else. How do you best confront xenophobia? Is it right to stand up for the one abused or is it too great a risk of becoming a victim too? When a black man is abused by a stranger for no reason in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who doesn't ignore the situation like everyone else. He has the courage to step up and intervene. This doesn’t ...