Seahorse
2020 | 16 min | Documentary
Hanan fled with her family from northern Iraq across the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, she did not know how to swim. She now overcomes the trauma.
Nele Dehnenkamp
DirectorNele Dehnenkamp is a renowned director known for her work in the German film industry. She has directed several critically acclaimed films, including "Kümmel baut Grad seinen Traum" and "Jung Sterben ist auch keine Lösung." Dehnenkamp has garnered recognition for her unique storytelling style and ability to capture raw emotions on screen. While specific award information may not be readily available, her work has been lauded by audiences and critics alike.
Films
We will survive
2018 | 29 min | Documentary
At the Julie-Roger-Haus in Frankfurt am Main, a care facility for seniors of all sexual orientations, "grandpa is finally allowed to be gay" (FAZ).
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We will survive
2018 | 29 min | Documentary
In this retirement home, unique in Germany, seniors of any sexual orientation are offered more than a home in old age. The documentary short film WE WILL SURVIVE observes the humorous, heartfelt and yet not always entirely conflict-free everyday life at Frankfurt's Regenbogen retirement home, exploring the question of how we want to live and love in our twilight years. "The film treats the topic of life in old age in a fear-free and life-affirming way, without ignoring the existing problems and ...
Grimm’s Cuckoo
2012 | 15 min | Shorts
Joachim suffers from hallucinations. Suffers? Not really, because the “patrulls“, little paper men, entertain him fabulously; and his stay in the psychiatric clinic finally offers him peace and quiet, away from the turbulences of the outside world, that is until Alma enters his life, whose fairy-like appearance turns everything upside down.
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.
Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork
2009 | 87 min | Documentary
"A moving and critical, yet balanced, multi-layered political essay that unpeels the untold story of the world´s most famous fruit that originated in Palestine." (Aviva-Berlin.de) In his documentary, Eyal Sivan traces the orange-brand JAFFA using a unique composition of archival material. He shows old photos, early film-footage, commercials, political posters, and paintings of the Jaffa orange to Israeli and Palestinian intellectuals and to workers from the citrus industry. They remember, reflect ...
Zertifikat Deutsch
2009 | 90 min | Documentary
Among other regulations, this law requires non-European immigrants pass a difficult language test (Zertifikat Deutsch) to get citizenship or an extension of their residency permits. Karin Jurschick's film documents one of these so-called integration courses at an adult education center in Cologne. Here language students from China, Somalia, Afghanistan, Marocco and the Dominican Republic try to learn German. (Note: the coursecertificate is now called "Zertifikat Integrationskurs" which encompasses ...
Counting Tiles
2018 | 86 min | Documentary
Camp Moria, Lesbos. Cynthia Choucair's documentary follows 'Clowns without Borders' to find out more about the current refugee experience and the extremely precarious situation of children in times of flight and displacement. Cynthia Choucair was herself a refugee child during the Lebanese civil war. With this experience and inspired by the current crisis, her sister decided to become a professional clown and volunteer with 'Clowns Without Borders', an NGO that works with refugee children. Choucair ...
Focus on Infinity
2014 | 80 min | Documentary
Where do we come from and where are we going? Whoever wants to answer the most important questions must decipher the secret of the universe first. A journey to people and machines. The locations and research sites where theoretical physicists, cosmologists and quantum physicists trace the question of the origin and future of the universe are not only of architectural beauty themselves, but also provide answers to literally earth-shattering questions... "FOCUS ON INFINITY captivates primarily through ...
Analysis Paralysis
2016 | 9 min | Shorts
The man is looking for somebody who is better at playing chess than his dachshund. The gardener is looking for a mysterious vandal who is missing a yellow boot. In the end, they might just be looking for the same thing.
A Black Jesus
2020 | 92 min | Documentary
Once a year in the small Sicilian town of Siculiana, a black statue of Jesus is carried in procession through the crowded streets of the town on the shoulders of selected believers. On this occasion, hundreds of Siculianese emigrants come from all parts of Italy and abroad to pay homage to their patron saint. In recent years, however, the city has been divided over the presence of asylum seekers at Villa Sikania, a hotel that was converted into a reception center for refugees in 2014. Few Siculianesi ...
In die Welt - Into the World
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 ...