Fossil
2024 | 94 min | Drama
Between excavators, protests, and standstill: Michael's refusal to accept change in open-cast mining is taking its toll.
Victoria Schulz
ActorVictoria Schulz was born in Berlin in 1990 and has been working as an actress in film and television productions since the mid-2010s. Her roles are often based on personal stories and combine a direct, natural acting style with characters that are developed close to everyday realities. She is mainly present in arthouse and auteur cinema, where she has built up a clear profile.
VON JETZT AN KEIN ZURÜCK (No Turning Back) was released in 2014, directed by Christian Frosch. Victoria Schulz plays one of the leading roles in this film, which brought her to the attention of the German cinema scene. RÜCKENWIND VON VORN (Tailwind from the Front) was released in cinemas in 2018, directed by Philipp Eichholtz. In this film, Schulz plays a young woman in Berlin whose everyday life, relationships, and questions about the future take center stage. This was followed in 2017 by FÜNF DINGE, DIE ICH NICHT VERSTEHE (Five Things I Don't Understand), also directed by Philipp Eichholtz, in which she once again plays a central role and continues her collaboration with the director. In 2024, she starred in ROCK ‘n’ ROLL RINGO, directed by Dominik Galizia.
In addition to these works, Victoria Schulz has appeared in other film and television productions that complement her profile in contemporary German cinema. Her projects are regularly screened at festivals and in arthouse cinemas, underscoring her roots in independent and artistically oriented filmmaking.
Films
Rough Road Ahead
2014 | 109 min | Drama
In 1968, Martin and Ruby flee the countryside and a destructive family. Nine years later, they are fighting for love, dignity—and against pain.
Rock 'n' Roll Ringo
2024 | 100 min | Drama
Funfair, knockouts, broken hearts: Ringo fights for one last shred of dignity. Between carnival performers and guilt, salvation may await.
Away You Go
2018 | 76 min | Drama
Compassionate mumblecore-style drama about a young woman's struggles with the expectations placed on her by her partner and friends.
Thing I Don't Get
2018 | 71 min | Drama
Growing up in a rural idyll on his father's farm, teenager Johannes searches for his place in life.
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Thing I Don't Get
2018 | 71 min | Drama
When he falls in love with his best friend Marike, he no longer knows what he wants. At school, Johannes is the bumpkin. Neglected by his father and brother, he seeks the company of his best friend Marike. As their friendship gradually turns into love, Johannes no longer knows where he belongs. This intense coming of age story was Henning Beckhoff's Master's Degree film at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. "At the center of this coming of age story is the contrast between modernity and ...
Jobcenter
2009 | 79 min | Documentary
Helmut or Sieglinde are over fifty and are considered "unemployable" or unattractive on the labor market. On the other end of the spectrum are Martin, Mathias or Atafa, who are at the beginning of their working lives. JOBCENTER shows us a how job training works in Austria. Whose interests are served here? This documentary by Austrian talent Angela Summereder played at the Viennale in Vienna and reflects on the job market, on how people can be helped, and on abuses of power.
From the Ashes
2019 | 19 min | Documentary
In December 2018, the last German coal mine in Bottrop closed it shafts. At the Prosper-Haniel II mine site, the miners are clearing out the last production facilities. Meanwhile, undead miners haunt the old cleaning trac as part of a newly opened horror theme park. The advertised "goosebumps guarantee" of the "NRW creepy maze" is bringing jobs back. The miners children are earning a living now not as coal miners, but as miner zombies in "Shaft 13". ZWISCHENTAGE observes structural change using ...
Flood
2019 | 100 min | Drama
Her nerves are already on edge with her final law exams coming up. Every morning he leaves their flat and drifts aimlessly through Hamburg ,riding endlessly on the subway. After meeting his former boss Marc, Jonas starts to observe the young manager. His curiosity gradually turns into obsession, small and bigger everyday lies become a kind of survival strategy for Jonas. While Katharina notices his increasingly odd behavior, Jonas is losing control over events more and more. FLOOD deals with ...
Masala Chai
2018 | 62 min | Documentary
Although they make their living in the same way, their daily lives are very different. The documentary gives a deep insight into the lives of five tea cooks and at the same time takes a look at the social circumstances, contrasts and traditions of India. For all of them have a story to tell, and as they tell their stories, we learn about India's multifaceted, nuanced and multilayered society. "Hülser is able to not only show these petty self-employed folks in the midst of their poverty and squalor ...
Kommen und Gehen
2017 | 57 min | Documentary
In autumn 2015, a long-established hotel in Halle closed its doors to guests and was converted into a refugee shelter. In this documentary, filmmaker Uwe Mann observes the last days of the hotel, the dismissal of the staff, the departure of the last hotel guests and the arrival of the new residents. For the staff, the closing came as a surprise, as it did for Uwe Mann, who had already retraced the history of the hotel in his previous film "Im Dreieck". Two weeks before the hotel was to close, the ...
The Bitter Apple From the Tree
2015 | 29 min | Documentary
A summer in South Korea: a filmmaker returns to her home country, driven by her complex relationship with her mother. In a small apartment in Incheon, an intimate story unfolds about a woman whose life has been shaped by disappointment and conformity. The youngest of four sisters, born unwanted, she left home at the age of twelve. Since then, she has struggled, marked by the expectations of society and her own family. The daughter's camera captures moments of intimacy and confrontation, an interplay ...
Future Works - Ein Film über Arbeit
2013 | 84 min | Documentary
FUTURE WORKS is documentary by Nataša von Kopp about work, basic income, self-realization and art. What actually is work and what is the future of work as we know it today? Work, Unemployment, future technologies, economy, community, basic income, self realization, art. What actually is work, what does it mean to us? Where is the world of world of work leading? The filmmakers traveled through Germany, met researchers and practitioners and people from the street. They talked with all of them about ...
My Vietnam
2021 | 70 min | Documentary
The Vietnamese couple Bay and Tam have lived in Germany for 30 years. They clean empty offices for a living and have had little opportunity to interact with mainstream German society. A film about the difficulty of living in two places at the same time and the question of what effect this duality has on a marriage, family and sense of belonging. "There are people in this world who exist without really being noticed by society. Our protagonists* live in such a reality. They came to Germany in search ...
Nollywood – Filmbusiness African Style
2020 | 65 min | Documentary
The opportunities in the burgeoning industry attract diverse characters. Director Abba Makama sees the moment for an intellectual cinematic movement, a sort of Nigerian New Wave. Bastian Gotter, a young investor from Berlin, tells how he and his Nigerian partner – almost by accident succeeded in founding the largest streaming service in Africa. Popcorn cinema producer Don Omope also wants to make use of the positive spirit: „We are here to become the Nigerian Tarantinos and Steven Spielbergs.“