documentary film

90 mins.color . 1:1.85. Sony FS7

 

THE HOMES WE CARRY draws the portrait of a family between Germany, Mozambique and South Africa, torn apart by the turmoil of world history. The focus is on the Afro-German Sarah. She wants to give her daughter Luana the kind of relationships she lacked as a child. So she travels with her to southern Africa, where her own father and the child's father are waiting for her. Meanwhile, Sarah's father Eulidio remembers the almost forgotten story of the Mozambican GDR contract workers.

Documentary Film

90min. color . 16:9. Canon C100

 

10 years after the Syrian revolution, Reem recaps the events in Syria based on her own story and with the help of friends and experts.

Documentary Film

13min. color . 4:3. SONY Fs7

 

A sensitive journey into Yara's inner world. In Mozambique, mental illness is often explained as a spiritual issue, which limits access to appropriate treatment and education. In the film, Yara finds her way out of depression and into recovery, despite the resistance of her social environment to psychological help, and discovers the strength in talking about her illness.

Documentary Film

16min. color . 1:1.85. SONY Fs7 / Panasonic S1

 

“In Hope for Resurrection” combines music, dance, poetry, animation and personal stories into a short film that moves between music video and documentary and brings the often invisible and stressful consequences of post-COVID to life.

documentary film

71 min .color . 1:2.39 . Sony Fx9

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As a young father who actually wants to treat his children lovingly, director Domenik Schuster asks himself in his film LIEBE, WUT & MILCHZÄHNE why he keeps turning into a kind of educational automaton in everyday life with his children, putting his children under pressure, Making threats and creating fear in order to change certain behavior. Because this educational machine has absolutely nothing to do with the father he actually wants to be.

Short

12 mins color . 1:2.39 . Black Magic Pocket

 

Two photographers roam Maputo. The young Mozambican Chonga photographs the places where the house guards sit and Malte Wandel deals with the former GDR contract workers, the so-called Madgermanes. Two different photographic working methods lead us to completely different corners of the city of Maputo.

short documentary film

Cinematography and Color Grading

 

DOK Fest Kassel 2019:

"A film that addresses and a film that shows a processing in the medium: a fearless and powerful autobiographical investigation."

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

Documentary - in research

color . 1:1.85 . Sony Fx6

 

The documentary film SÃO VENDELINO sets out to search for the outdated remains of German emigration, settlement and colonial projects. The inhabitants of the small enclave of São Vendelino in southern Brazil have remained surprisingly resistant to external influences and, even after 200 years, still meticulously maintain their Saarland culture and language. At the annual festival, lederhosen are worn and pretzels eaten, and the most beautiful of all "dirndl women" is chosen as the fair queen. Is this the "German Dream"?