Basis-Film Verleih Berlin

Germany 2015, 83 min
by Ula Stöckl, Katrin Seybold

'The films I make have to get made, because when these people are dead they’re dead and all we’ll have left are Gestapo records, the records of the perpetrators. We can’t accept that.'This quote graces the beginning of Katrin Seybold’s last film which was finished by her long-standing friend and colleague Ula Stöckl following Seybold’s death on 27 June, 2012. This aspiration characterised Seybold’s entire cinematic oeuvre.The Nazis and resistance against the regime were her two core topics; Seyb

Germany 2013, 93 min
by Antje Kruska, Judith Keil

Paradise does have its downsides. Unlike the biblical Christians who want to enlighten him, Brian, an asylum seeker from Cameroon, has hopes for this life – and that’s clearly situated in Germany. Unfortunately he has ended up in Bad Belzig in Brandenburg, where there’s little excitement except for an amateur belly dance group and a marching band. He has no 'useful' country of origin to show for – right now there’s no war in Cameroon, only a lack of opportunity. The Yemenite soldier Abdul, who w

Germany 2013, 90 min
by Heinz Brinkmann

All three of them are sporty types: the twins Matthias and Wolfgang Boehme as well as their older brother Hans-Werner. But only one takes the successful step from the 1960s GDR into the international world of high performing sports: Wolfgang, a handball talent of highest order. Left-handed. He attends boarding school at the age 13, followed by a sports school and the merchant navy - always away from his mother and father. When sport was misused in the years of the Cold War it was difficult for h

Germany 2013, 74 min
by Helga Reidemeister

S H A T T E R E D AFGHANISTAN recounts, in fragments, stories of tender affinity and existential need. In Kabul’s National Museum, Afghan archeologists attempt to reassemble works of art that were shattered by the Taliban. Their attempts seem surreal. Street scenes of the destroyed city leave us confused, stuck between curiosity and horror. The misery of more than thirty years of war comes painfully alive. But there is a place of hope and assistance where our horror is displaced by a feeling o

Germany 2011, 92 min
by Paul Hadwiger

KÜMMEL GOES EAST - living five years for a shopping centre. Five years with its developers and local residents. Five years between Germany and Poland. Five years until the dawn of the NEW WORLD. Hermann Kümmel building a school house in Nicaragua. That was in the ‘80s. Today the born Hessian is working in Rzeszów, east Poland. He’s building the NEW WORLD shopping centre. At Kümmel’s side stands Polish manager Viola Wojnowski, who negotiates with trade partners and financiers. But she doesn’t wa

Germany 2010, 80 min
by Angela Zumpe

West Berlin, Lankwitz. In May 1968, my 21-year-old brother Reinhard announced to my father, my mother and myself that within a few days he would be moving over to the GDR and applying for East German citizenship. Contacts were broken off. My brother committed suicide in January of 1969, on a sunday morning, while my father, a Berlin minister, read the sermon to his community. The film is a search for traces - in the time between reception camp and his death8 months later, for possible stations o

Germany 2009, 87 min
by Helga Reidemeister

Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the 1990s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war. A shell splinter leaves him a paraplegic. Shortly afterwards, Shaima is sold in marriage to a man 40 years her senior. Shaima, who is the man’s fourth wife, falls pregnant. But Shaima’s husband still owes half the dowry, and so her father brings her back into the constraining patriarchal fold of the family, where she

Germany 2004, 93 min
by Helga Reidemeister

Helga Reidemeister portrays four women from Afghanistan—Jamila Mujahed, India—Arundhati Roy, Serbia—Stasa Zajovic and the USA—Sissy Farenthold, who demonstrate their opposition to nationalism and war.In TEXAS—KABUL director Helga Reidemeister shows four committed women, who do not tolerate war and don’t want to be silent about it.A political road movie, a journey around the planet, searching for meaning in times of war, and a journey into the own past. The director, worried by the announcement o

Germany, Polen 2000, 81 min
by Andrzej Klamt

Sometime after 1945, a unique collection of over 2,400 private photographs became part of the archive’s holdings at the former concentration camp museum at Auschwitz. The photographs had probably been found in one of the victims suitcases. An examination of the photographs revealed that they belonged to Jews from the small Polish town of Bedzin. Only a few of the people pictured in the photographs have survived. Although it has not yet been established how these photographs came