strandfilm GmbH

Germany 2017, 60 min
by Dieter Reifarth (strandfilm)

“Torture is the most excruciating event, a human being can keep inside himself. But the like of it is retained in many human beings. Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world. There is no way of ‘suppressing’ it. Does one suppress a firemark? One may have it removed by a plastic surgeon, but the skin grafted to this spot is not the skin to feel comfortable with.” Jean Améry speaks in behalf of all those imprisoned life-long inside the silentness and the stupor of t

Germany 2013, 116 min
by Dieter Reifarth (strandfilm)

The Tugendhat House (1928/30) in Brno, Czech Republic, is a solitaire of modern architecture. It represents the social utopian aspiration of the architect Mies van der Rohe and the open-minded upper-class life design of his clients Grete and Fritz Tugendhat. The film tells the changeful story of the unique building and its inhabitants: of the spirit of optimism in the prosperous Western Moravia between the world wars, the occupation by Nazi Germany, the forced displacement and emigration of the

Germany 2010, 78 min
by Malte Rauch

Jon Hendricks, world famous jazz singer and "vocalizer" of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, singing with Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, still sings at 85 in Clubs in New York, London and Paris. He now went back to Europe, where he was fighting against Hitler's racist regime. But when the purely white and racist US.Military Police shot at Hendricks and his fellow "Negro Soldiers", he deserted and declared his own war on the segregated US Army. "We were treated like slaves on the plant

Germany 2008, 88 min
by Peter Dörfler

Norbert Witte had a dream: he wanted to turn the Spreepark – a leisure park famous in the former GDR under the name “Plänterwald”, into the biggest amusement park of the just re-united Germany. Instead the king of rollercoasters drove the park into bankruptcy and flew with his family and the majority of the fairground rides to Peru in 2002. All he left behind in Berlin was an incredible amount of debt and a huge mess. In Peru, the breakthrough they had hoped for was never realized. Witte returne

2025, 132 min
by Marcin Wierzchowski

The film tells the story of the 2020 racist attack in the city of Hanau in the German state of Hesse from the perspective of the bereaved relatives and the survivors. Within the space of just a few minutes, the perpetrator shot nine young people dead because he did not consider them to be German. What are the direct and long-term consequences of such an attack on people and their city? Director Marcin Wierzchowski accompanied the protagonists for four years as they faced their grief and strived

2022, 113 min
by Peter Nestler

The film is about the German Sinti and Roma’s different forms of resistance spanning eight decades. It’s about revolt against injustice and about insistence on dignity and justice. A story of courage and resolve of individuals who desperately defended themselves. And the story of suffering of a minority caught between trauma and self-assertion: an ongoing unprecedented injustice throughout all of the post-war years to this very day. It is based around Romani Rose, his family and fellow campaigne

2022, 101 min
by Peter Nestler

The Film presents artists of the Sinti and Roma who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works. They use a wide variety of forms of expression and means, but what they all have in common is an open view.  Peter Nestler succeeds in making this tangible by meeting them without cultural fixations and at eye level.Gitta Martl and her daughter Nicole Sevik read short texts in memory of the Sinti and Roma incarcerated in the Upper Austrian 'gypsy detention camp' in We

2021, 92 min
by Stanislaw Mucha

The loneliest workplace in the world on a weather station on the edge of the Russian polar sea: A professional soldier who was retrained to become a meteorologist and traumatized in the Chechnya war, his young wife, whose previous life in the world of cities and money had brutally failed, a cancer patient who has returned to his place of birth Pensioner, the boss of the station - with a dubious if not criminal past and Jack the dog. Five traumatized souls who try in the loneliness of a hostile n

Germany 2011
by Peter Dörfler