weltfilm GmbH

Germany 2022, 138 min
by Sobo Swobodnik

Ramba Zamba: a theater with handicapped and non-handicapped people/actresses and actors, which has been living and working on inclusive integrative togetherness impressively every day for thirty years now. The film accompanies the mentally and physically impaired actresses and actors for six months through the theatrical production of the play GOLEM, from the beginning of rehearsals to the premiere.In doing so, the film is also partly influenced by the portrayed persons themselves, quasi inclusi

2022, 90 min
by Kristof Gerega

Through the stories of three prominent Ukrainian politicians, from 2013 to the present day, we witness the country’s struggle for democracy, autonomy and geopolitical stability.Since Ukraine broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991, the young nation state has been a pawn in a game controlled by the major political powers, while at the same time searching for its own identity. Over a period of several years, we follow three of the main protagonists of the Euromaidan Uprising as they evolve from a

Germany 2022, 24 min
by Alexandra Gulea

The author's grandparents were Aromanians, a Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, without ter­ritory and written language, wandering between mountains and seas. Their story is told from the subjective point of view of the artist, who passionately reproduces in staged scenes this perpetual tragic wandering, also full of hope and courage to live.

2020, 96 min
by Tanja Cummings

Some of the world’s last remaining Holocaust survivors meet every week at Café Zelig in Munich, Germany. They get together to laugh and celebrate holidays, to argue and discuss various topics, but they also hold moments of silence and mourning. Some of them—and some of their children—undertake a journey into their past, back to their old home country Poland. And they talk about the difficulties they had—and still have—finding their way back to life in Germany.

Germany 2019, 102 min
by Andreas Wilcke

After 25 years the era Castorf comes to an end. During the last season of the Volksbühne the film allows us to witness the everyday life of this outstanding theatre with a reputation all over the world. From the first draw of the scenery till the final curtain we are watching how the monumental theatrical production of Goethes Faust comes to life. Thus we take a close look at the director, his actors and the people who work behind the scenes and get an impression of what has been grown together

Germany, Russia, Austria 2019, 26 min
by Marko Mijatovic

North of the Arctic Circle in the port city of Murmansk, Yana has just finished school. At the same time, former military personal are building a dacha settlement near to Yana's hometown in the tundra. While Yana wants to leave the city and move out into the world, the dacha settlers feel the need to create a safe haven. Although these two narratives appear divergent, they have something in common: both Yana and the settlers are following their dreams and must overcome the obstacles in their pat

Germany, Uruguay 2018, 237 min
by Kristina Konrad (weltfilm gmbh)

Uruguay 1987-89. The filmmakers are on the streets of Montevideo, and in the country with farmers, talking with the people and asking them about their opinion of the referendum and plebiscite on the law of impunity for the human rights abuses committed by the military and police over the past 20 years, a law adopted by Parliament in 1986 during the transition from dictatorship (1973-85) to democracy. They listen to and observe the people as they contemplate what peace and democracy means to them

2017, 32 min
by Marko Mijatovic, Luka Papic

“The Prostitute”, “The Addict”, “Gay Man”, “The Bitch” are the titles of 75-year-old recreational poet Slobodan Stevanović’s most popular poems. And popularity – in the Serbian provinces just like everywhere else – is measured by click figures. Slobodan and his son Bojan send his works into the world via YouTube. Poetry conquers new spaces, while the tube TV set in the old space next door is flickering and the “cevapcici “are frying. (DOK Leipzig, Lukas Stern) Serbia is a transitional country on

Germany 2016, 82 min
by Andreas Wilcke

Berlin is changing. From London to New York it is considered "the place to be". And Berlin is cheap compared to other European capitals. Everybody wants to live here and many want to buy a flat to put their money into a save haven with the banksystem in crisis. This is creating a conflict with the original residents. Rents are rising rapidly and neighborhoods are changing drastically.Over a period of 4 years, the author interviewed and accompanied real estate agents and investors during their da

2016, 79 min
by Frank Amann

„Even with no input, or maybe especially with no input, the brain keeps creating images." Pete Eckert, blind photographerSHOT IN THE DARK is an intimate portrait of three successful artists who have one thing in common: visual impairment as a starting point for their visual explorations.This film poses fundamental questions about seeing and the imagination.Three blind photographers.It is as if through the slow working methods of these blind photographers something about the creation of photograp

Germany 2015, 54 min
by Angelika Levi

Rent Eats the Soul" documents during two years neighborly organizing and protest on the southern Kottbusser Tor. The film portrays movingly the protagonists of the protest. It links the housing problem to the history of migration and emphasizes a connection between racism and urban displacement.During the night of May 26 in 2012, some residents of social housing at Kottbusser Tor, a majority ethnic Turkish neighbors, built a protest house. They called it "Gecekondu", translated from Turkish mean

Germany 2013, 62 min
by Andreas Bolm

Northern Germany. An ageing hippie couple endures an isolated, ghostly existence in an old country house. A boy wanders aimlessly through a forest, building a lair for himself. And a story about a never-ending escape from catastrophe. THE REVENANTS - a film about desire, loss, and endlessly returning. A ghost story.

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, Austria 2012, 61 min
by Clarissa Thieme

THE PLACE WE LEFT is a film about six people all born in Sarajevo who left the city mostly due to the war. some stayed abroad some came back after years.
they talk about their experiences leaving their city settling down somewhere else or being caught in the middle. THE PLACE WE LEFT concentrates on their personal attempts to give sense to circumstances they surprisingly found themselves in when in 1992 Sarajevo a european metropolis became under siege.
blocks of talking heads are accompanie

Romania, Germany 2024, 89 min
by Alexandra Gulea

Maia (Alexandra Gulea) was born into a semi-nomadic population under ethnic cleansing. Her granddaughter has produced a vivid visual reconstruction of her journey through the 20th century. Her history blends into the larger History.The Aromanians (Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group found mainly in today’s Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. For filmmaker Alexandra Gulea, this question of heritage is connected to the name she shares with her grandmother, who was born into a traditional Aromanian li

Argentinia, Germany 2022, 84 min
by Leandro Listorti

In a journey into botanical and film preservation, HERBARIA explores, in its almost invisible processes, the artistic and political derivations that connect the two worlds. Based on a narrative where time and space seem to merge, the images invite us to the fascinating universe of preserving the beauty and memory of a world that insists on disappearing. [Kino Rebelde]

2022, 90 min
by Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré

Using rare cinematic, photographic and sound archives, Crossing Voices recounts the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by western African immigrant workers living in workers’ residences in France. The story of this improbable, utopic return to the homeland follows a winding path that travels through the ecological challenges and conflicts on the African continent from the 1970s to the present day. To tell this story, Bouba Touré, one of it