Films

Germany 2021, 5 min
by Kevin Koch, Emma Holzapfel

Kevin Hines, suffering from auditory hallucinations, attempts to take his own life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. In the millisecond after the jump, he immediately regrets his decision. Miraculously, however, he survives the jump and is saved, as he later says himself, by a gift from God.Kevin Hines is one of the few people to have survived a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge. In this hand-drawn documentary, he reflects on the day that changed his life forever.

Germany 2020, 4 min
by C. Cay Wesnigk

Germany 2013, 86 min
by Eva Wolf

This documentry allows an insight into the mental and emotional challenges the staff of an intensive care unit is facing on a daily basis, dealing with decisions that have far reaching consequences for their patients. Often it is the staff of the intensive care unit - the doctors and nurses - that are confronted with difficult ethical questions that their patients haven't yet had to consider. We regret, at this time, the film is only availiable in german Questions with no easy answers. How

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 2007
by C. Cay Wesnigk

„Hätte er damals gewonnen, dann wäre er so bekannt geworden wie später der Michael Schumacher – das wäre so eine Art zweites Wunder von Bern gewesen!“ Die Rede ist von Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips. Am 10. September 1961 steht der Ferrari-Pilot in Monza vor dem größten Triumph seiner Laufbahn – dem Gewinn der Formel I-Weltmeisterschaft. Doch anstatt zu siegen, stirbt er bei einem verheerenden Unfall. Mit dem Tod des seinerzeit sehr populären Renngrafen stirbt auch das Geschlecht derer von Trips