Films by Aljoscha Haupt

Germany 2018, 90 min
by Madeleine Dallmeyer

"Village of the forgetful" (original title: "Das Dorf der Vergesslichen") tells the story of European Alzheimer's disease patients who are being taken care of by natives in a small village in Thailand. The movie illustrates the intercultural encounter of its' protagonists within the traditional thai village athmosphere in a tragicomical way. "Village of the forgetful" is the first feature-length documentary of director Madeleine Dallmeyer.

Germany 2016, 71 min
by Asli Özarslan

At 26, a Kurdish-German woman is elected the youngest mayor in Turkey. In a record 81% landslide she is elected mayor of Cizre, a Kurdish capital city that lies in the war-torn region at Turkey’s border with Syria and Iraq. It is here that Leyla was born, but after her father was killed by the Turkish military, she was sent at the age of 5 to live in Germany.After more than 20 years, she returns home. Her goal is to heal and beautify the civil-war-torn city, which is enjoying a break in the viol