Films by Anika Simon

Germany 2018, 90 min
by Gerhard Schick

Germany’s goalkeepers have been the envy of the football world for decades. DIE NUMMER EINS lets us re-live the unforgettable moments and scandals that have made legends of Oliver Kahn, Sepp Maier, Toni Schumacher, Jens Lehmann and Manuel Neuer. (DOK.fest Munich)

Germany, Netherlands 2017, 90 min
by Karin Jurschick

Shortly after 9/11, the US Congress passed a law to protect US airlines from decades of civil law suits and created a fund for compensating victims of disasters who agreed not to sue. Lawyer and mediator Ken Feinberg had to decide how much money was to be received as compensation. He met family members personally doing thousands of interviews. He thought that the value of a life was an easy calculation: how high is the economic loss? How old was the person, but Feinberg discovered that facing th

Germany 2014, 40 min
by Georg Nonnenmacher

Hand-luggage is packed in a cloth shopping bag, one last cigarette before there is a knock at the door – inmate Rene is being transported. For a court hearing, he is traveling in a prison bus to another institution in another city. SPACEMEN accompanies him and shows the tedious procedure of the transport from his point of view – an exhausting route full of controls, constant stop-and-go at locked doors and gates, and endless waiting. When the bus is en route, the world passes by through the wind

Germany 2012, 83 min
by Robert Krieg, Monika Nolte

Grandfather Bawo Reinhardt, his son Lulo and his grandchild Sibel are the main figures in the documentary film NEWO ZIRO; joining them is Sasha Reinhardt, the initiator of DJANGO’S HEIRS, a Sinti and Roma Music Festival in the country town Koblenz in southwest Germany. The film provides deep insights into a culture which is among those most discriminated against in Europe. Bawo, Lulo and Sibel live actively in Germany’s majority society without denying their roots. Sasha does not believe in 'new

Germany 2009
by Susanne Jäger, Susanne Jäger

"Black on White: A journey through Germany,” and is the product of famous undercover journalist Günter Wallraff’s year-long odyssey as a black man.