Films by Anke Wiesenthal

Germany 2014, 82 min
by Dorothea Carl (doro carl)

Fourteen people share their stories of fleeing from their native countries. By foot, on boats or with the help of escape agents, they were chased away by war, toxic gas, torture, fear and hunger. Some are still kids, strong only through the courage of despair, led by their hopes and wishes. Their personal stories of and experiences with their arrival in Hamburg, in the county of Pinneberg, in container camps, sleepless nights and the struggle with paperwork intertwine with a “banning space”, whi

Germany 2014, 87 min
by Irene Bude, Olaf Sobczak

„What’s gone is gone! And will never come back!“, Andreas says vigorously. He has been living in the post-war modernist „Esso-Houses“ since 1988. With the „Esso-Häuser Action Group“ he is fighting against the demolotion of his home, planned by one of the biggest players on Germany’s real estate market. For two years the film team has accompanied him and many of his neighbours and fellow campaigners: in the houses, in the flats, at demonstrations and brushmobs, at meetings with archititects in Pa

Germany 2011, 72 min
by katja esson

The Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center: for more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called ‘sky walkers’ because they walk fearlessly atop steel beams just a foot wide, high above the city. Who are these Mohawk sky walkers? What is their secret for overcoming fear? Has ‘sky walking’ replaced an ancient rite of passage? Or is it the pure need to adapt in order to survive? And what is their life really like, when eve

Germany 2008, 59 min
by Thomas Tielsch

Nobody had expected his return. Still, in the face of the world publicity, he steps out from the dark of his past on September 11th in 2001. Since then, he has been back: the martyr. His history reaches far back into the ancient world, but only in Christ, he gets a face. By now the martyr has become a figure of many faces and shows up wherever conflicts are smouldering. Human sacrifices, massacres, mass suicides, tortures; Nuns whose asceticism is flooded by erotic fantasies. The film shows hist