Films by Anna Hepp

Germany 2019, 84 min
by Anna Hepp

The film is a non-commercial arthouse documentary film about famous 86-year-old German filmmaker Edgar Reitz. Anna Hepp, the young filmmaker of this documentary, meets with Reitz in one of Germany‘s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. This film‘s main focus is a continuous dialogue between these two people from two different generations and genders: young and old – female and male. Anna Hepp asks the film expert Edgar Reitz about if and how cinema might be fading away from Germany’s med

Germany 2012, 15 min
by Anna Hepp

I WOULD PREFER NOT is the attempt of a cinematic oilpainting of an old man, who has done and achieved a lot for German culture. He has been one of the most prominent cultural politicians in Germany, is the founder of the ‘Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen’ (Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen) and former president of the Goethe-Institute. Appreciating his achievements,I was more interested in getting to know the person behind all his accomplishments. I wanted to get to his core. Wanted to be close to the

Germany 2011, 60 min
by Anna Hepp

TURKISH KRAUT is a documentary film portrait of two young families with German-Turkish background who live in the Ruhr region. The families open up their private living space and invite the viewer to take part and experience their lives, with the hope of dismantling prejudice and cultural misunderstandings.The film shows, with the typical humour of the region, that despite social and religious differences, love knows no bounds.

Germany 2010, 25 min
by Anna Hepp

The film is an 16 mm black and white film about an old aged women, how she is doing her very slowly and simple day structure with all it's great efforts but in disciplineand very decent. Her back voice on black pictures sounds very young, full of energie and childisch. But what she says is very profound; about memory, lonelyness, about death, about suicide. At the age of 93, Dorothea says she has lived a full life. She welcomes the approach of death and prays to be delivered from decrepitude.