Films by Annette Muff

Germany 2023, 250 min
by Florian Opitz

The 5 part high-end documentary series CAPITAL B. WHO OWNS BERLIN? tells in an exciting and entertaining way how Berlin became what it is after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It has been a hip global metropolis for three decades, attracting artists, freedom lovers and young people from all over the world. But the way there was by no means preordained.And Capital B tells the story of how Berlin’s citizens have been fighting back ever since: against the sellout of their city, its displacement and ag

Germany 2019, 96 min
by Dominik Wessely

When Mario Adorf enters a room, one senses his presence, his vitality, his charisma and his elegance. The grand master of movie, born in 1930, is still rated as being one of the most popular actors in Germany.“ES HÄTTE SCHLIMMER KOMMEN KÖNNEN - MARIO ADORF” portrays the film star Mario Adorf and his passion for acting, the stage, the cinema, singing and writing. Together with the director Dominik Wessely, the film comes closer to Mario Adorf as a person and highlights important stations of his p

2017, 50 min
by Usama Ghanoum

The film takes place in the sieged neighborhoods of the Syrian city of Homs, in the period between early 2012 and late 2013. The film focuses specifically on the field hospital. Within the film we see several facets of the day to day life, including, the daily movements and commutes of people amid the on going bombardments, and how the injured are being treated in the field hospital. The film also shows us the other side of the daily life, the smiles and the jokes and how people normalized the e

Germany 2012, 70 min
by Tilmann Künzel, Peter Göltenboth

Chinese society is at the verge of perhaps its biggest change since the Cultural Revolution. It is being driven by, which at least for China, is a new type of youth movement. The Confucian work ethic is losing ground as more and more young people “drop out” and begin to search for an escape or counterweight to the restrictions of the past that lets them celebrate their newfound wealth and freedoms – without necessarily being overtly system critical. It is the birth of a new generation of Chinese

Germany 2012, 97 min
by Florian Opitz

 „My experience with time by now is limited to the one feeling – I don’t have enough.“ It’s a paradox. Never before in history we have worked more efficiently. Never before we have saved time with more sophisticated technologies. Anyway, nearly all of us are feeling an increasing pressure of time. It seems that the same technology that has been invented to make our life better and easier, is now enslaving us. Florian Opitz tries to track down the reasons of our shortage of time and for the con

Germany 2008, 73 min
by Dominik Wessely

When the frail and staunchly catholic aunt Hedwig asks her nephew to accompany her to a decidedly mystical Catholic service, it turns out to be his initiation into a fantastical world of martyr worship. He meets relic collectors who are trying to preserve the dwindling world of Salvation in living rooms full of bones, and, whilst gathering information pertaining to relics he intends to purchase for his aunt on the internet, he stumbles upon one of the greatest forgeries of the Middle Ages. It is