Films by Antonia Lerch

Germany 2020, 40 min
by Antonia Lerch

Mia and Sylvia, Helene and Jakob, Eva and Johannes, Mona and Lou, Ines and Vincent. And Sarah singing a rap song. "Fridays for future" is a movement fighting against global climate change. Activity instead of resignation. But what shall we do and how should we act? "Girls and boys for future" shows ten protagonists reporting on their activities in local groups, demonstrations and in plenum. Five conversations about the fatal triangle of humans, nature and climate. 42 degrees body heat means the

Germany 2018, 75 min
by Antonia Lerch

I was looking for strange worlds in Berlin, in this big city, where I live since many years. Aimless I was drifting through unknown terrains, looking for something by chance. I met germans and foreigners, immigrants and refugees from different cultures. They told me their individual stories, which also concern global themes: War, escape, work, flat, hunger, illness, love and death.Stories telling about joy and sorrow, but also about dreams and hopes.With: Firas Alissa Alyounis, Andrea Müller, K

2016, 30 min
by Antonia Lerch

Mina, Sean, Bineta, Whitney, Burcu, Ala', Ibrahim, Abdihafid and Oscar tell their stories. Their parents are from Afghanistan, Ghana, Azerbaijan, Palestine, USA, Somalia and Cameroon. Some of them were born in Germany and have a German passport, others are seeking asylum.They cannot walk down the street without causing a stir. When black sisters Bineta and Whitney ride the subway to university, Arab boys make ape sounds, and old Turkish men in cafés hiss‘Chocolate Baby’ and ‘Hot Chocolate Mama’

Germany 2013, 65 min

AFTER THE WEDDING (2013) tells the story of a woman I portrayed 17 years ago. (BEFORE THE WEDDING, Berlinale/Forum/1997). Some flashbacks to BEFORE THE WEDDING are part of AFTER THE WEDDING. 1997 I told the story of Berlin, a young Turkish woman, who was named after her birthplace Berlin. She was living together with her parents, her brother, two sisters and worked as a receiptionist of a hospital in Berlin-Kreuzberg, but dreaming of a career as a stewardess.   “Now she is ripe for marriage”, s

Germany 2012, 32 min
by Antonia Lerch

Do girls really like machos? Do they accept cultural specifities of their partners in their relationships? Which clichés, prejudices and cultural factors affect such relationships between the different sexes? Which different understandings of the roles lead to conflict? Fourteen girls and boys – all of them were born in Germany, but have varying ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds - are talking about their gender roles and the formative influence of society and culture. Which differences

Germany 2010, 63 min
by Benno Trautmann

The topic: Destruction. The structure: Association of pictures, scenes, sounds and headwords of a fictitious MADMAN'S DICTIONARY, not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action. The main character: Homo sapiens, the pride of creation, master of disaster, exterminator and self-exterminator. The basic question: Why does homo sapiens destroy his living conditions? There is no answer to that question, but the question rotates in my brain, when I started making pictures and sounds