Films by Armin Siegwarth

Austria, Germany 2022, 136 min
by Sabine Derflinger

"Let's not get upset, let's do something!" Alice Schwarzer, Germany's most famous women's rights activist.Alice Schwarzer has always been a polarising force. As a popular figure on TV, she has divided married couples watching from their sofas across the German-speaking world and encouraged women to emancipate themselves. The film reveals a side to Schwarzer that goes beyond the influential feminist and journalist we know from her autobiography. with Alice Schwarzer, Elisabet Badinter, Anne Zelensky, Jasmin Tabatabai, Bettina Flitner u. a.

Germany 2020, 85 min
by monika pirch

„We are living in the middle of nowhere, so you need to do something about it." states Stefan Reichmann, artistic director of Haldern Pop.So every year in August more than 400 people handbuild the Haldern Pop Festival and bring their dream of an independ music festival to life.  Whatever the weather and always with surprising guests. Musicians from all over the world and rural traditions get together and tell a touching story about „Heimat" and the vital power of culture.

2017, 90 min
by André Schäfer, Jascha Hannover

"There are three golden rules to filmmaking: thou shalt not bore, thou shalt not bore, and thou shaltnot bore!" Billy Wilder was one of the greatest writers and directors in Hollywood. The man who filmed Marilyn Monroe with her dress blowing up, wrote screenplays with Raymond Chandler and created film history with classics like 'Sunset Boulevard', 'Some Like It Hot' or 'One, Two, Three'.Billy Wilder was a legend in his lifetime and embodies a period of contemporary history. He was successful beyond measure, and became very rich as a result – but he never sold out.Our film rediscovers this cultural figurehead. Via trailers and film extracts from his greatest works, it documents and analyses Wilder's filmmaking. In exclusive, newly-filmed interviews companions and contemporaries of Billy Wilder, such as Volker Schlöndorff, Marthe Keller und Paul Diamond document a century of contemporary history and portray a person who above all was never boring.