Films by Barbara Toennieshen

Germany 2020, 95 min
by Natalija Yefimkina

In Russia there is a phenomenon beyond ice fishing, matryoshkas and vodka: the garage settlement. Seemingly inhospitable sheds which offer refuge to a large number of Russians – mainly men. Within these few square metres, they create alternative living spaces, with ingenuity and tenacity, according to their own taste and beyond any rules. The garages are an expression of a retreat into privacy, an escape from everyday life. Behind the Arctic Circle, in an area dominated by the local mining compa

Germany 2011, 53 min
by Asteris Kutulas, Klaus Salge

Mikis Theodorakis, Composer is the first film to take the musical oeuvre of the Greek composer as its principal subject. The chronologically structured documentary gives a concentrated overview of Theodorakis’ nigh seven decades of artistic creation, from his ecclesiastic compositions as a young man to the operas of the nineties. The artist’s extremely eventful life is depicted in its symbiotic relationship to his compositions. The film above all lets the composer have his say. Music and image s

Germany 2010, 107 min
by Gerardo Milsztein

TO FIGHT FOR is an inspiring documentary film on one of the greatest challenges of our age: the transformation of destructive power into creative energy, of self-loathing into self-confidence, of repression of the past into the assumption of responsibility for your own lifeDirectly and with no holds barred, the film tells the moving story of five young men aged between 16 and 20 who steal, smoke dope and enjoy getting into fights. They are uncertain, directionless and willing to resort to violen

Germany 2010, 80 min
by Ali Samadi Ahadi

Animated blogs and tweets from Iran form the backbone of this enlightening and sometimes shocking reconstruction of the 2009 Green Revolution. In May of that year, the youthful green-clad crowds were still enraged, and the atmosphere in the stadium where presidential candidate Mousavi held his speech was, according to eyewitnesses, explosive. The desire for change was huge. "It helped me to regain my faith in humanity," one person recalls. Election Day itself was a deception on a massive scale: