Films by Beate Scherer

Germany 2018, 90 min
by Bettina Braun

29-year-old Lucica, a Roma from Romania and mother of six children, is constantly struggling to make ends meet.Despite the family's efforts to build a better future in Germany, life for Lucica and the children becomes more and more difficult: her flat is too small, the electricity is cut off, they have problems with the neighbours, school and the new language, and Lucica‘s husband and the father of her children is in prison.The film follows the family closely over a period of one-and-a-half years. But closeness also brings expectations.Who needs who here?An unlikely heroine‘s journey and a film about giving and taking.

Germany 2018, 52 min
by Niko Apel

Muslims don't do anything against the progressing radicalisation oftheir faith brothers? - They do.Ron W. from Berlin and Mustapha L. from Frankfurt/Main have taken up thefight for so long: Day for day they face the radicalisation process inschools and mosques.(Internationale Hofer Filmtage)