Films by Beatrice Babin

Switzerland, Germany 2018, 92 min
by Markus Imhoof

“In the end, all that we’re left with, are the memories we built on love.” One of those memories has haunted award winning director Markus Imhoof for most of his life: it is winter in Switzerland, neutral island in war torn Europe. At the fright depot, Markus’ mother picks up an Italian child refugee, to take her in. Giovanna, the girl is called, and growing up with her changes young Markus’ view of the world. 70 years later, again foreigners arrive in Europe. Markus Imhoof has never forgotten G

Germany 2013, 120 min
by Volker Koepp

There are two contrasting ways to describe Sarmatia: as a region on the edge of the known world – that's how the old Greeks saw it -, or as the part of Europe where the once carefully measured geographical centre of the continent is. However, you will probably look in vain for Sarmatia in your school atlas, it doesn’t exist as an administrative unit, and Google Maps won't help either. Yet Sarmatia is not a chimera. Volker Koepp travelled there for his new film, generously allowing us to share hi

Germany 2007
by Mo Asumang

The journey of the afro-german Mo Asumang started when she first heard the song that called for her murder “This bullet is for you, Mo Asumang” sang by the Neonaziband “White Aryan Rebels”. Instead of hiding Mo was driven by her desire to overcome her fears and to find out where this hate against Migrants and where Racism comes from. So she took her courage in both hands and meets Neonazis. She meets them in a prison as well as surrounded by 3000 Neonazis at a Nazirally and make a historical int