Films by Bernd Euscher

Germany, Switzerland, Colombia 2015, 97 min
by Jens Schanze

Jairo Fuentes is the young leader of the community of Tamaquito, a village in the forests of northern Colombia. For centuries, they’ve hunted in the mountains, foraged for fruit and reared hens, sheep and cattle.But the Wayúu community’s way of life is being destroyed by the El Cerrejón coal mine. This vast chasm extends for 700 square kilometres, making it the world’s largest open-cast coal mine. The coal is exported all over the world. In Germany, the United Kingdom and Israel, in the Netherla

Germany 2010, 90 min
by Dagmar Brendecke

Cato Bontjes van Beek's childhood was paradise. She, her sister Mietje and their brother Tim were very close In the 1930s Cato moves to Berlin. Here she learns the truth about the war and the cruelties in the occupied countries. She is stunned and gets involved in the "Rote Kapelle", a resistance organisation. Together with her sister Mietje, she organizes help for prisoners of war. With her friend Heinz Strelow she types leaflets against the war. Cato did what she could. Highly risky perhaps ho

2005, 87 min
by Hubertus Siegert

February 2004. Luca, Marwin, Dennis, Johanna, Christian and 15 other kids meet at the beginning of the first term at the Fläming School in Berlin. They belong to the class 5d, the school’s remedial class, where students of extremely different abilities learn together. Four of the children are classified as disabled, from learning disorders to severely handicapped, and are not graded. The class has two supervisors, some subject teachers and the class teacher, Mrs. Haase. She is considered strict,

Germany 1996, 96 min
by Andres Veiel

Rudi, Tilman and Thilo are dead – of their own free will. In the provinces of Swabia, Andres Veiel faces up to the tragedy of his former classmates and comes to the disturbing conclusion that every suicide ensnares its survivors in an intricate web of guilt and self-pity.

Germany 1993, 96 min
by Andres Veiel, David Maayan

An explosive stage production against the Holocaust. Three Israeli actors: Khaled, the Palestinian; Madi, the Jew; and Moni, the child of Israeli Jews and himself a practising othodox Jew. Using highly vivid images they face up to their history – going right up to the pain barrier. (DOK.fest Munich)with: Madi Smadar Maayan, Khaled Abu Ali, Moni Yosef, David Maayan, Miri Zemach, Naama Mamber, Anat Kirschner