Films by Bernd Sahling

2013, 26 min
by Bernd Sahling

Emma and her friends Ronje and Benjamin live in Gjesvær, a small village on the arctic island Magerøya. Their parents work as fishermen in family businesses. Winters are long in Gjesvær, in May there can still occur heavy snow storms. There are no cinemas or clubs in the remote village next to the North Cape. What is life like in such a place, when you are 14?

Germany 2009, 20 min
by Bernd Sahling

Having come to Germany only recently, Edna is new in the class. And she stills needs to learn the foreign language. Seated at an extra desk in the last row, the Bosnian girl is sometimes forgotten by the class. And Edna sometimes forgets the class, too. But she draws more and more attention to herself.