Films by Bettina Herzner

Germany 2022, 30 min
by Anabela Angelovska

Over the past twenty years, thousands of young people were recruited in North Macedonia to work in the kitchens and laundries of the US military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their wages were then invested by their families back home in the construction of small palaces and lucrative real estate. With the withdrawal of the last troops from Afghanistan in 2021, many of them returned home – bringing with them their traumas and war experiences. This documentary depicts the complex connections betw

Germany 2011, 52 min
by Marc Brummund

350 years ago, the reformation of the Russian Orthodox Church turned those who did not want to follow the new religious currents into outlaws. The 'Old Believers' officially lost all civil rights and suffered persecution: their villages burned, many were tortured and killed, some escaped. A few settled in small villages along the shore of Lake Peipus, from where they could even see their homeland. There they kept the traditions, began fishing and growing vegetables and were forgotten by time and