Films by Bettina Timm

Germany 2021, 120 min
by Alexander Riedel

This film is about the period of transition between work and retirement. It consists of partly funny, partly sad, also bizarre, but definitely life-affirming stories about farewells and new beginnings. The resulting round dance takes a humorous look at our lives and the world of work.With: Alim Isik, Hartmut Becker, Jutta Kammann, Karl Schwegel, Marion Gröschel

Germany 2013, 60 min
by Bettina Timm

I once read - it was about happiness research - that children don't make really happy. Actually, the opposite is the case, couples without children in age between 30 and 40 years are generally happier, or at least are more satisfied than parents. It changes only around 50 when the children are out of the house: The happiness of parents increases significantly compared to couples without children. Is the slogan than ‘hold on’? It seems that Family, like as a project with 15-20 years, brings true

Germany 2012, 30 min
by Bettina Timm, Alexander Riedel

The film tells the story of Kiran, who lives with his mother in a yurt in the Pyrenees. Kiran is eight years old and know how to plant salad, which meadow-plants taste good and which you should not eat. But he has no idea what’s going on in the evening on TV and can not deal with the computer. His greatest wish is to go to a public school to learn to read and write at last…

Germany 2010, 72 min
by Bettina Timm

Art and vapor. Eye candy – Pure taste. Cooking is as popular as never before, sophisticated all the way into molecular biology, elaborate in it’s cutting technics, variety of cooking and presentations. Cooks are exhibiting on television, viewers are copying. TV cooking studios, luxury liners, noble restaurants in Paris, those are the dream images, that are baiting young people into starting an apprenticeship as a cook. Bettina Timm’s film is showing young people trying to become a professional c

Germany 2008
by Bettina Timm

Solaris in Armenia. At an altitude of 3.500 metres, half-ruined concrete shelters project from Aragaz mountain among snow-covert summits. A pyramid, some strange devices, pipes. Rusty wire rise to the sky - this place is in direct contact with outer space. Once built by the Soviet Union as one of the most ambitious projects of modern space research, there was neither money nor interest in the study of cosmic rays after the country fell apart. A staff of six are holding the fort at the 'High Alt