Films by Birgit Köster

2021, 98 min
by Valentin Thurn

To realize your dream sometimes you have to make a cut and leave your hamsterwheel. Van Bo builds 'Tiny Houses' to create cheap housing. Carl-Heinrich invented a zeppelin transporting heavy payloads float through the air and got bankrupt – but still continued. Line does not want her children to go to school. Joy builds floating islands out of trash. And Günther dreams to be one of the first persons to colonize Mars. Director Valentin Thurn accompanies five people searching for alternatives. What

Germany, South Korea, Netherlands 2011, 88 min
by Valentin Thurn

Why do we throw away so much? And how can we stop this kind of waste? Amazing but true: On the way from the farm to the dining-room table, more than half the food lands on the dump. Most of it before it ever reaches consumers. For instance every other head of lettuce or potato. When it comes right down to it, no one actually thinks this is okay: Food is not something to be thrown away “because others have nothing to eat”, as younger people would say, and as for the elderly: “I was around during