Films by Birgit Möller

Germany 2023, 42 min
by Ira Tondowski

When doctors discover that Leonard has brittle bone disease, they give him a life expectancy of one year. Today, Leonard is in his mid-20s, a screenwriter, director and actor. He gets around in a wheelchair, he is small, his body is different, he lives independently and self-determined, and he says: "I don't hate my body. I find my body annoying sometimes, yes, and I have goals that sometimes go beyond that, but these are still achievable."

Germany 2009, 79 min
by Sabine Steyer

Once a year a group of elderly women meets in Fall River, a small village south of Boston, to answer the fairy tale yet still modern age old question: Who is the prettiest in the land? There are many beauty pageants, but just one Ms. Senior Sweetheart competition: this pageant is the only one in the world for women aged 58 and up. Since 1978 the pageant has invited women from all over America to spend 11 days in Fall River, starting with dress rehearsals, practicing their group performance and e