Films by Carina Neubohn

Germany 2016, 71 min
by Asli Özarslan

At 26, a Kurdish-German woman is elected the youngest mayor in Turkey. In a record 81% landslide she is elected mayor of Cizre, a Kurdish capital city that lies in the war-torn region at Turkey’s border with Syria and Iraq. It is here that Leyla was born, but after her father was killed by the Turkish military, she was sent at the age of 5 to live in Germany.After more than 20 years, she returns home. Her goal is to heal and beautify the civil-war-torn city, which is enjoying a break in the viol

Germany 2014, 64 min
by Simone Catharina Gaul

Bintou is an intimate portrait of a young woman from Burkina Faso. She loves to lead a modern lifestyle and dreams of becoming a famous dressmaker. Suddenly her life is turned upside-down when she has to take responsibility of her own daughter again, a child that she gave birth to after a violation...http://www.domar-film.de/DOMAR/Bintou.html