Films by Christian Carl

Germany 2020, 102 min
by Carmen Belaschk

As long as her strength allows, she works in her studio near Cologne, the scene of the first feature-length documentary film about Mary Bauermeister and her radically personal biography.The film tells the story of an exceptional artist, a visionary, a lover. Mary Bauermeister has lived her life self-determined and yet full of doubt. It is not difficult for her to talk about success and defeat in the same breath. Over a year, the artist offers insights into her life and work: observations at her

Germany 2019, 115 min
by Barbara Wallbraun

UFERFRAUEN – Lesbian life and love in the GDR is a documentary which tells the life stories of six lesbian women in the GDR – in the big city as well as in rural areas – and how they lived and loved in same-sex relationships. These six very different biographies are representative of untold lesbian history, ranging from intimate love stories to accounts of state repression. Shaped by socialism, how did these mothers, workers and warriors, often "invisible" lesbians, live? UFERFRAUEN illustrates