Films by Christoph Senn

2023, 95 min
by Thorsten Ernst, Tobias Lickes

Four athletes from various countries live with different intellectual disabilities. Timo from Germany plays tennis with his sister. Toivo and Roope are from Finland and sail together as a unified team. Uyangaa from Mongolia wants to participate with her volleyball team, and Mary Stella from Kenya is competing to qualify with her football team.Being 'special' seems less of a challenge since they also have to cope with the troubles of growing up, finding true friendship, and figuring out what life

USA, Germany 2018, 75 min
by Till Schauder

Jamaica has one of the highest murder rates in the world. But on November 16, 1997, when Jamaica's national soccer team – a.k.a. the 'Reggae Boyz' – qualified for the 1998 World Cup, not a single bullet was fired in the country.As the Reggae Boyz embark on their 2014 World Cup campaign, an amateur player named 'Tuffy' Anderson dreams of playing on the national team. Tuffy works in a steel factory by day and plays in the local amateur league by night, refusing to give up his dream of one day pla

Germany 2017, 87 min
by Monika Hielscher, Matthias Heeder

To predict a future crime scene and to prevent a murder seems like something from a sci-fi movie. It is, but it’s also real – and happening right now. To make this possible, powerful computers and omnipresent cameras capture data from all sources, which is then evaluated and analyzed with the help of algorithms. At the same time, we, the citizens are transformed into carriers of recorded data – our every move, message and purchase tracked and mapped. Ratings of how likely we are to commit a crim

Germany 2017, 52 min
by Christian Frey

The German invasion in 1940 is the beginning of a struggle for life for the Jews in France. Still, 75% of them survive the holocaust. For the first time a film recounts the circumstances of their rescue – and the civil resistance of numerous “Silent Saviours” who made this possible.