Films by Claudio Demel

Germany 2021, 94 min
by Johannes Preuss, Marius Brüning

José is born on the floor of a mud hut in a Bolivian mountain village. He is the fourth child of a herdswoman. A few month later he arrives at the house of his adoptive family in Germany. José Noé Estrada becomes Manuel Phillip Sosnowski. 30 years later he makes the journey back into his mother's country for the first time in his life. A film about the search for belonging.

2021, 98 min
by Anna-Sophia Richard

Almost every inhabitant of Fondo Negro has relatives abroad. Since the 1980s, job migration, meaning wages shared with the residents from afar, has been one of the most important sources of income in this region in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. Young women in particular go to Europe or the U.S. to support their families by unskilled labour. In her enchantingly beautiful film, director Anna-Sophia Richard shows how this affects the ones who stay behind.When she set out on the journey t

Germany 2017, 28 min
by Johannes Preuss

A Documentary about illegal gold business in West Africa.What does it mean for residents of a small town in Ghana to live on top of a huge gold deposit? As a young development worker the narrator experienced a gold rush in asmall town in Ghana. Years later he returns to investigate what the gold really means for residents of this town. On his journey he meets old friends, arrives at places of destruction and learns about a dangerous magnetism between people and gold.A bloody conflict broke out i