Films by Dagmar Scheibert

Germany 2022, 7 min
by Dagmar Scheibert

An agile lady and grandmother is desperately trying to sort out her life memories, all of which are kept in the massive chest next to her. Fragmentary memories of nights of bombing, marriage proposals, and her job at the Foreign Office as well her journeys abroad come to light. Short film (6 min.) about the mess of memories and time to achieve an arrangement. Highly recommended by the film assessment board for films in Germany.

Germany 2018, 17 min
by Dagmar Scheibert

It’s a sunny spring day. We listen to heartfelt letters of a young lady writing to her parents in the 50ies. Her phrases are interrupted by voices from the bankers using technical jargon, quotes by the town municipals. They are Kafkaesque in their obscurity opposite to the factual speech of architects and working secretaries remembering the invoices...Together they act similar to a score and underline the pictures, which are showing strange things happing to this house of our own in Germany so c

Germany 2006
by Dagmar Scheibert

The UNITED BUDDY BEARS’ principle of understanding and trusting each other led 125 of them to undertake an unusual journey. Each of the artistically painted polyester furs represents a member state of the United Nations. All together standing in a circle - 'paw in paw' – they pay tribute to the cultural diversity of our world. In Berlin they started their world tour in winter 2003, no difficulties could stop them. Travelling by ship, trucks, and even by plane for one special late-comer, they see

Germany 2003
by Dagmar Scheibert

Peter Ustinov and Jackie Chan – in fiction, maybe, they seem to be an unlikely couple, but not in reality. They represent two of the stars featured in the documentary UNITED BUDDY BEARS. It was in 2003, when in Berlin in an old tram depot gathered wellknown artists from all over the world to design 123 bear sculptures. Each of them should represent a different member state of the United Nations. The filmmaker Dagmar Scheibert observed for several months the artists, while they made their decisio