Films by Detlev F. Neufert

Germany 2026, 45 min
by Detlev F. Neufert

Since the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, 19-year-old resistance fighter Saw Welcome and filmmaker Detlev F. Neufert have been talking on the phone via Facebook video. From the jungle in Myanmar's combat zone to Bernau am Chiemsee in Bavaria. This film, which is unique in its directness and authenticity, was created from over 18 “phone calls.”

2019, 108 min
by Detlev F. Neufert

B.B. is a courageous boy from the Naga tribe, former headhunters. They live in the inaccessible part of Burma near the Himalayas. At the age of seven he starts with alcohol and claws. At 13 he is close to death. A Christian priest saves him. He sends him to a boarding school in the temple city of Bagan. Here the young Naga meets hard-to-raise children from many different ethnic groups, who often still fight each other. But the children are fed up with fighting. They want to overcome old tribal f