Films by Dirk Richard Heidinger

Germany 2020, 73 min
by Michael Kranz

Faced with a documentary film that included an interview with a young girl forced into prostitution, Michael Kranz asked himself the apparently banal question of “what can be done?” He travelled to Bangladesh and began to search for the girl. A film that is both self-critical and critical of society about the desire to at least do something and not to simply and passively give in to the injustices in this world.

Germany 2009, 27 min
by Dirk Richard Heidinger, Natia Bogveradze

Mentally handicapped youths aged 13 - 19 learn to dance in a 15-week course at their school in Berlin. Professional dance teachers show them how to waltz, tango or to dance meringue, salsa and disco step. Once a week we take part in their pure spontaneity and desire to dance, sharing the little and big steps (forward) towards the final party, called the 'Rosenball'. Here, dressed up to the nines, they dance their way into the summer with family and friends ... dancing is like dreaming with your