Films by Dorothea Braun

2024, 90 min
by Jens Becker, Dorothea Braun

JOSEPHINE PEARY, wife of North Pole conqueror Robert Peary, promoted his work and contributed much to his success.ADA BLACKJACK, the sole survivor of a terrible expedition to Wrangel Island during the early 1920s.LOUISE AMER BOYD, a millionaire and the first woman to finance her expeditions to map East Greenland and a (part-time) secret agent. Three extraordinary stories of women, risking life, health, and money to explore the Arctic deserts – but in our days forgotten. We also aim to highlight contemporary women’s involvement in Arctic research, such as those aboard an icebreaker in Greenland or preserving Inuit culture and language in Alaska and Greenland.

2021, 92 min
by Stanislaw Mucha

The loneliest workplace in the world on a weather station on the edge of the Russian polar sea: A professional soldier who was retrained to become a meteorologist and traumatized in the Chechnya war, his young wife, whose previous life in the world of cities and money had brutally failed, a cancer patient who has returned to his place of birth Pensioner, the boss of the station - with a dubious if not criminal past and Jack the dog. Five traumatized souls who try in the loneliness of a hostile nature that appears paradisiacal to deal with themselves, the absence of civilization, their human needs and inadequacies and to master their lives.