Films by Gabriele Voss

Germany 2024, 155 min
by Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss

The age of coal is coming to an end. Since long time, slowly and definately. Prosper/Haniel in Bottrop is the last coalmine to close in Germany. 40 years ago we started a film cycle there: THE CHRONICLE OF THE PROSPER COLLIERY AND ITS SETTLEMENT EBEL. About history, work and everyday life. With the closure of the last colliery, we are going there again and shoot one last film. 3 years of work, shooting  and editing. How does one live with the end of something that has shaped one’s life for generations? What is lost, what remains and what changes? A film in which the end is not the end and the future has already begun.

Germany 2019, 94 min
by Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss

AFTERMATH tells the story of three former youth talents of the German football club Borussia Dortmund.The film encompasses a trilogy shot across 20 years, portraying the end of their career and asks the questions: what was, what is, what comes next?

2017, 110 min
by Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss

70 years after the end of the war in Germany. They say post-war generations bear no blame, but they bear responsibility. Responsibility for ensuring something like this never happens again. But what does that mean? Seventy years after the end of the war, we have a reached a junction in Germany – at least as far as the history of the war and Nazi period is concerned. Contemporary witnesses are dying out, but history lives on – as a legacy shared by generations and as the past that is part of each and every one of us. They say post-war generations bear no blame, but they bear responsibility. Responsibility for making sure something like this does not happen again. But what does that mean exactly? The film focuses on people who were born after the war, the second and third generation. Their fathers and grandfathers were perpetrators, sympathisers or even victims. They are all concerned with their legacy, professionally or through the history of their own family. They are therapists, historians, film-makers, state prosecutors, teachers, artists – and all of them the children and grandchildren of the generation of perpetrators and victims. Will they succeed in teaching future generations about the responsibility of history? A film about the topicality and relevance of the past.

2012, 87 min
by Gabriele Voss, Christoph Hübner

A group of famous Jazzmusicians, the german Joachim Kühn, the french-spanish Ramon Lopez, the moroccan Majid Bekas meet for one month in Rabat, Marocco to record a CD in a small improvised studio. They invite guest-musicians, try to find a dialog between the different cultures. They fight with technical problems and tumble between dense and loose moments. After two weeks they start a trip to the Sahara, to meet a legendary group of native drummers in an oasis. They play together and record some of their rhythms. With these recordings they return to the studio in Rabat and perform some pieces again. A film about improvisation, about working in a studio, a film about an encounter between Europe and Africa. A film also about listening and looking at music.

Germany 2009, 101 min
by Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss

In Summer 1998 we started a film with young football talents from the famous german Club Borussia Dortmund. Almost all of them played in national youth teams in their countries and with their club they win the german youth championship five times in a row. They were "THE CHAMPIONS". Their common dream in these times was: a career as a professional footballer. In Summer 2006, in the year of the Soccer World Cup in Germany, we followed them again for one season. They are now 25, 26 years old. What happend to their dreams? What were their experiences in the meantime? Do they play still football? And where? And what if not? „HalfTime“ is a reflection about talent and character, about success and failure and everything in between. The scenes of the film spread over the whole world - from the Ruhr, the home of Borussia Dortmund over the World Bank in Washington up to a small town, 3400m high in the Ecuadorian Andes. „HalfTime“ ist the second part of the longterm-projekt, TRILOGY OF TALENTS. Production: Christoph Huebner Filmproduktion In der Lake 12 58456 Witten/Germany tel.: +49 (0) 2302-25300 fax: +49 (0) 2302-55355 huebner-film@t-online.de