Films by Gerald Schauder

Germany 2023, 95 min
by Martin Paret

Can books start a revolution? 1976, my uncle Hans boards an old fishing boat as a member of the left-wing activist group Operation Namibia. Their goal, to fight apartheid with 6000 banned books on board. But what was planned as a five-month journey, turns into a tragic odyssey. OPERATION NAMIBIA, a post-colonial experimental film that oscillates between written correspondence and original photographs.with: Hans Paret, Barry Considine, Jude Smith, Peter Ellis, Roy Purvis, Kenneth K. Martin, Monika Brandmair

Germany 2021, 72 min
by Yana Ugrekhelidze

The film is about love story of one couple Alexandre and Marie. Alexandre is a transgender and lives with his girlfriend Marie. Because of his trans identity and mark 'female' in passport, Alexander has to lead a secret life. Such people  like him are threatened with persecution and death in his homeland.In order to escape this hopeless situation, Marie decides to make a surrogacy. With this money, the couple wants to flee to Europe and finally live in freedom.With the time their pragmatical plan wrecks, because Alexandre and Marie fell in love with the child in Mari's belly.