Films by Gesa Hollerbach

Germany, Austria 2019, 83 min
by Gesa Hollerbach

The last school has shut its doors, every other house is empty, there are only rapeseed fields as far as the eye can see. The last holdovers in the country are faced with the decision: stay or go?  "All for the Countryside" traces a host of societal phenomena that are caused by changing dynamics in rural areas and follows four individuals over the course of several years, each of whom give unexpected impulses to life on the countryside. The quartet consists of a mayor who's stuck between the fro

Germany 2012, 84 min
by Gesa Hollerbach, Petra Eicker

Welcome to Monheim on the Rhine, situated between Cologne and Duesseldorf, 45,000 inhabitants. Ten years ago, here Daniel Zimmermann together with some school mates founded the Youth Party PETO. Today PETO is the strongest parliamentary group, and Daniel Zimmermann, at the age of 27, is the youngest mayor in Germany. For one year, from Daniel's first speech to decisions important for the city, we accompany him on his ways as a mayor. Public debts of 120 million Euros, controversies between the p