Films by Gunnar Dedio

Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands 2022, 109 min
by Sergei Loznitsa

Inspired by W.G. Sebald’s book and based on WWII archive footage, the film puts forward the question: is it morally acceptable to use civilian population as a means of war? Is it possible to justify mass destruction for the sake of higher 'moral' ideals? The question remains as relevant today, as it was 80 years ago, and its urgency is tragically manifested in the current events.

Germany, France 2018, 416 min
by Jan Peter (L.E.VISION), Frederic Goupil

11 November 1918. The Great War is finally over. A new era is about to start. Amidst the grief, disappointment and old fears, new dreams and hopes are now emerging but so too are new hatreds:“Clash of Futures” explores the dramatic era of the 1920s and '30s. The eight-part series follows the fates of extraordinary men, women and children from France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Austria, Sweden, Poland and the Soviet Union using their own diary entries, letters and memoirs. These are people dr

Germany 2009, 52 min
by Jörg Herrmann

The history of the aeroplane is barely 150 years old. The era of aviation pioneers was defined by brilliant inventors like Otto Lilienthal and the Wright Brothers, who gave their ideas wings. Less well known but no less critical, was German pioneer, Ernst Heinkel. From the jet engine to the ejection seat, from the retractable undercarriage to what was at the time the fastest aeroplane in the world – many of Heinkel’s inventions have shaped and advanced air travel as we know it. Heinkel’s name is

Germany 2009
by Petra Haffter

Meeting today’s Americans What are Americans like today? What do they expect after the Bush-Era? What is on their minds, and what is important to them? We travelled the United States on a hundred-day road trip, exploring the people and landscapes of America. From New England, we drive through the Midwest and on towards California, then back east through the Deep South, ending in Florida. We meet farmers, tour guides, architects, politicians and the homeless. We speak with prison inmates, marines

Germany 2009
by Dirk Steffens

OF SHARKS AND MEN shows for the first time in HD the complete story of humans and sharks, with all the fear, blood shed and reverence it embodies. We examine the relationship between sharks and men – what it is now, how it used to be, and why it came to be this way. We explain what sharks really mean to us – and what we really mean to them. From Shark Fin Soup to habitat destruction, we show what humans are doing to drive sharks into extinction. And we show the profound impact that their extinct

Germany 2008, 65 min
by Ruth Berry

The Edelweiss documentary is an investigation to find the fact behind the fiction. Edelweiss has been used as a symbol for a beer, a rock group and countless hotels and guest houses. At the same time it was being touted as the Fuhrer’s favourite flower, it was being used as the symbol for anti Hitler Youth groups. It appears on coins and as insignias for mountaineering clubs. Young men fell to their deaths to pluck a sprig of it to prove their love. While the Edelweiss of the European alps was e