Films by Gunter Hanfgarn

Germany, France 2015, 93 min
by Ayat Najafi

In Iran, since the revolution of 1979, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists - at least in front of men.Defying censorship and taboos, the young composer Sara Najafi is determined to organise an official concert for solo female singers. In order to support their fight, Sara and the Iranian singers Parvin Namazi and Sayeh Sodeyfi invite three female singers from Paris, Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal and Emel Mathlouthi, to join them in Tehran and collaborate on their musical proj

Germany 2012, 79 min
by Bin Chuen Choi

At the age of 11 I met my mother for the first and also last time. Later I recognized her in a magazine article. I compared the name with my birth certificate and learned that my mother was Yeh Su Nee, one of the most popular Hong Kong writers whose novels fill entire shelves in any bookstore. But is it not too late for a 44-year-old who has a child of his own to search his 65-year-old mother whom he doesn’t even know and flood her with questions? I am sure to find her and try to imagine her voi