Films by Hannes Marget

Germany 2023, 60 min
by Angela Zumpe

When it comes to art, opinions differ. Value judgments are quickly made. A painter is seen as a great talent or as completely overrated – and his market value is accordingly. The value judgments of others often cause him to oscillate between the extremes. An artist's life offers room for both hype and average. A photographer and a filmmaker meet again after their orderly professional lives and take stock of their lives as artists. They interview their former fellow students, who studied at the West Berlin artschool back in the 1970s.Influenced by the artistic environment of the Critical Realists, they found different paths for their artistic work during this highly politicized period. Some have become acclaimed artists, others work in related professions and some even precarious employment.With: Hans-Jürgen Diehl, Wolfgang Petrick, Martin Assig, Barbara Quandt, ter Hell, Mechthild Schmidt-Feist, Volker Diehl among others.

Germany 2020, 45 min
by Stanislav Danylyshyn

In western Ukraine is located one of the largest Roma settlements in the country - the place is called Tábor. An isolated quarter of the city of Berehove, where live mostly Hungarian speaking Romani people. The film shows one of the days of the celebration of Easter, when the boys water the girls, receiving Easter eggs for this. After the end of the holiday many of them leave the settlement with their entire families and go to roam the country. The film reflects human being in a timeless dimension, brings closer archetypal images: mother, father, child. Depicts the plasticity of the movement of a man and nature in the space, which they are being a part of, creating chaos that contains a balance between different components like light and shadow. (dffb)

2019, 45 min
by Nuray Sahin, Ira Tondowski

Nineteen-year-old Ekhlas is a survivor of IS captivity who campaigns internationally for recognition of the Yazidi genocide.In 2014, the “Islamic State” launched a genocide against the Yazidi people in Iraq. Ekhlas was 14 years old at the time and the youngest sister in a family of seven siblings. Her father was killed before her very eyes and Ekhlas herself was captured by IS fighters. She tried to take her life three times, but after six months managed to escape and enter Germany as a refugee. Since then she has campaigned tirelessly and internationally for justice and recognition of the Yazidi genocide − for herself, her family, and for all Yazidi people. She was one of the first to publicly report the human rights violations by the IS to the British parliament in 2016 and later at the UN. Five years on, at the beginning of 2019, Ekhlas’ sister Makboule also managed to escape captivity. We accompany Ekhlas on her journey to the Iraqi camp where her sister has found refuge. An emotional reunion – Ekhlas wants to help her sister grow strong again. We tell the story of a remarkable young woman, a survivor, who defies the darkness of terror with a smile and astonishing determination. (New Docs)

2017, 45 min
by Florian Hoffmann

Paulina is 25 years old and has just finished her Master abroad. On a home visit to Germany, she is shocked by the growing influx of right-wing populism. She puts her career plans on hold and starts the