Films by Helen Neikes

Germany 2012, 70 min
by Beatrice Möller

Any instructions on how to be a woman these days? Everything seems possible for the thirty-somethings tackling their lives today, as the globalized world offers a myriad of options - more than ever before. On the flip side, the certainties we used to lean on have become alarmingly shaky: Wedding rings don’t actually possess love-preserving magic powers; a university degree does not necessarily come with a job offer - and let’s just not speak of retirement provisions. Past generations’ gender rol

Germany 2009, 810 min
by Detlef Gumm, Hans-Georg Ullrich

Detlef Gumm and Hans-Georg Ullrich began working on their long-term observational documentary BERLIN - ECKE BUNDESPLATZ twenty-four years ago. Their plan was to make a series of short and longerfilms documenting the fortunes of several inhabitants of an ordinary Berlin neighbourhood as theymoved towards the year 2000. The protagonists were a typical cross-section of people living in an oldquarter of West-Berlin, and so, in their film, widows, a high-flying lawyer, drop-outs, owners of smallbusin