Films by Helena Wittmann

Germany 2020, 85 min
by Danilo Carvalho, Philipp Hartmann

While the province of Dithmarschen in Northern Germany surrenders to climate change and sacrifices a huge area to the sea, the periodical droughts in the Brazilian Sertão become more and more severe. With associative stagings and not without humor, this docu-fictional film essay observes, first of all, the people. And the water – as a physical and metaphysical base of existence. Drama and daily life in times of climate change.With: Johannes Kirschbaum, Fernando Pimentel, Inga Richter, Larissa de

Germany 2018, 67 min
by Luise Donschen

A person enters the frame dressed up as a bird. In a dressing room, John Malkovich sheds the costume of Casanova. A young woman‘s skirt is just as orange as the beak of a zebra finch singing in a cage. White lilies stand at the foot of a statue of the Virgin Mary, red roses in front of the window of an SM studio. There the quiet game of submission in exchange for money, in a museum an embrace, a poem whispered in the ear. Children playing in a forest in autumn. A forest in summer, framed by ligh