Films by Holger Buff

Germany 2022, 107 min
by Daniel Hofmann

The film highlights the development of the scene genre 'Thrash Metal' especially in Germany and makes jumps between bands, organizers and fans. It gives outsiders an exclusive insight into a special and extraordinary fan culture that originated in the Ruhr area and still connects people from all over the country and on an international level.With: Jürgen “Ventor” Reil (Kreator), Thomas “Onkel Tom” Such (Sodom), Andreas “Gerre” Geremia (Tankard), Schmier (Destruction), uvm. Pelle Below & Thomas E

Switzerland, Germany 2020, 104 min
by Luzia Schmid

Prosperity on the one side, misery on the other: just how directly the two can be connected comes to light in Luzia Schmid’s film about the meteoric rise of her hometown of Zug upon becoming a tax haven.Swiss filmmaker Luzia Schmid traces the rise of her hometown of Zug and its townspeople, who have succeeded in becoming very rich by converting their town into one of the world’s leading tax havens. Even her immediate family is implicated in Zug’s politics and economy. And yet a tax haven is also

2020, 79 min
by Greta-Marie Becker

The marimba is the bridge between Africa and Latin America. The sound of the wooden xylophone connects the present-day life on the Ecuadorian Pacific coast with its African roots. Hundreds of years ago, the marimba music came to Ecuador across the sea. Stormy drum rhythms and the gentle, undulating melodies remind us of the violence experienced during slave trade and colonial rule and also tell the story of the centuries-old musical resistance of the Afro-Ecuadorian community. ""The Whisper of t

Germany 2019, 93 min
by Luisa Bäde

A studio room. Puppets. Frank Karbstein.Reminiscent, reflective, playful, narrating. The 1980s of the GDR - the group around the puppeteer Frank is arrested for distributing pacifistic leaflets. After being sentenced to imprisonment, the defendants are offered the opportunity to go to the West through a secret buy out of political prisoners. Frank stays. But the question remains: Who betrayed them?Different truths and memories stand side by side. In the centre of this is a person who never tries

Germany 2017, 87 min
by Veronika Glasunowa, Lukasz Lakomy

LONG ECHO – does it refer to the explosion not far from the town? Or to the time when people searched for a new idea for their country? Or is it rather the long echo of Soviet mentality that led to this bloody conflict?The film portrays the town Dobropolye, in Eastern Ukraine – 70 km from the border with the breakaway republics – and some of its people against the backdrop of the war. The characters are inventive and gripping despite their many hardships: they set up a singles club, build a zoo