Films by Hubertus Siegert

Germany 2022, 110 min
by Simon Brückner

The feature documentary A GERMAN PARTY shows inside views of the AfD. It delves deep into the working lives of the party’s politicians and officials. The audience is right in the middle of the political action and experiences the struggles for direction in the party, the rebellion of its supporters against a „decadent establishment“. We experience the AfD’s own antics, its resentments, worlds of ideas and self-dramatizations.The party’s continued drift to the right proves to be just as real as t

2019, 82 min
by Hubertus Siegert

CHILDREN OF UTOPIA takes us into the Berlin lives of six young people on the cusp of adulthood, as they look back at their time at an inclusive school – a radical concept back then. Some would be described as disabled, but they reject that label. As they discover the new lives they’ve made in the 12 years that have passed, their focus is on the ups and downs of life: love, careers, doubt and determination. This sweet and entertaining coming-of-age movie shows how the respect fostered in Class 5D

Germany 2014, 98 min
by Hubertus Siegert

Freedom is, what you do with what has been done to you.Three different countries and one case of deadly violent each.Three men who have killed and three families who have lost a beloved one.In our standard idea of guild and punishment this means three who get punished and three who are meant to forget. No way to imagine the two sides will ever get closer. The film documents three times the impossible: To meet your enemy, in thoughts, in messages, in real life. A film that changes our idea of gui

2005, 87 min
by Hubertus Siegert

February 2004. Luca, Marwin, Dennis, Johanna, Christian and 15 other kids meet at the beginning of the first term at the Fläming School in Berlin. They belong to the class 5d, the school’s remedial class, where students of extremely different abilities learn together. Four of the children are classified as disabled, from learning disorders to severely handicapped, and are not graded. The class has two supervisors, some subject teachers and the class teacher, Mrs. Haase. She is considered strict,