Films by Imke Koseck

Germany 2022, 30 min
by Anabela Angelovska

Over the past twenty years, thousands of young people were recruited in North Macedonia to work in the kitchens and laundries of the US military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their wages were then invested by their families back home in the construction of small palaces and lucrative real estate. With the withdrawal of the last troops from Afghanistan in 2021, many of them returned home – bringing with them their traumas and war experiences. This documentary depicts the complex connections between supposedly far-off and abstract wars and their very real effects at home. It demonstrates the price of labour migration and exposes the gains and losses of decades of political and economic crises.

Germany 2021, 52 min
by Carl von Karstedt

We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears when Robert 'Bob' Wilson puts minimalistic petrol pumps into a production of Shakespeare's sonnets? Why does merciless repetition change our understanding of something? Together with Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe or Marina Abramović we trace back our own experience of Bob's art. Is it true what Philipp Glass the collaborator of the milestone piece 'Einstein on the Beach' laughingly and with apparent pleasure exclaims "what does it mean? It doesn't mean anything!"?with: Marina Abramovic, Willem Dafoe, Tom Waits, Philipp Glass, Christian Friedel, Christopher Nell, Ann-Christin Rommen, Stefan Kurt, Sabin Tambrea, and Traute Hoess

2018, 97 min
by Guido Weihermüller

Asael, the victim of a terrorist attack, leaves his home in Israel to try his luck as a wheelchair basketball pro in Hamburg. In Germany he initially scores on court and makes friends with his teammates. The paraplegic Julian, who broke his back, is impressed by the strength and ability of the wheelchair pros. While Julian prepares to live independently in wheelchair after hospital, a tight father-son like friendship between Asael and his Iranian teammate Ali develops. FOURTEEN AND A HALF COLLISIONS tells the story of the unusual encounters and strokes of fates without prejudices.With: Asael Shabo, Alireza Ahmadi, Julian Zielinski, Anne Patzwald

Germany 2011, 52 min
by Marc Brummund

350 years ago, the reformation of the Russian Orthodox Church turned those who did not want to follow the new religious currents into outlaws. The 'Old Believers' officially lost all civil rights and suffered persecution: their villages burned, many were tortured and killed, some escaped. A few settled in small villages along the shore of Lake Peipus, from where they could even see their homeland. There they kept the traditions, began fishing and growing vegetables and were forgotten by time and the world around them. Overarching all seasons, the film portrays a rural community struggling to find a place in modern times, without giving up their identity.