Films by Jakob Klotz

2018, 91 min
by Johannes List

Adam, Nico and Su are members of Germany’s first gay rugby team, the Berlin Bruisers. Tackling Life portrays their everyday lives and follows them into the world of this dangerous niche sport, showing their struggle for recognition – in competition with the hetero regional league teams – as well as their community involvement: gathering money at colorful fundraisers and visiting schools to give anti-bullying workshops.Looking beyond the spectacular surface of self-presentation and cliché, we foc

Germany 2018, 78 min
by Xenia Sigalova

Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a young adult, Xenia Sigalova went with her parents to the West. Almost two decades later she returns and hardly recognises her home country. Nowadays she is a filmmaker – what has happened to her friends? (33rd DOK.fest Munich)With: Vladimir Erin, Roman Rubanov, Alexander Karpekin Director Xenia Sigalova was born in Voronezh, Russia in 1980. After her highschool degree she studied Graphic Design at the arts college in Voronezh, before she migra