Films by Jakob Krese

2025, 30 min
by Jakob Krese

Hazira survived the massacre in Srebrenica. She has lived in the Ježevac refugee camp near Tuzla for 29 years. She was never able to return to her home village in the mountains above Srebrenica. Today it is located in Republika Srpska, the Serbian part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The political and social conditions force Hazira to wait, her days are characterized by routines that ensure survival. She collects firewood, cleans obsessively and defies the harsh conditions of camp life. With black hu

Germany 2023, 67 min
by Annika Mayer

A family in the 60s on Super8. Stories of a violent husband fifty years later. A film about the invisibility of domestic violence.Director Annika Mayer searches for clues, and interviews her grandmother ROSE about old family Super8 recordings from the 50s and 60s. They show a family in the time of the 'German Economic Miracle': a fancy house with a garden in a small German town, a vacation at the North Sea, a Sunday trip to the National Garden Show. These are images that have inscribed themselve

Germany, Brasil 2021, 93 min
by Jakob Krese

In 2018, thousands of people from Latin America set out together, fleeing from a lack of perspective, poverty and violence to the U.S. Among them Lilian, a single mother from Guatemala, who found the courage to leave her violent husband. The caravan was her only chance to achieve this act of strength. Nevertheless: 4,000 kilometres with four small children, walking, hitchhiking and travelling north on “La Bestia”, the freight train, are still extremely perilous.The film contrasts the media cover