Films by Jan Bihl

Germany 2017, 90 min
by Simone Catharina Gaul

Once the East German village Golzow was famous for Winfried Junge's longterm-filmproject "die Kinder von Golzow". But the fame faded with time: Today there are 857 inhabitants, a small bakery, a takeaway, a primary school with too little children and a movie museum with too little visitors. Only the many memories remind people of better times."Refugees are an opportunity", mayor Frank Schütz states – and that is why two syrian families have now found their shelter in Golzow. Therefore the school

Germany 2014, 64 min
by Simone Catharina Gaul

Bintou is an intimate portrait of a young woman from Burkina Faso. She loves to lead a modern lifestyle and dreams of becoming a famous dressmaker. Suddenly her life is turned upside-down when she has to take responsibility of her own daughter again, a child that she gave birth to after a violation...http://www.domar-film.de/DOMAR/Bintou.html