Films by Jana Teuchert

Germany 2019, 115 min
by Barbara Wallbraun

UFERFRAUEN – Lesbian life and love in the GDR is a documentary which tells the life stories of six lesbian women in the GDR – in the big city as well as in rural areas – and how they lived and loved in same-sex relationships. These six very different biographies are representative of untold lesbian history, ranging from intimate love stories to accounts of state repression. Shaped by socialism, how did these mothers, workers and warriors, often "invisible" lesbians, live? UFERFRAUEN illustrates

Germany, Finland, Great Britain 2012, 96 min
by Katarina Peters

What makes the man a man? This is a question that everyone of us faces. Diane Torr, performance artist and 'Drag King Pioneer', developed tools to transform courageous women into the man of their choice. Maybe gender is just a mere set of gestures that men/women can acquire?

Germany 2010, 91 min
by Dörte Franke, Marc Bauder

“You have no chance, but use it!” That’s roughly how the power structures in East-Berlin in December 1989 could be described. On one side the apparatus of the state, which desperately clung to power. On the other side a heap of fragmented opposition groups, from the Neues Forum to Demokratischer Aufbruch - estimates assume there were 600 activists at the time - and a population who were only just beginning to see themselves as a people. Representatives of both sides faced each other at the Round

Germany 2007, 73 min
by Dörte Franke

The documentary STUMBLING STONE (73 min) is a portrait, a road movie and the story of the largest decentralized memorial in the world. The focus is on the conceptional artist Gunter Demnig, who has set 12 000 names of forgotten Nazi victims in concrete of Germany's and Europe's pavements. The project is declined by members of the Jewish community, Neo-Nazis are fighting it, and in some cities it is illegal. But behind every stone stands a committed helper and private donations. They see a possib