Films by Janina Herhoffer

2021, 123 min
by Ole Jacobs, Arne Büttner

About a year ago, Moria, Europe's largest refugee camp, became home to 38 year old Nasim from Afghanistan. Together with her husband Shamsullah, their two sons and her extended family, Nasim tries to manage the rough camp life while starting to question her unhappy marriage. As her family pushes her to start a new life independent from her husband, Nasim struggles because of her fears and insecurities. She needs to pass her asylum interview together with Shamsullah whose past she barely knows. W

Germany 2015, 71 min
by Janina Herhoffer

A girl band makes music. Women at a slimming course talk about successfully losing weight by controlling what they eat. Teenagers dance or go shopping. A role-play on conflicts at work is performed at a meeting of a men’s group. Other people do yoga, meditate to the sound of Tibetan singing bowls, limber up by babbling gibberish or run laps in a gymnasium.A documentary that trains its gaze on group leisure activities. There’s something slightly insane about seeing an entire yoga class hanging up