Films by Jascha Viehl

Switzerland, Germany 2022, 83 min
by Eva Vitija

The film’s narrative is based on the unpublished diaries of bestselling novelist Patricia Highsmith. Focusing on her quest for identity and her troubled love life, LOVING HIGHSMITH sheds new light on her writing. Family, friends, her own voice and beautifully interweaved archive material draw a vivid portrait of one of the most prolific female authors to date. Highsmith wrote over 22 novels, many were adapted to the big screen, best known are Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Car

Germany 2019, 84 min
by Anna Hepp

The film is a non-commercial arthouse documentary film about famous 86-year-old German filmmaker Edgar Reitz. Anna Hepp, the young filmmaker of this documentary, meets with Reitz in one of Germany‘s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. This film‘s main focus is a continuous dialogue between these two people from two different generations and genders: young and old – female and male. Anna Hepp asks the film expert Edgar Reitz about if and how cinema might be fading away from Germany’s med

Germany 2017, 87 min
by Veronika Glasunowa, Lukasz Lakomy

LONG ECHO – does it refer to the explosion not far from the town? Or to the time when people searched for a new idea for their country? Or is it rather the long echo of Soviet mentality that led to this bloody conflict?The film portrays the town Dobropolye, in Eastern Ukraine – 70 km from the border with the breakaway republics – and some of its people against the backdrop of the war. The characters are inventive and gripping despite their many hardships: they set up a singles club, build a zoo

Germany 2014, 24 min
by Levin Hübner

Bosteri is a village in the middle of the Kyrgyz steppe, neighbored by meadows with wild horses, snowy peaks of the Tian Shan and one of the world’s largest mountain lakes. Between the empty huts at the beach a Ferris wheel rises up into the sky, that only runs for two months of the year. An encounter with the people that summer has left behind.