Films by Julia Lohmann

Germany 2023, 103 min
by Sven Halfar

"When I sing, I feel free". And it is precisely this feeling that the film about the Hamburg choir HEAVEN CAN WAIT tells us, in which all singers have to be at least 70 years old to be able to experience this indescribable feeling of freedom. The film portrays the people in the choir who, for different reasons and motivations, have the courage to stand in front of an audience at an advanced age and reveal a piece of their soul.

2021, 50 min
by Nicolaas Schmidt

We listen to music and we are on our way. We look at things and the world differently than before, so that things don’t always repeat themselves, but get better instead: Two boys meet on a round trip with the Hamburg U3 line. Something evolves – not much but yet everything. The train runs through station after station. Lights changing on the outside and inside. Passengers and protagonists in the midst of noise & music. Glances, silence, a KitKat is broken, a Coke is being drunk. Outside: sunset