Films by Julia Suermondt

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

2017, 30 min
by Julia Suermondt

They want to come home as heroes. Having buildt a house on Haiti. But the young craftsmen are bugged out from working hand in hand with their fellow Haitian workers. German urge for efficiency meets Haitian talent for improvisation. To Fabian this is so not professional and he is getting sick from Haitian way of life – dancing and singing on the construction site, working with improvisational means and slaughtering goats for meal. Whereas Nazif as an Almost-German from Kosovo catches fire – he s