Films by Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

Germany 2024, 300 min
by Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

Everything revolves around football for Chayenne, Eriona, Liv and Pauline. They play in the U15 squad of SGS Essen, one of the few clubs that gives priority to women’s football. This season it’s all or nothing for the players now they are stepping up their performance and fighting to make it into competitive football, even to the Bundesliga. Football mania and high stakes guaranteed! [38 DOK.fest München, Ysabel Fantou]

Germany 2019, 115 min
by Karin de Miguel Wessendorf

When 31,000 policemen take action against 50 tree squatters and tear gas and truncheons are used, a 550-hectare "pedunculate oak-hornbeam-lily-of-the-valley-forest" becomes a symbol of resistance. Since 2015, director Karin de Miguel Wessendorf has accompanied the protests against the clearing of the Hambach forest and against the destruction of the villages on the edge of the lignite opencast mining, the largest CO2 source in Europe. First it was only a rebellion of individual groups with diffe