Films by Katharina Schmidt

2018, 93 min
by Bettina Renner

Haris is fifteen years old. He was born in Dresden and grew up with a self-concept of being german. But now, during puberty, Haris not only discovers girls, but also his otherness, as he says: His bosnian roots. He explores what part of him is bosnian and constructs his own identity.Haris's older sister, Adisa, was seven years old when she and her mother and brother Farouk had to flee Bosnia in 1992 and came to Dresden. When she was as old as Haris today, she tried to take away everything from Bosnia to adapt herself to her new home. Only very few people around her know that Adisa was once a refugee. She feels at home in Saxony, Dresden. It is her home.The documentary Here and There tells the story of the teenager Haris and his family. The film tells about the growing-up of a boy and pursues an universal, fundamental question of life: What is identity? How do we construct our identity? What influence does the outside have on self-attribution? What do we find inside? How do we discover ourselves? Haris will fight with his sisters. They both picture the image of a modern woman - but he has a completely different role model on his mind. Where do these thoughts come from?Our film narrates an individual family history and gives a very far-reaching and personal perspective on the societal-political issue of escape.

Germany 2015, 86 min
by Marcel Kolvenbach (publicnomad), Ayse Kalmaz

CONTACTIFAGE Filmprod.info@ifage.dehttp://ifage.deDISTRIBUTION Germanyhttp://www.realfictionfilme.dehttps://youtu.be/LwW7f_SiWVUDÜGÜN is a cinematic manifesto for an open-minded, liberal, European Islam, lived right in the heart of Europe. A marriage of Occident and Orient is being celebrated: colorful, boisterous, joyous – against the hatred of Islamists and the right. DÜGÜN is an intimate and sensitive portrait of a cultural minority, which has become the mainstream for many. In Marxloh, Germany, where the glory of heavy industry has long since faded, now it’s time for the children of the first Turkish 'Gastarbeiter' who establish a new industry of emotions. We experience weddings as the search for happiness in a state of rootlessness. And the longing for a sense of home in others: the deepest human desire that overcomes all religious and cultural borders.

Germany 2012, 90 min
by Arne Birkenstock

Germany 2009
by Birgit Schulz

In the early 1970s, three left-wing lawyers fought against what they saw as the restrictive state apparatus of the Federal Republic of Germany. They defended individuals before the law who had been labeled enemies of the state. Today, one is Germany's former Minister of the Interior, another represents the leftist conscience of the Green Party, and the third is a right-wing extremist in jail for denying the Holocaust. The three lawyers are Otto Schily, Hans-Christian Ströbele und Horst Mahler. They speak with director Birgit Schulz about their experiences defending accused members of the Red Army Faction in the German courts, about their ideals, and about the aspirations for the future which they shared at that time ­ and also about what became of them in the end. Each of the three believes that he has remained true to his convictions.