Films by Kirsten Ottersdorf

Germany 2018, 91 min
by Frauke Lodders

How does living with a seriously sick or disabled child influence the family structure? What specific role do the healthy siblings have? The documentary INSEPARABLE accompanies children and young adults from five completely different families and seeks to find answers to these questions in their everyday lives.

Germany 2005, 52 min
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Even in 1993 Vulkan manager Josef Klar warned about container ships with more than 6.000 TEU. A TEU is a standard container with a length of 20 feet. Klar claimed that vessels of this size could not be competitive. The largest container vessels built today carry 8,000 TEU, have a length of 335 metres and a width of over 42 metres, corresponding to 3 football fields. These giants are driven by the biggest diesel engines possible nowadays, with nearly 100,000 hp, and are designed for a high speed

Germany 2005
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

The hot phase of space tourism has begun. Tourist agencies like “Space Adventures” and “Pro Toura” already offer everything the hearts of daring tourists desire, from astronaut training in space camps to zero-gravity flights all the way to flight into space. To boost the development of private transport systems for tourists, the so-called “X Prize” was offered in the USA. The first company to take passengers into space and bring them back to the Earth wins 10 million dollars. The film displays t

Germany 2002
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Up to now the fishery agreement between the EU and Morocco has made it possible for the Spanish fleet to fish Moroccan waters dry, a region which still had one of the highest fish populations in the world in the 1980s. In the meantime Morocco has undertaken great efforts to build up its own fishing industry. Now, for example, the state is setting up new fishing villages with training centres. Exemplary cooperation is already being developed between Bremen and the fishery centre in Dakhla. The do

Germany 2002
by Michael Wolff (fact+film)

Kansai was the first airport built at great effort and expense in the sea. The gigantic structure and symbol of sophisticated Japanese engineering, which started operation on a man-made island measuring five square kilometres in 1994, soon made negative headlines, however. The island slowly started to sink. In spite of the disaster in Kansai, several Asian airports followed its example. The new “Incheon” airport in Korea, the “Chek Lap Kok“ airport in Hong Kong as well as the “Changi“ airport in