Films by Kolja Brandt

Germany 2011, 79 min
by Branwen Okpako

Branwen Okpako’s „The Education of Auma Obama“ is a captivating and intimate portrait of the U.S. president’s older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity.An academic overachiever, she studied linguistics and contemporary dance in Heidelberg, Germany, before enrolling in film school in Berlin, where she met Nigerian-born director Okpako in the nineties. After living in the United Kingdom for a short period, Auma Obama eventually moved back to Kenya to mentor a young generat

Germany, Switzerland 2011, 140 min
by Pepe Danquart

"I doubt if my mother voted for me back then." Former German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer comes from a conservative, Christian Democratic background. In Joschka and Sir Fischer, the liberal politician tells of his life, which has been filled with extremes and contradictions: from his youth shortly after the war through his rebellious years as a politically active student, to his career as the government minister of a peaceful party that ultimately opted for intervening in Bosnia.