Films by Kristina Konrad

Germany 2022, 24 min
by Alexandra Gulea

The author's grandparents were Aromanians, a Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, without ter­ritory and written language, wandering between mountains and seas. Their story is told from the subjective point of view of the artist, who passionately reproduces in staged scenes this perpetual tragic wandering, also full of hope and courage to live.

Germany 2021, 22 min
by Angelika Levi

From September 2001 to April 2002, Nan and Nancy, along with other Latino women, cleaned  in Manhattan for the asbestos company 'Branch' in the hermetically sealed zone of 'Ground Zero.' The women had neither work or residence permits in the United States, and their protective masks did not have asbestos filters. At the Ped-West border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, refugees perform their narratives. They play asbestos workers, US soldiers, Red Cross helpers and firefighters. They are migrants fro

Turkey, France, Israel, Germany 2020, 83 min
by Eytan İpeker

Every year since 2011, a unique beauty contest takes place in Haifa. The contestants are female survivors of the Holocaust. In order to become “Miss Holocaust Survivor”, they train with an ex-beauty queen who teach them how to catwalk on the red carpet. At the climatic moment of the night, the survivors have to impress a jury with their life stories and their traumatic memories. This surreal event is sponsored by a right-wing Evangelical organization. Focusing on the story of Sophie Leibowitz wh

2020, 96 min
by Tanja Cummings

Some of the world’s last remaining Holocaust survivors meet every week at Café Zelig in Munich, Germany. They get together to laugh and celebrate holidays, to argue and discuss various topics, but they also hold moments of silence and mourning. Some of them—and some of their children—undertake a journey into their past, back to their old home country Poland. And they talk about the difficulties they had—and still have—finding their way back to life in Germany.

Germany, Russia, Austria 2019, 26 min
by Marko Mijatovic

North of the Arctic Circle in the port city of Murmansk, Yana has just finished school. At the same time, former military personal are building a dacha settlement near to Yana's hometown in the tundra. While Yana wants to leave the city and move out into the world, the dacha settlers feel the need to create a safe haven. Although these two narratives appear divergent, they have something in common: both Yana and the settlers are following their dreams and must overcome the obstacles in their pat

Germany 2019, 102 min
by Andreas Wilcke

After 25 years the era Castorf comes to an end. During the last season of the Volksbühne the film allows us to witness the everyday life of this outstanding theatre with a reputation all over the world. From the first draw of the scenery till the final curtain we are watching how the monumental theatrical production of Goethes Faust comes to life. Thus we take a close look at the director, his actors and the people who work behind the scenes and get an impression of what has been grown together

Germany, Uruguay 2018, 237 min
by Kristina Konrad (weltfilm gmbh)

Uruguay 1987-89. The filmmakers are on the streets of Montevideo, and in the country with farmers, talking with the people and asking them about their opinion of the referendum and plebiscite on the law of impunity for the human rights abuses committed by the military and police over the past 20 years, a law adopted by Parliament in 1986 during the transition from dictatorship (1973-85) to democracy. They listen to and observe the people as they contemplate what peace and democracy means to them

2017, 32 min
by Marko Mijatovic, Luka Papic

“The Prostitute”, “The Addict”, “Gay Man”, “The Bitch” are the titles of 75-year-old recreational poet Slobodan Stevanović’s most popular poems. And popularity – in the Serbian provinces just like everywhere else – is measured by click figures. Slobodan and his son Bojan send his works into the world via YouTube. Poetry conquers new spaces, while the tube TV set in the old space next door is flickering and the “cevapcici “are frying. (DOK Leipzig, Lukas Stern) Serbia is a transitional country on

Germany 2016, 64 min
by Inadelso Cossa

Mozambique colonial history left a big wound in today country’s collective memory. A Memory In Three Acts it’s a poetic search on post-colonial trauma and collective memory loss where voiceless people who had resist in the underground where remain silent to tell their story.Former political prisoners who decide to go back to the places where they used to be tortured, to meet their ghosts, rebuild their memories of torture and find a possible reconciliation as a treatment for their trauma. As an

2016, 79 min
by Frank Amann

„Even with no input, or maybe especially with no input, the brain keeps creating images." Pete Eckert, blind photographerSHOT IN THE DARK is an intimate portrait of three successful artists who have one thing in common: visual impairment as a starting point for their visual explorations.This film poses fundamental questions about seeing and the imagination.Three blind photographers.It is as if through the slow working methods of these blind photographers something about the creation of photograp

Germany 2015, 54 min
by Angelika Levi

Rent Eats the Soul" documents during two years neighborly organizing and protest on the southern Kottbusser Tor. The film portrays movingly the protagonists of the protest. It links the housing problem to the history of migration and emphasizes a connection between racism and urban displacement.During the night of May 26 in 2012, some residents of social housing at Kottbusser Tor, a majority ethnic Turkish neighbors, built a protest house. They called it "Gecekondu", translated from Turkish mean

Germany 2014, 43 min
by Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau

Cruising in High Heels' is a film about two apocalyptic sissies between Bogota, Berlin and Cartagena. One is a dancer, the other a filmmaker. What starts as a documentary about a dancer, melts slowly into a performativ film. It shows, how they both transform what they live together, into movement. The performances they create play with the in-between, male female, and the appropriation of spaces and expectations projected onto them. Jair says "I didn't came here to talk about if I am latin, gay

Germany, Madagascar 2013, 85 min
by Laza Razanajatovo

Healing people with music is an ancestral practice in Madagascar. This film shows the relationship between music and mental illness, through the work of some malagasy music therapist.