Films by Lilly Grote

Germany 2024, 86 min
by Elfi Mikesch

The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.Wünsdorf is a former military base in Brandenburg (Germany), which the Russian army had left in 1994. The First and Second World Wars were planned and executed from here as well as the Cold War. The architect, urban planner and pioneer of ecological urban development Prof. Dr. Ekhart Hahn stands up for a sustainable transformation. During the making of the film, the war breaks out

Germany 2016, 89 min
by Heide Breitel

The documentary watches children in their day nursery and goes with them from age ten months until 2 . years. The film shows their learning ability, their pleasure of discovery and their excitement to design when they get on their way. Except for a few statements of nurseries, head of department and parents, the audience witness patient and intensive observation of the small children and see how they undergo joy, happiness or pain, often with a laugh, but sometimes also with tears. By watching t

Germany 2011, 97 min
by Elfi Mikesch

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. At the time, he was working for the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf gallery on a musical piece entitled ‘Schönheit der Schatten’ (The Beauty of Shadows) based on the works of Robert Schumann and Heinrich Heine. For Schroeter, oscillating between hope and trepidation, it marked the beginning of a race against time. In her film, Elfi Mikesch, who photographed a number of Schroeter’s

Germany 2008, 48 min
by Lilly Grote

Director Lilly Grotes tour around Europe discovers what it means to children to grow up in the current world. We accompany them down a stretch of road close to them as possible. The film shows their encounters with family and their social environment and discovers a new world that will make them grow strong. Stirring observations from the everyday life of the children are linked to larger social issues. In institutions where children and adolescents spend their lives, we hear disturbing stories

1991, 86 min
by Konstanze Binder, Lilly Grote, Ulrike Herdin, Julia Kunert

The Berlin Wall has fallen. Doors are now opening and barriers are disappearing. Even before the Deutschmark starts to flow eastward, waves of people gush through the train station at Friedrichstrasse. Beginning in July 1990, when the treaty unifying the two German states takes effect, the controls at this border crossing become ever more lax. Four filmmakers from West and East keep tabs on the dismantling of the border operation posts and checkpoints. In the labyrinthian depths of the Trän