Films by Linda Matern

2020, 70 min
by Vakhtang Kuntsev-Gabashvili

David, who had to give up his profession of a director with the collapse of the Soviet Union, became a successful farmer; however, he still has a passion for art and is trying to return to the world of cinematography. Strange characters of David's strange theatrical play "MSHT-15" are not just figments of his imagination, they actually live around him. We will meet them in the film and find out their real problems and hopes... So, the film portrays one more issue: Where is the line between fanta

Germany 2011, 84 min
by Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Margot Neubert-Maric

The documentary traces the lives of courageous rural women as they grow older: their wishes, their dreams, and their hopes of the big win at Bingo. Gisela, Christel, Elke, Helga and Emmi are rooted in the northern German land of Schleswig-Holstein; they come from humble backgrounds and speak the Low German dialect. After basic schooling they had to go into service on farms, married very young, and bore their children. Today they live alone and have taken their lives into their own hands. They we

Germany 2010, 10 min
by Kirstin Büttner, Frank Wörler, Linda Matern

How can arise moving image, that has its origin in the written or spoken word? The film "LyriX" deve- lops this question in a depiced way. Three poems of the lyricist Hendrik Rost – ‘X’, ‘Radio Germany’, ‘The last poem’- find complete expression in an exposed and difrent way. It evolves a dash of the world of the lyricist from Hamburg: As an avid surfer he exposes himself to the ocean. The physicality of this extreme sport can be sensed, but always stays in the aloof view of the camera.

Germany 2009, 28 min
by Julij Koltun

"FROM NOWHERE, WITH LOVE is my declaration of love to the people of the country I've been born in, and where I lived for half a century. The photographs I have collected in over 30 years, have grown into a mesh of human life. They draw an intimate picture of existence in all its shades." Julij Koltun