Films by Luisa Bäde

Director
MAMiTA

2023, 102 min
by Luisa Bäde

As we immerse ourselves in the web of five Colombian mother-son relationships, we experience the phenomenon of the long-lasting emotional and physical closeness of adolescent males between the ages of 20 and 30 to their own mothers. We discover the ambivalence between traditional gender roles in the machismo culture and new masculinities in a country shaped by decades of armed conflict. The filmmaker's observational view is expanded by exercises that the protagonists complete with their own came

MAMiTA
AS LONG AS YOU STILL HAVE ARMS

Germany 2019, 93 min
by Luisa Bäde

A studio room. Puppets. Frank Karbstein.Reminiscent, reflective, playful, narrating. The 1980s of the GDR - the group around the puppeteer Frank is arrested for distributing pacifistic leaflets. After being sentenced to imprisonment, the defendants are offered the opportunity to go to the West through a secret buy out of political prisoners. Frank stays. But the question remains: Who betrayed them?Different truths and memories stand side by side. In the centre of this is a person who never tries

As Long As You Still Have Arms