Films by Magdolna Rokob

Germany 2023, 82 min
by Claudia Richarz

Filmmaker Helke Sander is cleaning house and reflects her life. She is one of the central protagonists of the new German film and takes a radical look at society in her numerous films. 1977 she chose for her radically personal film The All-Around Reduced Personality – REDUPERS a single mom as main character.In her 1991 documentary LIBERATOR AND LIEBERTIES, she violates the taboo around discussing post-World War II rapes. In 1968, she initiated, via her now-legendary “tomato speech,” the New Germ

Germany 2021, 98 min
by Antje Hubert

What do we need for a good life? Not all that much, says the owner of a village shop in Germany’s far north. Food and drink, and above all, the freedom to take your time for whatever it is you are doing at a given moment. A journey across the countryside in search of an answer to the question of what, and how much, we really need.

2020, 104 min
by Ulrike Schaz

Paris, 1975. When her French boyfriend decides to take her to a party, the documentary’s director falls into the clutches of the French intelligence apparatus. Why this happened she only learns later: At the same party, a man, later known as "Carlos the Jackal," shot three people, and she was associated with this crime. Her life abruptly changes. Ever since then, she has fought against false allegations, false reports, and false stored data. But, no matter what she does, the story keeps sticking

2016, 60 min
by Beatrix Schwehm

Once again, Beatrix Schwehm follows a German-Algerian family – this time as they make a fresh start in Algeria. An illuminating look at a different world. Louise is the only daughter of an artistic, liberal German family. She marries Mohamed, a Muslim from Algeria. Louise converts to Islam and lives a life of serious commitment to the faith.She misbehaves and scandalises people. The two have now been married for 15 years and live with their three children in Germany. Their older daughter Sainab

Germany 2012, 96 min
by Antje Hubert

In 1973 the plans to build a nuclear power station causedmajor unrest among the inhabitants in Brokdorf, a villagelocated by the River Elbe. Despite long protests, the powerstation was connected to the grid in 1986, only a few monthsafter Chernobyl. The film is about the remaining protesters onsite, their life between coming to terms with the \'thing\' in frontof their doorstep and their unrelenting anger about this fatefuldefeat.In 2010 the film begins to travel through the deserted landscape a