Films by Margot Neubert-Maric

Germany 2021, 88 min

Over two decades after finishing her documentary Gendernauts in 1999, Monika Treut returns to California to meet the protagonists of her groundbreaking queer film. Sandy Stone, Susan Stryker, Stafford and Max Valerio were once the young pioneers of the trans movement and almost all of them lived in San Francisco, back then the mekka for outsiders. Today they are between 50 and 80 years old, and hardly anyone can still afford to live in the city any more. But the energy of the gendernauts and the

Germany 2021, 80 min
by Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Margot Neubert-Maric

The film chronicles the fates of three men who accidentally got caught in the mills of the secret police and the judiciary of the former GDR. They look back on a life that was torn from their hands by arbitrariness, secret police and justice. Their everyday life consisted of torture, hunger and violations of human dignity. Today they are around 90 years old and tell their story on behalf of 250,000 imprisoned GDR citizens.2021 29 FFHH Filmfest Hamburg63 Nordic Film Days Lübeck2022LETsDOK

Germany 2015, 90 min
by Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Margot Neubert-Maric

“I’ve brought them into the world and I’ve also looked after them once they’ve left the world. And that was also beautiful!” Quote from Anni Both, midwife and caretaker of the dead. Our documentary from the north of Germany is about manners and customs in dealing with death and the dead – old crafts, the changes in funeral culture, the northern German landscape and, above all, the people, their lives and their language. They are master carpenters, casket makers, morticians, grave diggers, pallb

Germany 2012, 78 min
by Kay Ilfrich, Fredo Wulf

Nowhere in the world produce the same two factories, Vossloh and Voith, successfully modern diesel locomotives as in Kiel. Why is that has to do with political ideas, and people who put them into reality. As in the eighties in the metalworking industry thousands of jobs were destroyed, established made up of workers and engineers from the IG Metall in Kiel MaK Maschinenbau company the Working group Alternative production. Based on these initial political and environmental activists, the film tol

Germany, Taiwan 2012, 83 min
by Monika Treut (Hyena Films e.K.)

THE RAW AND THE COOKED is a documentary exploration of Taiwan's rich culinary traditions and their relationship to the island's unique culture. Taiwan has one of the best and most diverse cuisines in Asia, as food is the foremost passion of its 23 million inhabitants. Taiwan is also a densely populated island. Urbanisation is proceeding while agriculture is in decline. But, there is a growing movement for environmental protection. In our tour around the island’s coastal regions we seek out peopl

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 2009
by Gerburg Rohde-Dahl

A documentary about the filmmaker's process of self and social understandings occasioned by the construction of the Berlin "Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe". From the installing of the first slabs in the center of Berlin in September 2003 through the autumn of 2007, two years after its opening to the public, the filmmaker documented the Monument. She interviewed many visitors to the Memorial, its initiator, Lea Rosh, its architect, Peter Eisenman, and her own sister, 12 years elder. "

Germany 2004, 59 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Kazuo Ohno is a documentary about the 97year-old dancer Kazuo Ohno, the founder and living legend of the Butoh-dance. He still gives dancing-lessons at his studio in Yokohama. "Butoh" is the "step in the dark", inspired by the German Expressionist Dance. There are two other main characters beside Kazuo: Yoshito Ohno, his son who dances with him, speaks for him and organizes his belongings, a very big support. And as well Tanya Khabarowa, as a wonderful contrast, a young Russian Butohdancer from