Films by Martin-Kayser-Landwehr

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 German Women’s Movement. In her feature films, she often plays the main role. How fortuitous for a documentary film about her eventful life.

Austria, Germany 2020, 94 min
by Harald Friedl

The simple staple bread has become a branded product with a countless number of varieties and providers. But do we actually know what we eat every day? The film BREAD gives an authentic and unique insight in today's world of bread. We meet small craft bakers who stand up for their quality with sustainable ingredients but we also meet corporate CEOs who professionally work on the daily bread as an industrial mass product which becomes increasingly artificial. How can traditional bakery skills survive? And how will the future of bread look like?

Germany, Belgien, Israel 2020, 122 min
by Carl-Ludwig Rettinger

The Red Orchestra was a most important resistance net in Nazi Germany, which also collected military information. With the assistance of a Jewish espionage ring in Brussels and Paris, they passed it to the Soviets. After locating their radio transmissions, Hitler set off a deadly hunt. During the Cold War, the legacy of the Red Orchestra got ground down between the propaganda of East and West. Two large-scale feature films were launched on both sides, each telling merely half of the truth. Excerpts are now ‘reunited’ to impart the story in full. Furthermore, descendants of the people involved, in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Jerusalem and New York contribute to this first comprehensive filmic account of the defamed resistance network.WithLital Levin, grandniece of Leopold Trepper, ParisRebecca Donner, grandniece of Mildred Harnack, New York CityRoberta Böcker, niece of Libertas Schulze-Boysen, EinbeckYehudit Kafri, writer, Tel AvivDr. Hans Coppi, son of Hans and Hilde Coppi, BerlinGuillaume Bourgeois, historian, ParisSacha Barcza, grandson of Anatoli Gurewitsch and Margarete Barcza, AlicanteAndré Possot, BrusselsDr. Gerhard Sälter, historian, Berlin

Germany 2018, 90 min
by Jasmin Herold, Michael Beamish

On a journey for an answer to the question, "How high is the price for a better life?", the director explores Fort McMurray in the far north of Canada, home of the largest industrial project and the third largest oil reserve on the planet. People from all over the world come here to earn sky-high salaries at the sacrifice of the environment. Film and reality collide as the director finds herself in her own personal nightmare.

Germany 2015, 87 min
by Stephan Bergmann

If life was a Romantic Comedy this is the film that makes us want to celebrate it to the end! The last gigolos have gotten grey. But still they are gentlemen, perfect and suave to the sole. They spend their golden years on cruise ships – as dancers and entertainers for solvent ladies of 60 years and over whoare hungry for amusement. Slowly and with a lot of humour, the film reveals that happiness is mainly down to everybody’s individual skill and luck. Some will try and make their dreams come true. And some will never give up dreaming.with:Peter Nemela, Bärbel Schlömer, Heinz Löffelbein, Barbara Maierhofer

Germany, Austria 2010, 97 min
by David Sieveking

The young filmmaker David Sieveking follows the path of his professional idol, David Lynch, into the world of Transcendental Meditation (TM). It is a journey that leads him to the movement's founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the one-time guru of the Beatles. By the time he died 2008, Maharishi had expanded TM into a global conglomerate and offering courses that promised world peace and yogic flying. How does this chime with the somber films of David Lynch? Inspired by his idol, the young director Sieveking starts to meditate, too, submerging himself ever deeper in the strange world of TM. In doing so he gets a look into more than just his own abyss.