Films by Max Milhahn

2013, 15 min
by Andre Hörmann

Little Bhavini dreams her way out of a Mumbai slum into a career as a dancer. She keeps practicing the steps of traditional Indian dancing, she keeps begging her mother to allow her to take lessons with a famous teacher. But that is expensive and they are barely scraping by since father died. So Bhavini begins to work at her mother’s beauty salon. But there is another obstacle to overcome: the entrance examination…In this new instalment of his series about children in megacities, André Hörmann o

Germany 2011
by Miriam Faßbender

After his second failed attempt, the young Malian Mohamed finds himself in Gao, northern Mali. Gao is a hub for refugees from Central and West Africa and usually the first stop on one of the world's oldest migration routes via Algeria and Morocco to Europe. This is where Mohamed tries to regain his strength and earn the necessary money for his next attempt. Actually Mohamed wanted to work as a rice farmer in his homeland, Mali, but after his father's death his mother took him out of school and s