Films by Melanie Andernach

Germany, Austria 2020, 92 min
by Stephan Bergmann

Is death inevitable? ETERNITY AT LAST explores the question of whether we have to accept sickness and death as the natural course of our lives. Visionaries tell the stories of how they take evolution into their own hands, using transhumanist technologies. Living forever is the seductive goal of many scientists today, but what are the larger implications? This multi-layered documentary offers a pragmatic take on how humanity tries to outsmart the most basic fact of life: death.

Germany, France 2019, 94 min
by Suhaib Gasmelbari Mustafa

Ibrahim, Soliman, Manar and Altayeb, filmmakers and friends for more than 45 years, idealists and intensely humane. They were reunited again, after long years of distance and exile, to bring life back to their old dream: make cinema a reality in the Sudan. They are determined to leave a trace of their passage and to inspire the love of films. Throughout the images they created, the ones they lost and the ones that remain a desire, the beautiful and horrific faces of their country appear.

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 2018, 88 min
by Melanie Andernach, Andreas Köhler

The Shaash family is spread out all over the world. The civil war in Somalia forced them into exile. Suddenly, the oldest family member, Imra (88), must leave her exile in Ethiopia. The rest of the family has to find a fast solution. But where should she go? And where can she go? Some where where other family members have already found a new home and a new future? Based on these questions, a transnational family drama unfolds, one in which a family tries everything and fails to find a new home f

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 tr

Germany 2012, 82 min
by Astrid Schult

America is fighting relentlessly with itself, with its driving forces being infuriated citizens: supporters and sympathizers of the Tea Party movement. The dissatisfied, the disappointed and the unassured have come together in countless groups. Ben Cunningham from Nashville, Tennessee has been fighting for years for the ownership rights and against tax increases. He wants the US government to keep out the local politics. Ken Marrero transports pallets for a living and wants to teach his five kid